The Supreme Court reversed the Eleventh Circuit, holding that a state trial judge’s decision to excuse a juror for cause under the Witherspoon framework is a factual finding subject to the presumption of correctness under 28 U.S.C.
Supreme Court of the United States, 1985
Published opinions from 1985. The case name opens the case page.
1985 opinions
The Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause guarantees a criminal defendant effective assistance of counsel on a first appeal as of right. Because counsel's failure to file a required statement of appeal caused the Kentucky appellate court to dismiss the appeal without reaching its merits, the…
The Court held that the Fourth Amendment applies to searches by public-school officials, but school officials need not obtain a warrant and may search a student based on reasonable grounds rather than probable cause. Applying a two-part reasonableness inquiry, the Court upheld the search of T. L.
The Supreme Court resolved a conflict among the Circuits by holding that a taxpayer's reliance on an attorney to prepare and timely file a tax return does not constitute 'reasonable cause' under 26 U.S.C.
The Supreme Court held that TWA's transfer policy violated § 4(a)(1) of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act because the airline allowed captains disqualified for reasons other than age to bump less senior flight engineers while denying that same privilege to captains disqualified by age.
The Supreme Court reversed the Louisiana Supreme Court, holding that a warrantless general exploratory search of a homicide scene is unconstitutional because no "murder scene" exception exists under the Fourth Amendment.