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MONTANA v. HALL (1987)

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MONTANA v. HALL
Term: 1986
Important Dates
Decided: April 27, 1987
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
6-3
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • Byron White
Dissenting
William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • John Paul Stevens

MONTANA v. HALL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 27, 1987.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Montana State Trial Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Double jeopardy
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Montana
  • Respondent type: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 481 U.S. 400
  • 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.

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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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