MORGAN, WARDEN OF THE UNITED STATES PENITENTIARY AT LEAVENWORTH, v. DEVINE (1915)

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MORGAN, WARDEN OF THE UNITED STATES PENITENTIARY AT LEAVENWORTH, v. DEVINE
Term: 1914
Important Dates
Decided: June 1, 1915
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
8-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Joseph McKenna • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

MORGAN, WARDEN OF THE UNITED STATES PENITENTIARY AT LEAVENWORTH, v. DEVINE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 1, 1915.

In an 8-0 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 Kansas U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: miscellaneous
  • Petitioner: Governmental employee or job applicant
  • Petitioner state: United States
  • Respondent type: Prisoner, inmate of penal institution
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 237 U.S. 632
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Rufus Day

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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