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STATE OF MISSISSIPPI v. UNITED STATES (1990)

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STATE OF MISSISSIPPI v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1990
Important Dates
Decided: November 5, 1990
Vote
9-0
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Anthony Kennedy • Thurgood Marshall • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • John Paul Stevens • Byron White

STATE OF MISSISSIPPI v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 5, 1990.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1990s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Rehnquist Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federalism - Submerged Lands Act (cf. federal-state ownership dispute)
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Mississippi
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 498 U.S. 16
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Decrees
  • Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
  • 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 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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