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NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD v. HEARST PUBLICATIONS, INC. (1944)

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NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD v. HEARST PUBLICATIONS, INC. |
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Term: 1943 |
Important Dates |
Argued: February 8, 1944 |
Decided: April 24, 1944 |
Outcome |
Reversed |
Vote |
7-2 |
Majority |
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Wiley Rutledge • Harlan Fiske Stone |
Dissenting |
Stanley Reed • Owen Josephus Roberts |
NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD v. HEARST PUBLICATIONS, INC. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 24, 1944. The case was argued before the court on February 8, 1944.
In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Stone Court, click here.
About the case
- Subject matter: Unions - Labor-management disputes: bargaining
- Petitioner: National Endowment for the Arts
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: Publisher, publishing company
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 322 U.S. 111
- How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
- What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
- Who was the chief justice: Harlan Fiske Stone
- Who wrote the majority opinion: Wiley Rutledge
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.
See also
- United States Supreme Court cases and courts
- Supreme Court of the United States
- History of the Supreme Court
- United States federal courts
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