No. 07–591, Melendez-Diaz  v. Massachusetts

            Jeffrey L. Fisher argued the cause for petitioner.  With him on the briefs were Pamela S. Karlan, Amy Howe, Kevin K. Russell, Mary T. Rogers, and Thomas C. Goldstein.

            Martha Coakley, Attorney General of Massachusetts, argued the cause for respondent.  With her on the brief were James J. Arguin and David S. Friedman, Assistant Attorneys General.

            Lisa H. Schertler argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging affirmance.  With her on the brief were former Solicitor General Garre, Acting Assistant Attorney General Friedrich, and Deputy Solicitor General Dreeben.

            Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for Law Professors by Donald B. Ayer, Christopher S. Perry, Samuel Estreicher, and Meir Feder; for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers et al. by Jeffrey T. Green, Leonard R. Stamm, Frances H. Pratt, Donna F. Coltharp, and Judith H. Mizner; for the National Innocence Network by Timothy P. O’Toole, and Andrew T. Wise; and for Richard D. Friedman by Mr. Friedman, pro se.

            Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the State of Alabama et al. by Troy King, Attorney General of Alabama, Corey L. Maze, Solicitor General, and Margaret L. Fleming, Assistant Attorney General, by Kevin T. Kane, Chief State’s Attorney of Connecticut, by Peter J. Nickles, 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, Dustin McDaniel of Arkansas, John W. Suthers of Colorado, 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, Steve Six of Kansas, Jack Conway of Kentucky, Douglas F. Gansler of Maryland, Michael A. Cox of Michigan, Lori Swanson of Minnesota, Jim Hood of Mississippi, Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon of Missouri, Jon C. Bruning of Nebraska, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, Anne Milgram of New Jersey, Gary K. King of New Mexico, Roy Cooper of North Carolina, Nancy H. Rogers of Ohio, W. A. Drew Edmondson of Oklahoma, Patrick C. Lynch of Rhode Island, Henry D. McMaster of South Carolina, Lawrence E. Long of South Dakota, Robert E. Cooper, Jr., of Tennessee, Mark L. Shurtleff of Utah, Robert F. McDonnell of Virginia, Robert M. McKenna of Washington, and Bruce A. Salzburg of Wyoming; and for the National District Attorneys Association et al. by Mathias H. Heck, Jr., Daniel F. Conley, John P. Zanini, Macy Lee, Helle Sachse, William D. Mason, Lisa Reitz Williamson, Lynne M. Abraham, Hugh J. Burns, Jr., Andrew P. Thomas, Kym L. Worthy, Timothy A. Baughman, David Roger, and Steven S. Owens.

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No. 08–479, Safford Unified School District #1 et al. v. Redding

Argued April 21, 2009

            Matthew W. Wright argued the cause for petitioners.  With him on the briefs was David K. Pauole.

            David A. O’Neil argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging reversal.  With him on the brief were then-Acting Solicitor General Kneedler, Acting Assistant Attorney General Hertz, Deputy Solicitor General Katyal, Leonard Schaitman, Robert Kamenshine, Mark Pennak, Edward H. Jurith, Linda V. Priebe, Philip H. Rosenfelt, Stephen H. Freid, and Daniel J. Dell’Orto.

            Adam B. Wolf argued the cause for respondent.  With him on the brief were Graham A. Boyd, M. Allen Hopper, Steven R. Shapiro, Bruce G. Macdonald, Andrew J. Petersen, and Daniel Joseph Pochoda.

             David R. Day, Francisco M. Negrón, Jr., and Thomas E. M. Hutton filed a brief for the National School Boards Association et al. as amici curiae urging reversal.

            Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the Juvenile Law Center et al. by Marsha L. Levick; for the National Association of Social Workers et al. by Julia M. Carpenter, Carolyn I. Polowy, and Michael D. Simpson; for the Rutherford Institute et al. by John W. Whitehead, Clint Bolick, Nicholas C. Dranias, Timothy Lynch, and Ilya Shapiro; andfor the Urban Justice Center et al. by Raymond H. Brescia.

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No. 08–214, Atlantic Sounding Co., Inc., et al. v. Townsend

Argued March 2, 2009

            David W. McCreadie argued the cause for petitioners.  With him on the briefs were Eddie G. Godwin and Steven L. Brannock.

            Gerard Joseph Sullivan, Jr., argued the cause and filed a brief for respondent. 

