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UNITED STATES v. RAGEN (1942)

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UNITED STATES v. RAGEN
Term: 1941
Important Dates
Argued: December 11, 1941
Decided: January 5, 1942
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-0
Majority
Hugo Black • James Byrnes • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Stanley Reed • Harlan Fiske Stone

UNITED STATES v. RAGEN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 5, 1942. The case was argued before the court on December 11, 1941.

In a 6-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois Northern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Stone Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: internal revenue (cf. Federal Taxation)
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Person convicted of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 314 U.S. 513
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Harlan Fiske Stone
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Hugo Black

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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