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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 March 23, 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

  • March 23, 2020
    decided Decision issued in Comcast Corp. v. National Assn. of African-American Owned Media

Opinions and writings

Lead opinion By Neil M. Gorsuch March 23, 2020 Slip opinion

Justice GORSUCH delivered the opinion of the Court. *1013 Few legal principles are better established than the rule requiring a plaintiff to establish causation. In the law of torts, this usually means a plaintiff must first plead and then prove that its injury would not have occurred "…

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Concurrence in part By Ruth Bader Ginsburg March 23, 2020 Slip opinion

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