BIFULCO

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By

• Beck v. Alabama, 447 U.S. 625 (U.S. 1980)
  …eath constitutionally be imposed after a jury verdict of guilt of a capital offense, when the jury was not permitted to consider a verdict of guilt of a lesser included non-capital offense, and when the evidence would have supported such a verdict?” 444 U. S. 897. We now hold that the death penalty may not be imposed under these circumstances. Petitioner was tried for the capital offense of “[rjobbery or attempts thereof when the victim is intentionally killed by the defendant.” 1 Under the Alabama death p…
• Bifulco v. United States, 447 U.S. 381 (U.S. 1980)
  …it reached the opposite conclusion on the issue and held that a special parole term may not be imposed under § 406. United States v. Mearns, 599 F. 2d 1296 (1979), aff’g 461 F. Supp. 641 (Del. 1978), cert. pending, No. 79-415. We granted certiorari, 444 U. S. 897 (1979), to resolve this conflict among the Courts of Appeals.4 [*387] III The Government recognizes, Brief for United States 31, n. 26, that our examination of the meaning of § 406 must be informed by the policy that the Court has expressed as “the…
• N.Y. Gaslight Club, Inc. v. Carey, 447 U.S. 54 (U.S. 1980)
  …rd; the language of the statute’s fee provision; and the desirability of encouraging a complainant to retain private counsel notwithstanding participation of a Division attorney at certain points during the state proceedings. We granted certiorari, 444 U. S. 897 (1979), to consider this question that is significant to the enforcement of the antidis-crimination provisions of Title YII. II Section 706 (k) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 261, 42 U. S. C. § 2000e-5 (k), provides: “In any action or…