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In re GRANT ANDERSON (1994)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
In re GRANT ANDERSON
Term: 1993
Important Dates
Decided: May 2, 1994
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
7-2
Majority
Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • Clarence Thomas
Dissenting
Harry Blackmun • John Paul Stevens

In re GRANT ANDERSON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 2, 1994.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the District Of Columbia U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - indigents: U.S. Supreme Court docketing fee
  • Petitioner: Indigent, needy, welfare recipient
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: state or U.S. supreme court
  • Respondent state: United States
  • Citation: 511 U.S. 364
  • 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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