Snyder v. Louisiana

Snyder v. Louisiana
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 4, 2007 Decided March 19, 2008
Full case name	Allen Snyder v. Louisiana
Docket no.	06-10119
Citations	552 U.S. 472 (more) 128 S. Ct. 1203; 170 L. Ed. 2d 175
Case history
Prior	State v. Snyder, 942 So. 2d 484 (La. 2006); cert. granted, 551 U.S. 1144 (2007).
Holding
Louisiana Supreme Court reversed and remanded
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Antonin Scalia Anthony Kennedy · David Souter Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito
Case opinions
Majority	Alito, joined by Roberts, Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer
Dissent	Thomas, joined by Scalia
Laws applied
Equal Protection Clause

Snyder v. Louisiana, 552 U.S. 472 (2008), was a United States Supreme Court case about racial issues in jury selection in death penalty cases. Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the 7–2 majority, ruled that the prosecutor's use of peremptory strikes to remove African American jurors violated the Court's earlier holding in Batson v. Kentucky. Justice Clarence Thomas dissented.