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JOSE TOLENTINO, PETITIONER v. NEW YORK (2011)

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JOSE TOLENTINO, PETITIONER v. NEW YORK
Term: 2010
Important Dates
Argued: March 21, 2011
Decided: March 29, 2011
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Alito • Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Elena Kagan • Anthony Kennedy • John Roberts • Antonin Scalia • Sonia Sotomayor • Clarence Thomas

JOSE TOLENTINO, PETITIONER v. NEW YORK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 29, 2011. The case was argued before the court on March 21, 2011.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the New York State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 2010s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Roberts Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: writ improvidently granted
  • Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: New York
  • Citation: 563 U.S. 123
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: John Roberts
  • 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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