ElenaKagan PublicQuestionnaire

UNITED STATES SENATE
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
QUESTIONNAIRE FOR NOMINEE FOR THE SUPREME COURT
PUBLIC
1. Name: State full name (include any former names used).
Elena Kagan
2. Position: State the position for which you have been nominated.
Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court
3. Address: List current office address. If city and state of residence differs from your
place of employment, please list the city and state where you currently reside.
Department of Justice
Washington, D.C. 20530
4. Birthplace: State date and place of birth.
April 28. 1960. New York, New York.
5. Education: List in reverse chronological order each college, law school, or any other
institution of higher education attended and indicate for each the dates of attendance,
whether a degree was received, and the date each degree was received.
Harvard Law School, 1983-86, J.D. magna cum laude 1986

Worcester College, Oxford University, 1981-83, M.Phil. 1983
Princeton University, 1977-81, A.B. summa cum laude 1981
6. Employment Record: List in reverse chronological order all governmental agencies,

business or professional corporations, companies, firms, or other enterprises,
partnerships, institutions, or organizations, non-profit or otherwise, with which you have
been affiliated as an officer, director, partner, proprietor, or employee since graduation
from college, whether or not you received payment for your services. Include the name
and address of the employer and job title or description.
Employment:
Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, 2009-present
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Professor and Dean, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA 02138, 1999-present (2003-
09 as dean, 2001-present as professor (currently on leave), 1999-2001 as visiting
professor)
Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and Deputy Director of the
Domestic Policy Council, Executive Office of the President, Washington, D.C. 20502,
1997-99
Associate Counsel to the President, Executive Office of the President, Washington, D.C.
20502, 1995-96
Professor, University of Chicago Law School, 1111 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637, 1991-
97 (1991-94 as assistant professor)
Special Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee, Summer 1993
Associate, Williams & Connolly, 725 12th St., Washington, DC 20005, 1989-91
Staff member, Dukakis for President Campaign, Boston, MA, 1988
Judicial Clerk, Hon. Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court, 1987-88
Judicial Clerk, Hon. Abner Mikva, U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. Circuit, 1986-87
Research Assistant, Professor Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA

02138, Summer 1986
Summer Associate, Paul Weiss Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, 1285 Avenue of the
Americas, NY, NY 10019, Summer 1985
Summer Associate, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, One New York Plaza, NY,
NY 10004, Summer 1984
Paralegal, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza, NY, NY 10005,
Summer 1983
Board Memberships:
Member, Board of Trustees, Oxford University Press, Inc., 198 Madison Avenue, NY,
NY 10016, 2008-09
Member, Advisory Board, American Indian Empowerment Fund, 579 Main St., Oneida,
NY 13421, 2008-09
Member, Board of Directors, Equal Justice Works, 2120 L St., NW, Washington, D.C.
20037, 2008-09
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Member, Board of Directors, The Advantage Testing Foundation, 210 E. 86th St., NY,
NY 10028, 2007-09
Member, New York State Commission on Higher Education, 2007-08
Member, Board of Advisors, National Constitution Center’s Peter Jennings Project for
Journalists and the Constitution, 525 Arch St., Philadelphia, PA 19106, 2006-09
Member, Research Advisory Council, Goldman Sachs Global Markets Institute, 85 Broad
St., NY, NY 10004, 2005-08
Member, Board of Directors, American Law Deans Association, 2004-09
Member, Board of Trustees, Skadden Fellowship Foundation, 4 Times Square, NY, NY

10036, 2003-09
Member, Board of Directors, Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund, 60 E. 42nd St., NY,
NY 10165, 2003-05
Member, Litigation Committee, American Association of University Professors, 1133

19th St., NW, Washington, D.C. 20036, 2002-03
Public Member, Administrative Conference of the United States, 1994-95
Member, Board of Governors, Chicago Council of Lawyers, 50 North Lake Shore Drive,
Chicago, IL 60611, 1993-95
7. Military Service and Draft Status: Identify any service in the U.S. Military, including
dates of service, branch of service, rank or rate, serial number (if different from social
security number), and type of discharge received, and whether you have registered for
selective service.
None.
8. Honors and Awards: List any scholarships, fellowships, honorary degrees, academic or
professional honors, honorary society memberships, military awards, and any other
special recognition for outstanding service or achievement.
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005-
Honorary Fellow, Worcester College, Oxford University, 2005-
Recipient, Woman Lawyer of the Year, Women’s Bar Association of District of

