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KOTTEAKOS et al. v. UNITED STATES (1946)

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KOTTEAKOS et al. v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1945
Important Dates
Argued: February 28, 1946
Decided: June 10, 1946
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
5-2
Majority
Harold Burton • Felix Frankfurter • Frank Murphy • Wiley Rutledge
Concurring
Hugo Black
Dissenting
William Douglas • Stanley Reed

KOTTEAKOS et al. v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 10, 1946. The case was argued before the court on February 28, 1946.

In a 5-2 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.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - subconstitutional fair procedure: conspiracy (cf. Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure: conspiracy)
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 328 U.S. 750
  • 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: Wiley Rutledge

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.

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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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