United States v. Sanchez-Gomez

Decided May 14, 2018. John Glover Roberts Jr. delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 17-312 · 584 U.S. 381 (2018) · Cited 300 times

Holding

Respondents’ appeals challenging the use of full restraints during nonjury pretrial proceedings became moot when their underlying criminal cases came to an end before the Ninth Circuit could render its decision.

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How the Justices voted

Decided 9–0.

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Precedents cited

Supreme Court decisions this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases in our collection link through; others are named.

• Gerstein v. Pugh · 420 U.S. 103 (1975)
• Genesis HealthCare Corp. v. Symczyk · 569 U.S. 66 (2013)
• Sosna v. Iowa · 419 U.S. 393 (1975)
• Honig v. Doe · 484 U.S. 305 (1988)
• Turner v. Rogers · 564 U.S. 431 (2011)
• O'Shea v. Littleton · 414 U.S. 488 (1974)
• Already, LLC v. Nike, Inc. · 568 U.S. 85 (2013)
• La Buy v. Howes Leather Co. · 352 U.S. 249 (1957)
• Lane v. Williams · 455 U.S. 624 (1982)
• Spencer v. Kemna · 523 U.S. 1 (1998)
• Taylor v. Sturgell · 553 U.S. 880 (2008)
• United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty · 445 U.S. 388 (1980)
• Califano v. Yamasaki · 442 U.S. 682 (1979)
• Franks v. Bowman Transportation Co. · 424 U.S. 747 (1976)
• Preiser v. Newkirk · 422 U.S. 395 (1975)
• Schlagenhauf v. Holder · 379 U.S. 104 (1964)
• Will v. United States · 389 U.S. 90 (1967)
• Devlin v. Scardelletti · 536 U.S. 1 (2002)
• Pasadena City Board of Education v. Spangler · 427 U.S. 424 (1976)
• Smith v. Bayer Corp. · 564 U.S. 299 (2011)
• Alvarez v. Smith · 558 U.S. 87 (2009)
• Kremens v. Bartley · 431 U.S. 119 (1977)
• Swisher v. Brady · 438 U.S. 204 (1978)
• Kingdomware Technologies, Inc. v. United States · 579 U.S. 162 (2016)

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• Nielsen v. Preap · 586 U.S. 392 (2019)

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