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TAYLOR v. MISSISSIPPI (1943)

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TAYLOR v. MISSISSIPPI
Term: 1942
Important Dates
Argued: April 15, 1943
Decided: June 14, 1943
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Owen Josephus Roberts • Wiley Rutledge • Harlan Fiske Stone

TAYLOR v. MISSISSIPPI is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 14, 1943. The case was argued before the court on April 15, 1943.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Mississippi State Trial Court.

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: First Amendment - First Amendment, miscellaneous (cf. comity: First Amendment)
  • Petitioner: Religious organization, institution, or person
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: District of Columbia
  • Citation: 319 U.S. 583
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • 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: Owen Josephus Roberts

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 liberal.

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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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