2008 term United States Supreme Court opinions of Samuel Alito

The 2008 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 6, 2008 and concluded October 4, 2009. This was the fourth term of Associate Justice Samuel Alito's tenure on the Court.
Samuel Alito 2008 term statistics 7 Majority or Plurality 8 Concurrence 0 Other 8 Dissent 1 Concurrence/dissent Total = 24 Bench opinions = 22 Opinions relating to orders = 2 In-chambers opinions = 0 Unanimous opinions: 4 Most joined by: Thomas (14) Least joined by: Stevens, Souter (5)

Type	Case	Citation	Issues	Joined by	Other opinions
2-01	Chambers v. United States	01555 U.S. 122 (2009)	Armed Career Criminal Act  • definition of "violent felony"	Thomas	Breyer
2-02	Locke v. Karass	02555 U.S. 207 (2009)	First Amendment  • public employee union fees imposed on nonmembers	Roberts, Scalia	Breyer
1-03	Pearson v. Callahan	03555 U.S. 223 (2009)	qualified immunity  • Fourth Amendment  • consent-once-removed doctrine	Unanimous
1-04	Fitzgerald v. Barnstable School Comm.	04555 U.S. 246 (2009)	Fourteenth Amendment  • Equal Protection Clause  • sex discrimination  • Title IX  • section 1983	Unanimous
2-05	Crawford v. Nashville	05555 U.S. 271 (2009)	Title VII  • antiretaliation provision	Thomas	Souter
1-06	Pleasant Grove City v. Summum	06555 U.S. 460 (2009)	First Amendment  • free speech  • government speech  • public forums	Roberts, Stevens, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer	Stevens Scalia Souter Breyer
4-07	Wyeth v. Levine	07555 U.S. 555 (2009)	Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act  • FDA-approved pharmaceutical labeling  • federal preemption  • failure-to-warn of risks	Roberts, Scalia	Stevens Thomas Breyer
1-08	Kansas v. Colorado	08556 U.S. 98 (2009)	original jurisdiction  • award of expert witness attendance fees  • Arkansas River Compact	Unanimous	Roberts
1-09	Hawaii v. Office of Hawaiian Affairs	09556 U.S. 163 (2009)	Hawaii Admission Act  • Apology Resolution  • disposition of land ceded to State upon admission to Union	Unanimous
4-10	Corley v. United States	10556 U.S. 303 (2009)	confession after unreasonable delay  • Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure  • voluntariness of confession	Roberts, Scalia, Thomas	Souter
4-11	Arizona v. Gant	11556 U.S. 332 (2009)	Fourth Amendment  • search incident to arrest  • vehicle search	Roberts, Kennedy; Breyer (in part)	Stevens Scalia Breyer
4-12	Nken v. Holder	12556 U.S. 418 (2009)	immigration law  • Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996  • stay of removal order	Thomas	Roberts Kennedy
3-13	Cone v. Bell	13556 U.S. 449 (2009)	Fourteenth Amendment  • Due Process Clause  • state suppression of mitigating evidence  • adequate and independent state ground		Stevens Roberts Thomas
2-14	Flores-Figueroa v. United States	14556 U.S. 646 (2009)	federal criminal law  • identity theft  • knowing use of another person's identification		Breyer Scalia
2-15	Montejo v. Louisiana	15556 U.S. 778 (2009)	Fifth Amendment  • right against self-incrimination  • police interrogation after invocation of right to counsel	Kennedy	Scalia Stevens Breyer
1-16	Boyle v. United States	16556 U.S. 938 (2009)	Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act  • association-in-fact enterprise	Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg	Stevens
4-17	Megginson v. United States	17556 U.S. 1230 (2009)	Fourth Amendment  • search incident to arrest  • vehicle search
Alito dissented from the Court's summary vacatur and remand.
4-18	Grooms v. United States	18556 U.S. 1231 (2009)	Fourth Amendment  • search incident to arrest  • vehicle search
Alito dissented from the Court's summary vacatur and remand.
2-19	Polar Tankers, Inc. v. City of Valdez	19557 U.S. 1 (2009)	Tonnage Clause  • local property tax on vessels		Breyer Roberts Stevens
2-20	District Attorney's Office for Third Judicial Dist. v. Osborne	20557 U.S. 52 (2009)	Due Process Clause  • postconviction access to state evidence for DNA testing  • substantive due process	Kennedy; Thomas (in part)	Roberts Stevens Souter
4-21	Yeager v. United States	21557 U.S. 110 (2009)	Double Jeopardy Clause  • issue preclusion  • inconsistency between acquittal and hung jury	Scalia, Thomas	Stevens Kennedy Scalia
4-22	Atlantic Sounding Co. v. Townsend	22557 U.S. 404 (2009)	maritime law  • Jones Act  • punitive damages	Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy	Thomas
1-23	Horne v. Flores	23557 U.S. 433 (2009)	Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974  • state funding of English language instruction  • Article III  • standing  • Federal Rules of Civil Procedure  • relief from judgment based on changed circumstances  • No Child Left Behind Act	Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas	Breyer
2-24	Ricci v. DeStefano	24557 U.S. 557 (2009)	Title VII  • disparate impact  • exams used for employee promotions	Scalia, Thomas	Kennedy Scalia Ginsburg

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