No. 06–413, Uttecht, Superintendent, Washington State Penitentiary v. Brown

 

Argued April 17, 2007

 

            John J. Samson, Assistant Attorney General of Washington, argued the cause for petitioner.  With him on the briefs were Robert M. McKenna, Attorney General, Paul D. Weisser, Senior Counsel, and William Berggren Collins and Jay D. Geck, Deputy Solicitors General.

 

            Deputy Solicitor General Dreeben argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging reversal.  With him on the brief were Solicitor General Clement, Assistant Attorney General Fisher, and Sri Srinivasan.

 

            Suzanne Lee Elliott, by appointment of the Court, 549 U. S. ___, argued the cause for respondent.  With her on the brief was Gilbert H. Levy.

 

            A brief of amici curiae urging reversal was filed for the State of Oregon et al. by Hardy Myers, Attorney General of Oregon, Mary Williams, Solicitor General, Rolf Moan, Assistant Attorney General, and Dan Schweitzer, and by the Attorneys General for their respective States as follows: Dustin McDaniel of Arkansas, Edmund G. Brown, Jr., of California, John W. Suthers of Colorado, Joseph R. Biden III of Delaware, Lawrence G. Wasden of Idaho, Lisa Madigan of Illinois, Steve Carter of Indiana, Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon of Missouri, Mike McGrath of Montana, Jon Bruning of Nebraska, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Kelly A. Ayotte of New Hampshire, Gary G. King of New Mexico, Marc Dann of Ohio, W. A. Drew Edmondson of Oklahoma, Thomas W. Corbett, Jr., of Pennsylvania, Henry D. McMaster of South Carolina, Lawrence E. Long of South Dakota, Greg Abbott of Texas, Mark L. Shurtleff of Utah, Robert F. McDonnell of Virginia, and Patrick J. Crank of Wyoming.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the American Civil Liberties Union et al. by John Holdridge, Brian W. Stull, Steven R. Shapiro, and Larry Yackle; and for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers by Amy Howe, Kevin K. Russell, Thomas C. Goldstein, Jeffrey L. Fisher, Pamela S. Karlan, and Susan Rozelle.

 

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No. 06–84, Safeco Insurance Company of America et al. v. Burr et al.; and

No. 06–100, GEICO General Insurance Co. et al v. Edo

 

Argued January 16, 2007

 

            Maureen E. Mahoney argued the cause for petitioners in both cases.  On the briefs in No. 06–84 were Michael K. Kellogg, Sean A. Lev, Michael P. Kenny, Cari K. Dawson, Susan H. Ephron, and Lisa E. Lear.  With Ms. Mahoney on the briefs in No. 06–100 were Richard P. Bress, Robert D. Allen, Meloney Cargil Perry, Jay F. Utley, and Brandon P. Long.

 

            Patricia A. Millett argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae in both cases.  With her on the brief were Solicitor General Clement, Deputy Solicitor General Hungar, John F. Daly, and Lawrence DeMille-Wagman.

 

            Scott A. Shorr argued the cause for respondents in both cases.  With him on the brief were Robert A. Shlachter, Steve D. Larson, and Scott L. Nelson.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal in both cases were filed for the American Insurance Association by Seth P. Waxman, Noah A. Levine, J. Stephen Zielezienski, and Allan J. Stein; for the Consumer Data Industry Association by Anne P. Fortney; for Farmers Insurance Co. of Oregon et al. by Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr., Gail E. Lees, Mark A. Perry, William E. Thomson, Christopher Chorba, Barnes H. Ellis, and James N. Westwood; for the Financial Services Roundtable et al. by L. Richard Fischer, Beth S. Brinkmann, Seth M. Galanter, Robin S. Conrad, and Shane Brennan; for Ford Motor Co. by David G. Leitch, John M. Thomas, Walter Dellinger, and Matthew M. Shors; for the Freedomworks Foundation by Gene C. Schaerr, Steffen N. Johnson, and Linda T. Coberly; for Mortgage Insurance Cos. of America et al. by Thomas M. Hefferon, Richard M. Wyner, Joseph F. Yenouskas, and Jeremiah S. Buckley; for the National Association of Mutual Insurance Cos. by Sheila L. Birnbaum, Barbara Wrubel, Douglas W. Dunham, and Ellen P. Quackenbos; for the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America by Susan M. Popik and Merri A. Baldwin; for Trans Union LLC by Michael O’Neil and Roger L. Longtin; and for the Washington Legal Foundation by Daniel J. Popeo and Richard A. Samp.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance in both cases were filed for the State of Oregon et al. by Hardy Myers, Attorney General of Oregon, Peter Shepherd, Deputy Attorney General, Mary H. Williams, Solicitor General, and Kaye E. McDonald, Assistant Attorney General, by Eugene A. Adams, Interim Attorney General of the District of Columbia, and by the Attorneys General for their respective States as follows: Terry Goddard of Arizona, Mike Beebe of Arkansas, Carl C. Danberg of Delaware, Mark J. Bennett of Hawaii, Lisa Madigan of Illinois, Tom Miller of Iowa, J. Joseph Curran, Jr., of Maryland, Mike Hatch of Minnesota, Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon of Missouri, Mike McGrath of Montana, Eliot Spitzer of New York, Jim Petro of Ohio, W. A. Drew Edmondson of Oklahoma, Henry McMaster of South Carolina, Larry Long of South Dakota, Robert E. Cooper, Jr., of Tennessee, Mark L. Shurtleff of Utah, William H. Sorrell of Vermont, Darrell V. McGraw, Jr., of West Virginia, Peggy A. Lautenschlager of Wisconsin, and Patrick J. Crank of Wyoming; for Insurance Commissioners of the State of Delaware et al. by Patrick T. Ryan, Jeanie Kunkle Vaudt, Assistant Attorney General of Iowa, John W. Campbell, John H. Clough, Michael W. Ridgeway, Rob McKenna, Attorney General of Washington, and Christina Beusch, Assistant Attorney General of Washington; and for the National Consumer Law Center, Inc., et al. by Richard J. Rubin, Joanne S. Faulkner, and Elizabeth D. De Armond.

