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Whether or not this is true, it is perfectly clear that the unanimous per curiam opinion of the U.
How the justices who later dissented could have brought themselves to join this per curiam opinion defies understandingunless they, too, were playing a game, trying to prevent a result with which they disagreed by forestalling the possibility that the Court would have to overrule the state court.
And second, by not saying anything about the equal-protection clauseindeed, by explicitly denying review of the Bush claim that a manual recount employing different standards for counting questionable ballots denied him equal protection the per curiam implied that the justices did not think that the use of such different standards created an equal-protection problem.
The Florida Supreme Court thus followed the advice implicit in the unanimous per curiam opinion: It applied the Florida legislative standard without trying to narrow it further so as to eliminate any possible equal-protection concerns.
But they had earlierin the per curiam opinion warned against any such tampering with Florida election law.
The majority opinion was once again per curiam, but this time the Court was anything but unanimous.
The majority per curiam opinion is likely to become one of the most analyzed, criticized, and defended opinions in the history of the Supreme Court.
Justice Kennedy abandoned his long-held principles when he wrote the per curiam opinion in the Florida election.
Justice Rehnquist, though joining with Justice Scalia and Thomas in their separate opinion based on Article II, also joined the per curiam equal-protection opinion.
The per curiam opinion does seek to distinguish people from things, but as pointed out in Chapter 2, even with regard to decisions made by people, more uniformity can always be achieved.
Equidem etiam curiam nostram, Hostiliam dico, non hanc novam, quae mihi minor esse videtur postquam est maior, solebam intuens, Scipionem, Catonem, Laelium, nostrum vero in primis avum cogitare.
Court has declined to write further on the general subject, disposing by per curiam orders of a number of other cases which can only in the loosest way be held to be governed by the decision of May, 1954.
So it was rewritten by Brennan, and it was Brennan who arbitrarily changed it from a per curiam, or unsigned, opinion of the four-member majority.