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WINTERS v. NEW YORK (1948)

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WINTERS v. NEW YORK
Term: 1947
Important Dates
Argued: March 27, 1946
Decided: March 29, 1948
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Wiley Rutledge • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Harold Burton • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson

WINTERS v. NEW YORK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 29, 1948. The case was argued before the court on March 27, 1946.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed 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: First Amendment - First Amendment, miscellaneous (cf. comity: First Amendment)
  • Petitioner: Bookstore, newsstand, printer, bindery, purveyor or distributor of books or magazines
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: New York
  • Citation: 333 U.S. 507
  • 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: 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 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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