 

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No. 06–531, Sole, Secretary, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, et al. v. Wyner et al.

 

Argued April 17, 2007

 

            Virginia A. Seitz argued the cause for petitioners.  With her on the briefs were Carri S. Leininger and James O. Williams, Jr.

 

            Patricia A. Millett argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging reversal.  With her on the brief were Solicitor General Clement, Deputy Solicitor General Garre, Michael Jay Singer, and Michael E. Robinson.

 

            Seth M. Galanter argued the cause for respondents.  With him on the brief were Beth S. Brinkmann, Randall C. Marshall, James K. Green, and Steven R. Shapiro.

 

                        Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the Commonwealth of Virginia et al. by Robert F. McDonnell, Attorney General of Virginia, William C. Mims, Chief Deputy Attorney General, William E. Thro, State Solicitor General, Stephen R. McCullough, Deputy State Solicitor General, and Dan Schweitzer, by Roberto J. Sánchez-Ramos, Secretary of Justice of Puerto Rico, and by the Attorneys General for their respective States as follows: Troy King of Alabama, Talis J. Colberg of Alaska, Terry Goddard of Arizona, Dustin McDaniel of Arkansas, John W. Suthers of Colorado, Thurbert E. Baker of Georgia, Mark J. Bennett of Hawaii, Lisa Madigan of Illinois, Steve Carter of Indiana, Mike Cox of Michigan, Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon of Missouri, George J. Chanos of Nevada, Kelly A. Ayotte of New Hampshire, Wayne Stenehjem of North Dakota, Thomas W. Corbett, Jr., of Pennsylvania, Henry McMaster of South Carolina, Larry Long of South Dakota, Robert E. Cooper, Jr., of Tennessee, Mark L. Shurtleff of Utah, Robert M. McKenna of Washington, Darrell V. McGraw, Jr., of West Virginia, J. B. Van Hollen of Wisconsin, and Patrick J. Crank of Wyoming; and for the National League of Cities et al. by Richard Ruda and Lawrence Rosenthal.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for Americans United for Separation of Church and State et al. by Andrew J. Pincus, Charles A. Rothfeld, Dana Berliner, John W. Whitehead, Giovanna Shay, Ayesha N. Khan, Richard B. Katskee, Alex J. Luchenitser, Ronald A. Lindsay, Brian Wolfman, Steven Schwartz, and Judith E. Schaeffer; for the Brennan Center for Justice by Laura W. Brill and Wendy R. Weiser; for the Center for Individual Rights by Michael E. Rosman; and for the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity et al. by Catherine R. Albiston.

 

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No. 06–5618, Claiborne v. United States

 

Argued February 20, 2007

 

            Michael Dwyer argued the cause for petitioner.  With him on the briefs were Lee T. Lawless and David Hemingway.

 

            Deputy Solicitor General Dreeben argued the cause for the United States.  With him on the brief were Solicitor General Clement, Assistant Attorney General Fisher, Dan Himmelfarb, Matthew D. Roberts, Nina Goodman, and Jeffrey P. Singdahlsen.

 

                        Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for Families Against Mandatory Minimums by Gregory L. Poe, Mary Price, and Peter Goldberger; for Federal Public and Community Defenders et al. Thomas W. Hillier II, Amy Baron-Evans, Laura E. Mate, and Sara E. Noonan; for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers by Miguel A. Estrada, David Debold, and Jeffrey L. Fisher; for the New York Council of Defense Lawyers by Alexandra A. E. Shapiro and Paul H. Schwartz; for the Sentencing Project et al. by Matthew M. Shors and Pammela Quinn; and for the Washington Legal Foundation et al. by Daniel J. Popeo and Paul D. Kamenar.

