2010 term United States Supreme Court opinions of Stephen Breyer

The 2010 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 4, 2010 and concluded October 1, 2011. This was the seventeenth term of Associate Justice Stephen Breyer's tenure on the Court.	150px
Stephen Breyer 2010 term statistics 7 Majority or Plurality 5 Concurrence 1 Other 11 Dissent 1 Concurrence/dissent Total = 25 Bench opinions = 22 Opinions relating to orders = 3 In-chambers opinions = 0 Unanimous opinions: 0 Most joined by: Ginsburg (15) Least joined by: Thomas (3)

Type	Case	Citation	Issues	Joined by	Other opinions
1-01	Los Angeles County v. Humphries • [full text]	01562 U.S. ___ (2010)	42 U.S.C. § 1983  • "policy or custom" liability requirement  • damages	Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, Alito, Sotomayor
Breyer's 8-0 opinion held that a municipality can only be liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for an injury caused by that municipality's own "policy or custom", regardless of whether the plaintiff seeks prospective relief or monetary damages.
2-02	Bruesewitz v. Wyeth LLC	02562 U.S. ___ (2011)	National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986  • state law design defect claims  • federal preemption		Scalia Sotomayor
1-03	Williamson v. Mazda Motor of America, Inc.	03562 U.S. ___ (2011)	National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966  • Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards on seat belt design  • state law torts against auto manufacturers  • federal preemption	Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Ginsburg, Alito, Sotomayor	Thomas Sotomayor
2-04	Snyder v. Phelps	04562 U.S. ___ (2011)	First Amendment  • free speech  • intentional infliction of emotional distress		Roberts Alito
2-05	Pepper v. United States	05562 U.S. ___ (2011)	Federal Sentencing Guidelines  • consideration of postsentencing rehabilitation		Sotomayor Alito Thomas
4-06	Milner v. Department of Navy	06562 U.S. ___ (2011)	Freedom of Information Act  • exemption for internal personnel rules		Kagan Alito
1-07	Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp.	07562 U.S. ___ (2011)	Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938  • antiretaliation provision  • oral intracompany complaints	Roberts, Kennedy, Ginsburg, Alito, Sotomayor	Scalia
3-08	Cullen v. Pinholster	08563 U.S. ___ (2011)	Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996  • introduction of new evidence in habeas corpus proceedings  • Sixth Amendment  • ineffective assistance of counsel		Thomas Alito Sotomayor
5-09	Kiyemba v. Obama	09563 U.S. ___ (2011)	Guantanamo Bay detainees	Kennedy, Ginsburg, Sotomayor
Breyer filed a statement respecting the Court's denial of certiorari.
4-10	AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion	10563 U.S. ___ (2011)	Federal Arbitration Act  • federal preemption  • class actions	Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan	Scalia Thomas
1-11	CIGNA Corp. v. Amara	11563 U.S. ___ (2011)	ERISA  • failure to provide proper notice of plan changes  • court authority to reform plan as equitable relief	Roberts, Kennedy, Ginsburg, Alito, Kagan	Scalia
4-12	Chamber of Commerce of United States of America v. Whiting	12563 U.S. ___ (2011)	Immigration Reform and Control Act  • Legal Arizona Workers Act  • state requirement that businesses use E-Verify  • suspension or revocation of business licenses for hiring unauthorized aliens  • federal preemption	Ginsburg	Roberts Sotomayor
1-13	United States v. Tinklenberg	13563 U.S. ___ (2011)	Speedy Trial Act of 1974  • effect of pretrial motions on delay	Kennedy, Ginsburg, Alito, Sotomayor; Roberts, Scalia, Thomas (in part)	Scalia
1-14	Fowler v. United States	14563 U.S. ___ (2011)	federal witness tampering crime  • likelihood victim was intending to communicate with federal officer	Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas, Sotomayor, Kagan	Scalia Alito
4-15	Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior Univ. v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.	15563 U.S. ___ (2011)	patent law  • University and Small Business Patent Procedures Act of 1980  • vesting of federally funded patents in inventors or contractors	Ginsburg	Roberts Sotomayor
2-16	Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Ltd. Partnership	16564 U.S. ___ (2011)	Patent Act of 1952  • presumption of patent validity  • on-sale bar  • clear and convincing evidence	Scalia, Alito	Sotomayor Thomas
4-17	Janus Capital Group, Inc. v. First Derivative Traders	17564 U.S. ___ (2011)	SEC Rule 10b-5  • participation of corporate affiliate in making false statements	Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan	Thomas
4-18	Davis v. United States	18564 U.S. ___ (2011)	Fourth Amendment  • exclusionary rule  • good faith reliance on binding appellate precedent	Ginsburg	Alito Sotomayor
1-19	Turner v. Rogers	19564 U.S. ___ (2011)	Due Process Clause  • right to counsel in civil contempt hearing for indigent defendant facing incarceration	Kennedy, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan	Thomas
4-20	Stern v. Marshall	20564 U.S. ___ (2011)	Article III  • bankruptcy court authority to decide state law counterclaim	Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan	Roberts Scalia
4-21	Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc.	21564 U.S. ___ (2011)	state law restrictions on sale or disclosure of drug prescriber information  • First Amendment  • free speech	Ginsburg, Kagan	Kennedy
4-22	Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn.	22564 U.S. ___ (2011)	First Amendment  • freedom of speech  • restriction on sale of violent video games to minors		Scalia Alito Thomas
2-23	J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd. v. Nicastro	23564 U.S. ___ (2011)	Fourteenth Amendment  • Due Process Clause  • personal jurisdiction over foreign manufacturer in state product liability suit  • purposeful availment of the forum	Alito	Kennedy Ginsburg
4-24	Leal Garcia v. Texas	24564 U.S. ___ (2011)	Vienna Convention on Consular Relations  • domestication of international law  • due process	Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan	per curiam
Breyer dissented from the Court's denial of a stay of execution
4-25	Valle v. Florida	25564 U.S. ___ (2011)	Eighth Amendment  • death penalty
Breyer dissented from the Court's denial of stay, in a case arguing that executing the petitioner after he spent 33 years on death row constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

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