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NIGRO v. UNITED STATES (1928)

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NIGRO v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1927
Important Dates
Argued: January 11, 1928
Decided: April 9, 1928
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
6-3
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter
Dissenting
Pierce Butler • James Clark McReynolds • George Sutherland

NIGRO v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 9, 1928. The case was argued before the court on January 11, 1928.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: narcotics includes regulation and prohibition of alcohol
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 276 U.S. 332
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Howard Taft

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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