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COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. ERICH E. SCHLEIER AND HELEN B. SCHLEIER (1995)

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COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. ERICH E. SCHLEIER AND HELEN B. SCHLEIER
Term: 1994
Important Dates
Argued: March 27, 1995
Decided: June 14, 1995
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens
Concurring
Antonin Scalia
Dissenting
Sandra Day O'Connor • David Souter • Clarence Thomas

COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. ERICH E. SCHLEIER AND HELEN B. SCHLEIER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 14, 1995. The case was argued before the court on March 27, 1995.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Tax Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federal Taxation - federal taxation, typically under provisions of the Internal Revenue Code
  • Petitioner: Internal Revenue Service, Collector, Commissioner, or District Director of
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Taxpayer or executor of taxpayer's estate, federal only
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 515 U.S. 323
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: John Paul Stevens

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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