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1978 term · Burger Court · 8-0

Califano, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare v. Yamasaki et al.

442 U.S. 682 · 99 S. Ct. 2545 · 1979 U.S. LEXIS 132

The record

Term
1978
Decided
Issue area
Civil Rights
Vote split
8-0
Winning party
Petitioner
Decision direction
Liberal
Chief Justice
Burger Court
Disposition
Affirmed and reversed in part
Docket
77-1511
U.S. Reports
442 U.S. 682
S. Ct. citation
99 S. Ct. 2545
LEXIS citation
1979 U.S. LEXIS 132

How the bench divided

M 8 majority? 1 no vote recorded

How each justice voted in Califano, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare v. Yamasaki et al.
JusticeVote
Potter StewartMajority
Thurgood MarshallMajority
William J. BrennanMajority
Byron WhiteMajority
Warren E. BurgerMajority
Harry BlackmunMajority
William RehnquistMajority
John Paul StevensMajority
Lewis F. PowellUnknown

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