2025 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States
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As of January 1, 2026, the Supreme Court of the United States has handed down three per curiam opinions during its 2025 term. This term began on October 6, 2025, and will end on October 4, 2026.
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.
607U.S. ___(2025) Decided November 24, 2025. The Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment requires an individualized finding that a screen is necessary to protect a child from trauma before it can be placed between the child and the defendant during testimony in a criminal trial.
607U.S. ___(2025) Decided November 24, 2025. The Fourth Circuit erred in granting habeas relief to Sweeney based on a claim of constitutional error that he had never alleged.
607U.S. ___(2025) Decided December 8, 2025. States have no power to create immunity for federal causes of action. Accordingly, the Louisiana Court of Appeal's decision holding that a Louisiana state law barred federal claims against health care providers is reversed.
Klein v. Martin
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Christopher Klein, Superintendent, Department of Detention Facilities for Anne Arundel County, et al., Petitioners v. Charles Brandon Martin
607U.S. ___(2026) Decided January 26, 2026. Because the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the award of a new trial based on reasoning that departed from the strict standards that govern the grant of federal habeas relief to prisoners convicted in state court prescribed by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, the Court grants the State’s petition for a writ of certiorari and reverses the judgment below.
Justice Jackson would deny the petition for a writ of certiorari.
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