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SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES (1981)

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SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
Term: 1980
Important Dates
Argued: January 15, 1980
Decided: January 26, 1981
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
4-4
Equally divided vote
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Warren Burger • Thurgood Marshall • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens • Byron White

SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 26, 1981. The case was argued before the court on January 15, 1980.

In a 4-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: -
  • Petitioner: Business, corporation
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
  • Respondent state: California
  • Citation: 449 U.S. 1119
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Equally divided vote
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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.

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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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