Argument Transcripts
Beginning in October Term 2017, Heritage Reporting Corporation will provide the oral argument transcripts that are posted on this website on the same day an argument is heard by the Supreme Court. Same-day transcripts are considered official but subject to final review. These and earlier Terms’ transcripts are permanently archived on this website. Transcripts for oral arguments prior to October Term 2000 have been scanned from the Supreme Court Library collection. Please disregard any stray or handwritten markings on these copies.
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| Oral Argument |
Date Argued |
| Henderson v. United States |
4/1/1986 |
| New Mexico v. Earnest |
4/1/1986 |
| Celotex Corp. v. Catrett |
4/1/1986 |
| Brock v. Pierce County |
4/1/1986 |
| Baker v. General Motors Corp. |
4/2/1986 |
| Smalis v. Pennsylvania |
4/2/1986 |
| Memphis Community School Dist. v. Stachura |
4/2/1986 |
| Randall v. Loftsgaarden |
4/2/1986 |
| United States v. James |
4/21/1986 |
| Nantahala Power & Light Co. v. Utilities Commission of North Carolina |
4/21/1986 |
| University of Tennessee v. Elliott |
4/21/1986 |
| Atkins v. Rivera |
4/21/1986 |
| Bazemore v. Friday |
4/22/1986 |
| Papasan v. Mississippi |
4/22/1986 |
| United States v. Mottaz |
4/22/1986 |
| Ford v. Wainwright |
4/22/1986 |
| United States v. Hughes Properties, Inc. |
4/23/1986 |
| Bowsher v. Synar |
4/23/1986 |
| Crane v. Kentucky |
4/23/1986 |
| Posadas de Puerto Rico Associates v. Tourism Co. of P. R. |
4/28/1986 |
| Bowen v. Public Agencies Opposed to Social Security Entrapment |
4/28/1986 |
| United States v. American Bar Endowment |
4/28/1986 |
| Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Thompson |
4/28/1986 |
| Lyng v. Castillo |
4/29/1986 |
| Los Angeles v. Preferred Communications, Inc. |
4/29/1986 |
| Arcara v. Cloud Books, Inc. |
4/29/1986 |
| Commodity Futures Trading Comm'n v. Schor |
4/29/1986 |
| Young v. Community Nutrition Institute |
4/30/1986 |
| Reed v. Campbell |
4/30/1986 |
| Japan Whaling Assn. v. American Cetacean Soc. |
4/30/1986 |
| Allen v. Illinois |
4/30/1986 |
| Oral Argument |
Date Argued |
| Bethel School Dist. No. 403 v. Fraser |
3/3/1986 |
| Brown-Forman Distillers Corp. v. New York State Liquor Authority |
3/3/1986 |
| Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air |
3/3/1986 |
| Square D Co. v. Niagara Frontier Tariff Bureau, Inc. |
3/3/1986 |
| FDIC v. Philadelphia Gear Corp. |
3/4/1986 |
| McMillan v. Pennsylvania |
3/4/1986 |
| New York v. P. J. Video, Inc. |
3/4/1986 |
| Smith v. Murray |
3/4/1986 |
| Kimmelman v. Morrison |
3/5/1986 |
| United States v. Quinn |
3/5/1986 |
| United States v. Hemme |
3/5/1986 |
| Paulussen v. Herion |
3/5/1986 |
| Lyng v. Payne |
3/24/1986 |
| Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold Reservation v. Wold Engineering, P. C. |
3/24/1986 |
| Rose v. Clark |
3/24/1986 |
| Maine v. Taylor |
3/24/1986 |
| Automobile Workers v. Brock |
3/25/1986 |
| FTC v. Indiana Federation of Dentists |
3/25/1986 |
| Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson |
3/25/1986 |
| United States v. Dion |
3/25/1986 |
| Department of Treasury, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms v. Galioto |
3/26/1986 |
| MacDonald, Sommer & Frates v. Yolo County |
3/26/1986 |
| Department of Transp. v. Paralyzed Veterans of America |
3/26/1986 |
| Ohio Civil Rights Comm'n v. Dayton Christian Schools, Inc. |
3/26/1986 |
| Wardair Canada Inc. v. Florida Dept. of Revenue |
3/31/1986 |
| Bowers v. Hardwick |
3/31/1986 |
| Riverside v. Rivera |
3/31/1986 |
| McLaughlin v. United States |
3/31/1986 |
| Oral Argument |
Date Argued |
| Skipper v. South Carolina |
2/24/1986 |
| Library of Congress v. Shaw |
2/24/1986 |
| Offshore Logistics, Inc. v. Tallentire |
2/24/1986 |
| Poland v. Arizona |
2/24/1986 |
| Sheet Metal Workers v. EEOC |
2/25/1986 |
| Firefighters v. Cleveland |
2/25/1986 |
| Icicle Seafoods, Inc. v. Worthington |
2/25/1986 |
| Longshoremen v. Davis |
2/25/1986 |
| Press-Enterprise Co. v. Superior Court of Cal., County of Riverside |
2/26/1986 |
| Schiavone v. Fortune |
2/26/1986 |
| Bowen v. Owens |
