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UNITED STATES v. MALCOLM (1931)

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UNITED STATES v. MALCOLM
Term: 1930
Important Dates
Decided: January 19, 1931
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • James Clark McReynolds • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • Willis Van Devanter

UNITED STATES v. MALCOLM is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 19, 1931.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1930s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Hughes Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - Sex discrimination (excluding sex discrimination in employment)
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Taxpayer or executor of taxpayer's estate, federal only
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 282 U.S. 792
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: Charles Evans Hughes
  • 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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