Powell Supreme Court Case Files Online
below: Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1986.
Notes and disclaimers, 10/12/2011: This collection of electonic copies has its origin in the scanning of files in response to research inquiries, rather than as a systematic project. For this reason there are a variety of presentations. One such is a collection of electrionic files for a given case, corresponding to the contents of physical folders in the archives. Another is one electronic file for an entire case. Some cases were split into parts to keep the files small enough to be send as email attachments in response to a given request.
These files are only now being reviewed for quality, but there are already some known issues. A few images, mostly containing handwriting, were read upside down. (We are now using more sophisticated scanning software.) About ninety percent of the scanned paper sheets are letter size, but there are some legal and oversize as well. Some of these larger and longer sheets were read in full by the scanner and some were not. These are now being reviewed. Contact the archives if you discover problems.
Consistent with the arrangement of the physical files, these electronic surrogates are arranged by Supreme Court term, and by docket number thereunder. Use your browser's "Find" feature to quickly locate case files by name.
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Cut-off handwriting, 5/17/12: Despite quality control efforts, incomplete or missing handwritten annotations from the extreme edges of documents -- especially the top quarter inch -- have been discovered. Unfortunately, we are in Rumsfeld-ian territory here with the "known unknowns," where one can see writing cut off, and the "unknown unknowns," where no fragments appear and the reader has no way of knowing something is missing. Please report any missing material you can discover. To reiterate from the initial disclaimer above, this is not a scanning project done to archival preservation standards. We attempt to be as though and complete in scanning as our resources allow. These scanned documents, however, should be considered surrogates, not unlike photocopies made in lieu of note taking.
U.S. v. U.S. District Court (70-153): If you used this file before 6/1/2013 you did not have access to the complete file. This has now been corrected. Contact the archives with any questions.
October Term 1971
70-57 U.S. v. Caldwell (1 of 2)
70-57 U.S. v. Caldwell (2 of 2)
70-153 U.S. v. U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division
70-188 Wright v. Council of City of Emporia
70-220 Caplin v. Marine Midland Grace Trust of New York
70-305 Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. First Security Bank of Utah (1 of 2)
70-305 Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. First Security Bank of Utah (2 of 2)
70-5112 Weber v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.
October Term 1972
70-73 Miller v. California, part 1
70-73 Miller v. California, part 2 of 2
70-279 U.S. v. Florida East Coast Railway
71-507 Keyes v. School District #1, Denver, Colorado
71-703 U.S. v. First National Bancorporation, Inc.
71-732 Schneckloth v. Bustamonte
71-863 Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Democratic National Committee
71-1051 Paris Adult Theater I v. Slaton
71-1059 Kern County Land Co. v. Occidental Petroleum Corp.
71-1332 San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
71-1371 Rosario v. Rockefeller
71-1456 Salyer Land Co. v. Tulare Basin Water Storage District
71-1694 Frontiero v. Richardson, 1 of 2
71-1694 Frontiero v. Richardson, 2 of 2
71-6078 Linda R.S. v. Richard D.
71-6278 Almeida-Sanchez v. U.S.
72-90 U.S. v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
72-214 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Wichita Board of Trade
72-269 Levitt v. Committee for Public Education
72-419 Pittsburgh Press Co. v. Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations
72-490 McDonnell Douglas v. Green
72-534 United States Department of Agriculture v. Moreno
72-549 School Board of the City of Richmond, Virginia v. State Board of Education of Virginia
72-634 U.S. Civil Service Commission v. National Associatin of Letter Carriers
72-694 Committee on Public Education and Religious Liberty v. Nyquist - Basic file
72-694 Committee ... - Opinon drafts, May 1973 (2 of 3)
72-694 Committee ... - Opinion drafts, June 1973 (3 of 3)
72-848 United States Department of Agriculture v. Murry
72-6258 New Jersey Welfare Rights Organization v. Cahill
October Term 1973
72-312 Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Ware
72-617 Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.
72-671 Espinoza v. Farah Mfg. Co. Inc.
72-777 Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur (part 1 of 2)
72-777 Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur (part 2 of 2)
72-948 National Cable Television v. U.S.
