No. 07–77, Riley, Governor of Alabama v. Kennedy, et al.

 

Argued March 24, 2008

 

            Kevin C. Newsom argued the cause for appellant.  With him on the briefs were Troy King, Attorney General of Alabama, and Margaret L. Fleming, James W. Davis, and Misty S. Fairbanks, Assistant Attorneys General, Matthew H. Lembke, John C. Neiman, Jr., and Scott Burnett Smith.

            Pamela S. Karlan argued the cause for appellees.  With her on the brief were Edward Still, Amy Howe, Kevin Russell, Sam Heldman, Jeffrey L. Fisher, and Thomas C. Goldstein.

 

            Kannon K. Shanmugam argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae supporting appellees in part.  On the brief were Solicitor General Clement, Acting Assistant Attorney General Becker, Deputy Solicitor General Garre, Eric D. Miller, Diana K. Flynn, Gregory B. Friel, and Sarah E. Harrington.

                Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the State of Florida et al. by Bill McCollum, Attorney General of Florida, Gene C. Schaerr, and Steffen N. Johnson, and by the Attorneys General for their respective States as follows: Talis J. Coldberg of Alaska, James D. Caldwell of Louisiana, Kelly A. Ayotte of New Hampshire, Gary K. King of New Mexico, Henry D. McMaster of South Carolina, Lawrence E. Long of South Dakota, and Bob McDonnell of Virginia; for the Project on Fair Representation by Bert W. Rein; for Former State Court Justice Charles Fried et al. by H. Christopher Bartolomucci; and for Abigail Thernstrom et al. by Keith A. Noreika.

            Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the American Civil Liberties Union et al. by Laughlin McDonald, Neil Bradley, and Steven R. Shapiro; for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law by Jonathan E. Nuechterlein, Daniel S. Volchok, and Jon M. Greenbaum; and for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., by Kristen Clarke, Theodore M. Shaw, Jacqueline A. Berrien, Debo P. Adegbile, and Ryan P. Haygood.

 

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No. 06–1431, CBOCS West, Inc. v. Humphries

 

Argued February 20, 2008

 

            Michael W. Hawkins argued the cause for petitioner.  With him on the briefs were Michael J. Newman and Michael Zylstra.

 

            Cynthia H. Hyndman argued the cause for respondent. With her on the brief were Aleeza M. Strubel and Eric Schnapper.

 

            Solicitor General Clement argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging affirmance. With him on the brief were Acting Assistant Attorney General Becker, Deputy Solicitor General Garre, Curtis E. Gannon, and Dennis J. Dimsey.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America by Catherine E. Stetson, Robin S. Conrad, and Shane Brennan; and for the Equal Employment Advisory Council et al. by Rae T. Vann, Karen R. Harned, and Elizabeth Milito.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the State of New York et al. by Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General of New York, Barbara D. Underwood, Solicitor General, and Benjamin N. Gutman, Deputy Solicitor General, and by the Attorneys General for their respective States as follows: Terry Goddard of Arizona, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Lisa Madigan of Illinois, Thomas Miller of Iowa, Douglas F. Gansler of Maryland, Martha Coakley of Massachusetts, Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon of Missouri, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Anne Milgram of New Jersey, Marc Dann of Ohio, Hardy Myers of Oregon, William H. Sorrell of Vermont, and Darrell V. McGraw, Jr., of West Virginia; for Historian Mary Frances Berry et al. by Melissa Hart and Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.; for the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights et al. by Paul R. Q. Wolfson, Anne Harkavy, and Michael Foreman; for Members of Congress by Aaron M. Panner and Priya R. Aiyar; and for the National Employment Lawyers Association by Douglas B. Huron, Stephen Z. Chertkof, and Tammany M. Kramer.

 

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No. 06–1321, Gomez-Perez v. Potter, Postmaster General

 

Argued February 19, 2008

 

            Joseph R. Guerra argued the cause for petitioner.  With him on the briefs were Virginia A. Seitz, Ileana M. Ciobanu, Richard A. Kaplan, and Edelmiro A. Salas.

 

            Deputy Solicitor General Garre argued the cause for respondent.  With him on the brief were Solicitor General Clement, Acting Assistant Attorney General Bucholtz, Anthony A. Yang, Marleigh D. Dover, and August E. Flentje. 

