US Supreme Court Docket

2008 Term

Cases are listed in the order which they are argued during each term's argument calendar. Each case's docket sheet includes questions presented, lower court opinions, briefs and more. Please select a case below, or browse through all scheduled cases by selecting a month above:

October 2008

Argument Date	Case No.	Case Name	Subject^*
10/06	07-562	Altria Group, Inc. v. Good	Tobacco
10/06	07-610	Locke v. Karass	Labor Law
10/06	07-773	Vaden v. Discover Bank	Arbitration
10/07	07-513	Herring v. US	Crim. Law
10/07	07-542	Arizona v. Gant	Crim. Law
10/07	07-636	Kennedy v. Plan Admin. for DuPont Sav. & Inv. Plan	ERISA
10/08	07-1239	Winter v. Natural Res. Def. Council, Inc.	Nat'l Security
10/08	07-463	Summers v. Earth Island Inst.	Envtl. Law
10/08	06-1595	Crawford v. Metro. Gov't of Nashville & Davidson County	Employment Law
10/14	07-689	Bartlett v. Strickland	Voting Rights Act
10/14	07-751	Pearson v. Callahan	Crim. Law
10/14	07-901	Oregon v. Ice	Sentencing
10/15	07-772	Waddington v. Sarausad	Crim. Law
10/15	07-544	Hedgpeth v. Pulido	Crim. Law
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November 2008

Argument Date	Case No.	Case Name	Subject^*
11/03	06-1249	Wyeth v. Levine	Prod. Liability
11/03	07-869	Ysursa v. Pocatello Education Ass'n	First Amendment
11/03	07-526	Carcieri v. Kempthorne	Indian Law
11/04	07-582	FCC v. Fox Television Studios	Admin. Law
11/04	07-1059 07-1078	US v. Eurodif S.A. USEC Inc. v. Eurodif S.A.	Imports
11/04	07-6948	Jimenez v. Quarterman	Habeas Corpus
11/05	07-499	Negusie v. Mukasey	Immigration Law
11/05	07-854	Van de Kamp v. Goldstein	Civil Rights
11/10	06-11206	Chambers v. US	Sentencing
11/10	07-608	US v. Hayes	Crim. Law
11/10	07-591	Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts	Evidence
11/12	07-665	Pleasant Grove City v. Summum	1st Amendment
11/12	07-1223	Bell v. Kelly	Death Penalty
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December 2008

Argument Date	Case No.	Case Name	Subject^*
12/01	07-581	Penn Plaza v. Pyett	Employment Law
12/02	07-588 07-589 07-597	Entergy v. Riverkeeper PSEG Fossil v. Riverkeeper Util. Water Act Group v. Riverkeeper	Envt'l Law
12/02	07-1125	Fitzgerald v. Barnstable Sch. Comm.	Civil Rights
12/03	07-1216	Philip Morris USA v. Williams	Punitive Damages
12/03	07-10374	Haywood v. Drown	Civil Rights
12/08	07-1209	Shinseki v. Sanders	Gov't Benefits
12/08	07-512	Pac. Bell Tele. Co. v. Linkline Comm.	Antitrust
12/09	07-1122	Arizona v. Johnson	Crim. Law
12/09	07-1114	Cone v. Bell	Habeas Corpus
12/10	07-1015	Ashcroft v. Iqbal	Civil Rights
12/10	07-543	AT&T v. Hulteen	Title VII
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January 2009

Argument Date	Case No.	Case Name	Subject^*
01/12	07-984 07-990	Coeur Alaska v. S.E. Alaska Conservation Council	Envt'l Law
01/12	07-615	Ministry of Defense of Iran v. Elahi	Int'l Law
01/12	07-8521	Harbison v. Bell	Habeas Corpus
01/13	07-1529	Montejo v. Louisiana	Crim. Law
01/13	08-88	Vermont v. Brillon	Crim. Law
01/13	07-1315	Knowles v. Mirzayance	Habeas Corpus
01/14	07-9712	Puckett v. US	Crim. Law
01/14	07-1309	Boyle v. US	Crim. Law
01/21	07-10441	Corley v. US	Crim. Law
01/21	07-1356	Kansas v. Ventris	Crim. Law
01/21	08-681	Nken v. Mukasey	Immigration Law
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February 2009

Argument Date	Case No.	Case Name	Subject^*
02/23	07-1410	US v. Navajo Nation	Indian Law
02/23	07-9995	Rivera v. Illinois	Crim. Law
02/24	07-1601	Burlington No. & Santa Fe Ry. Co. v. US	Envt'l Law
02/24	07-1437	Carlsbad Tech. v. HIF Bio	Civ. Pro.
02/25	07-1372	Hawaii v. Office of Hawaiian Affairs	Gov't Law
02/25	08-108	Flores-Figueroa v. US	Crim. Law
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March 2009

Argument Date	Case No.	Case Name	Subject^*
03/02	08-6	D.A.'s Office v. Osborne	Crim. Law
03/02	08-214	Atlantic Sounding Co. v. Townsend	Admiralty
03/03	08-22	Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co.	Judicial Ethics
03/03	08-146	Arthur Andersen LLP v. Carlisle	Arbitration
03/04	08-192	Abuelhawa v. US	Crim. Law
03/04	08-5274	Dean v. US	Sentencing
03/23	08-67	Yeager v. US	Crim. Law
03/24	08-205	Citizens United v. Fed. Election Comm'n	Elections
03/25	08-267	US v. Denedo	Military Law
03/30	08-295	Travelers Indem. Co. v. Bailey	Bankruptcy
03/31	08-441	Gross v. FBL Fin. Servs.	Title VII
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April 2009

Argument Date	Case No.	Case Name	Subject^*
04/01	08-310	Polar Tankers v. City of Valdez	Tax Law
04/20	07-1090 08-539	Iraq v. Beaty Iraq v. Simon	Int'l Law
04/20	08-289 08-094	Horne v. Flores Speaker of the Az. House v. Flores	Education Law
04/21	08-479	Safford Unif. Sch. Dist. v. Redding	School Searches
04/21	08-660	Eisenstein v. City of New York	False Claims Act
04/22	07-1428 08-328	Ricci v. Destefano Ricci v. Destefano	Reverse Discrim.
04/27	08-495	Nijhawan v. Holder	Immigration Law
04/27	08-598	Bobby v. Bies	Crim. Law
04/28	08-305	Forest Grove Sch. Dist. v. T. A.	Educ. Law
04/28	08-453	Cuomo v. Clearing House	Admin. Law
04/29	08-322	N.W. Austin Mun. Util. v. Holder	Elections
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^*Editor's note: Please note that the subjects listed here are only a general guide for users' convenience. Please click on the case link for a comprehensive subject list under each case's docket sheet.

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