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MEYER v. STATE OF NEBRASKA (1923)

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MEYER v. STATE OF NEBRASKA
Term: 1922
Important Dates
Argued: February 23, 1923
Decided: June 4, 1923
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

MEYER v. STATE OF NEBRASKA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 4, 1923. The case was argued before the court on February 23, 1923.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Nebraska State Trial 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.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Privacy - Privacy (cf. libel, comity: privacy)
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Nebraska
  • Citation: 262 U.S. 390
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • 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: James Clark McReynolds

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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