Reid, Superintendent, District of Columbia Jail, v. Covert (351 U.S. 487)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided June 11, 1956 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 351 U.S. 487 · 76 S. Ct. 880
- Decided
- June 11, 1956
- Term
- October Term 1955
- Vote
- 5–4
- Majority author
- Justice Clark
- Issue area
- Civil Rights
- Disposition
- Reversed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
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