FIREFIGHTERS LOCAL UNION NO. 1784

v.

STOTTS ET AL.; AND MEMPHIS FIRE DEPARTMENT ET AL. V. STOTTS ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (U.S. 1984)
  …93 F. 2d, at 1261-1262. For these reasons, we granted certiorari to consider the standards by which to judge a contention that the Constitution requires that a criminal judgment be overturned because of the actual ineffective assistance of counsel. 462 U. S. 1105 (1983). We agree with the Court of Appeals that the exhaustion rule requiring dismissal of mixed petitions, though to be strictly enforced, is not jurisdictional. See Rose v. Lundy, 455 U. S., at 515-520. We therefore address the merits of the const…
• Firefighters Local Union NO. 1784 v. Stotts, 467 U.S. 561 (U.S. 1984)
  …ity’s seniority system, which was immunized from Title VII attack under § 703(h) of that Act, 42 U. S. C. § 2000e-2(h). The Fire Department (and city officials) and the Union filed separate petitions for certiorari. The two petitions were granted, 462 U. S. 1105 (1983), and the cases were consolidated for oral argument. 1 — I f — < We deal first with the claim that these cases are moot. Respondents submit that the injunction entered in these cases was a preliminary injunction dealing only with the 1981 la…
• Maggio v. Williams, 464 U.S. 46 (U.S. 1983)
  …stantiality of applicant’s Pulley argument, but on the fact that applicant raised a substantial challenge to the effectiveness of his trial counsel, similar to those we shall resolve in two cases set for argument this Term. Strickland v. Washington, 462 U. S. 1105 (1983); United States v. Cronic, 459 U. S. 1199 (1983). As Williams notes, Justice White recently granted a stay in a case raising a proportionality challenge to a death sentence imposed in Texas. Autry v. Estelle, post, p. 1301. Also, on October 3…