A plurality decision is a court decision in which no opinion received the support of a majority of the judges. A plurality opinion is the judicial opinion...

Look up plurality in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Plurality may refer to: Plurality decision, in a decision by a multi-member court, an opinion held...

In psychology, decision-making (also spelled decision making and decisionmaking) is regarded as the cognitive process resulting in the selection of a belief...

First-past-the-post (FPTP)—also called choose-one, first-preference plurality (FPP), or simply plurality—is a single-winner voting rule. Voters mark one candidate...

unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. As in its prior decision in Harmelin v. Michigan, the United States Supreme Court could not agree...

the plurality in upholding the parental consent, informed consent, and waiting period laws. However, they dissented from the plurality's decision to uphold...

The district court found that the act was constitutional. In a split 5–4 decision the Court upheld the constitutionality of the federal construction grants...

2004, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia used this phrase to decry the plurality decision in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, which upheld the detention of a US citizen as...

library setting under the First Amendment, but the court's fractured plurality decision left the scope of this right unclear. In September 1975, the Island...

(TRS or 2RS), sometimes called ballotage, top-two runoff, or two-round plurality, is a single-winner electoral system which aims to elect a member who...

is the plurality-rule family of voting rules, which includes ranked choice voting (RCV), two-round plurality, and first-preference plurality. These rules...

collection speech over political speech. The Supreme Court, in a complex plurality decision, ruled on July 6, 2020, that the 2015 amendment to the TCPA did unconstitutionally...

Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The three justice plurality decision was authored by Associate Justice Roger J. Traynor who would later...

328 U.S. 549 (1946) the United States Supreme Court held in a 4–3 plurality decision that Article I, Section 4 left to the legislature of each state the...

decision. Averaging Each group member makes their own private and independent decision and all are later "averaged" to produce a decision. Plurality Group...

evaluating state-imposed restrictions on that right. The controlling plurality decision in the case was joined by Souter, Kennedy and O'Connor. Souter is...

solely through the record on the appeal. The plurality did not find any reason that the trial judge's decision presented a clear error and was a permissible...

the practice of block booking. Dennis v. United States (1951): In a plurality decision written by Justice Vinson, the court upheld the conviction of Eugene...

(10th ed. 2014). James F. Spriggs II & David R. Stras, Explaining Plurality Decisions, 99 The Georgetown L.J. 515 at 517 (2011). Black’s Law Dictionary...

Communist. Despite a significant split among the justices, Burton wrote a plurality decision in which he disposed of the case on technical grounds. He argued that...

of Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee v. FEC. In a 7-2 plurality decision announced by Justice Stephen G. Breyer, the United States Supreme...

by a tribal corporation for sale to tribal members. This was a 5-4 plurality decision, with Justice Breyer's opinion being joined by Justices Sotomayor...

however, the Supreme Court vacated and remanded the case after its new plurality decision in Vieth v. Jubelirer readdressed the political question doctrine...

549 (1946), was a United States Supreme Court case. Writing for a 4–3 plurality, Justice Felix Frankfurter held that the federal judiciary had no power...

offense. The Louisiana court distinguished the U.S. Supreme Court's plurality decision in Coker v. Georgia (1977), concluding that Coker's rejection of death...

Jackson Women's Health Organization, 597 U.S. 215 (2022), is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the court held that the United...

disabled, without having to explain the reasons for their request. The plurality decision left open a future "as-applied" Constitutional challenge, however...

In law, a per curiam decision or opinion (sometimes called an unsigned opinion) is one that is not authored by or attributed to a specific judge, but rather...

police arrests someone for conduct that is not unlawful. It was a plurality decision. Albright v. Oliver, 510 U.S. 266 (1994) Lieberman, Jethro K. (1999)...

vote, the Court reversed the Sixth Circuit's decision and remanded the case for review. The plurality decision was written by Justice Elena Kagan and joined...