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. 26, 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. 26, 2020
    decided Decision issued in Holguin-Hernandez v. United States

Opinions and writings

Lead opinion By Stephen Gerald Breyer Feb. 26, 2020 Slip opinion

Justice BREYER delivered the opinion of the Court. *764 A criminal defendant who wishes a court of appeals to consider a claim that a ruling of a trial court was in error must first make his objection known to the trial-court judge. The Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure provide two ways…

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Concurrence By Samuel A. Alito Jr. Feb. 26, 2020 Slip opinion

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