2008 term United States Supreme Court opinions of Anthony Kennedy

The 2008 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 6, 2008, and concluded October 4, 2009. This was the twenty-second term of Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy's tenure on the Court.
Anthony Kennedy 2008 term statistics 7 Majority or Plurality 4 Concurrence 1 Other 1 Dissent 1 Concurrence/dissent Total = 14 Bench opinions = 13 Opinions relating to orders = 1 In-chambers opinions = 0 Unanimous opinions: 0 Most joined by: Roberts (6) Least joined by: Stevens (2)

Type	Case	Citation	Issues	Joined by	Other opinions
	Summers v. Earth Island Institute	555 U.S. 488 (2009)	Forest Service Decisionmaking and Appeals Reform Act  • regulatory exceptions to notice and comment procedures  • Article III  • standing		Scalia Breyer
	Negusie v. Holder	555 U.S. 511 (2009)	immigration law  • Refugee Act of 1980  • persecutor bar for refugee applicants	Roberts, Scalia, Souter, Ginsburg	Scalia Stevens Thomas
	Bartlett v. Strickland	556 U.S. 1 (2009)	Voting Rights Act of 1965  • legislative redistricting  • vote dilution	Roberts, Alito	Thomas Souter Ginsburg Breyer
	Ministry of Defense and Support for Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran v. Elahi	556 U.S. 366 (2009)	attachment to judgment in favor of foreign government  • Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002  • Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000	Souter, Ginsburg	Breyer
	Nken v. Holder	556 U.S. 418 (2009)	immigration law  • Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996  • stay of removal order	Scalia	Roberts Alito
	FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc.	556 U.S. 202 (2009)	Public Telecommunications Act of 1992  • indecency ban on broadcast television  • fleeting expletives		Scalia Thomas Stevens Ginsburg Breyer
	Ashcroft v. Iqbal	556 U.S. 662 (2009)	post-9/11 detention  • qualified immunity  • collateral order doctrine  • Federal Rules of Civil Procedure  • sufficiency of pleadings in discrimination case	Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito	Souter Breyer
	Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Co.	556 U.S. 868 (2009)	Due Process Clause  • recusal  • judicial campaign contributions from litigant	Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer	Roberts Scalia
	United States v. Denedo	556 U.S. 904 (2009)	Uniform Code of Military Justice  • coram nobis  • All Writs Act	Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer	Roberts
	N.C.P. Marketing Group, Inc. v. BG Star Productions, Inc.	556 U.S. 1145 (2009)	bankruptcy law  • Chapter 11  • assumption of pre-bankruptcy executory contracts by debtor-in-possession	Breyer
Kennedy filed a statement respecting the denial of certiorari.
	Yeager v. United States	557 U.S. 110 (2009)	Double Jeopardy Clause  • issue preclusion  • inconsistency between acquittal and hung jury		Stevens Scalia Alito
	Coeur Alaska, Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council	557 U.S. 261 (2009)	Clean Water Act  • Army Corps of Engineers authority to issue slurry discharge permit	Roberts, Thomas, Breyer, Alito; Scalia (in part)	Scalia Breyer Ginsburg
	Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts	557 U.S. 305 (2009)	Sixth Amendment  • Confrontation Clause  • forensic analyst affidavits	Roberts, Breyer, Alito	Scalia Thomas
	Ricci v. DeStefano	557 U.S. 557 (2009)	Title VII  • disparate impact  • exams used for employee promotions	Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito	Scalia Alito Ginsburg

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.