                Lawrence W. Kaye, Edward C. Walton, and André M. Picciurro filed a brief for the Cruise Lines International Association as amicus curiae urging reversal.

            Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the American Association for Justice by David W. Robertson and Leslie Frank Weisbrod; and for the Sailors’ Union of the Pacificby John R. Hillsman and Lyle C. Cavin, Jr.

            A brief of amicus curiae was filed for Port Ministries International by Tonya J. Meister and Charles R. Lipcon.

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No. 08–289, Horne, Superintendent, Arizona Public Instruction v. Flores et al.; and

No. 08–294, Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives et al. v. Flores et al.

Argued April 20, 2009

            Kenneth W. Starr argued the cause for petitioners in both cases.  With him on the briefs for petitioners in No. 08–294 were Ashley C. Parrish, Rick Richmond, Steven A. Haskins, David J. Cantelme, David Aaron Brown, and Paul R. Neil.  Eric J. Bistrow, Daryl Manhart, and Michael S. Dulberg filed briefs for petitioner in No. 08–289. 

            Sri Srinivasan argued the cause for respondents in both cases.  With him on the brief for respondents Miriam Flores et al. were Irving L. Gornstein, Ryan W. Scott, Walter Dellinger, Timothy M. Hogan, and Joy E. Herr-Cardillo.  Terry Goddard, Attorney General of Arizona, Mary O’Grady, Solicitor General, Susan P. Segal, Assistant Attorney General, Robert H. McKirgan, Lawrence A. Kasten, and Kimberly Anne Demarchi filed a brief for respondents State of Arizona et al. in both cases.

            Nicole A. Saharsky argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae supporting respondents in both cases.  With her on the brief were Acting Solicitor General Katyal, Acting Assistant Attorneys General Hertz and King, Deputy Solicitor General Kneedler, Mark B. Stern, Dennis J. Dimsey, Angela M. Miller, Philip H. Rosenfelt, and Susan E. Craig.

             Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal in both cases were filed for the American Legislative Exchange Council et al. by Robert C. O’Brien, Jr., Jonathan E. Phillips, and Seth L. Cooper; for the American Unity Legal Defense Fund et al. by Barnaby W. Zall; for Education-Policy Scholars by Dan Himmelfarb and Stephen M. Shapiro; for the Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund, Inc., by Andrew L. Schlafly and Lawrence J. Joseph; for the Pacific Legal Foundation et al. by Sharon L. Browne, Steven Geoffrey Gieseler, and Michael J. Reitz; and for the Washington Legal Foundation by Gene C. Schaerr, Michael J. Friedman, Daniel J. Popeo, Richard A. Samp, Ross Sandler, and David S. Schoenbrod.

            J. Scott Detamore filed a brief for the Mountain States Legal Foundation as amicus curiae urging reversal in No. 08–289.

            Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance in both cases were filed for the Asian American Justice Center et al. by Alan S. Gilbert, Richard M. Zuckerman, Katherine J. Evans, Karen K. Narasaki, and Vincent A. Eng; for the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund et al. by Robert A. Long, Jr., Stanley Young, Deanna L. Kwong, and Kenneth Kimerling; for Civil Rights Organizations by Nina Perales, Diana Sen, and John T. Affeldt; for Educational Policy and Finance Scholars by Jonathan L. Marcus; for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., et al. by John Payton, Jacqueline A. Berrien, Debo P. Adegbile, Anurima Bhargava, Holly A. Thomas, and Joshua Civin; for the National School Boards Association et al. by Francisco M. Negrón, Jr., Naomi Gittins, Thomas Hutton, Lisa Soronen, Maree F. Sneed, John W. Borkowski, and Jessica Ellsworth; for the Tucson Unified School District et al. by John C. Richardson; and for the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project et al. by Patrick F. Linehan.

            A. W. Phinney III filed a brief for 30 Recognized Leaders of Education Research as amici curiae in both cases.

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No. 08–453, Cuomo, Attorney General of New York v. Clearing House Association, L. L. C., et al.

Argued April 28, 2009

            Barbara D. Underwood, Solicitor General of New York, argued the cause for petitioner.  With her on the briefs were Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General, pro se, Michelle Aronowitz, Deputy Solicitor General, and Richard Dearing, Assistant Solicitor General.

