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UNITED STATES v. BARNETT et al. (1964)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
UNITED STATES v. BARNETT et al.
Term: 1963
Important Dates
Argued: October 21, 1963
Decided: April 6, 1964
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
5-4
Majority
William Brennan • Tom Clark • John Harlan II • Potter Stewart • Byron White
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Arthur Goldberg • Earl Warren

UNITED STATES v. BARNETT et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 6, 1964. The case was argued before the court on October 21, 1963.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Mississippi Southern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1960s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Contempt of court or congress
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
  • Respondent state: Mississippi
  • Citation: 376 U.S. 681
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Tom Clark

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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