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UNITED STATES v. FIOR D'ITALIA, INC. (2002)

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UNITED STATES v. FIOR D'ITALIA, INC.
Term: 2001
Important Dates
Argued: April 22, 2002
Decided: June 17, 2002
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens
Dissenting
Antonin Scalia • David Souter • Clarence Thomas

UNITED STATES v. FIOR D'ITALIA, INC. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 17, 2002. The case was argued before the court on April 22, 2002.

In a 6-3 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: Federal Taxation - federal taxation, typically under provisions of the Internal Revenue Code
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Restaurant, food vendor
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 536 U.S. 238
  • 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: Stephen Breyer

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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