Type
|
Case
|
Citation
|
Issues
|
Joined by
|
Other opinions
|
101
|
Minneci v. Pollard
|
565 U.S. 118 (2012)
|
Eighth Amendment • cruel and unusual punishment • privately-run prison • adequate alternative causes of action under state tort law
|
Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Alito, Sotomayor, Kagan
|
|
|
402
|
Golan v. Holder
|
565 U.S. 302 (2012)
|
copyright • Berne Convention • public domain
|
Alito
|
|
|
103
|
Reynolds v. United States
|
565 U.S. 432 (2012)
|
Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act • applicability to pre-Act offenders
|
Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas, Alito, Sotomayor, Kagan
|
|
|
404
|
Wetzel v. Lambert
|
565 U.S. 520 (2012)
|
Brady disclosure • materiality of police notes to witness impeachment
|
Ginsburg, Kagan
|
|
|
205
|
Messerschmidt v. Millender
|
565 U.S. 535 (2012)
|
Fourth Amendment • law enforcement reliance on overbroad search warrant • qualified immunity
|
|
|
|
106
|
Douglas v. Independent Living Center of Southern Cal., Inc.
|
565 U.S. 606 (2012)
|
Medicaid • state law reduction of payments to providers • review by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services • private action to enforce federal reimbursement criteria • Supremacy Clause
|
Kennedy, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan
|
|
|
107
|
Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc.
|
566 U.S. 66 (2012)
|
patent law • laws of nature exemption from patentability • diagnostic test of drug potency
|
Unanimous
|
|
|
408
|
Zivotofsky v. Clinton
|
566 U.S. 189 (2012)
|
U.S. position on status of Jerusalem • Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003 • passport designation of births in Jerusalem
|
|
|
|
409
|
Setser v. United States
|
566 U.S. 231 (2012)
|
Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 • federal court discretion to order consecutive or concurrent sentences in anticipation of state court sentence
|
Kennedy, Ginsburg
|
|
|
410
|
Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of County of Burlington
|
566 U.S. 318 (2012)
|
Fourth Amendment • strip searches in jail of arrestees of minor offenses
|
Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan
|
|
|
211
|
Mohamad v. Palestinian Authority
|
566 U.S. 449 (2012)
|
Torture Victim Protection Act • liability of organizations
|
|
|
|
112
|
United States v. Home Concrete & Supply, LLC
|
566 U.S. 478 (2012)
|
for tax deficiency
|
Roberts, Thomas, Alito; Scalia (in part)
|
|
|
413
|
Hall v. United States
|
566 U.S. 506 (2012)
|
bankruptcy • priority of taxation on post-petition sale of farm assets
|
Kennedy, Ginsburg, Kagan
|
|
|
114
|
Armour v. Indianapolis
|
566 U.S. 673 (2012)
|
Equal Protection Clause • disparate tax treatment • administrative justifications under rational basis review
|
Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan
|
|
|
215
|
Williams v. Illinois
|
567 U.S. 50 (2012)
|
expert testimony
|
|
|
|
416
|
Christopher v. SmithKline Beecham Corp.
|
567 U.S. 142 (2012)
|
Fair Labor Standards Act • exemption of outside salesmen from overtime regulations • status of pharmaceutical sales representatives
|
Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan
|
|
|
117
|
Dorsey v. United States
|
567 U.S. 260 (2012)
|
Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 • Fair Sentencing Act • mandatory minimum setencing • applicability of post-Act sentencing to pre-Act offenders
|
Kennedy, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan
|
|
|
418
|
Knox v. Service Employees
|
567 U.S. 298 (2012)
|
mootness due to voluntary cessation • First Amendment • compulsory fees for political lobbying by public sector agency shop
|
|
|
|
419
|
Southern Union Co. v. United States
|
567 U.S. 343 (2012)
|
of facts relating to criminal fines
|
Kennedy, Alito
|
|
|
220
|
Miller v. Alabama
|
567 U.S. 460 (2012)
|
life without parole
|
Sotomayor
|
|
|
421
|
American Tradition Partnership, Inc. v. Bullock
|
567 U.S. 516 (2012)
|
First Amendment • free speech • campaign finance reform • corporate personhood
|
Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan
|
|
Breyer dissented from the Court's brief per curiam decision, which held that a Montana state law banning political expenditures by corporations was precluded by Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission . Breyer wrote that he disagreed with the holding in Citizens United and would support reconsidering it. Even accepting that decision, however, Breyer did not believe it precluded a finding that Montana had a compelling state interest in limiting corporate political expenditures in light of the particular "history and political landscape in Montana."
|
222
|
United States v. Alvarez
|
567 U.S. 709 (2012)
|
Stolen Valor Act of 2005 • First Amendment • freedom of speech • protection of false statements
|
Kagan
|
|
|