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COLEMAN v. TOLLEFSON (2015)

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COLEMAN v. TOLLEFSON
Term: 2014
Important Dates
Argued: February 23, 2015
Decided: May 18, 2015
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Alito • Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Elena Kagan • Anthony Kennedy • John Roberts • Antonin Scalia • Sonia Sotomayor • Clarence Thomas

COLEMAN v. TOLLEFSON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 18, 2015. The case was argued before the court on February 23, 2015.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Michigan Western U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - indigents: costs or filing fees
  • Petitioner: Indigent defendant
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Governmental employee or job applicant
  • Respondent state: Michigan
  • Citation: 575 U.S. 532
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: John Roberts
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Stephen Breyer

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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