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PENNSYLVANIA v. NEW JERSEY (1976)

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PENNSYLVANIA v. NEW JERSEY
Term: 1975
Important Dates
Argued: December 3, 1975
Decided: June 17, 1976
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
5-2
Majority
Warren Burger • Thurgood Marshall • William Rehnquist • Potter Stewart
Concurring
Harry Blackmun
Dissenting
William Brennan • Byron White

PENNSYLVANIA v. NEW JERSEY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 17, 1976. The case was argued before the court on December 3, 1975.

In a 5-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1970s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Burger Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: Supreme Court's original jurisdiction
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Pennsylvania
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: New Jersey
  • Citation: 426 U.S. 660
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • 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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