Term recap
October Term 2008 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 2008, 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 14, 2008 and the last on June 29, 2009. The busiest single day was January 26, 2009 with 6 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
October 2008 · 1 decision
November 2008 · 2 decisions
December 2008 · 2 decisions
January 2009 · 15 decisions
- Jimenez v. Quarterman
- Chambers v. United States
- Herring v. United States
- Oregon v. Ice
- Waddington v. Sarausad
- Locke v. Karass
- Pearson v. Callahan
- Fitzgerald v. Barnstable School Committee
- Spears v. United States
- Crawford v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson Cty.
- Kennedy v. Plan Administrator for DuPont Savings & Investment Plan
- United States v. Eurodif S. A.
- Arizona v. Johnson
- Van de Kamp v. Goldstein
- Nelson v. United States
February 2009 · 5 decisions
March 2009 · 11 decisions
April 2009 · 13 decisions
- Harbison v. Bell
- Entergy Corp. v. Riverkeeper, Inc.
- 14 Penn Plaza LLC v. Pyett
- Corley v. United States
- United States v. Navajo Nation
- Shinseki, Secretary of Veterans Affairs v. Sanders
- Ministry of Defense and Support for Armed Forces of Islamic Republic of Iran v. Elahi
- Arizona v. Gant
- Nken v. Holder
- Federal Communications Commission v. Fox Television Stations, Inc.
- Cone v. Bell
- Kansas v. Ventris
- Dean v. United States
May 2009 · 9 decisions
June 2009 · 22 decisions
- CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Hensley
- Bobby v. Bies
- Boyle v. United States
- United States ex rel. Eisenstein v. City of New York
- United States v. Denedo
- Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Co., Inc.
- Republic of Iraq v. Beaty
- Nijhawan v. Holder
- Polar Tankers, Inc. v. City of Valdez, Alaska
- Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc.
- Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Bailey
- Yeager v. United States
- District Attorney's Office for the Third Judicial District v. Osborne
- Coeur Alaska, Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council
- Forest Grove School District v. T. A.
- Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. Holder
- Horne v. Flores
- Atlantic Sounding Co. v. Townsend
- Safford Unified School District 1 v. Redding
- Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts
- Ricci v. DeStefano
- Cuomo v. Clearing House Ass'n, LLC
📜 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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