BURLINGTON NORTHERN RAILROAD CO. v. WOODS et al. (1987)

BURLINGTON NORTHERN RAILROAD CO. v. WOODS et al.
	Term: 1986
Important Dates
	Argued: November 4, 1986
	Decided: February 24, 1987
Outcome
	Reversed
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • John Paul Stevens • Byron White

BURLINGTON NORTHERN RAILROAD CO. v. WOODS et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 24, 1987. The case was argued before the court on November 4, 1986.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Alabama Northern U.S. District 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: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Physically injured person, including wrongful death, who is not an employee
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 480 U.S. 1
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
Who wrote the majority opinion: Thurgood Marshall

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.