The U.S. Supreme Court case Murphy J. Foster, Jr., Governor of Louisiana, et al. v. G. Scott Love, Paul S Bergeron, Kathleen B Balhoff and Bennie Baker-Bourgeois in 1997 revolved around the issue of whether a state law that allowed for non-unanimous jury verdicts in criminal cases violated the Sixth Amendment's guarantee to a fair trial by an impartial jury or Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause. In this case, defendants were convicted by less than unanimous juries under Louisiana law which permitted such verdicts in certain felony trials (10-2 or 9-3). The plaintiffs argued that these convictions were unconstitutional as they did not meet the standard set out by the Sixth Amendment for a fair trial. However, the Supreme Court ruled against them upholding Louisiana’s non-unanimous jury rule stating it did not violate either amendment because there was no constitutional requirement for unanimity in state criminal trials.

In the case of Murphy J. Foster, Jr., Governor of Louisiana, et al. v. G. Scott Love, Paul S. Bergeron, Kathleen B. Balhoff and Bennie Baker-Bourgeois (1997), there was no recorded dissenting opinion from any justice on the Supreme Court bench at that time.