UNITED STATES v. DEMKO (1966)

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UNITED STATES v. DEMKO
Term: 1966
Important Dates
Argued: November 8, 1966
Decided: December 5, 1966
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-2
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • Tom Clark • Abe Fortas • John Harlan II • Potter Stewart • Earl Warren
Dissenting
William Douglas • Byron White

UNITED STATES v. DEMKO is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 5, 1966. The case was argued before the court on November 8, 1966.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Pennsylvania Western U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1960s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Election of remedies: legal remedies available to injured persons or things
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Prisoner, inmate of penal institution
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 385 U.S. 149
  • 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: 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 conservative.

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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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