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Abstract

Argument: Monday, November 3, 1975
Decision: Tuesday, March 2, 1976
Issues: Liability, Civil Rights Acts

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Facts of the Case

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Question

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Conclusion

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Supreme Court Justice Opinions and Votes (by Ideology)

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Decision: 8 votes for Pachtman, 0 vote(s) against
Legal Provision: Reconstruction Civil Rights Acts (42 USC 1983)
Did not participate
Stevens
Voted with the majority, joined White's concurrence
Brennan
Voted with the majority, joined White's concurrence
Marshall
Wrote a special concurrence
White
Voted with the majority
Stewart
Voted with the majority
Blackmun
Wrote the majority opinion
Powell
Voted with the majority
Burger
Voted with the majority
Rehnquist
Full Opinion by Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

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The Oyez Project, Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409 (1976),
available at: <http://www.oyez.org/cases/1970-1979/1975/1975_74_5435/>
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