Term recap
October Term 2015 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 2015, 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 5, 2015 and the last on June 27, 2016. The busiest single day was January 25, 2016 with 7 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
October 2015 · 1 decision
November 2015 · 1 decision
December 2015 · 4 decisions
January 2016 · 13 decisions
- Hurst v. Florida
- Bruce v. Samuels
- Montanile v. Board of Trustees of Nat. Elevator Industry Health Benefit Plan
- Kansas v. Kansas
- Duncan v. Owens
- Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez
- Amgen Inc. v. Harris
- Fed. Energy Regulatory Comm'n v. Elec. Power Supply Ass'n
- James v. City of Boise
- Musacchio v. United States
- Menominee Indian Tribe of Wis. v. United States
- FERC v. Electric Power Supply Assn.
- Montgomery v. Louisiana
March 2016 · 13 decisions
- Lockhart v. United States
- Gobeille v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.
- Wearry v. Cain
- V.L. v. E.L.
- Americold Realty Trust v. ConAgra Foods, Inc.
- Montana v. Wyoming
- Caetano v. Massachusetts
- Nebraska v. Parker
- Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Bouaphakeo
- Sturgeon v. Frost
- Hawkins v. Community Bank
- Friedrichs v. California Teachers Assn.
- Luis v. United States
April 2016 · 10 decisions
May 2016 · 16 decisions
- Ocasio v. United States
- Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. v. Manning
- Zubik v. Burwell
- Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins
- Sheriff v. Gillie
- Kernan v. Hinojosa
- Husky International Electronics, Inc. v. Ritz
- Luna Torres v. Lynch
- CRST Van Expedited, Inc. v. Equal Emp't Opportunity Comm'n
- Betterman v. Montana
- Green v. Brennan
- Wittman v. Personhuballah
- Foster v. Chatman
- Lynch v. Arizona
- Johnson v. Lee
- U.S. Army Corps of Eng'rs v. Hawkes Co.
June 2016 · 24 decisions
- Simmons v. Himmelreich
- Ross v. Blake
- Williams v. Pennsylvania
- Puerto Rico v. Sanchez Valle
- Dietz v. Bouldin
- United States v. Bryant
- Puerto Rico v. Franklin California Tax-Free Trust
- Halo Electronics, Inc. v. Pulse Electronics, Inc.
- Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar
- Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- Kingdomware Technologies, Inc. v. United States
- Utah v. Strieff
- Taylor v. United States
- RJR Nabisco, Inc. v. European Community
- Encino Motorcars, LLC v. Navarro
- Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC v. Lee
- United States v. Texas
- Mathis v. United States
- Fisher v. University of Tex. at Austin
- Dollar General Corp. v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
- Birchfield v. N. Dakota. William Robert Bernard
- Voisine v. United States
- McDonnell v. United States
- Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt
📜 Cert-stage statements
Statements by individual Justices respecting or dissenting from the grant or denial of certiorari, not decisions of the Court.
- Brooks v. Alabama
- Taylor v. Yee
- California Building Industry Assn. v. San Jose
- Ben-Levi v. Brown
- American Freedom Defense Initiative v. King County
- Nebraska v. Colorado
- Kakarala v. Wells Fargo Bank, N. A.
- Arrigoni Enterprises, LLC. v. Durham
- Boyer v. Davis
- United Student Aid Funds, Inc. v. Bible
- Adams v. Alabama
- Tucker v. Louisiana
- Williams v. Louisiana
- Flowers v. Mississippi
- Stormans, Inc. v. Wiesman
- Delaware Strong Families v. Denn
- Conner v. Sellers
- Conner v. Sellers
- Gloucester County School Board v. G. G.
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