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TERRY FOUCHA v. LOUISIANA (1992)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
TERRY FOUCHA v. LOUISIANA
Term: 1991
Important Dates
Argued: November 4, 1991
Decided: May 18, 1992
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Harry Blackmun • David Souter • John Paul Stevens • Byron White
Concurring
Sandra Day O'Connor
Dissenting
Anthony Kennedy • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • Clarence Thomas

TERRY FOUCHA v. LOUISIANA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 18, 1992. The case was argued before the court on November 4, 1991.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Louisiana State Trial Court.

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: Due Process - Due process: miscellaneous (cf. loyalty oath), the residual code
  • Petitioner: Person allegedly criminally insane or mentally incompetent to stand trial
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Louisiana
  • Citation: 504 U.S. 71
  • 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: Byron White

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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