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Justice writes the opinion. if he's not in the majority, the senior, the longest tenured associate justice in the majority makes the assignment. but that's not the end of the process. they then start circulating opinion. sometimes in that perferocess, justices change their mind. that's that happened in the health care case. chief justice roberts changed his mind. it is only when the decision is announced that it is final and since we're very late, really in the term for a big case, almost certainly we won't get a result in the doma case or the proposition 8 case from yesterday until the last w...