Goss v. Lopez
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| Goss v. Lopez | |||||||||||
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| Argued October 16, 1974 Decided January 22, 1975 |
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| The student's suspension from school without a hearing violated the due process right protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. | |||||||||||
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| Chief Justice: Warren E. Burger Associate Justices: William O. Douglas, William J. Brennan, Potter Stewart, Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr., William Rehnquist |
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| Majority by: White Joined by: Douglas, Stewart, Brennan, Marshall Dissent by: Powell Joined by: Burger, Blackmun, Rehnquist |
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| Laws applied | |||||||||||
| U.S. Const. Amend. XIV | |||||||||||
Goss v. Lopez was a Supreme Court case in United States. It held that the school must conduct a hearing before subjecting a student to suspension. It was a 5-4 decision, and the opinion of the court was authored by Justice Byron White. The court reasoned that the arbitrary suspension of student without a fair hearing was violative to due process rights that were granted by the Fourteenth Amendment. Justice Lewis Powell along with other three justices dissented.
