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Ex parte DON ASCANIO COLONNA (1942)

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ex parte DON ASCANIO COLONNA
Term: 1941
Important Dates
Decided: January 5, 1942
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Hugo Black • James Byrnes • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Harlan Fiske Stone

ex parte DON ASCANIO COLONNA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 5, 1942.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the New Jersey 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 Stone Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - Standing to sue: justiciable question
  • Petitioner: Foreign nation or instrumentality
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Court or judicial district
  • Respondent state: United States
  • Citation: 314 U.S. 510
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Mandamus
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: Harlan Fiske Stone
  • 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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