Charlotte Harbor & N. Ry. Co. v. Welles , 260 U.S. 8 (decided October 16, 1922): Florida Legislature can ratify county’s ultra vires creation of new bridge district which overlapped existing district (effect of which was to add toll to existing bridge) Bitter v. United States , 389 U.S. 15 (decided October 16, 1967):  Mail fraud defendant, who had been on time at every appearance, was 37 minutes late in returning from a recess.  So the judge stuck him in a jail 40 miles away

Civil Rights Cases , 109 U.S. 3 (decided October 15, 1883): strikes down federal statute prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations; Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments apply only to governmental action, not private action (here, refusal to allow black people to take rooms at an inn, seats at an opera, and to get onto “ladies’ car” reserved for whites on train) (according to Westlaw, this case was never explicitly overruled, with the first recognition of it n

McConnell v. Rhay , 393 U.S. 2 (decided October 14, 1968): Court holds that its rule of Mempa v. Rhay , 1967, that there is a right to counsel in revocation of probation and deferred sentencing proceedings, at least as to felony defendants, is to be applied retroactively (retroactive application is often, though not always, ordered in criminal procedure matters, though it often requires a second case with similar facts to come along) Arkansas v. Tennessee , 311 U.S. 1 (decide

Moore v. Terminal Railroad Ass’n of St. Louis , 358 U.S. 31 (decided October 13, 1958): Court, without opinion, reverses Missouri Supreme...