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UNITED STATES v. SMITH, U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE, ET AL. (1947)

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UNITED STATES v. SMITH, U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE, ET AL.
Term: 1946
Important Dates
Argued: March 11, 1947
Decided: June 2, 1947
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Wiley Rutledge • Frederick Vinson

UNITED STATES v. SMITH, U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE, ET AL. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 2, 1947. The case was argued before the court on March 11, 1947.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Middle 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 Vinson Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Judge
  • Respondent state: United States
  • Citation: 331 U.S. 469
  • 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: Robert Jackson

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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