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AVERY v. GEORGIA (1953)

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AVERY v. GEORGIA
Term: 1952
Important Dates
Argued: April 30, 1953
Decided: May 25, 1953
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Sherman Minton • Frederick Vinson
Concurring
Hugo Black • Felix Frankfurter • Stanley Reed

AVERY v. GEORGIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 25, 1953. The case was argued before the court on April 30, 1953.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Georgia State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Vinson Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - Desegregation (other than as pertains to school desegregation, employment discrimination, and affirmative action)
  • Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Georgia
  • Citation: 345 U.S. 559
  • 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: Frederick Vinson

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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