The lone dissent came in a letter issued by Uday Hussein, who controls a popular television station and a newspaper.

And in 1983, he wrote a lone dissent suggesting a rent control law in Cambridge, Mass., had been applied unconstitutionally.

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, in powerful but lone dissent, had no such trouble.

Justice John Paul Steven pierced that logic in a lone, well-argued dissent.

"It was the lone dissent and a pretty stiffly worded opinion," Professor Chen said.

The lone dissent on the labor council's executive committee was from Local 1814 of the International Longshoremen's Association.

According to Rickey, the other fifteen team owners voted to endorse the report; he was the lone dissent.

However, Murphy was in lone dissent, since the six other justices took the narrower view of the section.

The lone dissent, authored by the court's third Republican, held that the contest board had acted outside its legal authority.

Justice Benjamin Cardozo, who had been the lone dissent in the similar Panama case, agreed with the majority.