Term recap
October Term 1996 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1996, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
95
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
35
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down October 21, 1996 and the last on June 27, 1997. The busiest single day was February 18, 1997 with 6 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
October 1996 · 1 decision
November 1996 · 4 decisions
December 1996 · 6 decisions
January 1997 · 6 decisions
February 1997 · 13 decisions
- Bibles, Oregon Director, Bureau of Land Management v. Oregon Natural Desert Association
- Ingalls Shipbuilding, Inc. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
- California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement v. Dillingham Construction, N. A.
- General Motors Corp. v. Tracy
- United States v. Brockamp
- Robinson v. Shell Oil Co.
- Auer v. Robbins
- Maryland v. Wilson
- Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network of Western NY
- Regents of University of California v. Doe
- Lynce v. Mathis
- Dunn v. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- United States v. Wells
March 1997 · 11 decisions
- Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona
- Warner-Jenkinson Co. v. Hilton Davis Chemical Co.
- United States v. Gonzales
- Adams v. Robertson
- Young v. Harper
- Commissioner v. Estate of Hubert
- Bennett v. Spear
- Young v. Fordice
- United States v. Lanier
- Lambert v. Wicklund
- Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission
April 1997 · 7 decisions
May 1997 · 12 decisions
- Johnson v. United States
- Reno v. Bossier Parish School Board
- Inter-Modal Rail Employees Ass'n v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.
- Lambrix v. Singletary
- Harbor Tug & Barge Co. v. Papai
- Edmond v. United States
- Edwards v. Balisok
- Camps Newfound/Owatonna, Inc. v. Town of Harrison
- United States v. LaBonte
- United States v. Hyde
- Clinton v. Jones
- Suitum v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
June 1997 · 35 decisions
- Lords Landing Village Condominium Council of Unit Owners v. Continental Insurance
- Boggs v. Boggs
- McMillian v. Monroe County
- De Buono v. NYSA-ILA Medical & Clinical Services Fund Ex Rel. Bowers
- Saratoga Fishing Co. v. J. M. Martinac & Co.
- Arkansas v. Farm Credit Services of Central Arkansas
- Gilbert v. Homar
- Johnson v. Fankell
- Bracy v. Gramley
- Hughes Aircraft Co. v. United States Ex Rel. Schumer
- Mazurek v. Armstrong
- Associates Commercial Corp. v. Rash
- Klehr v. A. O. Smith Corp.
- Abrams v. Johnson
- United States v. Alaska
- Metropolitan Stevedore Co. v. Rambo
- O'Dell v. Netherland
- Kansas v. Hendricks
- Agostini v. Felton
- Metro-North Commuter Railroad v. Buckley
- Lindh v. Murphy
- Idaho v. Coeur D'Alene Tribe of Idaho
- Richardson v. McKnight
- Lawyer v. Department of Justice
- Amchem Products, Inc. v. Windsor
- Glickman v. Wileman Brothers & Elliott, Inc.
- City of Boerne v. Flores
- United States v. O'Hagan
- Washington v. Glucksberg
- Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union
- Vacco v. Quill
- Raines v. Byrd
- Pounders v. Watson
- Foreman v. Dallas County
- Printz v. United States
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