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Per Curiam

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[Latin, By the court.] A phrase used to distinguish an opinion of the whole court from an opinion written by any one judge.

Sometimes per curiam signifies an opinion written by the chief justice or presiding judge; it can also refer to a brief oral announcement of the disposition of a case by the court that is unaccompanied by a written opinion.


per curiam adj. Latin for "by the court," defining a decision of an appeals court as a whole in which no judge is identified as the specific author.


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Gore, for example, he joined a per curiam opinion that contained nearly everything that textualists hold anathema, including even an invocation of nebulous equal protection rights.
per curiam (71-2 USTC [paragraph] 9598), the court decided that, generally; litigation costs advanced of paid by lawyers on behalf of their clients based on contingent fee contracts under which the clients are obligated to repay the litigation costs if matters are resolved successfully are treated in the year paid as loans to the client, not as ordinary and necessary business expenses.
The same five-justice majority then reversed the Florida court's decision, holding in an unusual, unsigned per curiam opinion that the state court's "clear intent" standard for the manual recounts violated the federal Constitution's guarantee of "equal protection of the laws.
 
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