Term recap
October Term 1968 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1968, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
144
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
33
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down October 14, 1968 and the last on June 23, 1969. The busiest single day was October 14, 1968 with 14 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
October 1968 · 18 decisions
- DeStefano v. Woods
- Roberts v. Russell
- Hanover Shoe, Inc. v. United Shoe MacHinery Corp.
- Commissioner v. Gordon
- BRANIGIN Et Al. v. DUDDLESTON Et Al.
- Allen v. State Board of Elections
- Levy v. Louisiana Ex Rel. Charity Hospital
- Garrison v. Patterson
- Wade v. Yeager, Warden
- Dunbar-Stanley Studios, Inc. v. Alabama
- Peyton v. Rowe
- Powell v. Texas
- Arsenault v. Massachusetts
- McConnell v. Rhay
- Williams v. Rhodes
- Federal Power Commission v. United Gas Pipe Line Co.
- International Terminal Operating Co. v. N. v. Nederl. Amerik Stoomv. Maats
- Continental Oil Co. v. United States
November 1968 · 9 decisions
- Epperson v. Arkansas
- Whyy, Inc. v. Borough of Glassboro
- Smith v. Yeager
- Recznik v. City of Lorain
- Grunenthal v. Long Island Rail Road
- In Re Herndon
- Carroll v. President & Commissioners of Princess Anne
- Universal Interpretive Shuttle Corp. v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission
- United States v. Concentrated Phosphate Export Assn., Inc.
December 1968 · 6 decisions
January 1969 · 15 decisions
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
- United States v. Nardello
- United States v. Donruss Co.
- Berger v. California
- Glover v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.
- United States v. Container Corporation of America
- Gardner v. California
- Hunter v. Erickson
- Smith v. Hooey
- United States v. Augenblick
- National Labor Relations Board v. Strong
- Gorun v. Fall
- Presbyterian Church in US v. Mary Elizabeth Blue Hull Memorial Presbyterian Church
- Spinelli v. United States
- Securities & Exchange Commission v. National Securities, Inc.
February 1969 · 5 decisions
March 1969 · 17 decisions
- Alabama State Teachers Ass'n v. Alabama Public School & College Authority
- Utah v. United States
- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Aberdeen & Rockfish Railroad
- Skinner v. Louisiana
- United States v. Louisiana
- Bokulich v. Jury Comm'n of Greene Cty.
- Black Unity League of Ky. v. Miller
- Golden v. Zwickler
- Citizen Publishing Co. v. United States
- Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham
- Gregory v. City of Chicago
- Kaufman v. United States
- Alderman v. United States
- Taglianetti v. United States
- Giordano v. United States
- Hadnott v. Amos
- Orozco v. Texas
April 1969 · 20 decisions
- Foster v. California
- Scofield v. National Labor Relations Board
- Cardinale v. Louisiana
- Federal Marine Terminals, Inc. v. Burnside Shipping Co.
- McCarthy v. United States
- Boulden v. Holman
- Fortner Enterprises, Inc. v. United States Steel Corp.
- Rollerson v. United States
- Stanley v. Georgia
- Wells v. Rockefeller
- United States v. Louisiana the Louisiana Boundary Case
- Watts v. United States
- Norfolk Monument Co. v. Woodlawn Memorial Gardens, Inc.
- Shapiro v. Thompson
- Street v. New York
- Montgomery v. Burns
- Frazier v. Cupp
- Davis v. Mississippi
- National Labor Relations Board v. Wyman-Gordon Co.
- United States v. Article of Drug . . . Bacto-Unidisk
May 1969 · 24 decisions
- Kaiser v. New York
- Kramer v. Caribbean Mills, Inc.
- Halliday v. United States
- Robinson v. Johnson
- United States v. Louisiana
- McDonald v. Board of Election Comm'rs of Chicago
- Harris v. Nelson
- Snyder v. Harris
- Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Jacksonville Terminal Co.
- National Board of Young Men's Christian Assns. v. United States
- Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc.
- Leary v. United States
- United States v. King
- DuVernay v. United States
- Gregg v. United States
- United States v. Covington
- Kirkpatrick v. Preisler
- Sullivan v. United States
- Brotherhood of Railroad Trainment v. John P. O'connell, Etc.
- Perez v. California
- McKart v. United States
- Crane v. Cedar Rapids & Iowa City Railway Co.
- Desist v. United States
- Mattiello v. Connecticut
June 1969 · 30 decisions
- O'Callahan v. Parker
- United States v. Estate of Grace
- Rodriquez v. United States
- Gaston County v. United States
- Boykin v. Alabama
- Jenkins v. Delaware
- United States v. Skelly Oil Co.
- Harrington v. California
- United States v. Montgomery County Board of Education
- Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission
- Sniadach v. Family Finance Corp. of Bay View
- Brandenburg v. Ohio
- Rodrigue v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.
- Williams v. Oklahoma City
- Jenkins v. McKeithen
- Bingler v. Johnson
- Perkins v. Standard Oil Co. of Cal.
- Noyd v. Bond
- Banks v. California
- Utah Public Service Commission v. El Paso Natural Gas Co.
- National Labor Relations Board v. Gissel Packing Co.
- Lear, Inc. v. Adkins
- Moore v. Ogilvie
- Shipley v. California
- Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Stanisic
- Von Cleef v. New Jersey
- Chimel v. California
- Benton v. Maryland
- North Carolina v. Pearce
- Moya v. DeBaca
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