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UNITED STATES v. WOODWARD (1985)

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UNITED STATES v. WOODWARD
Term: 1984
Important Dates
Decided: January 7, 1985
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Warren Burger • Thurgood Marshall • Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens • Byron White

UNITED STATES v. WOODWARD is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 7, 1985.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California Southern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1980s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Burger Court, click here.

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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 convicted of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 469 U.S. 105
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • 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 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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