Rizzo v. Goode

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Rizzo v. Goode
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 11, 1975 Decided January 21, 1976
Full case name	Rizzo, Mayor of Philadelphia, et al. v. Goode, et al.
Citations	423 U.S. 362 (more) 96 S. Ct. 598; 46 L. Ed. 2d 561; 1976 U.S. LEXIS 42
Argument	Oral argument
Opinion announcement	Opinion announcement
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart Byron White · Thurgood Marshall Harry Blackmun · Lewis F. Powell Jr. William Rehnquist · John P. Stevens
Case opinions
Majority	Rehnquist, joined by Burger, Stewart, White, Powell
Dissent	Blackmun, joined by Brennan, Marshall
Stevens took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

Rizzo v. Goode, 423 U.S. 362 (1976), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a prophylactic injunction against non-culpable state executive officials was an overbroad interference by the Federal Courts in the state executive branches. In doing so, the court created a limit on the federal injunctive power in matters of state agency internal affairs.^[1]