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DUNCAN v. OWENS (2016)

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DUNCAN v. OWENS
Term: 2015
Important Dates
Argued: January 12, 2016
Decided: January 20, 2016
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Alito • Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Elena Kagan • Anthony Kennedy • John Roberts • Antonin Scalia • Sonia Sotomayor • Clarence Thomas

DUNCAN v. OWENS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 20, 2016. The case was argued before the court on January 12, 2016.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Illinois Northern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: writ improvidently granted
  • Petitioner: Prisoner, inmate of penal institution
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Governmental employee or job applicant
  • Respondent state: Illinois
  • Citation: 577 U.S. 189
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: John Roberts
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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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