DAVIS

v.

ALVIS, SUPERINTENDENT, OHIO PENITENTIARY, ET AL.; JACKSON V. HEINZE, WARDEN; SHEPHERD V. ROGERS, ATTORNEY GENERAL, ET AL.; AND NOVAK V. PINTO, SUPERINTENDENT, NEW JERSEY STATE PRISON FARM

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• Beacon Theatres, Inc. v. Westover, 359 U.S. 500 (U.S. 1959)
  …st it by Fox West Coast Theatres, Inc. The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit refused the writ, holding that the trial judge had acted within his proper discretion in denying petitioner’s request for a jury. 252.F. 2d 864. We granted certiorari, 356 U. S. 956, because “Maintenance of the jury as a fact-finding body is of such importance and occupies so firm a place in our history and. jurisprudence that any seeming curtailment of the right to a jury trial should be scrutinized with the utmost care.” Dimi…
• Peurifoy v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 358 U.S. 59 (U.S. 1958)
  …ce upon leaving that employment. These deductions were disallowed by the respondent. Ensuing Tax Court proceedings resulted in a decision in favor of the petitioners. 27 T. C. 149. The Court of Appeals reversed. 254 F. 2d 483. We granted certiorari, 356 U. S. 956, to consider certain questions as [*60] to the application of §23 (a)(1)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939* raised by the course of decisions in the lower courts since our decision in Commissioner v. Flowers, 326 U. S. 465. However, as the cas…
• Curry v. Pyramid Life Ins. Co. & Home Sav. Ass'n of Kan. City, 271 F.2d 1 (8th Cir. 1959)
  …., 240 F. 2d 444, 448, certiorari denied 354 U.S. 921, 77 S.Ct. 1379, 1 L.Ed.2d 1435. The instant situation makes appropriate our reference to the time-honored principle recently reiterated by the Supreme Court in Beacon Theatres, Inc. v. Westover, 356 U.S. 956, 78 S.Ct. 996, 2 L.Ed.2d 1064, granting certiorari, and 79 S.Ct. 948, 952, on the merits, in this language: “Maintenance of the jury as a fact-finding body is of such importance and occupies so firm a place in our history and jurisprudence that any…