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PILOT LIFE INSURANCE CO. v. DEDEAUX

Term: 1986
Important Dates
Argued: January 21, 1987
Decided: April 6, 1987
Outcome
Reversed
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

PILOT LIFE INSURANCE CO. v. DEDEAUX is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 6, 1987. The case was argued before the court on January 21, 1987.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Mississippi Southern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Federalism - federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction
Petitioner: Employer-employee trust agreement, employee health and welfare fund, or multi-employer pension plan
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 481 U.S. 41
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: Sandra Day O'Connor

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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