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BRUNO v. PENNSYLVANIA (1971)

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BRUNO v. PENNSYLVANIA
Term: 1970
Important Dates
Argued: December 14, 1970
Decided: January 12, 1971
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Warren Burger • William Douglas • John Harlan II • Thurgood Marshall • Potter Stewart • Byron White

BRUNO v. PENNSYLVANIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 12, 1971. The case was argued before the court on December 14, 1970.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Pennsylvania State Trial 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: Judicial Power - no merits: writ improvidently granted
  • Petitioner: Person allegedly criminally insane or mentally incompetent to stand trial
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Pennsylvania
  • Citation: 400 U.S. 350
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • 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 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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