UNITED STATES EX REL. GIESE v. CHAMBERLIN, COMMANDING GENERAL, et al. (1951)

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UNITED STATES EX REL. GIESE v. CHAMBERLIN, COMMANDING GENERAL, et al.
Term: 1951
Important Dates
Argued: October 9, 1951
Decided: October 15, 1951
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
4-4
Equally divided vote
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson

UNITED STATES EX REL. GIESE v. CHAMBERLIN, COMMANDING GENERAL, et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 15, 1951. The case was argued before the court on October 9, 1951.

In a 4-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower 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: -
  • Petitioner: Unidentifiable
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Unidentifiable
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 342 U.S. 845
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Equally divided vote
  • Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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.

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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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