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CALIFORNIA ex rel. STATE LANDS COMMISSION v. UNITED STATES (June 18, 1982)

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CALIFORNIA ex rel. STATE LANDS COMMISSION v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1981
Important Dates
Argued: March 29, 1982
Decided: June 18, 1982
Vote
9-0
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Warren Burger • Thurgood Marshall • Lewis Powell • Byron White
Concurring
Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens

CALIFORNIA ex rel. STATE LANDS COMMISSION v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 18, 1982. The case was argued before the court on March 29, 1982.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 9-0 ruling.

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.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federalism - Submerged Lands Act (cf. federal-state ownership dispute)
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: California
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 457 U.S. 273
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Byron White

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.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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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