Query re Supreme Court practice

[Michael MASINTER]

Palmore v. Sidoti, 466 U.S. 429 (1984)?

Michael R. Masinter                     3305 College Avenue
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masinter at nova.edu                       Chair, ACLU of Florida Legal Panel

On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Mark Tushnet wrote:

> Does anyone know the last case in which the Supreme Court ended an order
> saying "Reversed" in a case coming to it on review from a state court
> (rather than "Vacated and remanded for proceedings not inconsistent")?
> Hart & Wechsler, 4th ed., calls remand the "normal" practice, and notes
> various forms of entering judgment in cases of state court recalcitrance
> (demonstrated, I think, in the state court's response to a first
> remand), but they don't identify a straight-out reversal.  (Nor does
> Wright on Federal Courts.)  The various footnotes suggest that you'd
> have to go back at least to the late 19th century to find a straight-out
> reversal.
>