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ESTELLE, CORRECTIONS DIRECTOR v. DORROUGH (1975)

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ESTELLE, CORRECTIONS DIRECTOR v. DORROUGH
Term: 1974
Important Dates
Decided: March 17, 1975
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Warren Burger • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Byron White
Dissenting
William Brennan • William Douglas • Thurgood Marshall • Potter Stewart

ESTELLE, CORRECTIONS DIRECTOR v. DORROUGH is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 17, 1975.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Texas Northern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1970s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Burger Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - subconstitutional fair procedure: fugitive from justice
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Texas
  • Respondent type: Person convicted of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 420 U.S. 534
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • 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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