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MEYER v. UNITED STATES (1963)

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MEYER v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1963
Important Dates
Argued: October 24, 1963
Decided: December 16, 1963
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Arthur Goldberg • Earl Warren
Dissenting
John Harlan II • Potter Stewart • Byron White

MEYER v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 16, 1963. The case was argued before the court on October 24, 1963.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1960s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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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: Heir, or beneficiary, or person so claiming to be
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 375 U.S. 233
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Tom Clark

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.

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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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