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Supreme Court · SCOTUS
Hamm v. Smith
No. 24-872Supreme Court of the United States
Judgment Issued.
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Official outcomeJudgment Issued.
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- Decision date
- June 22, 2026
- Opinion author
- PC
- October Term
- 2025
- Docket
- No. 24-872
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Judgment Issued.
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- First added here
- August 10, 2026
- Last entry
- June 22, 2026
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Decision and docket history
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Docket entry
Writ of certiorari DISMISSED as improvidently granted. Opinion per curiam. Justice Sotomayor, with whom Justice Jackson joins, concurring. Justice Thomas, dissenting. Justice Alito, with whom Justice Thomas joins, and with whom The Chief Justice and Justice Gorsuch join as to Parts I, III, and IV, dissenting.
Docket entry
Argued. For petitioner: Robert M. Overing, Principal Deputy Solicitor General, Montgomery, Ala.; and Harry Graver, Assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (for United States, as amicus curiae.) For respondent: Seth P. Waxman, Washington, D. C.
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CIRCULATED
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Reply of petitioner Commissioner, Alabama Dept. of Corrections filed.
Open court document ↗Docket entry
SET FOR ARGUMENT on Wednesday, December 10, 2025.
Docket entry
Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument GRANTED.
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Brief amici curiae of American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD), et al. filed.
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Brief amici curiae of American Psychological Association, et al. filed.
Open court document ↗Docket entry
Motion to file Volume III of the joint appendix with redactions GRANTED.
Docket entry
REMOVED from the argument calendar for Tuesday, November 4, 2025.
Docket entry
Record received electronically from the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and available with the Clerk.
Docket entry
Record received electronically from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama and available with the Clerk.
Docket entry
Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument filed.
Open court document ↗Docket entry
Record requested from the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Docket entry
SET FOR ARGUMENT on Tuesday, November 4, 2025. (Note: Removed from November argument calendar on September 18, 2025).
Docket entry
Brief amicus curiae of United States in support of petitioner filed.
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4 entries, oldest first.
· Supreme Court of the United States
Granted
The court's record, as written
Petition GRANTED limited to the following question: Whether and how courts may consider the cumulative effect of multiple IQ scores in assessing an Atkins claim.
Outcome words in this text: GRANTED.
· Supreme Court of the United States
DismissedGranted
The court's record, as written
Certiorari dismissed as improvidently granted. [608/1]
Outcome words in this text: dismissed, granted.
· Supreme Court of the United States
DismissedGranted
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Writ of certiorari DISMISSED as improvidently granted. Opinion per curiam. Justice Sotomayor, with whom Justice Jackson joins, concurring. Justice Thomas, dissenting. Justice Alito, with whom Justice Thomas joins, and with whom The Chief Justice and Justice Gorsuch join as to Parts I, III, and IV, dissenting.
Outcome words in this text: DISMISSED, granted.
· Supreme Court of the United States
Other
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Judgment Issued.
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AudioOral argument audio: Hamm v. Smith (No. 24-872)
Supreme Court of the United States · December 10, 2025
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Supreme Court of the United States · December 10, 2025
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