Sentence examples for dissenting from the majority from inspiring English sources

Justice Black joined forces with a portion of the Supreme Court liberal wing in dissenting from the majority opinion.

Mr. Ruppert was convicted only on a 2‐to‐1 split decision —Judge Cramer dissenting from the majority decision of Judges Arthur Fiehrer and Robert Marrs.

Dissenting from the majority were Hugo L. Black, who had developed a literal interpretation of the Bill of Rights and an absolutist position on First Amendment rights, and William O. Douglas.

SCM's attorneys are also expected to offer reasoning similar to that made by Judge Amalya Kearse who, dissenting from the majority in the three-judge panel, wrote that the company's directors conducted extensive analysis before agreeing to sell SCM's pigment and Durkee foods businesses to Merrill Lynch.

One of the most valuable points he makes against the critics of John Brown is that a person should not be dismissed as "insane" by virtue of dissenting from the majority: his anger is grounded upon an awareness of the fact that slavery is a violation of human rights, and the law-abiding citizens of Massachusetts are not excused for turning away from this reality ("A Plea for Captain John Brown").

In three decades on the court, Scalia's opinions, often dissenting from the majority on social issues, included several denunciations of homosexuality and dismissals of equal protection in the constitution for women — issues that turned him into one of the most polarizing of the nine justices.

Lords Bingham and Mance dissented from the majority decision.

Justices Goodwin Liu and Kathryn M. Werdegar dissented from the majority opinion on the Batson issue.

The member of the three-judge panel who dissented from the majority decision, Terence T. Evans, "was right," Judge Posner said.

Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and the three Liberal members of the court dissented from the majority opinion, read by Justice Pierce Butler.

Justices William J. Brennan, Thurgood Marshall and Harry A. Blackmun, while joining portions of the majority opinion, dissented from the majority's conclusion that the First Amendment entitled the lawyers to no special treatment.