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UNITED STATES v. RICE, DISTRICT JUDGE

Term: 1945
Important Dates
Argued: February 5, 1946
Decided: April 22, 1946
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
5-3
Majority
Harold Burton • Felix Frankfurter • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Harlan Fiske Stone
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Wiley Rutledge

UNITED STATES v. RICE, DISTRICT JUDGE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 22, 1946. The case was argued before the court on February 5, 1946.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Oklahoma Eastern 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.

About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: jurisdiction or authority of federal courts of appeals
Petitioner: United States
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Judge
Respondent state: United States
Citation: 327 U.S. 742
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
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: Harlan Fiske Stone

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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