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To: Hojczyk

I just read that at least 4 of the 9 Justices have to agree to hear the case. I’d like to know how the votes in this case were broken down...who voted to hear it, and who didn’t.


15 posted on 05/30/2019 12:53:34 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: mass55th
I just read that at least 4 of the 9 Justices have to agree to hear the case. I’d like to know how the votes in this case were broken down...who voted to hear it, and who didn’t.

When the Court decides not to hear a case, there is usually just an unsigned Order saying that "The Petition for a Writ of Certiorari is denied," with no indication of who voted which way. Occasionally a Justice will write a dissent from the Court's refusal to hear a case (as Justice Thomas did this week in the Indiana abortion case), or will simply write "Justice X would have granted the Petition."

In this case, there were no recorded dissents. That doesn't necessarily mean that no Justice wanted to hear the case, but at least no Justice felt strongly enough about it to record a dissent.

16 posted on 05/30/2019 2:05:07 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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