Home > Great American Court Cases > Island Trees Union Free School District Board of Education v. Pico

Legal Citation: 457 U.S. 853 (1982)

Plaintiff
Steven A. Pico, by his next friend, Frances Pico et al.

Defendant
Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District No. 26 et al.

Plaintiff's Claim
That the Island Trees School System Board of Education was violating the First Amendment by banning books from the school libraries.

Chief Lawyer for Plaintiff
Alan H. Levine

Chief Defense Lawyer
George W. Lipp, Jr.

Justices for the Court
Harry A. Blackmun, William J. Brennan, Jr. (writing for the Court), Thurgood Marshall, John Paul Stevens, Byron R. White

Justices Dissenting
Warren E. Burger, Sandra Day O'Connor, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., William H. Rehnquist

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
25 June 1982.

Decision
The district court was in error in...