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TEE-HIT-TON INDIANS v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1954
Important Dates
Argued: November 12, 1954
Decided: February 7, 1955
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-3
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed
Dissenting
William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Earl Warren

TEE-HIT-TON INDIANS v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 7, 1955. The case was argued before the court on November 12, 1954.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed 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 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Due Process - Due process: takings clause, or other non-constitutional governmental taking of property
Petitioner: Indian, including Indian tribe or nation
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 348 U.S. 272
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
Who wrote the majority opinion: Stanley Reed

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

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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