2016 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States has handed down one per curiam opinion during its 2016 term, which began October 3, 2016 and will conclude October 1, 2017.

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.

Court membership

Chief Justice: John Roberts

Associate Justices: Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan

Bosse v. Oklahoma

Full caption:	Shaun Michael Bosse v. Oklahoma
Citations:	580 U.S. ___;
Prior history:	Defendant convicted, sentenced, No. CF-2010-213, Okla. Dist. Ct., McClain Cty., Dec. 18, 2012; affirmed, 360 P. 3d 1203 (Okla. Crim. App. 2015); rehearing denied, Case No. D-2012-1128, Okla. Crim. App., Dec. 1, 2015 (unpublished)
Laws applied:	U.S. Const. amend. VIII
Full text of the opinion:	official slip opinion

580 U.S. ___
Decided October 11, 2016.
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals vacated and remanded. The Oklahoma court erred in ruling that Payne v. Tennessee "implicitly overruled" Booth v. Maryland in regards to the victim's family members' testimony of the defendant(s) and opinion(s) of the sentence. Payne did not specifically state this, and only the Supreme Court can overrule its own precedent.

Thomas filed a concurrence, joined by Alito, writing that the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals erred by ruling that Payne overruled Booth in its entirety, and that the Supreme Court's decision does not affect the analytical foundations of either Booth or Payne.

References

• 2016 Term Opinions of the Court, Supreme Court of the United States, retrieved October 11, 2016.