 

Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for AARP by Daniel B. Kohrman and Melvin R. Radowitz; and for the National Treasury Employees Union by Gregory O’Duden, Elaine D. Kaplan, Barbara A. Atkin, and Robert H. Shriver III.

 

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No. 06–1005, United States v. Santos et al.

 

Argued October 3, 2007

 

            Matthew D. Roberts argued the cause for the United States.  With him on the brief were Solicitor General Clement, Assistant Attorney General Fisher, Deputy Solicitor General Dreeben, and Joel M. Gershowitz.

 

            Todd G. Vare argued the cause for respondents.  With him on the brief for respondent Efrain Santos was Paul L. Jefferson.  Stuart Altschuler filed a brief for respondent Benedicto Diaz.  

 

            Jeffrey T. Green and Pamela Harris filed a brief for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as amicus curiae urging affirmance.

 

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No. 06–1456, Regalado Cuellar v. United States

 

Argued February 25, 2008

 

     Jerry V. Beard argued the cause for petitioner.  With him on the briefs were Richard Alan Anderson, Kevin Joel Page, Jonathan D. Hacker, Walter Dellinger, and Mark S. Davies.

 

            Lisa H. Schertler argued the cause for the United States.  With her on the brief were Solicitor General Clement, Assistant Attorney General Fisher, Deputy Solicitor General Dreeben, and Joel M. Gershowitz.

 

            Craig D. Singer and Jeffrey T. Green filed a brief for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as amicus curiae urging reversal.

 

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No. 06–1717, Richlin Security Service Co. v. Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security

 

Argued March 19, 2008

 

            Brian Wolfman argued the cause for petitioner.  With him on the briefs was Scott L. Nelson.

 

            Anthony A. Yang argued the cause for respondent.  With him on the brief were Solicitor General Clement, Acting Assistant Attorney General Bucholtz, Deputy Solicitor General Garre, Michael Jay Singer, and Michael E. Robinson.

 

      Amy Howe, Kevin K. Russell, Thomas C. Goldstein, Pamela S. Karlan, and Jeffrey L. Fisher filed a brief for the National Association of Legal Assistants et al. as amici curiae urging reversal.

 

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No. 07–474, Engquist v. Oregon Department of Agriculture et al.

 

Argued April 21, 2008

 

            Neal Katyal argued the cause for petitioner.  With him on the briefs were David H. Remes, Jeffrey C. Wu, Virginia A. Seitz, Jeffrey T. Green, Quin M. Sorenson, Craig A. Crispin, and Sarah O’Rourke Schrup.

 

            Janet A. Metcalf, Assistant Attorney General of Oregon, argued the cause for respondents.  With her on the brief were Hardy Myers, Attorney General, Peter Shepherd, Deputy Attorney General, and Mary H. Williams, Solicitor General.

 

            Lisa S. Blatt argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging affirmance.  With her on the brief were former Solicitor General Clement, Acting Solicitor General Garre, Acting Assistant Attorney General Bucholtz, and Irene M. Solet.  

 

            Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., et al. by William M. Hohengarten, Jon W. Davidson, Susan L. Sommer, Steven R. Shapiro, and Gary D. Buseck; for the National Association of Police Organizations, Inc., et al. by William John Johnson and J. Michael McGuinness; for the National Education Association et al. by John M. West, Michael D. Simpson, Harold Craig Becker, and Jonathan P. Hiatt; for the National Employment Lawyers Association by Kathleen Eldergill; for the National Fraternal Order of Police by Larry H. James and Christina L. Corl; for Richard Epstein et al. by Aaron M. Panner; and for Meir J. Westreich by Mr. Westreich, pro se.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the State of Pennsylvania et al. by Thomas W. Corbett, Jr., Attorney General of Pennsylvania, John G. Knorr III, Chief Deputy Attorney General, and Calvin R. Koons, Senior Deputy Attorney General, by Roberto J. Sánchez-Ramos, Secretary of Justice of Puerto Rico, and by the Attorneys General for their respective States as follows: Bill McCollum of Florida, Mark J. Bennett of Hawaii, Lisa Madigan of Illinois, Tom Miller of Iowa, Mike McGrath of Montana, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Marc Dann of Ohio, W. A. Drew Edmondson of Oklahoma, Lawrence E. Long of South Dakota, Robert E. Cooper, Jr., of Tennessee, Mark Shurtleff of Utah, Robert M. McKenna of Washington, and Bruce A. Salzburg of Wyoming; for the League of California Cities et al. by Brian P. Walter; for the National Conference of State Legislatures et al. by Richard Ruda; and for the National School Boards Association by Francisco M. Negrón, Jr., Naomi Gittins, Lisa E. Soronen, Elizabeth Eynon-Kokrda, and Kenneth W. Hartman.