            Deputy Solicitor General Stewart argued the cause for the federal respondent.  With him on the brief were Solicitor General Kagan, Matthew D. Roberts, Julie L. Williams, Daniel P. Stipano, Horace G. Sneed, and Douglas B. Jordan.  Seth P. Waxman argued the cause for respondent Clearing House Association, L. L. C.  With him on the brief were Edward C. DuMont, Catherine M. A. Carroll, Christopher R. Lipsett, Noah A. Levine, Anne K. Small, H. Rodgin Cohen, Robinson B. Lacy, and Michael M. Wiseman.

            Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for Members of Congress by Linda Singer and David Reiser; for the State of North Carolina et al. by Roy Cooper, Attorney General of North Carolina, Christopher G. Browning, Jr., Solicitor General, Gary R. Govert, Special Deputy Attorney General, and Philip A. Lehman, Assistant Attorney General, and by the Attorneys General and other officials for their respective jurisdictions as follows: Troy King, Attorney General of Alabama, Richard A. Svobodny, Acting Attorney General of Alaska, Terry Goddard, Attorney General of Arizona, Dustin McDaniel, Attorney General of Arkansas, Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General of California, John W. Suthers, Attorney General of Colorado, Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General of Connecticut, Richard S. Gebelein, Chief Deputy Attorney General of Delaware, Peter J. Nickles, Attorney General of the District of Columbia, Bill McCollum, Attorney General of Florida, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General of Georgia, Mark J. Bennett, Attorney General of Hawaii, Lawrence Wasden, Attorney General of Idaho, Lisa Madigan, Attorney General of Illinois, Gregory F. Zoeller, Attorney General of Indiana, Tom Miller, Attorney General of Iowa, Steve Six, Attorney General of Kansas, Jack Conway, Attorney General of Kentucky, James D. Caldwell, Attorney General of Louisiana, Janet T. Mills, Attorney General of Maine, Douglas F. Gansler, Attorney General of Maryland, Martha Coakley, Attorney General of Massachusetts, Michael A. Cox, Attorney General of Michigan, Lori Swanson, Attorney General of Minnesota, Jim Hood, Attorney General of Mississippi, Chris Koster, Attorney General of Missouri, Steve Bullock, Attorney General of Montana, Jon Bruning, Attorney General of Nebraska, Catherine C. Masto, Attorney General of Nevada, Kelly A. Ayotte, Attorney General of New Hampshire, Anne Milgram, Attorney General of New Jersey, Gary K. King, Attorney General of New Mexico, Wayne Stenehjem, Attorney General of North Dakota, Richard Cordray, Attorney General of Ohio, W. A. Drew Edmondson, Attorney General of Oklahoma, John R. Kroger, Attorney General of Oregon, Thomas W. Corbett, Jr., Attorney General of Pennsylvania, Patrick C. Lynch, Attorney General of Rhode Island, Henry McMaster, Attorney General of South Carolina, Lawrence E. Long, Attorney General of South Dakota, Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General of Tennessee, Greg Abbott, Attorney General of Texas, Mark L. Shurtleff, Attorney General of Utah, William H. Sorrell, Attorney General of Vermont, William C. Mims, Attorney General of Virginia, Rob McKenna, Attorney General of Washington, Darrell V. McGraw, Jr., Attorney General of West Virginia, J. B. Van Hollen, Attorney General of Wisconsin, and Bruce A. Salzburg, Attorney General of Wyoming; for the American Association of Residential Mortgage Regulators by Stefan L. Jouret, John Foskett, and Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr.; for the Center for Responsible Lending et al. by Eric Halperin, Jean Constantine-Davis, Nina F. Simon, and Michael Schuster; for the Comptroller of the City of New York by Lewis S. Finkelman; for the Conference of State Bank Supervisors by David T. Goldberg, Sean H. Donahue, and John Gorman; for the Connecticut Fair Housing Center by Jonathan R. Macey; for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law et al. by Amy Howe, Kevin K. Russell, Pamela S. Karlan, Jeffrey Fisher, Joshua Civin, John Payton, Jacqueline A. Berrien, and Debo P. Adegbile; for the National Association of Realtors by David C. Frederick, Scott H. Angstreich, Laurene K. Janik, and Ralph W. Holmen; for the National Governors Association et al. by Richard Ruda and Thomas W. Merrill; and for the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc., by Keith R. Fisher.

            Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for All Former Comptrollers of the Currency Since 1973 by Drew S. Days III, L. Richard Fischer, Seth M. Galanter, Howard N. Cayne, Laurence J. Hutt, and Nancy L. Perkins; for the American Bankers Association et al. by Theodore B. Olson, Mark A. Perry, and Amir C. Tayrani; for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America by Sri Srinivasan, Robin S. Conrad, and Amar D. Sarwal; and for the Financial Services Roundtable by Robert A. Long, Jr., Stuart C. Stock, Keith A. Noreika, and Hal S. Scott.

