UNITED STATES v. JERRY E. WELLS AND KENNETH R. STEELE (1997)

UNITED STATES v. JERRY E. WELLS AND KENNETH R. STEELE
	Term: 1996
Important Dates
	Argued: November 4, 1996
	Decided: February 26, 1997
Outcome
	Vacated and remanded
Vote
	8-1
Majority
	Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • Clarence Thomas
Dissenting
	John Paul Stevens

UNITED STATES v. JERRY E. WELLS AND KENNETH R. STEELE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 26, 1997. The case was argued before the court on November 4, 1996.

In an 8-1 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 Missouri Western U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: false statements (cf. statutory construction of criminal laws: perjury)
Petitioner: United States
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 519 U.S. 482
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
Who wrote the majority opinion: David Souter

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.