11.   If lawmakers and Taft try again, Justice Alice Resnick, writing for the court majority, gave them clear instructions on what not to do.

12.   In a stinging dissent, Justice Clinton Peterson accused the court majority of abandoning or ignoring U.S. Supreme Court decisions sharply limiting the abridgment of free speech.

13.   In its contorted decision, the five-person court majority prevailed over the four dissenters and a unanimous New Jersey Supreme Court.

14.   In reaching its decision, the court majority said there was a difference between doctor-assisted suicides and allowing patients to end their lives by refusing medical treatment.

15.   In the steel case, the president and the court majority were at odds over the constitutional powers of the president.

16.   In the end, however, the appeals court majority generally maintained the status quo.

17.   Instead, Thomas has sided with the conservative wing on the court and joined the slim court majority that has consistently voted to weaken all those measures.

18.   It had, according to a court majority.

19.   Jacobson said that it appeared to him that the court majority may have misunderstood some of the complex calculation that went in to fashioning the formula.

20.   Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the opinion for the court majority.