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ADAMS et al. v. UNITED STATES et al.

Term: 1942
Important Dates
Argued: May 10, 1943
Decided: May 24, 1943
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Owen Josephus Roberts • Wiley Rutledge • Harlan Fiske Stone

ADAMS et al. v. UNITED STATES et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 24, 1943. The case was argued before the court on May 10, 1943.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Louisiana Western U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Stone Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: jurisdiction or authority of federal district courts or territorial courts
Petitioner: Military personnel, or dependent of, including reservist
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 319 U.S. 312
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Harlan Fiske Stone
Who wrote the majority opinion: Hugo Black

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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