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UNITED STATES v. SHANNON ET AL. (1952)

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UNITED STATES v. SHANNON ET AL.
Term: 1951
Important Dates
Argued: November 27, 1951
Decided: January 14, 1952
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson

UNITED STATES v. SHANNON ET AL. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 14, 1952. The case was argued before the court on November 27, 1951.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the South Carolina South Carolina Eastern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Vinson Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, governmental: tort or contract actions by or against government or governmental officials other than defense of criminal actions brought under a civil rights action.
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 342 U.S. 288
  • 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: Tom Clark

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 liberal.

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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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