NATIONAL BROILER MARKETING ASSN. v. UNITED STATES (1978)

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NATIONAL BROILER MARKETING ASSN. v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1977
Important Dates
Argued: February 21, 1978
Decided: June 12, 1978
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Warren Burger • Thurgood Marshall • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens
Concurring
William Brennan
Dissenting
Potter Stewart • Byron White

NATIONAL BROILER MARKETING ASSN. v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 12, 1978. The case was argued before the court on February 21, 1978.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Georgia Northern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Antitrust (except in the context of mergers and union antitrust)
  • Petitioner: Food, meat packing, or processing company, stockyard
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 436 U.S. 816
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Harry Blackmun

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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