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CALIFORNIA v. NEVADA (1980)

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CALIFORNIA v. NEVADA
Term: 1979
Important Dates
Argued: April 14, 1980
Decided: June 10, 1980
Vote
9-0
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Warren Burger • Thurgood Marshall • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens • Potter Stewart • Byron White

CALIFORNIA v. NEVADA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 10, 1980. The case was argued before the court on April 14, 1980.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Boundary dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: California
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Nevada
  • Citation: 447 U.S. 125
  • 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: William Brennan

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 unspecifiable.

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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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