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1975 term · Burger Court · 9-0

Fisher v. District Court of the Sixteenth Judicial District of Montana, in and for the County of Rosebud

424 U.S. 382 · 96 S. Ct. 943 · 1976 U.S. LEXIS 24

The record

Term
1975
Decided
Issue area
Civil Rights
Vote split
9-0
Winning party
Petitioner
Decision direction
Liberal
Chief Justice
Burger Court
Disposition
Reversed
Docket
75-5366
U.S. Reports
424 U.S. 382
S. Ct. citation
96 S. Ct. 943
LEXIS citation
1976 U.S. LEXIS 24

How the bench divided

M 9 majority

How each justice voted in Fisher v. District Court of the Sixteenth Judicial District of Montana, in and for the County of Rosebud.
JusticeVote
Potter StewartMajority
Thurgood MarshallMajority
William J. BrennanMajority
Byron WhiteMajority
Warren E. BurgerMajority
Harry BlackmunMajority
Lewis F. PowellMajority
William RehnquistMajority
John Paul StevensMajority

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