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NELSON et al. v. TENNESSEE. (1957)

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NELSON et al. v. TENNESSEE.
Term: 1957
Important Dates
Argued: December 12, 1957
Decided: December 16, 1957
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II • Earl Warren • Charles Whittaker

NELSON et al. v. TENNESSEE. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 16, 1957. The case was argued before the court on December 12, 1957.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Tennessee State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: dismissed or affirmed for want of a substantial or properly presented federal question, or a nonsuit
  • Petitioner: Unidentifiable
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Tennessee
  • Citation: 355 U.S. 271
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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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