HILL, WARDEN, v. UNITED STATES ex rel. WAMPLER (1936) - Ballotpedia

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HILL, WARDEN, v. UNITED STATES ex rel. WAMPLER

Term: 1935
Important Dates
Argued: May 4, 1936
Decided: May 18, 1936
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Benjamin Nathan Cardozo • Charles Evans Hughes • James Clark McReynolds • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • Willis Van Devanter

HILL, WARDEN, v. UNITED STATES ex rel. WAMPLER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 18, 1936. The case was argued before the court on May 4, 1936.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Pennsylvania Middle U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - subconstitutional fair procedure: miscellaneous
Petitioner: Governmental employee or job applicant
Petitioner state: United States
Respondent type: Prisoner, inmate of penal institution
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 298 U.S. 460
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Charles Evans Hughes
Who wrote the majority opinion: Benjamin Nathan Cardozo

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.

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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