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CALIFORNIA et al. v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1977
Important Dates
Argued: March 28, 1978
Decided: July 3, 1978
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
6-3
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Warren Burger • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens • Potter Stewart
Dissenting
William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • Byron White

CALIFORNIA et al. v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on July 3, 1978. The case was argued before the court on March 28, 1978.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the California Eastern 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: State
Petitioner state: California
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 438 U.S. 645
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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