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    The Vinson Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States from 1946 to 1953, when Fred M. Vinson served as Chief Justice of the United States....
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    President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Vinson to be a judge on the D.C. Circuit. Vinson resigned from the appellate court in 1943, when he became the Director...
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    The Vinson Court era, under the leadership of Fred M. Vinson, lasted from June 24, 1946 to September 8, 1953: 11 justices served during this court. Seniority...
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    Carl Vinson (November 18, 1883 – June 1, 1981) was an American politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives for over 50 years and was influential...
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  • Taft Court (July 11, 1921 – February 3, 1930) Hughes Court (February 24, 1930 – June 30, 1941) Stone Court (July 3, 1941 – April 22, 1946) Vinson Court (June...
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    (Adkins v. Children's Hospital). During the Hughes, Stone, and Vinson courts (1930–1953), the court gained its own accommodation in 1935 and changed its interpretation...
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    replace Fred Vinson as Chief Justice of the United States. The court began with Warren and the remaining eight members of the Vinson Court: Hugo Black...
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    Rehnquist's death. It has been considered to be the most conservative court since the Vinson Court (1946–1953). This is due to the retirement of the relatively...
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  • decided by the United States Supreme Court during the Vinson Court, the tenure of Chief Justice Frederick Moore Vinson from June 24, 1946 through September...
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  • of the court'; pl. amici curiae) is an individual or organization that is not a party to a legal case, but that is permitted to assist a court by offering...
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    Roberts and his replacement Harold Hitz Burton. After Stone died, Fred M. Vinson was appointed Chief Justice by Harry S. Truman. In 1953, President Dwight...
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  • Shelley v. Kraemer (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Vinson Court)
    opinion joined in by all participating justices, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson held that the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause...
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  • Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Vinson Court)
    charged with assessing executive power. In his dissent, Chief Justice Fred Vinson argued that the president's action was necessary to preserve the status...
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  • Wheeling Steel Corp. v. Glander (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Vinson Court)
    Steel Corp. v. Glander, 337 U.S. 562 (1949), was a United States Supreme Court case in which two out-of-state corporations objected to ad valorem taxes...
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    The demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States encompass the gender, ethnicity, and religious, geographic, and economic backgrounds of the...
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  • Morgan v. Virginia (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Vinson Court)
    373 (1946), is a major United States Supreme Court case. In this landmark 1946 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7–1 that Virginia's state law enforcing...
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  • Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, 477 U.S. 57 (1986), is a US labor law case, where the United States Supreme Court, in a 9–0 decision, recognized sexual...
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  • Vinson & Elkins LLP (or V&E) is an international law firm with approximately 700 lawyers worldwide headquartered in Downtown Houston, Texas. The firm has...
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    Tom C. Clark (category Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States)
    Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall, in October 1967. Clark served on the Vinson Court and the Warren Court. He voted with the Court's majority...
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  • Oyama v. California (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Vinson Court)
    differences in rendered concurrent opinions. Chief Justice Vinson, delivering the opinion of the Court, wrote strictly on the facts of the case, without giving...
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  • United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Vinson Court)
    Case, or the Paramount Decision), was a landmark United States Supreme Court antitrust case that decided the fate of film studios owning their own theatres...
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  • Brown v. Allen (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Vinson Court)
    443 (1953), is a landmark United States Supreme Court case about habeas corpus. United States courts are authorized by statute (28 USC §2241 pursuant...
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    1941, and served as Chief Justice until his death, at which point Fred Vinson was nominated and confirmed as Stone's replacement. He was the fourth chief...
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  • Kawakita v. United States (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Vinson Court)
    arbitrarily in imposing a death sentence.: 744–745  Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson authored a dissenting opinion, which was joined by Associate Justices Hugo...
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  • Hickman v. Taylor (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Vinson Court)
    Taylor, 329 U.S. 495 (1947), is a seminal United States Supreme Court case in which the Court recognized the work-product doctrine, which holds that information...
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  • upheld in 1896 in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, in which the Supreme Court laid out its "separate but equal" legal doctrine concerning facilities for...
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  • Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Vinson Court)
    Justice Vinson and Associate Justices Hugo Black and Robert H. Jackson) joined, and with which Justice Felix Frankfurter concurred, the Court held that...
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  • SEC v. Chenery Corp. (1947) (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Vinson Court)
    Commission v. Chenery Corp., 332 U.S. 194 (1947), is a United States Supreme Court case. It is often referred to as Chenery II. A federal water company was...
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    William O. Douglas (category Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States)
    during the Stone Court United States Supreme Court cases during the Vinson Court United States Supreme Court cases during the Warren Court William O. Douglas...
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    Joseph McCarthy (category Wisconsin state court judges)
    Sharpe, Inc. p. 245. ISBN 978-0765621078. Belknap, Michal R. (2004). The Vinson Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. p. 214....
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