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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 July 9, 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

  • July 9, 2020
    decided Decision issued in McGirt v. Oklahoma

Opinions and writings

Lead opinion By Neil M. Gorsuch July 9, 2020 Slip opinion

(Slip Opinion) OCTOBER TERM, 2019 1 Syllabus NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued. The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader. See United States v. Detroit…

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Lead opinion Author not recorded July 9, 2020

Justice GORSUCH delivered the opinion of the Court. *2459On the far end of the Trail of Tears was a promise. Forced to leave their ancestral lands in Georgia and Alabama, the Creek Nation received assurances that their new lands in the West would be secure forever. In exchange for ceding "all their land, East of the Mississippi river," the…

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Dissent Author not recorded July 9, 2020

Justice THOMAS, dissenting. I agree with THE CHIEF JUSTICE that the former Creek Nation Reservation was disestablished at statehood and Oklahoma therefore has jurisdiction to prosecute petitioner for sexually assaulting his wife's granddaughter. Ante , at 2482 - 2483 (dissenting opinion). I write separately to note an additional defect in the Court's decision: It reverses a state-court judgment that it has no jurisdi…

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Dissent By John Glover Roberts Jr. July 9, 2020 Slip opinion

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Dissent By Clarence Thomas July 9, 2020 Slip opinion

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