On that assumption, Justice Thomas wrote, Ms. Symczyk did not have a stake in the controversy sufficient to allow her to represent the group.
With that shift, the story introduces profound questions about the nature of culpability, punishment, and justice — and the assumptions we make about one another.
Then the Justice Department unsealed a criminal indictment on a single count of obstruction of justice, wrecking the assumptions Andersen had presented and putting both sides under pressure.
As with Justice White's assumptions about history, scholarship casts some doubt on the sweeping nature of the statement by Chief Justice Burger as it pertains to private homosexual conduct between consenting adults.
Public reason, on this view, is the only way to achieve justice given certain assumptions about the nature of well-ordered liberal democratic societies.
Paul Holland, professor at Seattle University School of Law, wrote that "the assumptions Justice Kennedy made in Alvarado are inapplicable to the schoolhouse context ... considering the age of a student-suspect questioned at school, would not present a significant risk of compromising the clarity the Court has sought to provide law enforcement.
Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson made an assumption in the Reynolds case.
The implication of this anecdote – that crime fiction depends on readers' respect for the investigator – poses a challenge to mainstream British crime fiction, in which there is an overwhelming assumption that justice will ultimately be done.
The next hard lesson in criminal justice was that many assumptions about victims of domestic abuse simply do not hold water.
The second set is less deeply 'philosophical' (or 'comprehensive'), and encompasses arguments from the requirements of justice, independent from substantial assumptions about culture and cultural values.
