Goss v. Lopez

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Goss v. Lopez
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 16, 1974 Decided January 22, 1975
Full case name	Goss, et al. v. Lopez, et al.
Docket no.	73-898
Citations	419 U.S. 565 (more) 95 S. Ct. 729; 42 L. Ed. 2d 725; 1975 U.S. LEXIS 23
Case history
Prior	Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
Holding
The students' suspension from a public school without a hearing violated the due process right protected by the Fourteenth 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 opinions
Majority	White, joined by Douglas, Brennan, Stewart, Marshall
Dissent	Powell, joined by Burger, Blackmun, Rehnquist
Laws applied
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Goss v. Lopez, 419 U.S. 565 (1975), was a US Supreme Court case. It held that a public school must conduct a hearing before subjecting a student to suspension. Also, a suspension without a hearing violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution.