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In re EILEEN VEY (1997)

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In re EILEEN VEY
Term: 1996
Important Dates
Decided: April 14, 1997
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
8-1
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • Clarence Thomas
Dissenting
John Paul Stevens

In re EILEEN VEY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 14, 1997.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - indigents: U.S. Supreme Court docketing fee
  • Petitioner: Indigent defendant
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: state or U.S. supreme court
  • Respondent state: United States
  • Citation: 520 U.S. 303
  • 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.

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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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