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PHILLIPS ET VIR v. CALIFORNIA (1967)

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PHILLIPS ET VIR v. CALIFORNIA
Term: 1966
Important Dates
Decided: February 27, 1967
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-1
Majority
William Brennan • William Douglas • Abe Fortas • Potter Stewart • Earl Warren • Byron White
Concurring
Hugo Black • Tom Clark
Dissenting
John Harlan II

PHILLIPS ET VIR v. CALIFORNIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 27, 1967.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1960s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - self-incrimination (other than as pertains to Miranda or immunity from prosecution)
  • Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: California
  • Citation: 386 U.S. 212
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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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