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HOLLEY v. LAWRENCE, WARDEN (1943)

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HOLLEY v. LAWRENCE, WARDEN
Term: 1942
Important Dates
Decided: January 18, 1943
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone

HOLLEY v. LAWRENCE, WARDEN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 18, 1943.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Georgia State Trial 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: Judicial Power - no merits: adequate non-federal grounds for decision
  • Petitioner: Unidentifiable
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Unidentifiable
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 317 U.S. 518
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: Harlan Fiske Stone
  • 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.

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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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