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UNITED STATES v. COTTON VALLEY OPERATORS COMMITTEE et al. (1950)

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UNITED STATES v. COTTON VALLEY OPERATORS COMMITTEE et al.
Term: 1949
Important Dates
Argued: April 18, 1950
Decided: April 24, 1950
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
4-4
Equally divided vote
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson

UNITED STATES v. COTTON VALLEY OPERATORS COMMITTEE et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 24, 1950. The case was argued before the court on April 18, 1950.

In a 4-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Louisiana Western U.S. District Court.

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: -
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Unknown
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 339 U.S. 940
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Equally divided vote
  • Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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.

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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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