«Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them,» Roberts wrote
in the majority opinion.
In a majority opinion written by Judge Christopher F. Droney, the appeals court said the Barry Diller - backed Internet company does not appear to violate copyright law because subscribers are assigned to their own tiny antennas at Aereo's Brooklyn data centre.
Writing
in the majority opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia explained, «California has singled out the purveyors of video games for disfavored treatment — at least when compared to booksellers, cartoonists and movie producers — and has given no persuasive reason why.»
«The situation at the time the officer fired his Taser was, thus, replete with uncertainty and a reasonable officer in his shoes could have worried he faced imminent danger from a lethal weapon,» Gorsuch wrote
in the majority opinion.
In his majority opinion on the Illinois case, Judge Richard Posner said the Heller ruling guaranteed people the right to carry weapons «in case of confrontation,» which is not limited to the home, according to Slate.
Fifth Circuit Judge Edith H. Jones wrote
in the majority opinion that the DOL rule «fails the reasonableness test» of the Administrative Procedures Act by extending the department's ERISA authority to one - time IRA rollovers and similar transactions.
Judge Edith H. Jones wrote
in the majority opinion that the DOL rule «fails the reasonableness test» of the Administrative Procedures Act by extending the department's ERISA authority to one - time IRA rollovers and similar transactions.
Judge Edith H. Jones wrote
in the majority opinion that the DOL rule «fails the reasonableness test» of the APA by extending the department's ERISA authority to one - time IRA rollovers and similar transactions.
In the majority opinion, Justice william o. douglas, writing for the Court, rejected the notion that the judiciary is obligated to enforce only those rights that are expressly enumerated in the Consti - tution.
In the majority opinion, Justice Byron White argued that the right to privacy does not extend to same - gender sexual activity, even when confined to the home.
But
in his majority opinion, Justice Robert Jackson changed the subject.
That violated RFRA, wrote Justice Samuel Alito
in the majority opinion, because it penalizes the religious beliefs of the Green family, evangelical Christians who own Hobby Lobby, a craft store chain with 500 stores and more than 13,000 employees, and the Hahn family, Mennonites whose company employs more than 1,000 employees in five factories across the country.
In the majority opinion Justice White had warned against this kind of judicial reasoning:
As Justice Powell explained
in the majority opinion in Wayte v. United States 470 U.S. 598 (1985):
The Supreme Court decision in the McDonnell case is expected to make it more difficult for the federal government to prosecute public corruption cases, a prospect Chief Justice John Roberts challenged
in his majority opinion.
«So long as a State has «redistricted in the manner provided by the law thereof» — as Arizona did by utilizing the independent commission procedure in its Constitution — the resulting redistricting plan becomes the presumptively governing map,» Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote
in the majority opinion.
Chief Justice Barbara J. Pariente wrote
in the majority opinion that the vouchers violate the state...
«It is crucial for a democratic society to provide all of its schoolchildren with fair access to an unsegregated education,» Ellen A. Peters, then chief justice of the state's High Court, wrote
in the majority opinion in July 1996.
They actually condemn the Blaine Amendment
in the majority opinion, calling it a clear manifestation of religious bigotry.
After all, in Mass v EPA, Justice Stevens,
in his majority opinion, reasoned that when it comes to greenhouses gases and climate change, even though a reduction in emissions from tailpipes can not be directly linked to preventing damage from floods to, say, the Massachusetts coast, every bit helps.
After all, it was Justice Scalia who for years sought to have the residual clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act declared unconstitutional, something he succeeded in doing
in his majority opinion in Johnson.
In his majority opinion, Chief Justice Roberts wrote: «The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax.
In a majority opinion authored by Ginsburg (Stevens concurred, Breyer recused), the Court found that the Compact did not give New Jersey exclusive jurisdiction over all riparian improvements commencing on its shores.
Joining
in the majority opinion were Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr..
Find out why Volokh Conspiracy's Orin Kerr awards Justice Stevens «the most honest explanation of the origins of the Blakely revolution» for his part
in the majority opinion in United States v. Booker.
Beyond these brief references, Sargent is a stranger
in the majority opinion.
«When a state empowers a group of active market participants to decide who can participate in its market, and on what terms, the need for supervision is manifest,» wrote Justice Anthony M. Kennedy
in his majority opinion.
In the majority opinion, Circuit Judge Moore stated that the court granted rehearing to reaffirm the limits of appellate review, including review of claim construction issues in light of Teva Pharms., Inc. v. Sandoz, Inc., 135 S. Ct. 831 (2015).
