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ANGEL v. BULLINGTON (1947)

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ANGEL v. BULLINGTON
Term: 1946
Important Dates
Argued: March 5, 1946
Decided: February 17, 1947
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Frank Murphy • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Robert Jackson • Stanley Reed • Wiley Rutledge

ANGEL v. BULLINGTON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 17, 1947. The case was argued before the court on March 5, 1946.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the North Carolina North Carolina 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 Vinson Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: collateral estoppel or res judicata
  • Petitioner: Buyer, purchaser
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Seller or vendor
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 330 U.S. 183
  • 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: 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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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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