Skip to main content
Independent · not a government site

1982 term · Burger Court · 8-1

Griggs et al. v. Provident Consumer Discount Co.

459 U.S. 56 · 103 S. Ct. 400 · 1982 U.S. LEXIS 166

The record

Term
1982
Decided
Issue area
Judicial Power
Vote split
8-1
Winning party
Petitioner
Decision direction
Conservative
Chief Justice
Burger Court
Disposition
Vacated and remanded
Docket
82-5082
U.S. Reports
459 U.S. 56
S. Ct. citation
103 S. Ct. 400
LEXIS citation
1982 U.S. LEXIS 166

How the bench divided

M 8 majorityD 1 dissenting

How each justice voted in Griggs et al. v. Provident Consumer Discount Co.
JusticeVote
William J. BrennanMajority
Byron WhiteMajority
Warren E. BurgerMajority
Harry BlackmunMajority
Lewis F. PowellMajority
William RehnquistMajority
John Paul StevensMajority
Sandra Day O'ConnorMajority
Thurgood MarshallDissent

Same issue area

Decisions the Court reached on the same question, nearest in time to this one. Judicial Power accounts for 1,258 of the 9,277 decisions in this dataset.

Browse all Judicial Power decisions →