72-1162 Federal Power Commission v. New England Power Company
72-1289 National Railroad Passengers Corp. v. National Association of Railroad Passengers
73-29 Corning Glass Works v. Brennan
73-437 Mobile Oil Corp. v. Federal Power Commission
73-781 Scherk v. Alberto-Culver Co.
73-899 Moody v. Albemarle Paper Co.
73-1265 Saxbe v. Washington Post
October Term 1974
73-1701 U.S. v. National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
73-1742 Train v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
73-1892 Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld
73-1966 Aberdeen & Rockfish Railroad v. SCRAP
73-1977 Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. v. The Wilderness Society
73-2055 Securities Investor Protection Corp. v. Barbour
74-70 Goldfarb v. Virginia State Bar
74-124 Blue Chip Stamps v. Manor Drug Stores
74-157 United Housing Foundation v. Forman
74-201 City of Richmond v. U.S.
74-304 Gordon v. New York Stock Exchange, Inc.
74-389 Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody
74-415 Rondeau v. Mosinee Paper Corp.
October Term 1975
68 Orig Pennsylvania v. New Jersey
74-728 Franks v. Bowman Transportation Co., Inc.
74-742 Foremost-McKesson, Inc. v. Provident Securities Co.
74-775 City of New Orleans v. Dukes
74-878 National League of Cities v. Usery
74-883 Federal Power Commission v. Moss
74-895 Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council
74-1042 Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder
74-1044 Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia
74-1151 Planned Parenthood of Central Missouri v. Danforth
74-1471 TSC Industries, Inc. v. Northway, Inc.
75-268 Radzanower v. Touche Ross & Co.
75-436 Buckley v. Valeo - draft opinions
75-510 Flint Ridge Development Co. v. Scenic Rivers Assoc. of Oaklahoma
75-5491 Woodson v. North Carolina
75-5706 Proffitt v. Florida (part 1)
75-5706 Proffitt v. Florida (part 2)
75-5706 Proffitt v. Florida (part 3 of 3)
75-5844 Roberts v. Louisiana (part 1)
75-5844 Roberts v. Louisiana (part 2)
75-5844 Roberts v. Louisiana (part 3 of 3)
October Term 1976
74-1589 General Electric v. Gilbert
75-353 Piper v. Chris-Craft Industries, Inc.
75-616 Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corporation
75-636 International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. U.S.
75-978 E.I. du Pont de Nemours Co. v. Train
75-1687 United States Trust Co. of New York v. New Jersey
75-1753 Santa Fe Industries, Inc. v. Green
75-1870 E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. v. Collins
75-6289 Moore v. City of East Cleveland, Ohio
76-15 Continental T.V., Inc. v. GTE Sylvania, Inc.
76-422 Dothard v. Rawlinson (Mieth)
October Term 1977
76-419 Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council
76-811 Regents of University of California v. Bakke
76-1114 California v. Southland Royalty Co.
76-1172 First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti
76-1334 Bordenkircher v. Hayes
76-1450 Landmark Communications, Inc. v. Virginia
76-1484 Zurcher v. Stanford Daily
76-1662 U.S. v. Board of Commissioners of Sheffield, Alabama
76-1810 City of Los Angeles Department of Water & Power v. Manhart
76-5729 Oliphant v. The Suquamish Indian Tribe
77-10 Exxon v. Governor of Maryland
77-452 Mobile Alaska Pipeline Co. v. U.S.
October Term 1978
77-648 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission v. Pennzoil Producing Co.
77-1256 Marquette National Bank of Minneapolis v. First of Omaha Service Corp.
77-1305 Parklane Hosiery Co., Inc. v. Shore
77-1388 Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. White
77-1427 New York City Transit Authority v. Beazer
77-1680 Michigan v. DeFillippo
78-160 Wilson v. Omaha Indian Tribe
78-233 Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts v. Feeney
78-309 Touche Ross & Co. v. Redington
78-354 North Carolina v. Butler
78-410 Lee-Hy Paving Corp. and Davis E. Clem v. O’Connor
78-432 United Steelworkers of America AFL-CIO-CLC v. Weber
78-479 Edmonds v. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique
78-482 Smith v. Daily Mail Publishing Co.
78-575 Southern Railway Co. v. Seaboard Allied Milling Co.
78-759 Leroy v. Great Western United Corp.
