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PERCY DILLON v. UNITED STATES (2010)

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PERCY DILLON v. UNITED STATES
Term: 2009
Important Dates
Argued: March 30, 2010
Decided: June 17, 2010
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-1
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • John Roberts • Antonin Scalia • Sonia Sotomayor • Clarence Thomas
Dissenting
John Paul Stevens

PERCY DILLON v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 17, 2010. The case was argued before the court on March 30, 2010.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Pennsylvania Western U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: sentencing guidelines
  • Petitioner: Defendant
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 560 U.S. 817
  • 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: Sonia Sotomayor

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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