Term recap
October Term 2021 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 2021, 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 18, 2021 and the last on June 30, 2022. The busiest single day was June 15, 2022 with 6 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
October 2021 · 2 decisions
November 2021 · 1 decision
December 2021 · 2 decisions
January 2022 · 3 decisions
February 2022 · 1 decision
March 2022 · 8 decisions
April 2022 · 8 decisions
May 2022 · 5 decisions
June 2022 · 33 decisions
- Southwest Airlines Co. v. Saxon
- Siegel v. Fitzgerald
- Gallardo v. Marstiller
- Egbert v. Boule
- ZF Automotive U. S., Inc. v. Luxshare, Ltd.
- Kemp v. United States
- Johnson v. Arteaga-Martinez
- Garland v. Gonzalez
- Denezpi v. United States
- Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Texas
- Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana
- Golan v. Saada
- George v. McDonough
- Arizona v. City and County of San Francisco
- American Hospital Assn. v. Becerra
- United States v. Washington
- United States v. Taylor
- Shoop v. Twyford
- Marietta Memorial Hospital Employee Health Benefit Plan v. DaVita Inc.
- Carson v. Makin
- Vega v. Tekoh
- New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen
- Nance v. Ward
- Berger v. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP
- Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization
- Becerra v. Empire Health Foundation, For Valley Hospital Medical Center
- Xiulu Ruan v. United States
- Kennedy v. Bremerton School Dist.
- Concepcion v. United States
- Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety
- Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta
- West Virginia v. EPA
- Biden v. Texas
📜 Cert-stage statements
Statements by individual Justices respecting or dissenting from the grant or denial of certiorari, not decisions of the Court.
- Thomas v. Payne
- James v. Bartelt
- Gann v. United States
- Buntion v. Lumpkin
- Smith v. Dunn
- United States v. Texas
- Does v. Mills
- Simmons v. United States
- Coonce v. United States
- ACLU v. United States
- Tucker v. Shreveport
- Dr. A v. Hochul
- Guerrant v. United States
- Trustees of New Life in Christ Church v. Fredericksburg
- Trump v. Thompson
- In re Whole Woman's Health
- Hamm v. Reeves
- Merrill v. Milligan
- Ortiz v. Breslin
- Holcombe v. Florida
- Gordon College v. DeWeese-Boyd
- Doe v. Facebook, Inc.
- Moore v. Harper
- Seattle's Union Gospel Mission v. Woods
- Austin v. U. S. Navy Seals 1–26
- Texas v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
- Louisiana v. American Rivers
- Love v. Texas
- Buntion v. Lumpkin
- Smith v. Shinn
- NetChoice, LLC v. Paxton
- Ritter v. Migliori
- Andrus v. Texas
- Shoop v. Cassano
- Coral Ridge Ministries Media, Inc. v. Southern Poverty Law Center
- Storey v. Lumpkin
- Ramirez v. Guadarrama
- Hill v. Shoop
- Grzegorczyk v. United States
- Dr. A. v. Hochul
- Cope v. Cogdill
- Canales v. Lumpkin
- Yeshiva University v. Yu Pride Alliance
⚡ Emergency applications
Rulings on emergency applications and single-Justice in-chambers opinions.
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