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2002 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States

2002 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States

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The 2002 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 7, 2002, and concluded October 5, 2003. The table illustrates which opinion was filed by each justice in each case and which justices joined each opinion.[1]

Table key


 Delivered the Court's opinion

Joined the Court's opinion

Filed a concurrence

Joined a concurrence

 Filed a dissent

Joined a dissent

Filed a concurrence/dissent

Joined a concurrence/dissent

 Did not participate in the decision
  • Decisions that do not note an argument date were decided without oral argument. Decisions that do not note a Justice delivering the Court's opinion are per curiam.
  • Multiple concurrences and dissents within a case are numbered, with joining votes numbered accordingly. Justices frequently join multiple opinions in a single case; each vote is subdivided accordingly.
  • An asterisk ( * ) in the Court's opinion denotes that it was only a majority in part or a plurality. An asterisk in a joining vote denotes that the justice joined it only in part.
  • A dash ( - ) denotes that the Justice voted without filing or joining an opinion.

2002 term opinions

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2002 term membership and statistics

This was the seventeenth term of Chief Justice Rehnquist's tenure, and the ninth consecutive term in which the Court's membership had not changed.

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Notes

  1. [1]
    One decree in an original jurisdiction case has been omitted from this table: Kansas v. Nebraska, 538 U.S. 720 (2003).
  2. [2]
    In Ford Motor Co. v. McCauley, 537 U.S. 1 (2002), the Court dismissed the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted.
  3. [3]
    In Abdur'Rahman v. Bell, 537 U.S. 88 (2002), the Court dismissed the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted.
  4. [4]
    The Court's per curiam opinion in Borden Ranch Partnership v. Army Corps of Engineers, 537 U.S. 99 (2002), noted that the judgment was affirmed by an equally divided Court.
  5. [5]
    In Dow Chemical Co. v. Stephenson, 539 U.S. 111 (2003), the Court vacated the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit's judgment with respect to the Isaacson respondents and remanded for further consideration in light of Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc. v. Henson, 537 U.S. 28 (2002). The Court's per curiam opinion noted that the judgment was affirmed by an equally divided Court with respect to the Stephenson respondents.
  6. [6]
    In Nike, Inc. v. Kasky, 539 U.S. 654 (2003), the Court dismissed the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted.
  7. [7]
    Rehnquist was initially appointed by Nixon to the Court as an Associate Justice. He was subsequently appointed to serve as Chief Justice by President Ronald Reagan and confirmed in that position September 26, 1986.

References

  • "2002 Opinions of the Court". Supreme Court of the United States. Archived from the original on February 2, 2004. Retrieved December 30, 2016.
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