ADRIAN MONCRIEFFE, PETITIONER v. ERIC H. HOLDER, JR., ATTORNEY GENERAL (2013)

ADRIAN MONCRIEFFE, PETITIONER v. ERIC H. HOLDER, JR., ATTORNEY GENERAL
	Term: 2012
Important Dates
	Argued: October 10, 2012
	Decided: April 23, 2013
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	7-2
Majority
	Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Elena Kagan • Anthony Kennedy • John Roberts • Antonin Scalia • Sonia Sotomayor
Dissenting
	Samuel Alito • Clarence Thomas

ADRIAN MONCRIEFFE, PETITIONER v. ERIC H. HOLDER, JR., ATTORNEY GENERAL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 23, 2013. The case was argued before the court on October 10, 2012.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

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About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - Deportation (cf. immigration and naturalization)
Petitioner: Alien, person subject to a denaturalization proceeding, or one whose citizenship is revoked
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Department of Justice or Attorney General
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 569 U.S. 184
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: John Roberts
Who wrote the majority opinion: Sonia Sotomayor

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 liberal.