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MARYLAND et al. v. LOUISIANA (May 26, 1981)

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MARYLAND et al. v. LOUISIANA
Term: 1980
Important Dates
Argued: January 19, 1981
Decided: May 26, 1981
Vote
7-1
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • John Paul Stevens • Potter Stewart • Byron White
Concurring
Warren Burger
Dissenting
William Rehnquist

MARYLAND et al. v. LOUISIANA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 26, 1981. The case was argued before the court on January 19, 1981.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 7-1 ruling.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Maryland
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Louisiana
  • Citation: 451 U.S. 725
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • 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 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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