2015 term United States Supreme Court opinions of Clarence Thomas

The 2015 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 5, 2015 and will conclude October 2, 2016. This is the twenty-fifth term of Associate Justice Clarence Thomas's tenure on the Court.
Clarence Thomas 2015 term statistics (in progress) 3 Majority or Plurality 6 Concurrence 0 Other 12 Dissent 0 Concurrence/dissent Total = 21 Bench opinions = 14 Opinions relating to orders = 7 In-chambers opinions = 0 Unanimous opinions: 1 Most joined by: - Least joined by: -

Type	Case	Citation	Issues	Joined by	Other opinions
	New Hampshire Right to Life v. Department of Health and Human Services	577 U.S. ___ (2015)	Freedom of Information Act	Scalia
Thomas dissented from the Court's denial of certiorari.
	Friedman v. Highland Park	577 U.S. ___ (2015)	Second Amendment  • right to keep and bear arms  • municipal ban on semiautomatic firearms and high-capacity magazines	Scalia
Thomas dissented from the Court's denial of certiorari.
	DIRECTV, Inc. v. Imburgia	577 U.S. ___ (2015)	Federal Arbitration Act		Breyer Ginsburg
	Montanile v. Board of Trustees of Nat. Elevator Industry Health Benefit Plan	577 U.S. ___ (2016)	Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974  • equitable remedies for plan enforcement	Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan; Alito (in part)	Ginsburg
	Campbell-Ewald v. Gomez	577 U.S. ___ (2016)	Article III  • Case or Controversy Clause  • effect of unaccepted settlement offer or offer of judgment on mootness  • Telephone Consumer Protection Act  • liability of federal contractor		Ginsburg Roberts Alito
	Montgomery v. Louisiana	577 U.S. ___ (2016)	Eighth Amendment  • capital punishment  • execution of minors  • retroactivity of new constitutional rules		Kennedy Scalia
	Musacchio v. United States	577 U.S. ___ (2016)	challenge to sufficiency of evidence based on incorrect jury instructions  • waiver of statute of limitations	Unanimous
	California Building Industry Assn. v. San Jose	577 U.S. ___ (2016)	ordinance requiring new developments include low income housing  • Fifth Amendment  • Takings Clause
Thomas concurred in the Court's denial of certiorari.
	Gobeille v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.	577 U.S. ___ (2016)	Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974  • preemption of state law health care disclosure requirements		Kennedy Breyer Ginsburg
	American Freedom Defense Initiative v. King County	577 U.S. ___ (2016)	First Amendment  • free speech  • public forum doctrine  • advertising in public transit areas	Alito
Thomas dissented from the Court's denial of certiorari.
	Nebraska v. Colorado	577 U.S. ___ (2016)	discretion to decline original jurisdiction suits  • Colorado Amendment 64	Alito
Thomas dissented from the Court's denial of leave to file complaint.
	Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Bouaphakeo	577 U.S. ___ (2016)	Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938  • certification of class action  • compensibility for varying times spent donning and doffing protective gear	Alito	Kennedy Roberts
	Nebraska v. Parker	577 U.S. ___ (2016)	Omaha Indian Reservation  • diminishment of reservation boundaries	Unanimous[1]
	Luis v. United States	578 U.S. ___ (2016)	pretrial asset freezing  • Sixth Amendment  • right to counsel of one's choice		Breyer Kennedy Kagan
	Evenwel v. Abbott	578 U.S. ___ (2016)	legislative redistricting based on total state population  • Fourteenth Amendment  • Equal Protection Clause  • one person, one vote doctrine		Ginsburg Alito
	Kakarala v. Wells Fargo Bank, N. A.	578 U.S. ___ (2016)	federal court review of orders remanding cases to state court
Thomas dissented from the Court's denial of certiorari.
	Welch v. United States	578 U.S. ___ (2016)	Armed Career Criminal Act  • retroactive effect of court decision on collateral review		Kennedy
	Hughes v. Talen Energy Marketing, LLC	578 U.S. ___ (2016)	Federal Power Act  • interstate wholesale electricity rates  • federal preemption		Ginsburg Sotomayor
	Arrigoni Enterprises, LLC. v. Durham	578 U.S. ___ (2016)	Fifth Amendment  • Takings Clause  • exhaustion of remedies under state procedures	Kennedy
Thomas dissented from the Court's denial of certiorari.
	Heffernan v. City of Paterson	578 U.S. ___ (2016)	First Amendment  • free speech by government employees  • demotion based on employer's factual mistake regarding engagement in protected activity	Alito	Breyer
	Ocasio v. United States	578 U.S. ___ (2016)	Hobbs Act  • criminal		Alito Breyer Sotomayor

Notes

1. This opinion was handed down after the death of Justice Scalia, and so was unanimous as to the eight justices remaining on the Court.

References

• 2015 Term Opinions of the Court, Supreme Court of the United States, retrieved May 2, 2016.
• 2015 Term Opinions Relating to Orders, Supreme Court of the United States, retrieved May 2, 2016.
• 2015 Term In-Chambers Opinions, Supreme Court of the United States, retrieved May 2, 2016.