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NARDONE et al. v. UNITED STATES (1939)

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NARDONE et al. v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1939
Important Dates
Argued: November 14, 1939
Decided: December 11, 1939
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-1
Majority
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Charles Evans Hughes • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone
Dissenting
James Clark McReynolds

NARDONE et al. v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 11, 1939. The case was argued before the court on November 14, 1939.

In a 6-1 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 1930s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Hughes Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - subconstitutional fair procedure: presentation, admissibility, or sufficiency of evidence (not necessarily a criminal case)
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 308 U.S. 338
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Charles Evans Hughes
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Felix Frankfurter

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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