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PEREZ v. BROWNELL, ATTORNEY GENERAL

Term: 1957
Important Dates
Argued: May 1, 1957
Decided: March 31, 1958
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
William Brennan • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Earl Warren • Charles Whittaker

PEREZ v. BROWNELL, ATTORNEY GENERAL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 31, 1958. The case was argued before the court on May 1, 1957.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California Northern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - immigration and naturalization: loss of citizenship, denaturalization
Petitioner: Alien, person subject to a denaturalization proceeding, or one whose citizenship is revoked
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: attorney general of the United States, or his office
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 356 U.S. 44
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
Who wrote the majority opinion: Felix Frankfurter

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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