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JAMES BROGAN v. UNITED STATES (1998)

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JAMES BROGAN v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1997
Important Dates
Argued: December 2, 1997
Decided: January 26, 1998
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • Clarence Thomas
Concurring
Ruth Bader Ginsburg • David Souter
Dissenting
Stephen Breyer • John Paul Stevens

JAMES BROGAN v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 26, 1998. The case was argued before the court on December 2, 1997.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: false statements (cf. statutory construction of criminal laws: perjury)
  • Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 522 U.S. 398
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Antonin Scalia

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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