UNITED STATES EX REL. HIRSHBERG v. COOKE, COMMANDING OFFICER (1949) - Ballotpedia

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UNITED STATES EX REL. HIRSHBERG v. COOKE, COMMANDING OFFICER

Term: 1948
Important Dates
Argued: January 13, 1949
Decided: February 28, 1949
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Wiley Rutledge • Frederick Vinson

UNITED STATES EX REL. HIRSHBERG v. COOKE, COMMANDING OFFICER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 28, 1949. The case was argued before the court on January 13, 1949.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York New York Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - military: veteran
Petitioner: Veteran
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Secretary or administrative unit of the U.S. Navy
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 336 U.S. 210
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.

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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