Because Alito joined the court mid-term, he did not participate in the decisions of most of the early cases in the court term because he had not heard arguments for them. These decisions were released with an 8-member Court; none were 4–4, so Alito would not have been the deciding vote in any of them if he had participated. Only three of these cases  – "Garcetti v. Ceballos", "Hudson v. Michigan", and "Kansas v. Marsh"  – were reargued since a tie needed to be broken.