Columbia, 2009
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Recipient, Arabella Babb Mansfield Award, National Association of Women Lawyers,
2008
Recipient, John R. Kramer Outstanding Law School Dean Award, Equal Justice Works,
2008
National Law Journal, Top 50 Most Influential Women Lawyers, 2007
Recipient, 2003 Annual Scholarship Award of the American Bar Association’s Section of
Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice
Recipient, Class of 1993 University of Chicago Graduating Students’ Award for

Teaching Excellence
Recipient, Sachs Scholarship, Princeton University, 1981.
Phi Beta Kappa, Princeton University, 1981
9. Bar Associations: List all bar associations or legal or judicial-related committees,

selection panels, or conferences of which you are or have been a member, and give the
titles and dates of any offices which you have held in such groups.
As noted above (question 6), I have served on the boards of Equal Justice Works, the
Skadden Fellowship Foundation, the National Constitution Center’s Peter Jennings
Project for Journalists and the Constitution, the American Law Deans’ Association, and
the Chicago Council of Lawyers.
I have served as a member of the Boston Bar Association Diversity Task Force.
I am a member of the American Bar Association.
In a questionnaire I submitted to the Senate in connection with a judicial nomination in

1999, I listed membership in the U.S. Association of Constitutional Lawyers, ABA
Forum on Communications Law, and the Society of American Law Teachers, but I have
no current memory of belonging to or participating in these organizations.
10. Bar and Court Admission:
a. List the date(s) you took the examination, the date you passed, and the date you
were admitted to the bar of any state for all states where you sat for a bar
examination. List any state in which you applied for reciprocal admission without
taking the bar examination and the date of such admission or refusal of such
admission. List and explain the reason for any lapses in membership.
I took the New York State Bar examination in the summer of 1986 and passed. I
was formally admitted to the New York State Bar on July 19, 1988 (after the
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completion of my clerkships). I was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar
without examination on February 17, 1989.
b. List all courts in which you have been admitted to practice, including dates of
admission and any lapses in membership. Explain the reason for any lapse in
membership. Give the same information for administrative bodies that require
special admission to practice.
Supreme Court of the United States, 2009
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, 1990 (inactive)
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 1990 (inactive)
11. Memberships:
a. List all professional, business, fraternal, scholarly, civic, charitable, or other

organizations, other than those listed in response to Questions 9 or 10 to which
you belong, or to which you have belonged, or in which you have participated,
since graduation from law school. “Participation” means consistent or repeated
involvement in a given organization, membership, or regular attendance at events
or meetings. Provide dates of membership or participation, and indicate any
office you held. Include clubs, working groups, advisory or editorial boards,
panels, committees, conferences, or publications. Describe briefly the nature and
objectives of each such organization, the nature of your participation in each such
organization, and identify an officer or other person from whom more detailed
information may be obtained.
Harvard Law School Alumni Association

Princeton University Alumni Association
In a questionnaire I submitted to the Senate in connection with a judicial

nomination in 1999, I listed membership in the National Partnership for Women
and Families as a result of charitable contributions. I have no current memory of
whether such contributions ever made me a member of this organization.
b. The American Bar Association's Commentary to its Code of Judicial Conduct

states that it is inappropriate for a judge to hold membership in any organization
that invidiously discriminates on the basis of race, sex, religion, or national origin.
Indicate whether any of these organizations listed in response to 11a above
currently discriminates or formerly discriminated on the basis of race, sex,
religion, or national origin either through formal membership requirements or the
practical implementation of membership policies. If so, describe any action you
have taken to change these policies and practices.
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12. Published Writings and Public Statements:
a. List the titles, publishers, and dates of books, articles, reports, letters to the editor,
editorial pieces, or other published material you have written or edited, including
material published only on the Internet. Supply four (4) copies of all published
material to the Committee.
I have done my best to identify published materials through searches of publicly

available electronic databases, as well as databases kept by Harvard Law School.
I have found the following:
“The Role of the Solicitor General” in The U.S. Supreme Court: Equal Justice
Under Law (eJournal USA/U.S. Department of State 2009)
“Office of the White House Counsel” in Mark Green and Michele Jolin, eds.,
Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President (Basic Books
2009).
“Foreword” in Daniel Hamilton and Alfred Brophy, eds., Transformations in

