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YARBOROUGH v. YARBOROUGH (1933)

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YARBOROUGH v. YARBOROUGH
Term: 1933
Important Dates
Argued: October 12, 1933
Decided: December 4, 1933
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-2
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Charles Evans Hughes • James Clark McReynolds • Owen Josephus Roberts • George Sutherland • Willis Van Devanter
Dissenting
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo • Harlan Fiske Stone

YARBOROUGH v. YARBOROUGH is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 4, 1933. The case was argued before the court on October 12, 1933.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the South Carolina State Trial Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - Sex discrimination (excluding sex discrimination in employment)
  • Petitioner: Father
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Child, children, including adopted or illegitimate
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 290 U.S. 202
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Charles Evans Hughes
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Louis Dembitz Brandeis

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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