No. 08–1498, Holder, Attorney General, et al. v. Humanitarian Law Project et al.; and
No. 09–89, Humanitarian Law Project et al. v. Holder, Attorney General, et al.

Argued February 23, 2010

            David D. Cole argued the cause for petitioners in No. 09–89 and respondents in No. 08–1498.  With him on the briefs were Shayana Kadidal, Jules Lobel, Richard G. Taranto, Carol Sobel, Paul Hoffman, and Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran.

            Solicitor General Kagan argued the cause for respondents in No. 09–89 and petitioners in No. 08–1498.  With her on the briefs were Assistant Attorney General West, Deputy Solicitor General Katyal, Jeffrey B. Wall, and Douglas N. Letter.

                Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal in No. 08–1498 were filed for the Anti-Defamation League by David M. Raim, Steven M. Freeman, Michael Lieberman, and Steven C. Sheinberg; for the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law by Michael Y. Scudder, Jr., and Anthony S. Barkow; and for the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence et al. by John C. Eastman, Edwin Meese III, and David B. Rivkin, Jr.

            Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal in No. 08–1498 and affirmance in No. 09–89 were filed for Scholars, Attorneys, and Former Public Officials with Experience in Terrorism-Related Issues by Bradford A. Berenson and Peter Margulies; and for Major General John D. Altenburg, U. S. Army (Ret.) et al. by Daniel J. Popeo and Richard A. Samp.

            Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance in No. 08–1498 and reversal in No. 09–89 were filed for the Carter Center et al. by Melissa Goodman, Steven R. Shapiro, and Jameel Jaffer; and for Victims of the McCarthy Era by John A. Freedman, Sara K. Pildis, and Stephen F. Rohde.

            Briefs of amici curiae were filed in both cases for Academic Researchers et al. by Burt Neuborne, Elizabeth Goitein, David Udell, and Sidney S. Rosdeitcher; and for the Constitution Project et al. by David M. Gossett, Sharon Bradford Franklin, and John W. Whitehead.

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Argued April 26, 2010

            Robert F. Friedman argued the cause for petitioner.  With him on the briefs were Edward F. Berbarie, Henry D. Lederman, Carter G. Phillips, Michael T. Garone, Ronald D. DeMoss, Andrew Trusevich, and Mary Harokopus.

            Ian E. Silverberg argued the cause for respondent.  With him on the brief were Del Hardy, Scott L. Nelson, Deepak Gupta, F. Paul Bland, Jr., Matthew Wessler, Amy Radon, Arthur H. Bryant, Leslie A. Bailey, and Leslie A. Brueckner.

                Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America by Donald M. Falk, Archis A. Parasharami, Robin S. Conrad, and Shane Brennan Kawka; for the Equal Employment Advisory Council by Rae T. Vann and Ann Elizabeth Reesman; and for the Pacific Legal Foundation by Deborah J. La Fetra and Timothy Sandefur.

Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the American Association for Justice et al. by Jeffrey R. White and Julie Nepveu; for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations by Lynn K. Rhinehart, James B. Coppess, and Laurence S. Gold; for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law et al. by Michael L. Foreman, Sarah C. Crawford, Vincent A. Eng, Elizabeth B. Wydra, and Dina Lassow; for the National Association of Consumer Advocates by Michael J. Quirk and Ira Rheingold; for the National Consumer Law Center et al. by Stuart T. Rossman and Patricia T. Sturdevant; for Professional Arbitrator Roger I. Abrams et al. by Kevin K. Russell; and for the Service Employees International Union et al. by Michael Rubin, Shelley A. Gregory, Rebecca M. Hamburg, Cliff Palefsky, Catherine Ruckelshaus, and Terisa E. Chaw.

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No. 08–1553, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd. et al. v. Regal-Beloit Corp. et al.; and
No. 08–1554, Union Pacific Railroad Co. v. Regal-Beloit Corp. et al.

Argued March 24, 2010

            J. Scott Ballenger argued the cause for petitioners in both cases.  On the briefs in No. 08–1553 were Kathleen M. Sullivan, Daniel H. Bromberg, John P. Meade, and Alan Nakazawa.  With Mr. Ballenger on the briefs in No. 08–1554 were Maureen E. Mahoney, Lori Alvino McGill, J. Michael Hemmer, and Leslie McMurray.

