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.
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 540 U.S. 1 Decided October 20, 2003.
Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, reversed and remanded.
Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer noted without separate opinion that they would deny the petition for a writ of certiorari.