BROWNELL, ATTORNEY GENERAL, v. RUBINSTEIN. (1954)

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BROWNELL, ATTORNEY GENERAL, v. RUBINSTEIN.
Term: 1953
Important Dates
Argued: January 7, 1954
Decided: January 11, 1954
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
4-4
Equally divided vote
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Earl Warren

BROWNELL, ATTORNEY GENERAL, v. RUBINSTEIN. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 11, 1954. The case was argued before the court on January 7, 1954.

In a 4-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the District Of Columbia U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: -
  • Petitioner: attorney general of the United States, or his office
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Unidentifiable
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 346 U.S. 929
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Equally divided vote
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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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