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UNITED STATES v. DARLINA K. FRANCE (1991)

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UNITED STATES v. DARLINA K. FRANCE
Term: 1990
Important Dates
Argued: October 2, 1990
Decided: January 22, 1991
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
4-4
Equally divided vote
Harry Blackmun • Anthony Kennedy • Thurgood Marshall • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • John Paul Stevens • Byron White

UNITED STATES v. DARLINA K. FRANCE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 22, 1991. The case was argued before the court on October 2, 1990.

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 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: miscellaneous
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 498 U.S. 335
  • 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 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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