Authors: John Paul Stevens

1989–Present

Morse v. Frederick

Source: 551 U.S. 393, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/06-278.ZS.html. Chief Justice Roberts delivered the opinion of the Court. . . . Our cases make clear that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to

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1989–Present

Boy Scouts of America v. Dale

Source: 530 U.S. 640, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/99-699.ZO.html. CHIEF JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioners[1] are the Boy Scouts of America and the Monmouth Council, a division of the Boy

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1989–Present

Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union

Source: 521 U.S. 844, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/521/844. JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court. At issue is the constitutionality of two statutory provisions enacted to protect minors from “indecent” and “patently

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1945–1989

Bethel School District v. Fraser

Source: 478 U.S. 675, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/478/675. CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court. We granted certiorari[1] to decide whether the First Amendment prevents a school district from disciplining a

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1989–Present

Van Orden v. Perry

Source: 543 U.S. 677 (2005), https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-1500.ZO.html. We omit the opinion of the Court by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and provide instead the concurring opinions of Justices Clarence Thomas and

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1989–Present

New Jersey v. T. L. O.

A teacher at a New Jersey high school, upon discovering respondent, then a 14-year-old freshman, and her companion smoking cigarettes in a school lavatory in violation of a school rule,

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1945–1989

Bowers v. Hardwick

BOWERS, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF GEORGIA v. HARDWICK ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT After being charged with violating the Georgia statute criminalizing

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