Janet Reno, Attorney General v. Bossier Parish School Board

Decided January 24, 2000. Antonin Scalia delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 98-405 · 528 U.S. 320 (2000) · Cited 140 times

Holding

Buckley is authority for comparable state limits on contributions to state political candidates, and those limits need not be pegged to the precise dollar amounts approved in Buckley.

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How the Justices voted

Decided 5–4.

“Concurring” means agreeing with the outcome; any split shown is the Court’s judgment, not each Justice’s reasoning. Source: the Supreme Court Database (Spaeth et al.), Washington University.

Precedents cited

Supreme Court decisions this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases in our collection link through; others are named.

• Beer v. United States · 425 U.S. 130 (1976)
• Thornburg v. Gingles · 478 U.S. 30 (1986)
• City of Richmond v. United States · 422 U.S. 358 (1975)
• Miller v. Johnson · 515 U.S. 900 (1995)
• South Carolina v. Katzenbach · 383 U.S. 301 (1966)
• City of Mobile v. Bolden · 446 U.S. 55 (1980)
• Reno v. Bossier Parish School Board · 520 U.S. 471 (1997)
• Gomillion v. Lightfoot · 364 U.S. 339 (1960)
• Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · 429 U.S. 252 (1977)
• Shaw v. Reno · 509 U.S. 630 (1993)
• Allen v. State Board of Elections · 393 U.S. 544 (1969)
• Voinovich v. Quilter · 507 U.S. 146 (1993)
• Perkins v. Matthews · 400 U.S. 379 (1971)
• Concrete Pipe & Products of Cal., Inc. v. Construction Laborers Pension Trust for Southern Cal. · 508 U.S. 602 (1993)
• White v. Regester · 412 U.S. 755 (1973)
• United States v. Mississippi · 380 U.S. 128 (1965)
• Holder v. Hall · 512 U.S. 874 (1994)
• United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · 333 U.S. 364 (1948)
• Washington v. Davis · 426 U.S. 229 (1976)
• Morissette v. United States · 342 U.S. 246 (1952)
• Preiser v. Newkirk · 422 U.S. 395 (1975)
• Johnson v. De Grandy · 512 U.S. 997 (1994)
• Mills v. Green · 159 U.S. 651 (1895)
• Oregon v. Mitchell · 400 U.S. 112 (1970)
• United States v. Kozminski · 487 U.S. 931 (1988)
• Davis v. Bandemer · 478 U.S. 109 (1986)
• Hilton v. South Carolina Public Railways Commission · 502 U.S. 197 (1991)
• Shaw v. Hunt · 517 U.S. 899 (1996)
• United States v. Sheffield Bd. of Comm'rs · 435 U.S. 110 (1978)
• City of Lockhart v. United States · 460 U.S. 125 (1983)

Cited by

Later Supreme Court opinions in our collection that cite this case.

• Shelby County v. Holder · 570 U.S. 529 (2013)
• Georgia v. Ashcroft, Attorney General · 539 U.S. 461 (2003)
• Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Inc. · 550 U.S. 618 (2007)
• Alabama Legislative Black Caucus v. Alabama · 575 U.S. 254 (2015)
• Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee · 594 U.S. 647 (2021)
• Cochise Consultancy, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Hunt · 587 U.S. 262 (2019)
• Torres v. Madrid · 592 U.S. 306 (2021)
• Branch v. Smith · 538 U.S. 254 (2003)

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Source: Supreme Court of the United States, slip opinions (2000). Citation count from the Free Law Project’s CourtListener bulk data. Data last verified 2026-07-03. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).