Sentence examples for landmark opinion from inspiring English sources

"Who owns Bratz?" Kozinski asked at the opening of his landmark opinion.

By Jeffrey Toobin October 25, 2016 Clarence Thomas has never been assigned a landmark opinion for the Supreme Court.

Gorsuch also expressed ill-disguised contempt for Anthony Kennedy's landmark opinion legalizing same-sex marriage in all fifty states.

In 1972, Brennan wrote a landmark opinion in the case of Furrman v. Georgia, in which the Court rendered the death penalty unconstitutional.

In addition to citing Kennedy's landmark opinion repeatedly, Reinhardt's repeated citing of Romer demonstrates that the court can hold Proposition 8 unconstitutional without radically changing equal protection law.

Neither Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who presided over Thomas's first fourteen years on the Court, nor Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., who has run the court for the past eleven, ever assigned Thomas a landmark opinion for the Court.

Justice Kennedy has emerged as the most important judicial champion of gay rights in the nation's history, having written three landmark opinions on the subject, including this summer's Windsor decision, which overturned a ban on federal benefits for married same-sex couples.

Brennan's many landmark opinions, Dorsen wrote, have greatly strengthened freedom of expression and the rights of criminal defendants, and have expanded and deepened the principle of the Fourteenth Amendment's "equal protection of the laws," especially for racial minorities and for women.

Often the court's landmark opinions extend far beyond the issue decided.

U.S. Disctrict Court Judge Shira Scheindlin handed down two landmark opinions on Monday.

"During his tenure on the Court, he authored landmark opinions in every significant area of constitutional law, most notably on equal protection under the law, the separation of powers, and the First Amendment's guarantees of freedom of speech and religion," the statement read.