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REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA v. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS BOARD et al. (1988)

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REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA v. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS BOARD et al.
Term: 1987
Important Dates
Argued: January 12, 1988
Decided: April 20, 1988
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-2
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia
Concurring
Byron White
Dissenting
Thurgood Marshall • John Paul Stevens

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA v. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS BOARD et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 20, 1988. The case was argued before the court on January 12, 1988.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California State Appellate Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Unions - Labor-management disputes: distribution of union literature
  • Petitioner: State college or university
  • Petitioner state: California
  • Respondent type: State commission, board, committee, or authority
  • Respondent state: California
  • Citation: 485 U.S. 589
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • 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 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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