He also authored the 1988 opinion upholding singer Bette Midler's claim that Ford Motor Co. illegally used a sound-alike in a commercial without her consent.
And rule changes could mean the average new vehicle would be heavier and less fuel-efficient than it is today, the authors of the opinion article wrote.
The conservative justice notably authored the Supreme Court's 2008 opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller, which ruled that the Second Amendment protects a person's right to bear arms and struck down a D.C. ban on handguns.
For his part, Kennedy served as a key vote on critical cases upholding a woman's constitutional right to choose, including co-authoring a 1992 opinion involving Planned Parenthood that reaffirmed Roe as precedent.
In California v. Minjares, 443 U.S. 916, 928 (1979) (REHNQUIST, J., joined by BURGER, C.J., dissenting from the denial of stay), the author of today's opinion for the Court urged that the parties be directed to brief whether the exclusionary rule should be retained.
The highly selective inclusion/omission and discussion of previously published research that contradicts the authors' opinion (e.g., Pickford et al. 2003) is particularly disturbing.
However, it is the authors' opinion that in the majority of dogs a serum PB concentration between 25−30 mg/l is required for optimal seizure control.
In the authors' opinion, probably not.
In the authors' opinion, more research is clearly needed.
It is the authors' opinion that CP and SZ contributed equally as first authors to this manuscript.
On the other hand, Reames (2004) stated that, "In the author's opinion, reliable predictions of the onset and fluence of an SEP event prior to its occurrence are not likely in our lifetime.
