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KING v. BURWELL (2015)

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KING v. BURWELL
Term: 2014
Important Dates
Argued: March 4, 2015
Decided: June 25, 2015
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Elena Kagan • Anthony Kennedy • John Roberts • Sonia Sotomayor
Dissenting
Samuel Alito • Antonin Scalia • Clarence Thomas

KING v. BURWELL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 25, 2015. The case was argued before the court on March 4, 2015.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federal Taxation - federal taxation, typically under provisions of the Internal Revenue Code
  • Petitioner: Private person
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Department or Secretary of Health and Human Services
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 576 U.S. 473
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: John Roberts
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: John Roberts

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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