In his majority opinion for the Court, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote:
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In the majority opinion, the court discusses admissibility of evidence.
As a result it is possible to find authority
in the majority opinions in those two cases which treats liability for inducing breach of contract as unlawful interference with trade.
Not exact matches
In 2010, for example, Tatel wrote a
majority opinion overturning an FCC decision that prevented Comcast from blocking traffic flow over BitTorrent, which facilitates large file transfers and file synching over the Internet.
The strategy is intended to produce a bipartisan
majority vote for Mr. Brennan
in the Senate Intelligence Committee without giving its members seven additional legal
opinions on targeted killing sought by senators and while protecting what the White House views as the confidentiality of the Justice Department's legal advice to the president.
In one majority opinion last year, Gorsuch cited the Fourth Amendment in overturning a man's conviction of possessing and sending child pornograph
In one
majority opinion last year, Gorsuch cited the Fourth Amendment
in overturning a man's conviction of possessing and sending child pornograph
in overturning a man's conviction of possessing and sending child pornography.
I have
in front of me the report on labour market
opinions issued for temporary foreign workers
in the Windsor area, and the overwhelming
majority of these LMOs were issued for industrial instrument technicians and mechanics for less than six months.
Tsipras is trailing
in opinion polls, but his governing coalition has a small, but firm
majority in the 300 - member parliament.
In a random sampling of public
opinion taken by the Forum Poll among 1,385 Canadians 18 years of age and older, the
majority (51 %) do not agree Canadian employers should be able to hire temporary foreign workers (a federal program which has just been curtailed), while fewer than this agree (45 %).
Opinion polls show that the opposition party — the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which advocates formal independence from China — is poised to recapture the presidency and even win a
majority in the legislature.
Justice Kennedy's
majority opinion said that there was no principled way to distinguish between media corporations and other corporations and that the dissent's theory would allow Congress to suppress political speech
in newspapers, on television news programs,
in books and on blogs.
In particular, inspections show that the vast majority of companies restating prior year financial statements because of material misstatements or errors received a «clean» audit opinion in the year in which the restatement was announce
In particular, inspections show that the vast
majority of companies restating prior year financial statements because of material misstatements or errors received a «clean» audit
opinion in the year in which the restatement was announce
in the year
in which the restatement was announce
in which the restatement was announced.
If you're relatively young, say under 40 years old, investing the
majority of your equity exposure
in dividend yielding stocks is a suboptimal investment strategy
in my humble
opinion.
Retaining continuity with Carney seemed to be a big thing for Poloz when he was first stepping into the job (to the detriment of Canadian monpol,
in my
opinion — the tightening bias should've been out the door waaaaaay sooner), but he's been his own man for the vast
majority of his time at the helm.
US large - cap stocks returned more than 9 percent
in the first half of 2017, the most since 2013, and although prices are close to all - time highs, analysts are of the
opinion that valuations are not very expensive for a
majority of these stocks, as stronger earnings upped the price - to - earnings ratio, which has generally remained above average for quite a few years.
Some helpful but the
majority,
in my
opinion,...
The other is the Windsor case — discussed by Carl Scott earlier —
in which the
majority opinion not only sets aside part of the Defense of Marriage Act passed with overwhelming support
in 1996, but also dismisses and disparages the motives of those who voted for it.
well sarah, i guess this is probably the first time
in history that the
majority opinion is wrong.
The media hounded Tim Farron for his Christian views; they did not regard it as acceptable for him to hold views other than those of the political elite, or the
majority, Similarly, our belief
in the personhood of the unborn child and the sanctity of their lives enables us to see abortion as a sin crying to heaven for justice, not merely some privately held
opinion; for us it is most definitely not «a woman's choice».
Unanimity with the group as a whole had been at the beginning the sine qua non of Yahweh's favor; now such submergence of moral conviction
in the
majority's
opinion seemed to the real devotees of Yahweh to be supine apostasy.
Rah adds: «Contrary to popular
opinion, the church is not dying
in America; its is alive and well, but it is alive and well among the immigrant and ethnic minority communities and not among the
majority white churches
in the United States.»
Many who hated Scalia's rulings could not help but be entertained by his razor - sharp writing, which he used especially
in his dissenting
opinions to carve up the
majority's reasoning (my favorite is Planned Parenthood v. Casey, where among other things he referred to the
majority's «Nietzschean vision of us unelected, life - tenured judges — leading a Volk who will be «tested by following»» the Court's rulings obediently).