Authors: Lewis F. Powell

1945–1989

University of California Regents v. Bakke

Source: 438 U.S. 265; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/438/265 For Justice Stevens’s opinion, see https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/438/265.html#tt10  Justice POWELL announced the judgment of the Court. . . . The guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment extend to

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1989–Present

Widmar v. Vincent

Source: 454 U.S. 263, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/454/263. We include excerpts of Justice Powell’s opinion for the Court. We omit Justice John Paul  Stevens’ concurrence and Justice Byron R. White’s dissent. Footnotes added

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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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1945–1989

Fullilove v. Klutznick

Federal law required that a percentage of local public works using federal funds must be awarded to minority groups. The petitioners challenged this law as violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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