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MISSOURI v. BLAIR (1987)

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MISSOURI v. BLAIR
Term: 1986
Important Dates
Argued: November 12, 1986
Decided: March 24, 1987
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • John Paul Stevens • Byron White

MISSOURI v. BLAIR is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 24, 1987. The case was argued before the court on November 12, 1986.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: writ improvidently granted
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Missouri
  • Respondent type: Unidentifiable
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 480 U.S. 698
  • 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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