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EWING, FEDERAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATOR, v. GARDNER, EXECUTOR (1951)

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EWING, FEDERAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATOR, v. GARDNER, EXECUTOR
Term: 1950
Important Dates
Decided: May 7, 1951
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson

EWING, FEDERAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATOR, v. GARDNER, EXECUTOR is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 7, 1951.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Ohio 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: Judicial Power - Assessment of costs or damages: as part of a court order
  • Petitioner: Social Security Administration or Commissioner
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Heir, or beneficiary, or person so claiming to be
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 341 U.S. 321
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
  • 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 conservative.

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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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