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1974 term · Burger Court · 6-3

Weinberger, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, et al. v. Salfi et al.

422 U.S. 749 · 95 S. Ct. 2457 · 1975 U.S. LEXIS 145

The record

Term
1974
Decided
Issue area
Civil Rights
Vote split
6-3
Winning party
Petitioner
Decision direction
Conservative
Chief Justice
Burger Court
Disposition
Reversed
Docket
74-214
U.S. Reports
422 U.S. 749
S. Ct. citation
95 S. Ct. 2457
LEXIS citation
1975 U.S. LEXIS 145

How the bench divided

M 6 majorityD 3 dissenting

How each justice voted in Weinberger, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, et al. v. Salfi et al.
JusticeVote
Potter StewartMajority
Byron WhiteMajority
Warren E. BurgerMajority
Harry BlackmunMajority
Lewis F. PowellMajority
William RehnquistMajority
William O. DouglasDissent
Thurgood MarshallDissent
William J. BrennanDissent

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