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All justices on the Court at the time the decision was handed down are assumed to have participated and concurred unless otherwise noted. </p><p>The cases for this term are listed chronologically, noting the midterm change in the Court's membership caused by the retirement of Justice <a href="/wiki/Sandra_Day_O%27Connor" title="Sandra Day O'Connor">Sandra Day O'Connor</a> and the confirmation of Justice <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Alito" title="Samuel Alito">Samuel Alito</a> to her seat on January 31, 2006. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Court_membership">Court membership</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2005_term_per_curiam_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Court membership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Chief Justice: <a href="/wiki/John_Roberts" title="John Roberts">John Roberts</a> </p><p>Associate Justices: <a href="/wiki/John_Paul_Stevens" title="John Paul Stevens">John Paul Stevens</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sandra_Day_O%27Connor" title="Sandra Day O'Connor">Sandra Day O'Connor</a> (retired January 31, 2006), <a href="/wiki/Antonin_Scalia" title="Antonin Scalia">Antonin Scalia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Kennedy" title="Anthony Kennedy">Anthony Kennedy</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_Souter" title="David Souter">David Souter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clarence_Thomas" title="Clarence Thomas">Clarence Thomas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg" title="Ruth Bader Ginsburg">Ruth Bader Ginsburg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Breyer" title="Stephen Breyer">Stephen Breyer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Alito" title="Samuel Alito">Samuel Alito</a> (confirmed January 31, 2006) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Dye_v._Hofbauer"><i>Dye v. Hofbauer</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2005_term_per_curiam_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Dye v. Hofbauer"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox" style="width:25%; valign:top; align:right"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Full caption:</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Paul Allen Dye v. Gerald Hofauer, Warden </i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Citations:</th><td class="infobox-data">546 U.S. 1;<span class="nowrap"> </span>126 S. Ct. 5; 163 <a href="/wiki/L._Ed." class="mw-redirect" title="L. Ed.">L. Ed.</a> 2d 1; 2005 U.S. <a href="/wiki/LEXIS" class="mw-redirect" title="LEXIS">LEXIS</a> 7649; 74 U.S.L.W. 3227; 18 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 561</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Prior history:</th><td class="infobox-data">Petition dismissed, No. 97-74817, 1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9120 (<a href="/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Eastern_District_of_Michigan" title="United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan">E.D. Mich.</a>, May 28, 1999); reversed, 45 <a href="/wiki/Federal_Appendix" title="Federal Appendix">Fed. Appx.</a> 428 (<a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Sixth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit">6th Cir.</a> 2002); vacated on rehearing, 111 Fed. Appx. 363 (6th Cir. 2004)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">----</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%"><b>Full text of the opinion:</b></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120319230528/https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/05pdf/04-8384.pdf">official slip opinion</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>546 U.S. 1 </b><br /> <b>Decided October 11, 2005.</b> <br />Sixth Circuit reversed and remanded. </p><p>The Court of Appeals had ruled that the <a href="/wiki/Habeas_corpus" title="Habeas corpus">habeas corpus</a> petitioner failed to <a href="/wiki/Exhaustion_of_remedies" title="Exhaustion of remedies">exhaust state remedies</a> by not arguing his federal claim of <a href="/wiki/Prosecutorial_misconduct" title="Prosecutorial misconduct">prosecutorial misconduct</a> in state court, which it concluded only because the state court's opinion failed to discuss that argument. The Supreme Court reversed, ruling that the failure of a court decision to discuss an argument does not by itself establish that the argument was never raised. The habeas petitioner's state court appellate brief clearly indicated that the federal claim had been raised in that forum. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Schriro_v._Smith"><i>Schriro v. Smith</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2005_term_per_curiam_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Schriro v. Smith"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="width:25%; valign:top; align:right"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Full caption:</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Dora B. Schriro, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections v. Robert Douglas Smith </i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Citations:</th><td class="infobox-data">546 U.S. 6;<span class="nowrap"> </span>126 S. Ct. 7; 163 L. Ed. 2d 6; 2005 U.S. LEXIS 7652; 74 U.S.L.W. 3246; 18 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 563</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Prior history:</th><td class="infobox-data">Petition dismissed, sub nom., <i>Smith v. Stewart</i>, No. 87-234, <a href="/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_District_of_Arizona" title="United States District Court for the District of Arizona">D. Ariz.</a>; affirmed in part, reversed, 241 <a href="/wiki/Federal_Reporter#Federal_Reporter.2C_Third_Series" title="Federal Reporter">F.3d</a> 1191 (<a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit">9th Cir.