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IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE v. HECTOR

Term: 1986
Important Dates
Decided: November 17, 1986
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-2
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • John Paul Stevens • Byron White
Dissenting
William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall

IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE v. HECTOR is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 17, 1986.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

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About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - Deportation (cf. immigration and naturalization)
Petitioner: Immigration and Naturalization Service, or Director of, or District Director of, or Immigration and Naturalization Enforcement
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Alien, person subject to a denaturalization proceeding, or one whose citizenship is revoked
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 479 U.S. 85
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
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 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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