1987 term · Rehnquist Court · 6-3
Mississippi Power & Light Co. v. Mississippi ex rel. Moore, Attorney General of Mississippi, et al.
487 U.S. 354 · 108 S. Ct. 2428 · 1988 U.S. LEXIS 2874
The record
- Term
- 1987
- Decided
- Issue area
- Economic Activity
- Vote split
- 6-3
- Winning party
- Respondent
- Decision direction
- Conservative
- Chief Justice
- Rehnquist Court
- Disposition
- Reversed
- Docket
- 86-1970
- U.S. Reports
- 487 U.S. 354
- S. Ct. citation
- 108 S. Ct. 2428
- LEXIS citation
- 1988 U.S. LEXIS 2874
How the bench divided
MMMMMCDDD
M 5 majorityC 1 concurringD 3 dissenting
| Justice | Vote |
|---|---|
| Byron White | Majority |
| William Rehnquist | Majority |
| John Paul Stevens | Majority |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | Majority |
| Anthony Kennedy | Majority |
| Antonin Scalia | Special concurrence |
| Thurgood Marshall | Dissent |
| William J. Brennan | Dissent |
| Harry Blackmun | Dissent |
Same issue area
More on Economic Activity
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.