United States v. Munsingwear

Holding that when a claim becomes moot while a case is pending on appeal the proper disposition is to vacate the judgment of the lower court and remand with instructions to dismiss

Yates v. United States

Holding that a conviction must be reversed if the evidence in the record supports a legally impermissible ground as well as a legally permissible one and "it is impossible to tell which ground the jury selected"

Galvan v. Press

Holding that while aliens may receive procedural due process, the court's ability to review the substantive policy of immigration statutes is limited to review for rationality

Fishgold v. Sullivan Corp.

Holding that the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 “is to be liberally construed for the benefit of those who left private life to serve their country in its hour of great need”

Mercoid Corp. v. Mid-Continent Co.

Determining that defendant's antitrust counterclaim against plaintiff who had initiated patent-infringement lawsuit was permissive, not compulsory

U.S. v. International Building Co.

Holding that Tax Court decisions based on stipulations are res judicata for the years they govern

Tait v. Western Maryland Railway Co.

In Tait v. Western Maryland Railway, 289 U.S. 620, 53 S.Ct. 706, (1933), the plaintiff taxpayer had won a previous action against the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. The Court held that the defendant tax collector in Tait was bound by the prior judgment as a privy to the Commissioner, because the tax collector was an official acting under the government and the Commissioner.

Southern Pacific Railr'd v. United States

Noting that the "general rule" of issue preclusion "is demanded by the very object for which civil courts have been established"

Cromwell v. County of Sac

Holding for the purpose of res judicata that, because the two suits involved separate contracts, a prior suit for recovery of coupons attached to bonds did not involve the same claim as a later suit for recovery of later maturing coupons attached to the same bonds

Local 167 v. United States

In Local 167 v. United States, 291 U.S. 293, the judgment and decree were affirmed without change, the Court observing, at 299: "The United States is entitled to effective relief....

Section 1101 - Definitions

Finding notice and comment rulemaking is required for the agency's interim rule recognizing fear of coercive family practices as basis for refugee status

Section 1251 - Transferred

Delineating crimes that make alien deportable

Section 1451 - Revocation of naturalization

Empowering the government to "institute proceedings in any district court of the United States in the judicial district in which the naturalized citizen may reside ... for the purpose of revoking and setting aside the order admitting such person to citizenship"

Section 1001 to 1006 - Repealed