Sentences with phrase «important unanimous decision»

Thanks to this post by Eugene Volokh, I see that the Louisiana Supreme Court issued an interesting and important unanimous decision earlier this week upholding a state gun crime statute against a facial state constitutional challenge.

Not exact matches

«It is particularly encouraging that the court is strongly unified in these important decisions,» Joyce said, referring to another 8 - 1 decision in BNSF Railway Company v. Tyrell and a unanimous 8 - 0 decision in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC, both announced last month.

In an opinion issued today, citing this very exchange, Justice Scalia himself has penned a unanimous decision that is already being called the most important employment rights decision in American jurisprudence.

In what is often viewed as its most important decision of the twentieth century, Chief Justice Warren wrote for a unanimous US Supreme Court: «segregation is a denial of the equal protection of the laws»; and «to separate [some children] from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.»

I do not question the honesty of the maker of the belated witness statement, but it seems to me that in these circumstances the Court can not and should not be assured that the reasons put forward in the expanded reasons were in fact the reasons and, what is equally important, that they represent a comprehensive summary of the salient reasons for the Secretary of State's decision to reject the unanimous recommendations of his [sic] officials and to allow the appeals.»