The opinion was joined in full by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., and by Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor. Justices Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Antonin ...

On Thursday, June 26, the Supreme Court also released the following opinions: — In Hewitt v. United States, the justices ...

Here are three samples of the dozens of dissenting opinions Judge Joe Cowart has written in the past few months from the 5th District Court of Appeal: Thomas Raymond Hankey v. State of Florida, Jun… ...

In June 1990, US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens sat down and wrote a dissenting opinion in a death-penalty case. At issue was whether the defendant had a right to have his sentence ...

Both cases are examples of where a dissenting opinion revealed (or allegedly revealed) a basis to challenge the award. The decision of the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt, ...

Finally, there are Scalia dissents that, over time, become the basis for majority opinions. Consider, for example, campaign finance law, and Scalia's dissent from a 1990 decision upholding a ...

When the U.S. Supreme Court issues opinions, you may hear that the nine justices reached a 6-3 or a 5-4 decision. You may also hear that certain justices wrote a concurrence or that there were ...

Foster highlighted four sentences from the dissenting opinion borrowed from the Jewish Virtual Library. The website is not mentioned in the Ugandan judge's citations.

Jan Crawford Greenburg, legal correspondent for ABC News, has a new book out tomorrow: "Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story for Control of the United States Supreme Court." Today, the WSJ publishes ...

Dissenting Opinions: Occasionally, The Crimson Editorial Board is divided about the opinion we express in a staff editorial. ... two sentences in the acknowledgements of her dissertation. ...