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AFROYIM v. RUSK, SECRETARY OF STATE (1967)

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AFROYIM v. RUSK, SECRETARY OF STATE
Term: 1966
Important Dates
Argued: February 20, 1967
Decided: May 29, 1967
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • William Douglas • Abe Fortas • Earl Warren
Dissenting
Tom Clark • John Harlan II • Potter Stewart • Byron White

AFROYIM v. RUSK, SECRETARY OF STATE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 29, 1967. The case was argued before the court on February 20, 1967.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.

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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: Department or Secretary of State
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 387 U.S. 253
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • 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 liberal.

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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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