PATTERSON, SECRETARY OF WAR, ET AL. v. LAMB (1947) - Ballotpedia

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PATTERSON, SECRETARY OF WAR, ET AL. v. LAMB

Term: 1946
Important Dates
Argued: January 7, 1947
Decided: January 20, 1947
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Wiley Rutledge • Frederick Vinson

PATTERSON, SECRETARY OF WAR, ET AL. v. LAMB is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 20, 1947. The case was argued before the court on January 7, 1947.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the District of Columbia District Of Columbia U.S. District 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.

About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - Judicial review of administrative agency's or administrative official's actions and procedures
Petitioner: Department or Secretary of Defense (and Department or Secretary of War)
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Person subject to selective service, including conscientious objector
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 329 U.S. 539
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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