MOHAMED ALI SAMANTAR v. BASHE ABDI YOUSUF et al. (2010) - Ballotpedia

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MOHAMED ALI SAMANTAR v. BASHE ABDI YOUSUF et al.

Term: 2009
Important Dates
Argued: March 3, 2010
Decided: June 1, 2010
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • John Roberts • Sonia Sotomayor • John Paul Stevens
Concurring
Samuel Alito • Antonin Scalia • Clarence Thomas

MOHAMED ALI SAMANTAR v. BASHE ABDI YOUSUF et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 1, 2010. The case was argued before the court on March 3, 2010.

In a 9-0 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: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: foreign (non-American) nongovernmental entity
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Alien, person subject to a denaturalization proceeding, or one whose citizenship is revoked
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 560 U.S. 305
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: John Paul Stevens

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.

See also

External links

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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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