byron white wrote the majority opinion in new jersey v tlo.
who wrote the majority opinion in new jersey v tlo?
byron white
the court issued a 5-4 ruling upholding the sodomy laws. justice byron white wrote the majority opinion and was joined by justices william rehnquist, sandra day o'connor, warren e. burger, and lewis f. powell. justice harry blackmun wrote a dissent joined by william j. brennan, jr., thurgood marshall, and john paul stevens. stevens also wrote a dissent joined by brennan and marshall.





























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bowers v. hardwick
a teacher at piscataway high school in new jersey, upon discovering respondent, then a 14-year-old freshman, and her companion smoking cigarettes in a school lavatory in violation of a school rule, took them to the principal's office, where they met with the assistant vice principal. when respondent, in response to the assistant vice principal's questioning, denied that she had been smoking and claimed that she did not smoke at all, the assistant vice principal demanded to see her purse. after tlo was forced to hand over the purse, he observed a pack of cigarettes. assistant vice principal choplick kept searching through the purse because rolling papers were in plain view, and his search revealed a small amount of marijuana, rolling papers, a pipe, empty plastic bags, a large quantity of money in $1 bills, an index card that appeared to list students who owed tlo money, and two letters that implicated tlo in dealing marijuana. the principal then called the police and the girl's mother, who voluntarily drove her to the police station. she was convicted of dealing and use of illicit drugs. she was expelled from the school and fined $1,000.
new jersey v. t. l. o.