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WHITE v. RAGEN, WARDEN (1945)

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WHITE v. RAGEN, WARDEN
Term: 1944
Important Dates
Argued: March 29, 1945
Decided: April 23, 1945
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Owen Josephus Roberts • Wiley Rutledge • Harlan Fiske Stone

WHITE v. RAGEN, WARDEN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 23, 1945. The case was argued before the court on March 29, 1945.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Illinois State Supreme Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Stone Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: adequate non-federal grounds for decision
  • Petitioner: Prisoner, inmate of penal institution
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
  • Respondent state: Illinois
  • Citation: 324 U.S. 760
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Harlan Fiske Stone
  • 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 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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