Justice Souter also dissented from a 5-to-4 decision in a double jeopardy case, in which the majority overturned a three-year-old precedent that had broadened the double jeopardy defense.

Along with overturning the 300-foot protected zone, the majority also overturned restrictions on "images" - signs with slogans or pictures of fetuses - that could be seen from within the clinic.

If the Dec. 4 arguments were any indication, a majority will overturn student assignment plans that seek to maintain racial balance in systems that struggled for years to achieve it.

Only Justice Wells, who dissented on a case where the majority overturned a law increasing prison sentences for violent offenders, did not receive a note.

When a majority on the Supreme Court overturned Justice Douglas, Mr. Siegel was crushed.

Last year, a 5-to-4 majority overturned the 1971 ruling and placed heavy new burdens on plaintiffs.

In The Walmac Co., the Farmer-led majority specifically overturned M.H. Davidson, finding that the election outcome was final.

One of the high court's mistakes was last year's Ward's Cove decision, in which a 5-to-4 majority overturned a rule that the law guards against unnecessary as well as willful discrimination.

The republican majority overturns objections to his seating.

The Supreme Court's majority now overturns those decisions, starting with the proposition, literally true, that the extradition treaty between Mexico and the U.S. is silent about kidnapping.