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Constitutional Law in 1944–45: The Constitutional Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States in the October Term, 1944

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Robert E. Cushman
Affiliation:
Cornell University

Extract

The membership of the Supreme Court did not change during the 1944 term, but Mr. Justice Roberts resigned in July after the term had ended. Divisions in the Court were as numerous and as difficult to classify as before. Four justices dissented in twenty-seven cases, while three justices dissented in sixteen cases. The Court seems to be moving toward the old practice of the pre-Marshall period by which the justices wrote seriatim opinions. There is a depressing increase in the number of cases in which three, four, and even five justices feel impelled to write separate opinions.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1946

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References

1 320 U.S. 81, 1943. See this Review, Vol. 38, p. 266.

2 323 U.S. 214, 1944.

3 323 U.S. 283, 1944.

4 325 U.S. 1, 1945. In filing its brief on reargument, the government submitted appendices (404 pages) containing elaborate studies of the history of the law of treason in civil and in canon law, and in Anglo-American law. These were prepared at the request of the Solicitor General by distinguished legal scholars.

5 See the writer's note on this case in this Review, Vol. 36, p. 1082.

6 326 U.S. 135, 1945.

7 307 U.S. 22, 1939. See this Review, Vol. 34, p. 269.

8 325 U.S. 91, 1945.

9 313 U.S. 299, 1941. See this Review, Vol. 36, p. 269.

10 326 U.S. 1, 1945.

11 323 U.S. 192, 1944.

12 323 U.S. 210, 1944.

13 323 U.S. 248, 1944.

14 325 U.S. 821, 1945.

15 325 U.S. 797, 1945.

16 323 U.S. 490, 1945.

17 324 U.S. 244, 1945.

18 325 U.S. 161, 1945.

19 323 U.S. 57, 1944.

20 323 U.S. 516, 1945.

21 325 ILS. 561, 1945.

22 United States v. Schwimmer, 279 U.S. 644, 1929. See this Review, Vol. 24, p. 86.

23 United States v. Macintosh, 283 U.S. 605, 1931. See this Review, Vol. 26, p. 266.

24 323 U.S. 471. 1945.

25 324 U.S. 42, 1945.

26 324 U.S. 786, 1945.

27 325 U.S. 398, 1945.

28 Strauder v. West Virginia, 100 U.S. 303, 1880.

29 Norris v. Alabama, 294 U.S. 587, 1935. See this Review, Vol. 30, p. 83.

30 316 U.S. 400, 1942. See this Review, Vol. 37, p. 282.

31 326 U.S. 88, 1945.

32 323 U.S. 329, 1945.

33 324 U.S. 652, 1945.

34 12 Wheaton 419, 1827.

35 325 U.S. 761, 1945.

36 12 Howard 299, 1852.

37 325 U.S. 538, 1945.

38 317 U.S. 287, 1942. See this Review, Vol. 38, p. 287.

39 325 U.S. 226, 1945.

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