List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 272

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Supreme Court of the United States
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EstablishedMarch 4, 1789; 235 years ago (1789-03-04)
LocationWashington, D.C.
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Composition methodPresidential nomination with Senate confirmation
Authorized byConstitution of the United States, Art. III, § 1
Judge term lengthlife tenure, subject to impeachment and removal
Number of positions9 (by statute)
Websitesupremecourt.gov

This is a list of cases reported in volume 272 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1926 and 1927.

Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 272 U.S.[edit]

The Supreme Court is established by Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution of the United States, which says: "The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court . . .". The size of the Court is not specified; the Constitution leaves it to Congress to set the number of justices. Under the Judiciary Act of 1789 Congress originally fixed the number of justices at six (one chief justice and five associate justices).[1] Since 1789 Congress has varied the size of the Court from six to seven, nine, ten, and back to nine justices (always including one chief justice).

When the cases in volume 272 were decided the Court comprised the following nine members:

Portrait Justice Office Home State Succeeded Date confirmed by the Senate
(Vote)
Tenure on Supreme Court
William Howard Taft Chief Justice Connecticut Edward Douglass White June 30, 1921
(Acclamation)
July 11, 1921

February 3, 1930
(Retired)
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Associate Justice Massachusetts Horace Gray December 4, 1902
(Acclamation)
December 8, 1902

January 12, 1932
(Retired)
Willis Van Devanter Associate Justice Wyoming Edward Douglass White (as Associate Justice) December 15, 1910
(Acclamation)
January 3, 1911

June 2, 1937
(Retired)
James Clark McReynolds Associate Justice Tennessee Horace Harmon Lurton August 29, 1914
(44–6)
October 12, 1914

January 31, 1941
(Retired)
Louis Brandeis Associate Justice Massachusetts Joseph Rucker Lamar June 1, 1916
(47–22)
June 5, 1916

February 13, 1939
(Retired)
George Sutherland Associate Justice Utah John Hessin Clarke September 5, 1922
(Acclamation)
October 2, 1922

January 17, 1938
(Retired)
Pierce Butler Associate Justice Minnesota William R. Day December 21, 1922
(61–8)
January 2, 1923

November 16, 1939
(Died)
Edward Terry Sanford Associate Justice Tennessee Mahlon Pitney January 29, 1923
(Acclamation)
February 19, 1923

March 8, 1930
(Died)
Harlan F. Stone Associate Justice New York Joseph McKenna February 5, 1925
(71–6)
March 2, 1925

July 2, 1941
(Continued as chief justice)

Notable Cases in 272 U.S.[edit]

Myers v. United States[edit]

In Myers v. United States, 272 U.S. 52 (1926), the Supreme Court held that the President has the exclusive power to remove executive branch officials, and does not need the approval of the Senate or any other legislative body. It was distinguished in 1935 by Humphrey's Executor v. United States. In Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (2020), however, the Supreme Court interpreted Myers as establishing that the President generally has unencumbered removal power. Myers was the first Supreme Court case to address the President's removal powers.

Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co.[edit]

Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co., 272 U.S. 365 (1926), is a landmark Supreme Court decision approving the power of local government to establish rules of zoning. The Court's ruling that local ordinance zoning is a valid exercise of the police power bolstered zoning in the United States and influenced other countries. At the time of Euclid, zoning was a relatively new concept, and there had been complaints that it was an unreasonable intrusion into private property rights for a government to restrict how an owner might use property. The Court, in holding that there was valid government interest in maintaining the character of a neighborhood and in regulating where certain land uses should occur, allowed for the subsequent explosion in zoning ordinances across the country. The Court has never heard a case seeking to overturn Euclid. Today most local governments in the United States have zoning ordinances.

Lambert v. Yellowley[edit]

In Lambert v. Yellowley, 272 U.S. 581 (1926), the Supreme Court reaffirmed the National Prohibition Act's limitation on the dispensation of alcoholic medicines. The Court affirmed dismissal of a suit in which New York City physician Samuel Lambert sought to prevent Edward Yellowley, the acting federal prohibition director, from enforcing the Prohibition Act so as to preclude Lambert from prescribing alcoholic medicines. The decision strengthened the police powers of the individual states, and clarified the Necessary and Proper Clause of the United States Constitution, which was cited in upholding the Prohibition Act's limitations as a necessary and proper implementation of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Citation style[edit]

Under the Judiciary Act of 1789 the federal court structure at the time comprised District Courts, which had general trial jurisdiction; Circuit Courts, which had mixed trial and appellate (from the US District Courts) jurisdiction; and the United States Supreme Court, which had appellate jurisdiction over the federal District and Circuit courts—and for certain issues over state courts. The Supreme Court also had limited original jurisdiction (i.e., in which cases could be filed directly with the Supreme Court without first having been heard by a lower federal or state court). There were one or more federal District Courts and/or Circuit Courts in each state, territory, or other geographical region.

The Judiciary Act of 1891 created the United States Courts of Appeals and reassigned the jurisdiction of most routine appeals from the district and circuit courts to these appellate courts. The Act created nine new courts that were originally known as the "United States Circuit Courts of Appeals." The new courts had jurisdiction over most appeals of lower court decisions. The Supreme Court could review either legal issues that a court of appeals certified or decisions of court of appeals by writ of certiorari. On January 1, 1912, the effective date of the Judicial Code of 1911, the old Circuit Courts were abolished, with their remaining trial court jurisdiction transferred to the U.S. District Courts.

Bluebook citation style is used for case names, citations, and jurisdictions.

