1.   A constitutional amendment is the only means of making such a change, the court majority said.

2.   A narrow but determined conservative court majority has been chipping away at federal power.

3.   But a court majority appeared to believe that the prosecutors had unconstitutionally used incriminating financial documents that Hubbell had provided them under an immunity agreement.

4.   But in a dissent, Associate Judge George Bundy Smith wrote that the court majority expected lay people to know more about medicine and science than is reasonable.

5.   But in the end, the court majority decided to sin boldly.

6.   But the court majority Wednesday was not persuaded by that reasoning.

7.   But the appeals court majority clearly had a more expansive game plan than setting aside a regulation or two.

8.   By refusing to clear up the matter, Scalia said, the court majority has given itself the power to strike down abortion statutes without regard to earlier precedent.

9.   For all its revisionist thinking, the court majority somehow avoided providing much concrete guidance for the district court and the parties in the case.

10.   He led the court majority that said such decisions should be left to the states.