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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 April 27, 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

  • April 27, 2020
    decided Per curiam decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. City of New York

Opinions and writings

Opinion Author not recorded April 27, 2020 Slip opinion

(Slip Opinion) Cite as: 590 U. S. ____ (2020) 1 Per Curiam NOTICE: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the preliminary print of the United States Reports. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Wash- ington, D. C. 20543, of any typographical or other formal errors, in order that corrections may b…

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Lead opinion Per curiam — no individual author April 27, 2020

Per Curiam. *1526In the District Court, petitioners challenged a New York City rule regarding the transport of firearms. Petitioners claimed that the rule violated the Second Amendment. Petitioners sought declaratory and injunctive relief against enforcement of the rule insofar as the rule prevented their transport of firearms to a second ho…

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Concurrence Author not recorded April 27, 2020

Justice KAVANAUGH, concurring. I agree with the per curiam opinion's resolution of the procedural issues before us-namely, that petitioners' claim for injunctive relief against New York City's old rule is moot and that petitioners' new claims should be addressed as appropriate in the first instance by the Court of Appeals and the District Court on remand. I also agree with Justice ALITO's general analy…

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