Term recap
October Term 2016 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 2016, 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 11, 2016 and the last on June 26, 2017. The busiest single day was June 19, 2017 with 6 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
October 2016 · 1 decision
November 2016 · 1 decision
December 2016 · 4 decisions
January 2017 · 2 decisions
February 2017 · 3 decisions
March 2017 · 12 decisions
- Bethune-Hill v. Virginia State Bd. of Elections
- Rippo v. Baker
- Pena-Rodriguez v. Colorado
- Beckles v. United States
- SCA Hygiene Products Aktiebolag v. First Quality Baby Products, LLC
- Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. SW Gen., Inc.
- Manuel v. City of Joliet
- Star Athletica, L. L. C. v. Varsity Brands, Inc.
- Endrew F. v. Douglas County School Dist. RE–1
- Czyzewski v. Jevic Holding Corp.
- Moore v. Texas
- Expressions Hair Design v. Schneiderman
April 2017 · 7 decisions
May 2017 · 12 decisions
- Bank of Am. Corp. v. City of Miami
- Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela v. Helmerich & Payne Int'l Drilling Co.
- Howell v. Howell
- Kindred Nursing Centers, L. P. v. Clark
- Midland Funding, LLC v. Johnson
- Cooper v. Harris
- TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC
- Water Splash, Inc. v. Menon
- BNSF R. Co. v. Tyrrell
- County of Los Angeles v. Mendez
- Esquivel-Quintana v. Sessions
- Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark Int'l, Inc.
June 2017 · 28 decisions
- Advocate Health Care Network v. Stapleton
- Honeycutt v. United States
- Kokesh v. SEC
- North Carolina v. Convington
- Town of Chester v. Laroe Estates, Inc.
- Henson v. Santander Consumer USA Inc.
- Microsoft Corp. v. Baker
- Sandoz Inc. v. Amgen Inc.
- Sessions v. Morales-Santana
- Virginia v. LeBlanc
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of Cal., San Francisco Cty.
- Jenkins v. Hutton
- Matal v. Tam
- McWilliams v. Dunn
- Packingham v. North Carolina
- Ziglar v. Abbasi
- Maslenjak v. United States
- Turner v. United States
- Weaver v. Massachusetts
- Jae Lee v. United States
- Murr v. Wisconsin
- Perry v. Merit Systems Protection Bd.
- California Public Employees' Retirement System v. ANZ Securities, Inc.
- Davila v. Davis
- Hernandez v. Mesa
- Pavan v. Smith
- Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer
- Trump. v. International Refugee Assistance Project
📜 Cert-stage statements
Statements by individual Justices respecting or dissenting from the grant or denial of certiorari, not decisions of the Court.
- Elmore v. Holbrook
- Tatum v. Arizona
- Sireci v. Florida
- Abbott v. Veasey
- Arthur v. Dunn
- Reed v. Louisiana
- Perez v. Florida
- Leonard v. Texas
- Baston v. United States
- Ruiz v. Texas
- McGehee v. Hutchinson
- Salazar-Limon v. Houston
- Smith v. Ryan
- North Carolina v. North Carolina State Conference of NAACP
- Arthur v. Dunn
- Bay Point Properties, Inc. v. Mississippi Transportation Commission
- Hicks v. United States
- Mathis v. Shulkin
- Peruta v. California
- Otte v. Morgan
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