 

            Robert E. Toone and Katherine J. Fick filed a brief for Senator Edward M. Kennedy et al. as amici curiae urging affirmance.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae were filed for Law Professors Who Study Sentencing Reform by Edward S. Lee; and for the United States Sentencing Commission by David C. Frederick and Pamela O. Barron.

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No. 05–1448, Beck, Liquidating Trustee of the Estates of Crown Vantage, Inc., et al. v. PACE International Union et al.

 

Argued April 24, 2007

 

            M. Miller Baker argued the cause for petitioner.  With him on the briefs were David E. Rogers, Wilber H. Boies, and Michael T. Graham.

 

            Matthew D. Roberts argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging reversal.  With him on the brief were Solicitor General Clement, Deputy Solicitor General Kneedler, Jonathan L. Snare, Edward D. Sieger, Israel Goldowitz, and Karen L. Morris.

 

            Julia Penny Clark argued the cause for respondents.  With her on the brief were Laurence Gold, Douglas L. Greenfield, Leon Dayan, and Christian L. Raisner.

 

            A brief of amici curiae urging reversal was filed for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America et al. by W. Stephen Cannon, Raymond C. Fay, Laura C. Fentonmiller, James J. Keightley, Harold J. Ashner, and Shane Brennan.

 

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No. 06–5247, Fry v. Pliler, Warden

 

Argued March 20, 2007

 

            Victor S. Haltom, by appointment of the Court, 549 U. S. ___, argued the cause for petitioner.  With him on the briefs was John R. Duree, Jr.

 

            Ross C. Moody, Deputy Attorney General of California, argued the cause for respondent.  With him on the brief were Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Manuel M. Medeiros, State Solicitor General, Gerald A. Engler, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Donald E. de Nicola, Deputy Solicitor General, and Peggy S. Ruffra, Supervising Deputy Attorney General.

 

            Patricia A. Millett argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging affirmance.  On the brief were Solicitor General Clement, Assistant Attorney General Fisher, Deputy Solicitor General Dreeben, Jonathan L. Marcus, and Joel M. Gershowitz.

 

            Lori R. E. Ploeger, Maureen P. Alger, and Matthew D. Brown filed a brief for the Innocence Network as amicus curiae urging reversal.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the State of Missouri et al. by Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon, Attorney General of Missouri, James R. Layton, State Solicitor, and Heidi C. Doerhoff and Ronald S. Ribaudo, Assistant Attorneys General, and by the Attorneys General for their respective States as follows: Troy King of Alabama, Terry Goddard of Arizona, Dustin McDaniel of Arkansas, John W. Suthers of Colorado, Joseph R. Biden III of Delaware, Mark J. Bennett of Hawaii, Lisa Madigan of Illinois, Steve Carter of Indiana, Tom Miller of Iowa, Gregory D. Stumbo of Kentucky, Michael A. Cox of Michigan, Jim Hood of Mississippi, Mike McGrath of Montana, Wayne Stenehjem of North Dakota, W. A. Drew Edmondson of Oklahoma, Henry D. McMaster of South Carolina, Lawrence E. Long of South Dakota, Greg Abbott of Texas, Mark L. Shurtleff of Utah, and Darrell V. McGraw, Jr., of West Virginia; and for the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation by Kent S. Scheidegger.

 

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No. 06–562, United States v. Atlantic Research Corp.

 

Argued April 23, 2007

 

            Deputy Solicitor General Hungar argued the cause for the United States.  With him on the brief were Solicitor General Clement, Acting Assistant Attorney General McKeown, Kannon K. Shanmugam, Ronald M. Spritzer, and Ellen J. Durkee.

 

            Owen Thomas Armstrong, Jr., argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Frank L. Steeves.

 

            Jay D. Geck, Deputy Solicitor General of Washington, argued the cause for the State of Washington et al. as amici curiae urging affirmance.  With him on the brief were Robert M. McKenna, Attorney General, Maureen Hart, Solicitor General, and Michael L. Dunning, Assistant Attorney General, Linda Singer, Acting Attorney General of the District of Columbia, Salvador J. Antonetti Stutts, Solicitor General of Puerto Rico, and the Attorneys General for their respective States as follows: Troy King of Alabama, Talis J. Colberg of Alaska, Dustin McDaniel of Arkansas, John W. Suthers of Colorado, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Bill McCollum of Florida, Thurbert E. Baker of Georgia, Mark J. Bennett of Hawaii, Lawrence G. Wasden of Idaho, Lisa Madigan of Illinois, Steve Carter of Indiana, Tom Miller of Iowa, Gregory D. Stumbo of Kentucky, Charles C. Foti, Jr., of Louisiana, Steven Rowe of Maine, Douglas F. Gansler of Maryland, Martha Coakley of Massachusetts, Michael A. Cox of Michigan, Lori Swanson of Minnesota, Jim Hood of Mississippi, Jeremiah W. Nixon of Missouri, Mike McGrath of Montana, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Kelly A. Ayotte of New Hampshire, Stuart Rabner of New Jersey, Gary K. King of New Mexico, Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, Roy Cooper of North Carolina, Wayne Stenehjem of North Dakota, Marc Dann of Ohio, Hardy Myers of Oregon, Patrick Lynch of Rhode Island, Robert E. Cooper, Jr., of Tennessee, Greg Abbott of Texas, Mark L. Shurtleff of Utah, William H. Sorrell of Vermont, and J. B. Van Hollen of Wisconsin.

