Johnson v. United States (2015)

Johnson v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 5, 2014 Reargued April 20, 2015 Decided June 26, 2015
Full case name	Samuel James Johnson, Petitioner v. United States
Docket no.	13-7120
Citations	576 U.S. 591 (more) 135 S. Ct. 2551; 192 L. Ed. 2d 569
Argument	Oral argument
Opinion announcement	Opinion announcement
Case history
Prior	United States v. Johnson, 526 F. App'x 708 (8th Cir. 2013); cert. granted, 572 U.S. 1059 (2014).
Holding
The Residual Clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutionally vague and as a result one's due process rights are violated.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinions
Majority	Scalia, joined by Roberts, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan
Concurrence	Kennedy (in judgment)
Concurrence	Thomas (in judgment)
Dissent	Alito
Laws applied
Armed Career Criminal Act 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1), U.S. Const. amend. V
This case overturned a previous ruling or rulings
James v. United States (2007) (in part) & Sykes v. United States (2011) (in part)

Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled the Residual Clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act was unconstitutionally vague and in violation of due process.