CITY OF LOS ANGELES et al. v. HELLER (1986)

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CITY OF LOS ANGELES et al. v. HELLER
Term: 1985
Important Dates
Decided: April 21, 1986
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
6-2
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Warren Burger • Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Byron White
Dissenting
Thurgood Marshall • John Paul Stevens

CITY OF LOS ANGELES et al. v. HELLER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 21, 1986.

In a 6-2 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 California Central U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - liability, civil rights acts (cf. liability, governmental and liability, nongovernmental; cruel and unusual punishment, non-death penalty)
  • Petitioner: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
  • Petitioner state: California
  • Respondent type: Physically injured person, including wrongful death, who is not an employee
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 475 U.S. 796
  • 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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