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Legal Citation: 467 U.S. 253 (1984)

Appellant
Schall, Commissioner of New York City Department of Juvenile Justice

Appellees
Gregory Martin, Luis Rosario, Kenneth Morgan

Appellant's Claim
That pretrial preventive detention of juveniles under New York's Family Court Act does not violate the "fundamental fairness" requirement of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause.

Chief Lawyer for Appellant
Judith A. Gordon, Assistant Attorney General of New York

Chief Lawyer for Appellees
Martin Guggenheim

Justices for the Court
Harry A. Blackmun, Warren E. Burger, Sandra Day O'Connor, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., William H. Rehnquist (writing for the Court), Byron R. White

Justices Dissenting
William J. Brennan, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, John Paul Stevens

Place
Washington, D.C.

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