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DESIST et al. v. UNITED STATES (1969)

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DESIST et al. v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1968
Important Dates
Argued: November 12, 1968
Decided: March 24, 1969
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-3
Majority
William Brennan • Potter Stewart • Earl Warren • Byron White
Concurring
Hugo Black
Dissenting
William Douglas • Abe Fortas • John Harlan II

DESIST et al. v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 24, 1969. The case was argued before the court on November 12, 1968.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1960s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Retroactivity (of newly announced or newly enacted constitutional or statutory rights)
  • Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 394 U.S. 244
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Potter Stewart

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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