In opinion writing categories, Bret Stephens of The Wall Street Journal received the commentary award for columns on American foreign policy and domestic politics.
New members to the bench have their own internal "learning curve, " where they try to navigate the complexities and rhythms of their new home -- oral argument, opinion writing and the personal dynamics between one's eight colleagues, all brilliant legal minds.
Typically the Court takes a preliminary vote on the following Friday and assigns opinion-writing duties.
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The opinion-writing exercise is little-known, and the court likes it that way.
One of the few stated prerogatives the chief justice commands when he is in the majority is the power to assign the all-important opinion-writing.
The tricky task of commanding a five-vote majority and keeping it over the weeklong contentious opinion-writing process may leave Roberts -- or whoever -- thinking small and narrow: upholding the mandate by insisting that health care is unique in the national economy and warning Congress not to go much further when regulating "commerce, " i.e.
Even without writing the opinion, Roberts, more than anyone, shaped what the Court did.
Judge Kozinski, writing the opinion for the three-judge panel, ruled that no federal law ensuring mediation confidentiality existed in the federal courts.
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Sporkin rejected that argument, writing in his opinion that Cisneros failed to prove that extortion was Medlar's motivation.
Chief Justice Roberts, joining the liberals, surprised everyone by writing the majority opinion that preserved the individual mandate as a tax.
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And with millions of human-hours now going into writing and recording opinion, we have to wonder whether being the blogging capital of the world will help America compete in the global economy.
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Stephen Breyer, writing the court's opinion, affirmed that Prometheus's patents claimed a natural law and would restrict further innovation.
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Writing the majority's opinion in one of the Florida cases, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, the court's fiercest conservative, who has spent years arguing for a rollback of federal power, simply slapped away Congress's decision to make states subject to patent suits as, in his view, unnecessary even though the constitution explicitly awards the task of patent protection to the federal government.
If the story is really hitting a sore point and you feel the need to yell your opinion out a window, try journaling or writing to an entity that has a public voice or mission on related issues.
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Judge Moon's opinion put the individual mandate in the context of the law's broader overhaul, writing that the law removes "many barriers to insurance coverage, " encourages small businesses to provide coverage and creates insurance exchanges where people can comparison-shop for plans.
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