DOWD, WARDEN, v. UNITED STATES EX REL. COOK (1951) - Ballotpedia

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DOWD, WARDEN, v. UNITED STATES EX REL. COOK

Term: 1950
Important Dates
Argued: November 28, 1950
Decided: January 2, 1951
Outcome
Vacated and remanded
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson

DOWD, WARDEN, v. UNITED STATES EX REL. COOK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 2, 1951. The case was argued before the court on November 28, 1950.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Indiana Indiana Northern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Miscellaneous criminal procedure (cf. due process, prisoners' rights, comity: criminal procedure)
Petitioner: State
Petitioner state: Indiana
Respondent type: Person convicted of crime
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 340 U.S. 206
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.

See also

External links

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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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