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WATKINS v. CONWAY (1966)

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WATKINS v. CONWAY
Term: 1966
Important Dates
Argued: November 9, 1966
Decided: December 5, 1966
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-1
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • Tom Clark • Abe Fortas • John Harlan II • Potter Stewart • Earl Warren • Byron White
Dissenting
William Douglas

WATKINS v. CONWAY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 5, 1966. The case was argued before the court on November 9, 1966.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Georgia State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1960s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
  • Petitioner: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Debtor
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 385 U.S. 188
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • 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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