2025 term · Roberts Court · 8-1
Chiles v. Salazar
607 U.S. 627
The record
- Term
- 2025
- Decided
- Issue area
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- Vote split
- 8-1
- Winning party
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- Decision direction
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- Chief Justice
- Roberts Court
- Disposition
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- Docket
- 24-539
- U.S. Reports
- 607 U.S. 627
- S. Ct. citation
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- LEXIS citation
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- Opinion by
- Neil Gorsuch
Holding
Colorado’s law banning conversion therapy, as applied to petitioner’s talk therapy, regulates speech based on viewpoint, and the lower courts erred by failing to apply sufficiently rigorous First Amendment scrutiny.
How the bench divided
MMMMMMMCD
M 7 majorityC 1 concurringD 1 dissenting
| Justice | Vote |
|---|---|
| Neil Gorsuch | Majority |
| Clarence Thomas | Majority |
| John G. Roberts | Majority |
| Sonia Sotomayor | Majority |
| Brett Kavanaugh | Majority |
| Amy Coney Barrett | Majority |
| Samuel Alito | Majority |
| Elena Kagan | Regular concurrence |
| Ketanji Brown Jackson | Dissent |
Read the opinion
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