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PATERNO v. LYONS, COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION

Term: 1947
Important Dates
Argued: April 28, 1948
Decided: June 1, 1948
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-1
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Wiley Rutledge • Frederick Vinson
Concurring
Felix Frankfurter
Dissenting
William Douglas

PATERNO v. LYONS, COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 1, 1948. The case was argued before the court on April 28, 1948.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Due Process - due process: hearing or notice (other than as pertains to government employees or prisoners' rights)
Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State
Respondent state: New York
Citation: 334 U.S. 314
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: Hugo Black

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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