October Term 1979
77-1645 Transamerica Mortg. Advisors, Inc. (TAMA) v. Lewis
77-1844 City of Mobile, Alabama v. Bolden
78-572 United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty
78-904 Deposit Guaranty National Bank of Jackson, Mississippi v. Roper
78-1007 Fullilove v. Klutznick
78-1078 World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson
78-1548 California Brewers Assn. v. Bryant
79-66 Aaron v. Securities and Exchange Commission
79-97 California Retail Liquor Dealers Assn. v. Midcal Aluminum, Inc.
79-198 Supreme Court of Virginia v. Consumers Union of the United States, Inc.
79-565 Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. v. Public Service Commission of New York
October Term 1980
83 Orig. Maryland v. Louisiana
79-770 Environmental Protection Agency v. National Crushed Stone Assn.
79-870 United States Railroad Retirement Board v. Fritz
79-1068 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Associated Dry Goods
79-1344 Michael M. v. Superior Court of Sonoma County
79-1764 Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine
80-429 County of Washington, Oregon v. Gunther
80-2078 Dames & Moore v. Regan
October Term 1981
80-848 Piper Aircraft v. Reyno
80-1074 Velde v. National Black Police Association, Inc.
80-1305 Alfred Snapp & Son, Inc. v. Puerto Rico
81-150 Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co.
81-300 Ford Motor Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
81-406 Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan - Part 1
81-406 Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan - Part 2 of 2
81-611 Globe Newspaper Co. v. Superior Court for the County of Norfolk
October Term 1982
81-680 Herman & MacLean v. Huddleston
81-746 Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, Inc.
82-34 American Paper Institute, Inc. v. American Electrical Power Service Corp.
82-52 Arizona Governing Committee for Tax Deferred Annuity and Deferred Compensation Plans v. Norris
82-411 Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
October Term 1983
81-1687 Sony Corporation of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc.
82-458 Keeton v. Hustler Magazine, Inc.
82-795 Grove City College v. Bell
82-940 Hishon v. King & Spalding (part 1 of 2)
82-940 Hishon v. King & Spalding (part 2 of 2)
82-1127 Helicoptieros Nationales de Colombia, S.A. v. Hall
82-1200 Daily Income Fund, Inc. v. Fox
82-1246 Bose Corporation v. Consumers Union of the United States, Inc.
83-724 Roberts v. United States Jaycees
83-751 S.E.C. v. Jerry T. O'Brien, Inc.
October Term 1984
82-1832 Town of Hallie v. City of Eau Claire
83-18 Dun & Bradstreet v. Greenmoss
83-1466 Supreme Court of New Hampshire v. Piper
83-1961 83-1961 Landreth Timber Co. v. Landreth
83-2097 Burger King Corp. v. Rudzewicz
83-2129 Schreiber v. Burlington Northern, Inc.
84-233 Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Shutts
84-351 Atascadero State Hospital v. Scanlon
84-468 City of Cleburne, Texas v. Cleburne Living Center Inc.
84-679 Bateman Eichler, Hill Richards, Inc. v. Berner
October Term 1985
84-495 Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
84-801 Midatlantic National Bank v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
84-1044 Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. Public Utilities Commission of California
84-1340 Wygant v. Jackson Board of Education
84-1979 Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson
85-519 Randall v. Loftsgaarden
October Term 1986
85-129 Wimberly v. Labor & Industrial Relations Commission of Missouri
85-494 California Federal Savings & Loan v. Guerra
85-693 Asahi Metal Industry Co. v. Superior Court of California, Solano County
85-701 FEC v. Massachusetts Citizens for Life, Inc.
85-1129 Johnson v. Transportation Agency, Santa Clara County, California (part 1 of 2)
85-1129 Johnson v. Transportation Agency, Santa Clara County, California (part 2 of 2)
85-1589 Iowa Mutual Insurance Co. v. LaPlante
86-71 CTS Corp. v. Dynamics Corporation of America
86-421 Board of Directors of Rotary International v. Rotary Club of Duarte (part 1 of 3)
86-421 Board of Directors of Rotary International v. Rotary Club of Duarte (part 2 of 3)
86-421 Board of Directors of Rotary International v. Rotary Club of Duarte (part 3 of 3)
