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 March 30, 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 30, 2020
    decided Decision issued in CITGO Asphalt Refining Co. v. Frescati Shipping Co.

Opinions and writings

Lead opinion By Sonia Sotomayor March 30, 2020 Slip opinion

Justice SOTOMAYOR delivered the opinion of the Court. *1085 In 2004, the M/T Athos I , a 748-foot oil tanker, allided 1 with a nine-ton anchor abandoned on the bed of the Delaware River. The anchor punctured…

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Dissent By Clarence Thomas March 30, 2020 Slip opinion

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