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UNITED STATES v. WINDSOR (2013)

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UNITED STATES v. WINDSOR
Term: 2012
Important Dates
Argued: March 27, 2013
Decided: June 26, 2013
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Elena Kagan • Anthony Kennedy • Sonia Sotomayor
Dissenting
Samuel Alito • John Roberts • Antonin Scalia • Clarence Thomas

UNITED STATES v. WINDSOR is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 26, 2013. The case was argued before the court on March 27, 2013.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed 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: miscellaneous (cf. loyalty oath), the residual code
  • Petitioner: U.S. House of Representatives
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual person or organization
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 570 U.S. 744
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: John Roberts
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Anthony Kennedy

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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