Morris Ames Soper
1873–1963 · Baltimore, MD
Judicial Service
| Court | Title | Appointed By | Commissioned | Termination |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland | Judge | Warren G. Harding (Republican) | Feb 24, 1923 | Appointment to Another Judicial Position, May 9, 1931 |
| U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit | Judge | Herbert Hoover (Republican) | Jan 19, 1932 | Death, Mar 11, 1963 |
Education
- Johns Hopkins University, A.B., 1893
- University of Maryland School of Law (now Francis King Carey School of Law), LL.B., 1895
Professional Career
Assistant state's attorney, Baltimore City, Maryland, 1897-1899; Assistant U.S. attorney, District of Maryland, 1900-1909; Private practice, Maryland, 1909-1914, 1921-1923; President, Board of Police Commissioners, Baltimore City, Maryland, 1912-1913; Chief judge, Supreme Bench of Baltimore City [Maryland], 1914-1921
Opinions on This Site
Showing 100 of 2,467 opinions from 1923 to 1963
- Heyl & Patterson, Incorporated, and Cross-Appellee v. McDowell Company, Incorporated, and Norfolk and Western Railway Company, and Cross-Appellants 1963
- Community Counselling Service, Incorporated v. Robert Benedict Reilly 1963
- Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Morton Liftin and Sylvia Liftin 1963
- United States v. James William Oates 1963
- United States v. Walter Ernest Cole, Jr. 1963
- United Textile Workers of America, Afl-Cio, Local Union, No. 120 v. Newberry Mills, Inc. 1963
- United States v. Orion T. Whiting, Jr., and Lucretia Killings 1963
- Vincent L. Pilkington v. United States 1963
- Byron A. Hicks and Agnes, C. Hicks v. United States 1963
- W. Willard Wirtz, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor v. B. A. C. Steel Products, Inc., a Corporation, and W. N. Bostic 1963
- Parks v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 1963
- United States v. William Lawrence Lemons and Grady Ingram 1963
- American Export Lines, Inc., a Foreign Corporation v. Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, Inc., a Corporation 1963
- United States v. Harold Sapperstein and Anne Sapperstein 1963
- General Construction Co. v. Hering Realty Co. 1963
- Margaret R. McDougle and Leonidas I. McDougle v. Woodward & Lothrop, Inc., and Charles of the Ritz 1963
- Rudolph E. Hill v. B.F. Diamond, Trading as Diamond Construction Company, John Gence Hodges v. B. F. Diamond, Trading as Diamond Construction Company 1962
- Moore-Mccormack Lines, Inc. v. Maryland Ship Ceiling Company, Inc. 1962
- United States v. Louis B. Houff, Jr., and C. E. Keefer, and Third-Party v. The C. F. Sauer Company, Third-Party 1962
- Kathleen M. Scaggs v. Fred George Zacharia 1962
- Harvey Rayvon Byerly, Charles William Long, Homer Lee Cox, and Davidson County v. Lewis Jackson Shell and Joncie W. Absher 1962
- Hubert Gene Douglas, Virginia Douglas, and Allstate Insurance Company, a Corporation v. Union Carbide Corporation, a Corporation 1962
- Edgewood Country Club, a Corporation v. United States 1962
- United States v. Joe Hill and Luther Dew 1962
- National Labor Relations Board v. Ryder Tank Lines, Inc. 1962
- Mrx. Ruth Brockman Cain, of the Estate of William Pinckney Cain, Deceased v. John H. Beecher, and Little John Beecher & His Orchestra, Inc. 1962
- Industria E. Comercio De Minerios, S.A. And United States of America v. Nova Genuesis Societa Per Azioni Per L'IndustrIa Et Il Commercio Maritimo 1962
- Alex Bettis Hammond v. United States 1962
- W. Willard Wirzt, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor v. Highway Transportation, Inc. 1962
- Lynchburg Traffic Bureau (Corp.) v. Smith's Transfer Corporation of Staunton, Virginia 1962
- Richard M. Gooding and Marcella M. Gooding v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue 1962
- Pennsylvania Threshermen & Farmers' Mutual Casualty Insurance v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. 1962
- Carriers Insurance Exchange v. Truck Insurance Exchange 1962
- Hubert E. Seymour, Jr., Receiver v. United States of America, Cross-Claimant 1962
- Willie Junior Rakes v. United States 1962
- Ernest M. Thompson v. Block's Incorporated 1962
- National Labor Relations Board v. Preston Feed Corporation 1962
- United States v. Jonie Gardner Lee 1962
- United States v. Moore-Mccormack Lines, Inc., and Indemnity Insurance Company of North America 1962
- Virginia Greenstone Company, Incorporated v. United States 1962
- Savon Gas Stations Number Six, Inc., and A. & H. Transportation, Inc. v. Shell Oil Company 1962
- M. O. Dantzler v. Dictograph Products, Inc. 1962
