Term recap
October Term 2012 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 2012, 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 5, 2012 and the last on June 26, 2013. The busiest single day was June 24, 2013 with 6 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
November 2012 · 3 decisions
December 2012 · 2 decisions
January 2013 · 6 decisions
February 2013 · 13 decisions
- Bailey v. United States
- Chafin v. Chafin
- Federal Trade Commission v. Phoebe Putney Health System, Inc.
- Florida v. Harris
- Johnson v. Williams
- Evans v. Michigan
- Chaidez v. United States
- Henderson v. United States
- Gunn v. Minton
- Marx v. General Revenue Corp.
- Clapper v. Amnesty International USA
- Gabelli v. Securities & Exchange Commission
- Amgen Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds
March 2013 · 8 decisions
April 2013 · 8 decisions
May 2013 · 9 decisions
June 2013 · 30 decisions
- Hillman v. Maretta
- Nevada v. Jackson
- Maryland v. King
- Peugh v. United States
- Oxford Health Plans LLC v. Sutter
- Horne v. Department of Agriculture
- United States v. Davila
- Tarrant Regional Water Dist. v. Herrmann
- American Trucking Assns., Inc. v. Los Angeles
- Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc.
- F.T.C. v. Actavis, Inc.
- Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Ariz., Inc.
- Salinas v. Texas
- Maracich v. Spears
- Alleyne v. United States
- Descamps v. United States
- American Express Co. v. Italian Colors Restaurant
- Agency for Int'l Development v. Alliance for Open Society Int'l, Inc.
- Vance v. Ball State Univ.
- University of Tex. Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar
- United States v. Kebodeaux
- Ryan v. Schad
- Mutual Pharmaceutical Co. v. Bartlett
- Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin
- Shelby County v. Holder
- Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management Dist.
- Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl
- Hollingsworth v. Perry
- Sekhar v. United States
- United States v. Windsor
📜 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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