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DAVID BOBBY, WARDEN v. ROBERT J. VAN HOOK (2009)

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DAVID BOBBY, WARDEN v. ROBERT J. VAN HOOK
Term: 2009
Important Dates
Decided: November 9, 2009
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
9-0
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • John Roberts • Antonin Scalia • Sonia Sotomayor • John Paul Stevens • Clarence Thomas
Concurring
Samuel Alito

DAVID BOBBY, WARDEN v. ROBERT J. VAN HOOK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 9, 2009.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Ohio Southern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - indigents: inadequate representation by counsel (cf. right to counsel)
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Ohio
  • Respondent type: Person convicted of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 558 U.S. 4
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: John Roberts
  • 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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