Term recap
October Term 2005 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 2005, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
The term's first merits decision came down October 11, 2005 and the last on June 29, 2006. The busiest single day was February 21, 2006 with 5 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
October 2005 · 4 decisions
November 2005 · 6 decisions
December 2005 · 3 decisions
January 2006 · 12 decisions
- Evans v. Chavis
- Volvo Trucks North America, Inc. v. Reeder-Simco GMC, Inc.
- United States v. Georgia
- Brown v. Sanders
- Wachovia Bank, National Ass'n v. Schmidt
- Gonzales v. Oregon
- Will v. Hallock
- Rice v. Collins
- Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New Eng.
- Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc. v. Federal Election Commission
- Unitherm Food Systems, Inc. v. Swift-Eckrich, Inc.
- Central Virginia Community College v. Katz
February 2006 · 11 decisions
- Lance v. Dennis
- Ash v. Tyson Foods, Inc.
- Ministry of Defense and Support for Armed Forces of Islamic Republic of Iran v. Elahi
- Buckeye Check Cashing, Inc. v. Cardegna
- Gonzales v. O Centro Espírita Beneficente União Do Vegetal
- Oregon v. Guzek
- Arbaugh v. Y & H Corp.
- Dolan v. United States Postal Service
- Domino's Pizza, Inc. v. McDonald
- Scheidler v. National Organization for Women, Inc.
- Texaco Inc. v. Dagher
March 2006 · 5 decisions
April 2006 · 6 decisions
May 2006 · 9 decisions
- Holmes v. South Carolina
- Marshall v. Marshall
- Arkansas Department of Health & Human Services v. Ahlborn
- eBay Inc. v. MERCEXCHANGE, LL
- S. D. Warren Co. v. Maine Board of Environmental Protection
- Sereboff v. Mid Atlantic Medical Services, Inc.
- DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Cuno
- Brigham City v. Stuart
- Garcetti v. Ceballos
June 2006 · 29 decisions
- Mohawk Industries, Inc. v. Williams
- Whitman v. Department of Transportation
- Zedner v. United States
- Anza v. Ideal Steel Supply Corp.
- Hill v. McDonough
- House v. Bell
- Empire Healthchoice Assurance, Inc. v. McVeigh
- Howard Delivery Service, Inc. v. Zurich American Insurance
- Kircher v. Putnam Funds Trust
- Hudson v. Michigan
- Youngblood v. West Virginia
- Samson v. California
- Davis v. Washington
- Rapanos v. United States
- Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings v. Metabolite Laboratories, Inc.
- Woodford v. Ngo
- Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. White
- Fernandez-Vargas v. Gonzales
- Dixon v. United States
- Arlington Central School District Board of Education v. Murphy
- Randall v. Sorrell
- Washington v. Recuenco
- Kansas v. Marsh
- United States v. Gonzalez-Lopez
- Beard v. Banks
- League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry
- Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon
- Clark v. Arizona
- Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
📜 Cert-stage statements
Statements by individual Justices respecting or dissenting from the grant or denial of certiorari, not decisions of the Court.
⚡ Emergency applications
Rulings on emergency applications and single-Justice in-chambers opinions.
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