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TRACEY L. JOHNSON, et al. v. CITY OF SHELBY, MISSISSIPPI (2014)

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TRACEY L. JOHNSON, et al. v. CITY OF SHELBY, MISSISSIPPI
Term: 2014
Important Dates
Decided: November 10, 2014
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Alito • Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Elena Kagan • Anthony Kennedy • John Roberts • Antonin Scalia • Sonia Sotomayor • Clarence Thomas

TRACEY L. JOHNSON, et al. v. CITY OF SHELBY, MISSISSIPPI is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 10, 2014.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Mississippi Northern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - Federal Rules of Civil Procedure including Supreme Court Rules, application of the Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure in civil litigation, Circuit Court Rules, and state rules and admiralty rules
  • Petitioner: Retired or former governmental employee
  • Petitioner state: Mississippi
  • Respondent type: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
  • Respondent state: Mississippi
  • Citation: 574 U.S. 10
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: John Roberts
  • 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 liberal.

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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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