2007 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States handed down six per curiam opinions during its 2007 term, which began on October 1, 2007 and concluded September 30, 2008.[1]
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: John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito
Allen v. Siebert
| 552 U.S. 3
Decided November 5, 2007
Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded.
Stevens filed a dissent, which Ginsburg joined.
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Richard F. Allen, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Daniel Siebert |
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552 U.S. 3 |
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Arave v. Hoffman
| 552 U.S. 117
Decided January 7, 2008
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated and remanded.
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Wright v. Van Patten
| 552 U.S. 120
Decided January 7, 2008
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded.
Stevens filed an opinion concurring in the judgment.
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Randall Wright, Sheriff, Shawano County, Wisconsin v. Joseph L. Van Patten |
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552 U.S. 120 |
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Medellín v. Texas
| 554 U.S. ___
Decided August 5, 2008
The Court denied the petitioner's application for stay of execution of sentence of death, and his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer each filed dissents.
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Jose Ernesto Medellin v. Texas |
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554 U.S. ___ |
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Medellín v. State, No. 71,997 (Tex. Crim. App., May 16, 1997); petition denied, S.D. Tex.; certificate of appealability denied, 371 F.3d 270 (5th Cir. 2004); cert. granted, 543 U.S. 1032 (2005); cert. dismissed, 544 U.S. 660 (2005) (per curiam) (Medellín I); Ex parte Medellín, 223 S.W. 3d 315 (Tex. Crim. App. 2006); cert. granted Ex parte Medellín, 550 U.S. ___ (2007); aff'd, 552 U.S. 491 (2008) (Medellín II) |
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Notes
- ^ Descriptions of two decisions have been omitted. Both Board of Ed. of City School Dist. of New York v. Tom F., 552 U.S. 1 (2007), and Warner-Lambert Co. v. Kent, 552 U.S. 440 (2007), merely noted that the lower court's judgment was affirmed by an equally divided Court.
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Supreme Court of the United States 2007 term (October 1, 2007 - September 30, 2008)
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