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In re HERNDON (1969)

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In re HERNDON
Term: 1968
Important Dates
Argued: January 21, 1969
Decided: March 25, 1969
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
6-2
Majority
William Brennan • Abe Fortas • Thurgood Marshall • Potter Stewart • Earl Warren • Byron White
Dissenting
William Douglas • John Harlan II

In re HERNDON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 25, 1969. The case was argued before the court on January 21, 1969.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Alabama Middle U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1960s, 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: extraordinary relief (e.g., mandamus, injunction)
  • Petitioner: Political candidate, activist, committee, party, party member, organization, or elected official
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Judge
  • Respondent state: Alabama
  • Citation: 394 U.S. 399
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Unspecified, other
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • 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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