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JOHNSON v. STATE OF MARYLAND

Term: 1920
Important Dates
Argued: October 18, 1920
Decided: November 8, 1920
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-2
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney

JOHNSON v. STATE OF MARYLAND is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 8, 1920. The case was argued before the court on October 18, 1920.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Maryland State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: miscellaneous
Petitioner: Postal Service and Post Office, or Postmaster General, or Postmaster
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State
Respondent state: Maryland
Citation: 254 U.S. 51
How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
Who wrote the majority opinion: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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