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1973 term · Burger Court · 6-3

United States Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Hibi

414 U.S. 5 · 94 S. Ct. 19 · 1973 U.S. LEXIS 165

The record

Term
1973
Decided
Issue area
Civil Rights
Vote split
6-3
Winning party
Petitioner
Decision direction
Conservative
Chief Justice
Burger Court
Disposition
Reversed
Docket
72-1652
U.S. Reports
414 U.S. 5
S. Ct. citation
94 S. Ct. 19
LEXIS citation
1973 U.S. LEXIS 165

How the bench divided

M 6 majorityD 3 dissenting

How each justice voted in United States Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Hibi.
JusticeVote
Warren E. BurgerMajority
Potter StewartMajority
Byron WhiteMajority
Harry BlackmunMajority
Lewis F. PowellMajority
William RehnquistMajority
William O. DouglasJurisdictional dissent
William J. BrennanJurisdictional dissent
Thurgood MarshallJurisdictional dissent

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