No. 09–5201, Barber et al. v. Thomas, Warden
Argued March 30, 2010
Stephen R. Sady argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs was Lynn Deffebach.
Jeffrey B. Wall argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Kagan, Assistant Attorney General Breuer, Deputy Solicitor General Dreeben, and Kevin R. Gingras.
Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers et al. by Jeffrey T. Green, Peter C. Pfaffenroth, Steven R. Shapiro, Paul M. Rashkind, Frances H. Pratt, Brett G. Sweitzer, Jonathan Hacker, Mary Price, and Peter Goldberger; and for Pierce O’Donnell by George J. Terwilliger III and Daniel B. Levin.
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No. 08–998, Hamilton, Chapter 13 Trustee v. Lanning
Argued March 22, 2010
Jan Hamilton, petitioner, argued the cause pro se. With him on the briefs was Teresa L. Rhodd.
Thomas C. Goldstein argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Patricia A. Millett, Peter J. Gurfein, Amy Howe, Kevin K. Russell, G. Eric Brunstad, Jr., and Collin O’Connor Udell.
Sarah E. Harrington argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae in support of respondent. With her on the brief were Solicitor General Kagan, Assistant Attorney General West, Deputy Solicitor General Stewart, William Kanter, Edward Himmelfarb, Ramona D. Elliott, and P. Matthew Sutko.
Briefs of amici curiae were filed for the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys by Jonathan L. Marcus, Theodore P. Metzler, Jr., and Tara Twomey; and for Ned W. Waxman by Mr. Waxman, pro se.
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No. 09–337, Krupski v. Costa Crociere S. p. A.
Argued April 21, 2010
Mark R. Bendure argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs was Matthew L. Turner.
Robert S. Glazier argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were David J. Horr and Stephanie H. Wylie.
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No. 09–60, Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder, Attorney General
Argued March 31, 2010
Sri Srinivasan argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were Irving L. Gornstein, Kathryn E. Tarbert, and Geoffrey A. Hoffman.
Nicole A. Saharsky argued the cause for respondent. With her on the brief were Solicitor General Kagan, Assistant Attorney General West, Deputy Solicitors General Kneedler and Dreeben, Donald E. Keener, W. Manning Evans, Saul Greenstein, Andrew MacLachlan, and Holly M. Smith.
Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law by Catherine M. Amirfar, Anthony S. Barkow, and David B. Edwards; for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers et al. by Jim Walden and Richard A. Bierschbach; for the National Association of Federal Defenders et al. by Iris E. Bennett, Paul M. Rashkind, Frances H. Pratt, Brett G. Sweitzer, Mary Price, and Margaret Colgate Love; and for Organizations Representing Asylum Seekers by Linda T. Coberly.
Nancy Morawetz filed a brief for the Asian American Justice Center et al. as amici curiae.
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No. 08–1322, Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security v. Ratliff
Argued February 22, 2010
Anthony A. Yang argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were Solicitor General Kagan, Assistant Attorney General West, Deputy Solicitor General Stewart, William Kanter, and Michael E. Robinson.
James D. Leach argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Scott L. Nelson and Stephen B. Kinnaird.
Charles L. Martin, Barbara Jones, and Jon C. Dubin filed a brief for the National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives et al. as amici curiae urging affirmance.
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No. 09–367, Dolan v. United States
Argued April 20, 2010
Pamela S. Karlan, by appointment of the Court, 559 U. S. ___, argued the cause for petitioner. With her on the briefs were Jeffrey L. Fisher, Amy Howe, Kevin K. Russell, Sara N. Sanchez, and Thomas C. Goldstein.
Toby J. Heytens argued the cause for the United States. On the brief were Solicitor General Kagan, Assistant Attorney General Breuer, Deputy Solicitor General Dreeben, and Eric D. Miller.
Jonathan L. Marcus, Barbara E. Bergman, and Peter Goldberger filed a brief for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as amicus curiae urging reversal.
Paul G. Cassell filed a brief for the National Crime Victim Law Institute as amicus curiae urging affirmance.
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No. 09–5327, Holland v. Florida
Argued March 1, 2010
Todd G. Scher, by appointment of the Court, 558 U. S. ___, argued the cause and filed briefs for petitioner.
Scott D. Makar, Solicitor General, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Louis F. Hubener, Chief Deputy Solicitor General, Craig D. Feiser, Timothy D. Osterhaus, Courtney Brewer, and Ronald A. Lathan, Deputy Solicitors General, Carolyn M. Snurkowski, Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Candance M. Sabella, Chief Assistant Attorney General, and Sandra S. Jaggard and Lisa-Marie Lerner, Assistant Attorneys General.
