2005 term United States Supreme Court opinions of John Paul Stevens

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The 2005 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 3, 2005, and concluded October 1, 2006. This was the thirty-first term of Associate Justice John Paul Stevens's tenure on the Court. John Paul Stevens, SCOTUS photo portrait.jpg
John Paul Stevens 2005 term statistics
7
Majority or Plurality
6
Concurrence
2
Other
14
Dissent
1
Concurrence/dissentTotal = 30
Bench opinions = 28Opinions relating to orders = 2In-chambers opinions = 0
Unanimous opinions: 2 Most joined by: Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer (11) Least joined by: O'Connor, Alito (2) [1]
TypeCaseCitationIssuesJoined byOther opinions
101



IPB, Inc. v. Alvarez 546 U.S. 21 (2005)

Unanimous
202



Schaffer v. Weast 546 U.S. 49 (2005)

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act   individualized education program challenges   burden of proof
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O'Connor
Stevens joined O'Connor's 6-2 decision and filed a separate concurrence.
203



United States v. Georgia 546 U.S. 151 (2006)

Ginsburg
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Scalia
Stevens also joined Scalia's unanimous opinion.
404



Volvo Trucks North America v. Reeder-Simco GMC 546 U.S. 164 (2006)

Thomas
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Ginsburg
205



Evans v. Chavis 546 U.S. 189 (2006)

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Breyer
Stevens concurred in the judgment of Breyer's 8-justice opinion.
406



Brown v. Sanders 546 U.S. 212 (2006)

Souter
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Scalia
107



Central Virginia Community College v. Katz 546 U.S. 356 (2006)

O'Connor, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer
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Thomas
Thomas filed a dissent.
408



Unitherm Food Systems, Inc. v. Swift-Eckrich, Inc. 546 U.S. 394 (2006)

Kennedy
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Thomas
409



Lance v. Dennis 546 U.S. 459 (2006)

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per curiam
Stevens dissented from the Court's per curiam opinion.
110



Illinois Tool Works Inc. v. Independent Ink, Inc. 547 U.S. 28 (2006)

Patents   antitrustRoberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer
Stevens wrote for the Court that a patented product in a tying arrangement is not presumed to have market power for purposes of antitrust law.
111



Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Dabit 547 U.S. 71 (2006)

Securities regulation   federal preemptionRoberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer
Stevens wrote for the Court that the Securities Litigation Reform Act preempted state law holder claims, even though such claims could not be brought under federal law.
212



Georgia v. Randolph 547 U.S. 103 (2006)

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Souter
Stevens also joined Souter's 5-3 decision.
413



Day v. McDonough 547 U.S. 198 (2006)

Habeas corpusBreyer
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Ginsburg
Stevens filed one of two dissents from Ginsburg's 5–4 decision ruling that courts could dismiss a habeas petition filed outside the statute of limitations sua sponte. Though Stevens agreed with this interpretation, he dissented from the Court's decision to announce its judgment when a relevant case would be decided later in the term. The Court had recently granted certiorari in Lawrence v. Florida, a case which would answer the question of whether Day's petition was actually barred by the statute of limitations. Stevens wrote that "[i]t seems improvident to affirm a possibly erroneous Court of Appeals judgment that dismissed Day's habeas petition without an evaluation of its merits when we have already granted certiorari to address the issue on which the Court of Appeals may have erred." He suggested the lower court may still avoid a "miscarriage of justice" by keeping Day's case on its docket until after Lawrence is decided, "but it would be better practice for us to do so ourselves."
114



Ark. Dep't of Human Servs. v. Ahlborn 547 U.S. 268 (2006)

MedicaidUnanimous
The Court ruled that a federal statutory prohibition against liens on personal property to recover Medicaid expenditures applied to settlements, so that only the portion of the settlement that represented payment for past medical expenses could be claimed by the state.
215



Marshall v. Marshall 547 U.S. 293 (2006)

Bankruptcy   jurisdiction
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Ginsburg
216



Brigham City v. Stuart 547 U.S. 398 (2006)

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Roberts
Stevens also joined Roberts' unanimous decision.
417



Garcetti v. Ceballos 547 U.S. 410 (2006)

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Kennedy
Stevens filed one of three dissents from Kennedy's 5–4 decision, and also joined Souter's.
418



Rapanos v. United States 547 U.S. 715 (2006)

Environmental regulationSouter, Ginsburg, Breyer
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Scalia
419



Samson v. California 547 U.S. 843 (2006)

Souter, Breyer
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Thomas
Stevens dissented from Thomas' 6–3 decision.
520



Moreland v. Federal Bureau of Prisons547 U.S. 1106 (2006)

Statutory interpretation
Stevens filed a statement respecting the denial of certiorari, in which he clarified that the Court's action was not an endorsement of the lower court's interpretation of the federal sentencing provision for "good-time" credits.
521



Rangel-Reyes v. United States547 U.S. 1200 (2006)

Rights of the accused   U.S. Const. amend. VI   right to a jury trial
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Thomas
Stevens filed a statement respecting the Court's denial of certiorari in which he expressed that he still believed Almendarez-Torres v. United States , 523 U. S. 224 (1998), was wrongly decided, but "that is not a sufficient reason for revisiting the issue" in light of stare decisis . "The denial of a jury trial on the narrow issues of fact concerning a defendant’s prior conviction history, unlike the denial of a jury trial on other issues of fact that give rise tomandatory minimum sentences will seldom create any significant risk of prejudice to the accused." Thomas filed a dissent from the denial of cert., believing that Almendarez-Torres should be overruled.
122



Dixon v. United States 548 U.S. 1 (2006)

Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, Alito
423



Fernandez-Vargas v. Gonzales 548 U.S. 30 (2006)

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Souter
424



Woodford v. Ngo 548 U.S. 81 (2006)

Souter, Ginsburg
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Alito
425



Kansas v. Marsh 548 U.S. 163 (2006)

Death penalty
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Thomas
Stevens filed one of two dissents from Thomas' 5–4 decision, and joined Souter's.
426



Washington v. Recuenco 548 U.S. 212 (2006)

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Thomas
Stevens also joined Ginsburg's dissent.
327



League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry 548 U.S. 399 (2006)

Electoral redistrictingBreyer (in part)
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Kennedy
428



Randall v. Sorrell 548 U.S. 230 (2006)

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Breyer
429



Beard v. Banks 548 U.S. 521 (2006)

Ginsburg
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Breyer
130



Hamdan v. Rumsfeld 548 U.S. 557 (2006)

Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer; Kennedy (in part)

Notes

  1. O'Connor retired mid-term and Alito was confirmed as her replacement; of the justices who served for the complete term, Roberts and Scalia joined the fewest of Stevens' opinions, with five each.

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