            Anthony A. Yang 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 Kneedler, and Michael Jay Singer.

            David C. Frederick argued the cause for respondents in both cases.  With him on the brief were Brendan J. Crimmins, Dennis A. Cammarano, and Erin Glenn Busby.

Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal in both cases were filed for the Association of American Railroads by Daniel Saphire; for the International Group of Protection and Indemnity Clubs et al. by Chester Douglas Hooper and William P. Byrne; and for the World Shipping Council by Marc J. Fink and John W. Butler.

            David T. Maloof filed a brief in both cases for the Transportation & Logistics Council, Inc. et al., as amici curiae.

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No. 09–475, Monsanto Co. et al. v. Geertson Seed Farms et al.

Argued April 27, 2010

            Gregory G. Garre argued the cause for petitioners.  With him on the briefs were Maureen E. Mahoney, Richard P. Bress, Philip J. Perry, J. Scott Ballenger, Drew C. Ensign, and B. Andrew Brown.

            Deputy Solicitor General Stewart argued the cause for the federal respondents in support of petitioners.  On the briefs were former Solicitor General Kagan, Assistant Attorney General Moreno, Deputy Solicitor General Kneedler, Sarah E. Harrington, Andrew C. Mergen, Ellen J. Durkee, and Anna T. Katselas.

            Lawrence S. Robbins argued the cause for respondents Geertson Seed Farms et al.  With him on the brief were Donald J. Russell, Alan E. Untereiner, Eva A. Temkin, George A. Kimbrell, Kevin S. Golden, and Richard J. Lazarus.

            Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the American Farm Bureau Federation et al. by Dan Himmelfarb and Jay C. Johnson; for the American Sugarbeet Growers Association et al. by Jerrold J. Ganzfried, John F. Bruce, Gilbert S. Keteltas, Christopher H. Marraro, and John F. Stanton; for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America et al. by F. William Brownell, Ryan A. Shores, Robin S. Conrad, Amar D. Sarwal, Harry M. Ng, Stacy R. Linden, Thomas Ward, and Douglas Nelson; for the Pacific Legal Foundation by M. Reed Hopper and Damien M. Schiff; and for the Washington Legal Foundation et al. by Daniel J. Popeo, Cory L. Andrews, and Kevin T. Haroff.

            Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the Arkansas Rice Growers Association et al. by Richard Drury; for CROPP Cooperative et al. by Stephanie Tai and Dennis M. Grzezinski; for the Union of Concerned Scientists et al. by Deborah A. Sivas; and for Dinah Bear et al. by Hope M. Babcock.

Briefs of amici curiae were filed for the State of California ex rel. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., et al. by Mr. Brown, Attorney General, pro se, Matt Rodriquez, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gordon Burns, Deputy State Solicitor General, Ken Alex, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Sally Magnani, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Susan S. Fiering, Deputy Attorney General, for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by Martha Coakley, Attorney General, and Seth Schofield, Assistant Attorney General, and for the State of Oregon by John R. Kroger, Attorney General; for the Defenders of Wildlife et al. by Eric R. Glitzenstein and Howard M. Crystal; and for the Natural Resources Defense Council et al. by Allison M. LaPlante and Nathaniel S. W. Lawrence.

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No. 09–559, Doe et al. v. Reed, Secretary of State of Washington, et al.

Argued April 28, 2010

            James Bopp, Jr., argued the cause for petitioners.  With him on the briefs were Richard E. Coleson and Sarah E. Troupis.

            Robert M. McKenna, Attorney General of Washington, argued the cause for respondents.  With him on the brief for respondent Sam Reed were Maureen Hart, Solicitor General, and William Berggren Collins and Anne Elizabeth Egeler, Deputy Solicitors General.  Leslie R. Weatherhead filed a brief for respondent Washington Coalition for Open Government.  Kevin J. Hamilton, Nicholas P. Gellert, and Amanda J. Beane filed a brief for respondent Washington Families Standing Together.

