BOAG v. MACDOUGALL, DIRECTOR, ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS (1982) - Ballotpedia

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BOAG v. MACDOUGALL, DIRECTOR, ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

Term: 1981
Important Dates
Decided: January 11, 1982
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
6-3
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • Lewis Powell • John Paul Stevens
Concurring
Sandra Day O'Connor
Dissenting
Warren Burger • William Rehnquist • Byron White

BOAG v. MACDOUGALL, DIRECTOR, ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 11, 1982.

In a 6-3 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 Arizona U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - subconstitutional fair procedure: presentation, admissibility, or sufficiency of evidence (not necessarily a criminal case)
Petitioner: Prisoner, inmate of penal institution
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State
Respondent state: Arizona
Citation: 454 U.S. 364
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
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 liberal.

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External links

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Footnotes

↑ 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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