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UNITED STATES v. HOWARD, TRADING AS STOKES FISH CO.

Term: 1956
Important Dates
Argued: December 6, 1956
Decided: January 14, 1957
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II • Stanley Reed • Earl Warren

UNITED STATES v. HOWARD, TRADING AS STOKES FISH CO. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 14, 1957. The case was argued before the court on December 6, 1956.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Florida Southern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Natural resources - environmental protection (cf. national supremacy: natural resources, national supremacy: pollution)
Petitioner: United States
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 352 U.S. 212
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
Who wrote the majority opinion: Stanley Reed

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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