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UNITED STATES v. MILLER et al. (1939)

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UNITED STATES v. MILLER et al.
Term: 1938
Important Dates
Argued: March 30, 1939
Decided: May 15, 1939
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Pierce Butler • Felix Frankfurter • Charles Evans Hughes • James Clark McReynolds • Stanley Reed • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone

UNITED STATES v. MILLER et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 15, 1939. The case was argued before the court on March 30, 1939.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Arkansas Western U.S. District Court.

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: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: firearms
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Defendant
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 307 U.S. 174
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Charles Evans Hughes
  • 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 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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