COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. CONNELLY ET UX. (1949) - Ballotpedia

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COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. CONNELLY ET UX.

Term: 1949
Important Dates
Argued: October 21, 1949
Decided: November 7, 1949
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson

COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. CONNELLY ET UX. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 7, 1949. The case was argued before the court on October 21, 1949.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Tax Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Vinson Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Federal Taxation - federal taxation, typically under provisions of the Internal Revenue Code
Petitioner: Internal Revenue Service, Collector, Commissioner, or District Director of
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Governmental employee or job applicant
Respondent state: United States
Citation: 338 U.S. 258
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: Sherman Minton

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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