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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. LITTLE (1950)

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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. LITTLE
Term: 1949
Important Dates
Argued: January 11, 1950
Decided: February 20, 1950
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-2
Majority
Hugo Black • Tom Clark • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Harold Burton • Stanley Reed

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. LITTLE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 20, 1950. The case was argued before the court on January 11, 1950.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the District of Columbia State Trial 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.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - search and seizure (other than as pertains to vehicles or Crime Control Act)
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: District of Columbia
  • Respondent type: Person convicted of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 339 U.S. 1
  • 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: Hugo Black

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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