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LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT v. UNITED REPORTING PUBLISHING CORPORATION

Term: 1999
Important Dates
Argued: October 13, 1999
Decided: December 7, 1999
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-2
Majority
William Rehnquist
Concurring
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Sandra Day O'Connor • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • Clarence Thomas
Dissenting
Anthony Kennedy • John Paul Stevens

LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT v. UNITED REPORTING PUBLISHING CORPORATION is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 7, 1999. The case was argued before the court on October 13, 1999.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California Southern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: First Amendment - Commercial speech, excluding attorneys
Petitioner: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Petitioner state: California
Respondent type: Publisher, publishing company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 528 U.S. 32
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: William Rehnquist

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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