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FORTE v. UNITED STATES (1937)

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FORTE v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1937
Important Dates
Argued: November 15, 1937
Decided: December 6, 1937
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Benjamin Nathan Cardozo • Charles Evans Hughes • James Clark McReynolds • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland

FORTE v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 6, 1937. The case was argued before the court on November 15, 1937.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the District Of Columbia U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1930s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Hughes Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 302 U.S. 220
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Charles Evans Hughes
  • 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 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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