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UNITED STATES v. WALLACE & TIERNAN CO. ET AL. (1949)

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UNITED STATES v. WALLACE & TIERNAN CO. ET AL.
Term: 1948
Important Dates
Argued: March 29, 1949
Decided: May 2, 1949
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. WALLACE & TIERNAN CO. ET AL. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 2, 1949. The case was argued before the court on March 29, 1949.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Rhode Island Rhode Island 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 - search and seizure (other than as pertains to vehicles or Crime Control Act)
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Business, corporation
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 336 U.S. 793
  • 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: Hugo Black

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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