 

                        Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for Cooper Industries, LLC, et al. by Dale E. Stephenson, Allen A. Kacenjar, Jay N. Varon, and G. Michael Halfenger; and for the Huron Valley Steel Corp. by Jack D. Shumate and Karen Pilat.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the City of New York by Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, Leonard J. Koerner, and Daniel Greene; for the Association of California Water Agencies et al. by Paul S. Weiland, Frederic A. Fudacz, and Alfred E. Smith; for Aviall Services, Inc., by Richard Faulk, Jeffrey M. Gaba, and Stacy R. Obenhaus; for E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Co. et al. by Mark I. Levy and William H. Hyatt, Jr.;  for Ford Motor Co. et al. by John McGahren; and for Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc., by Carter G. Phillips, Angus Macbeth, Stephen B. Kinnaird, Woody N. Peterson, Richard W. Babinecz, and Peter P. Garam; for Lockheed Martin Corp. by Miguel A. Estrada, Michael K. Murphy, Amir C. Tayrani, and James R. Buckley; for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago by Harvey M. Sheldon, Joel D. Bertocchi, Stephen R. Swofford, and Frederick M. Feldman; for the Natural Resources Defense Council et al. by Jerry S. Phillips; for the Superfund Settlements Project et al. by Michael W. Steinberg; for the United States Conference of Mayors by Paul E. Gutermann and Thomas C. Goldstein; and for Former Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency Carol M. Browner et al. by Joel M. Gross.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae were filed for Reading Co. by James C. Martin; and for James Kotrous by Jacqueline L. McDonald and Michael E. Vergara.

 

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No. 05–1284, Watson et al. v. Philip Morris Cos., Inc., et al.

 

Argued April 25, 2007

 

            David C. Frederick argued the cause for petitioners.  With him on the briefs were Mark L. Evans, Steven Eugene Cauley, James Allen Carney, and Marcus N. Bozeman.

 

            Irving L. Gornstein argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging reversal.  With him on the brief were Solicitor General Clement, Assistant Attorney General Keisler, Deputy Solicitor General Hungar, Mark B. Stern, and Dana J. Martin.

 

            Theodore B. Olson argued the cause for respondents.  With him on the brief were Mark A. Perry, Amir C. Tayrani, Murray R. Garnick, and Kenneth S. Geller.

                       

                        Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the State of Illinois et al. by Lisa Madigan, Attorney General of Illinois, Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, and Michael Scodro, Deputy Solicitor General, by Linda Singer, Acting Attorney General of the District of Columbia, and by the Attorneys General for their respective States as follows: Talis J. Colberg of Alaska, Terry Goddard of Arizona, Mike Beebe of Arkansas, Edmund G. Brown, Jr., of California, John W. Suthers of Colorado, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Joseph R. Biden III of Delaware, Bill McCollum of Florida, Thurbert E. Baker of Georgia, Mark J. Bennett of Hawaii, Lawrence G. Wasden of Idaho, Steve Carter of Indiana, Tom Miller of Iowa, Paul J. Morrison of Kansas, Gregory D. Stumbo of Kentucky, Charles C. Foti, Jr., of Louisiana, G. Steven Rowe of Maine, Douglas F. Gansler of Maryland, Martha Coakley of Massachusetts, Michael A. Cox of Michigan, Lori Swanson of Minnesota, Jim Hood of Mississippi, Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon of Missouri, Mike McGrath of Montana, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Kelly A. Ayotte of New Hampshire, Stuart Rabner of New Jersey, Gary K. King of New Mexico, Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, Roy Cooper of North Carolina, Wayne Stenehjem of North Dakota, Marc Dann of Ohio, W. A. Drew Edmondson of Oklahoma, Hardy Myers of Oregon, Thomas W. Corbett, Jr., of Pennsylvania, Patrick Lynch of Rhode Island, Henry McMaster of South Carolina, Lawrence E. Long of South Dakota, Robert E. Cooper, Jr., of Tennessee, Mark L. Shurtleff of Utah, William H. Sorrell of Vermont, Robert F. McDonnell of Virginia, Robert M. McKenna of Washington, Darrell V. McGraw, Jr., of West Virginia, J. B. Van Hollen of Wisconsin, and Patrick J. Crank of Wyoming; for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids et al. by Matthew L. Myers; for Public Citizen, Inc., et al. by Scott L. Nelson, Brian Wolfman, Stacy Canan, Bruce Vignery, and Michael Schuster; and for Public Justice, P. C., et al. by Gerson H. Smoger, Esther E. Berezofsky, Michael J. Quirk, Arthur H. Bryant, Leslie A. Brueckner, and Jeffrey R. White.

