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KREZNAR et al. v. UNITED STATES. (1964)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
KREZNAR et al. v. UNITED STATES.
Term: 1963
Important Dates
Decided: March 2, 1964
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-1
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Arthur Goldberg • Potter Stewart • Earl Warren • Byron White
Dissenting
John Harlan II

KREZNAR et al. v. UNITED STATES. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 2, 1964.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1960s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: First Amendment - Security risks: denial of benefits or dismissal of employees for reasons other than failure to meet loyalty oath requirements
  • Petitioner: Unidentifiable
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 376 U.S. 221
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • 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 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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