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JAMES M. WHITE, ETC. v. UNITED STATES et al. (1989)

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JAMES M. WHITE, ETC. v. UNITED STATES et al.
Term: 1989
Important Dates
Argued: October 3, 1989
Decided: October 16, 1989
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
8-1
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Anthony Kennedy • Thurgood Marshall • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • John Paul Stevens
Dissenting
Byron White

JAMES M. WHITE, ETC. v. UNITED STATES et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 16, 1989. The case was argued before the court on October 3, 1989.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1980s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Rehnquist Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: writ improvidently granted
  • Petitioner: Unidentifiable
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 493 U.S. 5
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
  • 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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