JORDAN, DISTRICT DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION, v. De GEORGE (1951)

JORDAN, DISTRICT DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION, v. De GEORGE
	Term: 1950
Important Dates
	Argued: March 5, 1951
	Decided: May 7, 1951
Outcome
	Reversed
Vote
	6-3
Majority
	Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
	Hugo Black • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson

JORDAN, DISTRICT DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION, v. De GEORGE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 7, 1951. The case was argued before the court on March 5, 1951.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois Illinois Northern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - Deportation (cf. immigration and naturalization)
Petitioner: Immigration and Naturalization Service, or Director of, or District Director of, or Immigration and Naturalization Enforcement
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Alien, person subject to a denaturalization proceeding, or one whose citizenship is revoked
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 341 U.S. 223
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: Frederick Vinson

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.