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UNITED STATES v. MACCOLLOM (1976)

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UNITED STATES v. MACCOLLOM
Term: 1975
Important Dates
Argued: March 29, 1976
Decided: June 10, 1976
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Judgment of the court
William Rehnquist
Majority
Warren Burger • Lewis Powell • Potter Stewart
Concurring
Harry Blackmun
Dissenting
William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • John Paul Stevens • Byron White

UNITED STATES v. MACCOLLOM is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 10, 1976. The case was argued before the court on March 29, 1976.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Washington Western U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1970s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Burger Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - indigents: transcript
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Indigent defendant
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 426 U.S. 317
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Judgment of the Court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Rehnquist

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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