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UNITED STATES v. GINSBER (1917)

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UNITED STATES v. GINSBER
Term: 1916
Important Dates
Argued: March 15, 1917
Decided: April 9, 1917
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

UNITED STATES v. GINSBER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 9, 1917. The case was argued before the court on March 15, 1917.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Missouri Western U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1910s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the White Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - immigration and naturalization: citizenship
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Alien, person subject to a denaturalization proceeding, or one whose citizenship is revoked
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 243 U.S. 472
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: James Clark McReynolds

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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