Skip to main content
Independent · not a government site

1986 term · Rehnquist Court · 5-4

Pennsylvania et al. v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air et al.

483 U.S. 711 · 107 S. Ct. 3078 · 1987 U.S. LEXIS 2979

The record

Term
1986
Decided
Issue area
Attorneys
Vote split
5-4
Winning party
Petitioner
Decision direction
Conservative
Chief Justice
Rehnquist Court
Disposition
Reversed
Docket
85-5
U.S. Reports
483 U.S. 711
S. Ct. citation
107 S. Ct. 3078
LEXIS citation
1987 U.S. LEXIS 2979

How the bench divided

M 4 majorityC 1 concurringD 4 dissenting

How each justice voted in Pennsylvania et al. v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air et al.
JusticeVote
Lewis F. PowellMajority
William RehnquistMajority
Antonin ScaliaMajority
Byron WhiteJudgment of the Court
Sandra Day O'ConnorSpecial concurrence
Thurgood MarshallDissent
William J. BrennanDissent
Harry BlackmunDissent
John Paul StevensDissent

Same issue area

Decisions the Court reached on the same question, nearest in time to this one. Attorneys accounts for 103 of the 9,277 decisions in this dataset.

Browse all Attorneys decisions →