Term recap
October Term 1949 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1949, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
103
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
25
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down October 10, 1949 and the last on June 5, 1950. The busiest single day was June 5, 1950 with 22 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
October 1949 · 9 decisions
- Brinegar v. United States
- Farmers Reservoir & Irrigation Co. v. McComb
- United States v. Cors
- National Labor Relations Board v. Pittsburgh Steamship Co.
- National Mutual Insurance v. Tidewater Transfer Co.
- Larson v. Domestic and Foreign Commerce Corp.
- Ederal Power Commission v. Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co.
- Commissioner v. Wodehouse
- United States v. Pacific Coast Wholesalers' Assn.
November 1949 · 10 decisions
December 1949 · 10 decisions
- Boyd v. Grand Trunk Western Railroad
- United States v. Yellow Cab Co.
- Parker v. County of Los Angeles
- Kingsland v. Dorsey
- Cole v. Arkansas
- United States v. Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Navigation Co.
- Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. v. National Labor Relations Board
- O'Donnell v. Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co.
- Alcoa Steamship Co. v. United States
- Wilmette Park District v. Campbell
January 1950 · 9 decisions
- Manufacturers Trust Co. v. Becker
- Carter v. Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay Railway Co.
- United States v. Benedict
- Reo Motors, Inc. v. Commissioner
- Hubsch v. United States
- Savorgnan v. United States
- Dickinson v. Petroleum Conversion Corp.
- United States v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.
- Federal Power Commission v. East Ohio Gas Co.
February 1950 · 15 decisions
- United States v. Capital Transit Co.
- United States Ex Rel. Knauff v. Shaughnessy
- Manning v. Seeley Tube & Box Co.
- New Jersey Realty Title Insurance v. Division of Tax Appeals
- Secretary of Agriculture v. Central Roig Refining Co.
- Bryan v. United States
- United States v. Morton Salt Co.
- Regents of the University System of Georgia v. Carroll
- Wissner v. Wissner
- Civil Aeronautics Board v. State Airlines, Inc.
- United States v. Alpers
- United States Ex Rel. Eichenlaub v. Shaughnessy
- United States v. Cumberland Public Service Co.
- District of Columbia v. Little
- United States v. Rabinowitz
March 1950 · 6 decisions
April 1950 · 9 decisions
May 1950 · 13 decisions
- Dennis v. United States
- Railway Labor Executives' Ass'n v. United States
- United States v. Commodities Trading Corp.
- American Communications Assn. v. Douds
- Hughes v. Superior Court of Cal. for Contra Costa Cty.
- International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. Hanke
- United States v. Fleischman
- National Labor Relations Board v. Mexia Textile Mills, Inc.
- Powell v. United States Cartridge Co.
- Capitol Greyhound Lines v. Brice
- Building Service Employees International Union, Local 262 v. Gazzam
- Brown Shoe Co. v. Commissioner
- United States v. United States Smelting Refining & Mining Co.
June 1950 · 22 decisions
- United States v. Texas
- Quicksall v. Michigan
- Shipman v. DuPre
- Lyon v. Singer
- Swift & Co. Packers v. Compania Colombiana Del Caribe, S. A.
- United States v. National Ass'n of Real Estate Boards
- Skelly Oil Co. v. Phillips Petroleum Co.
- Osman v. Douds
- International Union of United Automobile v. O'Brien
- Roberts v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California
- Sweatt v. Painter
- United States v. Louisiana
- Automatic Radio Mfg. Co., Inc. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc
- McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education
- United States v. Kansas City Life Insurance
- United States v. Bryan
- Commissioner v. Korell
- Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co.
- Henderson v. United States
- Ewing v. Mytinger & Casselberry, Inc.
- Travelers Health Assn. v. Virginia Ex Rel. State Corporation Comm'n
- Johnson v. Eisentrager
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