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BRIDGES ET AL. v. UNITED STATES (1953)

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BRIDGES ET AL. v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1952
Important Dates
Argued: May 4, 1953
Decided: June 15, 1953
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
4-3
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter
Dissenting
Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson

BRIDGES ET AL. v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 15, 1953. The case was argued before the court on May 4, 1953.

In a 4-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California California Northern 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 Vinson Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: fraud
  • Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 346 U.S. 209
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Harold Burton

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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