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UNITED STATES v. ALPERS (1950)

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UNITED STATES v. ALPERS
Term: 1949
Important Dates
Argued: December 14, 1949
Decided: February 6, 1950
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-3
Majority
Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Hugo Black • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson

UNITED STATES v. ALPERS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 6, 1950. The case was argued before the court on December 14, 1949.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California California Northern U.S. District 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: First Amendment - Obscenity, federal
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 338 U.S. 680
  • 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: Sherman Minton

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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