User:Erichaim
A bit about me. I am a practicing attorney and independent legal scholar. At UC Berkeley I obtained my J.D. from Boalt Hall (1987) and a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy (1990). My dissertation was "Jurisprudence and Adjudication in the Civil Restraint of the Mentally Ill." My current areas of research are in American Constitutional theory, history and law, and specifically free speech, war powers, and the constitutional history of the Gilded Age and Progressive Area. My law practice is civil litigation in California, primarily in real property and commercial law disputes.
| Roe v. Wade | |
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| Argued December 13, 1971 Reargued October 11, 1972 Decided January 22, 1973 | |
| Full case name | Jane Roe, et al. v. Henry Wade, District Attorney of Dallas County |
| Citations | 410 U.S. 113 (more) 93 S. Ct. 705; 35 L. Ed. 2d 147; 1973 U.S. LEXIS 159 |
| Argument | Oral argument |
| Reargument | Reargument |
| Case history | |
| Prior | Judgment for plaintiffs, injunction denied, 314 F. Supp. 1217 (N.D. Tex. 1970); probable jurisdiction noted, 402 U.S. 941 (1971); set for reargument, 408 U.S. 919 (1972) |
| Subsequent | Rehearing denied, 410 U.S. 959 (1973) |
| Holding | |
| Texas law making it a crime to assist a woman to get an abortion violated her due process rights. U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas affirmed in part, reversed in part. | |
| Court membership | |
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| Case opinions | |
| Majority | Blackmun, joined by Burger, Douglas, Brennan, Stewart, Marshall, Powell |
| Concurrence | Burger |
| Concurrence | Douglas |
| Concurrence | Stewart |
| Dissent | White, joined by Rehnquist |
| Dissent | Rehnquist |
| Laws applied | |
| U.S. Const. Amend. XIV; Tex. Code Crim. Proc. arts. 1191–94, 1196 | |