Hodgson v. Minnesota

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Hodgson v. Minnesota

Argued November 29, 1989
Decided June 25, 1990

Full case name:	Jane Elizabeth Hodgson, et al. v. Minnesota, et al.

Citations:	497 U.S. 417; 110 S. Ct. 2926; 111 L. Ed. 2d 344; 1990 U.S. LEXIS 3303; 58 U.S.L.W. 4957

Prior history:	Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Holding

Court membership

Chief Justice: William Rehnquist
Associate Justices: William J. Brennan, Jr., Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy

Case opinions

Majority by: Stevens (parts I, II, IV, VII)
Joined by: Brennan, Marshall, Blackmun, O'Connor
Concurrence by: Stevens (part III)
Joined by: Brennan
Concurrence by: Stevens (parts V, VI)
Joined by: O'Connor
Concurrence by: O'Connor
Concurrence/dissent by: Marshall
Joined by: Brennan, Blackmun
Concurrence/dissent by: Scalia
Concurrence/dissent by: Kennedy
Joined by: Rehnquist, White, Scalia
Dissent by: Stevens (part VIII)

Laws applied

Minn. Stat. §§ 144.343(2)-(7) (1988)

Hodgson v. Minnesota, 497 U.S. 417 (1990), was a United States Supreme Court abortion rights case that dealt with according to which a state law may require notification of both parents before a minor can obtain an abortion, as long as a judicial alternative is present.