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WARD et al. v. ROCK AGAINST RACISM

Term: 1988
Important Dates
Argued: February 27, 1989
Decided: June 22, 1989
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • Byron White
Concurring
Harry Blackmun
Dissenting
William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • John Paul Stevens

WARD et al. v. ROCK AGAINST RACISM is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 22, 1989. The case was argued before the court on February 27, 1989.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: First Amendment - First Amendment, miscellaneous (cf. comity: First Amendment)
Petitioner: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Petitioner state: New York
Respondent type: Public interest organization
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 491 U.S. 781
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: Anthony Kennedy

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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