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ROBERTSON v. WEGMANN, EXECUTOR, et al. (1978)

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ROBERTSON v. WEGMANN, EXECUTOR, et al.
Term: 1977
Important Dates
Argued: March 21, 1978
Decided: May 31, 1978
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Warren Burger • Thurgood Marshall • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens • Potter Stewart
Dissenting
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Byron White

ROBERTSON v. WEGMANN, EXECUTOR, et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 31, 1978. The case was argued before the court on March 21, 1978.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Louisiana Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Election of remedies: legal remedies available to injured persons or things
  • Petitioner: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
  • Petitioner state: Louisiana
  • Respondent type: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 436 U.S. 584
  • 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: Thurgood Marshall

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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