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RICHARD M. CROSS v. PELICAN BAY STATE PRISON et al. (1999)

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RICHARD M. CROSS v. PELICAN BAY STATE PRISON et al.
Term: 1998
Important Dates
Decided: May 24, 1999
Outcome
Stay, petition, or motion granted
Vote
8-1
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • Clarence Thomas
Dissenting
John Paul Stevens

RICHARD M. CROSS v. PELICAN BAY STATE PRISON et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 24, 1999.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the petition, stay, or motion.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - indigents: U.S. Supreme Court docketing fee
  • Petitioner: Indigent defendant
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: California
  • Citation: 526 U.S. 811
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
  • 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 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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