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UNITED STATES v. MERCHANT

Term: 1986
Important Dates
Argued: March 4, 1987
Decided: March 24, 1987
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • John Paul Stevens • Byron White

UNITED STATES v. MERCHANT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 24, 1987. The case was argued before the court on March 4, 1987.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the California Northern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: writ improvidently granted
Petitioner: United States
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Unidentifiable
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 480 U.S. 615
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
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 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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