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WOOD v. MOSS (2014)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
WOOD v. MOSS
Term: 2013
Important Dates
Argued: March 26, 2014
Decided: May 27, 2014
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Alito • Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Elena Kagan • Anthony Kennedy • John Roberts • Antonin Scalia • Sonia Sotomayor • Clarence Thomas

WOOD v. MOSS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 27, 2014. The case was argued before the court on March 26, 2014.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Oregon U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: First Amendment - protest demonstrations (other than as pertains to sit-in demonstrations): demonstrations and other forms of protest based on First Amendment guarantees
  • Petitioner: Governmental employee or job applicant
  • Petitioner state: United States
  • Respondent type: Protester, demonstrator, picketer or pamphleteer (non-employment related), or non-indigent loiterer
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 572 U.S. 744
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: John Roberts
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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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