Term recap
October Term 1953 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1953, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
79
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
21
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down October 12, 1953 and the last on June 7, 1954. The busiest single day was April 5, 1954 with 8 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
October 1953 · 3 decisions
November 1953 · 10 decisions
December 1953 · 7 decisions
- Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn
- Public Utilities Commission v. United Air Lines, Inc.
- United States v. Five Gambling Devices
- Wilko v. Swan
- Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Public Utilities Commission
- National Labor Relations Board v. Local Union No. 1229, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
- Howell Chevrolet Co. v. National Labor Relations Board
January 1954 · 6 decisions
- General Protective Committee for the Holders of Option Warrants of the United Corp. v. Securities & Exchange Commission
- Garner v. Teamsters, Chauffeurs & Helpers Local Union No. 776
- Theatre Enterprises, Inc. v. Paramount Film Distributing Corp.
- Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad v. Stude
- Madruga v. Superior Court of Cal., County of San Diego
- Salsburg v. Maryland
February 1954 · 7 decisions
March 1954 · 13 decisions
- United States v. Lindsay
- Remmer v. United States
- United States v. Employing Lathers Assn. of Chicago
- International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union, Local 37 v. Boyd
- Western Air Lines, Inc. v. Civil Aeronautics Board
- Adams v. Maryland
- United States v. Employing Plasterers Assn. of Chicago
- Michigan-Wisconsin Pipe Line Co. v. Calvert
- Walters v. City of St. Louis
- Partmar Corp. v. Paramount Pictures Theatres Corp.
- United States Ex Rel. Accardi v. Shaughnessy
- Irvine v. California
- Federal Power Commission v. Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.
April 1954 · 12 decisions
- Thompson v. Lawson
- Franklin Nat. Bank of Franklin Square v. New York
- Sacher v. Association of Bar of City of New York
- United States v. Dixon
- St. Joe Paper Co. v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
- Federal Communications Commission v. American Broadcasting Co.
- Railway Express Agency, Inc. v. Virginia
- United States v. Binghamton Construction Co.
- Mazer v. Stein
- Maryland Casualty Co. v. Cushing
- Alabama v. Texas
- Barsky v. Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York
May 1954 · 11 decisions
- Miller Brothers Co. v. Maryland
- Hernandez v. Texas
- Capital Service, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board
- United Shoe MacHinery Corp. v. United States
- United States v. Gilman
- Bolling v. Sharpe
- Brown v. Board of Education
- United States v. Borden Co.
- Brownell v. Singer
- Galvan v. Press
- Allen v. Grand Central Aircraft Co.
June 1954 · 10 decisions
- Braniff Airways, Inc. v. Nebraska State Board of Equalization & Assessment
- Linehan v. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor
- Alton v. Alton
- Leyra v. Denno
- Alaska Steamship Co. v. Petterson
- United Construction Workers v. Laburnum Construction Corp.
- Barber v. Gonzales
- United States v. Harriss
- Secretary of Agriculture v. United States
- Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Wisconsin
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