As Justice Blackmun wrote in the majority opinion:

William Rehnquist, Byron White, Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas — the six Justices who did not join the plurality opinion — wrote or joined opinions in which they partially concurred and partially dissented from the decision.

Blackmun and Stevens wrote opinions in which they approved of the plurality's preservation of Roe and rejection of the spousal notification law.

Justice Byron White wrote an opinion concurring in the judgment, which Justice Harry Blackmun and Justice Sandra Day O ' Connor joined in full, and Justice John Paul Stevens joined in part.

Justice Blackmun wrote an opinion concurring in the judgment.

Justice Stevens wrote an opinion concurring in the judgment, which was joined in part by Justice White and Justice Blackmun. Antonin Scalia | Justice Scalia, who wrote the majority opinion in R. A. V.

Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the majority opinion and was joined by Justices William J. Brennan, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, and Lewis Powell.

" In response to invocations of religious taboos against homosexuality, Blackmun wrote: " That certain, but by no means all, religious groups condemn the behavior at issue gives the State no license to impose their judgments on the entire citizenry.

Chief Justice Warren E. Burger wrote the opinion for a unanimous court, joined by Justices William O. Douglas, William J. Brennan, Potter Stewart, Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun and Lewis F. Powell.

In both cases, William J. Brennan wrote the majority opinion, joined by Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, Antonin Scalia, and Anthony Kennedy ( Kennedy also authored a separate concurrence in Johnson ), and the dissenters in both cases were then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist ( who authored a dissent in Johnson ), and Justices John Paul Stevens ( who authored dissents in both cases ), Byron White and Sandra Day O ' Connor.

Blackmun wrote a dissenting opinion which focused on the plurality's desired narrowing of Roe as described in the section on the viability testing requirement.

In effect, Blackmun wrote, the plurality's approach would overturn Roe, since it would allow a state to put virtually any restriction on abortion so long as it was rationally related to promoting potential life.

Chief Justice Warren E. Burger wrote the decision, and was joined by Potter Stewart, Harry Blackmun, William Rehnquist, and John Paul Stevens.

Justice William J. Brennan delivered the opinion of the Court, in which he was joined by Justices White, Marshall, Powell and Stevens ( Justice Blackmun joined all but one part of the opinion ; Blackmun, Powell, Stevens, and Stewart wrote concurrences ).

Justice Blackmun wrote a concurring opinion, agreeing that a higher standard of scrutiny was appropriate.

Justice Blackmun wrote the opinion for the court and Justices Marshall, Stevens, O ' Connor, and Souter joined.

Justice Harry Blackmun wrote that due to the natural limitation of the human gestation period, issues concerning pregnancy will always come to term before the appellate process is complete.

Chastising the majority for its circumspection, Blackmun wrote, " We really are being asked to decide whether the Constitution forbids the execution of a person who has been validly convicted and sentenced, but who, nonetheless, can prove his innocence with newly discovered evidence ," and he took note of " the State of Texas ' astonishing protestation to the contrary.

Discriminatory laws may be upheld only if they serve " legitimate local purposes that could not adequately be served by available nondiscriminatory alternatives ," wrote Justice Blackmun, author of the majority opinion.

In May 1972, Blackmun proposed that the case be reargued.

Burger would cause the case to be delayed for over twenty months, despite there having been five votes to affirm the appeals court's finding of unconstitutionality after the case was argued before the Supreme Court: Blackmun, Marshall, Brennan, Powell, and Stevens.

" Justice Blackmun, joined by Justices Brennan, Marshall, and Stevens, dissented, citing that " his case is no more about a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy ," as the Court purports to declare, ante at 191, that Stanley v. Georgia, 394 U. S. 557 ( 1969 ), was about a fundamental right to watch obscene movies, or Katz v. United States, 389 U. S. 347 ( 1967 ), was about a fundamental right to place interstate bets from a telephone booth.

On the day of judgment, Justice Joseph Story ( Associate Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun ) announces the Supreme Court's decision on the case.

Blackmun, Rehnquist, and White were the only justices who voted on the original Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 who were still on the Supreme Court to rule on this case, and their votes on this case were consistent with their votes on the original decision that legalized abortion.

The Supreme Court decided the case in a 5-4 majority opinion delivered by Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr., with a separate concurrence by Harry Blackmun.

