Brown v. Plata Supreme Court decision

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Predicate	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
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_prison_system
gptkbp:bfsLayer	8
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