dissenting

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Dissenting in Massachusetts, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that from the court’s reasoning, “it follows that everything airborne, from Frisbees to flatulence, qualifies as an ‘air pollutant.’

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

Dissenting alone, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the court should not have intervened.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2025

Dissenting from the decision not to rehear the case, Judge Diane P. Wood said prison officials may no more deprive inmates of exercise than they may starve or torture them.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2023

Dissenting from the 5-4 Lochner majority, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote in 1905 that the court was improperly deriving legal doctrines from economic theory.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 15, 2022

To a great extent I, and most Dissenting parsons, at any rate, sympathize with you. 

From Crying for the Light, Vol. 1 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)