</a> 2001); reversed, 536 U.S. 856 (2002); rehearing denied, 536 U.S. 982 (2002)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">----</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%"><b>Full text of the opinion:</b></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120319230603/https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/05pdf/04-1475.pdf">official slip opinion</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>546 U.S. 6 </b><br /> <b>Decided October 17, 2005.</b> <br />Ninth Circuit reversed and remanded. </p><p>The Court of Appeals had suspended habeas proceedings and ordered <a href="/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona">Arizona</a> state courts to conduct a <a href="/wiki/Jury_trial" title="Jury trial">jury trial</a> on the issue of whether the petitioner was <a href="/wiki/Mentally_retarded" class="mw-redirect" title="Mentally retarded">mentally retarded</a> and therefore could not be executed under the Supreme Court's ruling in <i><a href="/wiki/Atkins_v._Virginia" title="Atkins v. Virginia">Atkins v. Virginia</a></i>, 536 U.S. 304 (2002). The Supreme Court ruled that the court exceeded its authority by determining the method by which the petitioner's status was to be determined, because <i>Atkins</i> had expressly left it up to the states to decide their own procedures. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Kane_v._Garcia_Espitia"><i>Kane v. Garcia Espitia</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2005_term_per_curiam_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Kane v. Garcia Espitia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="width:25%; valign:top; align:right"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Full caption:</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Anthony Kane, Warden v. Joe Garcia Espitia </i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Citations:</th><td class="infobox-data">546 U.S. 9;<span class="nowrap"> </span>126 S. Ct. 407; 163 L. Ed. 2d 10; 2005 U.S. LEXIS 8200; 74 U.S.L.W. 3270</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Prior history:</th><td class="infobox-data">Petition dismissed, No. 00-00828, <a href="/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Central_District_of_California" title="United States District Court for the Central District of California">C.D. Cal.</a>; reversed, 113 <a href="/wiki/Federal_Appendix" title="Federal Appendix">Fed. Appx.</a> 802 (<a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit">9th Cir.</a> 2004)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">----</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%"><b>Full text of the opinion:</b></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120319230608/https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/05pdf/04-1538.pdf">official slip opinion</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>546 U.S. 9 </b><br /> <b>Decided October 31, 2005.</b> <br />Ninth Circuit reversed and remanded. </p><p>The Court of Appeals had ruled that the habeas petition of a <i><a href="/wiki/Pro_se" class="mw-redirect" title="Pro se">pro se</a></i> defendant (representing himself) who was denied access to a <a href="/wiki/Law_library" title="Law library">law library</a> during his trial should not have been dismissed. The court believed that the Supreme Court's decision in <i><a href="/wiki/Faretta_v._California" title="Faretta v. California">Faretta v. California</a></i>, 422 U.S. 806 (1975) established that such a denial of access violated a defendant's <a href="/wiki/Sixth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution">Sixth Amendment</a> right to defend himself. The Supreme Court reversed, observing that <i>Faretta</i> said nothing specific about a state's duty to aid <i>pro se</i> defendants, and that lower court rulings conflicted on whether <i>Faretta</i> established such a right. It accordingly could not be used to claim an error of "clearly established" federal law as required by 28 <a href="/wiki/United_States_Code" title="United States Code">U.S.C.</a> § 2254(d)(1). </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Eberhart_v._United_States"><i>Eberhart v. United States</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2005_term_per_curiam_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Eberhart v. United States"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="width:25%; valign:top; align:right"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Full caption:</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Ivan Eberhart v. United States </i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Citations:</th><td class="infobox-data">546 U.S. 12;<span class="nowrap"> </span>126 S. Ct. 403; 163 L. Ed. 2d 14; 2005 U.S. LEXIS 8201; 74 U.S.L.W. 3271; 18 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 565</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Prior history:</th><td class="infobox-data">Defendant convicted, No. 98-946, <a href="/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Northern_District_of_Illinois" title="United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois">N.D. Ill.</a>; motion for new trial granted, No. 98-946, 2003 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 4392 (N.D. Ill. 2003); reversed, 388 <a href="/wiki/Federal_Reporter#Federal_Reporter.2C_Third_Series" title="Federal Reporter">F.3d</a> 1043 (<a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Seventh_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit">7th Cir.