Term recap
October Term 1954 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1954, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
83
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
21
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down October 14, 1954 and the last on June 6, 1955. The busiest single day was December 6, 1954 with 9 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
October 1954 · 1 decision
November 1954 · 5 decisions
December 1954 · 9 decisions
January 1955 · 12 decisions
- United States v. Acri
- Watson v. Employers Liability Assurance Corp.
- Baltimore Contractors, Inc. v. Bodinger
- United States v. Scovil
- Cox v. Roth
- United States v. Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance
- Commissioner v. Estate of Sternberger
- Holland v. United States
- United States v. Shubert
- Moore v. Mead's Fine Bread Co.
- United States v. International Boxing Club of New York, Inc.
- Friedberg v. United States
February 1955 · 3 decisions
March 1955 · 12 decisions
- Sapir v. United States
- United States v. California Eastern Line, Inc.
- Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States
- Simmons v. United States
- Witmer v. United States
- Gonzales v. United States
- Sicurella v. United States
- Lewis v. United States
- United States v. Koppers Co.
- General American Investors Co. v. Commissioner
- Weber v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc.
- Federal Power Commission v. Colorado Interstate Gas Co.
April 1955 · 13 decisions
- Amalgamated Clothing Workers v. Richman Bros.
- United States v. Bramblett
- United States v. Menasche
- Shomberg v. United States
- Norwood v. Kirkpatrick
- Granville-Smith v. Granville-Smith
- Parissi v. Telechron, Inc.
- Natural Gas Pipeline Co. v. Panoma Corp.
- Wilburn Boat Co. v. Fireman's Fund Insurance
- National City Bank of NY v. Republic of China
- Securities & Exchange Commission v. Drexel & Co.
- Regan v. New York
- Shaughnessy v. Pedreiro
May 1955 · 19 decisions
- Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc.
- Commissioner v. Glenshaw Glass Co.
- Bell v. United States
- Association of Westinghouse Salaried Employees v. Westinghouse Electric Corp.
- Rice v. Sioux City Memorial Park Cemetery, Inc.
- In Re Murchison.
- Bisso v. Inland Waterways Corp.
- Society for Sav. in Cleveland v. Bowers
- Boston Metals Co. v. the Winding Gulf
- United States v. Nielson
- Emspak v. United States
- Maneja v. Waialua Agricultural Co.
- United States v. Olympic Radio & Television, Inc.
- Bart v. United States
- Shaughnessy v. United States Ex Rel. Accardi
- Quinn v. United States
- Lewyt Corp. v. Commissioner
- Marcello v. Bonds
- Brown v. Board of Education
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