2021 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States

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.

Daniel Rivas-Villegas was a Union City, California police officer who responded to a domestic violence call.

Judge Daniel P. Collins dissented, arguing that the facts of the earlier case and this one were different enough that qualified immunity could be granted.

The United States Supreme Court agreed with Judge Collins that the two cases had different enough fact patterns, and thus reversed the Ninth Circuit's judgement that Officer Rivas-Villegas was not entitled to qualified immunity.

The plaintiffs then appealed to the United States Supreme Court, which granted certiorari and heard oral arguments in the case on January 7, 2022.

In it, he agreed with the Court's decision and expounded on how the major questions doctrine and federalist principles helped to guide him in knowing that this was the correct result.

In it, she argued that this was not a case fit for summary reversal, as the VRA precedents that the majority claimed existed were "hazy at best."

Bradley LeDure was an employee of the Union Pacific Railroad Company when he slipped and fell on an oily walkway in a rail yard in Salem, Illinois.

The District Court granted summary judgment for Union Pacific and dismissed LeDure's suit with prejudice.

The District Court also found that the Locomotive Inspection Act did not apply because the equipment that LeDure slipped on was not "in use" at the time of the incident.

The conflict created a circuit split, and LeDure appealed to the United States Supreme Court, which granted certiorari.

Between the decision of the Seventh Circuit in June 2020 and the granting of certiorari in December 2021, Amy Coney Barrett was elevated to the United States Supreme Court.

She recused herself from hearing the case at the Supreme Court, likely because her sitting in review of her own decision would have created a conflict of interest.