Skip to main content
Independent · not a government site

2011 term · Roberts Court · 5-4

Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter

567 U.S. 182 · 132 S. Ct. 2181 · 2012 U.S. LEXIS 4656

The record

Term
2011
Decided
Issue area
Civil Rights
Vote split
5-4
Winning party
Respondent
Decision direction
Liberal
Chief Justice
Roberts Court
Disposition
Affirmed
Docket
11-551
U.S. Reports
567 U.S. 182
S. Ct. citation
132 S. Ct. 2181
LEXIS citation
2012 U.S. LEXIS 4656

How the bench divided

M 5 majorityD 4 dissenting

How each justice voted in Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter.
JusticeVote
Antonin ScaliaMajority
Anthony KennedyMajority
Clarence ThomasMajority
Sonia SotomayorMajority
Elena KaganMajority
John G. RobertsDissent
Ruth Bader GinsburgDissent
Stephen BreyerDissent
Samuel AlitoDissent

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 →