2013 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States
The
Because per curiam decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these opinions all lack the attribution of authorship or joining votes to specific justices. All justices on the Court at the time the decision was handed down are assumed to have participated and concurred unless otherwise noted.
Court membership
Chief Justice: John Roberts
Associate Justices: Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan
Stanton v. Sims
Full caption: | Mike Stanton v. Drendolyn Sims |
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Citations: | 571 U.S. 3 |
Prior history: | Summary judgment granted to defendant, No. 3:09-cv-01356 (S.D. Cal.); rev'd, 706 F. 3d 954 (9th Cir. 2013) |
Laws applied: | U.S. Const. amend. IV |
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Full text of the opinion: | official slip opinion |
571 U.S. 3
Decided November 4, 2013.
Ninth Circuit reversed and remanded.
A bystander was seriously injured when a police officer, in
The Supreme Court reversed the Ninth Circuit, finding that the officer was entitled to qualified immunity because there was not "clearly established law" on the issue. Instead, federal and state courts were "sharply divided on the question whether an officer with probable cause to arrest a suspect for a misdemeanor may enter a home without a warrant while in hot pursuit of that suspect." The officer could, therefore, not be found "plainly incompetent" in violating the plaintiff's constitutional rights.
Ford Motor Co. v. United States
Full caption: | Ford Motor Company v. United States |
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Citations: | 571 U.S. 28 |
Prior history: | Judgment for defendant, E.D. Mich. June 3, 2010; aff'd, 508 Fed. Appx. 506 (6th Cir. 2012) |
Laws applied: | 26 U.S.C. § 6611(b); 28 U.S.C. § 1346; 28 U.S.C. § 1491(a) (Tucker Act) |
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Full text of the opinion: | official slip opinion |
571 U.S. 28
Decided December 2, 2013.
Sixth Circuit vacated and remanded.
Unite Here Local 355 v. Mulhall
Full caption: | Unite Here Local 355 v. Martin Mulhall et al. |
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Citations: | 571 U.S. 83 |
Prior history: | Complaint dismissed, No. 0:08-cv-61766-PAS ( Labor Management Relations Act) |
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Full text of the opinion: | official slip opinion |
571 U.S. 83
Argued November 13, 2013.
Decided December 10, 2013.
The Court dismissed the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted.
Breyer filed a dissent, joined by Sotomayor and Kagan.
Hinton v. Alabama
Full caption: | Anthony Ray Hinton v. Alabama |
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Citations: | 571 U.S. 263 |
Prior history: | Postconviction petition denied, Ala. Oct. 17, 2008); remanded, 8 WL 5517591 (Ala. Crim. App., Dec. 19, 2008); aff'd, CR-04-0940, (Ala. Crim. App., Aug. 26, 2011); rev'd and remanded, sub nom. Ex Parte Hinton, No. 1110129 (Ala., Nov. 9, 2012); aff'd, sub nom. Hinton v. State, CR-04-0940 (Ala. Crim. App, Feb. 15, 2013); review denied, No. 1110129 (Ala., 2013) |
Laws applied: | U.S. Const. amend. VI |
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Full text of the opinion: | official slip opinion |
571 U.S. 263
Decided February 24, 2014.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama vacated and remanded.
Tolan v. Cotton
Full caption: | Robert R. Tolan v. Jeffrey Wayne Cotton |
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Citations: | 572 U.S. 650 |
Prior history: | Summary judgment granted to defendant, 854 F. Supp. 2d 444 (S.D. Tex. 2012); aff'd, 713 F. 3d 299 (5th Cir. 2013); rehearing en banc denied, 538 Fed. Appx. 374 (5th Cir. 2013) |
Laws applied: | Fed. R. Civ. P. 56 |
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Full text of the opinion: | official slip opinion |
572 U.S. 650
Decided May 5, 2014.
Fifth Circuit vacated and remanded.
Alito filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, joined by Scalia.
Martinez v. Illinois
Full caption: | Esteban Martinez v. Illinois |
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Citations: | 572 U.S. 833 |
Prior history: | Directed verdict for defendant, Ill. 2013) |
Laws applied: | U.S. Const. amend. V |
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Full text of the opinion: | official slip opinion |
572 U.S. 833
Decided May 27, 2014.
Supreme Court of Illinois reversed and remanded.
Williams v. Johnson
Full caption: | Tara Sheneva Williams v. Deborah K. Johnson, Acting Warden |
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Citations: | 573 U.S. 773 |
Laws applied: | U.S. Const. amend. VI |
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Full text of the opinion: | official slip opinion |
573 U.S. 773
Decided July 1, 2014.
Ninth Circuit vacated and remanded.
See also
- List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 571
- List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 572
- List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 573
Notes
- ^ The description of one opinion has been omitted: in Madigan v. Levin, 571 U.S. 1 (2013), the Court dismissed the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted.
References
- "2013 Term Opinions of the Court". Supreme Court of the United States. Retrieved October 6, 2014.