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No. 04-10566, Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon; and
No. 05-51 Bustillo v. Johnson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections

Argued March 29, 2006

	Peter Gartlan argued the cause for petitioner in No. 04-10566.  With
him on the briefs were Donald Francis Donovan, Carl Micarelli, and
Catherine M. Amirfar.  Mark T. Stancil argued the cause for petitioner in No.
05-51.  With him on the briefs were Jeffrey A. Lamken and John C.
Kiyonaga.

	Mary H. Williams, Solicitor General of Oregon, argued the cause for
respondent in No. 04-10566.  With her on the brief were Hardy Myers,
Attorney General, Peter Shepherd, Deputy Attorney General, and Erik
Wasmann and Benjamin R. Hartman, Assistant Attorneys General.  William
E. Thro, State Solicitor General of Virginia, argued the cause for respondent
in No. 05-51.  With him on the brief were Robert F. McDonnell, Attorney
General, Stephen R. McCullough, Assistant Attorney General, Ronald N.
Regnery and Courtney M. Malveaux, Associate State Solicitors General,
William C. Mims, Chief Deputy Attorney General, and Marla Graff Decker,
Deputy Attorney General.

	Deputy Solicitor General Garre argued the cause for the United States
as amicus curiae supporting respondents in both cases.  On the brief were
Solicitor General Clement, Assistant Attorney General Fisher, Deputy
Solicitor General Dreeben, Douglas Hallward-Driemeier, and Robert J.
Erickson.

	Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal in both cases were filed for the
Republic of Honduras et al. by Paul R. Q. Wolfson and Asim Bhansali; for the
Association of the Bar of the City of New York by Matthew D. Roberts; for Bar
Associations et al. by Kevin R. Sullivan, William J. Aceves, and Jenny S.
Martinez; and for L. Bruce Laingen et al. by Daniel C. Malone.

	Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal in No. 04-10566 were filed for
the Government of the United Mexican States by Sandra L. Babcock; and for
the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers et al. by Thomas H.
Speedy Rice.

	Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal in No. 05-51 were filed for the
American Bar Association by Michael S. Greco and Jeffrey L. Bleich; and for
the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project et al. by Seth A. Tucker.

	Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance in both cases were filed for the
State of Alabama et al. by R. Ted Cruz, Solicitor General of Texas, Greg
Abbott, Attorney General, Barry R. McBee, First Assistant Attorney General,
Don Clemmer, Deputy Attorney General, and Kristofer S. Monson, Assistant
Solicitor General, and by the Attorneys General for their respective States as
follows: Troy King of Alabama, Terry Goddard of Arizona, Mike Beebe of
Arkansas, Bill Lockyer of California, John W. Suthers of Colorado, Carl C.
Danberg of Delaware, Charles J. Crist, Jr., of Florida, Thurbert E. Baker of
Georgia, Lawrence G. Wasden of Idaho, Steve Carter of Indiana, Tom Miller of
Iowa, Tom Reilly of Massachusetts, Michael A. Cox of Michigan, Jeremiah W.
(Jay) Nixon of Missouri, Mike McGrath of Montana, George J. Chanos of
Nevada, Kelly A. Ayotte of New Hampshire, Patricia A. Madrid of New
Mexico, Wayne Stenehjem of North Dakota, Jim Petro of Ohio, W. A. Drew
Edmondson of Oklahoma, Thomas W. Corbett, Jr., of Pennsylvania, Lawrence
E. Long of South Dakota, Paul G. Summers of Tennessee, Mark L. Shurtleff
of Utah, Rob McKenna of Washington, and Patrick J. Crank of Wyoming; and
for Professors of International Law et al. by Paul B. Stephan, Samuel
Estreicher, and Eugene Theroux.

	Kent S. Scheidegger filed a brief for the Criminal Justice Foundation as
amicus curiae urging affirmance in No. 04-10566

	Briefs of amici curiae were filed in both cases for the European Union
et al. by S. Adele Shank and John B. Quigley; for the Alliance Defense Fund
by William Wagner and Benjamin W. Bull; for Former United States
Diplomats by Harold Hongju Koh; for the International Court of Justice
Experts by Lori Fisler Damrosch and Charles Owen Verrill, Jr.; and for Law
Professors by John F. Stanton and Helen K. Michael.

