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In the majority opinion, written by Justice Hugo Black, the Court held: [The facts] show the use of tax-supported property for religious instruction and the close cooperation between the school authorities and the religious council in promoting religious education.
A majority opinion sets forth the decision of the court and an explanation of the rationale behind the court's decision. Not all cases have a majority opinion. At times, the justices voting for a majority decision (e.g., to affirm or reverse the lower court 's decision) may have drastically different reasons for their votes, and cannot agree on ...
Cantwell v. Connecticut, 310 U.S. 296 (1940), is a landmark court decision [1] [2] by the United States Supreme Court holding that the First Amendment's federal protection of religious free exercise incorporates via the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and so applies to state governments too.
Raimondo, in which a 6-3 majority (also ideologically divided) overruled the court’s 1984 Chevron decision, means that, when an agency adopts a reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute ...
Multiple concurrences and dissents within a case are numbered, with joining votes numbered accordingly. Justices frequently join multiple opinions in a single case; each vote is subdivided accordingly. An asterisk ( * ) in the Court's opinion denotes that it was only a majority in part or a plurality.
To take just one especially well-known example, Chief Justice Earl Warren famously wrote the unanimous, majority opinion in Brown v. Board of Education so that it would be short enough to be ...
The real takeaway from Thursday’s key ruling, upholding how Congress has funded the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is that even a conservative-dominated Supreme Court can’t accept the ...
By a 5–4 vote, the Court ruled that the town's practice did not violate the Establishment Clause. In the majority opinion, Justice Kennedy wrote that: "The town of Greece does not violate the First Amendment by opening its meetings with prayer that comports with our tradition and does not coerce participation by nonadherents."