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concurring opinion

noun

, Law.
  1. (in appellate courts) an opinion filed by a judge that agrees with the majority or plurality opinion on the case but that bases this conclusion on different reasons or on a different view of the case.


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Alito penned a long concurring opinion and said he did not understand the opinion to apply to students at public colleges and universities.

Kavanaugh said in a concurring opinion that Kagan and Roberts were not really far apart.

As in, the concurring opinion of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who took a sharp turn from the measured approach in criticizing NCAA arguments offered in the principal opinion penned by Justice Neil Gorsuch.

From Time

They didn’t do this to save Obamacare – indeed, Justice Thomas wrote a concurring opinion maligning the law and the Court’s previous examinations of it.

In a concurring opinion, Justice Goodwin Liu made a few clarifications.

In his concurring opinion, Clarence Thomas called for the invalidation of any limits on campaign donations.

Kennedy was given the concurring opinion, which said the Court should have gone much further.

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