American Legal History: Essays in Honor of Professor Morton J. Horwitz
(Harvard 2009).
Harvard Law Revisited, 11 The Green Bag 475 (2008).
In Memoriam: Clark Byse, 121 Harvard Law Review 454 (2007).
Richard Posner, The Judge, 120 Harvard Law Review 1121 (2007).
In Memoriam: David Westfall, 119 Harvard Law Review 947 (2006).
Women and the Legal Profession – A Status Report (Leslie H. Arps Memorial
Lecture), 61 The Record 37 (2006).
Chevron’s Nondelegation Doctrine, 2001 Supreme Court Review 201 (with David
J. Barron).
Presidential Administration, 114 Harvard Law Review 2245 (2001).
Libel and the First Amendment (Update), Encyclopedia of the American

Constitution, Supplement II (2000).
Masson v. New Yorker Magazine, Inc., Encyclopedia of the American

Constitution (2000).
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Private Speech, Public Purpose: The Role of Governmental Motive in First
Amendment Doctrine, 63 University of Chicago Law Review 413 (1996).
When A Speech Code Is A Speech Code: The Stanford Policy and the Theory of
Incidental Restraints, 29 University of California at Davis Law Review 957
(1996).
Confirmation Messes, Old and New (Book Review), 62 University of Chicago

Law Review 919 (1995).
Regulation of Hate Speech and Pornography After R.A.V., 60 University of

Chicago Law Review 873 (1993). An abbreviated version of this article appears
in Laura Lederer and Richard Delgado, eds., The Price We Pay (Hill & Wang
1995).
A Libel Story: Sullivan Then and Now (Book Review), 18 Law and Social
Inquiry 197 (1993).
For Justice Marshall, 71 Texas Law Review 1125 (1993).
The Changing Faces of First Amendment Neutrality: R.A.V. v St. Paul, Rust v
Sullivan, and the Problem of Content-Based Underinclusion, 1992 Supreme Court
Review 29.
Note, Certifying Classes and Subclasses in Title VII Suits, 99 Harvard Law
Review 619 (1986).
In addition to these more formal publications, during my time as dean, I wrote a

“From the Dean” Column in each issue of the Harvard Law Bulletin, which is
Harvard Law School’s alumni magazine. These columns are as follows: Fall
2008, “Two Campaigns”; Summer 2008, “A Changing Climate of Environment”;
Winter 2008, “A Curriculum Without Borders”; Summer 2007, “Con Law Takes
Center Stage”; Spring 2007, “Corporate Governance in the new Global
Economy”; Fall 2006, “Connecting to Practice”; Summer 2006, “Asian
Journeys”; Spring 2006, “View from Chambers”; Fall 2005, “Negotiation,
Advanced”; Summer 2005, “Criminal Law in Flux”; Spring 2005, “A Call to
Public Service”; Fall 2004, “Law on the Front Lines.”
Harvard Law School also issued numerous news releases in which I am quoted,
almost all of which I edited, during the years of my deanship. They are as
follows:
DATE TITLE OF RELEASE

