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POPE v. UNITED STATES (1944)

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POPE v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1944
Important Dates
Argued: October 16, 1944
Decided: November 6, 1944
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Owen Josephus Roberts • Wiley Rutledge • Harlan Fiske Stone

POPE v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 6, 1944. The case was argued before the court on October 16, 1944.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Claims, Court of Federal Claims.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Miscellaneous - executive authority vis-a-vis congress or the states
  • Petitioner: Government contractor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 323 U.S. 1
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Harlan Fiske Stone
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Harlan Fiske Stone

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.

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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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