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1980 term · Burger Court · 5-4

Heffron, Secretary and Manager of the Minnesota State Agricultural Society Board of Managers, et al. v. International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Inc., et al.

452 U.S. 640 · 101 S. Ct. 2559 · 1981 U.S. LEXIS 116

The record

Term
1980
Decided
Issue area
First Amendment
Vote split
5-4
Winning party
Petitioner
Decision direction
Conservative
Chief Justice
Burger Court
Disposition
Reversed and remanded
Docket
80-795
U.S. Reports
452 U.S. 640
S. Ct. citation
101 S. Ct. 2559
LEXIS citation
1981 U.S. LEXIS 116

How the bench divided

M 5 majorityD 4 dissenting

How each justice voted in Heffron, Secretary and Manager of the Minnesota State Agricultural Society Board of Managers, et al. v. International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Inc., et al.
JusticeVote
Potter StewartMajority
Byron WhiteMajority
Warren E. BurgerMajority
Lewis F. PowellMajority
William RehnquistMajority
Thurgood MarshallDissent
William J. BrennanDissent
Harry BlackmunDissent
John Paul StevensDissent

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