KANN v. UNITED STATES (1944)

From Ballotpedia
Jump to: navigation, search

Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
KANN v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1944
Important Dates
Argued: November 7, 1944
Decided: December 4, 1944
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Felix Frankfurter • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Robert Jackson • Wiley Rutledge

KANN v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 4, 1944. The case was argued before the court on November 7, 1944.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Maryland U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Stone Court, click here.

[1]

About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: fraud
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 323 U.S. 88
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Harlan Fiske Stone
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Owen Josephus Roberts

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

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
Retrieved from "https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=KANN_v._UNITED_STATES_(1944)&oldid=9496363"