DARYLL RICHARDSON AND JOHN WALKER v. RONNIE LEE MCKNIGHT (1997)

DARYLL RICHARDSON AND JOHN WALKER v. RONNIE LEE MCKNIGHT
	Term: 1996
Important Dates
	Argued: March 19, 1997
	Decided: June 23, 1997
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	5-4
Majority
	Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Sandra Day O'Connor • David Souter • John Paul Stevens
Dissenting
	Anthony Kennedy • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • Clarence Thomas

DARYLL RICHARDSON AND JOHN WALKER v. RONNIE LEE MCKNIGHT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 23, 1997. The case was argued before the court on March 19, 1997.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Tennessee Middle U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - liability, civil rights acts (cf. liability, governmental and liability, nongovernmental; cruel and unusual punishment, non-death penalty)
Petitioner: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Prisoner, inmate of penal institution
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 521 U.S. 399
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: 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 liberal.