Sentences with phrase «majority opinion also»

The majority opinion also criticizes DOMA as an intrusion on states» traditional role defining marriage.»

The same majority opinion also refers the tax as too small to actually compel compliance and is therefore just a small optional tax for those who choose to forgo health insurance.

Not exact matches

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.

Ironically, the 2016 — 2017 Supreme Court roundup also appearing in the October issue of First Things («A Less Corrupt Term») quotes Justice Samuel Alito saying of the Court's majority opinion on same - sex marriage that it «evidences... the deep and perhaps irremediable corruption of our legal culture's conception of constitutional interpretation.»

This opinion also rather ignores the fact that the people Rubio was trying not to insult are probably a healthy majority.

But in keeping with Eugene V. Rostow's characterization of the contemporary Supreme Court as a «vital national seminar,» it is worth noting that the original charge to the Court was only that it render an aye or a nay.44 It quickly began handing down written opinions also, however, and under Marshall began the practice of trying for a single majority opinion, which gave «judicial pronouncements a forceful unity they had formerly lacked.

It's also possible that Koetter has a higher opinion of Sweezy than the majority of the NFL and is happy moving forward with Marpet - Jensen - Sweezy

It is interesting that Kedourie was responding to the results of an opinion poll which showed that the majority of Egyptians supported democracy, but also demanded the implementation of Shari'a (Islamic) law.

In the absence of legislation on assisted dying, we have to establish the right to a doctor - assisted death through the courts but we also hope that Paul's case will help to stimulate public debate on this issue, and convince Parliament to listen to the massive majority opinion in this country and legalise assisted dying.»

Justice Elena Kagan delivered the court's majority opinion, which was joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, and Sonia Sotomayor (Thomas also filed a separate concurring opinion).

Many were also expressing their disgust for what they said is a process that ignored the opinion of the majority.

Regardless of opinion, he was not only one of the biggest stars of the postwar era but also one of the most powerful, and as the writer, director, and producer of many of his features, he qualified as a comic auteur firmly in the tradition of Chaplin and Keaton.Born Joseph Levitch in Newark, NJ, on March 16, 1926, he was the son of borscht - belt comics, spending the majority of his childhood living with relatives but joining his parents each summer as they performed in the Catskills.

I was also of the obviously inaccurate opinion that the majority of book bloggers were READERS.

9 times out of 10 I would also bend to the opinion of the majority of experts on any scientific issue, unless the issue was politicised.

Either - way, the facts on the ground show clearly that the majority of public and also scientists support scientists voicing their opinions: A Pew Research Poll in 2009 showed that a large majority of the public in the USA (76 %), and nearly all scientists (97 %), think that it is appropriate for scientists to become actively involved in political debates on controversial issues.

Justice Roca, who was the author of the majority ruling, also filed a concurring opinion.

See also the majority opinion at page 11: «Given our explanation in Booker that appellate «reasonableness» review merely asks whether the trial court abused its discretion...»

This collective self - as - author is an important part of the ethos of the Court, for it represents not just the members signing on to the majority opinion, but also the authority of the Court that rests with those members when they agree on a majority opinion.

A fine, flowing rhythm is also evident in the following passage from Justice William Brennan's majority opinion in New York Times v. Sullivan, which broadened press freedom by raising the bar a public figure must clear to establish defamation.

Most tellingly, and unfortunately from the lovely Mr. Ball's point of view, the majority opinion in Rita was written by Justice Breyer, who also wrote the majority opinion in the remedial portion of Booker that expressly rejected adopting the BRD and / or jury determination standard for finding sentencing facts.

In the opinion written by Justice Rosalie S. Abella, a majority of the court held, at para. 33, that the interpretation of intercept, ``... should be informed not only by the purposes of Part VI, but also by the rights enshrined in s. 8 of the Charter, which in turn must remain aligned with technological developments.»

The majority in the Supreme Court supported a pragmatic, purposive approach to the interpretation of the CDE Definition, but the divided opinion of the Judges not only in the Supreme Court, but also at first instance and in the Court of Appeal, highlights how difficult questions of contractual interpretation can be.

(Justice Ginsburg also agreed with the majority that the women could not receive all of the remedies they sought in the court below, but her opinion clearly dissents from the core of the majority's holding.)

Justice Stevens concurs, joined by Ginsburg and Sotomayor, even though the three of those Justices also joined the Kennedy majority opinion.

Also in this section (pages 7 - 9 of the slip opinion), the Court applied what I would describe a «realistic litigator» analysis (which Justice Scalia often employs to reject claims of «future bad law» effects) to habeas lawyers» likely moves, and expressed the majority's «doubt that any more judicial time will be wasted» than would be the case under the dissent's alternative vision.

While the Chief Justice's opinion, for the majority, also addressed the principle of the Rule of Law, it invoked this principle only as additional support for its conclusions — Justice Rothstein's accusations to the contrary notwithstanding.

I note that the majority of the SCC of Canada made this point expressly in the 2001 TWU decision (I note too that the dissenting opinion consisted of Justice Heureux Dube and can be dismissed on that basis alone — though it's also a very poor reasoned opinion).

Visitors to the Law Library of Congress and other law libraries can also use legal research databases such as Lexis Advance and Westlaw to perform more targeted searching for majority opinions by Judge Gorsuch, as well as his concurring and dissenting opinions.

I also discovered that while the vast majority of HomeGain customers are satisfied with our products and services, many agents and brokers that do not use HomeGain, not only have a negative opinion of our company, but actively encourage others not to use HomeGain.