Tom We Shung v. Brownell, Attorney General, et al. (346 U.S. 906)

U.S. Supreme Court · decided December 7, 1953 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)

Citation
346 U.S. 906 · 74 S. Ct. 237
Docket
No. 241
Argued
December 3, 1953
Decided
December 7, 1953
Term
October Term 1953
Vote
6–3
Issue area
Civil Rights
Disposition
Vacated and remanded
Outcome
Petitioning party won
Ideological direction
Conservative

How the Justices voted

Majority
Chief Justice Warren, Justice Clark, Justice Frankfurter, Justice Burton, Justice Reed, Justice Minton
Dissenting
Justice Black, Justice Douglas, Justice R. H. Jackson

Opinion on Justia

Opinion excerpt

ante, p. 861. Motion for leave to file brief of John Pierce and others, as amici curiae, denied. Rehearing denied. The Chief Justice took no part in the consideration or decision of these applications.

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