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DELAWARE v. VAN ARSDALL

Term: 1985
Important Dates
Argued: January 22, 1986
Decided: April 7, 1986
Outcome
Vacated and remanded
Vote
7-2
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Warren Burger • Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist
Concurring
Byron White
Dissenting
Thurgood Marshall • John Paul Stevens

DELAWARE v. VAN ARSDALL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 7, 1986. The case was argued before the court on January 22, 1986.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Delaware State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Confrontation (right to confront accuser, call and cross-examine witnesses)
Petitioner: State
Petitioner state: Delaware
Respondent type: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 475 U.S. 673
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
Who wrote the majority opinion: William Rehnquist

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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