Brumfield v. Cain

Brumfield v. Cain
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 30, 2015 Decided June 18, 2015
Full case name	Kevan Brumfield v. Burl Cain, Warden
Docket no.	13-1433
Citations	576 U.S. 305 (more) 135 S. Ct. 2269; 192 L. Ed. 2d 356; 2015 WL 2473376
Argument	Oral argument
Opinion announcement	Opinion announcement
Case history
Prior	Writ of habeas corpus granted, 854 F. Supp. 2d 366 (M.D. La. 2012); reversed, 744 F.3d 918 (5th Cir. 2014); cert. granted, 135 S. Ct. 752 (2014).
Subsequent	On remand, 808 F.3d 1041 (5th Cir. 2015); cert. denied, 136 S. Ct. 2411 (2016).
Holding
Because Brumfield satisfied §2254(d)(2)’s requirements, he was entitled to have his Atkins claim considered on the merits in federal court.
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	Sotomayor, joined by Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Kagan
Dissent	Thomas, joined by Roberts, Scalia, Alito (all but Part I–C)
Dissent	Alito, joined by Roberts
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. VIII; 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)

Brumfield v. Cain, 576 U.S. 305 (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that because Brumfield satisfied 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(2)’s requirements,^[1] he was entitled to have his Atkins v. Virginia^[2] claim considered on the merits in federal court.