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SCHMUCK v. UNITED STATES (1989)

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SCHMUCK v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1988
Important Dates
Argued: November 30, 1988
Decided: March 22, 1989
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Anthony Kennedy • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens • Byron White
Dissenting
William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • Sandra Day O'Connor • Antonin Scalia

SCHMUCK v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 22, 1989. The case was argued before the court on November 30, 1988.

In a 5-4 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: fraud
  • Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 489 U.S. 705
  • 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: Harry Blackmun

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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