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UNITED STATES v. CALIFORNIA (1947)

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UNITED STATES v. CALIFORNIA
Term: 1946
Important Dates
Argued: March 13, 1947
Decided: June 23, 1947
Vote
6-2
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Frank Murphy • Wiley Rutledge • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Felix Frankfurter • Stanley Reed

UNITED STATES v. CALIFORNIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 23, 1947. The case was argued before the court on March 13, 1947.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 6-2 ruling.

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: Federalism - Submerged Lands Act (cf. federal-state ownership dispute)
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: California
  • Citation: 332 U.S. 19
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Hugo Black

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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