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JOHANSEN v. UNITED STATES (1952)

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JOHANSEN v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1951
Important Dates
Argued: March 4, 1952
Decided: May 26, 1952
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Stanley Reed
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Sherman Minton • Frederick Vinson

JOHANSEN v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 26, 1952. The case was argued before the court on March 4, 1952.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York New York Southern U.S. District Court.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Election of remedies: legal remedies available to injured persons or things
  • Petitioner: Governmental employee or job applicant
  • Petitioner state: United States
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 343 U.S. 427
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Stanley Reed

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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