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ILLINOIS v. BATCHELDER (1983)
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| ILLINOIS v. BATCHELDER |
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| Term: 1982 |
| Important Dates |
| Decided: July 6, 1983 |
| Outcome |
| Reversed and remanded |
| Vote |
| 6-3 |
| Majority |
| Harry Blackmun • Warren Burger • Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Byron White |
| Dissenting |
| William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • John Paul Stevens |
ILLINOIS v. BATCHELDER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on July 6, 1983.
In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Illinois State Trial Court.
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About the case
- Subject matter: Due Process - due process: hearing or notice (other than as pertains to government employees or prisoners' rights)
- Petitioner: State
- Petitioner state: Illinois
- Respondent type: Arrested person, or pretrial detainee
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 463 U.S. 1112
- How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
- What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
- Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
- 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 conservative.
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