</a> 2004); rehearing, rehearing <i><a href="/wiki/En_banc" title="En banc">en banc</a></i> denied, No. 03-2068, 2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 27015 (7th Cir. Dec. 17, 2004)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Subsequent history:</th><td class="infobox-data">On remand, reversed, 434 F.3d 935 (7th Cir. 2006); rehearing, rehearing <i>en banc</i> denied, No. 03-2068, 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 4915 (7th Cir. Feb. 23, 2006)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">----</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%"><b>Full text of the opinion:</b></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120319230614/https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/05pdf/04-9949.pdf">official slip opinion</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>546 U.S. 12 </b><br /> <b>Decided October 31, 2005.</b> <br />Seventh Circuit reversed and remanded. </p><p>On appeal from a conviction for conspiracy to sell narcotics, the Court of Appeals had ruled that the time limit set forth in <a href="/wiki/Federal_Rules_of_Civil_Procedure" title="Federal Rules of Civil Procedure">Fed. R. Civ. P.</a> 33 for motions for a new trial was a requirement of <a href="/wiki/Subject-matter_jurisdiction" title="Subject-matter jurisdiction">subject-matter jurisdiction</a>. It accordingly allowed the government to raise the issue on appeal for the first time. The Supreme Court reversed, ruling that Rule 33 merely established a non-jurisdictional, inflexible claim-processing rule that was <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/forfeit" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:forfeit">forfeited</a> if not timely asserted. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bradshaw_v._Richey"><i>Bradshaw v. Richey</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2005_term_per_curiam_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Bradshaw v. Richey"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="width:25%; valign:top; align:right"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Full caption:</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Margaret Bradshaw, Warden, v. Kenneth T. Richey </i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Citations:</th><td class="infobox-data">546 U.S. 74;<span class="nowrap"> </span>126 S. Ct. 602; 163 L. Ed. 2d 407; 2005 U.S. LEXIS 9033; 74 U.S.L.W. 3320; 19 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 7</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Prior history:</th><td class="infobox-data">Petition denied, sub nom., <i>Richey v. Mitchell</i>, No. 98-01418, <a href="/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Northern_District_of_Ohio" title="United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio">N.D. Ohio</a>; reversed, 395 <a href="/wiki/Federal_Reporter#Federal_Reporter.2C_Third_Series" title="Federal Reporter">F.3d</a> 660 (<a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Sixth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit">6th Cir.</a> 2005); decision amended in part, rehearing denied, rehearing en banc denied, No. 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 7355 (6th Cir. Apr. 15, 2005)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Subsequent history:</th><td class="infobox-data">Rehearing denied, 126 S. Ct. 1163 (2006)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">----</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%"><b>Full text of the opinion:</b></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120319230619/https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/05pdf/05-101.pdf">official slip opinion</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>546 U.S. 74 </b><br /> <b>Decided November 28, 2005.</b> <br />Sixth Circuit vacated and remanded. </p><p>The Court of Appeals had ruled that the habeas petitioner's conviction was contrary to <a href="/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a> law, which it claimed did not recognize <a href="/wiki/Transferred_intent" title="Transferred intent">transferred intent</a> as a theory for aggravated felony murder; and that petitioner's <a href="/wiki/Ineffective_assistance_of_counsel" title="Ineffective assistance of counsel">trial counsel was ineffective</a> under <i><a href="/wiki/Strickland_v._Washington" title="Strickland v. Washington">Strickland v. Washington</a></i>, 466 U.S. 668 (1984). The Supreme Court vacated the court's decision, holding that it had directly contradicted the authoritative interpretation of the relevant state law by the <a href="/wiki/Ohio_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="Ohio Supreme Court">Ohio Supreme Court</a>. The Court further held that the ineffective assistance of counsel claim was inappropriately based on evidence that had not been properly presented first to the state habeas courts, and on arguments that had not been presented on state court appeal. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Wisconsin_Right_to_Life,_Inc._v._Federal_Election_Commission"><span id="Wisconsin_Right_to_Life.2C_Inc._v._Federal_Election_Commission"></span><i>Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc. v. Federal Election Commission</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2005_term_per_curiam_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc. v. Federal Election Commission"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="width:25%; valign:top; align:right"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Full caption:</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc. v. Federal Election Commission </i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Citations:</th><td class="infobox-data">546 U.S. 410;<span class="nowrap"> </span>126 S. Ct. 1016; 163 L. Ed. 2d 990; 2006 U.S. LEXIS 1070; 74 U.S.L.W. 4116</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Prior history:</th><td class="infobox-data">Injunction denied, No. 04-1260, 2004 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 29036 (<a href="/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_District_of_Columbia" title="United States District Court for the District of Columbia">D.D.C.