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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 Kahler v. Kansas

Opinions and writings

Lead opinion By Elena Kagan March 23, 2020 Slip opinion

Justice KAGAN delivered the opinion of the Court. *1024 This case is about Kansas's treatment of a criminal defendant's insanity claim. In Kansas, a defendant can invoke mental illness to show that he lacked the requisite mens rea (intent) for a crime. He can also rais…

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Dissent By Stephen Gerald Breyer March 23, 2020 Slip opinion

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