Tennessee v. Donald Ray Middlebrooks (510 U.S. 124)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided December 13, 1993 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 510 U.S. 124 · 114 S. Ct. 651
- Decided
- December 13, 1993
- Term
- October Term 1993
- Vote
- 8–1
- Issue area
- Judicial Power
- Disposition
- Petition denied or appeal dismissed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
Opinion excerpt
510 U.S. 124 TENNESSEE v. MIDDLEBROOKS No. 92-989. Supreme Court of United States. Argued November 1, 1993. Decided December 13, 1993. CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF TENNESSEE Certiorari dismissed. Reported below: 840 S. W. 2d 317 . Charles W. Burson, Attorney General of Tennessee, argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief was Kathy Morante Principe. David C. Stebbins, by appointment of the Court, 508 U. S. 937 , argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Paul R. Bottei and Lionel R. Barrett, Jr. * PER CURIAM. 1 The writ of certiorari is dismissed as improvidently granted. 2 Justice Blackmun dissents. Notes: * Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the State of California et al. by Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General of California, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette and Ward A. Campbell, Deputy Attorneys General, and Mark L. Krotoski, Special Assistant Attorney General, and by officials for their respective States as follows: James H. Evans, Attorney General of Alabama, Winston Bryant, Attorney General of Arkansas, Grant Woods, Attorney General of Arizona, John M. Bailey, Chief State's Attorney of Connecticut, Charles M. Oberly III, Attorney General of Delaware, Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General of Florida, Larry EchoHawk, Attorney General of Idaho, Pamela Carter, Attorney General of…
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