RICKY BELL, WARDEN v. GREGORY THOMPSON (2005)

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RICKY BELL, WARDEN v. GREGORY THOMPSON
Term: 2004
Important Dates
Argued: April 26, 2005
Decided: June 27, 2005
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • Clarence Thomas
Dissenting
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • David Souter • John Paul Stevens

RICKY BELL, WARDEN v. GREGORY THOMPSON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 27, 2005. The case was argued before the court on April 26, 2005.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Tennessee Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: jurisdiction or authority of federal courts of appeals
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Tennessee
  • Respondent type: Prisoner, inmate of penal institution
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 545 U.S. 794
  • 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: Anthony Kennedy

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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