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ANDERSON et al. v. UNITED STATES (1943)

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ANDERSON et al. v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1942
Important Dates
Argued: October 21, 1942
Decided: March 1, 1943
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-1
Majority
Hugo BlackWilliam DouglasFelix FrankfurterFrank MurphyOwen Josephus RobertsHarlan Fiske Stone
Dissenting
Stanley Reed

ANDERSON et al. v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 1, 1943. The case was argued before the court on October 21, 1942.

In a 6-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Tennessee Eastern 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: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: conspiracy (cf. subconstitutional fair procedure: conspiracy)
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 318 U.S. 350
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • 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: 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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