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CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, et al. v. JOSE RAMON MORALES

Term: 1994
Important Dates
Argued: January 9, 1995
Decided: April 25, 1995
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-2
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • Clarence Thomas
Dissenting
David Souter • John Paul Stevens

CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, et al. v. JOSE RAMON MORALES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 25, 1995. The case was argued before the court on January 9, 1995.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Ex post facto (state)
Petitioner: State department or agency
Petitioner state: California
Respondent type: Prisoner, inmate of penal institution
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 514 U.S. 499
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: Clarence Thomas

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

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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