1.   Perhaps, you say, the judges were rushing home to write opinions in the privacy of their dens.

2.   The pupil spends his days far better drafting a pleading or writing an opinion and having his master criticise his work afterwards.

3.   The justices displayed great intellectual depth and sinew in writing their opinion on this case.

4.   And many Muslim clerics over the centuries have written opinions strongly recommending beard-growing or even calling it an Islamic duty.

5.   And even though the law on sexual harassment needs clarifying, I doubt the court will let Thomas write the opinion on it.

6.   And it was strengthened further in that the main opinion was written by Justice Antonin Scalia, no champion of centralized government.

7.   At the dining room table, he wrote his opinion in longhand.

8.   After the justices vote on cases, the court selects which justice will write the opinions by lot, drawing numbered marbles out of a leather jar.

9.   Breyer wrote the opinion.

10.   Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote the opinion, which overturned a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in Manhattan.