ROBERT D. GILMER v. INTERSTATE/JOHNSON LANE CORPORATION (1991)

ROBERT D. GILMER v. INTERSTATE/JOHNSON LANE CORPORATION
	Term: 1990
Important Dates
	Argued: January 14, 1991
	Decided: May 13, 1991
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	7-2
Majority
	Harry Blackmun • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • Byron White
Dissenting
	Thurgood Marshall • John Paul Stevens

ROBERT D. GILMER v. INTERSTATE/JOHNSON LANE CORPORATION is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 13, 1991. The case was argued before the court on January 14, 1991.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the North Carolina Western U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Unions - Arbitration (in the context of labor-management or employer-employee relations) (cf. arbitration)
Petitioner: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: employer. If employer's relations with employees are governed by the nature of the employer's business (e.g., railroad, boat), rather than labor law generally, the more specific designation is used in place of Employer.
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 500 U.S. 20
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: Byron White

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.