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WILLIAMS v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1981
Important Dates
Argued: April 20, 1982
Decided: June 29, 1982
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
5-4
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens
Dissenting
William Brennan • Warren Burger • Thurgood Marshall • Byron White

WILLIAMS v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 29, 1982. The case was argued before the court on April 20, 1982.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Louisiana Western U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: financial (other than in fraud or internal revenue)
Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 458 U.S. 279
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
Who wrote the majority opinion: Harry Blackmun

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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