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BARTELS v. STATE OF IOWA. (1923)

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BARTELS v. STATE OF IOWA.
Term: 1922
Important Dates
Argued: October 10, 1922
Decided: June 4, 1923
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-2
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter
Dissenting
Oliver Wendell Holmes • George Sutherland

BARTELS v. STATE OF IOWA. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 4, 1923. The case was argued before the court on October 10, 1922.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Iowa State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: First Amendment - First Amendment, miscellaneous (cf. comity: First Amendment)
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Iowa
  • Citation: 262 U.S. 404
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: James Clark McReynolds

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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