List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Roberts Court

This is a chronological list of notable cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the tenure of Chief Justice John Roberts (29 September 2005 to the present).

Case name	Citation	Summary
Gonzales v. Oregon	546 U.S. 243 (2006)	Attorney General did not permissibly construe Controlled Substances Act to prohibit the distribution of drugs for physician-assisted suicide
Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England	546 U.S. 320 (2006)	invalidating statute and lower courts rendering narrower declaratory and injunctive relief
Central Virginia Community College v. Katz	546 U.S. 356 (2006)	state sovereign immunity under the 11th Amendment and the Bankruptcy Clause
Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal	546 U.S. 418 (2006)	Federal government could not bar religious use of hallucinogenic tea
Buckeye Check Cashing, Inc. v. Cardegna	546 U.S. 440 (2006)	Arbitrator must decide legality of contract unless arbitration clause is itself being challenged
Domino's Pizza, Inc. v. McDonald	546 U.S. 470 (2006)	agent of a party to a contract cannot state a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 because he himself does not have rights to make or enforce under the contract
Dolan v. United States Postal Service	546 U.S. 481 (2006)	scope of immunity of the United States Postal Service under the Federal Tort Claims Act
Arbaugh v. Y & H Corporation	546 U.S. 500 (2006)	"Employee-numerosity" requirement of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is substantive, rather than jurisdictional in nature
Oregon v. Guzek	546 U.S. 517 (2006)	States may constitutionally limit the evidence of innocence a defendant convicted of a capital offense may present at his sentencing hearing to the evidence already presented at his trial.
Texaco, Inc. v. Dagher	547 U.S. 1 (2006)	joint venture was not a price-fixing scheme under antitrust law
Scheidler v. National Organization for Women	547 U.S. 9 (2006)	physical violence and extortion as a violation of the Hobbs Act
Illinois Tool Works, Inc. v. Independent Ink, Inc.	547 U.S. 28 (2006)	patented products involved in product tying arrangements are not presumed to have market power under antitrust law
Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights	547 U.S. 47 (2006)	law schools receiving federal funds may not ban military recruiters
United States v. Grubbs	547 U.S. 90 (2006)	anticipatory search warrant did not violate the particularity clause of the 4th Amendment
Georgia v. Randolph	547 U.S. 103 (2006)	police cannot conduct a warrantless search in a home where one occupant consents and the other objects
Day v. McDonough	547 U.S. 198 (2006)	A State's unintentional failure to object to the filing of a habeas corpus petition after the statute of limitations has expired does not prevent a district court from dismissing the petition on its own initiative
Northern Ins. Co. of N.Y. v. Chatham County	547 U.S. 268 (2006)	sovereign immunity does not apply to admiralty suit against county
Jones v. Flowers	547 U.S. 220 (2006)	sufficiency of notice for tax sale
Hartman v. Moore	547 U.S. 250 (2006)	A plaintiff in a retaliatory-prosecution action against federal officials must plead and show the absence of probable cause for pressing the underlying criminal charges.
Ark. Dep't of Human Servs. v. Ahlborn	547 U.S. 268 (2006)	state liens on personal injury settlements
Marshall v. Marshall	547 U.S. 293 (2006)	federal bankruptcy court binding state court on inheritance question
Holmes v. South Carolina	547 U.S. 319 (2006)	limitations on exclusion of evidence in murder case, 6th Amendment
DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Cuno	547 U.S. 332 (2006)	taxpayer standing in a Dormant Commerce Clause case
Sereboff v. Mid Atlantic Medical Services, Inc.	547 U.S. 356 (2006)	fiduciary's recovery of personal injury settlement under ERISA
eBay Inc. v. MercExchange, L.L.C.	547 U.S. 388 (2006)	nature of patent injunctions - revisiting Continental Paper Bag Co. v. Eastern Paper Bag Co.
S. D. Warren Co. v. Maine Bd. of Env. Protection	547 U.S. 370 (2006)	interpreting scope of activities covered by the Clean Water Act
Brigham City v. Stuart	547 U.S. 398 (2006)	reasonableness of officers' warrantless entry into a home to stop a fight under the "emergency aid exception"
Garcetti v. Ceballos	547 U.S. 410 (2006)	extent of public employees' First Amendment right to free speech in the workplace
Anza v. Ideal Steel Supply Corp.	547 U.S. 451 (2006)	activities subject to RICO
Zedner v. United States	547 U.S. 489 (2006)	a criminal defendant may not prospectively waive his rights under the Speedy Trial Act
