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STATE OF ALASKA v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (2006)

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STATE OF ALASKA v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Term: 2005
Important Dates
Decided: January 23, 2006
Vote
8-0
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • John Paul Stevens • 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 January 23, 2006.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 8-0 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: 546 U.S. 413
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Decrees
  • Who was the chief justice: John Roberts
  • 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. 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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