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UNITED STATES v. WALTER (1923)

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UNITED STATES v. WALTER
Term: 1923
Important Dates
Argued: October 3, 1923
Decided: October 22, 1923
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

UNITED STATES v. WALTER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 22, 1923. The case was argued before the court on October 3, 1923.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Florida Southern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: fraud
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 263 U.S. 15
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • 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: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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