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HULBERT et al. v. TWIN FALLS COUNTY

Term: 1945
Important Dates
Argued: January 10, 1946
Decided: February 4, 1946
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-1
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Felix Frankfurter • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Wiley Rutledge • Harlan Fiske Stone
Dissenting
William Douglas

HULBERT et al. v. TWIN FALLS COUNTY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 4, 1946. The case was argued before the court on January 10, 1946.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Idaho State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Federalism - federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation. cf. state regulation of business. rarely involves union activity. Does not involve constitutional interpretation unless the Court says it does.
Petitioner: Buyer, purchaser
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Respondent state: Idaho
Citation: 327 U.S. 103
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: Hugo Black

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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