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UNITED STATES v. CALDERON (1954)

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UNITED STATES v. CALDERON
Term: 1954
Important Dates
Argued: October 21, 1954
Decided: December 6, 1954
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-1
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Felix Frankfurter • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Earl Warren
Dissenting
William Douglas

UNITED STATES v. CALDERON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 6, 1954. The case was argued before the court on October 21, 1954.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Arizona U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federal Taxation - federal taxation, typically under provisions of the Internal Revenue Code
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Taxpayer or executor of taxpayer's estate, federal only
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 348 U.S. 160
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • 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 liberal.

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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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