Reid, Superintendent, District of Columbia Jail, v. Covert (354 U.S. 1)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided June 10, 1957 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 354 U.S. 1 · 77 S. Ct. 1222
- Decided
- June 10, 1957
- Term
- October Term 1956
- Vote
- 6–2
- Majority author
- Justice Black
- Issue area
- Civil Rights
- Disposition
- Affirmed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
- Ideological direction
- Liberal
- Constitutional ruling
- Federal law held unconstitutional
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