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R. A. V. v. CITY OF ST. PAUL

No. 90-7675.

505 U.S. 377 (1992)

R. A. V. v. CITY OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA

United States Supreme Court.

Decided June 22, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Cleary argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs was Michael F. Cromett.

Tom Foley argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Steven C. DeCoster.*

Scalia, J.,delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and Kennedy, Souter, and Thomas, JJ., joined. White, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, in which Blackmun and O'Connor, JJ., joined, and in which Stevens, J., joined except as to Part I—A, p. 397. Blackmun, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, p. 415. Stevens, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, in Part I of which White and Blackmun, JJ., joined, p. 416.

Justice Scalia, delivered the opinion of the Court.

In the predawn hours of June 21, 1990, petitioner and several other teenagers allegedly assembled a crudely made cross by taping together broken chair legs. They then allegedly burned the cross inside the fenced yard of a black family that lived across the street from the house where petitioner was staying. Although this conduct could have been punished

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