Sentence examples for divided decision from inspiring English sources

In a divided decision, the Supreme Court of Michigan affirmed.

In a divided decision, a three-judge panel of the federal appeals court in New Orleans agreed.

He argued that the administrative law judge lacked the authority to do his job, and the Supreme Court in a divided decision agreed.

In 2012's closely divided decision, Chief Justice Roberts also wrote the controlling opinion, but that time no other justice joined it in full.

Monday's sharply divided decision came from a court whose ideological differences are under intense scrutiny after last week's arguments on President Obama's health care law.

A divided decision, Judge Learned Hand wrote in 1958, "cancels the impact of monolithic solidarity on which the authority of a bench of judges so largely depends".

Justice Kennedy often provides the decisive vote in ideologically divided decisions, and he has taken a special interest in cases concerning gay rights.

The number of closely divided decisions was never large, and Justice Scalia was not the decisive vote in all of them.

Diane Ravitch essentially proposes an independent school board that appoints the chancellor — and a return to the bad old days when divided decision-making and a lack of accountability produced decades of failure for students, particularly the poorest in our city.

But divided decisions can be maddeningly vague, too, of course.

There are vigorous debates on the court, of course, and closely divided decisions are common.