                        Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the Alliance Defense Fund by Casey Mattox; for the American Center for Law and Justice by Jay Alan Sekulow, Stuart J. Roth, Colby M. May, James M. Henderson, John P. Tuskey, and Laura B. Hernandez; for the American Civil Rights Union by Peter Ferrara; for the Center for Competitive Politics by Stephen M. Hoersting; for the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence by Anthony T. Caso and Edwin Meese III; for the Committee for Truth in Politics et al. by Heidi K. Abegg and Alan P. Dye; for Common Sense for Oregon et al. by Ross A. Day and Kevin L. Mannix; for Concerned Women for America by Sharon F. Blakeney and Kathleen Cassidy Goodman; for the Electronic Privacy Information Center et al. by Marc Rotenberg; for the Free Speech Defense and Education Fund, Inc., et al. by Herbert W. Titus, William J. Olson, John S. Miles, Mark B. Weinberg, and Gary G. Kreep; for the Institute for Justice by William H. Mellor, Steven M. Simpson, and Robert P. Frommer; for the Justice and Freedom Fund by James L. Hirsen and Deborah J. Dewart; for Liberty Counsel by Mathew D. Staver, Anita L. Staver, Stephen M. Crampton, and Mary E. McAlister; for ProtectMarriage.com–Yes on 8, A Project of California Renewal, by Charles J. Cooper and Jesse M. Panuccio; and for Voters Want More Choices by Stuart Gerson and Shawn Timothy Newman.

            Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the State of Ohio et al. by Richard Cordray, Attorney General of Ohio, Benjamin C. Mizer, Solicitor General, Elisabeth A. Long, Deputy Solicitor, and Samuel Peterson, Assistant Solicitor General, and by the Attorneys General for their respective States as follows: Terry Goddard of Arizona, John W. Suthers of Colorado, Bill McCollum of Florida, Lawrence G. Wasden of Idaho, Lisa Madigan of Illinois, Janet T. Mills of Maine, Douglas F. Gansler of Maryland, Martha Coakley of Massachusetts, Jim Hood of Mississippi, Steve Bullock of Montana, Michael A. Delaney of New Hampshire, Paula T. Dow of New Jersey, Gary K. King of New Mexico, Wayne Stenehjem of North Dakota, W. A. Drew Edmondson of Oklahoma, John R. Kroger of Oregon, Henry McMaster of South Carolina, Marty J. Jackley of South Dakota, Robert E. Cooper, Jr., of Tennessee, Mark L. Shurtleff of Utah, William H. Sorrell of Vermont,and J. B. Van Hollen of Wisconsin; for American Business Media et al. by Christopher A. Mohr and Michael R. Klipper; for Direct Democracy Scholar Daniel A. Smith et al. by Joseph E. Sandler; for the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., et al. by William M. Hohengarten, Gary D. Buseck, Mary L. Bonauto, Jon W. Davidson, Susan Sommer, Shannon Minter, and Christopher F. Stoll; for the National and Washington State News Publishers et al. by Bruce E. H. Johnson, Richard A. Bernstein, Kevin M. Goldberg, Dale M. Cohen, Richard J. Tofel, Karlene W. Goller, and Eric N. Lieberman; for the National Conference of State Legislatures et al. by Richard Ruda, Charles A. Rothfeld, Andrew J. Pincus, and Scott L. Shuchart; and for the Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus et al. by Jonathan M. Albano.

            Briefs of amici curiae were filed for the Brennan Center for Justice et al. by M. Devereux Chatillon, Mark P. Johnson, and Monica Youn; for the Cato Institute by Glenn M. Willard, John C. Hilton, and Ilya Shapiro; for the City of Seattle by Peter S. Holmes and John B. Schochet; and for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press et al. by Lucy A. Dalglish, Gregg P. Leslie, Tonda F. Rush, René P. Milam, Bruce W. Sanford, Bruce D. Brown, and Laurie A. Babinski.

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No. 08–1191, Morrison et al. v. National Australia Bank Ltd. et al.

