MARION REYNOLDS STOGNER v. CALIFORNIA (2003)

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MARION REYNOLDS STOGNER v. CALIFORNIA
Term: 2002
Important Dates
Argued: March 31, 2003
Decided: June 26, 2003
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Sandra Day O'Connor • David Souter • John Paul Stevens
Dissenting
Anthony Kennedy • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • Clarence Thomas

MARION REYNOLDS STOGNER v. CALIFORNIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 26, 2003. The case was argued before the court on March 31, 2003.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California State Trial Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Ex post facto (state)
  • Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: California
  • Citation: 539 U.S. 607
  • 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: Stephen Breyer

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 liberal.

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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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