A dissenting opinion is an opinion written by a justice who disagrees with the majority or plurality decision of the court. Why is a concurring opinion important? A concurring opinion is important because it allows for justices to share in the decision of the court while articulating a different...
It is well understood that appeals to the Spanish Supreme Court are not dealt with as third instance trials empowering the court to revise the facts in the proceedings, but an extraordinary channel through which only legal issues can be revised, i.e. the application of the law to the facts...
Chief Justice John Roberts Roberts was the only dissenter to read his opinion from the bench. "The majority today relies on its own understanding of what freedom is and must become," he said to the court, and the deepest problem with their decision was "the disrespect it shows the democrati...
The court's three liberal justices dissented from the ruling. "When we are wise, we know not to displace the judgments of experts, acting within the sphere Congress marked out and under Presidential control, to deal with emergency conditions," they wrote in the dissenting opinion. "Today, we...
Dissent rates also vary by jurisdictional source: 26.7 percent of discretionary cases generated at least one dissenting opinion compared to 18.8 percent of mandatory cases. Striking interstate variation overlays the mandatory-discretionary distinction. Reversal rates in SSC discretionary jurisdiction cases ...
Republic of Argentina, the Majority Opinion of US Supreme Court held that local litigation requirement stipulated in Article 8 (2) of pertinent BIT was a procedural condition precedent to arbitration, rather than the consent of arbitration, and therefore the interpretation and application thereof was ...
This article presents a corpus-based study of the use of epistemic lexical verbs as hedging devices in three written legal genres: The law journal article, the Supreme Court majority opinion and the Supreme Court dissenting opinion. These genres were chosen due to the role they potentially play ...
in the majority, then the senior justice who voted with the majority. The majority opinion is often cited as precedent in arguments and decisions during other court cases. Two additional opinions that justices of theUS Supreme Courtmight issue include a concurring opinion and adissenting opinion. ...
Thomas went further in a dissenting opinion to the Supreme Court's decision on the Louisiana abortion law. The court's past decisions on abortion, he wrote, "created the right to abortion out of whole cloth, without a shred of support from the Constitution's text. Our abortion precedents ar...
In a dissenting opinion written by Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan, the court's liberal bloc declared, "With sorrow — for this court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection — we dissent." ...