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UNITED STATES ex rel. CREARY v. WEEKS, SECRETARY OF WAR (1922)

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UNITED STATES ex rel. CREARY v. WEEKS, SECRETARY OF WAR |
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Term: 1921 |
Important Dates |
Argued: April 20, 1922 |
Decided: May 29, 1922 |
Outcome |
Affirmed (includes modified) |
Vote |
9-0 |
Majority |
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter |
UNITED STATES ex rel. CREARY v. WEEKS, SECRETARY OF WAR is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 29, 1922. The case was argued before the court on April 20, 1922.
In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft Court, click here.
About the case
- Subject matter: Civil Rights - military: veteran
- Petitioner: Military personnel, or dependent of, including reservist
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: Department or Secretary of Defense (and Department or Secretary of War)
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 259 U.S. 336
- How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
- What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
- Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
- Who wrote the majority opinion: John Hessin Clarke
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.
See also
- United States Supreme Court cases and courts
- Supreme Court of the United States
- History of the Supreme Court
- United States federal courts
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