Sentence examples for justice majority from inspiring English sources
Oh well.Don Herzog Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law SchoolAnn Arbor, Michigam SIR —Your article on the US Supreme Court's opinion upholding the ban on partial-birth abortions omitted one fact about the five justice majority which is perhaps more significant to understanding their votes than is their conservatism.
If the five justice majority maintain that corporations are significantly disadvantaged in the political arena, how does it explain the reality of thousands of business PACs spending hundreds of millions each election cycle?
That law does not permit punitive damages, Justice Scalia wrote for a six-justice majority today.
"The state has an interest in ensuring so grave a choice is well informed," Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the five-justice majority.
"Sharing a small amount of marijuana for no remuneration, let alone possession with intent to do so, does not fit easily into the everyday understanding of trafficking, which ordinarily means some sort of commercial dealing," Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for a seven-justice majority, partly quoting from an earlier case.
The exemption, Justice Harry A. Blackmun wrote for a five-justice majority, was "an exception and an anomaly" that applied to baseball but not to other sports.
In that case, Thomas joined Anthony M. Kennedy's five-Justice majority opinion, which held that a major part of the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law was unconstitutional.
Gay rights advocates are reasonably confident they have the five-justice majority they need for victory, thanks to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy.
The five-justice majority was not in agreement on that point today.
In the Dec. 8 ruling, the four-justice majority fended off the issue.
A five-justice majority said yes, a judge can be wrong and still be reasonable.
