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BOURJAILY v. UNITED STATES (1987)

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BOURJAILY v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1986
Important Dates
Argued: April 1, 1987
Decided: June 23, 1987
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • Byron White
Concurring
John Paul Stevens
Dissenting
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall

BOURJAILY v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 23, 1987. The case was argued before the court on April 1, 1987.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Ohio Northern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
  • Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 483 U.S. 171
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Rehnquist

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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