Supreme Court 2011 Term

The Supreme Court 2011 Term began in October 2011 and is scheduled to complete in June 2012. Only about 75 cases were heard by the Court this Term.

Key cases include:

• ObamaCare

• whether the Anti-Injunction Act prevents the courts from reviewing the constitutionality of ObamaCare yet
• whether the individual mandate requiring nearly every adult to purchase health insurance is constitutional
• whether that provision may be severed from the remainder
• whether the Medicaid expansion is constitutional

• a challenge to the Arizona illegal alien law
• the constitutionality of the Stolen Valor Act
• whether a prison sentence of life without parole for a crime committed by a 14-year-old is constitutional
• whether criminal defendants have a constitutional right to cross-examine the person who tested the DNA upon which the prosecution relies
• constitutionality of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act
• constitutionality of a fine against Fox for bad words on television (FCC v. Fox)
• whether non-union public employees can be required to contribute to political funds for the union (Knox v. SEIU)
• constitutionality of criminal fines despite a lack of a finding by a jury of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt (Southern Union Company v. United States)
• whether the Fair Sentencing Act applies to everyone sentenced after the passage of the federal statute (Dorsey v. United States)