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DONALD CURTIS SAMSON v. CALIFORNIA (2006)

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DONALD CURTIS SAMSON v. CALIFORNIA
Term: 2005
Important Dates
Argued: February 22, 2006
Decided: June 19, 2006
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
Samuel Alito • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • John Roberts • Antonin Scalia • Clarence Thomas
Dissenting
Stephen Breyer • David Souter • John Paul Stevens

DONALD CURTIS SAMSON v. CALIFORNIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 19, 2006. The case was argued before the court on February 22, 2006.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California State Trial Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - search and seizure (other than as pertains to vehicles or Crime Control Act)
  • Petitioner: Probationer, or parolee
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: California
  • Citation: 547 U.S. 843
  • 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: Clarence Thomas

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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