List of cases in volume 272 U.S.[edit]

Case Name Page and year Opinion of the Court Concurring opinion(s) Dissenting opinion(s) Lower Court Disposition
United States v. Chemical Foundation, Inc. 1 (1926) Butler none none 3d Cir. affirmed
Oklahoma v. Texas 21 (1926) Sanford none none original boundary set
International Stevedoring Company v. Haverty 50 (1926) Holmes none none Wash. affirmed
Myers v. United States 52 (1926) Taft none Holmes; McReynolds; Brandeis Ct. Cl. affirmed
Palmetto Fire Insurance Company v. Conn 295 (1926) Holmes none none S.D. Ohio affirmed
Dorchy v. Kansas 306 (1926) Brandeis none none Kan. affirmed
Hebert v. Louisiana 312 (1926) VanDevanter none none La. affirmed
Moore v. Fidelity and Deposit Company 317 (1926) Brandeis none none D. Or. dismissed
United States v. One Ford Coupe Automobile 321 (1926) Brandeis Stone Butler 5th Cir. reversed
Yankton Sioux Tribe of Indians v. United States 351 (1926) Sutherland none none Ct. Cl. reversed
Anderson v. Shipowners Association of the Pacific Coast 359 (1926) Sutherland none none 9th Cir. reversed
Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Company 365 (1926) Sutherland none none N.D. Ohio reversed
Michigan v. Wisconsin 398 (1926) Sutherland none none original boundary set
McCardle v. Indianapolis Water Company 400 (1926) Butler none Brandeis D. Ind. affirmed
Graves v. Minnesota 425 (1926) Sanford none none Minn. affirmed
I.T.S. Rubber Company v. Essex Rubber Company 429 (1926) Sanford none none 1st Cir. affirmed
Southern Pacific Company v. United States 445 (1926) Stone none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
Brasfield v. United States 448 (1926) Stone none none 9th Cir. reversed
Hudson v. United States 451 (1926) Stone none none 3d Cir. affirmed
United States v. New York Central Railroad Company 457 (1926) Stone none none N.D.N.Y. reversed
Van Oster v. Kansas 465 (1926) Stone none none Kan. affirmed
Hughes Brothers Timber Company v. Minnesota 469 (1926) Taft none none Minn. reversed
United States v. General Electric Company 476 (1926) Taft none none N.D. Ohio affirmed
Hanover Fire Insurance Company v. Harding 494 (1926) Taft none none Ill. reversed
Deutsche Bank Filiale Nurnberg v. Humphrey 517 (1926) Holmes none Sutherland 9th Cir. reversed
Massachusetts State Grange v. Benton 525 (1926) Holmes none McReynolds D. Mass. affirmed
Dodge v. United States 530 (1926) Holmes none none 1st Cir. affirmed
Luckenbach Steamship Company v. United States 533 (1926) VanDevanter none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
Salinger v. United States 542 (1926) VanDevanter none none D.S.D. transfer to 8th Cir.
United States v. Brims 549 (1926) McReynolds none none 7th Cir. reversed
Federal Trade Commission v. Western Meat Company 554 (1926) McReynolds none Brandeis 7th Cir. multiple
Port Gardner Investment Company v. United States 564 (1926) Brandeis Butler none 9th Cir. certification
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company v. Doughton 567 (1926) McReynolds none Holmes N.C. reversed
Ottinger, Attorney General of New York v. Consolidated Gas Company of New York 576 (1926) McReynolds none none S.D.N.Y. affirmed
Ottinger, Attorney General of New York v. Brooklyn Union Gas Company 579 (1926) McReynolds none none E.D.N.Y. affirmed
Lambert v. Yellowley 581 (1926) Brandeis none Sutherland 2d Cir. affirmed
Napier v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company 605 (1926) Brandeis none none N.D. Ga. multiple
Duffy v. Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company 613 (1926) Sutherland none none 3d Cir. affirmed
Fasulo v. United States 620 (1926) Butler none none 9th Cir. reversed
Murphy v. United States 630 (1926) Holmes none none 3d Cir. certification
United States v. McElvain 633 (1926) Butler none none N.D. Ill. affirmed
Wright v. Ynchausti and Company 640 (1926) Taft none none Phil. affirmed
United States v. Storrs 652 (1926) Holmes none none D. Utah dismissed
Dysart v. United States 655 (1926) McReynolds none none 5th Cir. reversed
Virginian Railway Company v. United States 658 (1926) Brandeis none none S.D.W. Va. multiple
Eastern Transportation Company v. United States 675 (1927) Taft none none W.D. Va. reversed
Postum Cereal Company v. California Fig Nut Company 693 (1927) Taft none none D.C. Cir. dismissed
Los Angeles Brush Manufacturing Corporation v. James 701 (1927) Taft none none S.D. Cal. mandamus denied
Emmons Coal Mining Company v. Norfolk and Western Railroad Company 709 (1927) Holmes none none 3d Cir. affirmed
Miller v. City of Milwaukee 713 (1927) Holmes Brandeis none E.D. Wis. reversed
Steamship Willdomino v. Citro Chemical Company 718 (1927) McReynolds none none 3d Cir. affirmed
Garland's Heirs v. Choctaw Nation 728 (1927) McReynolds none none Ct. Cl. affirmed
De la Mettrie v. De Gasquet James 731 (1927) McReynolds none none D.C. Cir. affirmed
United States v. Gettinger and Pomerantz 734 (1927) McReynolds none none N.D.N.Y. reversed

Notes and references[edit]

  1. ^ "Supreme Court Research Guide". Georgetown Law Library. Retrieved April 7, 2021.

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