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Armco Inc. V. Hardesty (1984)

 

Case Details

Docket Number: 83-297
Case Term: 1984

Justices Involved

Justice Sanda Day O'Connor
Justice Lewis F. Powell
Justice Thurgood Marshall
Justice William H. Rehnquist
Justice Harry A. Blackmun
Justice John Paul Stevens
Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.
Justice Warren E. Burger

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Document 1

From: Sanda Day O'Connor
To: Conference
Copied: None
On: August 3rd, 1984
Action: Vote on a Motion (e.g., to vacate stay order, to deny an injunction)
Would deny stay; retain stay; suggest they not act on a motion or order; should vacate order; comment on when they should vote on the motion

Document 2

From: Lewis F. Powell
To: Conference
Copied: None
On: August 3rd, 1984
Action: Vote on a Motion (e.g., to vacate stay order, to deny an injunction)
Would deny stay; retain stay; suggest they not act on a motion or order; should vacate order; comment on when they should vote on the motion
Action: Suggestion before Majority Opinion Circulated
Justice makes a suggestion or lays out position in the case before the majority opinion is circulated; discussion of issues before an opinion has been drafted; memo laying out other justice's position or describing how other justices’ have voted so far in the case; lays out position without directing it at a circulating opinion
Action: Attached Material Relevant to a Case
This may include memos about maps or pictures that will be incorporated in opinion; cover memo to circulation of some relevant non-case material for an opinion (e.g., newspaper article, related lower court opinion); memos may mention extra-court material that might be relevant (e.g., congressional hearings, a statute, other opinions that are somehow (perhaps tangentially) related to case at hand); circulation of clerk’s memo about case

Document 3

From: Thurgood Marshall
To: Conference
Copied: None
On: August 3rd, 1984
Action: Vote on a Motion (e.g., to vacate stay order, to deny an injunction)
Would deny stay; retain stay; suggest they not act on a motion or order; should vacate order; comment on when they should vote on the motion

Document 4

From: William H. Rehnquist
To: Conference
Copied: None
On: August 6th, 1984
Action: Vote on a Motion (e.g., to vacate stay order, to deny an injunction)
Would deny stay; retain stay; suggest they not act on a motion or order; should vacate order; comment on when they should vote on the motion

Document 5

From: Harry A. Blackmun
To: Conference
Copied: None
On: August 7th, 1984
Action: Vote on a Motion (e.g., to vacate stay order, to deny an injunction)
Would deny stay; retain stay; suggest they not act on a motion or order; should vacate order; comment on when they should vote on the motion

Document 6

From: John Paul Stevens
To: Conference
Copied: None
On: September 13th, 1984
Action: Vote on a Motion (e.g., to vacate stay order, to deny an injunction)
Would deny stay; retain stay; suggest they not act on a motion or order; should vacate order; comment on when they should vote on the motion

Document 7

From: William H. Rehnquist
To: Conference
Copied: None
On: September 13th, 1984
Action: Vote on a Motion (e.g., to vacate stay order, to deny an injunction)
Would deny stay; retain stay; suggest they not act on a motion or order; should vacate order; comment on when they should vote on the motion

Document 8

From: William J. Brennan, Jr.
To: Conference
Copied: None
On: September 13th, 1984
Action: Vote on a Motion (e.g., to vacate stay order, to deny an injunction)
Would deny stay; retain stay; suggest they not act on a motion or order; should vacate order; comment on when they should vote on the motion
Action: Suggestion before Majority Opinion Circulated
Justice makes a suggestion or lays out position in the case before the majority opinion is circulated; discussion of issues before an opinion has been drafted; memo laying out other justice's position or describing how other justices’ have voted so far in the case; lays out position without directing it at a circulating opinion

Document 9

From: Warren E. Burger
To: Lewis F. Powell
Copied: Conference
On: September 13th, 1984
Action: Vote on a Motion (e.g., to vacate stay order, to deny an injunction)
Would deny stay; retain stay; suggest they not act on a motion or order; should vacate order; comment on when they should vote on the motion

Document 10

From: Sanda Day O'Connor
To: Conference
Copied: None
On: September 14th, 1984
Action: Vote on a Motion (e.g., to vacate stay order, to deny an injunction)
Would deny stay; retain stay; suggest they not act on a motion or order; should vacate order; comment on when they should vote on the motion

Document 11

From: Thurgood Marshall
To: Conference
Copied: None
On: September 17th, 1984
Action: Vote on a Motion (e.g., to vacate stay order, to deny an injunction)
Would deny stay; retain stay; suggest they not act on a motion or order; should vacate order; comment on when they should vote on the motion

Document 12

From: Harry A. Blackmun
To: Conference
Copied: None
On: September 20th, 1984
Action: Vote on a Motion (e.g., to vacate stay order, to deny an injunction)
Would deny stay; retain stay; suggest they not act on a motion or order; should vacate order; comment on when they should vote on the motion