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MONTGOMERY v. LOUISIANA (2016)

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MONTGOMERY v. LOUISIANA
Term: 2015
Important Dates
Argued: October 13, 2015
Decided: January 25, 2016
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
6-3
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Elena Kagan • Anthony Kennedy • John Roberts • Sonia Sotomayor
Dissenting
Samuel Alito • Antonin Scalia • Clarence Thomas

MONTGOMERY v. LOUISIANA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 25, 2016. The case was argued before the court on October 13, 2015.

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 Louisiana State Trial Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Retroactivity (of newly announced or newly enacted constitutional or statutory rights)
  • Petitioner: Juvenile
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Louisiana
  • Citation: 577 U.S. 190
  • 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: Anthony Kennedy

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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