Dollar General Corporation v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians (579 U.S. 545)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided June 23, 2016 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 579 U.S. 545 · 136 S. Ct. 2159
- Docket
- No. 13-1496
- Argued
- December 7, 2015
- Decided
- June 23, 2016
- Term
- October Term 2015
- Vote
- 4–4
- Issue area
- Civil Rights
- Disposition
- Affirmed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
- Ideological direction
- Liberal
How the Justices voted
- Equally divided
- Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Kennedy, Justice Thomas, Justice Ginsburg, Justice Breyer, Justice Alito, Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan
Oral argument transcript and advocates · Opinion on Justia
Opinion excerpt
(Slip Opinion) Cite as: 579 U. S. ____ (2016) 1 Per Curiam NOTICE: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the preliminary print of the United States Reports. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Wash- ington, D. C. 20543, of any typographical or other formal errors, in order that corrections may be made before the preliminary print goes to press. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES _________________ No. 13–1496 _________________ DOLLAR GENERAL CORPORATION, ET AL., PETITIONERS v. MISSISSIPPI BAND OF CHOCTAW INDIANS, ET AL. ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT [June 23, 2016] PER CURIAM. The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court.
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