Larry Yackle, Steven R. Shapiro, John Holdridge, Brian Stull, Randall C. Marshall, and Maria Kayanan filed a brief for the American Civil Liberties Union et al. as amici curiae urging reversal.
Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the State of Texas et al. by James C. Ho, Solicitor General of Texas, Greg Abbott, Attorney General, C. Andrew Weber, First Assistant Attorney General, Eric J. R. Nichols, Deputy Attorney General, Edward L. Marshall, Assistant Attorney General, and James P. Sullivan, Assistant Solicitor General, and by the Attorneys General for their respective States as follows: Troy King of Alabama, John W. Suthers of Colorado, Joseph R. Biden III of Delaware, Mark J. Bennett of Hawaii, Lawrence G. Wasden of Idaho, Lisa Madigan of Illinois, Gregory F. Zoeller of Indiana, Tom Miller of Iowa, Steve Six of Kansas, Jack Conway of Kentucky, James D. “Buddy” Caldwell of Louisiana, Chris Koster of Missouri, Jon Bruning of Nebraska, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Gary K. King of New Mexico, Thomas W. Corbett, Jr., of Pennsylvania, Marty J. Jackley of South Dakota, Robert E. Cooper, Jr., of Tennessee, Mark L. Shurtleff of Utah, Robert M. McKenna of Washington, and Bruce A. Salzburg of Wyoming; and for the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation by Kent S. Scheidegger.
Briefs of amici curiae were filed for Eleven Legal Historians by William F. Sheehan; and for Legal Ethics Professors et al. by Lawrence J. Fox, pro se, William L. Carr, and Susan D. Reece Martyn, pro se.
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No. 08–1457, New Process Steel, L. P. v. National Labor Relations Board
Argued March 23, 2010
Sheldon E. Richie argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were Joseph W. Ambash, Justin F. Keith, Mark E. Solomons, and Laura Metcoff Klaus.
Deputy Solicitor General Katyal argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Kagan, Sarah E. Harrington, Ronald Meisburg, John H. Ferguson, Linda Dreeben, David Habenstreit, and Ruth E. Burdick.
Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America by Marshall B. Babson, Christine M. Fitzgerald, Robin S. Conrad, and Shane B. Kawka; and for the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters by Dennis M. Devaney and Jeffrey D. Wilson.
Lynn K. Rhinehart, James B. Coppess, and Laurence Gold filed a brief for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations as amicus curiae urging affirmance.
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No. 08–1151, Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection et al.
Argued December 2, 2009
D. Kent Safriet argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs was Richard S. Brightman.
Scott D. Makar, Solicitor General of Florida, argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief for Florida Department of Environmental Protection, et al., were Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Timothy D. Osterhaus, Deputy Solicitor General, Thomas M. Beason, Teresa L. Mussetto, and Kara L. Gross. Thomas W. Merrill filed a brief for respondents Walton County, Florida, et al. With him on the brief were Hala Sandridge and Linda Shelley.
Deputy Solicitor General Kneedler argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae supporting respondents. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Kagan, Acting Assistant Attorney General Cruden, Nicole A. Saharsky, and Katherine J. Barton.
Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the American Civil Rights Union by Peter J. Ferrara; for the Coalition for Property Rights, Inc., by Menelaos K. Papalas and Sidney F. Ansbacher; for the Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund by Douglas G. Smith; for the New England Legal Foundation by Benjamin G. Robbins and Martin J. Newhouse; for the Oregonians in Action Legal Center by Donald Joe Willis; for the Owners’ Counsel of America by Robert H. Thomas, Mark M. Murakami, and Tred R. Eyerly; and for Save Our Beaches et al. by Shannon Lee Goessling.
Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the American Planning Association et al. by John D. Echeverria; for the Coastal States Organization by Richard M. Frank; for the National Association of Counties et al. by Richard Ruda, Douglas T. Kendall, and Elizabeth B. Wydra; and for the Surfrider Foundation by Bruce J. Berman and Jeffrey W. Mikoni.
