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CALIFORNIA v. TEXAS et al. (1982)

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CALIFORNIA v. TEXAS et al.
Term: 1981
Important Dates
Decided: June 14, 1982
Vote
5-4
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Warren Burger • Sandra Day O'Connor • Byron White
Dissenting
Thurgood Marshall • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens

CALIFORNIA v. TEXAS et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 14, 1982.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 5-4 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: Judicial Power - judicial administration: Supreme Court's original jurisdiction
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: California
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Texas
  • Citation: 457 U.S. 164
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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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