House v. Bell	547 U.S. 518 (2006)	Post-conviction DNA forensic evidence can be considered in death penalty appeals
Hudson v. Michigan	547 U.S. 586 (2006)	evidence obtained with a search warrant is admissible even when police violate 'knock-and-announce' rule
Rapanos v. United States	547 U.S. 715 (2006)	whether wetlands are part of the "navigable waters of the United States" and thus regulated by the Clean Water Act
Davis v. Washington	547 U.S. 813 (2006)	whether a 911 call is "testimonial" under Crawford v. Washington
Samson v. California	547 U.S. 843 (2006)	evidence obtained in a suspicionless search of parolees is admissible, and not prohibited under the Fourth Amendment
Dixon v. United States	548 U.S. 1 (2006)	burden of proof for duress as a defense to Federal firearms law violations
Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. White	548 U.S. 53 (2006)	a job reassignment which is dirtier and more strenuous may constitute retaliatory discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as may a month of suspension without pay even when the employee receives back pay
Woodford v. Ngo	548 U.S. 81 (2006)	the Prison Litigation Reform Act requires proper exhaustion of administrative remedies before an inmate can file a lawsuit
United States v. Gonzalez-Lopez	548 U.S. 140 (2006)	trial court's erroneous deprivation of a criminal defendant's choice of counsel entitles him to reversal of his conviction
Kansas v. Marsh	548 U.S. 163 (2006)	statute allowing the death penalty in cases where the aggravating and mitigating evidence are equal does not violate the Eighth Amendment
Randall v. Sorrell	548 U.S. 230 (2006)	campaign finance laws which limit expenditures violate the First Amendment, and the anticorruption benefits of contribution limits must be weighed against their First Amendment costs
Arlington Central School Dist. Bd. of Ed. v. Murphy	548 U.S. 291 (2006)	The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act does not authorize the award of experts' fees to prevailing plaintiffs
Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon	548 U.S. 331 (2006)	informing a suspect of his rights under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations
League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry	548 U.S. 399 (2006)	Texas's 2003 redistricting of District 23 constituted a violation of Latinos' rights under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, however mid-decade redistricting is constitutional as long as it is not solely motivated by partisan gain
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld	548 U.S. 557 (2006)	Guantanamo Bay detainees may not be tried by a military commission under the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, and said military commission violates the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Geneva Conventions, both of which apply to the detainees, in that accused and their counsels may be excluded from their trial and knowing what evidence has been put against them
Clark v. Arizona	548 U.S. 735 (2006)	constitutionality of Arizona's insanity defense statute
Lopez v. Gonzales	549 U.S. 47 (2006)	misdemeanor drug crimes as aggravated felonies
Carey v. Musladin	549 U.S. 70 (2006)	spectator publicity and the right to a fair trial; "clearly established" law under the AEDPA
BP America Production Co. v. Burton	549 U.S. 84 (2007)	Statute of limitations on contract actions by the Federal Government under 28 U.S.C. § 2415 is not applicable to administrative proceedings
Medimmune, Inc. v. Genentech, Inc.	549 U.S. 118 (2007)	enforceability of patents before infringement
Cunningham v. California	549 U.S. 270 (2007)	applicability of Blakely v. Washington to California's determinate sentencing law
Philip Morris USA v. Williams	549 U.S. 346 (2007)	constitutional limitations on punitive damages
Marrama v. Citizens Bank of Massachusetts	549 U.S. 365 (2007)	bad-faith exception to the right to convert Chapter 7 bankruptcy case to a Chapter 13 case
Sinochem International Co., Ltd. v. Malaysia International Shipping Corporation	549 U.S. 422 (2007)	District Court may respond immediately to defendant's forum non conveniens motion before resolving jurisdictional or other threshold concerns
Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency	549 U.S. 497 (2007)	power to regulate emissions

Decided, but not yet reported

The cases listed in this section may be up to a year and a half old; however, they are not yet included in a final bound edition of U.S. Reports. They are listed in order of the date on which they were decided, and a link is included to the Supreme Court's docket. See Case citation, unpublished decisions for additional information.

