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UNITED STATES v. REYNOLDS ET AL.

Term: 1952
Important Dates
Argued: October 21, 1952
Decided: March 9, 1953
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
6-3
Majority
Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Hugo Black • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson

UNITED STATES v. REYNOLDS ET AL. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 9, 1953. The case was argued before the court on October 21, 1952.

In a 6-3 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 Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Privacy - Freedom of Information Act and related federal or state statutes or regulations
Petitioner: United States
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Physically injured person, including wrongful death, who is not an employee
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 345 U.S. 1
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
Who wrote the majority opinion: Frederick Vinson

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.

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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