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CITY OF PLEASANT GROVE v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1986
Important Dates
Argued: December 10, 1986
Decided: January 21, 1987
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • Antonin Scalia • John Paul Stevens • Byron White
Dissenting
Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist

CITY OF PLEASANT GROVE v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 21, 1987. The case was argued before the court on December 10, 1986.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the District Of Columbia U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - Voting Rights Act of 1965, plus amendments
Petitioner: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Petitioner state: Alabama
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 479 U.S. 462
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
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.

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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