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Brown v. Plata Supreme Court decision
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https://gptkb.org/entity/Brown_v._Plata_Supreme_Court_decision
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Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:United_States_Supreme_Court_case
gptkbp:citation
563 U.S. 493
gptkbp:country
gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:date
May 23, 2011
gptkbp:decision
Affirmed lower court order to reduce California prison population
gptkbp:dissentingOpinionBy
gptkb:Justice_Clarence_Thomas
gptkb:Justice_Samuel_Alito
gptkb:Justice_Antonin_Scalia
Chief Justice John Roberts
gptkbp:docketNumber
09-1233
gptkbp:fullName
gptkb:Brown_v._Plata
gptkbp:heldBy
California's prison overcrowding violated prisoners' Eighth Amendment rights
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Brown v. Plata Supreme Court decision
gptkbp:judge
gptkb:Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
gptkbp:legalIssue
gptkb:Eighth_Amendment
Cruel and unusual punishment
Prison overcrowding
gptkbp:majorityOpinionBy
gptkb:Justice_Stephen_Breyer
gptkb:Justice_Sonia_Sotomayor
gptkb:Justice_Elena_Kagan
gptkb:Justice_Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg
gptkb:Justice_Anthony_Kennedy
gptkbp:originatedIn
gptkb:California
gptkbp:petitioner
Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Governor of California
gptkbp:predecessor
Prison reform litigation
gptkbp:relatedTo
gptkb:Coleman_v._Schwarzenegger
gptkb:Plata_v._Schwarzenegger
gptkbp:remedy
Reduction of prison population to 137.5% of design capacity
gptkbp:response
Marcelo Plata, et al.
gptkbp:subject
gptkb:constitutional_law
Prison conditions
gptkbp:votingSystem
5-4
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:California_state_prison_system
gptkbp:bfsLayer
7