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EX PARTE COLLETT (1949)

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EX PARTE COLLETT
Term: 1948
Important Dates
Argued: February 7, 1949
Decided: May 31, 1949
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
7-2
Majority
Harold Burton • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Concurring
Wiley Rutledge
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas

EX PARTE COLLETT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 31, 1949. The case was argued before the court on February 7, 1949.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Illinois Eastern U.S. District 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: Judicial Power - Venue
  • Petitioner: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Court or judicial district
  • Respondent state: United States
  • Citation: 337 U.S. 55
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Mandamus
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Frederick Vinson

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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