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MASSACHUSETTS et al. v. FEENEY (1976)

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MASSACHUSETTS et al. v. FEENEY
Term: 1976
Important Dates
Decided: November 8, 1976
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
8-1
Majority
William Brennan • Warren Burger • Thurgood Marshall • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens • Potter Stewart • Byron White
Dissenting
Harry Blackmun

MASSACHUSETTS et al. v. FEENEY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 8, 1976.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Massachusetts U.S. District 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: Judicial Power - no merits: remand to determine basis of state or federal court decision (cf. judicial administration: state law)
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Massachusetts
  • Respondent type: Female governmental employee or job applicant
  • Respondent state: Massachusetts
  • Citation: 429 U.S. 66
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • 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 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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