For starters, you need to think a lot
less about your particular case and a lot more about the bigger picture involving lots of other courts and cases.
Not exact matches
And in some instances, it has been Scalia and Thomas who have done so more than those who may think of themselves
less as originalists (in one recent
case in
particular Scalia and Thomas dissented from the majority which held that convicted child molesters could be indefinitely imprisoned despite having fully served their sentences based on subtle shifts of language and the over-application of prior
case law — no one wants a child molester free and
about, but such results focused outcomes are always dangerous).
About taking differences (current period figures
less prior period figures) of anomalies: the anomalies are the value
less the monthly mean (i.e., the mean for the
particular month over the years, in this
case 32 full years), as is the usual practice with climate data (most notably temperature).
Now, I don't want to get into the vagaries of how directories are compiled, but I think these
particular rankings are pretty accurate, and what that says to me is that there is a degree of explaining to do — more so in some market segments than others —
about why a brand might choose to defer to a
lesser or, in a few
cases, broadly equal one.
Increasing a Judge's freedom of discretion in
particular cases means parties now have even
less of an idea
about what might happen when they go before the Court.