</a> Aug. 17, 2004); injunction denied, appeal dismissed, No. 04-1260, 2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 18795, (D.D.C. Sept. 1, 2004); injunction denied, 542 U.S. 1305 (2004) (<a href="/wiki/William_Rehnquist" title="William Rehnquist">Rehnquist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States" title="Chief Justice of the United States">C.J.</a>); dismissed, No. 04-1260, 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17226 (D.D.C. May 9, 2005); probable jurisdiction noted, 126 S. Ct. 36 (2005)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Subsequent history:</th><td class="infobox-data">126 S. Ct. 1163 (2006)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">----</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%"><b>Full text of the opinion:</b></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120319230622/https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/05pdf/04-1581.pdf">official slip opinion</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>546 U.S. 410 </b><br /> <b>Argued January 17, 2006.</b><br /><b>Decided January 23, 2006.</b> <br />District Court for the District of Columbia vacated and remanded. </p><p>The District Court had dismissed an "as-applied" challenge to the prohibition of the <a href="/wiki/Bipartisan_Campaign_Reform_Act_of_2002" class="mw-redirect" title="Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002">Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002</a> against the funding of "electioneering communications" from the general treasury funds of corporations, finding such challenges foreclosed by the Supreme Court's decision in <i><a href="/wiki/McConnell_v._FEC" title="McConnell v. FEC">McConnell v. FEC</a></i>, 540 U.S. 93 (2003). The Supreme Court vacated, ruling that "as-applied" challenges to this provision had not been foreclosed by <i>McConnell</i>, and that the District Court had instead incorrectly interpreted a footnote from that case. </p><p>This case was addressed in full by the Court in <i><a href="/wiki/Federal_Election_Commission_v._Wisconsin_Right_to_Life,_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc.">Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc.</a></i>, 551 U.S. 449 (2007). </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ministry_of_Def._&_Support_v._Elahi"><span id="Ministry_of_Def._.26_Support_v._Elahi"></span><i>Ministry of Def. & Support v. Elahi</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2005_term_per_curiam_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Ministry of Def. & Support v. Elahi"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="width:25%; valign:top; align:right"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Full caption:</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Ministry of Defense and Support for Armed Forces of Islamic Republic of Iran v. Dariush Elahi </i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Citations:</th><td class="infobox-data">546 U.S. 450;<span class="nowrap"> </span>126 S. Ct. 1193; 163 L. Ed. 2d 1047; 2006 U.S. LEXIS 1817</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Prior history:</th><td class="infobox-data">Motion granted in part, sub nom., <i>Ministry of Def. & Support v. Cubic Def. Sys.</i>, 236 <a href="/wiki/Federal_Supplement" title="Federal Supplement">F. Supp. 2d</a> 1140 (<a href="/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Southern_District_of_California" title="United States District Court for the Southern District of California">S.D. Cal.</a> 2002); affirmed, 385 <a href="/wiki/Federal_Reporter#Federal_Reporter.2C_Third_Series" title="Federal Reporter">F.3d</a> 1206 (<a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit">9th Cir.</a> 2004);</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">----</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%"><b>Full text of the opinion:</b></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120319230652/https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/05pdf/04-1095.pdf">official slip opinion</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>546 U.S. 450 </b><br /> <b>Decided February 21, 2006.</b> <br />Ninth Circuit reversed and remanded. </p><p>The Court of Appeals had ruled that the property of the <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iranian</a> Ministry of Defense could be <a href="/wiki/Attachment_(law)" title="Attachment (law)">attached</a> by a private plaintiff under the <a href="/wiki/Foreign_Sovereign_Immunities_Act" title="Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act">Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act</a> (FSIA). It disagreed with the District Court's conclusion that the Ministry had waived its FSIA immunity, but instead ruled that it was amenable to attachment as an "agency or instrumentality" of a state rather than immune as a foreign state. The Supreme Court reversed because whether the Ministry itself qualified as a foreign state under FSIA was not a distinction that had been argued or considered in the lower court. </p><p>This opinion was the first handed down by the Court in which Alito participated. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ash_v._Tyson_Foods,_Inc."><span id="Ash_v._Tyson_Foods.2C_Inc."></span><i>Ash v. Tyson Foods, Inc.</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2005_term_per_curiam_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Ash v. Tyson Foods, Inc."