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Ex parte VALLANDIGHAM (1864)

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ex parte VALLANDIGHAM
Term: 1863
Important Dates
Argued: January 22, 1864
Decided: February 15, 1864
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
John Catron • Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Noah Haynes Swayne • Roger Brooke Taney • James Moore Wayne
Concurring
Stephen Johnson Field • Robert Cooper Grier • Samuel Nelson

ex parte VALLANDIGHAM is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 15, 1864. The case was argued before the court on January 22, 1864.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1860s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taney Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: Supreme Court jurisdiction or authority on appeal or writ of error, from federal district courts or courts of appeals (cf. 753)
  • Petitioner: Prisoner, inmate of penal institution
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Judge
  • Respondent state: United States
  • Citation: 68 U.S. 243
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Roger Brooke Taney
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: James Moore Wayne

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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