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NEITZKE et al. v. WILLIAMS (1989)

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NEITZKE et al. v. WILLIAMS
Term: 1988
Important Dates
Argued: February 22, 1989
Decided: May 1, 1989
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Anthony Kennedy • Thurgood Marshall • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • John Paul Stevens • Byron White

NEITZKE et al. v. WILLIAMS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 1, 1989. The case was argued before the court on February 22, 1989.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Iowa Southern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1980s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Rehnquist Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - indigents: miscellaneous
  • Petitioner: physician, MD or DO, dentist, or medical society
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Prisoner, inmate of penal institution
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 490 U.S. 319
  • 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: Thurgood Marshall

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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