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ACKERMANN v. UNITED STATES (1950)

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ACKERMANN v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1950
Important Dates
Argued: October 19, 1950
Decided: December 11, 1950
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-3
Majority
Harold Burton • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter

ACKERMANN v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 11, 1950. The case was argued before the court on October 19, 1950.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Texas Texas Western 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.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - immigration and naturalization: loss of citizenship, denaturalization
  • Petitioner: Alien, person subject to a denaturalization proceeding, or one whose citizenship is revoked
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 340 U.S. 193
  • 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: Sherman Minton

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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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024
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