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Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer |
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Rehnquist, O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer |
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O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer |
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O'Connor, Breyer |
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O'Connor, Scalia |
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Souter, Breyer |
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Bagley v. Bird
534 U.S. 1301 (2001) |
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Stevens denied the application for a stay. |
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Rehnquist, O'Connor, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer; Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas (in part) |
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Taking: land use regulation |
O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer |
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Unanimous |
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Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer |
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First Amendment |
O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer |
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Ginsburg, Breyer |
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Ginsburg |
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Death penalty: execution of the mentally retartded |
O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer |
The Court ruled that the Eighth Amendment prohibited the execution of the mentally retarded. Rehnquist and Scalia filed dissents. |
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O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer |
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First Amendment |
Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer |
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Patterson v. Texas
536 U.S. 984 (2002) |
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Death penalty: execution of minors |
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Stevens dissented from the Court's denial of a stay of the execution of an individual who was 17 when he committed the capital offense, believing the Court should revisit the issue of whether it was constitutional to impose the death penalty for crimes committed when the offender was a minor. Ginsburg also filed a dissent. The Court ruled three years later that the Eighth Amendment prohibited capital punishment when the offender was under 18, in Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005). |