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UNITED STATES v. FAUSTO (1988)

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UNITED STATES v. FAUSTO
Term: 1987
Important Dates
Argued: October 7, 1987
Decided: January 25, 1988
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-3
Majority
Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • Byron White
Concurring
Harry Blackmun
Dissenting
William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • John Paul Stevens

UNITED STATES v. FAUSTO is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 25, 1988. The case was argued before the court on October 7, 1987.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Claims, Court of Federal Claims.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Election of remedies: legal remedies available to injured persons or things
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Governmental employee or job applicant
  • Respondent state: United States
  • Citation: 484 U.S. 439
  • 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: Antonin Scalia

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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