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WILLIAMS v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1950
Important Dates
Argued: January 8, 1951
Decided: April 23, 1951
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Hugo Black • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton

WILLIAMS v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 23, 1951. The case was argued before the court on January 8, 1951.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Florida Florida Southern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - liability, civil rights acts (cf. liability, governmental and liability, nongovernmental; cruel and unusual punishment, non-death penalty)
Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 341 U.S. 97
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
Who wrote the majority opinion: William Douglas

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.

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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