Sentences with phrase «majority opinion made»

In the controversial 2008 Supreme Court opinion establishing a basic right to own a weapon, Justice Antonin Scalia's majority opinion made clear that the Second Amendment doesn't grant people «a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.»

Not exact matches

Given the fact that they make up 99 percent of this country's employers and the majority of all job growth over the last 50 years, it would be shame if they kept their opinions concealed when it comes supporting the candidates that support small business.

The majority opinion said Aereo is not the first to design systems to avoid copyright liability and noted that the same accusation could be made about Cablevision because the company created separate user - associated copies of each recorded program to comply with copyright law instead of using more efficient shared copies that might have been found to violate copyrights.

(II, 1.2, # 18) This judgment, offered in the context of his larger teaching about the irresistible authority of common opinion in democratic times, indicates that despite their adherence to the Bible and other standards of doctrinal authority, the Americans could abandon or adapt Christianity whenever the gradual working of democratic currents made such changes attractive to a majority.

And since, by definition, the majority of people are clustered around the average in terms of intelligence hardly makes their opinion on anything have much merit.

As Scalia's dissent makes clear, the majority opinion in Lawrence epitomizes everything that is wrong with the contemporary Court» its arbitrariness, its contempt for democratic governance, its constant readiness to fashion new constitutional rights out of whole cloth.

Because public opinion supporting certain kinds of abortion is close to unanimous; it was formed before the 1973 Supreme Court decision; and the majority that have come of sexual age since that year now take for granted that fertility decisions are to be made only by the individuals involved.

Objections from Cardinals Cajetan and Carvajal that the text was unscholarly and inaccurate in its failure to make distinctions between matters of doctrine, discipline and opinion, were overruled by the majority.

Just because the majority of you have convinced yourself and are in unison about 99 % of everything does not make your opinion more valid to the rest... smh...

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).

@TEANY You say «Since you're obviously confused, unilateral is making decisions independent of any majority opinion.»

Paterson's involvement in a top aide's domestic scandal has caused some to call for his resignation, but Sharpton made it clear that, while there were differences of opinion in the room, the majority of attendees felt they should allow for «due process» and wait for the results of the investigation into the matter before making a decision.

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.

Espada's opinion has an impact beyond his one vote because he secured the chairmanship of the Housing Committee after he threatened to withhold his support from making Malcolm Smith the first Democratic majority leader in 40 years.

The Norfolk complaint makes extensive use of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's majority opinion that DOMA «places same - sex couples in an untenable position» and «humiliates» the children raised by such couples.

He further advised Moesha to learn how to use words such as «most», «some», majority; as well as make use of phrases like I think, in my opinion, I suspect etc..

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, saying DOMA had made gay marriages «unequal» to heterosexual ones.

Krueger has been more than willing to admit that her conference made mistakes during its brief stint in the majority, although she continues to insist the Democrats are better suited to run the chamber than the GOP — if only from an ideological standpoint — in her opinion.

Just 10 percent of people living Upstate have not yet formed an opinion, so even in the very unlikely event that every one of them made their bed with the gas and oil industry, a majority would still oppose.

Robyn Dawes, a professor Krueger had studied under, countered that the students who predicted that their opinions would be in the majority were not making an error at all but rather were taking their own opinion as a legitimate piece of data.

Panel member Michael A'Hearn of the University of Maryland, College Park, says that no single person made the decision to remove the climate figures: «I think it was a majority opinion, but not a unanimous one.»

Simply quelling dominant voices helps restore balance and allows for more informed decision making, she argues: «It's dangerous to have a group where everyone is saying, yeah, yeah, yeah, and just agreeing with the majority opinion, because the majority opinion can be wrong.»

Recent discoveries made in Svalbard bolster the majority opinion.

You know getting very angry over someone's opinion in the majority makes you look arrogant in the process.

To make matters worse for OCR, Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion endorses a limited, deferential understanding of disparate impact analysis, one that bears little resemblance to the demanding test created by the equity DCL.

