Morton v. Mancari

Morton v. Mancari
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 24, 1974 Decided June 17, 1974
Full case name	Rogers C. B. Morton, Secretary of Interior, et al., Appellants v. C. R. Mancari, et al.
Citations	417 U.S. 535 (more) 94 S. Ct. 2474; 41 L. Ed. 2d 290
Holding
The hiring preferences given by Congress are not violative of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William O. Douglas · William J. Brennan Jr. Potter Stewart · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist
Case opinion
Majority	Blackmun, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. V

Morton v. Mancari, 417 U.S. 535 (1974), was a United States legal case about the constitutionality, under the Fifth Amendment, of hiring preferences given to Indians within the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Supreme Court of the United States held that the hiring preferences given by the United States Congress does not violate the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.