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ELLIS v. UNITED STATES (1958)

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ELLIS v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1957
Important Dates
Decided: May 26, 1958
Outcome
Vacated and remanded
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II • Earl Warren • Charles Whittaker

ELLIS v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 26, 1958.

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 District Of Columbia 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 Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - subconstitutional fair procedure: confession of error
  • Petitioner: Indigent defendant
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 356 U.S. 674
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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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