Chambers v. United States

Chambers v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 10, 2008 Decided January 13, 2009
Full case name	Deondery Chambers, Petitioner v. United States
Docket no.	06-11206
Citations	555 U.S. 122 (more) 129 S. Ct. 687; 172 L. Ed. 2d 484; 2009 U.S. LEXIS 580
Case history
Prior	United States v. Chambers, 473 F.3d 724 (7th Cir. 2007); cert. granted, 553 U.S. 1003 (2008).
Holding
Failing to report for incarceration does not qualify as a "violent felony" for the purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act.
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	Breyer, joined by Roberts, Stevens, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg
Concurrence	Alito, joined by Thomas
Laws applied
Armed Career Criminal Act (18 U.S.C. §§ 924–e)

Chambers v. United States, 555 U.S. 122 (2009),^[1] was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that failing to report for incarceration does not qualify as a "violent felony" for the purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act.^[2]