TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY v. HILL et al. (1978)

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TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY v. HILL et al.
Term: 1977
Important Dates
Argued: April 18, 1978
Decided: June 15, 1978
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
William Brennan • Warren Burger • Thurgood Marshall • John Paul Stevens • Potter Stewart • Byron White
Dissenting
Harry Blackmun • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist

TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY v. HILL et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 15, 1978. The case was argued before the court on April 18, 1978.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Tennessee Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Natural resources - environmental protection (cf. national supremacy: natural resources, national supremacy: pollution)
  • Petitioner: Tennessee Valley Authority
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Environmental organization
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 437 U.S. 153
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Warren Burger

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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