While a published dissent from an order like a stay is unusual, this one had the effect of goading Justice Scalia into doing something even more unusual, publishing a defense of the stay.
Two researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, where Dr. Taleyarkhan worked at the time, published dissenting research in the same issue of the journal saying the bubble fusion work was inaccurate.
But in a published dissent from today's decision, Justice Stephen G. Breyer said he had voted to hear the appeal because the case "significantly affects an important sector of the economy".
To avoid a published dissent that would have profoundly questioned the integrity of his Court, Chief Justice Roberts set the case for re-argument on June 29 , 2009
Forbidden from publishing dissenting opinions and guarded in their relations with the media, the judges who sit on the European Union's second-highest tribunal were once a picture of unanimity when they pronounced on merger reviews, trademark law and trade disputes.
A telling moment arrived when Mr. Lind, perhaps the most promising junior neoconservative, denounced his onetime mentors in an article published in Dissent, the socialist quarterly, in 1995.
In "Black Boys and Native Sons," an essay published in Dissent, Irving Howe adopted a strangely patronizing tone to celebrate Richard Wright's authenticity and to reprimand James Baldwin and Ellison for failing to possess a similar sense of rage.
In his brilliant essay "In Praise of Inconsistency," published in Dissent in 1964, the Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski argued that, given that we are regularly confronted with equally valid choices where painful ethical reflection is in order, being inconsistent is the only way to avoid becoming a doctrinaire ideologue who sticks to an algorithm.
It started out as a 1961 piece of mine, "The Person Alone" published by Dissent.
In an opinion published without dissent, the court argued that the law violated individuals' right to privacy.
