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ANTHONY LEO STUTSON v. UNITED STATES (1996)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
ANTHONY LEO STUTSON v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1995
Important Dates
Decided: January 8, 1996
Outcome
Vacated and remanded
Vote
6-3
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • David Souter
Concurring
John Paul Stevens
Dissenting
William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • Clarence Thomas

ANTHONY LEO STUTSON v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 8, 1996.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1990s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Rehnquist Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - Supreme Court's certiorari, writ of error, or appeals jurisdiction
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 516 U.S. 193
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
  • 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 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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