Sentence examples for decision of the term from inspiring English sources

The decision was the fourth 5-to-4 decision of the term so far.

The ruling was the first signed decision of the term, and it was unanimous.

Thursday's decision, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, was only the 10th signed decision of the term.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear arguments in the case, which could produce the most important free speech decision of the term.

The justices also issued their first formal decision of the term Wednesday morning, unanimously upholding the Social Security Administration's definition of disability.

"The lower courts failed properly to defer to senior Navy officers' specific, predictive judgments," Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., joined by four other justices, wrote for the court in the first decision of the term.

In September, the federal judge B. Lynn Winmill issued a temporary injunction in the tribe's favor, basing his decision on the terms of the land rights outlined in the U.S.-Nez Perce treaty of 1855.

These were the most important decisions of the term.

The court is scheduled to issue its final three decisions of the term, including one on a restrictive Texas abortion law, on Monday.

The marquee decisions of the term — on affirmative action, voting rights and same-sex marriage — will almost certainly be closely divided on the core issues.

Two of the major decisions of the term, in which the court upheld Kentucky's method of execution by lethal injection and Indiana's law requiring voters to produce photo identification at the polls, were decided by more comfortable margins of 7 to 2 and 6 to 3. In those decisions, the justices gave some evidence of trying to find a modicum of middle ground.