Skip to main content
Independent · not a government site

2006 term · Roberts Court · 5-4

Lilly M. Ledbetter v. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Inc.

550 U.S. 618 · 127 S. Ct. 2162 · 2007 U.S. LEXIS 6295

The record

Term
2006
Decided
Issue area
Civil Rights
Vote split
5-4
Winning party
Respondent
Decision direction
Conservative
Chief Justice
Roberts Court
Disposition
Affirmed
Docket
05-1074
U.S. Reports
550 U.S. 618
S. Ct. citation
127 S. Ct. 2162
LEXIS citation
2007 U.S. LEXIS 6295

How the bench divided

M 5 majorityD 4 dissenting

How each justice voted in Lilly M. Ledbetter v. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Inc.
JusticeVote
Antonin ScaliaMajority
Anthony KennedyMajority
Clarence ThomasMajority
John G. RobertsMajority
Samuel AlitoMajority
John Paul StevensDissent
David SouterDissent
Ruth Bader GinsburgDissent
Stephen BreyerDissent

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 →