William J. Brennan Jr. Archives

Authors: William J. Brennan Jr.

1989–Present

Edwards v. Aguillard

Source: 482 U.S. 578 (1987), https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/482/578. We include excerpts of Justice William J. Brennan Jr.’s opinion for the Court and omit Justice Scalia’s lengthy dissent. Footnotes added by the editors

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,