12/16/08 Six From HLS Win Prestigious Skadden Fellowships
Lawrence Lessig named professor of law at HLS, director of Harvard's
12/12/08 Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics
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12/12/08 Lloyd E. Ohlin, expert in criminal justice, 1918-2008
10/23/08 Harvard Law School Celebrates Record-setting Capital Campaign
9/3/08 Henry E. Smith to join HLS faculty in 2009
8/7/08 John Goldberg to join HLS faculty
8/4/08 Kagan is honored for her work to encourage public service
6/11/08 Jonathan Zittrain appointed to tenured faculty position
6/5/08 Highlights from Commencement Exercises
5/13/08 Malone and Jacobs appointed clinical professors of law
5/7/08 Harvard Law Faculty votes for 'open access' to scholarly articles
4/30/08 Palfrey appointed as new head of Harvard Law School Library
4/29/08 Stuntz and Warren elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
4/14/08 Ashish Nanda will join HLS faculty as professor of practice
Oliveira Appointed Associate Dean and Dean for Development and Alumni
4/9/08 Relations
4/7/08 Three young scholars join HLS faculty as assistant professors
3/20/08 Anne Alstott, expert on tax law and social welfare, will join HLS faculty
3/18/08 Harvard Law School launches new Public Service Initiative
2/19/08 Sunstein to join Harvard Law School faculty
1/24/08 Michael Klarman to join HLS faculty
12/13/07 Six From HLS Win Prestigious Skadden Fellowships
11/13/07 Pakistani chief justice to receive Harvard Law School 'Medal of Freedom'
Clark Byse, celebrated HLS professor of administrative law and contracts:
10/9/07 1912-2007
8/6/07 William Rubenstein joins HLS faculty
Robert E. Keeton, pioneer of insurance law and District Court judge: 1919-
7/3/07 2007
6/14/07 Olara Otunnu receives Harvard Law School Association Award
6/11/07 Yochai Benkler joins HLS faculty
6/8/07 Highlights from Harvard Law School's Commencement
6/6/07 Bordone and Cox honored on Class Day
5/23/07 Robert H. Sitkoff joins HLS faculty
5/15/07 Gabriella Blum and James Greiner join HLS faculty
4/4/07 HLS adds five clinical professors
3/26/07 Kathryn Spier to join HLS faculty
Wasserstein Family Gives $25 Million to Harvard Law School for
3/22/07 Academic Center
2/22/07 Human Rights Program announces new fellowship opportunity
2/11/07 Dean Elena Kagan praises incoming Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust
Richard A. Musgrave, noted economist and pioneer in public finance: 1910-
1/16/07 2007
1/2/07 Six from HLS win Skadden public interest fellowships
12/7/06 Noah Feldman to join Harvard Law faculty
10/6/06 HLS faculty unanimously approves first-year curricular reform
9/20/06 Webcast: Dean Kagan delivers 'State of the School' address
4/24/06 Fallon selected to join American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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3/1/06 Associate Dean Scott Nichols to Conclude Service
1/18/06 Professor Arthur von Mehren, 1922-2006
12/6/05 HLS students win record number of public service fellowships
Harvard Law School launches new center to investigate intersections of
11/29/05 health, technology and law
9/23/05 Webcast of Dean Kagan's 'state of the school' address
9/15/05 Celebration of Black Alumni begins this weekend
9/2/05 Dean Kagan announces hurricane relief efforts
8/30/05 Five new professors join HLS faculty
8/24/05 HLS to hold second Celebration of Black Alumni
Kirkland & Ellis Gift Honored by Renaming Major Harvard Law School
6/21/05 Teaching Space
Statement of President Lawrence Summers and Dean Elena Kagan on
4/13/05 Laurence Tribe
2/10/05 Renovations to Hemenway Gymnasium slated for summer 2005
1/3/05 Subramanian Joins Tenured Faculty
11/30/04 Statement by Dean Elena Kagan on the Solomon Amendment
10/6/04 Memorial Service for Archibald Cox
Harvard Law School Announces New Professorship Dedicated to
9/30/04 Accounting and Statistics
9/23/04 Students and Faculty Connect in First-Year Reading Groups
9/8/04 Three Professors Join Tenured Faculty
8/4/04 Harvard Law School Chooses Architect for Northwest Corner
4/19/04 Ogletree Appointed Director of New Harvard Institute
12/11/03 School Wins Record Number of Skadden Fellowships
11/7/03 HLS Announces Environmental Law Fellowship
10/23/03 Celebrating a Legal Services Partnership
10/18/03 Fisher Named to Hale and Dorr Professorship
10/8/03 Professor Archibald Cox Honored
10/2/03 Vorenberg Fellowship Recipients Announced
7/1/03 Kagan Becomes Dean of Harvard Law School
I wrote two letters to the editors of Harvard publications:
Letter to the Editor, HLS International Law Program Healthy, Harvard Crimson,
Apr. 28, 2003
Letter to the Editor, Student Input for Allston, Harvard Law Record, Mar. 24,
2003
I wrote an introduction to the Harvard Law School Public Service Job Guide. This
introduction is provided as an attachment to question 12(i).
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Two April Fool’s Day columns in the Harvard Law Record appear under my name, although
I had no involvement in writing them. They are attached.
In addition, I wrote numerous news stories and editorials during college while a staff member
and then editorial chairman of The Daily Princetonian. They are as follows:
9/13/78 Social life discussed at open house

