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BUTLER et al. v. WHITEMAN (1958)

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BUTLER et al. v. WHITEMAN
Term: 1957
Important Dates
Decided: April 14, 1958
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
6-3
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Earl Warren
Dissenting
Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II • Charles Whittaker

BUTLER et al. v. WHITEMAN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 14, 1958.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion.

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: Economic Activity - Sufficiency of evidence: typically in the context of a jury's determination of compensation for injury or death
  • Petitioner: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Water transportation, stevedore
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 356 U.S. 271
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • 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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