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LORENZO ARTEAGA v. UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

Term: 1997
Important Dates
Decided: February 23, 1998
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-1
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • Clarence Thomas
Dissenting
John Paul Stevens

LORENZO ARTEAGA v. UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 23, 1998.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - indigents: U.S. Supreme Court docketing fee
Petitioner: Indigent, needy, welfare recipient
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Court or judicial district
Respondent state: United States
Citation: 522 U.S. 446
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
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.

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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