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UNITED STATES v. SPECTOR (1952)

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UNITED STATES v. SPECTOR
Term: 1951
Important Dates
Argued: March 6, 1952
Decided: April 7, 1952
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-3
Majority
Harold Burton • William Douglas • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Hugo Black • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson

UNITED STATES v. SPECTOR is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 7, 1952. The case was argued before the court on March 6, 1952.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California California Southern 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: Civil Rights - Deportation (cf. immigration and naturalization)
  • 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: 343 U.S. 169
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Douglas

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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