Editing Moore v. Dempsey (section)

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{{Infobox SCOTUS case
  |Litigants=Moore v. Dempsey
  |ArgueDate=January 9
  |ArgueYear=1923
  |DecideDate=February 19
  |DecideYear=1923
  |FullName=Frank Moore, et al. v. E. H. Dempsey, Keeper of Arkansas State Penitentiary
  |USVol=261
  |USPage=86
  |ParallelCitations=43 S. Ct. 265; 67 [[L. Ed.]] 543; 1923 [[U.S. LEXIS]] 2529
  |Prior=Defendants convicted, Phillips County, Arkansas; affirmed, Arkansas Supreme Court; certiorari denied, U.S. Supreme Court; petition for habeas corpus granted, Pulaski County, Arkansas; vacated, Arkansas Supreme Court; petition for habeas corpus denied, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
  |Subsequent=
  |Holding=Mob-dominated trials were a violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.  Federal courts were furthermore duty-bound to review habeas corpus petitions that raised claims of discrimination in state trials, and to order the release of unfairly convicted defendants if the alleged violations were found to be true. Eastern District of Arkansas reversed and remanded.
  |Majority=Holmes
  |JoinMajority=Taft, McKenna, Van Devanter, Brandeis, Butler
  |Dissent=McReynolds
  |JoinDissent=Sutherland
  |NotParticipating=Sanford
  |LawsApplied=[[Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|U.S. Const. amend. XIV]]
}}
'''''Moore et al. v. Dempsey''''', 261 U.S. 86 (1923), was a [[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]] case in which the Court ruled 6–2 that the defendants' mob-dominated trials deprived them of [[due process]] guaranteed by the [[Due Process Clause]] of the [[Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fourteenth Amendment]]. It reversed the district court's decision declining the petitioners' writ of [[habeas corpus]].