The 2011 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 3, 2011, and concluded September 30, 2012. This was the seventh term of Chief Justice John Roberts's tenure on the Court. | ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Smith v. Cain | 565 U.S. 73 (2012) | Due Process Clause • Brady disclosure • materiality of witness impeachment evidence | Scalia, Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Alito, Sotomayor, Kagan |
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Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC | 565 U.S. 171 (2012) | Americans with Disabilities Act • First Amendment • ministerial exception to employment discrimination laws | Unanimous |
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Messerschmidt v. Millender | 565 U.S. 535 (2012) | Fourth Amendment • law enforcement reliance on overbroad search warrant • qualified immunity | Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Breyer, Alito |
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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 | Scalia, Thomas, Alito |
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Zivotofsky v. Clinton | 566 U.S. 189 (2012) | political question doctrine • U.S. position on status of Jerusalem • Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003 • passport designation of births in Jerusalem | Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, Kagan |
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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 |
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Filarsky v. Delia | 566 U.S. 377 (2012) | qualified immunity • private individuals temporarily working for government | Unanimous |
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Blueford v. Arkansas | 566 U.S. 599 (2012) | double jeopardy • retrial after mistrial due to hung jury | Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Breyer, Alito |
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Armour v. Indianapolis | 566 U.S. 673 (2012) | Equal Protection Clause • disparate tax treatment • administrative justifications under rational basis review | Scalia, Alito |
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Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter | 567 U.S. 182 (2012) | Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act • reimbursement of tribal contract support costs for public services • Contract Disputes Act | Ginsburg, Breyer, Alito |
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Miller v. Alabama | 567 U.S. 460 (2012) | Eighth Amendment • Cruel and Unusual Punishment • sentencing of juveniles to life without parole | Scalia, Thomas, Alito |
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National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius | 567 U.S. 519 (2012) | Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act • individual mandate • Anti-Injunction Act • Commerce Clause • Necessary and Proper Clause • Medicaid expansion • coercive conditions on federal spending | Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan (in part) |
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FCC v. CBS Corp. | 567 U.S. 953 (2012) | FCC regulation of indecent broadcasting content • Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy • fleeting expletives |
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Maryland v. King • [ full text ] | 567 U.S. 1301 (2012) | Fourth Amendment • DNA collection from criminal defendants | ||||||||||||||||
Roberts granted a stay, pending the Supreme Court's disposition of a certiorari peition, of a decision by the Maryland Court of Appeals. The lower court had held a state law providing for the collection of DNA samples from defendants charged with certain crimes violated the Fourth Amendment. Roberts believed that the Court was likely to grant the cert. petition because the Maryland decision conflicted with decisions by the Third and Ninth Circuits and another state supreme court, and that it was likely to reverse the Maryland decision because of the strength of the analyses presented in those other courts' decisions. He also concluded that the decision, like any other that enjoined a statute, subjected Maryland to irreparable harm. Noting that 58 prosecutions had occurred between 2009 and 2011 because of DNA collection from Maryland arrestees, the lower decision also constituted "an ongoing and concrete harm to Maryland's law enforcement and public safety interests." A stay was, therefore, appropriate.
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