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UNITED STATES v. WURZBACH (1930)

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UNITED STATES v. WURZBACH
Term: 1929
Important Dates
Argued: January 20, 1930
Decided: February 24, 1930
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • Willis Van Devanter

UNITED STATES v. WURZBACH is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 24, 1930. The case was argued before the court on January 20, 1930.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Texas Western 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 Hughes Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: First Amendment - campaign spending (cf. governmental corruption):
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: U.S. House of Representatives
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 280 U.S. 396
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Charles Evans Hughes
  • 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 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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