9/14/78 1978 Football outlooks includes great expectations
9/26/78 Undergrad hours cut at Student Center
10/2/78 Seven journalists come to Princeton to study economics at Wilson School
10/10/78 Citizen groups support investigation f borough, township consolidation
10/18/78 Three borough candidates compete for two seats on Princeton council
11/6/78 Football goes undefeated over break: Humiliates Penn, 21-0
11/8/78 Bradley defeats Bell in Senate contest
11/14/78 N.J. Senate bill hikes drinking age
11/20/78 Undergraduate Life at Princeton: Outlook for Prospect Street: Eating clubs
grow in strength
11/29/78 Powerful Yale hands skaters 7-4 loss in game at Ingalls Rink
12/7/78 Woman splashed with beer at club files assault charge with university
12/8/78 AD search yields potential candidates
12/12/78 Committee hearings resume Wednesday despite protests
12/18/78 Arbitrators to resolve unions’ grievances
12/19/78 Court gives conditional discharges to three marijuana law offenders
1/17/79 Bicker numbers decline; clubs profess no anxiety
2/3/79 Preyer: Southern gentleman in Congress
2/6/79 ‘Prince’ accepts advertisement by Playboy
2/7/79 Bohens’ ‘dual careers’ move ahead in Washington: Halcyone Bohen: From
Dean to Researcher
2/13/79 U-Council approves right to silence in Discipline Committee hearings
2/17/79 Goheen, Blumenthal receive Alumni Day honors: Former president awarded
Wilson prize
2/21/79 Frank files complaint of sex bias
3/1/79 University takes conservation steps to deal with energy cost overrun
3/8/79 Bowen to go to Washington today: agenda includes talk with Califano
3/9/79 Kelley: U-Council ‘founding father’ discusses group’s ten year history
3/15/79 Proposed changes in zoning draw criticism from university
3/23/79 Trustees to meet here today to vote South African proxy
4/2/79 Columbia divests itself of stock in three banks
4/3/79 Front, Bowen meet to discuss investment policy
4/6/79 Physicist urges stockpiling of drug
4/10/79 U-Council forms group on South Africa: Body to consider new ways to
improve racial situation
4/13/79 Baseball overcomes Manhattan 11-7
4/18/79 Woods advocates total divestiture of university South African stock
4/19/79 Resources committee supports several proxies on South Africa
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4/23/79 Poll indicates one-third have cheated: Results of survey question could be
inflated
4/24/79 Honor group poll reportedly says between 15 and 20 percent cheat
4/27/79 New York’s rock and roll clubs boom
5/7/79 President releases yearly statement on topics of scholarship, research
5/9/79 Faculty solicits plan to sway S. Africa companies
5/21/79 University bans cooking appliances, vetoing Residence Committee stance
9/18/79 English department forced to take rare staffing action
9/26/79 SECH loses two sexual therapists as university moves to save money
9/28/79 Hungry Tigers seek to upset Rutgers
10/1/79 Scarlet Knights bury football, 38-14
10/4/79 GICC postpones decision on CURL’s latest report
10/16/79 Dean Brown tells Cap he would probably bicker again
10/19/79 USG designates committee to help student groups mix
10/22/79 Honors Committee releases long-awaited reports: Report prompts mixed
response
10/22/79 People’s Front marches to support divestiture
10/22/79 Women’s Center stages discussion about tenure for female professors
11/79 The Women’s Center: Gaining a new identity amidst controversy
11/7/79 Women’s Center organizes education group
11/9/79 Yale, Tigers prepare for clash: Football to confront Bulldogs in battle for Ivy
League lead
11/12/79 Football bows to Bulldog jinx, 35-10: Yale captures Ivy League
championship
11/14/79 Bowen meets club representatives, discusses CURL recommendations
11/19/79 Iran protest group to demonstrate
11/20/79 McGrath writes two hit musicals for Triangle
11/20/79 USG urges changes in position of chapel dean
11/28/79 GICC decides to speak to university on CURL
2/11/80 Carl Schorske’s Viennese masterpiece
11/10/80 Fear and loathing in Brooklyn
1/21/81 The Last Goodbye
2/3/81 Kagan wins Sachs Scholarship
4/8/81 Declaration of the Campaign for a Democratic University
Unknown Hockey downs Bulldogs, 3-2; Mann turns back 31 Eli shots
Unknown Karp leads Women’s Center with chutzpah, aggressiveness
Unknown Scarlet Knights nip Basketball
Unknown Unbeaten tennis drubs Harvard, 8-1: Tigers clinch sixth straight crown
Unknown USG discusses honor report; appropriates funds for trips
b. Supply four (4) copies of any reports, memoranda, policy statements, minutes,
agendas or other materials you prepared or contributed to the preparation of on
behalf of any bar association, committee, conference, or organization of which
you were or are a member or in which you have participated as defined in 11a.
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Include reports, memoranda, or policy statements of any advisory board on which
you served or working group of any bar association, committee, or conference
which produced a report, memorandum, or policy statement, even where you did
not contribute to it. If you do not have a copy of a report, memorandum, or policy
statement, give the name and address of the organization that issued it, the date of
the document, and a summary of its subject matter.
The Boston Bar Association Diversity Leadership Task Force, on which I served,
published a final report and recommendations on November 18, 2008. I am
including it as an attachment.
The New York State Commission on Higher Education, on which I served, issued
a Final Report of Findings and Recommendations in June 2008. I am including it
as an attachment.
The Locational Options Committee of Harvard Law School, which I chaired,

