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PARHAM v. HUGHES (1979)

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PARHAM v. HUGHES
Term: 1978
Important Dates
Argued: January 15, 1979
Decided: April 24, 1979
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Judgment of the court
Potter Stewart
Majority
Warren Burger • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens
Concurring
Lewis Powell
Dissenting
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • Byron White

PARHAM v. HUGHES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 24, 1979. The case was argued before the court on January 15, 1979.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Georgia State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1970s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Burger Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - Sex discrimination (excluding sex discrimination in employment)
  • Petitioner: Father
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Private person
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 441 U.S. 347
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Judgment of the Court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Potter Stewart

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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