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Opinions of the Court

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A Supreme Court ruling arrives as opinions: a majority opinion that decides, with concurrences and dissents alongside.

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A concurrence agrees with the outcome on different reasoning; a dissent disagrees on the record.

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Only the majority opinion is law; the others are argument preserved for later.