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ANTHONY KANE, WARDEN v. JOE GARCIA ESPITIA (2005)

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ANTHONY KANE, WARDEN v. JOE GARCIA ESPITIA
Term: 2005
Important Dates
Decided: October 31, 2005
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
9-0
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • John Roberts • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • John Paul Stevens • Clarence Thomas

ANTHONY KANE, WARDEN v. JOE GARCIA ESPITIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 31, 2005.

In a 9-0 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 California Central U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - indigents: miscellaneous
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: California
  • Respondent type: Person convicted of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 546 U.S. 9
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: John Roberts
  • 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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