The Supreme Court of the United States has so far handed down multiple per curiam opinions during its 2023 term, which began October 2, 2023, and will conclude October 6, 2024.
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.
Chief Justice: John Roberts
Associate Justices: Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Ketanji Brown Jackson
Full caption: | Donald J. Trump v. Norma Anderson, et al. |
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Citations: | 601 U.S. ___ |
Prior history: | Anderson v. Griswold, 2023 WL 8770111 (Colo. 2023) |
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Full text of the opinion: | official slip opinion · Oyez |
601 U.S. ___
Argued February 8, 2024.
Decided March 4, 2024.
Colorado Supreme Court reversed.
Barrett filed an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment. Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson filed an opinion concurring in the judgment.
Full caption: | Michelle O'Connor-Ratcliff, et al. v. Christopher Garnier, et ux. |
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Citations: | 601 U.S. ___ |
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Full text of the opinion: | official slip opinion · Oyez |
601 U.S. ___
Argued October 31, 2023.
Decided March 15, 2024.
Ninth Circuit vacated and remanded.
Full caption: | Sylvia Gonzalez v. Edward Trevino, II, et al. |
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Citations: | 602 U.S. ___ |
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Full text of the opinion: | official slip opinion · Oyez |
602 U.S. ___
Argued March 20, 2024.
Decided June 20, 2024.
Fifth Circuit vacated and remanded.
Alito and Kavanaugh filed concurrences. Jackson filed a concurrence, joined by Sotomayor.
Full caption: | Mike Moyle, Speaker of the Idaho House of Representatives, et al. v. United States |
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Citations: | 603 U.S. ___ |
Prior history: | 623 F. Supp. 3d 1096 (Idaho 2022) |
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Full text of the opinion: | official slip opinion · Oyez |
603 U.S. ___
Argued April 24, 2024.
Decided June 27, 2024.
The Court dismissed the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted.
Kagan filed a concurrence, joined by Sotomayor. Barrett filed a concurrence, joined by Roberts and Kavanaugh. Jackson filed a. Alito filed a dissent, joined by Thomas.
Full caption: | ' |
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Citations: | 603 U.S. ___ |
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Full text of the opinion: | official slip opinion · Justia |
603 U.S. ___
Decided August 16, 2024.
Applications for stays denied.
Sotomayor filed a dissent, joined by Kagan, Gorsuch, and Jackson.
The Supreme Court of the United States handed down eight per curiam opinions during its 2006 term, which began October 2, 2006 and concluded September 30, 2007.
The Supreme Court of the United States handed down ten per curiam opinions during its 2010 term, which began October 4, 2010 and concluded October 1, 2011.
The Supreme Court of the United States handed down six per curiam opinions during its 2012 term, which began October 1, 2012 and concluded October 6, 2013.
The Supreme Court of the United States handed down eight per curiam opinions during its 2013 term, which began October 7, 2013 and concluded October 5, 2014.
The Supreme Court of the United States handed down eighteen per curiam opinions during its 2015 term, which began October 5, 2015 and concluded October 2, 2016.
The Supreme Court of the United States handed down nine per curiam opinions during its 2016 term, which began October 3, 2016 and concluded October 1, 2017.
The Supreme Court of the United States handed down sixteen per curiam opinions during its 2017 term, which began October 2, 2017, and concluded September 30, 2018.
The Supreme Court of the United States handed down seven per curiam opinions during its 2018 term, which began October 1, 2018, and concluded October 6, 2019.
Garza v. Idaho, 586 U.S. ___, 139 S. Ct. 738 (2019), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that the presumption of prejudice for Sixth Amendment purposes applies regardless of whether a defendant has waived the right to appeal.
The Supreme Court of the United States handed down ten per curiam opinions during its 2019 term, which began October 7, 2019 and concluded October 4, 2020.
The Supreme Court of the United States handed down fourteen per curiam opinions during its 2020 term, which began October 5, 2020 and concluded October 3, 2021.
United States v. Arthrex, Inc., 594 U.S. ___ (2021), was a United States Supreme Court case related to the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution as it related to patent judges on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). In a complex decision, the Court ruled that these judges were considered "primary officers" under the Appointments Clause, normally subject to appointment through the US President and the US Senate, but to remedy the matter, the Court ruled that the constitutional issue is resolved by allowing the PTAB decisions to be subject to review by the appropriately-appointed Director of the Patent Office.
United States v. Zubaydah, 595 U.S. ___ (2022), was a United States Supreme Court case related to the state secrets privilege.
The Supreme Court of the United States handed down eight per curiam opinions during its 2021 term, which began October 4, 2021 and concluded October 2, 2022.
Wooden v. United States, 595 U.S. ___ (2022), was a Supreme Court of the United States case dealing with the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA). In a unanimous decision, the court ruled that multiple criminal offenses that a person commits during a single criminal episode do not count as separate convictions when considering the number of prior convictions a criminal has under the ACCA.
National Pork Producers Council v. Ross, 598 U.S. 356 (2023), was a United States Supreme Court case related to the Dormant Commerce Clause.
The Supreme Court of the United States handed down three per curiam opinions during its 2022 term, which began October 3, 2022 and concluded October 1, 2023.
Moore v. United States, 602 U.S. ___ (2024), was a United States Supreme Court case related to the ability of the federal government to tax unrealized gains as income. The Supreme Court upheld the Mandatory Repatriation Tax (MRT).
Moyle v. United States, 603 U.S. ___ (2024), was a United States Supreme Court case about whether an Idaho abortion law conflicted with the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). The court initially agreed to expedite the appeal and temporarily allowed Idaho to enforce its abortion ban. After hearing the case, the court dismissed it as improvidently granted and restored a lower court order allowing emergency abortions under EMTALA. This returned the case to the lower courts without a ruling on the merits.
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