2007 term United States Supreme Court opinions of Stephen Breyer

The table below lists all opinions filed by Associate Justice Stephen Breyer during the 2007 term of the Supreme Court of the United States, which began on October 1, 2007 and concluded September 30, 2008. This was the fourteenth term of Breyer’s tenure on the Court.	150px
Stephen Breyer 2007 term statistics 8 Majority or Plurality 2 Concurrence 0 Other 13 Dissent 1 Concurrence/dissent Total = 24 Bench opinions = 23 Opinions relating to orders = 1 In-chambers opinions = 0 Unanimous decisions: 0 Most joined by: Stevens (10) Least joined by: Scalia (2)

Case	Issue	Joined by
John R. Sand & Gravel Co. v. United States 552 U.S. 130 (2008)		Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Alito
Ali v. Federal Bureau of Prisons 552 U.S. 214 (2008)		Stevens
Rowe v. New Hampshire Motor Transp. Assn. 552 U.S. 364 (2008)		Roberts, Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Alito; Scalia (in part)
Medellin v. Texas 552 U.S. 491 (2008)		Souter, Ginsburg
Hall Street Associates, L. L. C. v. Mattel, Inc. 552 U.S. 576 (2008)	Federal Arbitration Act
Smith v. Arizona 552 U.S. 985 (2007)
Breyer dissented from the denial of certiorari.
Baze v. Rees 553 U.S. 35 (2008)	Eighth Amendment: death penalty: lethal injection
Begay v. United States 553 U.S. 137 (2008)		Roberts, Stevens, Kennedy, Ginsburg
Crawford v. Marion County Election Bd. 553 U.S. 181 (2008)
United States v. Ressam 553 U.S. 272 (2008)
CBOCS West, Inc. v. Humphries 553 U.S. 442 (2008)		Roberts, Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Alito
United States v. Santos 553 U.S. 507 (2008)
Irizarry v. United States 553 U.S. 708 (2008)		Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg
Florida Dept. of Revenue v. Piccadilly Cafeterias, Inc. 554 U.S. 33 (2008)		Stevens
Chamber of Commerce of United States v. Brown 554 U.S. 60 (2008)		Ginsburg
Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Glenn 554 U.S. 105 (2008)		Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, Alito; Roberts (in part)
Kentucky Retirement Systems v. EEOC 554 U.S. 135 (2008)		Roberts, Stevens, Souter, Thomas
Indiana v. Edwards 554 U.S. 164 (2008)		Roberts, Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Alito
Greenlaw v. United States 554 U.S. 237 (2008)
Sprint Communications Co. v. APCC Services, Inc. 554 U.S. 269 (2008)		Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg
Giles v. California 554 U.S. 353 (2008)
Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker 554 U.S. 471 (2008)	Maritime law: punitive damages
District of Columbia v. Heller 554 U.S. 570 (2008)	Second Amendment: handgun prohibition	Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg
Medellín v. Texas 554 U.S. 759 (2008)	Death penalty
Breyer dissented from the Court's per curiam denial of an application for a stay of execution of sentence of death and a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

References

• 2007 Term Opinions of the Court, accessed March 20, 2010.
• 2007 Term Opinions Relating to Orders, accessed March 20, 2010.
• 2007 Term In-Chambers Opinions, accessed March 20, 2010.