He graduated from Miami University in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, with Phi Beta Kappa honors.

President Trump nominated Murphy to the seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit being vacated by Judge Alice M. Batchelder, who previously announced her decision to assume senior status on a date to be determined.

2021), an evenly divided Sixth Circuit affirmed the denial of a preliminary injunction against a rule issued by the ATF declaring bump-stock devices to be illegal machine guns under federal law.

Judge Eric Murphy authored a dissenting opinion joined by seven other members of the court that would have enjoined the ATF’s new rule, explaining that the “policy debate over whether to ban bump stocks” belongs “with the legislative branch accountable to the people” rather than an administrative agency or the judiciary.

[15] In Garland v. Cargill, 602 U.S. 406 (2024), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that bump-stock devices are not machine guns under existing federal law.