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HUMBERTO FIDEL REGALADO CUELLAR v. UNITED STATES

Term: 2007
Important Dates
Argued: February 25, 2008
Decided: June 2, 2008
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • David Souter • John Paul Stevens • Clarence Thomas
Concurring
Samuel Alito • John Roberts • Antonin Scalia

HUMBERTO FIDEL REGALADO CUELLAR v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 2, 2008. The case was argued before the court on February 25, 2008.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Texas Southern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: financial (other than in fraud or internal revenue)
Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 553 U.S. 550
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: John Roberts
Who wrote the majority opinion: Clarence Thomas

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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