><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="width:25%; valign:top; align:right"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Full caption:</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Anthony Ash, et al. v. Tyson Foods, Inc. </i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Citations:</th><td class="infobox-data">546 U.S. 454;<span class="nowrap"> </span>126 S. Ct. 1195; 163 L. Ed. 2d 1053; 2006 U.S. LEXIS 1816; 97 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 641; 87 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) P42,263</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Prior history:</th><td class="infobox-data">Verdict for plaintiffs, No. 96-03257, <a href="/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Northern_District_of_Alabama" title="United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama">N.D. Ala</a>; affirmed in part, reversed, 129 Fed. Appx. 529 (<a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Eleventh_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit">11th Cir.</a> 2005); rehearing en banc denied, 148 Fed. Appx. 923 (11th Cir. 2005)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">----</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%"><b>Full text of the opinion:</b></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120319230657/https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/05pdf/05-379.pdf">official slip opinion</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>546 U.S. 454 </b><br /> <b>Decided February 21, 2006.</b> <br />Eleventh Circuit vacated and remanded. </p><p>The Court of Appeals had reversed a verdict for <a href="/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964" title="Civil Rights Act of 1964">Title VII</a> plaintiffs, ruling that use of the word "boy" without qualifications or modifiers could never by itself constitute a racial slur. The court also found insufficient plaintiffs' evidence that the defendant's explanation of its conduct was merely a pretext for racial discrimination, because it failed to "jump off the page and slap you in the face." </p><p>The Supreme Court vacated, ruling that there was no basis for the lower court to conclude that the unqualified word "boy" was always benign. The Court also found the Court of Appeals' standard for evaluating the significance of pretextual evidence to be imprecise and unclear. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Lance_v._Dennis"><i>Lance v. Dennis</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2005_term_per_curiam_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Lance v. Dennis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="width:25%; valign:top; align:right"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Full caption:</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Keith Lance, et al. v. Gigi Dennis, Colorado Secretary of State </i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Citations:</th><td class="infobox-data">546 U.S. 459;<span class="nowrap"> </span>126 S. Ct. 1198; 163 L. Ed. 2d 1059; 2006 U.S. LEXIS 1105</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Prior history:</th><td class="infobox-data">Dismissed, 379 <a href="/wiki/Federal_Supplement" title="Federal Supplement">F. Supp. 2d</a> 1117 (<a href="/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_District_of_Colorado" title="United States District Court for the District of Colorado">D. Colo.</a> 2005)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Subsequent history:</th><td class="infobox-data">On remand, dismissed in part, 444 F. Supp. 2d 1149 (D. Colo. 2006); vacated in part, remanded, sub nom. <i><a href="/wiki/2006_term_per_curiam_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States#Lance_v._Coffman" title="2006 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States">Lance v. Coffman</a></i>, 549 U.S. 437 (2007)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">----</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%"><b>Full text of the opinion:</b></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120319230702/https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/05pdf/05-555.pdf">official slip opinion</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>546 U.S. 459 </b><br /> <b>Decided February 21, 2006.</b> <br />District Court for the District of Colorado vacated and remanded. </p><p>The District Court had dismissed a suit supporting a legislative redistricting plan that the <a href="/wiki/Colorado_Supreme_Court" title="Colorado Supreme Court">Colorado Supreme Court</a> had invalidated in a prior action that was lost by the <a href="/wiki/Colorado_General_Assembly" title="Colorado General Assembly">Colorado General Assembly</a>, in part by challenging the state court's decision under the U.S. Constitution. The District Court ruled that it lacked jurisdiction over the suit under the federal <a href="/wiki/Rooker-Feldman_doctrine" class="mw-redirect" title="Rooker-Feldman doctrine">Rooker-Feldman doctrine</a>. Although the plaintiffs were not parties to the prior state court action as the doctrine required, the District Court found that it nevertheless applied because the outcome of a government's litigation on a matter of public concern has <a href="/wiki/Collateral_estoppel" title="Collateral estoppel">preclusive</a> effect over its citizens, such that the plaintiffs were in <a href="/wiki/Privity" title="Privity">privity</a> with the Colorado General Assembly. The Supreme Court vacated, ruling that the District Court had erroneously conflated preclusion principles with the Rooker-Feldman doctrine. This would cause the doctrine to conflict with the <a href="/wiki/Full_Faith_and_Credit_Clause" title="Full Faith and Credit Clause">Full Faith and Credit Clause</a>, because federal courts would then ignore the preclusive effects that state law would actually extend to state court decisions in favor of an exclusively federal law of preclusion. </p><p>Ginsburg filed a concurrence, joined by Souter, noting that the issue in Stevens' dissent was better determined by the District Court on remand. Stevens filed a dissent, arguing that while the District Court erroneously decided that it lacked jurisdiction, dismissal was nevertheless correct because under Colorado state law, the issues in the suit were precluded from being relitigated. