Sentences with phrase «majority opinions by»

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.

Justice Holmes argued against the majority opinion by adding two adjectives to his test: «imminent» and «forthwith» as a better indicator of violation and called the leaflets «poor and puny anonymities,» and that any charge should be «the most nominal punishment» based on their radical views (Lewis 29).

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.»

Supreme Court Dec. 29, 2016)-- 4 - 3 decision, majority opinion by Justice Cuellar and dissent by Justice Werdegar; discussed in our Dec. 29, 2016 post: Attorney - client privilege does not categorically shield from California Public Records Act disclosure billing invoices sent by clients in concluded, non-active cases because legal consultation was not the purpose of the invoices; however, the privilege did protect billing invoice entries in active, pending cases.

The majority opinion by Justice Ginsburg accords with the principle of defendant autonomy, and the long - standing maxim that the Sixth Amendment guarantees the right to a personal defense.

Not exact matches

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 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.

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 %).

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.

On its central point, Justice Kennedy's majority opinion was joined by Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito, Thomas and Antonin Scalia.

OTTAWA — New public opinion research shows a majority of Canadians want to see Canada's remaining coal - fired power plants shut down by 2030 (73 % support or somewhat support the idea).

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.

We are the vast majority and we had to put up with a counter opinion for 3.2 seconds as our fragile little sissy eyes passed by a billboard!»

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.

How is something considered to be actual fact if it is only based on scholarly opinion or even by scholarly majority vote?

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

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, issued by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, said that Hastings College of the Law's «all comers» policy, which required all groups to open all positions to all students, «is a reasonable, viewpoint - neutral condition on access to the student - organization forum.»

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

Almost forty years later, the by - then prominent founder of the Moral Majority and crusader against gay rights inadvertently confirmed the ubiquity of such segregationist thought in Southern white churches when he was asked to comment on his now discarded and discredited opinion.

The logic of testimony is thus framed by rhetoric considered as «counterpart» (antistrophos) of dialectic.5 But dialectic is the logic of only probable reasoning, that is, the majority of which contains truths of opinion agreed to by most men and most often.

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.

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.

A legal analysis by Managing Your Church, a CT sister site, looks at the uncertainty created for churches and pastors because the majority opinion «stopped short of stating a religious exemption.»

The opinions collected here» some dissenting from the majority of the Court, others concurring in judgment but rejecting the majority's reasoning» show how Scalia applies his textualism to these issues, and how it differs from competing theories of interpretation, most notably the «living Constitution» view favored by many on the left and the varieties of intentionalism favored by many conservatives and moderates.

No sooner did I return to Boston than the Obergefell decision came down, with the ominous absence, pointed out by Chief Justice John Roberts in his dissent, of the key word «exercise» from the majority opinion.

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.

Noonan's opinion was later overruled by a majority of his Appellate Court peers.

The books that are in the bible were chosen by men and the selected books represented the majority view of the time, leaving out «books» which were considered not in tune with the prevailing opinion.

It seems, moreover, on the basis of public opinion polls, that this challenge is already accepted by a majority of our fellow citizens and thus the question of its establishment as a matter of law has not provoked a debate worthy of the momentous issues at stake.

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.

As to good uses... the majority of history disagrees with your opinion, simply because of percentages.Atheism is by its very definition an extreme minority among peoples.There simply have not been enough of them to be a serious contributing factor to the progress of mankind.Granted even a blind squirrel gets an acorn once in a while.

The tide is turning and depending on the questions and how they're asked, most public opinion surveys indicate that the consensus of the majority of the population is that LGBTQs should be viewed and treated equally by the our laws.

No matter what Vic or any of his Christian toadies think or feel or want, this matter has already been decided by a majority of public opinion and the religious bigots already know they are on the wrong side of history.

In developed countries, where the majority of food wastage happens at the consumer level, the consumer is exposed to a wealth of information from various sources which can result in unpredictable consumer behaviour driven by opinions and influences from various sources of information.

It sadly is Sue, we have a divided fan base, an majority shareholder who is (in my opinion) using our clubs assets to secure lending on his other sporting investments, a board who quite frankly see us fans as customers rather than supporters as shown by the chairman's AGMs performance, players who aren't signing new contracts, if you cut Ian Wright and others open you'd see cannons in their blood with some of our players now you'd find image rights and pound signs.

Apart from my personal opinion that he is the main one responsible for our poor transfer budgets and lack of ambition for the club since he became majority shareholder but worse still he has now shown who he really is by the launch of the appalling hunting channel just launched in the UK by the company that he owns!

Although there are probably a fair chunk of people whose opinions can accurately be described by one of those two polarisations, I suspect the majority are somewhere in the intermediate, between believing in him but carrying doubts, and suspecting his time is closing but hoping for a glorious finale.

His legislation was not by the majority of public opinion.

Research by ICM for the Guardian newspaper saw both the Tories and Liberal Democrats suffer as an outright majority of public opinion turned against the government's controversial changes to the health service.

But the «opinions of people like me» changed opinions by just 6.2 %, while a general poll saying that a majority of people favored one side or the other moved the needle by 8.1 %.

The number of upstaters in the majority conference has grown steadily over the years, adding to the diversity of opinions among Assembly Democrats, though they still tend to be dominated by the largely liberal views of the New York City members.

Just by looking up a specific bill number — you can see what % of individuals have the majority opinion.

A Guardian poll published the day before the vote showed public opinion against the government by a majority of three to one.

Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco pointed to a legal opinion by the conference's top lawyer that insisted the arrangement was legal.

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.

Opinion surveys such as those by the Pew Research Center find that a majority of Americans favor legalization.

A survey released in mid-June by Siena College found that a majority of voters had no opinion of Mr. Astorino and little knowledge of his positions.

A series of public opinion polls sponsored by upstate Siena College have found that majorities of 65 percent or more of those surveyed favor such continuation.