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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 in the Bruen case last year, Justice Stephen G. Breyer wrote that the new test asked judges to perform unfamiliar tasks.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 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

Upon this occasion, the service was conducted in the method generally adopted in other Dissenting Churches.

From Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Coleman, Thomas