GEORGE H. BALDWIN v. MICHAEL REESE (2004)

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GEORGE H. BALDWIN v. MICHAEL REESE
Term: 2003
Important Dates
Argued: December 8, 2003
Decided: March 2, 2004
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-1
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • Clarence Thomas
Dissenting
John Paul Stevens

GEORGE H. BALDWIN v. MICHAEL REESE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 2, 2004. The case was argued before the court on December 8, 2003.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Oregon U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - comity: habeas corpus
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Oregon
  • Citation: 541 U.S. 27
  • 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 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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