Authors: William H. Rehnquist

1945–1989

South Dakota v. Dole

Source: 483 U.S. 203, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/483/203. Chief Justice REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioner South Dakota permits persons 19 years of age or older to purchase beer containing up

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1945–1989

Morrison v. Olson

487 U.S. 654 (1988), https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/487/654/. Chief Justice Rehnquist delivered the opinion of the Court. We now turn to consider whether the act is invalid under the constitutional principle of separation

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1945–1989

United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians

448 U.S. 371, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/448/371. MR. JUSTICE BLACKMUN delivered the opinion of the Court. This case concerns the Black Hills of South Dakota, the Great Sioux Reservation, and a colorful, and

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1945–1989

Roe v. Wade

Source: 410 U.S. 113. Justice Blackmun Delivered the Opinion of the Court, Joined by Chief Justice Burger and Justices Douglas, Brennan, Stewart, Marshall, and Powell . . . We forthwith

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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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1945–1989

Texas v. Johnson

Source: 491 U.S. 397, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/491/397. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. . . . . . . We must first determine whether Johnson’s burning of the flag constituted

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1989–Present

US v. Lopez

Source: 514 U.S. 549 (1995); https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/93-1260.ZO.html Chief Justice REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by Justices O’CONNOR, SCALIA, KENNEDY, and THOMAS. . . . We start with first

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1989–Present

Wallace v. Jaffree

Source: Wallace v. Jaffree, 472 U.S. 38, https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/472/38/. Footnotes added by the editors are preceded by “Ed. note.” JUSTICE REHNQUIST, dissenting. Thirty-eight years ago this Court, in Everson v. Board

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1989–Present

Locke v. Davey

Source: 540 U.S. 712 (2004), https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/02-1315.ZS.html. We include the Chief Justice Rehnquist’s opinion for the court and omit the dissents of Justices Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Footnotes added by the

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