2005 term United States Supreme Court opinions of John Paul Stevens

The 2005 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 3, 2005, and concluded October 1, 2006. This was the thirty-first term of Associate Justice John Paul Stevens's tenure on the Court.
John Paul Stevens 2005 term statistics 7 Majority or Plurality 6 Concurrence 2 Other 14 Dissent 1 Concurrence/dissent Total = 30 Bench opinions = 28 Opinions relating to orders = 2 In-chambers opinions = 0 Unanimous opinions: 2 Most joined by: Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer (11) Least joined by: O'Connor, Alito (2)

Type	Case	Citation	Issues	Joined by	Other opinions
101	IPB, Inc. v. Alvarez	546 U.S. 21 (2005)		Unanimous
202	Schaffer v. Weast	546 U.S. 49 (2005)	Individuals with Disabilities Education Act  • individualized education program challenges  • burden of proof		O'Connor Ginsburg Breyer
Stevens joined O'Connor's 6-2 decision and filed a separate concurrence.
203	United States v. Georgia	546 U.S. 151 (2006)		Ginsburg	Scalia
Stevens also joined Scalia's unanimous opinion.
404	Volvo Trucks North America v. Reeder-Simco GMC	546 U.S. 164 (2006)		Thomas	Ginsburg
205	Evans v. Chavis	546 U.S. 189 (2006)			Breyer
Stevens concurred in the judgment of Breyer's 8-justice opinion.
406	Brown v. Sanders	546 U.S. 212 (2006)		Souter	Scalia Breyer
107	Central Virginia Community College v. Katz	546 U.S. 356 (2006)		O'Connor, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer	Thomas
Thomas filed a dissent.
408	Unitherm Food Systems, Inc. v. Swift-Eckrich, Inc.	546 U.S. 394 (2006)		Kennedy	Thomas
409	Lance v. Dennis	546 U.S. 459 (2006)			per curiam Ginsburg
Stevens dissented from the Court's per curiam opinion.
110	Illinois Tool Works Inc. v. Independent Ink, Inc.	547 U.S. 28 (2006)	Patents  • antitrust	Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer
Stevens wrote for the Court that a patented product in a tying arrangement is not presumed to have market power for purposes of antitrust law.
111	Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Dabit	547 U.S. 71 (2006)	Securities regulation  • federal preemption	Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer
Stevens wrote for the Court that the Securities Litigation Reform Act preempted state law holder claims, even though such claims could not be brought under federal law.
212	Georgia v. Randolph	547 U.S. 103 (2006)			Souter Breyer Roberts Scalia Thomas
Stevens also joined Souter's 5-3 decision.
413	Day v. McDonough	547 U.S. 198 (2006)	Habeas corpus	Breyer	Ginsburg Scalia
Stevens filed one of two dissents from Ginsburg's 5–4 decision ruling that courts could dismiss a habeas petition filed outside the statute of limitations sua sponte. Though Stevens agreed with this interpretation, he dissented from the Court's decision to announce its judgment when a relevant case would be decided later in the term. The Court had recently granted certiorari in Lawrence v. Florida, a case which would answer the question of whether Day's petition was actually barred by the statute of limitations. Stevens wrote that "[i]t seems improvident to affirm a possibly erroneous Court of Appeals judgment that dismissed Day's habeas petition without an evaluation of its merits when we have already granted certiorari to address the issue on which the Court of Appeals may have erred." He suggested the lower court may still avoid a "miscarriage of justice" by keeping Day's case on its docket until after Lawrence is decided, "but it would be better practice for us to do so ourselves."
114	Ark. Dep't of Human Servs. v. Ahlborn	547 U.S. 268 (2006)	Medicaid	Unanimous
The Court ruled that a federal statutory prohibition against liens on personal property to recover Medicaid expenditures applied to settlements, so that only the portion of the settlement that represented payment for past medical expenses could be claimed by the state.
215	Marshall v. Marshall	547 U.S. 293 (2006)	Bankruptcy  • jurisdiction		Ginsburg
216	Brigham City v. Stuart	547 U.S. 398 (2006)			Roberts
Stevens also joined Roberts' unanimous decision.
417	Garcetti v. Ceballos	547 U.S. 410 (2006)			Kennedy Souter Breyer
Stevens filed one of three dissents from Kennedy's 5–4 decision, and also joined Souter's.
418	Rapanos v. United States	547 U.S. 715 (2006)	Environmental regulation	Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer	Scalia Roberts Kennedy Breyer
419	Samson v. California	547 U.S. 843 (2006)		Souter, Breyer	Thomas
Stevens dissented from Thomas' 6–3 decision.
520	Moreland v. Federal Bureau of Prisons	547 U.S. 1106 (2006)	Statutory interpretation
Stevens filed a statement respecting the denial of certiorari, in which he clarified that the Court's action was not an endorsement of the lower court's interpretation of the federal sentencing provision for "good-time" credits.
521	Rangel-Reyes v. United States	547 U.S. 1200 (2006)	Rights of the accused  • U.S. Const. amend. VI  • right to a jury trial		Thomas
Stevens filed a statement respecting the Court's denial of certiorari in which he expressed that he still believed Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U. S. 224 (1998), was wrongly decided, but "that is not a sufficient reason for revisiting the issue" in light of stare decisis. "The denial of a jury trial on the narrow issues of fact concerning a defendant’s prior conviction history, unlike the denial of a jury trial on other issues of fact that give rise tomandatory minimum sentences will seldom create any significant risk of prejudice to the accused." Thomas filed a dissent from the denial of cert., believing that Almendarez-Torres should be overruled.
122	Dixon v. United States	548 U.S. 1 (2006)		Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, Alito	Kennedy Alito Breyer
423	Fernandez-Vargas v. Gonzales	548 U.S. 30 (2006)			Souter
424	Woodford v. Ngo	548 U.S. 81 (2006)		Souter, Ginsburg	Alito Breyer
425	Kansas v. Marsh	548 U.S. 163 (2006)	Death penalty		Thomas Scalia Souter
Stevens filed one of two dissents from Thomas' 5–4 decision, and joined Souter's.
426	Washington v. Recuenco	548 U.S. 212 (2006)			Thomas Kennedy Ginsburg
Stevens also joined Ginsburg's dissent.
327	League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry	548 U.S. 399 (2006)	Electoral redistricting	Breyer (in part)	Kennedy Roberts Scalia Souter Breyer
428	Randall v. Sorrell	548 U.S. 230 (2006)			Breyer Kennedy Thomas Alito Souter
429	Beard v. Banks	548 U.S. 521 (2006)		Ginsburg	Breyer Thomas Ginsburg
130	Hamdan v. Rumsfeld	548 U.S. 557 (2006)		Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer; Kennedy (in part)	Kennedy Breyer Scalia Thomas Alito

References

• "2005 Term Opinions of the Court". Supreme Court of the United States. Archived from the original on May 16, 2012. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
• "2005 Term Opinions Relating to Orders". Supreme Court of the United States. Archived from the original on May 27, 2010. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
• "2005 Term In-Chambers Opinions". Supreme Court of the United States. Archived from the original on May 16, 2012. Retrieved December 14, 2016.