Today’s Supreme Court opinion premiers a new style. Compare the opinion today with the last opinion using the old style.
It’s a more formal format, looking like it came from a professional printer. The opinion has justified margins both right and left, and the top of each page repeats the case name and identifies whose opinion it is. Also, it no longer immediately launches into the text of the court’s decision right after the caption, but first states who wrote and who concurred in the opinion.
The changes give the court’s opinions a look more like that of U.S. Supreme Court opinions. (Compare here.) But the new style still doesn’t include a syllabus summarizing the opinion, which the SCOTUS format does.
