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CALIFANO, SECRETARY OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE v. TORRES (1978)

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CALIFANO, SECRETARY OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE v. TORRES
Term: 1977
Important Dates
Decided: February 27, 1978
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-2
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Warren Burger • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens • Potter Stewart • Byron White
Dissenting
William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall

CALIFANO, SECRETARY OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE v. TORRES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 27, 1978.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Puerto Rico 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: Civil Rights - poverty law, constitutional
  • Petitioner: Department or Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Indigent, needy, welfare recipient
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 435 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: 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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