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MCNALLY v. UNITED STATES (1987)

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MCNALLY v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1986
Important Dates
Argued: April 22, 1987
Decided: June 24, 1987
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
7-2
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • Byron White
Dissenting
Sandra Day O'Connor • John Paul Stevens

MCNALLY v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 24, 1987. The case was argued before the court on April 22, 1987.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Kentucky Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Corruption, governmental or governmental regulation of other than as in campaign spending
  • Petitioner: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
  • Petitioner state: Kentucky
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 483 U.S. 350
  • 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: 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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