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2005 term United States Supreme Court opinions of John Roberts

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noted that the purpose of the Fourth Amendment was to protect individual privacy, but that any person who shares a dwelling (or, as Roberts pointed out, a locker or a hard drive) with another person may anticipate that the other person sharing access to their belongings might turn them over to authorities. Roberts believed that the majority's judgment was arbitrary in light of prior decisions, which had held that police could ignore the objections of a resident who was being held in a police car rather than in the house.
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satirized the state's position by analogy, stating that "f the Commissioner prepared a stack of letters to mail to delinquent taxpayers, handed them to the postman, and then watched as the departing postman accidentally dropped the letters down a storm drain, one would certainly expect the Commissioner's office to prepare a new stack of letters and send them again. No one desirous of actually informing the owners would simply shrug his shoulders as the letters disappeared and say 'I tried.'"
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Roberts wrote that the Solomon Amendment neither denies the institutions the right to speak, nor requires them to say anything. He further believed that Congress, through the "raise and support Armies" clause, could even directly force schools to allow recruiting without threatening the withholding of funds, if they so desired, and that, as a result, no question of "unconstitutional conditions" arises.
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Roberts joined Scalia's plurality supporting an interpretation of the Clean Water Act that restricted its application to land directly connected to waterways. He wrote a separate concurrence to express his disappointment that lower courts would have no guidance on how to resolve the issue because of
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Roberts' first written dissent on the Court was from Souter's 5–4 ruling barring warrantless searches where a physically present occupant refuses entry to police despite the consent of a co-occupant. Roberts was concerned that this rule would limit the ability of police to address spousal abuse. He
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Roberts' opinion, which was unanimous as to the eight justices participating, ruled that a church was properly granted an injunction under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act against criminal prosecution for its sacramental use of a hallucinatory substance, because the federal government had failed
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Roberts' 5-4 majority opinion held that a state was required to take additional reasonable steps to notify a homeowner of a pending tax sale to satisfy overdue property taxes, when the state knew its previous attempt at notice had failed when the certified mailing was returned unclaimed. Roberts
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Roberts' opinion, which was unanimous as to the eight justices participating, ruled that the government could constitutionally deny federal funds to universities that do not permit the military to recruit on their campuses because of their objection to the military's exclusion of homosexuals.
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Justice O'Connor joined the one opinion Roberts filed before she retired January 31, 2006. Of the justices who participated the entire term, five justices joined the fewest of Roberts' opinions, with seven each: Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, and
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Roberts' unanimous opinion ruled that police may enter a home without a warrant when they have an objectively reasonable basis for believing that an occupant is seriously injured or imminently threatened with such injury.
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Roberts' 8-justice majority, the judgment of which Ginsburg concurred in, ruled that state residents did not have standing to challenge state taxation and spending decisions simply by virtue of their status as taxpayers.
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began October 3, 2005, and concluded October 1, 2006. This was the first term of
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Lists of United States Supreme Court opinions of John Roberts
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Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, Inc.
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Gonzales v. O Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal
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Lists of 2005 term United States Supreme Court opinions
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Stevens, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Breyer, Alito
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Index

Supreme Court of the United States
Chief Justice
John Roberts

Martin v. Franklin Capital Corp.
Gonzales v. O Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal
Religious Freedom Restoration Act
statutory interpretation
Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, Inc.
First Amendment
compelled speech
Homosexuality in the U.S. military
Solomon Amendment
Georgia v. Randolph
Fourth Amendment

Souter

Stevens

Breyer

Scalia

Thomas
Jones v. Flowers
Fourteenth Amendment
due process

Thomas

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