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WILLIAMS v. NEW YORK (1949)

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WILLIAMS v. NEW YORK
Term: 1948
Important Dates
Argued: April 21, 1949
Decided: June 6, 1949
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Frank Murphy • Wiley Rutledge

WILLIAMS v. NEW YORK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 6, 1949. The case was argued before the court on April 21, 1949.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York State Trial Court.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Due Process - due process: hearing or notice (other than as pertains to government employees or prisoners' rights)
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: New York
  • Citation: 337 U.S. 241
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Hugo Black

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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