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STATE OF ALABAMA, et al., PLAINTIFFS v. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. (2010)

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STATE OF ALABAMA, et al., PLAINTIFFS v. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
Term: 2009
Important Dates
Argued: January 11, 2010
Decided: June 1, 2010
Vote
6-3
Majority
Samuel Alito • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Antonin Scalia • John Paul Stevens
Concurring
Anthony Kennedy • Sonia Sotomayor
Dissenting
Stephen Breyer • John Roberts • Clarence Thomas

STATE OF ALABAMA, et al., PLAINTIFFS v. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 1, 2010. The case was argued before the court on January 11, 2010.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 6-3 ruling.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Natural resources - environmental protection (cf. national supremacy: natural resources, national supremacy: pollution)
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Alabama
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: North Carolina
  • Citation: 560 U.S. 330
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • 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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