This is a list of cases reported in volume 267 of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1925. Justices of the Supreme Court at the time of volume 267 U.S. The Supreme Court is established by Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution of the United States, which says: "The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court . . .". The size of the Court is not specified; the Constitution leaves it to Congress to set the number of justices. Under the Judiciary Act of 1789 Congress originally fixed the number of justices at six (one chief justice and five associate justices). Since 1789 Congress has varied the size of the Court from six to seven, nine, ten, and back to nine justices (always including one chief justice). When the cases in volume 267 were decided the Court comprised the following nine members: Notable Cases in 267 U.S. Ex parte Grossman In Ex parte Grossman, 267 U.S. 87 (1925), the Supreme Court held that the US President may pardon criminal contempt of court. Grossman had been convicted of criminal contempt but was pardoned by the President. The U.S. district court then sent him back to prison, and he appealed to the Supreme Court. Carroll v. United States In Carroll v. United States, 267 U.S. 132 (1925), the Supreme Court upheld the warrantless searches of an automobile, which is known as the automobile exception. The case has been cited as widening the scope of warrantless search. The Court noted that Congress early observed the need for a search warrant in non-border search situations, and Congress always recognized "a necessary difference" between searches of buildings and vehicles "for contraband goods, where it is not practical to secure a warrant, because the vehicle can be quickly moved out of the locality or jurisdiction in which the warrant must be sought." Samuels v. McCurdy Samuels v. McCurdy, 267 U.S. 188 (1925), is a decision regarding the application of ex post facto when an object was legally purchased and possessed, but was then later banned by statute. In 1917, Georgia's criminal alcohol prohibition law became effective before federal prohibition did under the Eighteenth Amendment. Sig Samuels had legally purchased alcohol for personal use before the ban. A sheriff seized the alcohol with a valid search warrant after prohibition became effective. Samuels sued