GARNER ET AL. v. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS OF LOS ANGELES ET AL. (1951) - Ballotpedia

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GARNER ET AL. v. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS OF LOS ANGELES ET AL.

Term: 1950
Important Dates
Argued: April 25, 1951
Decided: June 4, 1951
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Tom Clark • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter

GARNER ET AL. v. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS OF LOS ANGELES ET AL. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 4, 1951. The case was argued before the court on April 25, 1951.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: First Amendment - Loyalty oath: government employees
Petitioner: Governmental employee or job applicant
Petitioner state: California
Respondent type: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Respondent state: California
Citation: 341 U.S. 716
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
Who wrote the majority opinion: Tom Clark

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.

See also

External links

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Footnotes

↑ 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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