Sentences with phrase «dissented against the majority»
Most notably, Abrams v. United States (1919) was a turning point when Justice Holmes dissented against the majority opinion which charged four radicals with the Espionage Act, which made it a crime to publish «abusive language» about the Constitution or the armed forces (Lewis 28).
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The Chief Justice, in dissent, complained about the majority's «entirely gratuitous» aspersions against supporters of traditional marriage: «It is one thing for the majority to conclude that the Constitution protects a right to same - sex marriage; it is something else to portray everyone who does not share the majority's «better informed understanding» as bigoted.»
Another example would be when elected officials vote against the party line for the sake of publicly standing when a bill is unpopular (conversely, popular) in their constituency, all while knowing that the majority is comfortable enough that a few dissenting voices (or a few more votes) won't matter.
While a majority of Moreland Commission members backed a recommendation in a preliminary report to create a public financing system, seven members joined a dissent that argued against the proposal, which is backed by labor groups and good - government advocates.
The judgment confirmed that although ordinarily loan repayments would be brought into account in an action by a lender against the negligent adviser, indeed this was the position maintained by the dissenting Judge, Lord Justice Davis, the majority of the Court of Appeal held that this principle did not apply in this case.
Indeed, in Justice Abella's dissent in DLW, she frames the issue as the new against the old with her newer more «modern» interpretation of the crime as opposed to the majority, written by Justice Cromwell, an old hand at statutory interpretation cases, as the purveyor of the old fashioned, decidedly out of sync with today's realities.
For instance, in Canadian Broadcasting Corp v SODRAC 2003 Inc, [2015] 3 SCR 615, at paragraph 55 the majority decision written by Justice Rothstein (Cromwell J, among others, concurring) effectively cautions against the dissent's use of policy considerations in textual interpretation.