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MASSACHUSETTS ET AL. v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1947
Important Dates
Argued: December 10, 1947
Decided: April 19, 1948
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Hugo Black • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Wiley Rutledge • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Harold Burton • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson

MASSACHUSETTS ET AL. v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 19, 1948. The case was argued before the court on December 10, 1947.

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

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About the case

Subject matter: Federal Taxation - Priority of federal fiscal claims: over those of the states or private entities
Petitioner: State
Petitioner state: Massachusetts
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 333 U.S. 611
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
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.

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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