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JOSEPH et al. v. INDIANA. (1959)

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JOSEPH et al. v. INDIANA.
Term: 1958
Important Dates
Argued: January 19, 1959
Decided: March 23, 1959
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II • Potter Stewart • Earl Warren • Charles Whittaker

JOSEPH et al. v. INDIANA. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 23, 1959. The case was argued before the court on January 19, 1959.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Indiana State Trial Court.

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 - no merits: writ improvidently granted
  • Petitioner: Unidentifiable
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Indiana
  • Citation: 359 U.S. 117
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • 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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