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HARTZEL v. UNITED STATES (1944)

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HARTZEL v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1943
Important Dates
Argued: April 25, 1944
Decided: June 12, 1944
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Hugo Black • Frank Murphy • Wiley Rutledge • Harlan Fiske Stone
Concurring
Owen Josephus Roberts
Dissenting
William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Stanley Reed

HARTZEL v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 12, 1944. The case was argued before the court on April 25, 1944.

In a 5-4 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: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: war crimes
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 322 U.S. 680
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Judgment 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 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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