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JON E. EDMOND v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1996
Important Dates
Argued: February 24, 1997
Decided: May 19, 1997
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • John Paul Stevens • Clarence Thomas
Concurring
David Souter

JON E. EDMOND v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 19, 1997. The case was argued before the court on February 24, 1997.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Military Review.

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About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - military: draftee, or person subject to induction
Petitioner: Military personnel, or dependent of, including reservist
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 520 U.S. 651
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.

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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