Boy Scouts of America et al. v. Dale, 530 U.S. 640, is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, decided on June 28, 2000, which held that the constitutional right to freedom of association allow
Scoutmaster James Dale
Evan Wolfson, attorney for James Dale
Chief Justice William Rehnquist
Justice John Paul Stevens
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John Paul Stevens was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1975 to 2010. He was the second-oldest and fourth-longest-serving
Boy Scouts of America v. Dale
…for no better reason than promoting an approved message or discouraging a disfavored one, however enlightened either purpose may strike the government. Justice Stevens wrote a dissent in which Justices Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer joined. He observed that "every state law prohibiting discrimination is designed to…
Stevens with President Gerald Ford (left) and Chief Justice Warren E. Burger (right) on December 19, 1975, the day he took his seat on the Supreme Court
Stevens (right) swears in John Roberts as Chief Justice on September 29, 2005, while Roberts' wife Jane and President George W. Bush look on. Ceremony in the East Room of the White House.
Stevens with his successor Elena Kagan in 2010