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GLASSER v. UNITED STATES (1942)

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GLASSER v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1941
Important Dates
Argued: November 13, 1941
Decided: January 19, 1942
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-2
Majority
Hugo Black • James Byrnes • William Douglas • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Owen Josephus Roberts
Dissenting
Felix Frankfurter • Harlan Fiske Stone

GLASSER v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 19, 1942. The case was argued before the court on November 13, 1941.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois Northern 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: Civil Rights - Sex discrimination (excluding sex discrimination in employment)
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 315 U.S. 60
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • 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: Frank Murphy

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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