After their collective-bargaining agreement expired, the National Football League (NFL), a group of football clubs, and the NFL Players Association, a labor union, began to negotiate a new contract. The NFL presented a plan that would permit each club...

Petitioner Boykin, a 27-year-old Negro, who was represented by appointed counsel, pleaded guilty to five indictments for common-law robbery. The judge asked no questions of Boykin concerning his plea, and Boykin did not address the court. Under Alabama...

Prior to trial on a kidnapping charge, defendant Billy J. Taylor, a male, sought to quash the petit jury venire from which his jury would be selected, contending that women had been systematically excluded from the venire, thus depriving him of his federal...

Respondent Freeman, while the treasurer for a political campaign in Tennessee, filed an action in the Chancery Court, alleging, among other things, that Tenn. Code Ann. § 2-7-111(b) , which prohibits the solicitation of votes and the display or distribution...

Decedent, Thomas Grady Chastain, failed to sign the will but signed the separate affidavit of attesting witnesses. Appellees, Chastain's grandchildren, argued that his signature on the affidavit did not satisfy Tenn. Code Ann. § 32-1-104(1) ...

The American Radio Relay League, Inc., petitioned on behalf of licensed amateur radio operators for review of two orders of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) promulgating a rule to regulate the use of the radio spectrum by Access Broadband over...

A health center employee brought an action against the health center and several of its supervisory employees, asserting that she was wrongfully terminated from her employment after she refused to demonstrate cervical self-examination to pregnancy screening...

Respondent, a union representing insurance agents, while negotiating collective bargaining agreements with the employer, sought to bring economic pressure upon the employer by having its agent-members engage in certain planned, concerted on-the-job activities...

Curtis Lusby was an engineer for Rolls-Royce from 1992 through 2001. Lusby worked on the T56 turboprop engine, which Rolls-Royce has sold to both military and civilian customers since 1954. Lusby came to believe that Rolls-Royce was not making the parts...

TradeComet.com LLC and Google, Inc. were the owners and operators of competing internet search engines. TradeComet purchased advertising on Google’s website through Google’s AdWords program. TradeComet now alleged that Google attempted to...