- United States v. 2,974.49 Acres of Land, More or Less, in Clarendon County, South Carolina, and South Carolina Public Service Authority 1962
- Oscar A. Harrison v. Otto C. Boles, Warden of the West Virginia Penitentiary, Moundsville, West Virginia 1962
- Southern Materials Company, Incorporated v. Bryan Rock and Sand Company, and American-Marietta Company, and Third-Party 1962
- Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. v. Bunge Corp. 1962
- National Labor Relations Board v. Baltimore Paint and Chemical Corporation 1962
- Mellott Faust v. State of North Carolina 1962
- J. T. Herndon, D/B/A Herndon Stock Farm v. Southern Pest Control Company, Inc. 1962
- United States v. Fred Cline and Wife Luzene Cline 1962
- Piedmont Federal Savings & Loan Association v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company 1962
- Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Lake Forest, Inc. 1962
- Abraham Tow v. Miners Memorial Hospital Association, Inc., a Corporation 1962
- Robert B. Gholston v. Otto C. Boles, Warden, West Virginia State Penitentiary 1962
- United States v. William Luther Mercks 1962
- William J. Sloan and Beverly D. Sloan, an Infant, Who Sues by William J. Sloan, Her Next Friend v. Carl Allen Colebank 1962
- United States v. Virginia Milanovich, (Two Cases) 1962
- Allied Mutual Insurance Company v. Gilbert Roberson, Gilbert Roberson D/B/A State Insurance Company v. Allied Mutual Insurance Company 1962
- The First National Bank of South Carolina of Columbia v. Glens Falls Insurance Company 1962
- Nikolaos Ktistakis v. Liberian S.S. Star and National Shipping and Trading Corporation, and Star Steamship Corporation 1962
- Lester L. Luhring and Betty W. Luhring v. Clifford W. Glotzbach, District Director of Internal Revenue 1962
- Luhring v. Glotzbach 1962
- United States v. James Campy Irby 1962
- Marie Miller and Jeanette M. Edelblute v. East Georgia Motors, Inc., a Corporation 1962
- Rufus F. And Marguerite H. Turner v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue 1962
- Bilton Insulation, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board 1962
- Home Fire & Marine Insurance Company v. Julius B. Tisdale, Johnny M. Phillips and Herman F. McMahon 1962
- Royal McBee Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board 1962
- United States v. Norman Bebik 1962
- United States v. B. D. Taylor 1962
- United States v. Joseph Lemon Boyette, Bert Franklin Mooring, and Temasia Bruce Hill Mooring 1962
- United States v. Norman Lee Pledger 1962
- Isabel S. Hellings v. Ives Funeral Home, Incorporated 1962
- New Amsterdam Casualty Company, and Cross-Appellant v. Gladys N. Waller, and Cross-Appellee 1962
- Frank B. Short and Katherine F. Short, and Richard L. Coleman and Betty B. Coleman v. Commission of Interenal Revenue 1962
- James W. Hunt v. United States 1962
- United States v. Funkhouser 1962
- Universal Incorporated v. Kay Manufacturing Corporation 1962
- Food Fair Stores, Inc., a Corporation v. Lakeland Grocery Corp., a Corporation 1962
- Crown Central Petroleum Corporation v. Port Oil Co. (Formerly Hewitt Oil Marketing Co.) 1962
- National Labor Relations Board v. Lester Brothers, Inc. 1962
- Noland Company, Incorporated, and Third-Party and Cross-Appellant v. Graver Tank & Manufacturing Company, Third-Party and Cross-Appellee 1962
- National Labor Relations Board v. The Lord Baltimore Press, Inc. 1962
- Charles P. Ballenger, Jr., and Myrtle S. Ballenger v. United States 1962
- United States v. Braxton C. Wallace 1962
- Olin Mann, as Administrator of the Estate of Dale Galloway, Deceased v. Bowman Transportation, Inc. 1962
- Warren J. Wright v. B. F. Huntley Furniture Company 1962
- Dudley ex rel. Smith v. Inland Mutual Insurance 1962
- United States v. William J. Hardy 1962
- United States v. Franklin McKenzie Davison 1962
- Power and Combustion, Inc. v. Thomas J. Wilson, Iii, Trustee in Bankruptcy of the Pride of Virginia Poultry Corporation 1962
- United States v. Howard B. Chatham and His Wife, Mrs. Howard B. Chatham 1962
- Ball v. National Labor Relations Board 1962
- United States v. Union Livestock Sales Company, Inc., a Corporation 1962
- Brown Dynalube Company, Inc. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue 1962
- J. G. Dudley Company, Incorporated (Formerly Headen Hosiery Mills, Incorporated) v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue 1962
- United States v. William Gantt, Alias Jim Gantt 1962
- Regina K. Moore v. The Hecht Company a Corporation 1962
- Aurweid George Reickauer v. W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Superintendent Virginia State Penitentiary 1962
- United States v. Sawyer 1962