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WISCONSIN et al. v. ILLINOIS et al. (1980)

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WISCONSIN et al. v. ILLINOIS et al.
Term: 1980
Important Dates
Decided: December 1, 1980
Vote
8-0
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Warren Burger • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens • Potter Stewart • Byron White

WISCONSIN et al. v. ILLINOIS et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 1, 1980.

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: Interstate Relations - Non-real property dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Wisconsin
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Illinois
  • Citation: 449 U.S. 48
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Decrees
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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 unspecifiable.

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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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