Henderson v. United States (2015)

Henderson v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 24, 2015 Decided May 18, 2015
Full case name	Tony Henderson v. United States
Docket no.	13-1487
Citations	575 U.S. 622 (more) 135 S. Ct. 1780; 191 L. Ed. 2d 874
Case history
Prior	No. 3:06–cr–2011, 2012 WL 11922151 (M.D. Fla. Aug. 9, 2012); 555 F. App'x 851 (11th Cir. 2014) (per curiam); cert. granted, 135 S. Ct. 402 (2014).
Subsequent	795 F.3d 1254 (11th Cir. 2015) (per curiam).
Holding
A court-ordered transfer of a felon’s lawfully owned firearms from Government custody to a third party is not barred by §922(g) if the court is satisfied that the recipient will not give the felon control over the firearms, so that he could either use them or direct their use.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinion
Majority	Kagan, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
18 U.S.C. § 922(g)

Henderson v. United States, 575 U.S. 622 (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held a court-ordered transfer of a felon's lawfully owned firearms from government custody to a third party is not barred by §922(g) if the court is satisfied that the recipient will not give the felon control over the firearms, so that he could either use them or direct their use.