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TESTA ET AL. v. KATT (1947)

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TESTA ET AL. v. KATT
Term: 1946
Important Dates
Argued: February 14, 1947
Decided: March 10, 1947
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Wiley Rutledge • Frederick Vinson

TESTA ET AL. v. KATT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 10, 1947. The case was argued before the court on February 14, 1947.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Rhode Island State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Vinson Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federalism - national supremacy: commodities
  • Petitioner: Buyer, purchaser
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Car dealer
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 330 U.S. 386
  • 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: Hugo Black

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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