JOHN D. ASHCROFT, ATTORNEY GENERAL v. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION et al. (2004)

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JOHN D. ASHCROFT, ATTORNEY GENERAL v. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION et al.
Term: 2003
Important Dates
Argued: March 2, 2004
Decided: June 29, 2004
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Anthony Kennedy • David Souter • Clarence Thomas
Concurring
Ruth Bader Ginsburg • John Paul Stevens
Dissenting
Stephen Breyer • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia

JOHN D. ASHCROFT, ATTORNEY GENERAL v. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 29, 2004. The case was argued before the court on March 2, 2004.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Pennsylvania Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: First Amendment - Obscenity, federal
  • Petitioner: attorney general of the United States, or his office
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Public interest organization
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 542 U.S. 656
  • 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: Anthony Kennedy

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.

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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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