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No. 05-204, League of United Latin American Citizens et al. v. Perry,
	          Governor of Texas, et al.;
No. 05-254, Travis County, Texas, et al. v. Perry, Governor of Texas, et al.;
No. 05-276, Jackson et al. v. Perry, Governor of Texas, et al.; and
No. 05-439, GI Forum of Texas et al. v. Perry, Governor of Texas, et al.

Argued March 1, 2006

	Paul M. Smith argued the cause for appellants in No. 05-276.  With
him on the briefs for appellants were Sam Hirsch and J. Gerald Hebert.

	Nina Perales argued the cause for appellants in No. 05-439.  With her
on the briefs was David Herrera Urias.

	R. Ted Cruz, Solicitor General of Texas, argued the cause for the state
appellees in all cases.  With him on the brief were Greg Abbott, Attorney
General, Barry R McBee, First Assistant Attorney General, Edward D.
Burbach, Deputy Attorney General, and Don Cruse, Joel L. Thollander, and
Adam W. Aston, Assistant Solicitors General.

	Deputy Solicitor General Garre argued the cause for the United States
as amicus curiae urging affirmance in support of the state appellees.  With
him on the brief were Solicitor General Clement, Assistant Attorney General
Kim, James A. Feldman, David K. Flynn, and Lisa J. Stark.

	Rolando L. Rios, George Korbel, Jose Garza, and Judith A. Sanders-
Castro filed briefs for the League of United Latin American Citizens et al.,
appellants in No. 05-204.  Renea Hicks filed briefs for Travis County, Texas
et al., appellants in No. 05-254.

	Michael A. Carvin and Louis K. Fisher filed a brief in all cases for
appellees Tina Benkiser et al.  Robert M. Long filed a brief in all cases for
appellee Charles Soechting, in support of appellants.  John S. Ament III and
Richard Gladden filed briefs for Frenchie Henderson, appellee in support of
appellant Travis County, Texas et al. in No. 05-254.  Gary L. Bledsoe, David
T. Goldberg, Sean H. Donahue, and Dennis Courtland Hayes filed briefs for
the Texas State-Area Conference of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People in support of appellants in No. 05-276.

		Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal in all cases were filed for
the Brennan Center for Justice by Deborah Goldberg and Michael Waldman;
for the Center for American Progress by Walter Dellinger, Jonathan D.
Hacker, Matthew M. Shors, and Jeffrey M. Wice; for the Reform Institute
et al. by Daniel R. Ortiz; for University Professors et al. by Lucas A. Powe,
Jr.; and for Samuel Issacharoff et al. by Richard H. Pildes, pro se, and Mr.
Issacharoff, pro se.

	David W. Ogden, Jonathan E. Nuechterlein, Leonard M. Shambon, and
Jonathan H. Siegelbaum filed a brief of amici curiae for the League of
Women Voters of the United States et al. urging reversal in Nos. 05-204, 05-
254, and 05-276.

	Harold D. Hammett filed a brief for the Fort Worth-Tarrant County
Branch NAACP as amicus curiae urging reversal in No. 05-276.

	Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance in all cases were filed for the
State of Utah et al. by Mark Shurtleff, Attorney General of Utah, Gene C.
Schaerr, Steffen N. Johnson, James R. Thompson, George J. Chanos,
Attorney General of Nevada, and Jim Petro, Attorney General of Ohio; for the
American Legislative Exchange Council et al. by Marguerite Mary Leoni; for
the Republican National Committee by Thomas J. Josefiak; for Senator
Robert C. Jubelirer by John P. Krill, Jr., and Linda J. Shorey; for the
Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives Glenn Richardson et al. by
Anne W. Lewis and Frank B. Strickland; and for Ron Wilson by S. Shawn
Stephens, and Mr. Wilson, pro se.

	Maureen E. Mahoney filed a brief for Congressman Henry Bonilla as
amicus curiae urging affirmance in No. 05-439.

	Briefs of amici curiae were filed in all cases for the NAACP Legal
Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., by Theodore M. Shaw, Jacqueline A.
Berrien, Norman J. Chachkin, and Debo P. Adegbile; for Edward Blum et al.
by Frank M. Reilly and Marc A. Levin; for Alan Heslop et al. by E. Marshall
Braden, Robert M. Doherty, and Clark H. Bensen; and for Gary King et al. by
Justin A. Nelson and H. Lee Godfrey.

