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LEWIS v. UNITED STATES (1980)

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LEWIS v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1979
Important Dates
Argued: January 7, 1980
Decided: February 27, 1980
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Warren Burger • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens • Potter Stewart • Byron White
Dissenting
William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • Lewis Powell

LEWIS v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 27, 1980. The case was argued before the court on January 7, 1980.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Virginia Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: firearms
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 445 U.S. 55
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Harry Blackmun

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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