FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION et al. v. ABRAMSON (1982)

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION et al. v. ABRAMSON
Term: 1981
Important Dates
Argued: January 11, 1982
Decided: May 24, 1982
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
5-4
Majority
Warren Burger • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens • Byron White
Dissenting
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • Sandra Day O'Connor

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION et al. v. ABRAMSON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 24, 1982. The case was argued before the court on January 11, 1982.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the District Of Columbia U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Privacy - Freedom of Information Act and related federal or state statutes or regulations
  • Petitioner: Federal Bureau of Investigation or Director
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Journalist, columnist, member of the news media
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 456 U.S. 615
  • 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: 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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