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BROWN v. UNITED STATES (1958)

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BROWN v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1957
Important Dates
Argued: April 4, 1957
Decided: March 31, 1958
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II • Charles Whittaker
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Brennan • William Douglas • Earl Warren

BROWN v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 31, 1958. The case was argued before the court on April 4, 1957.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Michigan 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 - self-incrimination (other than as pertains to Miranda or immunity from prosecution)
  • Petitioner: Witness, or person under subpoena
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 356 U.S. 148
  • 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 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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