How to Use per curiam in a Sentence

per curiam

adverb or adjective
  • In an unsigned, per curiam opinion, the court returned the case to a lower court for further review in light of the new test.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Monday’s per curiam Supreme Court opinion was silent on the matter.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Roberts did not explicitly dissent from that ruling, which was issued per curiam without a single author.
    — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 5 July 2017
  • Several justices issued dissenting statements, though the order was entered per curiam.
    — Jonathan Lai, Philly.com, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Last fall, in a short per curiam opinion, the court struck down the Center for Disease Control’s eviction moratorium.
    — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 June 2022
  • The announcement, made in a per curiam opinion from the seven-member court, will allow jury trials already underway to continue for the time being.
    — Jeannie Roberts, Arkansas Online, 21 Nov. 2020
  • That bottom-line decision is per curiam—or by the full court—and unanimous, with both liberal and conservative Justices agreeing.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The per curiam order remanded Comcast’s complaint to the circuit court with instructions to dismiss the claims without prejudice.
    — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
  • In his opinion, Thomas recognizes this fact, calling out the per curiam majority for injecting squishy standards into an already complex case.
    — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 26 June 2017
  • The justices issued a unanimous per curiam, or unsigned, opinion on Tuesday announcing the suspension.
    — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 19 Nov. 2019
  • The Delaware Supreme Court issued the order per curiam with no single judge taking credit for writing the opinion and no dissent noted.
    — Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Alito dissented from the per curiam opinion (meaning the opinion was issued from the court as a whole rather than a particular justice as the author), with only Thomas joining him in dissent.
    — Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
  • The short per curiam decision said the ordinance violated the First Amendment's protections for religious freedom.
    — Jeremiah Poff, Washington Examiner, 3 Feb. 2023
  • In an unsigned per curiam opinion, a five-justice majority concluded that the lower court lacked jurisdiction to hear the states' claims and that the government should be given deference in retaining the money as litigation over it continues.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2025

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