According to SCOTUSBlog, who is blogging via blackberry from the Court, the vote was 5-2-2. I don't know who is in the minority or what the -2-2 means. Apparently, Ginsburg was dissenting from the Bench.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court refused Thursday to order the Bush administration to make public secret details of Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force (search), but kept the case alive by sending it back to a lower court.
Justices said 7-2 that a lower court should consider whether a federal open government law could be used to get documents of the task force.
The decision extends the legal fight over the information. Justices could have allowed a judge to immediately move ahead with ordering the release of the papers.
The issues in the case have been overshadowed by conflict-of-interest questions about one justice.
Since it was called 7-2 elsewhere, it sounds like 5 justices issued the majority opinion, 2 issued a concurring opinion with different reasons, and two dissented.
This is a MAJOR victory.
It's a confusing ruling, decided mainly on procedural grounds. The district judge ordered the files released, before the case was over. The government appealed, and the Court of Appeals said that, because the case wasn't over in the district court, it (the Court of Appeals) had no jurisdiction to overturn the district court. The Supreme Court held, 7-2, that the Court of Appeals did have jurisdiction to review the district court's order. The opinion for the Court (written by Kennedy, joined by Rehnquist, Stevens, O'Connor and Breyer) decided that jurisdictional issue and nothing else. It has the effect of sending the case back to the Court of Appeals without telling it how to decide whether or not to release the files (but effectively postponing any release until after the election).
Stevens joined that opinion but added a concurring opinion hinting that he thought that some, but not all, of the files should be released.
Thomas (joined by Scalia) concurred in part, saying that (a) the Court of Appeals does have jurisdiction, and (b) the district judge was wrong and none of the files should be released.
Ginsburg (joined by Souter) dissented and said that the Court of Appeals had no jurisdiction.