UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE v. FLAMINGO INDUSTRIES (USA) LTD. et al. (2004)

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UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE v. FLAMINGO INDUSTRIES (USA) LTD. et al.
Term: 2003
Important Dates
Argued: December 1, 2003
Decided: February 25, 2004
Outcome
Reversed
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 POSTAL SERVICE v. FLAMINGO INDUSTRIES (USA) LTD. et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 25, 2004. The case was argued before the court on December 1, 2003.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California Northern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Antitrust (except in the context of mergers and union antitrust)
  • Petitioner: Postal Service and Post Office, or Postmaster General, or Postmaster
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Government contractor
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 540 U.S. 736
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Anthony Kennedy

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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