ARMY AND AIR FORCE EXCHANGE SERVICE v. SHEEHAN (1982) - Ballotpedia

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ARMY AND AIR FORCE EXCHANGE SERVICE v. SHEEHAN

Term: 1981
Important Dates
Argued: February 23, 1982
Decided: June 1, 1982
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens • Byron White
Concurring
Warren Burger

ARMY AND AIR FORCE EXCHANGE SERVICE v. SHEEHAN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 1, 1982. The case was argued before the court on February 23, 1982.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Texas Northern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1980s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Burger Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: federal question (cf. no merits: dismissed for want of a substantial or properly presented federal question)
Petitioner: United States
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Governmental employee or job applicant
Respondent state: United States
Citation: 456 U.S. 728
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: Harry Blackmun

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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