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The Burger Court heard Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co., 419 US 345 (1974). By a vote of 6-3, the Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment did not apply to private companies, even if the company was a heavily regulated public utility.

Chief Justice

Warren Burger

Associate Justices

William O. Douglas

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Potter Stewart

Byron White

Thurgood Marshall

Harry Blackmun

Lewis F. Powell

William Rehnquist (wrote opinion of the Court)

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William O. Douglas

William J. Brennan

Thurgood Marshall

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