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Citations:
  
555 U.S. 1

Laws applied:
  
18 U.S.C. § 3553

2008 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States

Full caption:
  
James Eric Moore v. United States

Prior history:
  
Defendant convicted, sentenced, N.D. Ia.; aff'd, 470 F. 3d 767 (8th Cir. 2006); vacated and remanded, 552 U.S. 1090 (2008); aff'd, 518 F. 3d 577 (2008)

Full text of the opinion:
  
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The Supreme Court of the United States handed down nine per curiam opinions during its 2008 term, which began on October 6, 2008 and concluded October 4, 2009.

Contents

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

Moore v. United States

555 U.S. 1
Decided Decided October 14, 2008.
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded

Brunner v. Ohio Republican Party

555 U.S. 5
Decided October 14, 2008.
The Court granted the application for a stay, and vacated the temporary restraining order entered by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.

Hedgpeth v. Pulido

555 U.S. 57
Decided December 2, 2008.
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated and remanded.

Justice Stevens filed a dissent, joined by Justices Souter and Ginsburg.

Spears v. United States

555 U.S. 261
Decided January 21, 2009.
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded.

Kennedy would have submitted the case for oral argument. Thomas dissented without opinion. Roberts filed a dissent, joined by Alito.

Nelson v. United States

555 U.S. 350
Decided January 26, 2009.
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded.

Breyer filed a concurrence, which Alito joined.

CSX Transp., Inc. v. Hensley

556 U.S. 838
Decided June 1, 2009.
Tennessee Court of Appeals reversed and remanded.

Stevens and Ginsburg filed dissents.

Indiana State Police Pension Trust v. Chrysler LLC

556 U.S. 960
Decided June 9, 2009.
Application for stay denied.

References

2008 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States Wikipedia


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