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ACOSTA v. LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES et al.

Term: 1985
Important Dates
Decided: June 30, 1986
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Warren Burger • Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens • Byron White
Dissenting
William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall

ACOSTA v. LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 30, 1986.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - Federal Rules of Civil Procedure including Supreme Court Rules, application of the Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure in civil litigation, Circuit Court Rules, and state rules and admiralty rules
Petitioner: Unidentifiable
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State department or agency
Respondent state: Louisiana
Citation: 478 U.S. 251
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as conservative.

See also

External links

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Footnotes

↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024

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