Sentences with phrase «opinion by chief»

The trial court nevertheless convicted Moseley at a bench trial, the Virginia Court of Appeals wisely reversed for insufficient evidence, but the Virginia Supreme Court in an opinion by the chief judge affirmed his conviction, with but one dissenter.

The case provided the opportunity to test WordRake against the writing of three justices: the plurality opinion by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., the concurring opinion of Justice Clarence Thomas and the dissent of Justice Stephen G. Breyer.

In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court made school integration more difficult when it prohibited the Louisville, Kentucky, and Seattle, Washington, school districts from making racial balance a factor in assigning students to schools in cases where applicant numbers exceeded available seats.1 The plurality opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts called student categorization by race unconstitutional unless it was designed to reverse the effects of explicit rules that segregated students by race.

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You can still go back and you can look on the Zillow blog and see posts that I wrote, and Stan, who by this point had become our chief economist, wrote about how it was obvious, in our opinion, that housing was going to crash and that it was built on the foundation of sand and there was too much easy credit that had allowed people to buy homes who really couldn't afford them.

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

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.

Primary Opinion doesn't have control of Maggie Beer Products, which also has its own board that is led by a corporate heavyweight, Trevor O'Hoy, who is a former chief executive of beer giant Foster's Group.

There was an opinion article in the AFR by BCA Chief Executive, Jennifer Westacott and Managing Partner of Gilbert + Tobin, Danny Gilbert entitled «Competition Policy Review Offers Chance to Support Growth».

2) the movements in Africa were mainly run by upper middle classes, this is also true for india untill they slashed the cost of joining the INC indian congress to become affordable m allowing to poor to have a say in the running of the party.Africa on the other hand had a more tribal approuch in that there were opinions and they were voiced, but the popularity of the «chief» was not often challenged

We are satisfied to note that the Chief of Staff asked for a legal opinion from the Attorney - General, not on whether or not Ghana had committed to acquire that 24 % stake (which would be false), but on whether the government could issue the directive to SSNIT as demanded by Woyome.

An opinion dated 30th September 2016 and signed by Dr. Dominic Ayine, Deputy Attorney - General stated that the Chief of Staff «can issue directives with respect to SSNIT to take up the 24 % stake in the Project,» but «subject to compliance with the investment guidelines established by the National Pensions Act (2008).»

The chief who was impressively supported and cheered on by others chiefs, queen mothers, elders and opinion leaders and the ordinary people, described Mr. Mahama as their son, grandson and royal from Nyinahini, insisting they won't sit down for others to maltreat him.

In 1980, when I was a student at the Acherensua Senior High School, there were attempts by some chiefs and opinion leaders from Ahafo to get the Dr Hilla Limann government to create the Ahafo area as a separate region out of the Brong Ahafo Region but the move fizzled out after the December 31,1981 coup that toppled the People's National Party (PNP) government.

We are having the facts that can not be contradicted by anyone to suggest that the two party leaders are not those provoking the chiefs, opinion leaders, and assembly members against the said nominee's confirmation.

The event was graced by Mr. Ziblim Barri Iddi, Deputy Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, opinion leaders, chiefs and queens from various Zongo communities among others.

Fellow Ghanaians, the conduct of the President after the decision and order of the Supreme Court on 15th November 2016 in publicly casting aspersions on the Court and the beneficiary of the order shows clearly that as the chief looter in this case, the President is determined to prevent the examination ordered by the Court in the absence of strong patriotic public pressure and opinion.

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

Scalia did not write separately but joined in full the plurality opinion authored by Chief Justice John Roberts.

«It can not be right that the IDEA generally contemplates grade - level advancement for children with disabilities who are fully integrated in the regular classroom, but is satisfied with barely more than de minimis progress for children who are not,» read the opinion, signed by Chief Justice John Roberts.

In an opinion written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., the court reversed an earlier ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, in St. Louis, that had upheld Missouri's denial of the grant.

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Either way, it needs to be more Master Chief this time and have a bit more variety than Halo 5 that while great, never got to the top level set by the series in my opinion.

Chief curator Alexander, whose job it was to consider and select artists whose work represents important art historical moments captured by the Walker collection as well as some recent purchases that foreshadow areas of possible growth, said: «I was interested in enabling a public vote and taking advantage of the natural impulse people have when encountering art to form an opinion.»

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 justices who joined Kennedy's opinion in full were Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Clarence Thomas, who said in a concurrence that he also agreed with points made by Gorsuch and Alito.

