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UNEXCELLED CHEMICAL CORP. v. UNITED STATES (1953)

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UNEXCELLED CHEMICAL CORP. v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1952
Important Dates
Argued: January 9, 1953
Decided: March 9, 1953
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson

UNEXCELLED CHEMICAL CORP. v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 9, 1953. The case was argued before the court on January 9, 1953.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New Jersey New Jersey U.S. District 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 - judicial administration: untimely filing
  • Petitioner: Government contractor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 345 U.S. 59
  • 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: 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.

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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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