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UNITED STATES v. SCHWIMMER (1929)

| UNITED STATES v. SCHWIMMER |
|---|
| Term: 1928 |
| Important Dates |
| Argued: April 12, 1929 |
| Decided: May 27, 1929 |
| Outcome |
| Reversed |
| Vote |
| 6-3 |
| Majority |
| Pierce Butler • James Clark McReynolds • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter |
| Dissenting |
| Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Edward Terry Sanford |
UNITED STATES v. SCHWIMMER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 27, 1929. The case was argued before the court on April 12, 1929.
In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Indiana Northern U.S. District Court.
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About the case
- Subject matter: Civil Rights - immigration and naturalization: citizenship
- Petitioner: United States
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: Alien, person subject to a denaturalization proceeding, or one whose citizenship is revoked
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 279 U.S. 644
- How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
- What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
- Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
- Who wrote the majority opinion: Pierce Butler
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
- United States Supreme Court cases and courts
- Supreme Court of the United States
- History of the Supreme Court
- United States federal courts
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