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Dissents
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The Law Blog
Dissent or Disorder? The Conditionalisation of Protest under Article 19
By The Law Blog
Anunay Abhay is a first-year B.A.LL.B. (Hons.) student at Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur with a keen interest in constitutional law. On 20 July 2026, thousands of students gathered at…
JURIST
Rights group rebukes arrest of four individuals for criticizing Bangladesh government
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday lambasted the arrest of at least four in Bangladesh for posting social media content that allegedly criticized the new government, calling it an alarming…
Southern California Appellate News
J.VanDyke's 'vulgar' dissent
Articles about Judge VanDyke's dissent continue unabated. The DJ has 9th Circuit judges rebuke their colleague over 'vulgar' dissent -- Twenty-seven judges say the opinion's language "makes us sound like juveniles, not…
Southern California Appellate News
Dissent at the 9th Cir.
Read The Volokh Conspiracy's post about the Olympus Spa opinions titled: Judge VanDyke: "This is a case about swinging dicks." The post excerpts the key passages from the various opinions.Before: McKEOWN, GOULD, and…
JURIST
Rights group presses Kazakhstan authorities to release activists ahead of trial
By IN, Siddhi Joshi | National U. Of Study, Research In Law
Amnesty International on Thursday called on Kazakhstan to immediately drop criminal charges against 19 activists who are part of the Atajurt human rights movement and face up to 10 years…
North Carolina Appellate Practice Blog
Are North Carolina Court of Appeals Judges Dissenting Less?
Until recently, a single judge sitting on a panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals could tee up an issue for the Supreme Court of North Carolina simply by…
Simple Justice
Are Justice Jackson’s Dissents Working?
The newest justice on the Supreme Court has no less a vote and voice as the most senior, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has not been shy about using both.…
The Right Coast
SCOTUS Grants Trump Another Stay, KBJ Issues Another Fiery Solo Dissent, Drawing Rebuke Even From Sotomayor
The last time we checked in on Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, her fiery solo dissent (that even Sotomayor and Kagan didn t join) in the birthright citizenship (really,…
Southern California Appellate News
Elbows in dissent
Law360 has The Sharpest Dissents From The Supreme Court TermThis term's sharpest dissents often looked beyond perceived flaws in majority reasoning to raise existential concerns about the role of the justices…
North Carolina Appellate Practice Blog
Does a Dissenting Opinion Control the Supreme Court?
A dissenting opinion in the Court of Appeals has long been a litigant’s Golden Ticket, at least until a recent statutory change. The mere existence of the dissent bestowed an…