Southern Union Co. v. United States

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Southern Union Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 19, 2012 Decided June 21, 2012
Full case name	Southern Union Company v. United States
Docket no.	11-94
Citations	567 U.S. 343 (more) 132 S. Ct. 2344; 183 L. Ed. 2d 318; 2012 U.S. LEXIS 4662; 74 ERC 1609; 80 U.S.L.W. 4525
Case history
Prior	United States v. Southern Union Co., 643 F. Supp. 2d 201 (D.R.I. 2009); affirmed, 630 F.3d 17 (1st Cir. 2010); cert. granted, 565 U.S. 1057 (2011).
Subsequent	On remand, 942 F. Supp. 2d 235 (D.R.I. 2013)
Holding
Apprendi applies to criminal fines.
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 Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Ginsburg, Kagan
Dissent	Breyer, joined by Kennedy, Alito

Southern Union Co. v. United States, 567 U.S. 343 (2012), was a Supreme Court decision that applied the rule set out in Apprendi v. New Jersey—that certain non-conviction elements of a crime must be proved to a jury—to criminal penalties. The 6–3 decision was authored by Justice Sonia Sotomayor.^[1]