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BELL v. UNITED STATES (1955)

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BELL v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1954
Important Dates
Argued: April 21, 1955
Decided: May 9, 1955
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II
Dissenting
Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Earl Warren

BELL v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 9, 1955. The case was argued before the court on April 21, 1955.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Tennessee Eastern U.S. District Court.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: Mann Act and related statutes
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 349 U.S. 81
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • 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.

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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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