 

            Michael S. Fried and Christian G. Vergonis filed a brief for Former Commissioners and Senior Staff of the Federal Trade Commission as amici curiae urging affirmance.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae were filed for the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association by Anthony F. Shelley; for Defense Contractors et al. by Seth P. Waxman, Stephen W. Preston, Paul R. Q. Wolfson, and John P. Janecek; and for the Washington Legal Foundation by Katharine R. Latimer, Rebecca A. Womeldorf, Michael L. Junk, Daniel J. Popeo, and Paul D. Kamenar.

 

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No. 06–593, Long Island Care at Home, Ltd., et al. v. Coke

 

Argued April 16, 2007

 

            H. Bartow Farr III argued the cause for petitioners.  With him on the briefs were Richard G. Taranto and Daniel S. Alter.

 

            David B. Salmons argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging reversal.  With him on the brief were Solicitor General Clement, Deputy Solicitor General Kneedler, Jonathan L. Snare, Steven J. Mandel, and Edward D. Sieger.

 

            Harold Craig Becker argued the cause for respondent.  With him on the brief was Michael Shen.

 

 

                        Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the City of New York et al. by Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, Stephen J. A. Acquario, Leonard J. Koerner, and Susan Choi-Hausman; for the Continuing Care Leadership Coaltion, Inc. et al. by Peter G. Bergmann, Kathy H. Chin, Aaron J. Schindel, John Longstreth, Joel L. Hodes, and Ellen M. Bach; for the National Association for Home Care & Hospice, Inc., by William A. Dombi; and for the National Private Duty Association by Trenten P. Bausch.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for AARP et al. by Stacy Canan, Bruce Vignery, and Michael Schuster; for the Alliance for Retired Americans et al. by Jonathan P. Hiatt, James B. Coppess, Patrick J. Szymanski, and Carol R. Golubock; for Law Professors et al. by James Reif; and for the Urban Justice Center et al. by David T. Goldberg.

 

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No. 05–1589, Davenport et al. v. Washington Education Assn.; and

No. 05–1657, Washington v. Washington Education Assn.

 

Argued January 10, 2007

 

            Robert M. McKenna, Attorney General of Washington, argued the cause for petitioners in both cases.  With him on the briefs in No. 05–1657 were Maureen A. Hart, Solicitor General, William Berggren Collins, Deputy Solicitor General, Linda A. Dalton, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and D. Thomas Wendel, Assistant Attorney General.  Milton L. Chappell, Glenn M. Taubman, and Steven T. O’Ban filed briefs for petitioners in No. 05–1589.

 

            Solicitor General Clement argued the cause for the United States in both cases as amicus curiae urging reversal.  With him on the brief were Assistant Attorney General Keisler, Deputy Solicitor General Garre, Daryl Joseffer, Douglas N. Letter, August E. Flentje, Lawrence H. Norton, Richard B. Bader, David Kolker, Steve N. Hajjar, and Howard M. Radzely.

 

             John M. West argued the cause for respondent in both cases.  With him on the briefs were Jeremiah A. Collins, Laurence S. Gold, Judith A. Lonnquist, and Harriet Strasberg.

 

                        Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal in both cases were filed for American Educators by Robert K. Kelner, Keith A. Noreika, and Michael E. Paulhus; for the American Legislative Exchange Council by Donald M. Falk; for the Campaign Legal Center by Trevor Potter, J. Gerald Hebert, and Paul S. Ryan; for the Cato Institute et al. by Erik S. Jaffe and Manuel S. Klausner; for the Evergreen Freedom Foundation et al. by Eric B. Martin and

Harry J. F. Korrell; for the Institute for Justice by William R. Maurer and William H. Mellor; for the National Federation of Independent Business Legal Foundation by James Bopp, Jr., and Richard E. Coleson; and for the Pacific Legal Foundation by Deborah J. La Fetra and Timothy Sandefur.

 

                Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal in No. 05–1657 were filed for the State of Colorado et al. by John W. Suthers, Attorney General of Colorado, Daniel D. Domenico, Solicitor General, and Jason Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, and by the Attorneys General for their respective States as follows: Troy King of Alabama, Lawrence G. Wasden of Idaho, Jim Petro of Ohio, Mark L. Shurtleff of Utah, and Robert F. McDonnell of Virginia; for the Mountain States Legal Foundation by William Perry Pendley; and for the Religious Objector Members of the Northwest Professional Educators by Kevin T. Snider.

 

            Jonathan P. Hiatt, Laurence E. Gold, James B. Coppess, and Patrick J. Szymanski filed a brief for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations et al. as amici curiae urging affirmance in both cases.

