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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 Allen v. Cooper

Opinions and writings

Lead opinion By Elena Kagan March 23, 2020 Slip opinion

Justice KAGAN delivered the opinion of the Court. *998 In two basically identical statutes passed in the early 1990s, Congress sought to strip the States of their sovereign immunity from patent and copyright infringement suits. Not long after, this Court held in…

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Concurrence By Stephen Gerald Breyer March 23, 2020 Slip opinion

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Concurrence in part By Clarence Thomas March 23, 2020 Slip opinion

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