Argued March 29, 2010

            Thomas A. Dubbs argued the cause for petitioners.  With him on the briefs were James W. Johnson, Barry M. Okun, and Samuel Issacharoff.

            George T. Conway III argued the cause for respondents.  With him on the briefs were John F. Lynch, Carrie M. Reilly, Eric Seiler, and A. Graham Allen.

            Matthew D. Roberts argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae in support of respondents.  With him on the brief were Solicitor General Kagan, Deputy Solicitor General Stewart, David M. Becker, Mark D. Cahn, Jacob H. Stillman, Mark Pennington, and William K. Shirey.

                Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for Alecta pensionsförsäkring, ömsesidigt et al. by Max W. Berger; and for Mn Services Vermogensbeheer B. V., et al. by Eric Alan Isaacson and Randi D. Bandman.

Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the Competitive Enterprise Institute by Sam Kazman; for the European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. N. V., et al. by Ira M. Feinberg and John A. Redmon; for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Donald I. Baker and W. Todd Miller; for Infineon Technologies AG by Deanne E. Maynard and Brian R. Matsui; for the Institute of International Bankers et al. by Paul A. Engelmayer, Louis R. Cohen, and Ali M. Stoeppelwerth; for the International Chamber of Commerce et al. by Andrew J. Pincus and Alex C. Lakatos; for Law Professor Richard W. Painter et al. by Douglas W. Dunham and Ellen P. Quackenbos; for NYSE Euronext by Richard A. Martin, Patryk J. Chudy, Warrington Parker, and Holly K. Kulka; for Professors and Students of the Yale Law School Capital Markets and Financial Instruments Clinic by Jonathan R. Macey; for the Republic of France by Stephen J. Marzen and Wendy E. Ackerman; for the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association et al. by Deborah M. Buell, Meredith Kotler, Lauren L. Peacock, and Jorge G. Tenreiro; for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland by John E. Beerbower; and for the Washington Legal Foundation by Nicholas I. Porritt, Daniel J. Popeo, and Cory L. Andrews.

            Briefs of amici curiae were filed for the Australian Shareholders’ Association et al. by Allyn Z. Lite and Joseph J. DePalma; and for the Organization for International Investment by David M. Rice, Matthew J. Kemner, and Troy M. Yoshino.

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No. 08–1214, Granite Rock Co.  v.  International Brotherhood of Teamsters et al.

Argued January 19, 2010

            Garry G. Mathiason argued the cause for petitioner.  With him on the briefs were Alan S. Levins, Adam J. Peters, Rachelle L. Wills, Sofija Anderson, and Arthur R. Miller.

            Robert Bonsall argued the cause for respondent Teamsters Local 287.  With him on the brief were Duane B. Beeson and David Rosenfeld.  Peter D. Nussbaum argued the cause for respondent International Brotherhood of Teamsters.  With him on the brief were Stephen P. Berzon and Peder J. V. Thoreen.

                Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the Center on National Labor Policy, Inc., et al. by Michael E. Avakian and Quentin Riegel; and for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America by Andrew J. Pincus, Evan M. Tager, Robin S. Conrad, Shane Brennan Kawka, and Amar D. Sarwal.

            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.

            William Bevan III, David J. Bird, and Michael E. Kennedy filed a brief for the Associated General Contractors of America, Inc., as amicus curiae.

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No. 09–158, Magwood v. Patterson, Warden, et al.

Argued March 24, 2010

            Jeffrey L. Fisher, by appointment of the Court, 558 U. S. ___, argued the cause for petitioner.  With him on the briefs were Pamela S. Karlan, Amy Howe, Kevin K. Russell, James A. Power, Jr., Marguerite Del Valle, and Thomas C. Goldstein.

            Corey L. Maze, Solicitor General of Alabama argued the cause for respondents.  With him on the brief were Troy King, Attorney General, and Beth Jackson Hughes and J. Clayton Crenshaw, Assistant Attorneys General.

            John H. Blume, Keir M. Weyble, Timothy K. Ford, Henry A. Martin, and Jonathan D. Hacker filed a brief for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers et al. as amici curiae urging reversal.

