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In re APPLICATION OF BURWELL (1956)

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in re APPLICATION OF BURWELL
Term: 1955
Important Dates
Decided: April 2, 1956
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Earl Warren

in re APPLICATION OF BURWELL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 2, 1956.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: jurisdiction or authority of federal courts of appeals
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: California
  • Citation: 350 U.S. 521
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • 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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