FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION et al. v. PACIFIC MARITIME ASSN. et al. (1978)

FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION et al. v. PACIFIC MARITIME ASSN. et al.
	Term: 1977
Important Dates
	Argued: December 7, 1977
	Decided: March 1, 1978
Outcome
	Reversed
Vote
	5-3
Majority
	Warren Burger • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens • Potter Stewart • Byron White
Dissenting
	William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • Lewis Powell

FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION et al. v. PACIFIC MARITIME ASSN. et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 1, 1978. The case was argued before the court on December 7, 1977.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit (includes the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia but not the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, which has local jurisdiction).

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About the case

Subject matter: Unions - Union antitrust: legality of anticompetitive union activity
Petitioner: Federal Maritime Commission
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Shipper, including importer and exporter
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 435 U.S. 40
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
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.