MOBIL OIL EXPLORATION AND PRODUCING SOUTHEAST, INC. v. UNITED STATES (2000)

MOBIL OIL EXPLORATION AND PRODUCING SOUTHEAST, INC. v. UNITED STATES
	Term: 1999
Important Dates
	Argued: March 22, 2000
	Decided: June 26, 2000
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	7-1
Majority
	Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • Clarence Thomas
Dissenting
	John Paul Stevens

MOBIL OIL EXPLORATION AND PRODUCING SOUTHEAST, INC. v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 26, 2000. The case was argued before the court on March 22, 2000.

In a 7-1 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 U.S. Court of Claims, Court of Federal Claims.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal and some few state regulation of public utilities regulation: oil producer
Petitioner: Oil company, or natural gas producer
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 530 U.S. 604
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: Stephen Breyer

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.