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COOK v. UNITED STATES (1933)

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COOK v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1932
Important Dates
Argued: December 7, 1932
Decided: January 23, 1933
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-2
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Benjamin Nathan Cardozo • Charles Evans Hughes • James Clark McReynolds • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone
Dissenting
Pierce Butler • George Sutherland

COOK v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 23, 1933. The case was argued before the court on December 7, 1932.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Rhode Island U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1930s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Hughes Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Due Process - Due process: takings clause, or other non-constitutional governmental taking of property
  • Petitioner: Water transportation, stevedore
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 288 U.S. 102
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Charles Evans Hughes
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Louis Dembitz Brandeis

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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