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MAY v. ANDERSON (1953)

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MAY v. ANDERSON
Term: 1952
Important Dates
Argued: January 6, 1953
Decided: May 18, 1953
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
5-3
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Frederick Vinson
Concurring
Felix Frankfurter
Dissenting
Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed

MAY v. ANDERSON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 18, 1953. The case was argued before the court on January 6, 1953.

In a 5-3 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 Ohio State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Vinson Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Due Process - Due process: jurisdiction (jurisdiction over non-resident litigants)
  • Petitioner: Mother
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Father
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 345 U.S. 528
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Harold Burton

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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