RICHARD L. CHAPMAN, JOHN M. SCHOENECKER AND PATRICK BRUMM v. UNITED STATES (1991) - Ballotpedia

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RICHARD L. CHAPMAN, JOHN M. SCHOENECKER AND PATRICK BRUMM v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1990
Important Dates
Argued: March 26, 1991
Decided: May 30, 1991
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • Byron White
Dissenting
Thurgood Marshall • John Paul Stevens

RICHARD L. CHAPMAN, JOHN M. SCHOENECKER AND PATRICK BRUMM v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 30, 1991. The case was argued before the court on March 26, 1991.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Wisconsin Western U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: narcotics includes regulation and prohibition of alcohol
Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 500 U.S. 453
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: William Rehnquist

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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