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TOMPKINS v. TEXAS (1989)

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TOMPKINS v. TEXAS
Term: 1988
Important Dates
Argued: December 6, 1988
Decided: June 5, 1989
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
4-4
Equally divided vote
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Anthony Kennedy • Thurgood Marshall • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • John Paul Stevens • Byron White

TOMPKINS v. TEXAS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 5, 1989. The case was argued before the court on December 6, 1988.

In a 4-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1980s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Rehnquist Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: -
  • Petitioner: Unidentifiable
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Texas
  • Citation: 490 U.S. 754
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Equally divided vote
  • 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 unspecifiable.

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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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