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WARSZOWER v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1940
Important Dates
Argued: January 16, 1941
Decided: February 17, 1941
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-0
Majority
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Charles Evans Hughes • Stanley Reed • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone

WARSZOWER v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 17, 1941. The case was argued before the court on January 16, 1941.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York Southern 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 Hughes Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: false statements (cf. statutory construction of criminal laws: perjury)
Petitioner: Alien, person subject to a denaturalization proceeding, or one whose citizenship is revoked
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 312 U.S. 342
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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: Stanley Reed

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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