Term recap
October Term 2010 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 2010, 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 November 8, 2010 and the last on July 7, 2011. The busiest single day was June 23, 2011 with 6 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
November 2010 · 3 decisions
December 2010 · 1 decision
January 2011 · 10 decisions
- Madison County v. Oneida Indian Nation of N. Y.
- Ransom v. FIA Card Services, N. A.
- Mayo Foundation for Medical Education & Research v. United States
- National Aeronautics & Space Administration v. Nelson
- Premo v. Moore
- Harrington v. Richter
- Swarthout v. Cooke
- Ortiz v. Jordan
- Thompson v. North American Stainless, LP
- Chase Bank USA, N. A. v. McCoy
February 2011 · 5 decisions
March 2011 · 14 decisions
- Henderson v. Shinseki
- Staub v. Proctor Hospital
- Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T Inc.
- Pepper v. United States
- Snyder v. Phelps
- Wall v. Kholi
- Skinner v. Switzer
- Milner v. Department of the Navy
- Felkner v. Jackson
- Matrixx Initiatives, Inc. v. Siracusano
- Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp.
- Tolentino v. New York
- Astra USA, Inc. v. Santa Clara County
- Connick v. Thompson
April 2011 · 6 decisions
May 2011 · 13 decisions
- Bobby v. Mitts
- Montana v. Wyoming
- CIGNA Corp. v. Amara
- Schindler Elevator Corp. v. United States ex rel. Kirk
- Kentucky v. King
- Brown v. Plata
- General Dynamics Corp. v. United States
- Camreta v. Greene Ex Rel. S. G.
- Fowler v. United States
- Chamber of Commerce of United States of America v. Whiting
- United States v. Tinklenberg
- Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. v. SEB S. A.
- Ashcroft v. al-Kidd
June 2011 · 31 decisions
- McNeill v. United States
- Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.
- Fox v. Vice
- Erica P. John Fund, Inc. v. Halliburton Co.
- DePierre v. United States
- Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Ltd. Partnership
- Talk America, Inc. v. Michigan Bell Telephone Co.
- Sykes v. United States
- United States v. Jicarilla Apache Nation
- Janus Capital Group, Inc. v. First Derivative Traders
- Nevada Commission on Ethics v. Carrigan
- Flores-Villar v. United States
- Tapia v. United States
- Smith v. Bayer Corp.
- J. D. B. v. North Carolina
- Davis v. United States
- Bond v. United States
- Turner v. Rogers
- American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut
- Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri
- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes
- CSX Transportation, Inc. v. McBride
- Bullcoming v. New Mexico
- PLIVA, Inc. v. Mensing
- Freeman v. United States
- Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc.
- Stern v. Marshall
- Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations, S. A. v. Brown
- Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn.
- Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett
- J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd. v. Nicastro
July 2011 · 1 decision
📜 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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