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ALABAMA et al. v. UNITED STATES et al. (1945)

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ALABAMA et al. v. UNITED STATES et al.
Term: 1944
Important Dates
Argued: April 24, 1945
Decided: June 11, 1945
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Wiley Rutledge
Dissenting
Felix Frankfurter • Stanley Reed • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone

ALABAMA et al. v. UNITED STATES et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 11, 1945. The case was argued before the court on April 24, 1945.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Sufficiency of evidence: typically in the context of a jury's determination of compensation for injury or death
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Alabama
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 325 U.S. 535
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • 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.

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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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