OHIO ex rel. CLARKE v. DECKEBACH, AUDITOR (1927)

OHIO ex rel. CLARKE v. DECKEBACH, AUDITOR
	Term: 1926
Important Dates
	Argued: April 18, 1927
	Decided: May 16, 1927
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

OHIO ex rel. CLARKE v. DECKEBACH, AUDITOR is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 16, 1927. The case was argued before the court on April 18, 1927.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Ohio State Supreme Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - Employability of aliens (cf. immigration and naturalization)
Petitioner: Alien, person subject to a denaturalization proceeding, or one whose citizenship is revoked
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Respondent state: Ohio
Citation: 274 U.S. 392
How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
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: Harlan Fiske Stone

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.