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UNITED STATES v. LOUISIANA (1957)

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UNITED STATES v. LOUISIANA
Term: 1956
Important Dates
Argued: April 8, 1957
Decided: June 24, 1957
Outcome
Stay, petition, or motion granted
Vote
7-0
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II • Charles Whittaker

UNITED STATES v. LOUISIANA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 24, 1957. The case was argued before the court on April 8, 1957.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the petition, stay, or motion.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: Supreme Court's original jurisdiction
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Louisiana
  • Citation: 354 U.S. 515
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • 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. 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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