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NORTH DAKOTA et al. v. UNITED STATES (1990)

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NORTH DAKOTA et al. v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1989
Important Dates
Argued: October 31, 1989
Decided: May 21, 1990
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Judgment of the court
John Paul Stevens
Majority
Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Byron White
Concurring
Antonin Scalia
Dissenting
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Anthony Kennedy • Thurgood Marshall

NORTH DAKOTA et al. v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 21, 1990. The case was argued before the court on October 31, 1989.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the North Dakota U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federalism - national supremacy: commodities
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: North Dakota
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 495 U.S. 423
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Judgment of the Court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: John Paul Stevens

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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