Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

The Court

The Supreme Court sits as a whole rather than in panels.

Computed by Benchlight The Supreme Court publishes no panel, because every participating justice takes part. Benchlight therefore lists the justices commissioned and in active service on June 18, 2007, from Federal Judicial Center service records. Recusals are shown only where the source records them, so a justice who did not participate may still appear here.

Case history

  • June 18, 2007
    decided Decision issued in Brendlin v. California

Opinions and writings

Opinion By David Hackett Souter June 18, 2007 Slip opinion

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