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IANNELLI et al. v. UNITED STATES (1975)

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IANNELLI et al. v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1974
Important Dates
Argued: December 17, 1974
Decided: March 25, 1975
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Warren Burger • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Byron White
Dissenting
William Brennan • William Douglas • Thurgood Marshall • Potter Stewart

IANNELLI et al. v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 25, 1975. The case was argued before the court on December 17, 1974.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1970s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Burger Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: gambling
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 420 U.S. 770
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Lewis Powell

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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