Concurrences by Blackmun, Brennan and Stevens stated that Whiteside had failed to show that the attorney's actions had caused prejudice to the defendant's trial required to sustain a claim of " ineffective representation ", as required by the case of Strickland v. Washington, 466 U. S. 668 ( 1984 ).

Justice Blackmun also felt that this case was not appropriate for deciding the status of dog sniffs under the Fourth Amendment.

For another, Blackmun agreed with Brennan that it was not necessary to decide whether a dog sniff is a " search " in order to decide the case, because the seizure of Place's luggage was unreasonable in any event.

1973 ), was an important intellectual property decision by the federal Court of Claims, later affirmed by a per curiam opinion from an evenly divided United States Supreme Court, with only eight justices voting ( Harry Blackmun took no part in the decision of this case ).

Blackmun thought it was likely that such flights were quite rare, supporting Riley's case, so the government had to show they occurred with some regularity.

" Blackmun would have remanded the case to the district court for a determination as to whether a hearing should be held and to resolve the merits of Herrera's claim of actual innocence.

Justice Brennan announced the judgment of the Court affirming the Court of Appeals, and controlled the outcome of the case and delivered an opinion joined by Justices Marshall and Stevens, and joined in all but Part II-A ( 1 ) by Justice Blackmun.

Chief Justice Burger asked Justices Stewart and Blackmun to determine whether Roe and Doe, among others, should be heard as scheduled.

Justices Brennan, White, Marshall and Blackmun concluded in one plurality opinion that race could be used as a factor when it was for the purpose of remedying substantial chronic underrepresentation of certain minorities in the medical profession.

In the dissenting opinions, Justices Harry A. Blackmun, Warren E. Burger, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., and William H. Rehnquist suggested that the result of this ruling would be the elimination of publicly supported single-sex educational opportunities.

Blackmun believed that " othing could be more contrary to contemporary standards of decency or more shocking to the conscience than to execute a person who is actually innocent.

Blackmun would have held that in order to be entitled to relief, a death-sentenced inmate should have to be able to demonstrate that he is probably actually innocent ; Blackmun distinguished this from the lower standard of probable reasonable doubt, which is applied to procedural default issues.

Justice Blackmun, concurring, concluded that a proper balance between the limited constitutional restriction imposed on school officials by the First Amendment and the broad state authority to regulate education, would be struck by holding that school officials may not remove books from school libraries for the purpose of restricting access to the political ideas or social perspectives discussed in the books, when that action is motivated simply by the officials ' disapproval of the ideas involved.

* 1999 – Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court ( b. 1908 )

* 1908 – Harry Blackmun, U. S. Supreme Court Justice ( d. 1999 )

According to Blackmun, Stewart felt that the cases were a straightforward application of Younger v. Harris and recommended that the Court move forward as scheduled.

Past Supreme Court justices from Harvard Law School include David Souter, Harry Blackmun, William J. Brennan, Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, Lewis Powell ( LLM ), and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., among others.

Blackmun was new to the Court, and had strong ties to Chief Justice Burger.

Blackmun went further, sharply attacking and criticizing the anti-Roe bloc of the Court.

Story was played by an actual retired Supreme Court justice, Harry Blackmun.

Burger, Blackmun and Powell were appointed to the Court by Nixon during his first term.

In 1994, he turned down an appointment by President Bill Clinton to the United States Supreme Court, to replace the retiring Harry A. Blackmun so that he could continue helping with efforts in the Senate to pass significant health-care legislation.

The Court unanimously held, in an opinion written by Justice Harry Blackmun, that Rule 43 does not permit the trial in absentia of a defendant who is absent at the beginning of trial.

Blumenthal served as administrative assistant to United States Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff, as aide to Daniel P. Moynihan when Moynihan was Assistant to President Richard Nixon, and as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun.

Supreme Court Justice Blackmun opinion in Roe v. Wade also referenced the social and private problems " of bringing a child into a family already unable, psychologically and otherwise, to care for it.

Koh clerked for Associate Justice Harry Blackmun on the U. S. Supreme Court from October 1981 through September 1982.

Numerous current and former United States Supreme Court Justices have delivered the Opperman Lecture, including Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Samuel Alito, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice Stephen Breyer, Justice Sandra Day O ' Connor, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, and late Justices Harry A. Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell and William H. Rehnquist.

Supreme Court Justice Blackmun opinion in Roe v. Wade also referenced the social and private problems " of bringing a child into a family already unable, psychologically and otherwise, to care for it.