459). When the oral arguments conclude, the Justices will have a conference where they will take a vote and opinions will be assigned (Text, p. 459). When assigning Justices to write the opinions, the Chief Justice, if in the majority will assign another Justice within the majority to write the opinion. If the Chief Justice is not in the majority the task of assigning a Justice to write the opinion falls to the most senior Justice in the majority. The same rule holds true for the minority opinion (Text, p. 460). The majority opinion is considered the opinion of the Court. After the Justices finish the opinions and all Justices either sign on to either the majority or dissenting opinion, or write their own, opinions will be handed down sometime before the Court recesses for the summer. While the opinions are being handed down a shorter version of both the majority opinion and dissenting opinion will be read by the Justices who wrote them with the deciding vote being stated. The Court will state that they either affirm (uphold) the previous court’s decision or they will choose to reverse the previous court’s …show more content…
Therefore, our focus should be that parental rights should trump the rights of the school and state even when the state believes it is acting in the best interest of all citizens. The main goal is to prove that the United States Court of Appeals erred when ruling that parental rights do not trump the policing powers of the school in state when general welfare is in the mix. By classifying as a class action lawsuit, it will give us the numbers to show that many parents believe Common Core is more harmful than helpful and that their rights should outweigh that of the school and the state when the education of their children is the center of the