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AHRENS ET AL. v. CLARK, ATTORNEY GENERAL (1948)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
AHRENS ET AL. v. CLARK, ATTORNEY GENERAL
Term: 1947
Important Dates
Argued: March 29, 1948
Decided: June 21, 1948
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
Harold Burton • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Hugo Black • Frank Murphy • Wiley Rutledge

AHRENS ET AL. v. CLARK, ATTORNEY GENERAL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 21, 1948. The case was argued before the court on March 29, 1948.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the District of Columbia District Of Columbia U.S. District 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: Alien, person subject to a denaturalization proceeding, or one whose citizenship is revoked
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: attorney general of the United States, or his office
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 335 U.S. 188
  • 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.

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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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