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UTAH DIVISION OF STATE LANDS v. UNITED STATES et al. (1987)

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UTAH DIVISION OF STATE LANDS v. UNITED STATES et al.
Term: 1986
Important Dates
Argued: March 23, 1987
Decided: June 8, 1987
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia
Dissenting
William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • John Paul Stevens • Byron White

UTAH DIVISION OF STATE LANDS v. UNITED STATES et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 8, 1987. The case was argued before the court on March 23, 1987.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Utah U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federalism - federal-state ownership dispute (cf. Submerged Lands Act)
  • Petitioner: State department or agency
  • Petitioner state: Utah
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 482 U.S. 193
  • 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: Sandra Day O'Connor

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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