MCNAMARA, EDWARD v. COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES (1988)

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MCNAMARA, EDWARD v. COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES
Term: 1988
Important Dates
Argued: November 28, 1988
Decided: December 6, 1988
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Anthony Kennedy • Thurgood Marshall • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • John Paul Stevens • Byron White

MCNAMARA, EDWARD v. COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 6, 1988. The case was argued before the court on November 28, 1988.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the California State Trial Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: dismissed or affirmed for want of a substantial or properly presented federal question, or a nonsuit
  • Petitioner: Father
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
  • Respondent state: California
  • Citation: 488 U.S. 152
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
  • 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 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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