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LUNA TORRES v. LYNCH (2016)

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LUNA TORRES v. LYNCH
Term: 2015
Important Dates
Argued: November 3, 2015
Decided: May 19, 2016
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-3
Majority
Samuel Alito • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Elena Kagan • Anthony Kennedy • John Roberts
Dissenting
Stephen Breyer • Sonia Sotomayor • Clarence Thomas

LUNA TORRES v. LYNCH is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 19, 2016. The case was argued before the court on November 3, 2015.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: immigration (cf. immigration and naturalization)
  • Petitioner: Alien, person subject to a denaturalization proceeding, or one whose citizenship is revoked
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Immigration and Naturalization Service, or Director of, or District Director of, or Immigration and Naturalization Enforcement
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 578 U.S. 452
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: John Roberts
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Elena Kagan

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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