Boylan v. Hot Springs Ry. Co., 132 U.S. 146 (decided November 11, 1889): passenger properly thrown off train when refusing to pay extra on return trip even though he had paid round trip fare, where ticket (which he hadn’t read) required it be stamped at departing station and he didn’t get it stamped (the language of the ticket, quoted in a footnote, is so extensive that it had to have been “fine print”)
Connecticut v. Menillo, 423 U.S. 9 (decided November 11, 1975): upholding Connecticut statute criminalizing abortion “by any person” if that person is not a physician (“Roe v. Wade did not go so far”)
Chandler & Price Co. v. Brandtjen & Kluge, 296 U.S. 53 (decided November 11, 1935): denying motion to intervene in patent suit made by holder of patent for another device (sheet transferring mechanism in printing press) whose business would be hurt if patent at issue (improved automatic feed and delivery for press) was voided
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