Sentences with phrase «majority opinion written»

On April 15, 2016, three days after Sargent was decided, the Supreme Court of Canada released its ruling in R v Lloyd, 2016 SCC 13 where, in a 6 - 3 majority opinion written by Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, s. 5 (3)(a)(i)(D) of the CDSA was declared unconstitutional.

In the Supreme Court hearing, the majority opinion written by Justice Roberts stated that these federal courts abused their discretionary power and felt Navy operations were more important than marine mammal health.

A majority opinion written by Chief Justice Roberts argued that the Constitution is colorblind and struck the plans down.

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.

Cuyler v. Sullivan did not specifically address the use of multiple lawyers, but it said nothing about multiple lawyers being intrinsically illegal, and the majority opinion wrote,

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.

«Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them,» Roberts wrote in the majority opinion.

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.

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.

That was clearly the hope of the Supreme Court majority that signed onto the opinion written by Associate Justice Harry Blackmun.

Once again, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, while Scalia handed down a fiery dissent.

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).

The majority opinion was written by Justice Hugo Black, former Klansman and Senator from Alabama.

In Obergefell, Kennedy again provides the majority opinion that that the Fourteenth Amendment was written to protect liberty, but now it's quite clear that liberty isn't rooted in anything at all.

Justice Harry Blackmun, who had been counsel for the Mayo Clinic, wrote much of the majority opinion in Roe at the Mayo Clinic library.

Like many social conservatives, especially Christian ones, I spend a lot of my time reading and writing about religious freedom, especially how it might be affected by the legalization of same - sex marriage and the campaign for «gay rights» more generally.Yet at the same time, I harbor doubts about the position we are staking out.You see, I sometimes think that Justice Scalia's majority opinion in Employment Division v. Smith may have been correct.

Yet Justice Stevens produced no majority opinion for the April sitting, and Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote the majority for two.

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.

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.

Smith wrote one of two majority opinions.

The majority opinion, written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, found that DOMA «violates basic due process and equal protection principles applicable to the federal government,» Kennedy wrote.

Writing the leading opinion in the majority decision, the presiding Justice and Chief Justice, Her Lordship Georgina Wood said and I quote.

«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.

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

On Majority Conservatism, Tim Montgomerie writes from Australia on the wisdom of a polling guru: «Abbott's constant repetition of a few key messages — Scrap the carbon tax; Stop the boats carrying illegal immigrants; and Build more roads — sent political journalists to sleep but they were killer messages identified by Mark Textor's opinion polling.»

Writing for the majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts reasoned that the formula had «no logical relation to the present day,» leaving open the possibility that Congress could come up with a new formula the court would find appropriate.

But the Supreme Court majority opinion, written by Justice Antonin Scalia, said the EPA acted unlawfully when it failed to consider how much the regulation would cost the power industry before deciding to craft the rule.

Chief Justice Barbara J. Pariente wrote in the majority opinion that the vouchers violate the state...

In writing the majority opinion, Justice Ginsburg, a long and tireless advocate for gender equality, noted that «single - sex education affords pedagogical benefits to at least some students» and concluded, «that reality is uncontested in this litigation.»

If so, such an opinion would be especially compelling coming from the pen of Justice Thomas, the lone black member of the Court, who has written for the majority in a number of important cases involving religion and education.

Crafted to accommodate the philosophies and styles of the individual justices needed to assemble a majority, legal opinions are written with great nuance.

But they emphasized that the court's majority opinion was narrowly written and does not broach questions about whether taxpayer dollars may be used for religious purposes such as religious education.

In writing the majority opinion, Judge Renee Cohn Jubelirer said Commonwealth Court has previously decided in lawsuits involving Montessori Charter School in Erie and Northside Urban Pathways in Pittsburgh that more than one charter school site is permitted.

«The majority opinion in Montessori said nothing about whether a charter school could operate at more than one location, and as such, it necessarily stands for nothing as precedent on that issue,» Pellegrini wrote.

«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.

You wrote: «My personal opinion is that this sort of print - centrism is unnecessary for the vast majority of titles».

The court's majority opinion was written by Oliver Wendell Holmes: «It is better for all the world,» Holmes wrote, «if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.

Stockman has been a passionate collector of contemporary art since 1990 and has served on various committees at MOMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Aspen Art Museum as well as founding the Bruce Museum Council in Greenwich, CT.. Stockman is the Chair Emeritus and former National Chair of the Republican Majority for Choice (RMC)-- regularly interviewed on national television, wrote and published opinion pieces for national syndications and lobbied the House and Senate for legislation pertaining to a woman's right to choose.

I am motivated to write these posts on RGGI because the majority of the stakeholder opinions expressed at meetings and in submitted comments are, in my opinion, overly optimistic about the potential value of continued RGGI reductions and ignore the potential for serious consequences if things don't work out as planned.

Chief Justice Roberts wrote the majority opinion.

Justice Scalia wrote the majority opinion, which hinged on an interpretation of administrative law requirements and did not overturn EPA's ability to regulate hazardous air pollutants from power plants.

In Buck v. Bell (1927), the majority decision, written by Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., used modern opinions of science to support the Virginia sterilization law: «It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from breeding their kind.

The majority opinion, written by Justice Encarnación Roca, is not remarkably lengthy for an SCC decision; its «Legal Reasoning» section has 4 parts, the first one being introductory.

It should be noted that under Spanish law, a member of the Court may write both the majority decision and a personal opinion.

Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for the court and concluded his majority opinion by declaring: «We hold that imposing an increased sentence under the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act violates the Constitution's guarantee of due process.»

They are good at writing opinions, but less good at building a majority.