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MONTANA v. JAMES ALLEN EGELHOFF (1996)

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MONTANA v. JAMES ALLEN EGELHOFF
Term: 1995
Important Dates
Argued: March 20, 1996
Decided: June 13, 1996
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Judgment of the court
Antonin Scalia
Majority
Anthony Kennedy • William Rehnquist • Clarence Thomas
Concurring
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Dissenting
Stephen Breyer • Sandra Day O'Connor • David Souter • John Paul Stevens

MONTANA v. JAMES ALLEN EGELHOFF is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 13, 1996. The case was argued before the court on March 20, 1996.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Due Process - Due process: miscellaneous (cf. loyalty oath), the residual code
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Montana
  • Respondent type: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 518 U.S. 37
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Judgment of the Court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Antonin Scalia

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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