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UNITED STATES v. BEHRMAN

Term: 1921
Important Dates
Argued: March 7, 1922
Decided: March 27, 1922
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Joseph McKenna • Mahlon Pitney • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter
Dissenting
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds

UNITED STATES v. BEHRMAN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 27, 1922. The case was argued before the court on March 7, 1922.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.

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: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: narcotics includes regulation and prohibition of alcohol
Petitioner: United States
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: physician, MD or DO, dentist, or medical society
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 258 U.S. 280
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: William Rufus Day

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

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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