issued a report in November 2002. I am attaching that report.
The Task Force on Women Faculty of Harvard University, on which I sat, issued
a final report in 2005. I am attaching that report.
The Chicago Council of Lawyers, on whose Board of Governors I served from

1993 to 1995, regularly issues reports on judicial candidates and nominees in
Illinois, as well as on other matters of interest to the local legal community. I
participated in the Council’s evaluation process for candidates for elective judicial
office in Illinois, which formed the basis of at least one report of this kind.
The American Law Deans Association, on whose board I used to sit, issues
occasional statements and reports about matters of concern to law schools. The
principal subject concerns standards for ABA accreditation of schools. All these
statements are available at www.americanlawddeans.org.
c. Supply four (4) copies of any testimony, official statements, or other

communications including those issued in your capacity as Dean of Harvard Law
School relating, in whole or in part, to matters of public policy or legal
interpretation, that you have issued or provided or that others presented on your
behalf to public bodies or public officials.
I have tried to identify such statements through searches of publicly available

electronic databases. My emails and letters to the Harvard Law School
community are provided as attachments to questions 12(h) and 12(i).
I testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee at my confirmation hearing for

Solicitor General of the United States on February 10, 2009. A copy of the
hearing transcript is attached.
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I joined a letter from Law School Deans, dated February 14, 2007, calling for an
increase in the compensation of federal judges.
I joined a Statement of Law Deans, dated January 15, 2007, criticizing the
remarks of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Charles Stimson regarding
legal representation of detainees at Guantanamo.
I signed a letter with three other law deans to Senator Patrick Leahy, dated
November 14, 2005, opposing the Graham Amendment to the Department of
Defense authorization bill insofar as it would have stripped the federal courts of
jurisdiction to hear habeas petitions brought by detainees at Guantanamo.
I joined a Statement by Law School Deans, dated May 4, 2005, opposing threats
of retaliation against federal judges and asserting the importance of an
independent judiciary.
On September 10, 2002, I wrote a letter to Senator Patrick Leahy supporting

Michael McConnell’s nomination to the United States Court of Appeals for the
Tenth Circuit. I also joined a group letter to this effect and participated in a
Department of Justice Press Availability regarding the nomination.
On June 17, 2002, I provided a brief letter to Senator Paul Sarbanes concluding
that a provision of the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Act of
2002 (“Sarbanes-Oxley”) likely would survive a challenge brought under the
Appointments Clause of Article II of the Constitution.
On April 12 and 13, 2001, I joined two group letters to senators supporting Peter
Keisler’s nomination to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
As Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, I gave formal press
briefings on the following occasions:
5/27/98 Welfare reform (with Secretary Donna Shalala and Eli Segal)
3/9/98 Tobacco legislation (with Chris Jennings)
2/13/98 Tobacco legislation (with General Barry McCaffery)
11/7/97 White House Conference on Hate Crimes (with Maria Echaveste)
Also as Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, I briefed lieutenant
governors on education and tobacco issues (2/22/99) and women mayors on
domestic policy issues generally (1/26/99). I may have done other, similar
briefings of this kind that do not appear in my calendar. I do not have notes for
these briefings.
d. Supply four (4) copies, transcripts, or recordings of all speeches or talks delivered
by you, including commencement speeches, remarks, lectures, panel discussions,
conferences, political speeches, symposia, panels, continuing legal education
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events, and question-and-answer sessions. Include the date and place where they
were delivered and readily available press reports about the speech or talk. For
each event you attended after being confirmed as Solicitor General, provide the
sponsors, and whether any funding was provided to you by the sponsors or other
organizations.
I have tried to identify, through the search of calendars, computer files, and hard
files, as well as publicly available electronic databases, all talks I have given of
the kind described. I am providing written texts and handwritten notes where I
have them. In the many appearances I made as dean, I usually got some material
from my staff and then spoke either without any notes or with handwritten notes,
which I typically discarded. Many of these events were reported on by university
publications or taped by the law school. I am providing copies of any articles I
have found on these events (where such articles exist, the list below states “press
provided”), and I am providing tapes from Harvard Law School.
COPY/TAPE/
DATE DESCRIPTION PLACE PRESS
5/7/10 Remarks – U.S. Court of Federal Claims Law Washington, Text
Day Luncheon DC provided.
5/5/10 Moderate Panel – Sixth Circuit Judicial Columbus, OH Notes
Conference provided.
Press
The sponsor of this panel, the Sixth Circuit provided.
Judicial Conference, paid for my travel
expenses.
5/3/10 Remarks – Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference Chicago, IL Notes
Annual Dinner provided.
Press
The sponsor of this panel, the Seventh Circuit provided.
Judicial Conference, paid for my travel Video at: c-
expenses. spanvideo.org
/program/293
301-2
4/29/10 Remarks – Georgetown Law Supreme Court Washington, Notes
Institute Reception Honoring Justice Kennedy DC provided.
Press
The sponsor of this event, the Georgetown Law provided.
School Supreme Court Institute, did not provide
me with any funding.
4/29/10 Remarks and Q&A – Third Circuit Judicial Hershey, PA
Conference
The sponsor of this event, the Third Circuit

