Skip to main content
Independent · not a government site

1981 term · Burger Court · 7-2

Rendell-Baker et al. v. Kohn et al.

457 U.S. 830 · 102 S. Ct. 2764 · 1982 U.S. LEXIS 43

The record

Term
1981
Decided
Issue area
Civil Rights
Vote split
7-2
Winning party
Respondent
Decision direction
Conservative
Chief Justice
Burger Court
Disposition
Affirmed
Docket
80-2102
U.S. Reports
457 U.S. 830
S. Ct. citation
102 S. Ct. 2764
LEXIS citation
1982 U.S. LEXIS 43

How the bench divided

M 6 majorityC 1 concurringD 2 dissenting

How each justice voted in Rendell-Baker et al. v. Kohn et al.
JusticeVote
Warren E. BurgerMajority
Harry BlackmunMajority
Lewis F. PowellMajority
William RehnquistMajority
John Paul StevensMajority
Sandra Day O'ConnorMajority
Byron WhiteSpecial concurrence
Thurgood MarshallDissent
William J. BrennanDissent

Same issue area

Decisions the Court reached on the same question, nearest in time to this one. Civil Rights accounts for 1,508 of the 9,277 decisions in this dataset.

Browse all Civil Rights decisions →