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HEWITT et al. v. HELMS

Term: 1986
Important Dates
Argued: March 4, 1987
Decided: June 19, 1987
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • Byron White
Dissenting
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • John Paul Stevens

HEWITT et al. v. HELMS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 19, 1987. The case was argued before the court on March 4, 1987.

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

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About the case

Subject matter: Attorneys - Attorneys' and governmental employees' or officials' fees or compensation or licenses
Petitioner: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Petitioner state: Pennsylvania
Respondent type: Prisoner, inmate of penal institution
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 482 U.S. 755
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: Antonin Scalia

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.

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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