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NILVA v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1956
Important Dates
Argued: November 8, 1956
Decided: February 25, 1957
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II • Stanley Reed
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Brennan • William Douglas • Earl Warren

NILVA v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 25, 1957. The case was argued before the court on November 8, 1956.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the North Dakota U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Contempt of court or congress
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: 352 U.S. 385
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
Who wrote the majority opinion: Harold Burton

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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