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DOWLING v. UNITED STATES (1990)

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DOWLING v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1989
Important Dates
Argued: October 4, 1989
Decided: January 10, 1990
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • Byron White
Dissenting
William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • John Paul Stevens

DOWLING v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 10, 1990. The case was argued before the court on October 4, 1989.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Virgin Islands U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Double jeopardy
  • Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 493 U.S. 342
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Byron White

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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