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UNITED STATES v. MAINE et al. (1986)

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UNITED STATES v. MAINE et al.
Term: 1985
Important Dates
Argued: December 12, 1985
Decided: February 25, 1986
Vote
8-0
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Warren Burger • Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens • Byron White

UNITED STATES v. MAINE et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 25, 1986. The case was argued before the court on December 12, 1985.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1980s, 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: Massachusetts
  • Citation: 475 U.S. 89
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: John Paul Stevens

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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