Term recap
October Term 2011 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 2011, 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 31, 2011 and the last on September 25, 2012. The busiest single day was January 10, 2012 with 4 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
October 2011 · 1 decision
November 2011 · 3 decisions
December 2011 · 2 decisions
January 2012 · 15 decisions
- Gonzalez v. Thaler
- Minneci v. Pollard
- Compucredit Corp. v. Greenwood
- Smith v. Cain
- Perry v. New Hampshire
- Pacific Operators Offshore, LLP v. Valladolid
- Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church & School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- Mims v. Arrow Financial Services, LLC
- Maples v. Thomas
- Golan v. Holder
- Perry v. Perez
- National Meat Assn. v. Harris
- Reynolds v. United States
- Ryburn v. Huff
- United States v. Jones
February 2012 · 8 decisions
March 2012 · 13 decisions
- Martel v. Clair
- Coleman v. Court of Appeals of Maryland
- Martinez v. Ryan
- Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc.
- Roberts v. Sea-Land Services, Inc.
- Missouri v. Frye
- Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency
- Lafler v. Cooper
- Zivotofsky Ex Rel. Zivotofsky v. Clinton
- Credit Suisse Securities (Usa) LLC v. Simmonds
- Federal Aviation Administration v. Cooper
- Vartelas v. Holder
- Setser v. United States
April 2012 · 9 decisions
May 2012 · 8 decisions
June 2012 · 18 decisions
- Armour v. City of Indianapolis
- Reichle v. Howards
- Elgin v. Department of the Treasury
- Parker v. Matthews
- Williams v. Illinois
- Christopher v. Smithkline Beecham Corp.
- Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians v. Patchak
- Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter
- Federal Communications Commission v. Fox Television Stations, Inc.
- Dorsey v. United States
- Knox v. Service Employees International Union, Local 1000
- Southern Union Co. v. United States
- Miller v. Alabama
- Arizona v. United States
- American Tradition Partnership, Inc. v. Bullock
- National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius
- First American Financial Corp. v. Edwards
- United States v. Alvarez
September 2012 · 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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