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ANDRUS, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR v. UTAH

Term: 1979
Important Dates
Argued: December 5, 1979
Decided: May 19, 1980
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • John Paul Stevens • Potter Stewart • Byron White
Dissenting
Harry Blackmun • Warren Burger • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist

ANDRUS, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR v. UTAH is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 19, 1980. The case was argued before the court on December 5, 1979.

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

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Natural resources - environmental protection (cf. national supremacy: natural resources, national supremacy: pollution)
Petitioner: Department or Secretary of the Interior
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State
Respondent state: Utah
Citation: 446 U.S. 500
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: John Paul Stevens

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 liberal.

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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