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UNITED STATES v. ALEJANDRO GARCIA IBARRA (1991)

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UNITED STATES v. ALEJANDRO GARCIA IBARRA
Term: 1991
Important Dates
Decided: October 15, 1991
Outcome
Vacated and remanded
Vote
8-0
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • John Paul Stevens • Byron White

UNITED STATES v. ALEJANDRO GARCIA IBARRA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 15, 1991.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Wyoming U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1990s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Rehnquist Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - subconstitutional fair procedure: timeliness
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 502 U.S. 1
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • 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 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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