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UNITED STATES v. CORS (1949)

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UNITED STATES v. CORS
Term: 1948
Important Dates
Argued: February 4, 1949
Decided: June 13, 1949
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Wiley Rutledge
Dissenting
Harold Burton • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Frederick Vinson

UNITED STATES v. CORS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 13, 1949. The case was argued before the court on February 4, 1949.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Claims, Court of Federal Claims.

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: Due Process - Due process: takings clause, or other non-constitutional governmental taking of property
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Water transportation, stevedore
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 337 U.S. 325
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Douglas

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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