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PENFIELD COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA ET AL. v. SECURITIES & EXCHANGE COMMISSION (1947)

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PENFIELD COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA ET AL. v. SECURITIES & EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Term: 1946
Important Dates
Argued: January 16, 1947
Decided: March 31, 1947
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Concurring
Wiley Rutledge
Dissenting
Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson

PENFIELD COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA ET AL. v. SECURITIES & EXCHANGE COMMISSION is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 31, 1947. The case was argued before the court on January 16, 1947.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

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: Criminal Procedure - Contempt of court or congress
  • Petitioner: Management, executive officer, or director, of business entity
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 330 U.S. 585
  • 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: William Douglas

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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