Question

Explain the types of opinions that may be written by Supreme Court justices and who may write them.

Answer 1

Opinion refers to the several types of writing by justice.There are four types of Supreme Court opinion.
They are:
Majority opinion
Conccuring opinion
Conccuring in judgement
Dissenting opinion

Majority opinion
A majority opinion occurs when the opinion is agreed by more than half of members of a court. In terms of US Supreme Court their responsibility for writing the opinion in the case is assigned one of the justice. (Either he is is selected by the Chief Justice or if he is not in the majority then the senior justice who voted with the majority.

Dessending opinion
A dissending opinion is an opinion which occurs when there is a tie vote, the decision of the lower court stands. A dessending opinion in Supreme Court is written one or more Judges expressing disagreement with opinion of majority.
In in US Supreme Court a dissenting opinion can be write down by any justice and can be signed by other justice

Conccuring opinion
This type of opinion the opinion is written by one or more Judges of the court wich agreess with the decision or reasoning made by majority of the court but state different reason for the decision.

Concurring in the judgement
The justice will write the concurring in the judgement of opinion when they disagree the decision of the majority but there own reasoning leads to the same result
This is a judgment which agrees with another judgment (i.e. the supposed majority/lead judgment of a particular court).