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 15, 2020, 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 15, 2020
    decided Decision issued in Bostock v. Clayton County

Opinions and writings

Lead opinion By Neil M. Gorsuch June 15, 2020

Justice GORSUCH delivered the opinion of the Court. *1737Sometimes small gestures can have unexpected consequences. Major initiatives practically guarantee them. In our time, few pieces of federal legislation rank in significance with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. There, in Title VII, Congress outlawed discrimination in the workplace on th…

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Opinion By Neil M. Gorsuch June 15, 2020 Slip opinion

(Slip Opinion) OCTOBER TERM, 2019 1 Syllabus NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued. The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader. See United States v.…

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Dissent Author not recorded June 15, 2020

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Dissent By Samuel A. Alito Jr. June 15, 2020 Slip opinion

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Dissent By Brett M. Kavanaugh June 15, 2020 Slip opinion

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