Stewart v. Martinez-Villareal

Stewart v. Martinez-Villareal
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 25, 1998 Decided May 18, 1998
Full case name	Terry Stewart, Director, Arizona Department of Correction, et al., Petitioners v. Ramon Martinez-Villareal
Citations	523 U.S. 637 (more) 118 S. Ct. 1618; 140 L. Ed. 2d 849; 1998 U.S. LEXIS 3104
Case history
Prior	Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Holding
§2244(b) did not apply to a petition that raises only a competency to be executed claim and that respondent did not, therefore, need authorization to file his petition in the District Court.
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	Rehnquist, joined by Stevens, O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer
Dissent	Scalia, joined by Thomas
Dissent	Thomas, joined by Scalia

Stewart v. Martinez-Villareal, 523 U.S. 637 (1998), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court, which held that 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b) did not apply to a petition that raises only a competency to be executed claim and that respondent did not, therefore, need authorization to file his petition in the District Court.^[1]