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MCGUIRE v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1926
Important Dates
Argued: November 24, 1926
Decided: January 3, 1927
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter
Concurring
Pierce Butler

MCGUIRE v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 3, 1927. The case was argued before the court on November 24, 1926.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the New York Northern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: narcotics includes regulation and prohibition of alcohol
Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 273 U.S. 95
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
Who wrote the majority opinion: Harlan Fiske Stone

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 conservative.

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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