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CHAPPELLE v. GREATER BATON ROUGE AIRPORT DISTRICT et al.

Term: 1976
Important Dates
Argued: April 25, 1977
Decided: May 16, 1977
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-1
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Warren Burger • Thurgood Marshall • Lewis Powell • John Paul Stevens • Potter Stewart • Byron White
Dissenting
William Rehnquist

CHAPPELLE v. GREATER BATON ROUGE AIRPORT DISTRICT et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 16, 1977. The case was argued before the court on April 25, 1977.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Louisiana State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - Residency requirements: durational, plus discrimination against nonresidents
Petitioner: Political candidate, activist, committee, party, party member, organization, or elected official
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Local governmental unit other than a county, city, town, township, village, or borough
Respondent state: Louisiana
Citation: 431 U.S. 159
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
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.

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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