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1980 term · Burger Court · 6-1

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Associated Dry Goods Corp.

449 U.S. 590 · 101 S. Ct. 817 · 1981 U.S. LEXIS 64

The record

Term
1980
Decided
Issue area
Civil Rights
Vote split
6-1
Winning party
Petitioner
Decision direction
Liberal
Chief Justice
Burger Court
Disposition
Reversed and remanded
Docket
79-1068
U.S. Reports
449 U.S. 590
S. Ct. citation
101 S. Ct. 817
LEXIS citation
1981 U.S. LEXIS 64

How the bench divided

M 5 majorityC 1 concurringD 1 dissenting? 2 no vote recorded

How each justice voted in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Associated Dry Goods Corp.
JusticeVote
Potter StewartMajority
Thurgood MarshallMajority
William J. BrennanMajority
Byron WhiteMajority
Warren E. BurgerMajority
Harry BlackmunSpecial concurrence
John Paul StevensDissent
Lewis F. PowellUnknown
William RehnquistUnknown

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