 

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No. 06–937, Quanta Computer, Inc., et al. v.  LG Electronics, Inc.

 

Argued January 16, 2008

 

            Maureen E. Mahoney argued the cause for petitioners.  With her on the briefs were J. Scott Ballenger, Barry J. Blonien, Melissa B. Arbus, Vincent K. Yip, Peter Wied, and Maxwell A. Fox.

 

            Deputy Solicitor General Hungar argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae in support of petitioners.  With him on the brief were former Solicitor General Clement, Assistant Attorneys General Keisler and Barnett, Deanne E. Maynard, Catherine G. O’Sullivan, David Seidman, Mark R. Freeman, James A. Toupin, Stephen Walsh, Shannon M. Hansen, and Heather F. Auyang.

           

            Carter G. Phillips argued the cause for respondent.  With him on the brief were Virginia A. Seitz, Jeffrey T. Green, Jeffrey P. Kushan, Rachel H. Townsend, and Quin M. Sorenson.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the American Antitrust Institute by Albert A. Foer and Richard M. Brunell; for the Automotive Engine Rebuilders Association et al. by Seth D. Greenstein and Stefan M. Meisner; for the Computer & Communications Industry Association by Jonathan Band; for the Consumers Union et al. by Fred von Lohmann, Jason Schultz, and Marc N. Bernstein; for Dell Inc. et al. by Andrew J. Pincus and Carl J. Summers; for Gen-Probe Inc. by Beth S. Brinkmann, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Brian R. Matsui, and David C. Doyle; for International Business Machines Corp. by Traci L. Lovitt and Michael A. Carvin; for Motorola, Inc., by Russell E. Levine; and for Nokia Corp. et al. by Kathleen M. Sullivan and David L. Cohen.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for Aerotel, Ltd., et al. by Michael J. Doyle; for AmberWave Systems Corp. by Song K. Jung, Lawrence S. Ebner, Adrian P. Mollo, Megan B. Hoffman, and Bryan P. Lord; for iBiquity Digital Corp. by Roderick R. McKelvie, Robert A. Long, Jr., Richard L. Rainey, and Theodore P. Metzler, Jr.; for InterDigital Communications, LLC et al. by Kenneth C. Bass III and Robert G. Sterne; for MPEG LA LLC by Garrard R. Beeney, Ann McLean Jordan, and Kenneth Rubenstein; for Papst Licensing GmbH & Co. Kg by Lawrence Rosenthal, Steven E. Feldman, and Leonard Friedman; for Rembrandt IP Management, LLC by Aaron M. Panner; for QUALCOMM Inc. by Richard W. Clary; for Various Law Professors by F. Scott Kieff; for Wi-LAN, Inc., by Robert E. Goodfriend, James N. Willi, and Joel L. Thollander; and for Yahoo! Inc. by Christopher J. Wright, Timothy J. Simeone, Joseph K. Siino, and Lisa G. McFall.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae were filed for the American Intellectual Property Law Association by Jeffrey I. D. Lewis; for the American Seed Trade Association by Gary Jay Kushner and Lorane F. Hebert; for the Biotechnology Industry Organization by Patricia A. Millett and Thomas C. Goldstein; for CropLife International by Seth P. Waxman, Paul R. Q. Wolfson, and Sambhav N. Sankar; for the Intellectual Property Owners Association by Gary M. Hoffman and Kenneth W. Brothers; for the Licensing Executives Society (U. S. A. & Canada), Inc., by Joel E. Lutzker; for NCR Corp. by Morgan Chu and Laura W. Brill; and for Technology Properties Limited by Roger L. Cook.

 

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No. 07–210, Bridge et al. v. Phoenix Bond & Indemnity Co. et al.

