The Supreme Court of the United States handed down seven per curiam opinions during its 2003 term, which began October 6, 2003 and concluded October 3, 2004.

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: William Rehnquist

Associate Justices: John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer

Yarborough v. Gentry

540 U.S. 1
Decided October 20, 2003.
Ninth Circuit reversed.

Mitchell v. Esparza

540 U.S. 12
Decided November 3, 2003.
Sixth Circuit reversed and remanded.

Illinois v. Fisher

540 U.S. 544
Decided February 23, 2004.
Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, reversed and remanded.

Stevens filed a concurrence.

Muhammad v. Close

540 U.S. 749
Argued December 1, 2003.
Decided February 25, 2004.
Sixth Circuit reversed and remanded.

Johnson v. California

541 U.S. 428
Argued March 30, 2004.
Decided May 3, 2004.
The Court dismissed the case for want of jurisdiction.

Middleton v. McNeil

541 U.S. 433
Decided May 3, 2004.
Ninth Circuit reversed and remanded.

Holland v. Jackson

542 U.S. 649
Decided June 28, 2004.
Sixth Circuit reversed and remanded.

Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer noted without separate opinion that they would deny the petition for a writ of certiorari.

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