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YOUNG v. RAGEN, WARDEN (1949)

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YOUNG v. RAGEN, WARDEN
Term: 1948
Important Dates
Argued: November 17, 1948
Decided: June 6, 1949
Outcome
Vacated and remanded
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Wiley Rutledge • Frederick Vinson

YOUNG v. RAGEN, WARDEN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 6, 1949. The case was argued before the court on November 17, 1948.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Illinois 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: Criminal Procedure - Habeas corpus
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Illinois
  • Citation: 337 U.S. 235
  • 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: Frederick Vinson

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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