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BILLINGS v. TRUESDELL, MAJOR GENERAL, UNITED STATES ARMY

Term: 1943
Important Dates
Argued: February 1, 1944
Decided: March 27, 1944
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-2
Majority
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Wiley Rutledge • Harlan Fiske Stone
Dissenting
Felix Frankfurter • Owen Josephus Roberts

BILLINGS v. TRUESDELL, MAJOR GENERAL, UNITED STATES ARMY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 27, 1944. The case was argued before the court on February 1, 1944.

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

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About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - military: draftee, or person subject to induction
Petitioner: Person subject to selective service, including conscientious objector
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Respondent state: United States
Citation: 321 U.S. 542
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: 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 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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