BAENDER v. BARNETT, AS SHERIFF OF ALAMEDA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA (1921) - Ballotpedia

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BAENDER v. BARNETT, AS SHERIFF OF ALAMEDA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA

Term: 1920
Important Dates
Argued: January 11, 1921
Decided: February 28, 1921
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

BAENDER v. BARNETT, AS SHERIFF OF ALAMEDA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 28, 1921. The case was argued before the court on January 11, 1921.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California Northern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Habeas corpus
Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Respondent state: California
Citation: 255 U.S. 224
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
Who wrote the majority opinion: Willis Van Devanter

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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