ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORP., et al. v. UNITED STATES et al. (2007)

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ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORP., et al. v. UNITED STATES et al.
Term: 2006
Important Dates
Argued: December 5, 2006
Decided: March 27, 2007
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-2
Majority
Samuel Alito • Anthony Kennedy • John Roberts • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • Clarence Thomas
Dissenting
Ruth Bader Ginsburg • John Paul Stevens

ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORP., et al. v. UNITED STATES et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 27, 2007. The case was argued before the court on December 5, 2006.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
  • Petitioner: Government contractor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 549 U.S. 457
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: John Roberts
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Antonin Scalia

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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