GEORGE S. BENNETT v. ARKANSAS (1988)

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GEORGE S. BENNETT v. ARKANSAS
Term: 1987
Important Dates
Argued: March 2, 1988
Decided: March 29, 1988
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Anthony Kennedy • Thurgood Marshall • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • John Paul Stevens • Byron White

GEORGE S. BENNETT v. ARKANSAS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 29, 1988. The case was argued before the court on March 2, 1988.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Arkansas State Trial Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federalism - national supremacy: miscellaneous
  • Petitioner: Prisoner, inmate of penal institution
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Arkansas
  • Citation: 485 U.S. 395
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
  • 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 liberal.

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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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