Skip to main content
Independent · not a government site

1989 term · Rehnquist Court · 6-2

Ngiraingas et al. v. Sanchez et al.

495 U.S. 182 · 110 S. Ct. 1737 · 1990 U.S. LEXIS 2183

The record

Term
1989
Decided
Issue area
Civil Rights
Vote split
6-2
Winning party
Respondent
Decision direction
Conservative
Chief Justice
Rehnquist Court
Disposition
Affirmed
Docket
88-1281
U.S. Reports
495 U.S. 182
S. Ct. citation
110 S. Ct. 1737
LEXIS citation
1990 U.S. LEXIS 2183

How the bench divided

M 6 majorityD 2 dissenting? 1 no vote recorded

How each justice voted in Ngiraingas et al. v. Sanchez et al.
JusticeVote
Byron WhiteMajority
Harry BlackmunMajority
William RehnquistMajority
John Paul StevensMajority
Sandra Day O'ConnorMajority
Antonin ScaliaMajority
Thurgood MarshallDissent
William J. BrennanDissent
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 →