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DOWLING v. UNITED STATES (1985)

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DOWLING v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1984
Important Dates
Argued: April 17, 1985
Decided: June 28, 1985
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens
Dissenting
Warren Burger • Lewis Powell • Byron White

DOWLING v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 28, 1985. The case was argued before the court on April 17, 1985.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California Central U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: miscellaneous
  • Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 473 U.S. 207
  • 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: Harry Blackmun

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.

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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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