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No. 07–1428, Ricci et al. v. DeStefano et al.; and

No. 08–328, Ricci et al. v. DeStefano et al.

Argued April 22, 2009

            Gregory S. Coleman argued the cause for petitioners in both cases.  With him on the briefs were Edward C. Dawson, Dori K. Goldman, and Karen Lee Torre.

            Deputy Solicitor General Kneedler argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae in both cases supporting vacatur and remand.  With him on the brief were Acting Assistant Attorney General King, Deputy Solicitor General Katyal, Lisa S. Blatt, Leondra R. Kruger, Steven H. Rosenbaum, Jessica Dunsay Silver, Gregory B. Friel, Lisa J. Stark, Carol A. DeDeo, Edward D. Sieger, Carolyn L. Wheeler, and Gail S. Coleman.

            Christopher J. Meade argued the cause for respondents in both cases.  With him on the brief were Seth P. Waxman, Anne K. Small, Victor A. Bolden, Kathleen M. Foster, David T. Goldberg, and Richard A. Roberts.

            Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal in both cases were filed for the American Civil Rights Union by Peter J. Ferrara; for Bridgeport Firefighters for Merit Employment, Inc., by Stewart I. Edelstein; for the Cato Institute et al. by Ilya Shapiro and Manuel S. Klausner; for the Center for Individual Rights et al. by Michael E. Rosman; for the Concerned American Firefighters Association, Philadelphia Chapter, by Gregory J. Sullivan; for the Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund by Douglas G. Smith; for Law Professors et al. by Martin S. Kaufman; for the Mountain States Legal Foundation by J. Scott Detamore; for the National Association of Police Organizations by Scott M. Abeles; for the Pacific Legal Foundation et al. by Sharon L. Browne, Alan W. Foutz, and Steven G. Gieseler; and for Joe Oakley et al. by Henry C. Shelton III, Brian S. Faughnan, and Emily C. Taube.

            Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance in both cases were filed for the State of Maryland et al. by Douglas F. Gansler, Attorney General of Maryland, Austin C. Schlick, Steven M. Sullivan, and Michele J. McDonald, by Richard A. Svobodny, Acting Attorney General of Alaska, and by the Attorneys General for their respective States as follows: Dustin McDaniel of Arkansas, Tom Miller of Iowa, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, and Mark L. Shurtleff of Utah; for the American Civil Liberties Union et al. by Kevin K. Russell, Amy Howe, Pamela S. Karlan, Jeffrey L. Fisher, Steven R. Shapiro, and Dennis D. Parker; for the Asian American Justice Center et al. by Vincent A. Eng and Karen K. Narasaki; for the Equal Employment Advisory Council by Rae T. Vann, Jeffrey A. Norris, and Lorence L. Kessler; for Industrial-Organizational Psychologists by David C. Frederick and Derek T. Ho; for the International Association of Black Professional Fire Fighters et al. by Christy B. Bishop and Dennis R. Thompson; for the International Association of Hispanic Firefighters et al. by Marcia L. McCormick; for the International Municipal Lawyers Association et al. by Andrew J. Pincus and Charles Rothfeld; for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law et al. by Michael L. Foreman, Sarah Crawford, Catherine Sun Wood, Marc H. Morial, Angela Ciccolo, and Eva Paterson; for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., by John Payton, Jacqueline A. Berrien, Debo P. Adegbile, Matthew Colangelo, and Joshua Civin; for the National Partnership for Women & Families et al. by Helen Norton, Judith L. Lichtman, Marcia D. Greenberger, and Jocelyn Samuels; for the New York Law School Racial Justice Project by Elise C. Boddie; for the Opportunity Agenda by Ankur J. Goel and Alan Jenkins; and for the Society for Human Resource Management by Samuel Estreicher, Meir Feder, Donald B. Ayer, and Lawrence D. Rosenberg.

            Briefs of amici curiae were filed in both cases for the Anti-Defamation League by Michael F. Smith, Martin E. Karlinsky, Howard W. Goldstein, Steven M. Freeman, and Steven C. Sheinberg; for the Claremont Institute Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence by John C. Eastman and Edwin Meese III; and for Kedar Bhatia by Alan Sager.

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