            A brief of amici curiae urging affirmance was filed for the State of South Carolina et al. by Henry D. McMaster, Attorney General of South Carolina, John W. McIntosh, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Donald J. Zelenka, Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Melody J. Brown, Assistant Attorney General, and Dan Schweitzer, by Kevin T. Kane, Chief State’s Attorney of Connecticut, and by the Attorneys General for their respective States as follows: John W. Suthers of Colorado, Joseph R. Biden III of Delaware, Bill McCollum of Florida, Lawrence G. Wasden of Idaho, Steve Six of Kansas, Jack Conway of Kentucky, James D. “Buddy” Caldwell of Louisiana, Jim Hood of Mississippi, Steve Bullock  of Montana, Jon Bruning of Nebraska, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Gary K. King of New Mexico, Wayne Stenehjem of North Dakota, W. A. Drew Edmondson of Oklahoma, Thomas W. Corbett, Jr., of Pennsylvania, Marty J. Jackley of South Dakota, Greg Abbott of Texas, Mark L. Shurtleff of Utah, Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II of Virginia, Robert M. McKenna of Washington, and Bruce A. Salzburg of Wyoming.

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No. 08–1394, Skilling v. United States

Argued March 1, 2010

            Sri Srinivasan argued the cause for petitioner.  With him on the briefs were Walter Dellinger, Jonathan D. Hacker, Irving L. Gornstein, Daniel M. Petrocelli, M. Randall Oppenheimer, Matthew T. Kline, and David J. Marroso.

            Deputy Solicitor General Dreeben argued the cause for the United States.  With him on the brief were Solicitor General Kagan, Acting Assistant Atttorney General Raman, former Assistant Attorney General Breuer, Nina Goodman, David A. O’Neil, Joel Gershowitz, and Kevin Gingras.

                Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America by Lawrence S. Robbins, Daniel R. Walfish, Robin S. Conrad, and Amar D. Sarwal; for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers by John D. Cline, Barbara E. Bergman, and Thomas A. Hagemann; and for the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association et al. by Jeffrey T. Green and Sarah O’Rourke Schrup.

            Briefs of amici curiae were filed for ABC, Inc., et al. by David A. Schulz, Steven D. Zansberg, Richard A. Bernstein, Peter Scheer, Eve Burton, Jonathan Donnellan, Stephen J. Burns, Lucy A. Dalglish, Gregg P. Leslie, and Eric N. Lieberman; for the Pacific Legal Foundation et al. by Deborah J. La Fetra, Timothy Sandefur, Timothy Lynch, and Ilya Shapiro; and for Thomas Rybicki by Edward L. Larsen.

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No. 08–876, Black et al. v. United States

Argued December 8, 2009

            Miguel A. Estrada argued the cause for petitioners.  With him on the briefs were David Debold, Richard A. Greenberg, Gustave H. Newman, Steven Y. Yurowitz, Ronald S. Safer, Patricia Brown Holmes, Neil Lloyd, and Michael E. Swartz.

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

                Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America by Lawrence S. Robbins, Daniel R. Walfish, Robin S. Conrad, and Amar D. Sarwal; and for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers et al. by Jonathan L. Marcus, Barbara E. Bergman, Barry A. Bohrer, and Alexandra A. E. Shapiro.

Briefs of amici curiae were filed for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington by Anne L. Weismann and Melanie Sloan; and for Jeffrey K. Skilling by Daniel M. Petrocelli, M. Randall Oppenheimer, Walter Dellinger, Jonathan D. Hacker, and Irving L. Gornstein.

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No. 08–1196, Weyhrauch v. United States

Argued December 8, 2009

            Donald B. Ayer argued the cause for petitioner.  With him on the briefs were Douglas Pope, Brian J. Murray, and Nicole C. H. Massey.

            Deputy Solicitor General Dreeben argued the cause for the United States.  With him on the brief were Solicitor General Kagan, Assistant Attorney General Breuer, and Anthony A. Yang.

                Abbe David Lowell, Paul M. Thompson, and Jeffrey W. Mikoni filed a brief for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as amicus curiae urging reversal.

            Albert W. Alschuler, pro se, filed a brief as amicus curiae.