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The Supreme Court of the United States handed down seven per curiam opinions during its 2003 term, which lasted from October 6, 2003 until October 3, 2004. These were all decisions in which the Court either dismissed a writ of certiorari as improvidently granted, or summarily reversed the lower court based on the information and arguments presented in the petitions for certiorari and oppositions alone. These opinions accordingly tend to be shorter and less complicated than those in cases for which full briefing was submitted by the parties and oral argument conducted.
Because per curiam decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these opinions all lack the attribution of authorship or joining votes to specific justices. All justices on the Court at the time the decision was handed down are assumed to have participated and concurred unless otherwise noted.
Chief Justice: William Rehnquist
Associate Justices: John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer
Decided October 20, 2003
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed
Decided November 3, 2003
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded
Decided February 23, 2004
Illinois Appellate Court reversed and remanded
Stevens filed a concurring opinion.
Decided February 25, 2004
Argued March 30, 2004
Decided May 3, 2004
The Court took the unusual step of dismissing the case per curiam for want of jurisdiction after it had already been briefed and argued.
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded
Decided June 28, 2004
Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer would have denied certiorari.
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