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BAUMGARTNER v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1943
Important Dates
Argued: April 26, 1944
Decided: June 12, 1944
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Stanley Reed • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Frank Murphy • Wiley Rutledge

BAUMGARTNER v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 12, 1944. The case was argued before the court on April 26, 1944.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Missouri Western U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - immigration and naturalization: loss of citizenship, denaturalization
Petitioner: Alien, person subject to a denaturalization proceeding, or one whose citizenship is revoked
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 322 U.S. 665
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Harlan Fiske Stone
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 liberal.

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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