 

            Patrick J. Wright filed a brief for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy as amicus curiae in both cases.

 

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No. 06–134, Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations et al. v. City of New York, New York

 

Argued April 24, 2007

 

            John J. P. Howley argued the cause for petitioners.  With him on the briefs were Robert A. Kandel, Steven S. Rosenthal, and David O. Bickart.

 

            Sri Srinivasan argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging reversal.  On the brief were Solicitor General Clement, Assistant Attorney General Keisler, Deputy Solicitor General Kneedler, Douglas Hallward-Driemeier, Douglas N. Letter, and Sharon Swingle.

 

            Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, argued the cause for respondent.  With him on the brief were Norman Corenthal, John R. Low-Beer, and Brad M. Synder.

 

                        A brief of amici curiae urging affirmance was filed for the International Municipal Lawyers Association et al. by Charles A. Rothfeld, Andrew J. Pincus, and Dan Kahan.

 

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No. 06–5306, Bowles v. Russell, Warden

 

Argued March 26, 2007

 

            Paul Mancino, Jr., argued the cause for petitioner.  With him on the briefs were Paul Mancino III and Brett Mancino.

 

            William P. Marshall  argued the cause for respondent.  With him on the brief were Marc Dann, Attorney General of Ohio, Elise W. Porter, Acting Solicitor General, and Stephen P. Carney, Robert J. Krummen, and Elizabeth T. Scavo, Deputy Solicitors.

 

            Malcolm L. Stewart argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging affirmance.  On the brief were Solicitor General Clement, Assistant Attorney General Keisler, Deputy Solicitor General Dreeben, Eric D. Miller, Douglas N. Letter, and Lowell V. Sturgill, Jr.

 

                        Amy Howe, Kevin K. Russell, and Jeffrey L. Fisher filed a brief for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as amicus curiae urging reversal.

 

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No. 05–85, Powerex Corp. v. Reliant Energy Services, Inc., et al.

 

Argued April 16, 2007

 

            David C. Frederick argued the cause for petitioner.  With him on the briefs was Scott H. Angstreich.

 

            Douglas H. Hallward-Driemeier argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging reversal.  With him on the brief were Solicitor General Clement, Assistant Attorney General Keisler, Deputy Solicitor General Kneedler, Mark B. Stern, and H. Thomas Byron III.

 

            Leonard B. Simon argued the cause for respondents.  With him on the brief were Pamela M. Parker and William Bernstein.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae  urging reversal were filed for the Government of Canada by Margaret K. Pfeiffer; and for the Province of British Columbia by Roy T. Englert, Jr., and Matthew R. Segal.

 

            A brief of amici curiae was filed for Arthur R. Miller et al. by Brian Wolfman and Mr. Miller, pro se.

 

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No. 06–8120, Brendlin v. California

 

Argued April 23, 2007

 

            Elizabeth M. Campbell, by appointment of the Court, 549 U. S. ___, argued the cause for petitioner.  With her on the briefs were Jeffrey T. Green, Richard A. Kaplan, and Sarah O’Rourke Schrup.

 

            Clifford E. Zall, Deputy Attorney General of California, argued the cause for respondent.  With him on the brief were Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Manuel M. Medeiros, State Solicitor General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Donald E. de Nicola, Deputy State Solicitor, Michael A. Canzoneri, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Doris A. Calandra, Deputy Attorney General.

 

                        Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the American Civil Liberties Union et al. by Steven R. Shapiro, Reginald T. Shuford, Dennis D. Parker, Susan N. Herman, Dennis Courtland Hayes, and Kenneth Kimerling; and for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers et al. by Jonathan E. Nuechterlein, Sambhav Sankar, Pamela Harris, and Frances H. Pratt.

 

            Kym L. Worthy and Timothy A. Baughman filed a brief of amicus curiae for Wayne County, Michigan, urging affirmance.

 

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No. 05–1157, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, fka Credit Suisse First Boston LLC, et al. v. Billing et al.

 

Argued March 27, 2007

 

            Stephen M. Shapiro argued the cause for petitioners.  With him on the briefs were Kenneth S. Geller, Timothy S. Bishop, John P. Schmitz, Robert B. McCaw, Louis R. Cohen, Ali M. Stoeppelwerth, Noah A. Levine, Andrew J. Frackman, Timothy J. Muris, Richard G. Parker, Carter G. Phillips, A. Robert Pietrzak, Andrew B. Clubok, Brant W. Bishop, Bradley J. Bondi, Shepard Goldfein, Preeta D. Bansal, Richard A. Cirillo, Moses Silverman, Jon R. Roellke, Jeffrey H. Drichta, Paul Gonson, Glenn R. Reichardt, Gandolfo V. DiBlasi, Penny Shane, David M. J. Rein, Randy M. Mastro, John A. Herfort, Steven Wolowitz, Gerald J. Fields, David W. Ichel, Jayma M. Meyer, John D. Donovan, Jr., and Robert G. Jones.

