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GARY SHERWOOD SMALL v. UNITED STATES

Term: 2004
Important Dates
Argued: November 3, 2004
Decided: April 26, 2005
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
5-3
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Sandra Day O'Connor • David Souter • John Paul Stevens
Dissenting
Anthony Kennedy • Antonin Scalia • Clarence Thomas

GARY SHERWOOD SMALL v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 26, 2005. The case was argued before the court on November 3, 2004.

In a 5-3 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 Pennsylvania Western U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: firearms
Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 544 U.S. 385
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: Stephen Breyer

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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