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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. STATE OF ALASKA (2000)

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. STATE OF ALASKA
Term: 1999
Important Dates
Decided: June 29, 2000
Vote
9-0
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • John Paul Stevens • 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 29, 2000.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 9-0 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: 530 U.S. 1021
  • 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 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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