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HAUPT v. UNITED STATES (1947)

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HAUPT v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1946
Important Dates
Argued: November 21, 1946
Decided: March 31, 1947
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-1
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Stanley Reed • Wiley Rutledge • Frederick Vinson
Concurring
William Douglas
Dissenting
Frank Murphy

HAUPT v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 31, 1947. The case was argued before the court on November 21, 1946.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois 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 Vinson Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Miscellaneous criminal procedure (cf. due process, prisoners' rights, comity: criminal procedure)
  • Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 330 U.S. 631
  • 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: Robert Jackson

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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