UNITED STATES v. SALERNO et al. (1987)

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UNITED STATES v. SALERNO et al.
Term: 1986
Important Dates
Argued: January 21, 1987
Decided: May 26, 1987
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • Byron White
Dissenting
William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • John Paul Stevens

UNITED STATES v. SALERNO et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 26, 1987. The case was argued before the court on January 21, 1987.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Due Process - Due process: prisoners' rights and defendants' rights
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Arrested person, or pretrial detainee
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 481 U.S. 739
  • 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: 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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