Actually, he had five wins (including partial wins) and four losses.
That is a horrible percentage considering he brags so much and he only had to convince Kennedy. Cruz is weak.
Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. v. SEB S.A. (2010)
Patent case, deepfryer.
Cruz won.
Kennedy v. Louisiana (2007)
Do states violate the Eight Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment by imposing the death sentence for the crime of child rape? Case won by defendant.
Cruz loss.
Medellin v. Texas (2007)
Article 36 of the Vienna Convention gives any foreign national detained for a crime the right to contact his consulate. Texas refused to allow contact or to review, on the second trial (2004-1st attempt).
Cruz won the right for Texas to ignore the Vienna convention and execute Medellin. Good precedent for State's rights but unnecessarily abrasive and combatative, since allowing the consulate to speak would not have changed the outcome.
Panetti v. Quarterman (2006)
Does the Eighth Amendment permit the execution of an inmate who has a factual awareness of the State's stated reason for his execution, but who lacks, due to mental illness, a rational understanding of the State's justification? Supreme Court found for the defendant.
Cruz lost
Smith v. Texas (2006)
LaRoyce Smith was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. In 2004, the Supreme Court overturned his death sentence and sent the case back to state court because of a judge's improper jury instruction. (See Smith v. Texas , No. 04-5323.) Nevertheless, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals re-imposed the sentence. Supremes found for the defedant.
Cruz lost.
League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry (2005)
Did the Texas legislature violate the Constitution and and the Voting Rights Act when it used 2000 census data to redistrict in 2003 for partisan advantage, resulting in districts that (by 2003 numbers) did not conform to the one person, one vote standard?
Cruz won.
Medellín v. Dretke (2004)
Cruz failed to win case returned to lower court see (2007 above)
Dretke v. Haley (2003)
Haley was convicted in Texas state courts of a felony theft of a calculator and sentenced as a habitual felony offender (extending his sentence to 16.5 years instead of the maximum of 2years for his actual crime). The Supreme Court found that the lower court had erred,
Cruz lost.
This is a particularly egregious miscarriage of justice and should have been remedied not pursued. A little-noticed Supreme Court case represents a huge injustice
Frew v. Hawkins (2003)
Texas was supposed to improve health care for poor children to comply with a federally mandated program called Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment. Two years later, Frew and others remained unsatisfied that Texas was complying with the federal requirements, and asked the court to force Texas to create a plan for how it would improve health care. The Supreme Court found for the plaintiff.
Cruz lost. Three wins out of 9 cases.