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Majority Opinion
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Burger, C.J. (joined by Brennan, White, Marshall, Blackmun, Powell, Stevens, and O’Connor, JJ.) |
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Dissenting Opinion
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Rehnquist, J. |
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Lower Court
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1st Circuit |
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Lower Court Ruling
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Establishment clause claim affirmed. |
| Lawyers |
Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts
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| Briefs |
American Civil Liberties Union (for Respondents)
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| Opinion - Lower Court |
Grendel’s Den, Inc. v. Goodwin, 663 F.2d 102, (C.A. Mass., 1981)
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| News |
"Cutting Off Lawyers, and Law," New York Times, Dec. 31, 1983, pg. 22
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"Excerpts From Opinions and Dissent on Religion," New York Times, Jun. 28, 1994, sect. D, pg. 20
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Barbash, Fred, "Court Voids Church Veto of Liquor License," The Washington Post, Dec. 14, 1982, sect. A, pg. 8
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Coll, Steve, "Labors of the Legal Mind; Laurence Tribe, Teaching, Arguing and Keeping a Scholarly Eye on the High Court, Laurence Tribe & A Labor of Law," The Washington Post, Nov. 26, 1985, sect. B, pg. 1
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Greenhouse, Linda, "Court Overturns Law Permitting Churches to Veto Licenses," New York Times, Dec. 14, 1982, sect. B, pg. 18
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Greenhouse, Linda, "Forceful Term of Supreme Court Put Reins on Congress and Reagan; Forceful Supreme Court Term Dealt Setbacks to Both Congress and Reagan," New York Times, Jul. 10, 1983, pg. 1
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Mann, Jim, "Justices Bar Church Veto on Liquor Sales; Massachusetts Law Had Banned Stores Within 500 Feet of Religious Institutions," Los Angeles Times, Dec. 14, 1982, sect. B, pg. 6
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Tribe, Laurence, AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (22nd ed., 1988) sect. 14.11
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| Other |
Witte, John, Jr., RELIGION AND THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL EXPERIMENT (2000), p. 174
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