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OLIM et al. v. WAKINEKONA (1983)

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OLIM et al. v. WAKINEKONA
Term: 1982
Important Dates
Argued: January 19, 1983
Decided: April 26, 1983
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Warren Burger • Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Byron White
Dissenting
William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • John Paul Stevens

OLIM et al. v. WAKINEKONA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 26, 1983. The case was argued before the court on January 19, 1983.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Hawaii U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Due Process - Due process: prisoners' rights and defendants' rights
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Hawaii
  • Respondent type: Prisoner, inmate of penal institution
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 461 U.S. 238
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Harry Blackmun

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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