Lincoln's oath of office was administered by of all people Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who authored the majority opinion in Dred Scott.

In a dissenting opinion, Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, joined by Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson and Justice N. Patrick Crooks, criticized the majority's decision to adopt the rules calling it «a dramatic change to our judicial code of ethics.»

Update: The full 37 - page opinion in House, and an 18 - page dissent by Chief Justice Roberts, can now be accessed at this link.

The matter eventually made its way to the Supreme Court where Chief Justice Rehnquist delivered the opinion of the Court stating that Federal immigration policy, as expressed by Congress, foreclosed the NLRB from awarding back pay to an undocumented alien who has never been legally authorized to work in the United States.

Five judges joined an opinion written by Chief Judge Sharon Prost, dissenting from the denial.

Opinion of the Court by THE CHIEF JUSTICE, MR. JUSTICE BLACK, MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER, MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS, MR. JUSTICE BURTON, MR. JUSTICE CLARK, MR. JUSTICE HARLAN, MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN, and MR. JUSTICE WHITTAKER.

The Court's majority opinion, Chief Justice Roberts's partial concurrence / dissent, and Justice Thomas's dissent used But to begin 20 sentences; whereas, only two sentences began with However followed by a comma.

Justice Gorsuch, joined by Chief Justice Roberts dissented in a very readable opinion arguing that under English common law, patents were dealt with by the courts, not the Privy Council, and that the Founders understood this.

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.

This time, I started by loading Chief Justice Roberts» plurality opinion into Word and running WordRake.

The Court ruled, in a 5 - 3 opinion written by Justice Kennedy, that due process was violated when Chief Justice Castille of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court refused to recuse himself from Terrence Williams» post-conviction appeal of a death sentence that Castill had approved as district attorney before he became a judge.

Interestingly, Breyer's opinion was joined not only by Justices David Souter and Anthony Kennedy, but also by the Court's reliable conservatives, some of whom have shown signs in recent years that they are itching to topple some precedents: Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito Jr..

Unlike cases decided by narrow 5 - 4 margins or those in which justices differed over the reasoning, Chief Justice John Roberts» cellphone opinion was notable for «the emphatic, emphatic message from the court that digital is different,» said Jeffrey Fisher, the Stanford University law professor who successfully argued one of the two cellphone cases.

Lord Chief Justice Morgan, delivering his judgment, said: «Anyone who applies a religious aspect or a political aspect to the provision of services may be caught by equality legislation, not because the legislation treats their religious belief or political opinion less favourably but because that person seeks to distinguish, on a basis that is prohibited, between those who will receive that service and those who will not.»

In addition, Stern (citing Adam Feldman) says this was the sixth time a female justice assigned an opinion; the other five were by Justice O'Connor, who usually did not get to assign because she was in a majority with Chief Justice Rehnquist or Justice Stevens.

A concurring opinion expressed the view that the Court's opinion written by Chief Justice Stone, rooted as it was in the Cooley principle, «let commerce struggle for Congressional action to

According to the 5th Circuit's opinion, Jenevein attempted to appeal the commission's censure order by asking Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson to appoint a special court of review made up of three appellate judges.

(7) Where in the opinion of the Chief Electoral Officer, by reason of any mistake, miscalculation, emergency or unusual or unforeseen circumstance, a situation exists for which no provision is made under this Act, the Chief Electoral Officer may make such appointments or give such directions as he or she considers proper and anything done in compliance with any such direction is not open to question, but the Chief Electoral Officer shall immediately give notice of any such direction to the candidates affected and to the registered parties, if any, of the candidates.

Granting secret opinions stare decisis power undermines the goals embodied in this limitation by preferring earlier iterations of the FISA courts over later ones, perhaps thereby restricting the ability of the Chief Justice to reshape the relevant law through transformative appointments.

«In that context, Chief Justice MacDonald is of the opinion that Chief Justice Rossiter's remarks do not warrant further consideration by Council.»

Some justices seemed sympathetic to the problems caused by splintered opinions for lower court judges especially when, as Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. put it, «If I'm a court of appeals judge, it seems to me the most important thing in deciding the case is to make sure that I'm not reversed.»

This case is an example of the Court of Appeals, led by Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman who authored the opinion, carefully analyzing the policy language and the claim made to arrive at a just result.

Chief Justice Roberts, joined by Justice Alito, filed a concurring opinion.