Justice Alito does a nice job explaining the distinction on page four of his majority opinion.
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The court ruled in a 7-2 verdict against the ban, and the majority opinion explains why.
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The agents may learn from experience or switch their strategies according to majority opinion.
The dissent essentially said was the Court would say in the majority opinion in Lawrence.
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Judge Raymond Randolph wrote the majority opinion and he called the detainees' arguments creative but not cogent.
By accepting the case at all, says Perry, the Court has indicated the possibility of a preexisting majority opinion.
Black's majority opinion found that government authorities had the discretion to act as they saw necessary to protect security.
There is a good deal in the majority opinion in Hamdan that should give them encouragement to go forward with those cases.
And a government needing support from more than one party leads to a greater chance of it representing majority opinion.
In its majority opinion, the Supreme Court said that lower court judges should defer to the FCC's expertise in telecommunications matters.
This idea of selective suppression was the cornerstone of the majority opinion in the recent Supreme Court case Sorrell vs.
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Justice Kennedy read the majority opinion on behalf of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor.
In this criminal case, Justice Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, with Justices Kagan and Ginsburg penning one dissent, and Justice Scalia another.
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And her dissent was just about as pointed as the majority opinion.
In 2003 Justice Kennedy wrote the majority opinion in Lawrence v.
Wade the "science" the late Harry Blackmun relied upon to back his majority opinion was questionable, and it's since been blown to smith-ereens.
Chief Justice Roberts, joining the liberals, surprised everyone by writing the majority opinion that preserved the individual mandate as a tax.
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Kennedy had already written a draft majority opinion in the case.
Roberts, however, wrote in the majority opinion that Congress exercised an authority it held to assess a tax, rather than create any new taxing authority.
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The majority opinion stresses that independent agencies like PCOAB are constitutional.
But in his majority opinion, Kennedy wrote that "no member of the investing public had knowledge" of fraudulent behavior when deciding to buy or sell securities.
The new majority opinion transformed Citizens United into a vehicle for rewriting decades of constitutional law in a case where the lawyer had not even raised those issues.
When the Court announced its final ruling on Citizens United, on January 21, 2010, the vote was five to four and the majority opinion was written by Anthony Kennedy.
Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Stephen Breyer were in the majority opinion on the ruling, which was more than 300 pages.
"Clearly, it is not irrational for the Tax Tribunal to decline to extend a tax exemption to every act that declares itself a 'dance performance, ' " stated the majority opinion.
The Ulster Unionist leader may have won few friends in his political career, but he has so far shown an ability to judge the majority opinion within the unionist community.
The majority opinion will force New Hampshire lawyers who are partners of Maine interstate law firms to give up their partnership status and remain employees, or face Maine income tax.
In her majority opinion, Judge Judith Rogers said the programmers' case faltered because they couldn't cite an example of a cable operator who isn't either already using all-digital operations or moving in that direction.
The 6-3 majority opinion upheld a Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that had declared unconstitutional the Stolen Valor Act, a 2006 statute Congress passed "to protect the reputation and meaning" of military honors.
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