 

            Solicitor General Clement argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae.  With him on the brief were Assistant Attorney General Barnett, Deputy Solicitor General Hungar, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Meyer, Douglas Hallward-Driemeier, Catherine G. O’Sullivan, Nancy C. Garrison, and Richard M. Humes.

 

            Christopher Lovell argued the cause for respondents.  With him on the brief for respondent Glen Billing et al. were Gary S. Jacobson, Melvyn I. Weiss, Howard B. Sirota, Fred Taylor Isquith, J. Douglas Richards, Einer Elhauge, and Jonathan R. Macey.  Russel H. Beatie filed a brief for respondent Milton Pfeiffer.

 

                Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., by Theodore B. Olson, F. Joseph Warin, Douglas R. Cox, and Amir C. Tayrani; for NYSE Group, Inc., by Jay N. Fastow; for the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association et al. by Roy T. Englert, Jr., Gary A. Orseck, Robin S. Conrad, Amar D. Sarwal, and Robert H. Bork; for the Washington Legal Foundation by James A. Meyers, Garret G. Rasmussen, Daniel J. Popeo, and Richard A. Samp; and for W. R. Hambrecht + Co., LLC, by Paul Michael Kaplan.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the State of New York by Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General, Barbara D. Underwood, Solicitor General, Daniel Smirlock, Deputy Solicitor General, Andrew D. Bing, Assistant Solicitor General, Richard E. Grimm, and Sarah M. Hubbard, Assistant Attorney General; and for the American Antitrust Institute by Joseph Goldberg and Daniel E. Gustafson.

 

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No. 06–427, Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Assn. v. Brentwood Academy

 

Argued April 18, 2007

 

            Maureen E. Mahoney argued the cause for petitioner.  With her on the briefs were J. Scott Ballenger, Alexander Maltas, and Richard L. Colbert.

 

            Dan Himmelfarb argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging reversal.  With him on the brief were Solicitor General Clement, Assistant Attorney General Keisler, Deputy Solicitor General Garre, and Mark B. Stern.

 

            James F. Blumstein argued the cause for respondent.  With him on the brief were H. Lee Barfield II, W. Brantley Phillips, Jr., and Ross I. Booher.

 

                        Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the Arizona Interscholastic Association, Inc., et al. by James B. Gessford, Mark Mignella, Alexander Halpern, Kenneth L. Mallea, Mallory V. Mayse, Mark Geiger, and Don G. Carter; for the Boyd-Buchanan School et al. by W. Lee Maddux and Rosemarie L. Bryan; for the National Federation of State High School Associations by William E. Quirk; and for the National School Boards Association by Pamela S. Karlan, Jeffrey L. Fisher, Francisco M. Negrón, Jr., Amy Howe, Kevin K. Russell, and Thomas C. Goldstein.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the Association of Christian Schools International by Floyd Abrams; for Brentwood Academy Parents et al. by Robert M. Bastress, Jr.; for the Bridges Academy of Nashville, Tennessee, by Christopher D. Kratovil; for the Center for Education Reform and Excellent Education for Everyone by Martin S. Kaufman and Briscoe R. Smith; for the Institute for Justice by Andrew McBride and Clark M. Neily III; for the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools et al. by Christopher P. Ferragamo; for the National Women’s Law Center et al. by Virginia A. Seitz, Marcia D. Greenberger, Jocelyn F. Samuels, and Dina R. Lassow; for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nashville, Tennessee, et al. by William Bradford Reynolds; and for the Tennessee Lawyers’ Association for Women by Linda Carver Whitlow Knight.

 

            A brief of amicus curiae was filed for the National Collegiate Athletic Association by William C. Odle.

 

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No. 06–484, Tellabs, Inc., et al. v. Makor Issues & Rights, Ltd., et al.

 

Argued March 28, 2007

 

            Carter G. Phillips argued the cause for petitioners.  With him on the briefs were Richard D. Bernstein, Eamon P. Joyce, David F. Graham, and Robert N. Hochman. 

 

            Kannon K. Shanmugam argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae in support of petitioners.  With him on the brief were Solicitor General Clement, Assistant Attorney General Keisler, Deputy Solicitor General Hungar, Michael Jay Singer, John S. Koppel, Andrew N. Vollmer, Jacob H. Stillman, Luis de la Torre, and Michael L. Post.