Case name	Docket no.	Decided	Summary
Gonzales v. Carhart	05-380	4/18/07	Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act
James v. United States	05-9264	4/18/07	attempted burglary as a predicate crime under the Armed Career Criminal Act
Microsoft v. AT&T	05-1056	4/30/07	copying software in a foreign country cannot violate U.S. patent law
Scott v. Harris	05-1631	4/30/07	Fourth Amendment seizure in a high speed chase, qualified immunity
KSR v. Teleflex	04-1350	4/30/07	Patent law, nonobviousness
Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.	05-1074	5/29/07	employment discrimination
Permanent Mission of India v. City of New York	06-134	6/14/07	whether a municipality can sue other countries to collect unpaid taxes
Bowles v. Russell	06-5306	6/14/07	Federal Courts of Appeals lack jurisdiction to hear habeas appeals that are filed late, even if the district court said the petitioner had additional time to file
Brendlin v. California	06-8120	6/18/07	whether a passenger in an automobile is "detained" so that he may assert a Fourth Amendment violation stemming from the traffic stop itself
Credit Suisse v. Billing	05-1157	6/18/07	Whether Congress's creation of the SEC implicitly exempted regulated industries from antitrust lawsuits
Rita v. United States	06-5754	6/21/07	"reasonableness" of a federal prison sentence under United States v. Booker; continuing application of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines
Tellabs, Inc. v. Makor Issues & Rights, Ltd.	06-484	6/21/07	The proper standard for determining whether a plaintiff has alleged a "strong inference" of scienter under the PSLRA
Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation	06-157	6/25/07	taxpayer standing to pursue an Establishment Clause claim against President Bush's faith-based initiative
Morse v. Frederick	06-278	6/25/07	free speech rights of high school students ("Bong Hits 4 Jesus")
Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc.	06-969	6/25/07	Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act's restriction on issue ads in election campaigns
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1	05-908	6/28/07	affirmative action; using race as a tie-breaker in assigning students to public schools
Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education	05-915	6/28/07	affirmative action; using race as a tie-breaker in assigning students to public schools
Panetti v. Quarterman	06-6407	6/28/07	executing the mentally ill
Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc.	06-480	6/28/07	applying rule of reason under Section 1 of the Sherman Act
CBOCS West v. Humphries	06-1431	9/25/07	race retaliation claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1981
Watson v. United States	06-571	12/10/07	whether trading drugs for a gun constitutes use of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 924 and Bailey v. United States
Kimbrough v. United States	06-6330	12/10/07	whether the 100:1 ratio between powder and crack cocaine imposed by the United States Sentencing Commission yields "reasonable" sentences
Gall v. United States	06-7949	12/10/07	"reasonableness" of a federal prison sentence under United States v. Booker; continuing application of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines
Riegel v. Medtronic, Inc.	06-179	2/20/08	Medical Device Amendment’s preemption clause bars common-law claims challenging the safety or effectiveness of a medical device marketed in a form that received premarket approval from the FDA.
Snyder v. Louisiana	06-10119	3/19/08	racial discrimination in jury selection; playing the "O.J. card"
Medellín v. Texas	06-984	3/25/08	whether the president may direct state courts to obey an order of the World Court ruling regarding the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations
New Jersey v. Delaware	134-Orig.	3/31/08	boundary dispute between New Jersey and Delaware involving the Twelve-Mile Circle
Baze v. Rees	07-5439	4/16/08	constitutionality of lethal injection protocols under the Eighth Amendment
Virginia v. Moore	06-1082	4/23/08	whether the Fourth Amendment requires suppression of evidence discovered in a search conducted in violation of state law
Crawford v. Marion County Election Board	07-21	4/28/08	constitutionality of requiring voters to show ID before voting
United States v. Williams	06-694	5/19/08	constitutionality of the PROTECT Act, a 2003 law intended to bolster federal restriction against child pornography, in the wake of Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition
Quanta v. LG Electronics	06-937	6/9/08	patent exhaustion and its applicability to certain types of method patents
Boumediene v. Bush	06-1195	6/12/08	whether the Military Detainee Treatment Act of 2006 unconstitutionally suspends the writ of habeas corpus
Indiana v. Edwards	07-208	6/19/08	may a criminal defendant be competent to stand trial yet simultaneously not competent to represent himself at that trial?
Greenlaw v. United States	07-330	6/23/08	may a federal appeals court sua sponte increase a defendant's sentence on appeal, without a formal appeal by the government?
Rothgery v. Gillespie County	07-440	6/23/08	does a criminal defendant have a right to counsel at an ex parte arraignment?
Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker	07-219	6/25/08	legality of punitive damages award under federal maritime law for the Exxon Valdez oil spill
Kennedy v. Louisiana	07-343	6/25/08	does the Eighth Amendment forbid the death penalty for rape of a child?
Giles v. California	07-6053	6/25/08	does a criminal defendant lose his Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses against him when he procures the absence of that witness by wrongdoing, as when statements of a murder victim are admitted against the murder defendant?
District of Columbia v. Heller	07-290	6/26/08	does the Second Amendment allows a state or local government to outlaw the private possession of handguns?
Davis v. Federal Election Commission	07-320	6/26/08	"Millionaire's amendment" to the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 violates the First Amendment

