2013 term United States Supreme Court opinions of Stephen Breyer

The 2013 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 7, 2013 and concluded October 5, 2014. This was the twentieth term of Associate Justice Stephen Breyer's tenure on the Court.	150px
Stephen Breyer 2013 term statistics 7 Majority or Plurality 1 Concurrence 1 Other 7 Dissent 1 Concurrence/dissent Total = 17 Bench opinions = 15 Opinions relating to orders = 2 In-chambers opinions = 0 Unanimous opinions: 3 Most joined by: Sotomayor (11 in full, 1 in part) Least joined by: Alito (4)

Type	Case	Citation	Issues	Joined by	Other opinions
4-01	Planned Parenthood of Greater Tex. Surgical Health Services v. Abbott	01571 U.S. ___ (2013)	restrictions on abortion providers  • physician admitting privileges requirement	Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan	Scalia
Breyer dissented from the Court's denial of an application to vacate a stay.
4-02	Unite Here Local 355 v. Mulhall	02571 U.S. ___ (2013)	Labor Management Relations Act of 1947	Sotomayor, Kagan	per curiam
Breyer dissented from the Court's dismissal of certiorari as improvidently granted.
1-03	Medtronic, Inc. v. Mirowski Family Ventures, LLC	03571 U.S. ___ (2014)	patent law  • Declaratory Judgment Act  • subject-matter jurisdiction  • burden of proof	Unanimous
1-04	Chadbourne & Parke LLP v. Troice	04571 U.S. ___ (2014)	Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998  • preclusion of state-law class actions  • connection between misrepresentation and sale of security	Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan	Thomas Kennedy
1-05	BG Group plc v. Republic of Argentina	05572 U.S. ___ (2014)	consent to arbitration by treaty  • Federal Arbitration Act	Scalia, Thomas, Ginsburg, Alito, Kagan; Sotomayor (in part)	Sotomayor Roberts
4-06	McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission	06572 U.S. ___ (2014)	First Amendment  • campaign finance reform  • Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971  • Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002  • aggregate campaign contribution limits	Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan	Roberts Thomas
5-07	Hussain v. Obama	07572 U.S. ___ (2014)	Authorization for Use of Military Force  • detention of enemy combatants
Breyer filed a statement respecting the Court's denial of certiorari.
2-08	Schuette v. BAMN	08572 U.S. ___ (2014)	Michigan Civil Rights Initiative  • Fourteenth Amendment  • Equal Protection Clause  • racial preferences in college admission		Kennedy Roberts Scalia Sotomayor
4-09	White v. Woodall	09572 U.S. ___ (2014)	Fifth Amendment  • privilege against self-incrimination  • adverse inference from defendant's failure to testify  • limitations on habeas corpus  • unreasonable application of clearly established federal law	Ginsburg, Sotomayor	Scalia
4-10	Town of Greece v. Galloway	10572 U.S. ___ (2014)	First Amendment  • Establishment Clause  • legislative prayer		Kennedy Thomas Alito Kagan
1-11	Robers v. United States	11572 U.S. ___ (2014)	Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996	Unanimous	Sotomayor
4-12	Petrella v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.	12572 U.S. ___ (2014)	copyright  • statute of limitations  • laches	Roberts, Kennedy	Ginsburg
3-13	Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA	13573 U.S. ___ (2014)	Clean Air Act  • regulation of greenhouse gases  • Prevention of Significant Deterioration permits for stationary pollution emitters	Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan	Scalia Alito
1-14	Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer	14573 U.S. ___ (2014)	Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974  • breach of fiduciary duty of prudence	Unanimous
1-15	American Broadcasting Cos. v. Aereo, Inc.	15573 U.S. ___ (2014)	copyright law  • digital redistribution of broadcast television  • right to publicly perform copyrighted works	Roberts, Kennedy, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan	Scalia
1-16	NLRB v. Noel Canning	16573 U.S. ___ (2014)	recess appointments	Kennedy, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan	Scalia
4-17	Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.	17573 U.S. ___ (2014)	Religious Freedom Restoration Act  • Affordable Care Act  • contraceptive mandate  • religious-based objection by for-profit corporation		Alito Kennedy Ginsburg
Jointly authored with Justice Kagan.

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