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PENNEKAMP et al. v. FLORIDA (1946)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
PENNEKAMP et al. v. FLORIDA
Term: 1945
Important Dates
Argued: February 7, 1946
Decided: June 3, 1946
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Stanley Reed
Concurring
Felix Frankfurter • Frank Murphy • Wiley Rutledge

PENNEKAMP et al. v. FLORIDA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 3, 1946. The case was argued before the court on February 7, 1946.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Florida State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Stone Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Contempt of court or congress
  • Petitioner: Newspaper, newsletter, journal of opinion, news service
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Florida
  • Citation: 328 U.S. 331
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Harlan Fiske Stone
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Stanley Reed

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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