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TAYLOR v. UNITED STATES (2016)

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TAYLOR v. UNITED STATES
Term: 2015
Important Dates
Argued: February 23, 2016
Decided: June 20, 2016
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-1
Majority
Samuel Alito • Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Elena Kagan • Anthony Kennedy • John Roberts • Sonia Sotomayor
Dissenting
Clarence Thomas

TAYLOR v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 20, 2016. The case was argued before the court on February 23, 2016.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Virginia 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: 579 U.S. 301
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: John Roberts
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Samuel Alito

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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