2/26/1986 |
| Bowen v. City of New York |
2/26/1986 |
| Oral Argument |
Date Argued |
| Louisiana Pub. Serv. Comm'n v. FCC |
1/13/1986 |
| Public Serv. Comm'n of Md. v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. of Md. |
1/13/1986 |
| Lockhart v. McCree |
1/13/1986 |
| Darden v. Wainwright |
1/13/1986 |
| Bowen v. Roy |
1/14/1986 |
| Goldman v. Weinberger |
1/14/1986 |
| LeFevre v. Wilson |
1/14/1986 |
| Holbrook v. Flynn |
1/14/1986 |
| Bowen v. American Hospital Assn. |
1/15/1986 |
| Sorenson v. Secretary of Treasury |
1/15/1986 |
| Attorney General of N. Y. v. Soto-Lopez |
1/15/1986 |
| United States v. Koecher |
1/15/1986 |
| Murray v. Carrier |
1/21/1986 |
| United States v. Fulton |
1/21/1986 |
| East River S. S. Corp. v. Transamerica Delaval Inc. |
1/21/1986 |
| United States v. American College of Physicians |
1/21/1986 |
| Delaware v. Van Arsdall |
1/22/1986 |
| EEOC v. FLRA |
1/22/1986 |
| AT&T Technologies, Inc. v. Communications Workers |
1/22/1986 |
| Bowen v. Michigan Academy of Family Physicians |
1/22/1986 |
| Oral Argument |
Date Argued |
| Pembaur v. Cincinnati |
12/2/1985 |
| Teachers v. Hudson |
12/2/1985 |
| Connolly v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation |
12/2/1985 |
| United States v. Mechanik |
12/2/1985 |
| Batson v. Kentucky |
12/2/1985 |
| Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. v. Hepps |
12/3/1985 |
| United States v. Inadi |
12/3/1985 |
| Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. |
12/3/1985 |
| Parsons Steel, Inc. v. First Alabama Bank |
12/3/1985 |
| Thornburg v. Gingles |
12/4/1985 |
| NLRB v. Financial Institution Employees |
12/4/1985 |
| Aetna Life Ins. Co. v. Lavoie |
12/4/1985 |
| Golden State Transit Corp. v. Los Angeles |
12/4/1985 |
| Exxon Corp. v. Hunt |
12/9/1985 |
| Wisconsin Dept. of Industry v. Gould Inc. |
12/9/1985 |
| Michigan v. Jackson |
12/9/1985 |
| Lee v. Illinois |
12/9/1985 |
| Whitley v. Albers |
12/10/1985 |
| Texas v. McCullough |
12/10/1985 |
| Dow Chemical Co. v. United States |
12/10/1985 |
| California v. Ciraolo |
12/10/1985 |
| United States v. Maine |
12/12/1985 |
| South Carolina v. Catawba Tribe, Inc. |
12/12/1985 |
| Turner v. Sielaff |
12/12/1985 |
| Oral Argument |
Date Argued |
| United States v. Von Neumann |
11/4/1985 |
| New York v. Class |
11/4/1985 |
| Board of Governors, FRS v. Dimension Financial Corp. |
11/4/1985 |
| Morris v. Mathews |
11/4/1985 |
| Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists |
11/5/1985 |
| Cabana v. Bullock |
11/5/1985 |
| Nix v. Whiteside |
11/5/1985 |
| Diamond v. Charles |
11/5/1985 |
| Witters v. Washington Dept. of Servs. for Blind |
11/6/1985 |
| Wygant v. Jackson Bd. of Ed. |
11/6/1985 |
| Daniels v. Williams |
11/6/1985 |
| Davidson v. Cannon |
11/6/1985 |
| Matsushita Elec. Industrial Co. v. Zenith Radio Corp. |
11/12/1985 |
| Renton v. Playtime Theatres, Inc. |
11/12/1985 |
| United States v. Loud Hawk |
11/12/1985 |
| Fisher v. Berkeley |
11/12/1985 |
| Evans v. Jeff D. |
11/13/1985 |
| Wainwright v. Greenfield |
11/13/1985 |
| Moran v. Burbine |
11/13/1985 |
| Malley v. Briggs |
11/13/1985 |
| Oral Argument |
Date Argued |
| Hill v. Lockhart |
10/7/1985 |
| Davis v. Bandemer |
10/7/1985 |
| Thomas v. Arn |
10/7/1985 |
| Green v. Mansour |
10/7/1985 |
| Maine v. Moulton |
10/8/1985 |
| Pacific Gas & Elec. Co. v. Public Util. Comm'n of Cal. |
10/8/1985 |
| Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. v. State Oil and Gas Bd. of Miss. |
10/8/1985 |
| Regents of Univ. of Mich. v. Ewing |
10/8/1985 |
| Eastern Air Lines, Inc. v. Mahfoud |
10/9/1985 |
| United States v. Lane |
10/9/1985 |
| United States v. Rojas-Contreras |
10/9/1985 |
| Heath v. Alabama |
10/9/1985 |
| Pennsylvania Bureau of Correction v. United States Marshals Service |
10/15/1985 |
| Bender v. Williamsport Area School Dist. |
10/15/1985 |
| Vasquez v. Hillery |
10/15/1985 |
| Lake Coal Co. v. Roberts & Schaeffer Co. |
10/15/1985 |
| United States v. Riverside Bayview Homes, Inc. |
10/16/1985 |
| Cleavinger v. Saxner |
10/16/1985 |
| Midlantic Nat. Bank v. New Jersey Dept. of Environmental Protection |
10/16/1985 |
| Miller v. Fenton |
10/16/1985 |