Upcoming cases

The following is a partial list of cases that the Court has agreed to hear in October Term 2008 (October 2008-June 2009), listed in the order in which the Court agreed to hear them.

Case name	Docket no.	Cert. granted on	Summary
Wyeth v. Levine	06-1249	1/18/08	do federal drug labeling requirements preempt different state drug labeling requirements that were enacted to ensure that the public knew certain drugs are safe?
Altria Group, Inc. v. Good	07-562	1/18/08	does federal law preempt the states' prerogative to regulate the advertisement of tar and nicotine rates in cigarettes?
Ali v. Federal Bureau of Prisons	06-9130	1/22/08	Case upholding the United States's sovereign immunity against tort claims brought when "any law enforcement officer" loses a person's property.
Herring v. United States	07-513	2/19/08	is evidence resulting from a search the police conducted in good faith, but in reliance on bad information, subject to exclusion?
14 Penn Plaza LLC v. Pyett	07-581	2/19/08	may a union and an employer require that members resolve statutory discrimination claims through arbitration instead of lawsuits?
Arizona v. Gant	07-542	2/25/08	may the police search a vehicle without a warrant after its occupants have been arrested in order to preserve evidence of the suspected crime?
Negusie v. Mukasey	07-499	3/17/08	does the bar on asylum for persecutors apply to applicants for asylum who have been the target of credible threats of harm or torture in their home countries if they refuse to further participate in the acts of persecution?
FCC v. Fox Television Stations	07-582	3/17/08	did the FCC exceed its authority by banning even a single use of the word "fuck" on broadcast television?
Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts	07-591	3/17/08	are forensic laboratory reports admissible under the Confrontation Clause as interpreted in Crawford v. Washington?
Oregon v. Ice	07-901	3/17/08	must the facts necessary for imposing consecutive prison terms be submitted to a jury in accordance with Apprendi v. New Jersey?
United States v. Hayes	07-608	3/24/08	does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9) forbid people who have been convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence crimes from possessing firearms or ammunition if the statute defining the domestic violence crime is merely generic battery?
Pearson v. Callahan	07-751	3/24/08	may the police enter a home without a warrant to arrest a suspect immediately after an informant has bought drugs from the suspect? should Saucier v. Katz be overruled?
Entergy v. EPA	07-588	4/14/08	may the EPA require power companies to engage in a cost-benefit analysis when selecting the "best technology available for minimizing adverse environmental impact" at cooling water intake structures?
Van de Kamp v. Goldstein	07-854	4/14/08	suing prosecutors under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for improperly supervising the disclosures made by line prosecutors pursuant to Brady v. Maryland