STATE OF ALASKA v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (2005)

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STATE OF ALASKA v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Term: 2004
Important Dates
Argued: January 10, 2005
Decided: June 6, 2005
Vote
6-3
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • David Souter • John Paul Stevens
Dissenting
William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • Clarence Thomas

STATE OF ALASKA v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 6, 2005. The case was argued before the court on January 10, 2005.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federalism - Submerged Lands Act (cf. federal-state ownership dispute)
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Alaska
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 545 U.S. 75
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Anthony Kennedy

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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