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KANSAS v. MICHAEL T. CRANE (2002)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
KANSAS v. MICHAEL T. CRANE
Term: 2001
Important Dates
Argued: October 30, 2001
Decided: January 22, 2002
Outcome
Vacated and remanded
Vote
7-2
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • David Souter • John Paul Stevens
Dissenting
Antonin Scalia • Clarence Thomas

KANSAS v. MICHAEL T. CRANE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 22, 2002. The case was argued before the court on October 30, 2001.

In a 7-2 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. The case originated from the Kansas State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 2000s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Rehnquist Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Due Process - Due process: miscellaneous (cf. loyalty oath), the residual code
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Kansas
  • Respondent type: Involuntarily committed mental patient
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 534 U.S. 407
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Stephen Breyer

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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