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UNITED STATES v. NEW MEXICO (1978)

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UNITED STATES v. NEW MEXICO
Term: 1977
Important Dates
Argued: April 24, 1978
Decided: July 3, 1978
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Warren Burger • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens • Potter Stewart
Dissenting
William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • Lewis Powell • Byron White

UNITED STATES v. NEW MEXICO is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on July 3, 1978. The case was argued before the court on April 24, 1978.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New Mexico State Trial Court.

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: Economic Activity - Natural resources - environmental protection (cf. national supremacy: natural resources, national supremacy: pollution)
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: New Mexico
  • Citation: 438 U.S. 696
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Rehnquist

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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