RICKY BELL, WARDEN v. GARY BRADFORD CONE (2005)

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RICKY BELL, WARDEN v. GARY BRADFORD CONE
Term: 2004
Important Dates
Decided: January 24, 2005
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
9-0
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • Clarence Thomas
Concurring
Ruth Bader Ginsburg • David Souter • John Paul Stevens

RICKY BELL, WARDEN v. GARY BRADFORD CONE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 24, 2005.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Tennessee Western U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - comity: habeas corpus
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Tennessee
  • Respondent type: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 543 U.S. 447
  • 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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