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CHAUNT v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1960
Important Dates
Argued: October 17, 1960
Decided: November 14, 1960
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
6-3
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II • Earl Warren
Dissenting
Tom Clark • Potter Stewart • Charles Whittaker

CHAUNT v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 14, 1960. The case was argued before the court on October 17, 1960.

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. The case originated from the California Southern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1960s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - immigration and naturalization: loss of citizenship, denaturalization
Petitioner: Alien, person subject to a denaturalization proceeding, or one whose citizenship is revoked
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 364 U.S. 350
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: 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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