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Ohio Supreme Court justices differ on what dissenting opinions prove

By Alliance Alert

Columbus Dispatch: "Both [Paul E. Pfeifer, author of more than 1/3 of all dissents, and Maureen O'Connor, most often in the majority] are on the ballot in November, along with Justice Judith Ann Lanzinger and Chief Justice Eric Brown . . . The dissent numbers provide the only statistical view of how often individual justices stray from the majority, but they don't tell the whole story. They don't indicate where a justice in the minority on a case persuaded one or more colleagues to join him or her, turning a dissent into the majority position. O'Connor, who is challenging Brown for chief justice, says her lack of dissents shows she's in the mainstream of legal opinion."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on September 07, 2010 (boomark / email).