Term recap
October Term 1956 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1956, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
119
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
26
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down October 15, 1956 and the last on July 11, 1957. The busiest single day was June 17, 1957 with 13 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
October 1956 · 2 decisions
November 1956 · 4 decisions
December 1956 · 11 decisions
- United States v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.
- Putnam v. Commissioner
- United States v. Western Pacific Railroad
- Leedom v. International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers
- Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance v. United States
- Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen v. National Labor Relations Board
- Walker v. City of Hutchinson
- Nelson v. City of New York
- United States v. ICC
- Leslie Miller, Inc. v. Arkansas
- Brownell v. Tom We Shung
January 1957 · 13 decisions
- Fikes v. Alabama
- Jaffke v. Dunham
- Soriano v. United States
- La Buy v. Howes Leather Co.
- Delli Paoli v. United States
- Leiter Minerals, Inc. v. United States
- United States v. Howard
- United States v. Plesha
- National Labor Relations Board v. Lion Oil Co.
- United States v. Allen-Bradley Co.
- National Lead Co. v. Commissioner
- Gold v. United States
- Rayonier Inc. v. United States
February 1957 · 12 decisions
- Pennsylvania Railroad v. Rychlik
- Butler v. Michigan
- United States v. Turley
- Breithaupt v. Abram
- Federal Trade Commission v. National Lead Co.
- Ferguson v. Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc.
- Herdman v. Pennsylvania Railroad
- Webb v. Illinois Central Railroad
- Rogers v. Missouri Pacific Railroad
- Pollard v. United States
- In Re Groban
- Prince v. United States
March 1957 · 10 decisions
- Johnson v. United States
- Ceballos v. Shaughnessy
- United States v. International Union United Automobile, Aircraft & Agricultural Implement Workers
- Guss v. Utah Labor Relations Board
- United States Ex Rel. Hintopoulos v. Shaughnessy
- Roviaro v. United States
- Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen, Local No. 427 v. Fairlawn Meats, Inc.
- Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Chicago River & Indiana Railroad
- Peak v. United States
- San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon
April 1957 · 13 decisions
- National Labor Relations Board v. Truck Drivers Local Union No. 449
- United States v. Ohio Power Co.
- Haynes v. United States
- Senko v. LaCrosse Dredging Corp.
- Nilva v. United States
- Radovich v. National Football League
- Keith L. Manion v. Kansas City Terminal Railway Company, a Corporation
- Benz v. Compania Naviera Hidalgo, S. A.
- United States v. Union Pacific Railroad
- United States Gypsum Co. v. National Gypsum Co.
- Fourco Glass Co. v. Transmirra Products Corp.
- United States Ex Rel. Sherman v. Carter Constr. Co.
- United States v. Witkovich
May 1957 · 4 decisions
June 1957 · 42 decisions
- Jencks v. United States
- Automobile Club of Mich. v. Commissioner
- General Electric Co. v. Local 205, United Electrical, Radio & MacHine Workers
- Goodall-Sanford, Inc. v. United Textile Workers, A. F. L. Local 1802
- United States v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co.
- California v. Taylor
- Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala.
- Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp. v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
- Pennsylvania v. Board of Directors of City Trusts of Philadelphia
- Alleghany Corp. v. Breswick & Co.
- Chessman v. Teets
- Swanson v. Traer
- British Transport Commission v. United States
- Curcio v. United States
- Smith v. Sperling
- Reid v. Covert
- Civil Aeronautics Board v. Hermann
- Arnold v. Panhandle & Santa Fe Railway Co.
- SEC v. Louisiana Pub. Serv. Comm'n
- Watkins v. United States
- Sweezy v. New Hampshire Ex Rel. Wyman
- Yates v. United States
- United States v. Calamaro
- West Point Wholesale Grocery Co. v. City of Opelika
- Office Employes International Union, Local No. 11 v. National Labor Relations Board
- Theard v. United States
- Blackburn v. Alabama
- Service v. Dulles
- Konigsberg v. State Bar of Cal.
- Mulcahey v. Catalanotte
- Carroll v. United States
- Vanderbilt v. Vanderbilt
- Mallory v. United States
- United States v. Louisiana
- McBride v. Toledo Terminal Railroad
- Farley v. United States
- Libson Shops, Inc., v. Koehler, District Director of Internal Revenue
- Morey v. Doud
- Roth v. United States
- Baltimore & Ohio Railway Co. v. Jackson
- Achilli v. United States
- Kingsley Books, Inc. v. Brown
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