Skip to main content
Independent · not a government site

1987 term · Rehnquist Court · 5-3

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Commercial Office Products Co.

486 U.S. 107 · 108 S. Ct. 1666 · 1988 U.S. LEXIS 2072

The record

Term
1987
Decided
Issue area
Civil Rights
Vote split
5-3
Winning party
Petitioner
Decision direction
Liberal
Chief Justice
Rehnquist Court
Disposition
Reversed and remanded
Docket
86-1696
U.S. Reports
486 U.S. 107
S. Ct. citation
108 S. Ct. 1666
LEXIS citation
1988 U.S. LEXIS 2072

How the bench divided

M 4 majorityC 1 concurringD 3 dissenting? 1 no vote recorded

How each justice voted in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Commercial Office Products Co.
JusticeVote
Thurgood MarshallMajority
William J. BrennanMajority
Byron WhiteMajority
Harry BlackmunMajority
Sandra Day O'ConnorRegular concurrence
William RehnquistDissent
John Paul StevensDissent
Antonin ScaliaDissent
Anthony KennedyUnknown

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 →