Short answer. Yes. Judgments and final resolutions the court selects are published in full in the Official Gazette and in its authorized Reports, in their original language, together with a syllabus. Judgments not published in full still get a memorandum published in the Official Gazette and the authorized reports.

What the law says

The judgments and final resolutions of the court shall be published in the Official Gazette and in the Reports officially authorized by the court in the language in which they have been originally written, together with the syllabi therefor prepared by the reporter in consultation with the writers thereof. Memoranda of all other judgments and final resolutions not so published shall be made by the reporter and published in the Official Gazette and the authorized reports.

Rule 55, Section 1 — Publication. Read the full provision →

Full publication with a syllabus

Rule 55, Section 1 requires that judgments and final resolutions of the court be published in full in two places: the Official Gazette and the court's officially authorized Reports. They are published in the language in which they were originally written, and each comes with a syllabus — a summary of the legal points — that the reporter prepares in consultation with the justices who wrote the opinion. This syllabus lets researchers and practitioners quickly grasp the ruling's significance before reading the full text.

Not every decision gets full publication

The section acknowledges that not all judgments and final resolutions will be published in full. For those that are not, the reporter still prepares a memorandum, which is published in both the Official Gazette and the authorized reports. This ensures that even decisions not selected for full publication leave some official public record, rather than disappearing from public view simply because the case was not chosen for the fuller treatment given to selected rulings. A memorandum is necessarily shorter than a full opinion, but it still confirms that the case was decided and gives basic information about the outcome.

Why this distinction exists

Given the volume of cases the court decides, publishing every judgment in full would be impractical. The two-tier system — full publication for selected rulings, memoranda for the rest — balances making significant decisions fully accessible against the practical limits of what can be printed in full in the official reports. Full publication is typically reserved for decisions that clarify or develop the law in a way likely to matter beyond the parties to the case, while routine rulings that mainly apply settled principles to particular facts are adequately served by a memorandum entry.

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