2011 term United States Supreme Court opinions of Anthony Kennedy

The 2011 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 3, 2011 and concluded September 30, 2012. This was the twenty-fifth term of Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy's tenure on the Court .
Anthony Kennedy 2011 term statistics 9 Majority or Plurality 0 Concurrence 0 Other 2 Dissent 0 Concurrence/dissent Total = 11 Bench opinions = 11 Opinions relating to orders = 0 In-chambers opinions = 0 Unanimous opinions: 1 Most joined by: Roberts, Ginsburg, Sotomayor (7) Least joined by: Scalia (3)

Type	Case	Citation	Issues	Joined by	Other opinions
	PPL Montana, LLC v. Montana	565 U.S. ___ (2012)	title to riverbeds under hydroelectric dams  • equal footing doctrine  • public trust doctrine	Unanimous
	Martinez v. Ryan	566 U.S. ___ (2012)	Sixth Amendment  • ineffective assistance of counsel  • habeas corpus  • procedural default of claim required to be raised in state collateral review	Roberts, Ginsburg, Breyer, Alito, Sotomayor, Kagan	Scalia
	Coleman v. Court of Appeals of Md.	566 U.S. ___ (2012)	Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993  • self-care provision  • Fourteenth Amendment  • abrogation of state sovereign immunity	Roberts, Thomas, Alito	Scalia Thomas Ginsburg
	Missouri v. Frye	566 U.S. ___ (2012)	Sixth Amendment  • ineffective assistance of counsel  • failure to inform defendant of plea bargain offer	Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan	Scalia
	Lafler v. Cooper	566 U.S. ___ (2012)	ineffective assistance of counsel  • rejection of plea bargain as prejudice	Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan	Scalia Alito
	Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of County of Burlington	566 U.S. ___ (2012)	Fourth Amendment  • strip searches in jail of arrestees of minor offenses	Roberts, Scalia, Alito; Thomas (in part)	Roberts Alito Breyer
	United States v. Home Concrete & Supply, LLC	566 U.S. ___ (2012)	Internal Revenue Code of 1954  • overstatement of basis in property  • statute of limitations for tax deficiency	Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan	Breyer Scalia
	FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc.	567 U.S. ___ (2012)	FCC regulation of indecent broadcasting content  • fleeting expletives or nudity  • Due Process Clause  • void for vagueness doctrine	Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Breyer, Alito, Kagan	Ginsburg
	Arizona v. United States	567 U.S. ___ (2012)	immigration  • federal preemption  • Arizona SB 1070	Roberts, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor	Scalia Thomas Alito
	National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius	567 U.S. ___ (2012)	Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act  • individual mandate  • Anti-Injunction Act  • Commerce Clause  • Necessary and Proper Clause  • Medicaid expansion  • coercive conditions on federal spending		Roberts Ginsburg Thomas
Signed jointly with Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Alito.
	United States v. Alvarez	567 U.S. ___ (2012)	Stolen Valor Act of 2005  • First Amendment  • freedom of speech  • protection of false statements	Roberts, Ginsburg, Sotomayor	Breyer Alito

References

• 2011 Term Opinions of the Court, Supreme Court of the United States, retrieved October 23, 2012.
• 2011 Term Opinions Relating to Orders, Supreme Court of the United States, retrieved October 23, 2012.
• 2011 Term In-Chambers Opinions, Supreme Court of the United States, retrieved October 23, 2012.