Lindh v. Murphy

Lindh v. Murphy
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 14, 1997 Decided June 23, 1997
Full case name	Aaron Lindh v. Murphy, Warden
Citations	521 U.S. 320 (more) 117 S. Ct. 2059; 138 L. Ed. 2d 481
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	Souter, joined by Stevens, O'Connor, Ginsburg, Breyer
Dissent	Rehnquist, joined by Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas
Laws applied
Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996

Lindh v. Murphy, 521 U.S. 320 (1997), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996's amendments to Title 28, Section 2254 of the United States Code applies to cases filed after the Act's effective date.^[1] The amendments "do not apply to pending noncapital cases such as Lindh's."^[1]

In his dissent, Chief Justice William Rehnquist argues that "in light of the whole of our retroactivity jurisprudence," pending cases should be subject to the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996's amendments.^[1]

References

1. Lindh v. Murphy, 521 U.S. 320 (1997).

External links

• Text of Lindh v. Murphy, 521 U.S. 320 (1997) is available from: CourtListener Justia Library of Congress Oyez (oral argument audio)