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BERRA v. UNITED STATES (1956)

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BERRA v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1955
Important Dates
Argued: March 26, 1956
Decided: April 30, 1956
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Earl Warren
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas

BERRA v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 30, 1956. The case was argued before the court on March 26, 1956.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Missouri 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: internal revenue (cf. Federal Taxation)
  • Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 351 U.S. 131
  • 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: John Harlan II

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.

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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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