BAILESS, COUNTY TREASURER, ET AL. v. PAUKUNE (1952) - Ballotpedia

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BAILESS, COUNTY TREASURER, ET AL. v. PAUKUNE

Term: 1952
Important Dates
Argued: November 1, 1952
Decided: December 8, 1952
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson

BAILESS, COUNTY TREASURER, ET AL. v. PAUKUNE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 8, 1952. The case was argued before the court on November 1, 1952.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Oklahoma 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.

About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - Indians, state jurisdiction over
Petitioner: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Petitioner state: Oklahoma
Respondent type: Indian, including Indian tribe or nation
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 344 U.S. 171
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: William Douglas

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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