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UNITED STATES v. CALIFORNIA (November 27, 1978)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
UNITED STATES v. CALIFORNIA
Term: 1978
Important Dates
Decided: November 27, 1978
Vote
8-0
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Warren Burger • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens • Potter Stewart • Byron White

UNITED STATES v. CALIFORNIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 27, 1978.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 8-0 ruling.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1970s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Burger Court, click here.

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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: California
  • Citation: 439 U.S. 30
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Decrees
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • 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 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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