ADAMO WRECKING CO. v. UNITED STATES (1978) - Ballotpedia

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ADAMO WRECKING CO. v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1977
Important Dates
Argued: October 11, 1977
Decided: January 10, 1978
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Warren Burger • Thurgood Marshall • William Rehnquist • Byron White
Concurring
Lewis Powell
Dissenting
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • John Paul Stevens • Potter Stewart

ADAMO WRECKING CO. v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 10, 1978. The case was argued before the court on October 11, 1977.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Michigan Eastern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1970s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Burger Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Natural resources - environmental protection (cf. national supremacy: natural resources, national supremacy: pollution)
Petitioner: Construction industry
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Environmental Protection Agency or Administrator
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 434 U.S. 275
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
Who wrote the majority opinion: William Rehnquist

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

The Supreme Court Database

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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