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RODMAN, UNITED STATES MARSHAL, v. POTHIER

Term: 1923
Important Dates
Argued: March 14, 1924
Decided: April 7, 1924
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

RODMAN, UNITED STATES MARSHAL, v. POTHIER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 7, 1924. The case was argued before the court on March 14, 1924.

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

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Habeas corpus
Petitioner: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Petitioner state: United States
Respondent type: Prisoner, inmate of penal institution
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 264 U.S. 399
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
Who wrote the majority opinion: James Clark McReynolds

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

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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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