WALDER v. UNITED STATES (1954)

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WALDER v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1953
Important Dates
Argued: November 30, 1953
Decided: February 1, 1954
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Earl Warren
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas

WALDER v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 1, 1954. The case was argued before the court on November 30, 1953.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Missouri Western 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 Warren 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: Defendant
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 347 U.S. 62
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Felix Frankfurter

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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