Skip to main content
Independent · not a government site

1956 term · Warren Court · 7-2

Mulcahey, District Director, Immigration and Naturalization Service, v. Catalanotte

353 U.S. 692 · 77 S. Ct. 1025 · 1957 U.S. LEXIS 787

The record

Term
1956
Decided
Issue area
Civil Rights
Vote split
7-2
Winning party
Petitioner
Decision direction
Conservative
Chief Justice
Warren Court
Disposition
Reversed
Docket
435
U.S. Reports
353 U.S. 692
S. Ct. citation
77 S. Ct. 1025
LEXIS citation
1957 U.S. LEXIS 787

How the bench divided

M 7 majorityD 2 dissenting

How each justice voted in Mulcahey, District Director, Immigration and Naturalization Service, v. Catalanotte.
JusticeVote
John M. Harlan IIMajority
William J. BrennanMajority
Earl WarrenMajority
Tom C. ClarkMajority
Felix FrankfurterMajority
Charles E. WhittakerMajority
Harold BurtonMajority
Hugo BlackDissent
William O. DouglasDissent

Same issue area

Decisions the Court reached on the same question, nearest in time to this one. Civil Rights accounts for 1,508 of the 9,277 decisions in this dataset.

Browse all Civil Rights decisions →