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Legal Citation: 232 U.S. 383 (1914)

Petitioner
Fremont Weeks

Respondent
United States

Petitioner's Claim
That his house was searched and his papers seized without a search warrant and thus the papers should not be admissible in court as evidence against him.

Chief Lawyer for Petitioner
Martin J. O'Donnell

Chief Lawyers for Respondent
Denison, U.S. Assistant Attorney General; John William Davis, U.S. Solicitor General

Justices for the Court
William Rufus Day (writing for the Court), Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Evans Hughes, Joseph Rucker Lamar, Horace Harmon Lurton, Joseph McKenna, Mahlon Pitney, Willis Van Devanter, Edward Douglass White

Justices Dissenting
None

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
24 February 1914

Decision
Reversed the decision of...