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In re JOHN ROBERT DEMOS, JR. (1991)

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In re JOHN ROBERT DEMOS, JR.
Term: 1990
Important Dates
Decided: April 29, 1991
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • Byron White
Dissenting
Harry Blackmun • Thurgood Marshall • John Paul Stevens

In re JOHN ROBERT DEMOS, JR. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 29, 1991.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Washington Eastern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1990s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Rehnquist Court, click here.

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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: 500 U.S. 16
  • 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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