Term recap
October Term 1997 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1997, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
99
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
33
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down November 4, 1997 and the last on June 26, 1998. The busiest single day was June 8, 1998 with 7 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
November 1997 · 3 decisions
December 1997 · 9 decisions
January 1998 · 10 decisions
- Baker v. General Motors Corp.
- Fidelity Financial Services, Inc. v. Fink
- Rogers v. United States
- Buchanan v. Angelone
- LaChance v. Erickson
- Lunding v. New York Tax Appeals Tribunal
- Allentown MacK Sales & Service, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board
- Oubre v. Entergy Operations, Inc.
- South Dakota v. Yankton Sioux Tribe
- Brogan v. United States
February 1998 · 6 decisions
March 1998 · 19 decisions
- Kawaauhau v. Geiger
- Bogan v. Scott-Harris
- Lexecon Inc. v. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach
- Spencer v. Kemna
- Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.
- United States v. Ramirez
- Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment
- Gray v. Maryland
- Quality King Distributors, Inc. v. L'Anza Research International, Inc.
- Glendora v. John Porzio
- Lewis v. United States
- Hetzel v. Prince William County
- Almendarez-Torres v. United States
- Cohen v. De La Cruz
- Ohio Adult Parole Authority v. Woodard
- Feltner v. Columbia Pictures Television, Inc.
- Texas v. United States
- United States v. Scheffer
- United States v. United States Shoe Corp.
April 1998 · 8 decisions
May 1998 · 14 decisions
- Calderon v. Thompson
- Crawford-El v. Britton
- Stewart v. Martinez-Villareal
- Arkansas Educational Television Commission v. Forbes
- Montana v. Crow Tribe of Indians
- Textron Lycoming Reciprocating Engine Division v. United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers
- Randall Ricci v. Village of Arlington Heights
- Bousley v. United States
- Air Line Pilots Ass'n v. Miller
- Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma v. Manufacturing Technologies, Inc.
- New Jersey v. New York
- County of Sacramento v. Lewis
- Calderon v. Ashmus
- Ohio Forestry Assn., Inc. v. Sierra Club
June 1998 · 30 decisions
- United States v. Cabrales
- Federal Election Commission v. Akins
- Dooley v. Korean Air Lines Co.
- United States v. Beggerly
- Geissal v. Moore Medical Corp.
- Muscarello v. United States
- United States v. Bestfoods
- Hopkins v. Reeves
- Cass County v. Leech Lake Band of Chippewa Indians
- American Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Central Office Telephone, Inc.
- New Mexico Ex Rel. Ortiz v. Reed
- Pennsylvania Department of Corrections v. Yeskey
- Bryan v. United States
- Phillips v. Washington Legal Foundation
- United States v. Bajakajian
- Hohn v. United States
- Gebser v. Lago Vista Independent School District
- Forney v. Apfel
- Caron v. United States
- Clinton v. City of New York
- National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley
- Eastern Enterprises v. Apfel
- Pennsylvania Bd. of Probation and Parole v. Scott
- Wisconsin Department of Corrections v. Schacht
- Swidler & Berlin v. United States
- Faragher v. City of Boca Raton
- Bragdon v. Abbott
- United States v. Balsys
- Monge v. California
- Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth
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