WARDAIR CANADA INC. v. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE (1986) - Ballotpedia

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WARDAIR CANADA INC. v. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE

Term: 1985
Important Dates
Argued: March 31, 1986
Decided: June 18, 1986
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-1
Majority
William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens • Byron White
Concurring
Warren Burger
Dissenting
Harry Blackmun

WARDAIR CANADA INC. v. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 18, 1986. The case was argued before the court on March 31, 1986.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Florida State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Federalism - federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation. cf. state regulation of business. rarely involves union activity. Does not involve constitutional interpretation unless the Court says it does.
Petitioner: Airline
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State department or agency
Respondent state: Florida
Citation: 477 U.S. 1
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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 Brennan

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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