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JEFFREY K. SKILLING v. UNITED STATES

Term: 2009
Important Dates
Argued: March 1, 2010
Decided: June 24, 2010
Outcome
Vacated and remanded
Vote
9-0
Majority
Ruth Bader Ginsburg • John Roberts
Concurring
Samuel Alito • Stephen Breyer • Anthony Kennedy • Antonin Scalia • Sonia Sotomayor • John Paul Stevens • Clarence Thomas

JEFFREY K. SKILLING v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 24, 2010. The case was argued before the court on March 1, 2010.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Texas Southern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: fraud
Petitioner: Management, executive officer, or director, of business entity
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 561 U.S. 358
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: John Roberts
Who wrote the majority opinion: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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 liberal.

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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