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WISSNER ET AL. v. WISSNER (1950)

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WISSNER ET AL. v. WISSNER
Term: 1949
Important Dates
Argued: December 6, 1949
Decided: February 6, 1950
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-3
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton

WISSNER ET AL. v. WISSNER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 6, 1950. The case was argued before the court on December 6, 1949.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California 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: Federalism - federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation. cf. state regulation of business. rarely involves union activity. Does not involve constitutional interpretation unless the Court says it does.
  • Petitioner: Parent or parents
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Wife, or ex-wife
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 338 U.S. 655
  • 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: Tom Clark

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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