Atkins, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare v. Rivera et al. (477 U.S. 154)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided June 23, 1986 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 477 U.S. 154 · 106 S. Ct. 2456
- Decided
- June 23, 1986
- Term
- October Term 1985
- Vote
- 9–0
- Majority author
- Justice Blackmun
- Issue area
- Civil Rights
- Disposition
- Reversed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
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