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ISBN: 143843068X 1441648739 9781441648730 9781438430683 1438430663 1438430671 9781438430669 9781438430676 Year: 2010 Publisher: Albany SUNY Press
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Analysis of concurrent opinion writing by Supreme Court justices.
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ISBN: 0804786321 9780804786324 9780804784726 0804784728 Year: 2013 Publisher: Stanford, California
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The U.S. Supreme Court typically rules on cases that present complex legal questions. Given the challenging nature of its cases and the popular view that the Court is divided along ideological lines, it's commonly assumed that the Court routinely hands down equally-divided decisions. Yet the justices actually issue unanimous decisions in approximately one third of the cases they decide.Drawing on data from the U.S. Supreme Court database, internal court documents, and the justices' private papers, The Puzzle of Unanimity provides the first comprehensive account of how the C
Judicial process --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Authority --- Common good --- General will --- Power (Social sciences) --- United States. --- Supreme Court (U.S.) --- Chief Justice of the United States --- Supreme Court of the United States --- 美國.
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ISBN: 0813950171 9780813950174 0813950163 9780813950167 Year: 2023 Publisher: Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press,
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"Analyzing the influence of previous US Supreme Court dissents on future majority opinions, this book presents the first comprehensive study of the effects of dissenting opinions and illuminates which types of dissents successfully influence legal and policy debates, which ones fail to make a difference, and why. Drawing on the private papers of the justices and original data, including textual analysis of opinions, this book demonstrates that court majorities engage with dissents that pose a particular threat to the strength and position of the majority opinion-specifically, well-crafted and attention-grabbing dissents from larger, ideologically mixed coalitions. These results suggest that majorities can be persuaded by thoughtful and careful dissenting arguments but must defend against strident appeals to external actors, including the other branches of government, the media, and the public"--
Dissenting opinions --- Judicial opinions --- Judicial process
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