IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT v. SMITH (1977)

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IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT v. SMITH
Term: 1977
Important Dates
Decided: December 5, 1977
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Warren Burger • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Potter Stewart • Byron White
Concurring
Harry Blackmun
Dissenting
William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • John Paul Stevens

IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT v. SMITH is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 5, 1977.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1970s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Burger Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - poverty law, constitutional
  • Petitioner: State department or agency
  • Petitioner state: Idaho
  • Respondent type: Unemployed person or unemployment compensation applicant or claimant
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 434 U.S. 100
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • 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 conservative.

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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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