"The scientific community virtually unanimously agrees that psychiatric testimony on future dangerousness is, to put it bluntly, unreliable and unscientific," Judge Garza wrote in a 2000 concurrence to a decision upholding a death sentence.
He explained why in a 1927 concurrence to a Court decision that would help transform First Amendment law.
Her views are so exquisitely calibrated that once in a voting rights case she wrote a separate concurrence to her own opinion, prompting Pam Karlan, a voting rights scholar at Stanford Law School, to say, "At last, O'Connor has found someone she can agree with: herself".
As if to explain his vote, Breyer wrote a brief concurrence to say that he joined his more conservative colleagues "to preserve the status quo" and because the court is currently not in session.
Thomas ignored that custom in 2009 when he issued a separate concurrence to Justice Sonia Sotomayor's first opinion -- although he didn't go so far as to dissent, which Justice Antonin Scalia did when Justice Elena Kagan first wrote for the Court.
To characterize the second element as a "distortion" requires the concurrence to overlook the fact that the inability of the Florida courts to conduct the recount on time is, in significant part, a problem of the court' s own making.
To characterize the first element as a "distortion," however, requires the concurrence to second-guess the way in which the state court resolved a plain conflict in the language of different statutes.
"We've essentially come to a concurrence that outcomes-based funding is something that we ought to do," he said.
But in the mid-90's, the larger industry fell victim to a concurrence of declining sales and product gluts.
Although artistic representations of past, present, and future show no sign of deliquescing into seamless world culture, they are overlapping, simultaneous, and syncretistic paradigms which roughly correspond to a concurrence of global civilization's preindustrial, industrial, and postindustrial societies, economies, and labor.
