Skip to main content
Independent · not a government site

1987 term · Rehnquist Court · 6-2

Mullins Coal Co., Inc. of Virginia, et al. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, United States Department of Labor, et al.

484 U.S. 135 · 108 S. Ct. 427 · 1987 U.S. LEXIS 5190

The record

Term
1987
Decided
Issue area
Economic Activity
Vote split
6-2
Winning party
Petitioner
Decision direction
Conservative
Chief Justice
Rehnquist Court
Disposition
Vacated and remanded
Docket
86-327
U.S. Reports
484 U.S. 135
S. Ct. citation
108 S. Ct. 427
LEXIS citation
1987 U.S. LEXIS 5190

How the bench divided

M 6 majorityD 2 dissenting

How each justice voted in Mullins Coal Co., Inc. of Virginia, et al. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, United States Department of Labor, et al.
JusticeVote
Byron WhiteMajority
Harry BlackmunMajority
William RehnquistMajority
John Paul StevensMajority
Sandra Day O'ConnorMajority
Antonin ScaliaMajority
Thurgood MarshallDissent
William J. BrennanDissent

Same issue area

Decisions the Court reached on the same question, nearest in time to this one. Economic Activity accounts for 1,819 of the 9,277 decisions in this dataset.

Browse all Economic Activity decisions →