BOHANNAN v. ARIZONA ex rel. SMITH, ATTORNEY GENERAL (1967)

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BOHANNAN v. ARIZONA ex rel. SMITH, ATTORNEY GENERAL
Term: 1967
Important Dates
Decided: October 19, 1967
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
7-2
Majority
William Brennan • Abe Fortas • John Harlan II • Thurgood Marshall • Potter Stewart • Earl Warren • Byron White
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas

BOHANNAN v. ARIZONA ex rel. SMITH, ATTORNEY GENERAL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 19, 1967.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Arizona State Supreme Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: dismissed or affirmed for want of a substantial or properly presented federal question, or a nonsuit
  • Petitioner: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
  • Petitioner state: Arizona
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Arizona
  • Citation: 389 U.S. 1
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • 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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