Briefs of amici curiae were filed for the State of California et al. by Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General of California, Daniel L. Siegel, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Manuel M. Medeiros, Solicitor General, J. Matthew Rodriquez, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Jan Stevens, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Joseph Barbieri, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, by Richard S. Gebelein, Chief Deputy Attorney General of Delaware, and by the Attorneys General for their respective States as follows: Dustin McDaniel of Arkansas, Lisa Madigan of Illinois, Tom Miller of Iowa, James D. “Buddy” Caldwell of Louisiana, Janet T. Mills of Maine, Douglas F. Gansler of Maryland, Martha Coakley of Massachusetts, Michael A. Cox of Michigan, Jim Hood of Mississippi, Steve Bullock of Montana, Jon Bruning of Nebraska, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Michael A. Delaney of New Hampshire, Anne Milgram of New Jersey, Richard Cordray of Ohio, John R. Kroger of Oregon, Patrick C. Lynch of Rhode Island, Henry D. McMaster of South Carolina, Marty J. Jackley of South Dakota, Robert E. Cooper, Jr., of Tennessee, William C. Mims of Virginia, Robert M. McKenna of Washington, Darrell V. McGraw, Jr., of West Virginia, and Bruce A. Salzburg of Wyoming; for Brevard County, Florida, by Scott L. Knox; for the Cato Institute et al. by James S. Burling, Steven Geoffrey Gieseler, Ilya Shapiro, Karen R. Harned, and Elizabeth Milito; for the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence by Anthony T. Caso, Edwin Meese III, and John C. Eastman; for Citizens for Constitutional Property Rights Legal Foundation, Inc., by John J. Delaney and Emily J. Vaias; for the Florida Shore and Beach Preservation Association et al. by Gary K. Oldehoff and Nancy E. Stroud; for the National Association of Home Builders et al. by Thomas Jon Ward and David N. Crump, Jr.; for the New Jersey Land Title Association by Michael J. Fasano; and for Save Our Shoreline by David L. Powers.
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No. 08–1332, City of Ontario, California, et al. v. Quon et al.
Argued April 19, 2010
Kent L. Richland argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Kent J. Bullard and Dimitrios C. Rinos.
Deputy Solicitor General Katyal argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging reversal. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Kagan, Assistant Attorney General Breuer, William M. Jay, Josh Goldfoot and Vijay Shanker.
Dieter C. Dammeier argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief was Michael A. McGill.
Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the League of California Cities et al. by Nancy B. Thorington and Joseph M. Quinn; for Los Angeles Times Communications LLC et al. by Kelli L. Sager and Jeffrey L. Fisher; for the National League of Cities et al. by Richard Ruda, Robert A. Long, Jr., and Joshua H. Whitman; and for the National School Boards Association et al. by Francisco M. Negrón, Jr., Naomi E. Gittins, Lisa E. Soronen, and Sonja H. Trainor.
Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations by Lynn K. Rhinehart, James B. Coppess, and Laurence Stephen Gold; for the Electronic Frontier Foundation et al. by Andrew J. Pincus, Charles Rothfeld, Dan M. Kahan, Scott L. Shuchart, and Steven R. Shapiro; for the Electronic Privacy Information Center et al. by Marc Rotenberg; for the New York Intellectual Property Law Association by Jonathan E. Moskin and Mark J. Abate; and for The Rutherford Institute by John W. Whitehead.
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No. 08–538, Schwab v. Reilly
Argued November 3, 2009
Craig Goldblatt argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were William G. Schwab, pro se, Seth P. Waxman, Danielle Spinelli, and Daniel S. Volchok.
Jeffrey B. Wall argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging reversal. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Kagan, Assistant Attorney General West, Deputy Solicitor General Stewart, Ramona D. Elliott, P. Matthew Sutko, and Eric K. Bradford.
G. Eric Brunstad, Jr., argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Collin O’Connor Udell, Joshua Richards, and Gino L. Andreuzzi.
Martin P. Sheehan filed a brief for the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees as amicus curiae urging reversal.
William C. Heuer filed a brief for the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys et al. as amici curiae urging affirmance.
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No. 09–6338, Dillon v. United States
Argued March 30, 2010
Lisa B. Freeland argued the cause for petitioner. With her on the briefs were Renee D. Pietropaolo, Michael J. Novara, and Peter R. Moyers.
Leondra R. Kruger argued the cause for the United States. With her on the brief were Solicitor General Kagan, Assistant Attorney General Breuer, Deputy Solicitor General Dreeben, and Deborah Watson.
Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the Federal Public and Community Defenders et al. by Amy Baron-Evans, Michael C. Holley, Jennifer Niles Coffin, Paul M. Rashkind, Frances H. Pratt, and Brett G. Sweitzer; and for the Washington Legal Foundation by Daniel J. Popeo, Cory L. Andrews, and Mark Osler.
David C. Frederick and Joseph S. Hall filed a brief for the United States Sentencing Commission as amicus curiae urging affirmance.