Michael H. v. Gerald D.

Michael H. v. Gerald D.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 11, 1988 Decided June 15, 1989
Full case name	Michael H. and Victoria D. v. Gerald D.
Citations	491 U.S. 110 (more)
Case history
Prior	Summary judgment for defendant aff'd, 191 Cal. App. 3d 995 (Cal. Ct. App. 1987); probable jurisdiction noted, 485 U.S. 903 (1988)
Holding
California's conclusive-presumption law does not violate the Due Process Clause.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy
Case opinions
Plurality	Scalia, joined by Rehnquist; O'Connor and Kennedy (in part)
Concurrence	O'Connor (in part), joined by Kennedy
Concurrence	Stevens (in judgment)
Dissent	Brennan, joined by Marshall, Blackmun
Dissent	White, joined by Brennan
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XIV

Michael H. v. Gerald D., 491 U.S. 110 (1989), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States involving substantive due process in the context of paternity law. Splitting five to four, the Court rejected a challenge to a California law that presumed that a married woman's child was a product of that marriage, holding that the due-process rights of a man who claimed to be a child's biological father had not been violated.