A plurality decision is a court decision in which no opinion received the support of a majority of the judges. A plurality opinion is the judicial opinion...

multiplicity. Plurality opinion, in a decision by a multi-member court, an opinion held by more judges than any other but not by an overall majority Plurality voting...

In psychology, decision-making (also spelled decision making and decisionmaking) is regarded as the cognitive process resulting in the selection of a belief...

The district court found that the act was constitutional. In a split 5-4 decision the Court upheld the constitutionality of the federal construction grants...

library setting under the First Amendment, but the court's fractured plurality decision left the scope of this right unclear. In September 1975, the Island...

Plurality voting refers to electoral systems in which a candidate in an electoral district who polls more than any other (that is, receives a plurality)...

First-past-the-post voting (FPTP or FPP) is a plurality voting system wherein voters cast a vote for a single candidate, and the candidate with the most...

unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. As in its prior decision in Harmelin v. Michigan, the United States Supreme Court could not agree...

the plurality in upholding the parental consent, informed consent, and waiting period laws. However, they dissented from the plurality's decision to uphold...

solely through the record on the appeal. The plurality did not find any reason that the trial judge's decision presented a clear error and was a permissible...