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DOE et al. v. DELAWARE (1981)

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DOE et al. v. DELAWARE
Term: 1980
Important Dates
Argued: January 12, 1981
Decided: March 9, 1981
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Warren Burger • Thurgood Marshall • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Potter Stewart
Dissenting
William Brennan • John Paul Stevens • Byron White

DOE et al. v. DELAWARE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 9, 1981. The case was argued before the court on January 12, 1981.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Delaware State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1980s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Burger Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: change in state law (cf. no merits: remand to determine basis of state court decision)
  • Petitioner: Parent or parents
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Delaware
  • Citation: 450 U.S. 382
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as conservative.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024
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