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KLAPPROTT v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1948
Important Dates
Argued: October 20, 1948
Decided: January 17, 1949
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
6-3
Judgment of the court
Hugo Black
Majority
William Douglas
Concurring
Harold Burton • Felix Frankfurter • Frank Murphy • Wiley Rutledge
Dissenting
Robert Jackson • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson

KLAPPROTT v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 17, 1949. The case was argued before the court on October 20, 1948.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the New Jersey New Jersey U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - immigration and naturalization: loss of citizenship, denaturalization
Petitioner: Alien, person subject to a denaturalization proceeding, or one whose citizenship is revoked
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 335 U.S. 601
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Judgment of the Court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
Who wrote the majority opinion: Hugo Black

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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