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gonzales_v._Thomas"><i>Gonzales v. Thomas</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2005_term_per_curiam_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Gonzales v. Thomas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="width:25%; valign:top; align:right"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Full caption:</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General v. Michelle Thomas, David George Thomas, Tyneal Michelle Thomas, Shaldon Waide Thomas </i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Citations:</th><td class="infobox-data">547 U.S. 183;<span class="nowrap"> </span>126 S. Ct. 1613; 164 L. Ed. 2d 358; 2006 U.S. LEXIS 3268; 74 U.S.L.W. 3584</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Prior history:</th><td class="infobox-data">Petition for review granted, remanded, sub nom. <i>Thomas v. Ashcroft</i>, 359 <a href="/wiki/Federal_Reporter#Federal_Reporter.2C_Third_Series" title="Federal Reporter">F.3d</a> 1169 (<a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit">9th Cir.</a> 2004); vacated, motion for rehearing en banc granted, 382 F.3d 1154 (9th Cir. 2004); petition granted, remanded, sub nom. <i>Thomas v. Gonzales</i>, 409 F.3d 1177 (9th Cir. 2005)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">----</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%"><b>Full text of the opinion:</b></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120319230706/https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/05pdf/05-552.pdf">official slip opinion</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>547 U.S. 183 </b><br /> <b>Decided April 17, 2006.</b> <br />Ninth Circuit vacated and remanded. </p><p>The Court of Appeals had ruled that the <a href="/wiki/Board_of_Immigration_Appeals" title="Board of Immigration Appeals">Board of Immigration Appeals</a> had failed to consider whether applicants for <a href="/wiki/Right_of_asylum" title="Right of asylum">asylum</a> could base a claim of persecution for membership in a particular social group on their family membership. The court furthermore determined that the applicant's family satisfied the requirement. The Supreme Court ruled that because the Board had not yet developed a factual record on the issue or made its own findings, the court should not have decided that issue itself, but rather left it for the Board to determine on remand. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Salinas_v._United_States"><i>Salinas v. United States</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2005_term_per_curiam_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Salinas v. United States"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="width:25%; valign:top; align:right"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Full caption:</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Jeffrey Jerome Salinas v. United States </i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Citations:</th><td class="infobox-data">547 U.S. 188;<span class="nowrap"> </span>126 S. Ct. 1675; 164 L. Ed. 2d 364; 2006 U.S. LEXIS 3447; 74 U.S.L.W. 3598</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Prior history:</th><td class="infobox-data">Guilty plea entered, defendant sentenced, <a href="/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Southern_District_of_Texas" title="United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas">S.D. Tex.</a>; affirmed as modified, (<a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Fifth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit">5th Cir.</a> 2005)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">----</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%"><b>Full text of the opinion:</b></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120319230715/https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/05pdf/05-8400.pdf">official slip opinion</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>547 U.S. 188 </b><br /> <b>Decided April 24, 2006.</b> <br />Fifth Circuit vacated and remanded. </p><p>The Court of Appeals had concluded that the defendant's conviction for simple possession of a <a href="/wiki/Controlled_substance" title="Controlled substance">controlled substance</a> constituted a "controlled substance offense" for purposes of the sentencing guidelines of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Sentencing_Commission" title="United States Sentencing Commission">United States Sentencing Commission</a>. However, the Supreme Court vacated, because the definition of "controlled substance offense" requires possession with intent to manufacture, import, export, distribute, or dispense, of which the defendant was not convicted. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Whitman_v._Dep't_of_Transportation"><span id="Whitman_v._Dep.27t_of_Transportation"></span><i>Whitman v. Dep't of Transportation</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2005_term_per_curiam_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Whitman v. Dep't of Transportation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="width:25%; valign:top; align:right"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Full caption:</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Terry L. Whitman v. United States Department of Transportation, and Norman Mineta, U.S. Secretary of the Department of Transportation </i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Citations:</th><td class="infobox-data">547 U.S. 512;<span class="nowrap"> </span>2006 U.S. LEXIS 4508</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Prior history:</th><td class="infobox-data">Dismissed, No. A02-0112, 2003 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 26961 (<a href="/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_District_of_Alaska" title="United States District Court for the District of Alaska">D. Alaska</a> Feb. 26, 2003); affirmed, 382 <a href="/wiki/Federal_Reporter#Federal_Reporter.2C_Third_Series" title="Federal Reporter">F.3d</a> 938 (<a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit">9th Cir.