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dissenting opinion

noun

, Law.
  1. (in appellate courts) an opinion filed by a judge who disagrees with the majority decision of a case.


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And even the primary dissenting opinion used a version of originalism.

For example, a majority opinion from a conservative justice can generate a dissenting opinion from a liberal justice.

Roberts, wrote Campos, authored both the majority and dissenting opinion.

Yet these words appeared in a dissenting opinion issued by Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas on Monday.

As to the character of President Monroe, there seems to be scarcely a dissenting opinion.

Judge Beck, the fourth judge of the court, had delivered a very able dissenting opinion sustaining the constitutional amendment.

But its manifest untruth was clearly shown by Justice Curtis in his dissenting opinion.

But it is only fair to state the dissenting opinion on this point.

It is hardly too much to say that he had never encountered a dissenting opinion on this point.

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