	Briefs of amici curiae were filed in No. 05-276 for the North Carolina
State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People by Anita S. Earls, Julius L. Chambers, and John Charles Boger; and
for Neil H. Cogan by Mr. Cogan, pro se.

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No. 04-1739, Beard, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections v.
Banks

Argued March 27, 2006

	Louis J. Rovelli, Executive Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania,
argued the cause for petitioner.  With him on the briefs were Thomas W.
Corbett, Jr., Attorney General, Calvin R. Koons and Kemal A. Mericli, Senior
Deputy Attorneys General, and John G. Knorr III, Chief Deputy Attorney
General.

	Jonathan L. Marcus 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 Garre, Sri
Srinivasan, Barbara L. Herwig, and Edward Himmelfarb.

	Jere Krakoff argued the cause for respondent.  With him on the brief
was Andrew Shubin.

	Richard Ruda and James I. Crowley filed a brief for the Council of
State Governments et al. as amici curiae urging reversal.

	Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the American
Civil Liberties Union et al. by David C. Fathi, Elizabeth Alexander, Steven R.
Shapiro, Witold J. Walczak, Steven Banks, John Boston, and Elliot M.
Mincberg; for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty by Anthony R. Picarello,
Jr.; for Prison Legal News et al. by Sanford Jay Rosen, Lucy A. Dalglish,
Gregg P. Leslie, and Michael A. Bamberger; and for Lumumba Kenyatta
Incumaa by Justin S. Antonipillai.

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No. 05-184, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, et al.

Argued March 28, 2006

	Neal Katyal argued the cause for petitioner.  With him on the briefs
were Harry H. Schneider, Jr., Joseph M. McMillan, Charles C. Sipos, Charles
Swift, Thomas C. Goldstein, Amy Howe, and Kevin K. Russell.

	Solicitor General Clement argued the cause for respondents.  With him
on the brief were Assistant Attorney General Keisler, Deputy Solicitor General
Garre, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Katsas, Jonathan L. Marcus,
Kannon K. Shanmugam, Douglas N. Letter, and Robert M. Loeb.

	Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the American Civil
Liberties Union by Steven R. Shapiro, Ben Wizner, and Lee Gelernt; for the
American Jewish Committee et al. by Marvin L. Gray, Jr., Jeffrey L. Fisher,
Jeffrey P. Sinensky, Kara H. Stein, John W. Whitehead, Elliot M. Mincberg,
Arthur H. Bryant, andVictoria W. Ni; for the Association of the Bar of the
City of New York et al. by James J. Benjamin, Jr., and Steven M. Pesner; for
the Brennan Center for Justice et al. by Sidney S. Rosdeitcher and Jonathan
Hafetz; for the Cato Institute by Timothy Lynch; for the Center for
Constitutional Rights et al. by Barbara J. Olshansky and William H.
Goodman; for International Law Professors by Linda A. Malone and Jordan
J. Paust; for Law Professors by Claudia Callaway; for Military Law
Historians et al. by Teresa Wynn Roseborough, Charles Lester, Jr., John A.
Chandler, and Elizabeth V. Tanis; for the National Association of Criminal
Defense Lawyers by Donald G. Rehkopf, Jr.; for the National Institute of
Military Justice et al. by Eugene R. Fidell, Stephen A. Saltzburg, Kathleen A.
Duignan, and Diane Marie Amann; for Specialists in Conspiracy and
International Law by George P. Fletcher, pro se; for the Yemeni National
Organization for Defending Rights and Freedoms by Lawrence D. Rosenberg;
for Madeleine K. Albright et al. by Harold Hongju Koh and Jonathan M.
Freiman; for David Brahms et al. by Andrew J. Pincus, Jay C. Johnson, and
Andrew Tauber; for Norman Dorsen et al. by Burt Neuborne; for Louise
Doswald-Beck et al. by Bridget Arimond, David J. Scheffer, and Steven A.
Kaufman; for Richard A. Epstein et al. by Aaron M. Panner, Joseph S. Hall,
and Mr. Epstein, pro se; for Louis Fisher by Lawrence S. Lustberg; for
Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi by Paul S. Reichler and Sharon A. Shaffer;
for Binyam Mohamed by Clive A. Stafford Smith and Joseph Margulies; and
for Jack N. Rakove et al. by Pamela S. Karlan.

	Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the American
Center for Law and Justice et al. by Jay Alan Sekulow, Stuart J. Roth, James
M. Henderson, Sr., Colby M. May, and Robert W. Ash; for Common Defence
by Daniel P. Collins; for Former Attorneys General of the United States et al.
by Andrew G. McBride and Kathryn Comerford Todd; and for the Washington
Legal Foundation et al. by Daniel J. Popeo and Richard A. Samp.

	Briefs of amici curiae were filed for the Bar Human Rights Committee
of the Bar of England and Wales et al. by Stephen J. Pollak and John
Townsend Rich; for the Center for National Security Studies et al. by John
Payton, Seth P. Waxman, Paul R. Q. Wolfson, Kate Martin, and Joseph Onek;
for Certain Former Federal Judges by Paul C. Saunders; for the Criminal
Justice Legal Foundation by Kent S. Scheidegger; for Human Rights First
et al. by Robert P. LoBue and Deborah Pearlstein; for Legal Scholars and
Historians by Daniel C. Tepstein; for the Office of Chief Defense Counsel,
Office of Military Commissions, by Dwight H. Sullivan and Michael D. Mori;
for Retired Generals and Admirals et al. by David H. Remes; for the Urban
Morgan Institute for Human Rights by Christopher J. Wright and Timothy J.
Simeone; for Lawrence M. Friedman et al. by William F. Alderman; for Ryan
Goodman et al. by Mark A. Packman; for Senator Lindsey Graham et al. by
Jeffrey A. Lamken; for Louis Henkin et al. by Carlos M. V�zquez, pro se; for
David Hicks by Joshua L. Dratel, Mr. Mori, Marc A. Goldman, and Michael
B. DeSanctis; for Arthur R. Miller by Mr. Remes; for Richard D. Rosen et al.
by Steven H. Goldblatt; for More Than 300 Detainees Incarcerated at U. S.
Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, et al. by Thomas B. Wilner, Neil H.
Koslowe, and Kristine A. Huskey; and for 422 Current and Former Members
of the United Kingdom and European Union Parliaments by Claude B.
Stansbury.

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	No. 05-5966, Clark v. Arizona

Argued April 19, 2006

	David Goldberg, by appointment of the Court, 547 U. S.
_____, argued the cause and filed briefs for petitioner.

	Randall M. Howe, argued the cause for respondent.
With him on the brief were Terry Goddard, Attorney General
of Arizona, Mary O'Grady, Solicitor General, and Michael
O'Toole, Assistant Attorney General.

	Solicitor General Clement argued the cause for the
United States as amicus curiae urging affirmance.  With him
on the brief were Assistant Attorney General Fisher, Deputy
Solicitor General Dreeben, Matthew D. Roberts, and Kirby A.
Heller.

	Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the American
Association on Mental Retardation et al. by James W. Ellis, Michael B.
Browde, and Richard A. Gonzales; and for the American Psychiatric
Association et al. by Richard G. Taranto, David W. Ogden, and Nathalie F. P.
Gilfoyle.

	Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts et al. by Thomas F. Reilly, Attorney
General of Massachusetts, David M. Lieber, Assistant Attorney General, and
Dan Schweitzer, and by the Attorneys General for their respective States as
follows: Troy King of Alabama, Mike Beebe of Arkansas, John W. Suthers of
Colorado, Carl C. Danberg of Delaware, Mark J. Bennett of Hawaii, Steve
Carter of Indiana, Michael A. Cox of Michigan, Mike McGrath of Montana,
Jim Petro of Ohio,
W. A. Drew Edmondson of Oklahoma, Hardy Myers of Oregon, Thomas W.
Corbett, Jr., of Pennsylvania, Henry D. McMaster of South Carolina,
Lawrence E. Long of South Dakota, and Greg Abbott of Texas.

	 Briefs of amici curiae were filed for the Citizens Commission on
Human Rights by Kendrick Moxon; and for the Treatment Advocacy Center
by David A. Kotler and Megan Elizabeth Zavieh.
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