SUTPHEN ESTATES, INC. v. UNITED STATES ET AL. (1951)

SUTPHEN ESTATES, INC. v. UNITED STATES ET AL.
	Term: 1951
Important Dates
	Argued: October 11, 1951
	Decided: November 5, 1951
Outcome
	Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
	5-1
Majority
	Harold Burton • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
	Hugo Black

SUTPHEN ESTATES, INC. v. UNITED STATES ET AL. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 5, 1951. The case was argued before the court on October 11, 1951.

In a 5-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the New York New York Southern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - Federal Rules of Civil Procedure including Supreme Court Rules, application of the Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure in civil litigation, Circuit Court Rules, and state rules and admiralty rules
Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 342 U.S. 19
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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 conservative.