PROCUNIER, CORRECTIONS DIRECTOR, et al. v. NAVARETTE (1978)

PROCUNIER, CORRECTIONS DIRECTOR, et al. v. NAVARETTE
	Term: 1977
Important Dates
	Argued: October 11, 1977
	Decided: February 22, 1978
Outcome
	Reversed
Vote
	7-2
Majority
	Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Potter Stewart • Byron White
Dissenting
	Warren Burger • John Paul Stevens

PROCUNIER, CORRECTIONS DIRECTOR, et al. v. NAVARETTE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 22, 1978. The case was argued before the court on October 11, 1977.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California Northern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - liability, civil rights acts (cf. liability, governmental and liability, nongovernmental; cruel and unusual punishment, non-death penalty)
Petitioner: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Petitioner state: California
Respondent type: Prisoner, inmate of penal institution
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 434 U.S. 555
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: 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.