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Ex parte HAWK (1944)

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ex parte HAWK
Term: 1943
Important Dates
Decided: January 31, 1944
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Owen Josephus Roberts • Wiley Rutledge • Harlan Fiske Stone

ex parte HAWK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 31, 1944.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Nebraska 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 - comity primarily removal cases, civil procedure (cf. comity, criminal and First Amendment); deference to foreign judicial tribunals
  • Petitioner: Prisoner, inmate of penal institution
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Nebraska
  • Citation: 321 U.S. 114
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of habeas corpus
  • 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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