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Sandra Day O'Connor (March 26, 1930 – December 1, 2023) was an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006. Nominated by President Ronald Reagan, O'Connor was the first woman to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court justice.
O'Connor dissented from the Court's per curiam decision to dismiss certiorari as improvidently granted, arguing that the Court's dismissal was based on speculation as to what the state court might do. O'Connor preferred to remand the case with instructions to consider whether the decision of the ICJ was binding on American courts, and to what ...
Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood: 546 U.S. 320 (2005) abortion • parental notification • facial challenge: Unanimous: O'Connor's opinion for the Court vacated and remanded the First Circuit's judgment that New Hampshire's parental notification law was unconstitutional, but avoided a substantive ruling on the challenged law or a reconsideration of prior Supreme Court abortion precedent.
The following are excerpts from Supreme Court opinions by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who died Friday at age 93: From Florida v. Bostick in 1991, involving police searches on buses:
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in March 28, 1992. - Diana Walker/The Chronicle Collection/Getty Images O’Connor also wrote a 5-4 opinion upholding the University of Michigan Law ...
The ruling of the court was written by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. It examined the purpose of copyright and explained the standard of copyrightability as based on originality. The case centered on two well-established principles in United States copyright law: that facts are not copyrightable, and that compilations of facts can be.
File photo of late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. ... From 1981 to 2006, 360 cases were decided 5-4 in which O'Connor cast the deciding vote. She also wrote the majority opinion ...
Sandra Day O'Connor 2003 term statistics 8 Majority or Plurality: 4 Concurrence: 0 Other: 2 Dissent: 0 ... Case Citation Issues Joined by Other opinions McConnell v ...