2008 term United States Supreme Court opinions of Stephen Breyer

The 2008 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 6, 2008 and concluded October 4, 2009. This was the fifteenth term of Associate Justice Stephen Breyer's tenure on the Court.
Stephen Breyer 2008 term statistics 8 Majority or Plurality 7 Concurrence 1 Other 13 Dissent 3 Concurrence/dissent Total = 32 Bench opinions = 29 Opinions relating to orders = 2 In-chambers opinions = 1 Unanimous opinions: 3 Most joined by: Souter (13) Least joined by: Thomas (5)

Type	Case	Citation	Issues	Joined by	Other opinions
	Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.	555 U.S. 7 (2008)		Stevens (in part)	Roberts Ginsburg
	Chambers v. United States	555 U.S. 122 (2009)	Definition of "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act	Roberts, Stevens, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg	Alito
	Herring v. United States	555 U.S. 135 (2009)		Souter	Roberts Ginsburg
	Locke v. Karass	555 U.S. 207 (2009)	Lawful scope of non-union "service fees"	Unanimous	Alito
	Van de Kamp v. Goldstein	555 U.S. 335 (2009)		Unanimous
	Nelson v. United States	555 U.S. 350 (2009)		Alito	per curiam
	Ysursa v. Pocatello Ed. Assn.	555 U.S. 353 (2009)			Roberts Ginsburg Stevens Souter
	Carcieri v. Salazar	555 U.S. 379 (2009)			Thomas Souter Stevens
	Pacific Bell Telephone Co. v. linkLine Communications, Inc.	555 U.S. 438 (2009)		Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg	Roberts
	Pleasant Grove City v. Summum	555 U.S. 460 (2009)	First Amendment  • free speech  • public forum and government speech		Alito Stevens Scalia Souter
	Summers v. Earth Island Institute	555 U.S. 488 (2009)		Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg	Scalia Kennedy
	Wyeth v. Levine	555 U.S. 555 (2009)			Stevens Thomas Alito
	Kelly v. California	555 U.S. 1020 (2008)			Stevens
Breyer dissented from the Court's denial of certiorari, in a case that involved the admissibility of "victim impact evidence" during the sentencing phase of a capital trial.
	Bartlett v. Strickland	556 U.S. 1 (2009)			Kennedy Thomas Souter Ginsburg
	Vermont v. Brillon	556 U.S. 81 (2009)		Stevens	Ginsburg
	Entergy Corp. v. Riverkeeper, Inc.	556 U.S. 208 (2009)			Scalia Stevens
	Arizona v. Gant	556 U.S. 332 (2009)			Stevens Scalia Alito
	Ministry of Defense and Support for Armed Forces of Islamic Republic of Iran v. Elahi	556 U.S. 36 (2009)		Roberts, Stevens, Scalia, Thomas, Alito; Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg (in part)	Kennedy
	Shinseki v. Sanders	556 U.S. 396 (2009)		Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Alito	Souter
	FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc.	556 U.S. 502 (2009)		Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg	Scalia Kennedy Thomas Stevens Ginsburg
	Dean v. United States	556 U.S. 568 (2009)			Roberts Stevens
	Carlsbad Technology, Inc. v. HIF Bio, Inc.	556 U.S. 635 (2009)		Souter	Thomas Stevens Scalia
	Flores-Figueroa v. United States	556 U.S. 646 (2009)		Roberts, Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg	Scalia Alito
	Ashcroft v. Iqbal	556 U.S. 662 (2009)			Kennedy Souter
	Montejo v. Louisiana	556 U.S. 778 (2009)			Scalia Alito Stevens
	Thompson v. McNeil	556 U.S. 1114 (2009)			Stevens Thomas
Breyer dissented from the Court's denial of certiorari.
	Polar Tankers, Inc. v. City of Valdez	557 U.S. 1 (2009)		Scalia, Kennedy, Ginsburg; Alito (in part)	Roberts Alito Stevens
	Nijhawan v. Holder	557 U.S. 29 (2009)		Unanimous
	Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc.	557 U.S. 167 (2009)		Souter, Ginsburg	Thomas Stevens
	Coeur Alaska, Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council	557 U.S. 261 (2009)			Kennedy Scalia Ginsburg
	Horne v. Flores	557 U.S. 433 (2009)		Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg	Alito
	O'Brien v. O'Laughlin	557 U.S. 1301 (2009)
Breyer denied the government's application for a stay of the grant of a habeas corpus petition.

References

• 2008 Term Opinions of the Court, Supreme Court of the United States, retrieved March 20, 2010.
• 2008 Term Opinions Relating to Orders, Supreme Court of the United States, retrieved March 20, 2010.
• 2008 Term In-Chambers Opinions, Supreme Court of the United States, retrieved March 20, 2010.