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Ex parte GARLAND (1867)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
ex parte GARLAND
Term: 1866
Important Dates
Argued: December 15, 1865
Decided: January 14, 1867
Vote
5-4
Majority
Nathan Clifford • Stephen Johnson Field • Robert Cooper Grier • Samuel Nelson • James Moore Wayne
Dissenting
Salmon Portland Chase • David Davis • Samuel Freeman Miller • Noah Haynes Swayne

ex parte GARLAND is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 14, 1867. The case was argued before the court on December 15, 1865.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 5-4 ruling.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1860s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Chase Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: First Amendment - loyalty oath: bar applicants (cf. admission to bar, state or federal or U.S. Supreme Court)
  • Petitioner: Attorney, or person acting as such;includes bar applicant or law student, or law firm or bar association
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 71 U.S. 333
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Salmon Portland Chase
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Stephen Johnson Field

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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