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62 CASES OF JAM ET AL. v. UNITED STATES (1951)
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| 62 CASES OF JAM ET AL. v. UNITED STATES |
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| Term: 1950 |
| Important Dates |
| Argued: March 5, 1951 |
| Decided: March 26, 1951 |
| Outcome |
| Reversed |
| Vote |
| 7-2 |
| Majority |
| Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson |
| Dissenting |
| Hugo Black • William Douglas |
62 CASES OF JAM ET AL. v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 26, 1951. The case was argued before the court on March 5, 1951.
In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New Mexico New Mexico U.S. District Court.
For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Vinson Court, click here.
About the case
- Subject matter: Economic Activity - federal or state consumer protection: typically under the Truth in Lending; Food, Drug and Cosmetic; and Consumer Protection Credit Acts
- Petitioner: Food, meat packing, or processing company, stockyard
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: United States
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 340 U.S. 593
- How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
- What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
- Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
- Who wrote the majority opinion: Felix Frankfurter
These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as conservative.
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