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VIRGINIA v. MARYLAND (1957)

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VIRGINIA v. MARYLAND
Term: 1957
Important Dates
Argued: December 10, 1957
Decided: December 16, 1957
Outcome
Stay, petition, or motion granted
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II • Earl Warren • Charles Whittaker

VIRGINIA v. MARYLAND is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 16, 1957. The case was argued before the court on December 10, 1957.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the petition, stay, or motion.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: Supreme Court's original jurisdiction
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Virginia
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Maryland
  • Citation: 355 U.S. 269
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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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