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Ex parte REPUBLIC OF PERU (1943)

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Ex parte REPUBLIC OF PERU
Term: 1942
Important Dates
Argued: March 1, 1943
Decided: April 5, 1943
Outcome
Stay, petition, or motion granted
Vote
7-2
Majority
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Wiley Rutledge • Harlan Fiske Stone
Concurring
Owen Josephus Roberts
Dissenting
Felix Frankfurter • Stanley Reed

Ex parte REPUBLIC OF PERU is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 5, 1943. The case was argued before the court on March 1, 1943.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the petition, stay, or motion. The case originated from the Louisiana 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 Stone Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: extraordinary relief (e.g., mandamus, injunction)
  • Petitioner: Foreign nation or instrumentality
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Judge
  • Respondent state: United States
  • Citation: 318 U.S. 578
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Mandamus
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Harlan Fiske Stone
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Harlan Fiske Stone

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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