On the other hand — make sure you're reacting to a majority opinion and not just a handful of people in a bad mood.

My personal opinion is that this sort of print - centrism is unnecessary for the vast majority of titles1, but there are times when mapping the ebook to the printed book pages does make a lot of sense.

In my opinion one reason that the AVMA will not suggest that the public never buy from a pet store, on - line, etc is because of the number of veterinarians that make a majority of their income from working with commercial breeders.

Let me make my opinion perfectly clear: Shock is not training - in the vast majority of cases it meets the criteria for abuse.»

Section 2: Honorary Honorary members shall be individuals who, in the opinion of the majority of the Board of Directors, have made outstanding contributions to veterinary emergency and critical patient care.

In my opinion, making a direct sequel to Breath of the Wild might not be the best idea, as the game itself stands alone very well on its own, and offers a lot of content to leave the majority of people satisfied.

that way majority vote can decide i figure that will cut down on bad games and make people feel like their opinions and views are being acknowledged... just a thought

The first point I'm trying to make is that, in my opinion, if what we are talking about is the wavelength (s) absorbed by CO2, then where the partial pressure (or optical density) of C02 drops to near - 0 is a lot more interesting than where the sum of all gas partial pressures, where the majority of other gases do not absorb at the wavelength of CO2, drops to near - 0, which is the more traditional meaning for TOA.

The vast majority of Channel 4's programmes on environmental issues over the last 20 years have reflected the opinion of the majority of scientists on man - made global warming.

I guess it's lawblogging day, so here's an idea I've been thinking about for years but haven't seen in the legal literature (maybe it's there somewhere): when the dissent says the majority opinion could have massive legal implications, the dissent is helping making those implications happen.

How exactly are you proving your point when you admit (emphasis mine)... «yes, the temperature moved FIRST» and you make hidden conciliatory statements like... «for the MAJORITY of that time» and then you freely admit... «CO2 did not trigger the warmings» and then you rely on the lamest of hollow arguments... «according to climate THEORY and model EXPERIMENTS» and then you stumble back to close with complete opinion and conjecture... «we may well» and «The likely candidates» Anyone with a brain will read your post and laugh - it's pathetic and you've actually done nothing but strengthen the skeptics argument.

They found that a mere 0.3 percent of all papers, or 1 percent of the 4,014 papers expressing an opinion on the matter, claim that the majority of warming since 1950 is man - made.

For rational public policy to triumph in spite of the powerful obstacles we face will require that the vast majority of the public and opinion leaders from across the political spectrum come to regard man - made global warming fears as unfounded and regularly say that it is unfounded.

The majority opinion denied that its decision changes the standard for determining copyright infringement by making it easier to find similarity based on style or «groove.»

We are bound by the majority opinion that those words confer a discretion to refuse an order where «justice requires that such an order should not be made.»

Notably, the «swing» voter helping to make up the majority opinions in Petrus and Simmons — both of which declare procedurally reasonable a sentence imposed in a procedurally questionable manner — both happen to be district judges sitting by designation.

Today, the majority of the court ruled in R. v. Bingley that a DRE's training and experience do make them experts and thus their opinions generally do not need to be further vetted by a judge before it can be presented as evidence in court.

The majority did note that a trial judge retains discretion to exclude evidence in a given case, based on the sorts of potential problems we identified, including an individual DRE's inability to explain how he / she made the determination, evidence of bias, failure to comply with the training, and contradiction of the DRE's opinion by bodily sample evidence or even the evidence of bystanders.

Such arguments make Johnson's opinions that of the majority: «I don't think the iPad or a netbook will be the only computer a lawyer has; lawyers need larger notebooks or desktops.»

The harmless error recognizes and concedes that an error was made, but these errors are overlooked if the majority of the court feels in their own opinion that the defendant would have been convicted anyway.

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).

That's just my personal opinion, of course, I'm sure that the vast majority of people actually prefers that because it makes the watch look like a regular, and yet premium watch.

I suspect the majority in our industry do not want what Aitken is trying to impose and they need to make their opinions known.