 

            Arthur R. Miller argued the cause for respondents.  With him on the brief were Melvyn I. Weiss, Jerome M. Congress, Richard H. Weiss, and Clifford S. Goodstein.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants et al. by Theodore B. Olson, Douglas R. Cox, Mark A. Perry, and Scott A. Fink; for the New England Legal Foundation by Warren R. Stern, Martin J. Newhouse, and Michael E. Malamut; for the Pixelplus Co., Ltd., et al. by William F. Sullivan, Steven T. Catlett, Peter M. Stone, Johanna S. Wilson, and Matthew F. Stowe; for the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association et al. by Stephen M. Shapiro, Timothy S. Bishop, J. Brett Busby, Robin S. Conrad, and Amar D. Sarwal; for TechNet et al. by Brian D. Boyle and Seth Aronson; for the Washington Legal Foundation by Daniel J. Popeo, Paul D. Kamenar, Michael L. Kichline, Steven B. Feirson, and Michael J. Newman; and for Joseph A. Grundfest et al. by Louis R. Cohen, William T. Lake, Craig Goldblatt, and Robert B. McCaw.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the State of Arkansas et al. by Stanley D. Bernstein and by the Attorneys General for their respective States as follows: Dustin McDaniel of Arkansas, Martha Coakley of Massachusetts, Michael A. Cox of Michigan, Jim Hood of Mississippi, Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon of Missouri, Stuart Rabner of New Jersey, Gary K. King of New Mexico, and Patrick C. Lynch of Rhode Island; for the State of Ohio et al. by Marc Dann, Attorney General of Ohio, Elise W. Porter, Acting Solicitor General, Robert J. Krummen and Christopher R. Geidner, Deputy Solicitors, and Randall W. Knutti and Andrea L. Seidt, Assistant Attorneys General, and by the Attorneys General and Acting Attorneys General for their respective jurisdictions as follows: Talis J. Colberg of Alaska, Frederick O’Brien of American Samoa, Edmund G. Brown, Jr., of California, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Joseph R. Biden III  of Delaware, Lawrence G. Wasden of Idaho, Lisa Madigan of Illinois, Thomas J. Miller of Iowa, Douglas F. Gansler of Maryland, Lori Swanson of Minnesota, Jon Bruning of Nebraska, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Kelly A. Ayotte of New Hampshire, Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, Wayne Stenehjem of North Dakota, W. A. Drew Edmondson of Oklahoma, Hardy Myers of Oregon, Roberto J. Sánchez-Ramos of Puerto Rico, Lawrence E. Long of South Dakota, Robert E. Cooper, Jr., of Tennessee, Mark L. Shurtleff of Utah, William H. Sorrell of Vermont, and Darrell V. McGraw, Jr., of West Virginia; for the American Association for Justice by Jeffrey Robert White; for the Center for Study of Responsive Law et al. by Jonathan W. Cuneo, William H. Anderson, R. Brent Walton, and Matthew Wiener; for the German Association for the Protection of Shareholders et al. by William H. Narwold; for the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems et al. by Kevin P. Roddy; for the New York State Common Retirement Fund et al. by Max W. Berger, Jay W. Eisenhofer, Geoffrey C. Jarvis, David L. Muir, Roy A. Mongrue, Jr., and Robert D. Klausner; for the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc., by Alfred E. T. Rusch; for Regents of the University of California et al. by Sanford Svetcov, Susan K. Alexander, William S. Lerach, Patrick J. Coughlin, Joseph D. Daley, and Byron S. Georgiou; and for Allan N. Littman et al. by Mr. Littman, pro se, and William I. Edlund.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae were filed for Amalgamated Bank et al. by Patrick J. Szymanski; and for the Council of Institutional Investors by Mark C. Hansen and Priya R. Aiyar.

 

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No. 06–5754, Rita v. United States

 

Argued February 20, 2007

 

            Thomas N. Cochran argued the cause for petitioner.  With him on the briefs were Louis C. Allen III, William C. Ingram, Elizabeth A. Flagg, Jeffrey T. Green, Robert N. Hochman, and Eric A. Shumsky.

 

            Deputy Solicitor General Dreeben argued the cause for the United States.  With him on the brief were Solicitor General Clement, Assistant Attorney General Fisher, Dan Himmelfarb, Matthew D. Roberts, Nina Goodman, and Jeffrey P. Singdahlsen.

 

                Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for Families Against Mandatory Minimums by Gregory L. Poe, Mary Price, and Peter Goldberger; for Federal Public and Community Defenders et al. by Thomas W. Hillier II, Amy Baron-Evans, Laura E. Mate, and Sara E. Noonan; for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers by Miguel A. Estrada, David Debold, and Jeffrey L. Fisher; for the National Veterans Legal Services Program et al. by Louis R. Cohen and Jonathan Nuechterlein; for the New York Council of Defense Lawyers by Alexandra A. E. Shapiro and Paul H. Schwartz; for the Washington Legal Foundation et al. by Daniel J. Popeo and Paul D. Kamenar; and for Marc L. Miller et al. by Mr. Miller, pro se, Robert B. Fiske, Earl J. Silbert, and Peter Vaira.

 

            Briefs of amici curiae were filed for Law Professors Who Study Sentencing Reform by Edward S. Lee; and for the United States Sentencing Commission by David C. Frederick and Pamela O. Barron.