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WILLIAMS v. GEORGIA (1955)

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WILLIAMS v. GEORGIA
Term: 1954
Important Dates
Argued: April 18, 1955
Decided: June 6, 1955
Outcome
Vacated and remanded
Vote
6-3
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II • Earl Warren
Dissenting
Tom Clark • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed

WILLIAMS v. GEORGIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 6, 1955. The case was argued before the court on April 18, 1955.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Georgia State Trial 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: Civil Rights - Desegregation (other than as pertains to school desegregation, employment discrimination, and affirmative action)
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Georgia
  • Citation: 349 U.S. 375
  • 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 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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