</a> 2004); <a href="/wiki/Certiorari" title="Certiorari">cert.</a> granted, 125 S. Ct. 2962 (2005)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">----</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%"><b>Full text of the opinion:</b></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120319230718/https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/05pdf/04-1131.pdf">official slip opinion</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>547 U.S. 512 </b><br /> <b>Decided June 5, 2006.</b> <br />Ninth Circuit vacated and remanded. </p><p>The Court of Appeals had affirmed the District Court's judgment that the <a href="/wiki/Civil_Service_Reform_Act_of_1978" title="Civil Service Reform Act of 1978">Civil Service Reform Act</a> (CSRA) did not expressly confer, and therefore precluded, federal court jurisdiction over a grievance suit filed by an <a href="/wiki/Federal_Aviation_Administration" title="Federal Aviation Administration">FAA</a> employee under his collective-bargaining agreement. The Supreme Court found that his claim fell within the general <a href="/wiki/Federal_question_jurisdiction" title="Federal question jurisdiction">federal question jurisdiction</a> under 28 <a href="/wiki/United_States_Code" title="United States Code">U.S.C.</a> § 1331. The question was accordingly not whether the CSRA <i>precluded</i> jurisdiction, but whether it <i>divested</i> the federal courts of the jurisdiction that is generally conferred by section 1331. Because the CSRA treats claims differently based upon where they fall in its statutory scheme, the Supreme Court vacated and <a href="/wiki/Remand_(court_procedure)" title="Remand (court procedure)">remanded</a> the case to the Court of Appeals for it to decide whether Whitman's claim fell within a category of the CSRA that would grant federal courts jurisdiction. </p><p>Alito did not participate in the consideration or decision of the case. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Youngblood_v._West_Virginia"><i>Youngblood v. West Virginia</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2005_term_per_curiam_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Youngblood v. West Virginia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="width:25%; valign:top; align:right"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Full caption:</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Denver A. Youngblood, Jr. v. West Virginia </i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Citations:</th><td class="infobox-data">547 U.S. 867;<span class="nowrap"> </span>2006 U.S. LEXIS 4884</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Prior history:</th><td class="infobox-data">Defendant convicted, sentenced, <a href="/wiki/Morgan_County,_West_Virginia" title="Morgan County, West Virginia">Morgan County</a> <a href="/wiki/West_Virginia_Circuit_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="West Virginia Circuit Court">Circuit Court</a>, Oct. 3, 2003; affirmed, 618 <a href="/wiki/South_Eastern_Reporter" title="South Eastern Reporter">S.E.2d</a> 544 (<a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Appeals_of_West_Virginia" title="Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia">W. Va.</a> 2005)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">----</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%"><b>Full text of the opinion:</b></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120319230724/https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/05pdf/05-6997.pdf">official slip opinion</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>547 U.S. 867 </b><br /> <b>Decided June 19, 2006.</b> <br />Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia vacated and remanded. </p><p>In a rape case, the prosecution withheld exculpatory evidence that was in the form of a note from one of the alleged victims. </p><p>Scalia filed a dissent, joined by Thomas. Kennedy filed a dissent. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Laboratory_Corp._of_America_Holdings_v._Metabolite_Laboratories,_Inc."><span id="Laboratory_Corp._of_America_Holdings_v._Metabolite_Laboratories.2C_Inc."></span><i>Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings v. Metabolite Laboratories, Inc.</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=2005_term_per_curiam_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings v. Metabolite Laboratories, Inc."><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/LabCorp_v._Metabolite,_Inc." title="LabCorp v. Metabolite, Inc.">LabCorp v. Metabolite, Inc.</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="width:25%; valign:top; align:right"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Full caption:</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, dba Labcorp v. Metabo-Lite Laboratories, Inc., et al. </i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Citations:</th><td class="infobox-data">548 U.S. 124;<span class="nowrap"> </span>126 S. Ct. 2921; 165 L. Ed. 2d 399; 2006 U.S. LEXIS 4893; 74 U.S.L.W. 4431; 79 U.S.P.Q.2d (BNA) 1065; 19 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 311</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Prior history:</th><td class="infobox-data">Judgment for plaintiff, judgment as a matter of law for defendant denied, No. 99–cv–870 (<a href="/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_District_of_Colorado" title="United States District Court for the District of Colorado">D. Colo.</a>); affirmed, 370 <a href="/wiki/Federal_Reporter#Federal_Reporter,_Third_Series" title="Federal Reporter">F.3d</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.leagle.com/decision/20041724370f3d135411586">1354</a> (<a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Federal_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit">Fed. Cir.