2008 term United States Supreme Court opinions of Samuel Alito

The 2008 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 6, 2008, and concluded October 4, 2009. This was the fourth term of Associate Justice Samuel Alito's tenure on the Court.
Samuel Alito 2008 term statistics 7 Majority or Plurality 8 Concurrence 0 Other 8 Dissent 1 Concurrence/dissent Total = 24 Bench opinions = 22 Opinions relating to orders = 2 In-chambers opinions = 0 Unanimous opinions: 4 Most joined by: Thomas (14) Least joined by: Stevens, Souter (5)

Type	Case	Citation	Issues	Joined by	Other opinions
201	Chambers v. United States	555 U.S. 122 (2009)	Armed Career Criminal Act  • definition of "violent felony"	Thomas	Breyer
202	Locke v. Karass	555 U.S. 207 (2009)	First Amendment  • public employee union fees imposed on nonmembers	Roberts, Scalia	Breyer
103	Pearson v. Callahan	555 U.S. 223 (2009)	qualified immunity  • Fourth Amendment  • consent-once-removed doctrine	Unanimous
104	Fitzgerald v. Barnstable School Comm.	555 U.S. 246 (2009)	Fourteenth Amendment  • Equal Protection Clause  • sex discrimination  • Title IX  • section 1983	Unanimous
205	Crawford v. Nashville	555 U.S. 271 (2009)	Title VII  • antiretaliation provision	Thomas	Souter
106	Pleasant Grove City v. Summum	555 U.S. 460 (2009)	First Amendment  • free speech  • government speech  • public forums	Roberts, Stevens, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer	Stevens Scalia Souter Breyer
407	Wyeth v. Levine	555 U.S. 555 (2009)	Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act  • FDA-approved pharmaceutical labeling  • federal preemption  • failure-to-warn of risks	Roberts, Scalia	Stevens Thomas Breyer
108	Kansas v. Colorado	556 U.S. 98 (2009)	original jurisdiction  • award of expert witness attendance fees  • Arkansas River Compact	Unanimous	Roberts
109	Hawaii v. Office of Hawaiian Affairs	556 U.S. 163 (2009)	Hawaii Admission Act  • Apology Resolution  • disposition of land ceded to State upon admission to Union	Unanimous
410	Corley v. United States	556 U.S. 303 (2009)	confession after unreasonable delay  • Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure  • voluntariness of confession	Roberts, Scalia, Thomas	Souter
411	Arizona v. Gant	556 U.S. 332 (2009)	Fourth Amendment  • search incident to arrest  • vehicle search	Roberts, Kennedy; Breyer (in part)	Stevens Scalia Breyer
412	Nken v. Holder	556 U.S. 418 (2009)	immigration law  • Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996  • stay of removal order	Thomas	Roberts Kennedy
313	Cone v. Bell	556 U.S. 449 (2009)	Fourteenth Amendment  • Due Process Clause  • state suppression of mitigating evidence  • adequate and independent state ground		Stevens Roberts Thomas
214	Flores-Figueroa v. United States	556 U.S. 646 (2009)	federal criminal law  • identity theft  • knowing use of another person's identification		Breyer Scalia
215	Montejo v. Louisiana	556 U.S. 778 (2009)	Fifth Amendment  • right against self-incrimination  • police interrogation after invocation of right to counsel	Kennedy	Scalia Stevens Breyer
116	Boyle v. United States	556 U.S. 938 (2009)	Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act  • association-in-fact enterprise	Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg	Stevens
417	Megginson v. United States	556 U.S. 1230 (2009)	Fourth Amendment  • search incident to arrest  • vehicle search
Alito dissented from the Court's summary vacatur and remand.
418	Grooms v. United States	556 U.S. 1231 (2009)	Fourth Amendment  • search incident to arrest  • vehicle search
Alito dissented from the Court's summary vacatur and remand.
219	Polar Tankers, Inc. v. City of Valdez	557 U.S. 1 (2009)	Tonnage Clause  • local property tax on vessels		Breyer Roberts Stevens
220	District Attorney's Office for Third Judicial Dist. v. Osborne	557 U.S. 52 (2009)	Due Process Clause  • postconviction access to state evidence for DNA testing  • substantive due process	Kennedy; Thomas (in part)	Roberts Stevens Souter
421	Yeager v. United States	557 U.S. 110 (2009)	Double Jeopardy Clause  • issue preclusion  • inconsistency between acquittal and hung jury	Scalia, Thomas	Stevens Kennedy Scalia
422	Atlantic Sounding Co. v. Townsend	557 U.S. 404 (2009)	maritime law  • Jones Act  • punitive damages	Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy	Thomas
123	Horne v. Flores	557 U.S. 433 (2009)	Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974  • state funding of English language instruction  • Article III  • standing  • Federal Rules of Civil Procedure  • relief from judgment based on changed circumstances  • No Child Left Behind Act	Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas	Breyer
224	Ricci v. DeStefano	557 U.S. 557 (2009)	Title VII  • disparate impact  • exams used for employee promotions	Scalia, Thomas	Kennedy Scalia Ginsburg

References

• "2008 Term Opinions of the Court". Supreme Court of the United States. Archived from the original on March 28, 2010. Retrieved March 20, 2010.
• "2008 Term Opinions Relating to Orders". Supreme Court of the United States. Archived from the original on March 28, 2010. Retrieved March 20, 2010.
• "2008 Term In-Chambers Opinions". Supreme Court of the United States. Archived from the original on March 28, 2010. Retrieved March 20, 2010.