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STEMBRIDGE v. GEORGIA (1952)

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STEMBRIDGE v. GEORGIA
Term: 1951
Important Dates
Argued: April 22, 1952
Decided: May 26, 1952
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Tom Clark • William Douglas • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Frederick Vinson
Concurring
Stanley Reed
Dissenting
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Felix Frankfurter

STEMBRIDGE v. GEORGIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 26, 1952. The case was argued before the court on April 22, 1952.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the California State Trial Court.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: writ improvidently granted
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Georgia
  • Citation: 343 U.S. 541
  • 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: Sherman Minton

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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