Authors: Sandra Day O'Connor

1989–Present

Gregory v. Ashcroft

Source: 501 U.S. 452, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/90-50.ZO.html. Justice O’CONNOR delivered the opinion of the Court. Article V, 26 of the Missouri Constitution provides that “[a]ll judges other than municipal judges shall retire

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Supreme Court
1989–Present

Grutter v. Bollinger

Source: 539 U.S. 306 (2003); available at https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/02-241.ZS.html. Unless otherwise noted, all references are from the opinions of Justices O’Connor and Thomas. JUSTICE O’CONNOR delivered the opinion of the Court.

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1989–Present

Portia’s Progress

Source: Sandra Day O’Connor, Portia’s Progress, 66 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1546 (1991) http://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/ECM_PRO_059255.pd I am very happy to be celebrating with you the One-Hundredth Anniversary of Women Graduates from New

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1989–Present

Grutter v. Bollinger

Source: 539 U.S. 306 (2003); available at https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/02-241.ZS.html. JUSTICE O’CONNOR delivered the opinion of the Court. This case requires us to decide whether the use of race as a factor

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1989–Present

Virginia v. Black

Source: 538 U.S. 343, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/01-1107.ZS.html. JUSTICE O’CONNOR announced the judgment of the Court and delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I, II, and III, and an

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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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1989–Present

Lynch v. Donnelly

Source: 465 U.S. 668 (1984), https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/465/668.html. We include excerpts of Chief Justice Warren E. Burger’s opinion for the Court, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s concurrence, and Justice William J. Brennan Jr.’s

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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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