41.   Scalia wrote the opinion in Smith.

42.   Scalia and Thomas wrote concurring opinions as well.

43.   Souter wrote the opinion.

44.   Souter wrote the opinion for the court.

45.   That guy gets paid for writing his opinions.

46.   The chief justice rarely asked Blackmun to write opinions in important or even interesting cases.

47.   The judge, G. Thomas Eisele of U.S. District Court, wrote his opinion in response to an ethics complaint brought against Starr.

48.   The majority opinion was written by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist.

49.   The majority opinion was written by Scalia.

50.   The majority opinion was written by Myron H. Bright, a judge who usually sits on the federal appeals court in St. Louis.