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UNITED STATES v. CITY OF NEW BRITAIN et al.

Term: 1953
Important Dates
Argued: December 1, 1953
Decided: February 1, 1954
Outcome
Vacated
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Earl Warren

UNITED STATES v. CITY OF NEW BRITAIN et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 1, 1954. The case was argued before the court on December 1, 1953.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Connecticut State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Federal Taxation - Priority of federal fiscal claims: over those of the states or private entities
Petitioner: United States
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Respondent state: Connecticut
Citation: 347 U.S. 81
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: 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 liberal.

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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