Term recap
October Term 1984 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1984, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
167
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
44
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down October 9, 1984 and the last on August 28, 1985. The busiest single day was May 13, 1985 with 11 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
October 1984 · 2 decisions
November 1984 · 2 decisions
December 1984 · 5 decisions
January 1985 · 16 decisions
- United States v. Woodward
- Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Thurston
- Paulsen v. Commissioner
- Park 'N Fly, Inc. v. Dollar Park & Fly, Inc.
- United States v. Hensley
- Board of License Comm'rs of Tiverton v. Pastore
- Tiffany Fine Arts, Inc. v. United States
- Lawrence County v. Lead-Deadwood School District No. 40-1
- United States v. Boyle
- Alexander v. Choate
- Ohio v. Kovacs
- New Jersey v. T. L. O.
- Wainwright v. Witt
- Brandon v. Holt
- United States v. Johns
- Thompson v. Louisiana
February 1985 · 10 decisions
- Garcia v. United States
- United States v. Maine
- United States v. Young
- United States v. Dann
- Shea v. Louisiana
- Ake v. Oklahoma
- United States v. Louisiana
- National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Hampton County Election Commission
- Heckler v. Turner
- Chemical Manufacturers Ass'n v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
March 1985 · 28 decisions
- Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. v. Byrd
- Air France v. Saks
- Oregon v. Elstad
- Supreme Court of NH v. Piper
- St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Dickerson
- Federal Election Commission v. National Conservative Political Action Committee
- Evitts v. Lucey
- Mills Music, Inc. v. Snyder
- National Railroad Passenger Corp. v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.
- Herb's Welding, Inc. v. Gray
- Bennett v. Kentucky Department of Education
- Wayte v. United States
- Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill
- Anderson v. City of Bessemer City
- Bennett v. New Jersey
- First National Bank of Atlanta v. Bartow County Board of Tax Assessors
- Florida Power & Light Co. v. Lorion
- Winston v. Lee
- Lindahl v. Office of Personnel Management
- Heckler v. Chaney
- United States v. Sharpe
- Hayes v. Florida
- Ball v. United States
- Board of Ed. of Oklahoma City v. National Gay Task Force
- Southern Motor Carriers Rate Conference, Inc. v. United States
- Board of Trustees of Scarsdale v. McCreary
- Tennessee v. Garner
- Town of Hallie v. City of Eau Claire
April 1985 · 23 decisions
- United States v. Locke
- Oklahoma v. Castleberry
- United States v. Miller
- Honig v. Students of the California School for the Blind
- Mintzes v. Buchanon
- Ohio v. Kentucky
- Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority
- National Labor Relations Board v. Action Automotive, Inc.
- Allis-Chalmers Corp. v. Lueck
- Hunter v. Underwood
- Central Intelligence Agency v. Sims
- Kerr-McGee Corp. v. Navajo Tribe of Indians
- Webb v. County Board of Education
- Springfield Township School District v. Knoll
- Wilson v. Garcia
- Marrese v. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
- Countyof Oneida v. Oneida Indian Nation of NY
- Tony and Susan Alamo Foundation v. Secretary of Labor
- United States v. Maine
- Francis v. Franklin
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub
- School Committee of the Town of Burlington v. Department of Education
- Arkansas v. Mississippi
May 1985 · 19 decisions
- Cory v. Western Oil & Gas Assn.
- Spencer v. South Carolina Tax Comm'n
- United States v. Benchimol
- United States v. Gagnon
- Fugate v. New Mexico
- Tennessee v. Street
- Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Rios-Pineda
- California v. Carney
- Liparota v. United States
- Hopfmann v. Connolly
- Ramirez v. Indiana
- Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. v. Nation Enterprises
- Ponte v. Real
- Burger King Corp. v. Rudzewicz
- Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Ward
- Connecticut Department of Income Maintenance v. Heckler
- Gould v. Ruefenacht
- Landreth Timber Co. v. Landreth
- Zauderer v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel of the Supreme Court of Ohio
June 1985 · 44 decisions
- Montana v. Blackfeet Tribe of Indians
- Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Massachusetts
- Russell v. United States
- National Farmers Union Insurance v. Crow Tribe of Indians
- Hillsborough County v. Automated Medical Laboratories, Inc.
- Atkins v. Parker
- Schreiber v. Burlington Northern, Inc.
- Wallace v. Jaffree
- Williams v. Vermont
- Northeast Bancorp, Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
- Lowe v. Securities & Exchange Commission
- Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Pueblo of Santa Ana
- Northwest Wholesale Stationers, Inc. v. Pacific Stationery & Printing Co.
- Bateman Eichler, Hill Richards, Inc. v. Berner
- Caldwell v. Mississippi
- Superintendent, Mass. Correctional Institution at Walpole v. Hill
- Western Air Lines, Inc. v. Criswell
- Maryland v. MacOn
- Richardson-Merrell Inc. v. Koller Ex Rel. Koller
- Johnson v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
- Baldwin v. Alabama
- Jensen v. Quaring
- Mitchell v. Forsyth
- McDonald v. Smith
- Brockett v. Spokane Arcades, Inc.
- Aspen Skiing Co. v. Aspen Highlands Skiing Corp.
- Hooper v. Bernalillo County Assessor
- Cornelius v. Nutt
- United States v. Albertini
- In Re Snyder
- United States v. National Bank of Commerce
- Estate of Thornton v. Caldor, Inc.
- Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Shutts
- Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. v. Greenmoss Builders, Inc.
- Jean v. Nelson
- Marek v. Chesny
- National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshoremen's Ass'n
- United States v. Shearer
- Pattern Makers' League v. National Labor Relations Board
- Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Russell
- Dowling v. United States
- Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City
- Kentucky v. Graham
- Walters v. National Assn. of Radiation Survivors
July 1985 · 14 decisions
- Aguilar v. Felton
- City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc.
- United States v. Montoya De Hernandez
- Oklahoma v. Arkansas
- Sedima, S. P. R. L. v. Imrex Co.
- Thomas v. Union Carbide Agricultural Products Co.
- American Nat. Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago v. Haroco, Inc.
- School District of Grand Rapids v. Ball
- Black v. Romano
- Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife v. Klamath Indian Tribe
- Carchman v. Nash
- Cornelius v. NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
- Mitsubishi Motors Corp. v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc.
- United States v. Bagley
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