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WOODS v. INTERSTATE REALTY CO.

Term: 1948
Important Dates
Argued: March 30, 1949
Decided: June 20, 1949
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Harold Burton • Robert Jackson • Wiley Rutledge

WOODS v. INTERSTATE REALTY CO. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 20, 1949. The case was argued before the court on March 30, 1949.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Mississippi Mississippi Northern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Federalism - miscellaneous federalism
Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 337 U.S. 535
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 conservative.

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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