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WASHINGTON et al. v. UNITED STATES (1983)

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WASHINGTON et al. v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1982
Important Dates
Argued: January 10, 1983
Decided: March 29, 1983
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
William Brennan • Warren Burger • Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist
Dissenting
Harry Blackmun • Thurgood Marshall • John Paul Stevens • Byron White

WASHINGTON et al. v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 29, 1983. The case was argued before the court on January 10, 1983.

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

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: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Washington
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 460 U.S. 536
  • 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 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 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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