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Slip Opinions, Per Curiams (PC), and Original Case
Decrees (D)

The "slip" opinion is the second version of an opinion, released later
in the day on which the "bench" opinion is released by the Court.
Each slip opinion has the same elements as the bench
opinion--majority or plurality opinion, concurrences or dissents, and
a prefatory syllabus--but may contain corrections not appearing in
the bench opinion. The slip opinions collected here are those issued
during October Term 2000, which began on October 2, 2000, and
which will end on September 30, 2001. These opinions are posted on
this Website within hours after the bench opinions are issued and will
remain posted until the opinions are published in a preliminary print
of the United States Reports. For further information, see Column
Header Definitions and the file entitled Information About Opinions.
For the opinions and other documents filed in the Florida Election
Cases, click here.

Caution: These electronic opinions may contain computer-generated
errors or other deviations from the official printed slip opinion
pamphlets. Moreover, a slip opinion is replaced within a few months
by a paginated version of the case in the preliminary print, and--one
year after the issuance of that print--by the final version of the case
in a U. S. Reports bound volume. In case of discrepancies between
the print and electronic versions of a slip opinion, the print version
controls. In case of discrepancies between the slip opinion and any
later official version of the opinion, the later version controls.