# 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 |