Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Hudson v. Washington

505 U.S. 1229

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1992-06-29
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • finding that “we do not think we are free to combine a dissent with a concurrence to form a Marks majority”
  • striking a city seal containing Christian symbols and concluding that "[n]o appeal to history can abate [a sectarian] message when the images in the seal are abstract symbols of a particular Christian sect"
  • "narrowest opinion must represent a common denominator of the Court's reasoning; it must embody a position implicitly approved by at least five Justices who support the judgment"
  • "we doubt that lawyers require special incentives to pursue their own compensation"

Citator

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C. A. D. C. Cir. Certiorari denied.

Justice Thomas took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.