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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. MURPHY

Term: 1941
Important Dates
Argued: November 17, 1941
Decided: December 15, 1941
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
6-0
Majority
Hugo Black • James Byrnes • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. MURPHY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 15, 1941. The case was argued before the court on November 17, 1941.

In a 6-0 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 U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit (includes the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia but not the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, which has local jurisdiction).

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
Petitioner: State
Petitioner state: District of Columbia
Respondent type: Governmental employee or job applicant
Respondent state: District of Columbia
Citation: 314 U.S. 441
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Harlan Fiske Stone
Who wrote the majority opinion: Robert Jackson

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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