</a> 2004); rehearing denied, rehearing <i><a href="/wiki/En_banc" title="En banc">en banc</a></i> denied, No. 03-1120, 2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 17408 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 5, 2004); <i><a href="/wiki/Certiorari" title="Certiorari">cert.</a></i> granted, <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases,_volume_546" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 546">546</a> <a href="/wiki/United_States_Reports" title="United States Reports">U.S.</a> 999 (2005).</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:25%">Subsequent history:</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Lab. Corp. of Am. Holdings v. Metabolite Labs., Inc.</i>, 571 <a href="/wiki/F._Supp._2d" class="mw-redirect" title="F. Supp. 2d">F. Supp. 2d</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.leagle.com/decision/20081770571dffsupp2d119911661">1199</a> (<a href="/wiki/D._Colo." class="mw-redirect" title="D. Colo.">D. Colo.</a> 2008) (partial relitigation); 599 F.3d <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.leagle.com/decision/infco20100311158">1277</a> (Fed. Cir. 2010) (denying jurisdiction and transferring appeal); 410 <a href="/wiki/F._App%27x" class="mw-redirect" title="F. App'x">F. 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title="List of United States Supreme Court cases by the White Court">White Court</a> (1910–1921)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases_by_the_Taft_Court" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Taft Court">Taft Court</a> (1921–1930)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases_by_the_Hughes_Court" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Hughes Court">Hughes Court</a> (1930–1941)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases_by_the_Stone_Court" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Stone Court">Stone Court</a> (1941–1946)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases_by_the_Vinson_Court" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Vinson Court">Vinson Court</a> (1946–1953)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases_by_the_Warren_Court" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Warren Court">Warren Court</a> (1953–1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases_by_the_Burger_Court" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Burger Court">Burger Court</a> (1969–1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases_by_the_Rehnquist_Court" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Rehnquist Court">Rehnquist Court</a> (1986–2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases_by_the_Roberts_Court" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Roberts Court">Roberts Court</a> (2005–present)</li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="5" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><figure class="mw-halign-none" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Seal_of_the_United_States_Supreme_Court.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Seal of the United States Supreme Court"><img alt="Seal of the United States Supreme Court" 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States">2002</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_term_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="2003 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States">2003</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_term_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="2004 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005_term_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="2005 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_term_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="2006 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States">2006</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_term_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="2007 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States">2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_term_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="2008 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States">2008</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_term_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="2009 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_term_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="2010 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_term_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="2011 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_term_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="2012 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States">2012</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_term_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="2013 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_term_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="2014 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_term_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="2015 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_term_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="2016 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_term_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="2017 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_term_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="2018 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_term_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="2019 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_term_opinions_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="2020 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United 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