ABU-ALI ABDUR'RAHMAN v. RICKY BELL, WARDEN (2002)

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ABU-ALI ABDUR'RAHMAN v. RICKY BELL, WARDEN
Term: 2002
Important Dates
Argued: November 6, 2002
Decided: December 10, 2002
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
8-1
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • Clarence Thomas
Dissenting
John Paul Stevens

ABU-ALI ABDUR'RAHMAN v. RICKY BELL, WARDEN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 10, 2002. The case was argued before the court on November 6, 2002.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Tennessee Middle U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Habeas corpus
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Tennessee
  • Citation: 537 U.S. 88
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as conservative.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024
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