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 Feb. 25, 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

  • Feb. 25, 2020
    decided Decision issued in McKinney v. Arizona

Opinions and writings

Lead opinion By Brett M. Kavanaugh Feb. 25, 2020 Slip opinion

Justice KAVANAUGH delivered the opinion of the Court. *705 Over a 4-week span in early 1991, James McKinney and his half brother, Charles Hedlund, burglarized five residences in the Phoenix, Arizona, area. During one of the burglaries, McKinney and Hedlund beat and repeatedly stabbed Christi…

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Dissent By Ruth Bader Ginsburg Feb. 25, 2020 Slip opinion

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