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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. STATE OF ALASKA ON BILL OF COMPLAINT (1992)

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. STATE OF ALASKA ON BILL OF COMPLAINT
Term: 1991
Important Dates
Argued: February 24, 1992
Decided: April 21, 1992
Vote
9-0
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • John Paul Stevens • Clarence Thomas • Byron White

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. STATE OF ALASKA ON BILL OF COMPLAINT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 21, 1992. The case was argued before the court on February 24, 1992.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federalism - federal-state ownership dispute (cf. Submerged Lands Act)
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Alaska
  • Citation: 503 U.S. 569
  • 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: Byron White

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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