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LAMBERT v. CALIFORNIA (1957)

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LAMBERT v. CALIFORNIA
Term: 1957
Important Dates
Argued: April 3, 1957
Decided: December 16, 1957
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Earl Warren
Dissenting
Harold Burton • Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II • Charles Whittaker

LAMBERT v. CALIFORNIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 16, 1957. The case was argued before the court on April 3, 1957.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California 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: Due Process - due process: hearing or notice (other than as pertains to government employees or prisoners' rights)
  • Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: California
  • Citation: 355 U.S. 225
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Douglas

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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