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SOUTH CAROLINA v. REGAN, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY (1984)

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SOUTH CAROLINA v. REGAN, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
Term: 1983
Important Dates
Argued: October 5, 1983
Decided: February 22, 1984
Vote
9-0
Majority
William Brennan • Warren Burger • Thurgood Marshall • Byron White
Concurring
Harry Blackmun • Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens

SOUTH CAROLINA v. REGAN, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 22, 1984. The case was argued before the court on October 5, 1983.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 9-0 ruling.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1980s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Burger Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: Supreme Court's original jurisdiction
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: South Carolina
  • Respondent type: Department or Secretary of the Treasury
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 465 U.S. 367
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Brennan

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 liberal.

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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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