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NEW YORK v. HARRIS (1990)

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NEW YORK v. HARRIS
Term: 1989
Important Dates
Argued: January 10, 1990
Decided: April 18, 1990
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • Byron White
Dissenting
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • John Paul Stevens

NEW YORK v. HARRIS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 18, 1990. The case was argued before the court on January 10, 1990.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - search and seizure (other than as pertains to vehicles or Crime Control Act)
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: New York
  • Respondent type: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 495 U.S. 14
  • 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: Byron White

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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