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SCHEIDLER v. NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN, INC.

Term: 2002
Important Dates
Argued: December 4, 2002
Decided: February 26, 2003
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-1
Majority
Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • Clarence Thomas
Concurring
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Dissenting
John Paul Stevens

SCHEIDLER v. NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN, INC. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 26, 2003. The case was argued before the court on December 4, 2002.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois Northern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Privacy - Abortion: including contraceptives
Petitioner: Protester, demonstrator, picketer or pamphleteer (non-employment related), or non-indigent loiterer
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Public interest organization
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 537 U.S. 393
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
Who wrote the majority opinion: William Rehnquist

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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