GERENDE v. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ELECTIONS OF BALTIMORE (1951) - Ballotpedia

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GERENDE v. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ELECTIONS OF BALTIMORE

Term: 1950
Important Dates
Argued: April 9, 1951
Decided: April 12, 1951
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Frederick Vinson
Concurring
Stanley Reed

GERENDE v. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ELECTIONS OF BALTIMORE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 12, 1951. The case was argued before the court on April 9, 1951.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Maryland State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Vinson Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: First Amendment - Loyalty oath: political party
Petitioner: Political candidate, activist, committee, party, party member, organization, or elected official
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State commission, board, committee, or authority
Respondent state: Maryland
Citation: 341 U.S. 56
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

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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