The U. S. argument was affirmed, however, by the dissenting opinion of ICJ member U. S. Judge Schwebel, who concluded that in supporting the contras, the U. S. acted lawfully in collective self-defence in El Salvador's support.

When the Court renders its decision, it will generally do so in a single majority opinion and one or more dissenting opinions.

The Thought Police are those who suppress all dissenting opinion.

A dissenting opinion is presented by followers of the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, who argue that non-Muslims may not be allowed into mosques under any circumstances.

While only the majority opinion is considered precedential, an outvoted judge can still publish a dissenting opinion.

In his widely cited dissenting opinion in Olmstead v. United States ( 1928 ), Brandeis relied on thoughts he developed in his Harvard Law Review article in 1890.

On October 1, 2008, the Court declined to reconsider its opinion in this case, but did amend the majority and dissenting opinions in order to acknowledge that federal law.

Likewise, Justice Antonin Scalia has expressed the same view, in the dissenting opinion of Troxel v. Granville 530 U. S. 57 ( 2000 ):

In a separate dissenting opinion, Justice Stevens also challenged the virtue of an individual reward, analyzing it from the perspective of patent law.

However, the matter was addressed in separate and dissenting opinions, such as the separate opinion of President Guillaume who concluded that universal jurisdiction exists only in relation to piracy ; and the dissenting opinion of Judge Oda who recognised piracy, hijacking, terrorism and genocide as crimes subject to universal jurisdiction.

Justice Douglas, dissenting in Wheeling Steel Corp. v. Glander ( 337 U. S. 562, 1949 ), gave an opinion similar to, but shorter than, the one quoted above, to which Justice Black concurred.

Indeed, Chief Justice William Rehnquist repeatedly criticized the Court's invention of corporate constitutional " rights ," most famously in his dissenting opinion in the 1978 case First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti.

Justice Frank Murphy offered a dissenting opinion, stating that the Court was effectively giving the FCC a power to regulate networks which had not been given to the FCC by Congress.

* The concurring opinions of Burger and Douglas, as well as White's dissenting opinion, were issued along with Doe v. Bolton and may be found at:

" The Los Angeles Timess Kevin Thomas issued a dissenting opinion when he reviewed the shortened film, becoming one of its few American champions and calling it " a true screen epic.

These lists contain detailed tables about each term, including which Justices filed the Court's opinion, dissenting and concurring opinions in each case, and information about Justices joining opinions.

Justice Hamilton R. Gamble, a future governor of the state, sharply disagreed with the majority decision and wrote a dissenting opinion.

He is also memorialized there with an official Michigan Historical Marker and a plaque from the State Bar of Michigan for " Michigan Legal Milestones ", namely, his dissenting opinion in Korematsu v. United States, protesting the decision to uphold exclusion orders imposed upon persons of Japanese descent during World War II.

Justice O ' Connor, dissenting in Gonzalez ( transcript ), began her opinion by citing United States v. Lopez, which she followed with a federalist reference to Justice Louis Brandeis's dissenting opinion in New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann.

His parents were Presbyterian dissenters ; he was educated in a dissenting academy at Newington Green run by Charles Morton and is believed to have attended the church there.

He travelled throughout Britain as a dissenting preacher, for which he was often persecuted by the authorities who disapproved of his beliefs.

The new rule was controversial, with two commissioners dissenting, and was later challenged in court by a hedge fund manager.

On October 1, 2004, one of the main dissenting voices to Émile Lahoud's term extension, the newly resigned Druze ex-minister Marwan Hamadeh was the target of a car bomb attack as his vehicle slowed to enter his Beirut home.

Chief Justice John Roberts rejected this reasoning and this rationale was not cited in any dissenting justice opinions.

Every judgment contained the reasons behind the decision and the judges assenting ; if there was a dissenting judge, he was allowed to deliver his own judgment, with all judgments read in open court before the agents of the parties to the dispute.

The book was rejected by publishers in Sweden prompting an open letter in 2003 defending Johnstone's book ( and her right to publish ) which was signed by, among others, Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy, Tariq Ali and John Pilger: " We regard Diana Johnstone ’ s Fools ’ Crusade as an outstanding work, dissenting from the mainstream view but doing so by an appeal to fact and reason, in a great tradition.

This petition was rejected, 7 – 2, with Judges Sentelle and David Tatel dissenting.

Although the suit was unsuccessful, dissenting opinions put the Army — and by association the entire government — on notice that use of individuals without their consent is unacceptable.

Mainly through John Gough, a blind philosopher and polymath to whose informal instruction he owed much of his scientific knowledge, Dalton was appointed teacher of mathematics and natural philosophy at the " New College " in Manchester, a dissenting academy.

This passage was used in Britain by Lord Atkin in his dissenting judgement in the seminal case Liversidge v. Anderson ( 1942 ), where he protested about the distortion of a statute by the majority of the House of Lords.

Along with the New Left and the American Civil Rights Movement, the hippie movement was one of three dissenting groups of the 1960s counterculture.

Soon after his return, he was summoned and interrogated by Prime Minister Ibrahim Abdel Hadi regarding suspicions that he was forming a secret group of dissenting officers.

Also the Esperanto work in Western countries was sometimes influenced by the Cold War: in the early 50s, the American Esperanto leader George Allan Connor denounced dissenting members of his national organization as communists.

The final version was close to what Roosevelt had asked, and easily passed Congress with only three dissenting votes.

The archpriest of Santa Prassede, Laurentius, was elected pope that same day at the church of St. Mary's by a dissenting minority faction with Byzantine sympathies, who were supported by Emperor Anastasius.

The General Medical Council appealed to the Court of Appeal and in October 2006 by a majority decision, with the Master of the Rolls, Sir Anthony Clarke, dissenting, the Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the High Court in part, ruling that Meadow's misconduct was not sufficiently serious to merit the punishment which he had received.

The court opinion was written by William Rehnquist ; a dissenting opinion was written by Thurgood Marshall, who was joined by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger.

The final report, published on December 30, 1907, included three sections: a summary of the panel ’ s findings written by Mills, a letter by John Montgomery Ward supporting the panel, and a dissenting opinion by Henry Chadwick.

Out of the permanent judges of the Court of Final Appeal, Bokhary holds the record for the number of dissenting opinions he has written.

Their dissenting opinion, written by Holmes, is found in the companion case of Bartels v. State of Iowa.

Ghulam Muhammad emerged victorious when the Chief Justice Muhammad Munir upheld the dismissal in a split decision, despite the dissenting opinion written by the renowned Justice ( later Chief Justice ) A. R. Cornelius, and despite protests from the members of the Assembly.

The dissenting opinion was written by William J. Brennan, who was joined by Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, and Lewis Franklin Powell.

* A committee report written by at least two members of a committee to officially state a position counter to the committee's majority, i. e., a dissenting opinion

The sole dissenting opinion was written by Justice John C. Major.

Justice Durham has written both majority opinions and dissenting opinions in many cases.

Two dissenting opinions were written, one by Justice Stewart, joined by Justice Rehnquist, and the other by Justice Stevens.

A dissenting opinion ( or dissent ) is an opinion in a legal case written by one or more judges expressing disagreement with the majority opinion of the court which gives rise to its judgment.