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BAXTER et al. v. PALMIGIANO (1976)

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BAXTER et al. v. PALMIGIANO
Term: 1975
Important Dates
Argued: December 15, 1975
Decided: April 20, 1976
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-2
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Warren Burger • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Potter Stewart • Byron White
Dissenting
William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall

BAXTER et al. v. PALMIGIANO is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 20, 1976. The case was argued before the court on December 15, 1975.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Rhode Island U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1970s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Burger Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Due Process - Due process: prisoners' rights and defendants' rights
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Rhode Island
  • Respondent type: Prisoner, inmate of penal institution
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 425 U.S. 308
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Byron White

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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