 

Argued April 14, 2008

 

            Theodore M. Becker argued the cause for petitioners.  With him on the briefs were Peter Buscemi and Joseph Brooks.

 

            David W. DeBruin argued the cause for respondents.  With him on the brief were Ian Heath Gershengorn and Lowell E. Sachnoff.

 

            Eric D. Miller argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae in support of respondents.  On the brief were former Solicitor General Clement, Assistant Attorney General Fisher, Deputy Solicitor General Dreeben, and Pratik A. Shah. 

 

                Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America by Gene C. Schaerr, Linda T. Coberly, Charles B. Klein, Robin S. Conrad, and Amar D. Sarwal; for McKesson Corp. by Beth S. Brinkmann and Brian R. Matsui; and for the Washington Legal Foundation by Daniel J. Popeo and Richard A. Samp.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the State of Connecticut et al. by Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General of Connecticut, Robert B. Teitelman, Assistant Attorney General, and Barry C. Barnett, and by the Attorneys General for their respective States as follows: Terry Goddard of Arizona, Lisa Madigan of Illinois, Mike McGrath of Montana, Gary K. King of New Mexico, Marc Dann of Ohio, W. A. Drew Edmondson of Oklahoma, and Robert E. Cooper, Jr., of Tennessee; for the International Association of Insurance Receivers by C. Philip Curley, Cynthia H. Hyndman, and Robert S. Michaels; and for the National Association of Shareholder and Consumer Attorneys by Kevin P. Roddy and G. Robert Blakey.

 

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No. 07–214, Allison Engine Co., Inc., et al. v. United States ex rel. Sanders et al.

 

Argued February 26, 2008

 

            Theodore B. Olson argued the cause for petitioners.  With him on the briefs were Matthew D. McGill, Amir C. Tayrani, Glenn V. Whitaker, Victor A. Walton, Jr., Michael J. Bronson, Lawrence R. Elleman, William A. Posey, W. Jeffrey Sefton, James J. Gallagher, and David P. Kamp.

 

            James B. Helmer, Jr., argued the cause for respondents.  With him on the brief were Paul B. Martins and Robert M. Rice.

 

            Malcolm L. Stewart argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging affirmance.  With him on the brief were former Solicitor General Clement, Acting Assistant Attorney General Bucholtz, Deputy Solicitor General Kneedler, Douglas N. Letter, and Thomas M. Bondy.

     

                Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America et al. by Jonathan S. Franklin, Caroline M. Mew, Robin S. Conrad, and Amar D. Sarwal; for Continental Common, Inc., et al. by Thomas V. Murto III; and for the Washington Legal Foundation by John T. Boese, Daniel J. Popeo, and Paul D. Kamenar.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for Grayson & Kubli, P. C., by Alan M. Grayson and Victor A. Kubli; for the Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund by David C. Frederick; for Marsha Farmer by Brantly Harris and James W. McCartney; for Senator Charles E. Grassley by Frederick M. Morgan, Jr.; and for Joel D. Hesch by Mr. Hesch, pro se.

 

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No. 06–1666 Munaf et al. v. Geren, Secretary of the Army, et al.; and

No. 07–394 Geren, Secretary of the Army, et al. v. Omar et al., Next Friends of Omar

 

Argued March 25, 2008

 

            Deputy Solicitor General Garre argued the cause for respondents in No. 06–1666 and petitioners in No. 07–394.  With him on the briefs were former Solicitor General Clement, Acting Assistant Attorney General Bucholtz, Daryl Joseffer, Douglas N. Letter, Jonathan H. Levy, and Lewis S. Yelin.

 

            Joseph Margulies argued the cause for petitioners in No. 06–1666 and respondents in No. 07–394.  With him on the brief were Aziz Z. Huq, Jonathan Hafetz, and Eric M. Freedman.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal in No. 06–1666 and affirmance in No. 07–394 were filed for the American Bar Association by William H. Neukom, David J. Cynamon, and Matthew J. MacLean; for the Constitution Project et al. by Christopher T. Handman, Sharon Bradford Franklin, and John W. Whitehead; for Former U. S. Diplomats and National Security Specialists by Harold Hongju Koh; and for M. Cherif Bassiouni et al. by Richard M. Zuckerman.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae in support of petitioners in No. 06–1666 and respondents in No. 07–394 were filed for the Associated Press et al. by Paul M. Smith; and for Non-Governmental Organizations by John J. Gibbons, Lawrence S. Lustberg, Baher Azmy, and Jenny-Brooke Condon.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae were filed in both cases for the National Institute of Military Justice by Daniel S. Floyd and Stephen A. Saltzburg; and for Professors of Constitutional Law and of the Federal Courts by Daniel F. Kolb and Judith Resnik.

