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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. STATE OF ALASKA (1997)

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. STATE OF ALASKA
Term: 1996
Important Dates
Argued: February 24, 1997
Decided: June 19, 1997
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

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. STATE OF ALASKA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 19, 1997. The case was argued before the court on February 24, 1997.

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: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Alaska
  • Citation: 521 U.S. 1
  • 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: Sandra Day O'Connor

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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