Cannon v. University of Chicago

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Cannon v. University of Chicago
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 9, 1979 Decided May 14, 1979
Full case name	Geraldine G. Cannon v. University of Chicago, et al.
Citations	441 U.S. 677 (more) 99 S. Ct. 1946; 60 L. Ed. 2d 560; 1979 U.S. LEXIS 36; 19 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) ¶ 9202
Case history
Prior	406 F. Supp. 1257 (N.D. Ill.), aff'd, 559 F.2d 1063 (7th Cir. 1976), cert. granted, 438 U.S. 914 (1978)
Subsequent	On remand to 605 F.2d 560 (7th Cir. 1979), appeal after remand, 648 F.2d 1104 (7th Cir.), mandamus denied sub nom., In re Cannon, 454 U.S. 811, cert. denied, 454 U.S. 1128 (1981), cert. denied, 460 U.S. 1013 (1983).
Holding
Title IX of the Higher Education Act contains an implied private cause of action.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart Byron White · Thurgood Marshall Harry Blackmun · Lewis F. Powell Jr. William Rehnquist · John P. Stevens
Case opinions
Majority	Stevens, joined by Brennan, Stewart, Marshall, Rehnquist
Concurrence	Burger
Concurrence	Rehnquist, joined by Stewart
Dissent	White, joined by Blackmun
Dissent	Powell
Laws applied
20 U.S.C. §§ 1681–1683

Cannon v. University of Chicago, 441 U.S. 677 (1979), was a United States Supreme Court case which interpreted Congressional silence in the face of earlier interpretations of similar laws to determine that Title IX of the Higher Education Act provides an implied cause of action.^[1]