The lowly U.S. Supreme Court syllabus, the small-type summary of each decision that appears at the beginning of printed opinions, is usually taken for granted and largely ignored.
But a long-ago syllabus—also called a headnote—played a cameo role in the recently-revived debate about whether corporations have the same constitutional rights that people do. The importance of the syllabus in that controversy sheds light on the court’s opinion-drafting process and how syllabuses are written.
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