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Analysis Overview	Issues Summary	Frequency Distributions	Crosstab Reports	Case Details

Supreme Court Detail

Case Name	WARNER-LAMBERT CO., LLC, et al. v. KIMBERLY KENT et al. LEXIS \| Westlaw \| FindLaw \| CourtListener Note: FindLaw and CourtListener are free services.
Date Decision	March 03, 2008
Date Argument	February 02, 2008
Decision Type	equally divided vote
Citations	552 U.S. 440 128 S. Ct. 1168 2008 U.S. LEXIS 2235 170 L. Ed. 2d 51
Docket	06-1498

Lower Court Detail

Court in which Case Originated	New York Southern U.S. District Court
Court whose Decision was Reviewed	U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Petitioner	drug manufacturer
Respondent	physically injured person, including wrongful death, who is not an employee

Vote Detail

Issue/Legal Provision (1 of 1)	FEDERALISM Federal Pre-emption Of State Court Jurisdiction
Vote Coalition	4 - 4
Decision Direction	Liberal
Justice Votes	justice participated in an equally divided vote Stevens Scalia Kennedy Souter Thomas Ginsburg Breyer Alito justice did not participate Roberts

Supreme Court Database Detail

SCDB ID

2007-023-01

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