 

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No. 06–7517, Irizarry v. United States

 

Argued April 15, 2008

 

            Arthur J. Madden III argued the cause for petitioner.  With him on the briefs were Walter Dellinger, Mark S. Davies, and Jonathan D. Hacker.

 

            Matthew D. Roberts argued the cause for the United States.  With him on the brief were former Solicitor General Clement, Assistant Attorney General Fisher, Deputy Solicitor General Dreeben, and Sangita K. Rao.

 

            Peter B. Rutledge, by invitation of the Court, 552 U. S. ___, argued the cause and filed a brief as amicus curiae in support of the judgment below.  With him on the brief was Douglas A. Berman.

 

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No. 06–1195, Boumediene et al. v. Bush, President of the United States, et al.; and

No. 06–1196, Al Odah, Next Friend of Al Odah, et al. v. United States et al.

 

Argued December 5, 2007

 

     Seth P. Waxman argued the cause for petitioners in both cases.  With him on the briefs for petitioner Lakhdar Boumediene et al. in No. 06–1195 were Paul R. Q. Wolfson, Jonathan G. Cedarbaum, Douglas F. Curtis, Paul M. Winke, Stephen H. Oleskey, Robert C. Kirsch, Mark C. Fleming, and Pratik A. Shah.  David J. Cynamon, Matthew J. MacLean, David H. Remes, and Marc D. Falkoff filed briefs for petitioner Khaled A. F. Al Odah et al. in No. 06–1196.  Thomas B. Wilner, Neil H. Koslowe, George Brent Mickum IV, John J. Gibbons, Lawrence S. Lustberg, Michael Ratner, J. Wells Dixon, Shayana Kadidal, Mark S. Sullivan, Pamela Rogers Chepiga, Joseph Margulies, Erwin Chemerinsky, Baher Azmy, Kristine Huskey, Douglas J. Behr, and Clive Stafford Smith filed briefs for petitioner Jamil El-Banna et al. in No. 06–1196.  William C. Kuebler, Rebecca Snyder, and Walter Dellinger filed a brief for Omar Khadr as respondent in No. 06–1196 under this Court’s Rule 12.6 in support of petitioners.

 

            Solicitor General Clement argued the cause for respondents in both cases.  With him on the brief were Acting Solicitor General Garre, Assistant Attorney General Keisler, Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General Katsas, Eric D. Miller, Douglas N. Letter, Robert M. Loeb, August E. Flentje, Pamela M. Stahl, and Jennifer Paisner.

 

          Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal in both cases were filed for the American Bar Association by William H. Neukom and Sidney S. Rosdeitcher; for the American Civil Liberties Union et al. by Cecillia D. Wang, Lucas Guttentag, Steven R. Shapiro, Arthur H. Bryant, and Victoria W. Ni; for the Association of the Bar of the City of New York by Arthur F. Fergenson and David E. Nachman; for Canadian Parliamentarians and Professors of Law by William R. Stein and Scott H. Christensen; for the Cato Institute by Timothy Lynch; for the Coalition of Non-Governmental Organizations by Jonathan S. Franklin, Stephen M. McNabb, Sharon Bradford Franklin, and John W. Whitehead; for the Federal Public Defender for the Southern District of Florida by Paul M. Rashkind; for Former Federal Judges by Beth S. Brinkmann, Seth M. Galanter, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Agnieszka M. Fryszman; for Former United States Diplomat Diego C. Asencio et al. by Douglass Cassel; for International Humanitarian Law Experts by Harrison J. Frahn IV and Beth Van Schaack; for Professors of Constitutional Law and Federal Jurisdiction by Margaret L. Sanner, Gerald L. Neuman, pro se, and Harold Hongju Koh, pro se; for Retired Military Officers by James C. Schroeder, Gary A. Isaac, and Philip Allen Lacovara; for Specialists in Israeli Military Law and Constitutional Law by Stephen J. Schulhofer, Charles T. Lester, Jr., John A. Chandler, and Avital Stadler; for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights by Donald Francis Donovan, Catherine M. Amirfar, and William H. Taft V; for Salim Hamdan by Neal K. Katyal, Harry H. Schneider, Jr., Joseph M. McMillan, Laurence H. Tribe, Kevin K. Russell, and Charles Swift; and for United States Senator Arlen Specter, by Sen. Specter, pro se.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance in both cases were filed for the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation by Kent S. Scheidegger; and for Retired Generals and Admirals et al. by Daniel J. Popeo and Richard A. Samp.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae in were filed in both cases for 383 United Kingdom and European Parliamentarians by Claude B. Stansbury; for the American Center for Law and Justice by Jay Alan Sekulow, Stuart J. Roth, and Robert W. Ash; for Amnesty International et al. by Paul L. Hoffman and William J. Aceves; for the Commonwealth Lawyers Association by John Townsend Rich and Stephen J. Pollak; for Federal Courts and International Law Professors by David C. Vladeck; for Legal Historians by James Oldhman, Michael J. Wishnie, and Jonathan Hafetz; for the National Institute of Military Justice by Jennifer S. Martinez, Ronald W. Meister, Stephen A. Saltzburg, and Arnon D. Siegel; and for Scholar Paul Finkelman et al. by David Overlock Stewart.

 

            Andrew G. McBride filed a brief for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies et al. as amici curiae urging affirmance in No. 06–1195.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae were filed for International Law Scholars by Sarah H. Paoletti in No. 06–1196; and for the Juvenile Law Center et al. by Marsha L. Levick.

 

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No. 06–1204, Republic of the Philippines et al. v. Pimentel et al.

 

Argued March 17, 2008

 

            Charles A. Rothfeld argued the cause for petitioners.  With him on the briefs were Stephen V. Bomse, E. Joshua Rosenkranz, Adam J. Gromfin, Kenneth S. Geller, and David M. Gossett.

 

     Deputy Solicitor General Kneedler argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging reversal.  With him on the brief were former Solicitor General Clement, Acting Assistant Attorney General Bucholtz, Douglas Hallward-Driemeier, and Michael S. Raab.

 

            Robert A. Swift argued the cause for respondents.  With him on the brief for respondent Mariano J. Pimentel were Craig W. Hillwig, Sherry P. Broder, and Jon M. Van Dyke.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for Philippine Human Rights Groups by Mark S. Davis; and for Professors of International Law by William J. Aceves.

 

            A. Robert Pietrzak, Daniel A. McLaughlin, Carter G. Phillips, and Daniel R. Spector filed a brief for Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc., as amicus curiae.

 

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No. 07–371, Taylor v. Sturgell, Acting Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration, et al.

 

Argued April 16, 2008

 

            Adina H. Rosenbaum argued the cause for petitioner.  With her on the briefs were Brian Wolfman, Scott L. Nelson, and Michael John Pangia.

 

            Douglas Hallward-Driemeier argued the cause for the federal respondent.  With him on the brief were former Solicitor General Clement, Acting Assistant Attorney General Bucholtz, Deputy Solicitor General Kneedler, Leonard Schaitman, and Robert D. Kamenshine.

 

            Catherine E. Stetson argued the cause for respondent Fairchild Corporation.  With her on the brief were Christopher T. Handman and N. Thomas Connally.

 

                Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the American Association for Justice by John Vail and Kathleen Flynn Peterson; for Civil Procedure and Complex Litigation Professors by David L. Shapiro, John Leubsdorf, Stephen B. Burbank, Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., Samuel Issacharoff, and Arthur Miller, all pro se; for the National Security Archive et al. by Meredith Fuchs; and for Lavonna Eddy et al. by James A. Feldman and Gerald S. Hartman.

 

            Mark L. Shurtleff, Attorney General of Utah, and Philip S. Lott and Peggy E. Stone, Assistant Attorneys General, filed a brief for the State of Utah as amicus curiae urging affirmance.

 

            Jack R. Bierig filed a brief for the American Dental Association as amicus curiae.