During the summer of 2000, the high court released a number of momentous decisions, ruling on "partial birth abortions," the Boy Scouts's ban on gays, the Miranda warning, California's "Blanket" primary, and hate crime sentencing standards. In Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, a 5-4 decision, the court decided that the Boy Scouts have a right to bar gay men from becoming scout leaders, reversing a New Jersey State Supreme Court ruling. The majority opinion stated that forcing the Boy Scouts to include gay scout leaders, and by extension gay scouts who might rise to the rank of scout leader, would violate the organization's First Amendment right of "expressive association." As always, the full text of the syllabi and both opinions in all of these cases can be read in HTML or .pdf format at the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School Supreme Court Collection site.