Caetano v. Massachusetts

Jaime Caetano v. Massachusetts
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 21, 2016
Full case name	Jaime Caetano v. Massachusetts
Docket no.	14-10078
Citations	577 U.S. 411 (more) 136 S. Ct. 1027; 194 L. Ed. 2d 99; 2016 U.S. LEXIS 1862
Opinion announcement	Opinion announcement
Case history
Prior	On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
Procedural	Motion to dismiss denied, sub nom. Commonwealth v. Caetano, No. 1149-CR-2522 (Mass. Dist. Ct. April 29, 2013); defendant convicted, No. 1149-CR-2522, Mass. Dist. Ct.; aff'd, 26 N. E. 3d 688 (Mass. 2015)
Holding
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts' erred in upholding a law that prohibited the possession of stun guns
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Anthony Kennedy · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor Elena Kagan
Case opinions
Per curiam
Concurrence	Alito (in judgment), joined by Thomas
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. II; Mass. Gen. Laws, ch. 140, §131J (2014)

Caetano v. Massachusetts, 577 U.S. 411 (2016), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously vacated a Massachusetts conviction of a woman who carried a stun gun for self-defense.^[1]