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OYAMA et al. v. CALIFORNIA (1948)

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OYAMA et al. v. CALIFORNIA
Term: 1947
Important Dates
Argued: October 22, 1947
Decided: January 19, 1948
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Felix Frankfurter • Frederick Vinson
Concurring
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Frank Murphy • Wiley Rutledge
Dissenting
Harold Burton • Robert Jackson • Stanley Reed

OYAMA et al. v. CALIFORNIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 19, 1948. The case was argued before the court on October 22, 1947.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Vinson Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - Desegregation (other than as pertains to school desegregation, employment discrimination, and affirmative action)
  • Petitioner: Racial or ethnic minority
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: California
  • Citation: 332 U.S. 633
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Frederick Vinson

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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