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DALEHITE ET AL. v. UNITED STATES (1953)

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DALEHITE ET AL. v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1952
Important Dates
Argued: April 6, 1953
Decided: June 8, 1953
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
4-3
Majority
Harold Burton • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Hugo Black • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson

DALEHITE ET AL. v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 8, 1953. The case was argued before the court on April 6, 1953.

In a 4-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Texas Texas Southern 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 Vinson Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, governmental: tort or contract actions by or against government or governmental officials other than defense of criminal actions brought under a civil rights action.
  • Petitioner: Physically injured person, including wrongful death, who is not an employee
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 346 U.S. 15
  • 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: Stanley Reed

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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