Judicial Conference, paid for my travel
expenses.
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The name and address of the group is:
Third Circuit Judicial Conference

601 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
I spoke on the work of the Solicitor General’s

Office.
4/14/10 Remarks and Q&A – Supreme Court Seminar Washington,
at Georgetown Law Center (Prof Vicki DC
Jackson)
The sponsor of this event, the Georgetown Law

Center, did not provide me with any funding.
Georgetown Law Center

600 New Jersey Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20001
I discussed the work of the Solicitor General’s

Office.
4/9/10 Remarks – FBI Women’s History Month Event Washington, Text
DC provided.
The sponsor of this event, the FBI, did not
provide me with any funding.
4/8/10 Remarks and Q&A – Supreme Court Litigation Washington,
Class at Georgetown Law Center (Prof Don DC
Ayers)

Center, did not provide me with any funding.


Office.
3/24/10 Remarks and Q&A – Meeting with West Point DOJ
Cadets
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The sponsor of this event, the West Point
Military Academy, did not provide me with any
funding.

Office.
3/11/10 Remarks and Q&A – Georgetown University Washington, Audiotape
Law Center Corporate Counsel Institute DC available

Center Corporate Counsel Institute, did not
provide me with any funding.
2/26/10 Remarks and Q&A – Luncheon for Clerks at Washington,
the D.C. Court of Appeals DC
The sponsor of this event, the D.C. Court of

Appeals, did not provide me with any funding.
The D.C. Court of Appeals

500 Indiana Ave., NW
I spoke with law clerks about the work of the

Solicitor General’s Office.
2/2/10 Remarks – Civil Division Orientation for New DOJ Video
Attorneys provided.
The sponsor of this event, the Department of

Justice, did not provide me with any funding.

Office.
1/28/10 Panelist – “Women Advocates Before the Newseum, Video at: c-
Supreme Court” with Maureen Mahoney, Washington DC spanvideo.org
Wendy Williams, moderated by Sandra Day /program/291
O’Connor 709-1
The sponsor of this event, the Newseum, did

not provide me with any funding.
1/15/09 Remarks – Luncheon for Harvard Law School DOJ
students
The sponsor of this event, Harvard Law School,

did not provide me with any funding.
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Office.
12/1/09 Remarks and Q&A – Orientation for new DOJ
Assistant United States Attorneys
The sponsor of this event, the Justice

Department, did not provide me with any
funding.
I gave brief remarks on the work of the

11/18/09 Remarks – Brown Bag Lunch for OLC DOJ
Attorneys

funding.
I spoke with Justice Department lawyers about

the work of the Solicitor General’s Office.
10/27/09 Remarks and Q&A – Luncheon for Clerks at Washington,
the Supreme Court DC
The sponsor of this event, the Supreme Court,

did not provide me with any funding.
Supreme Court of the United States

One First Street, NE
I spoke with law clerks about the work of the

9/18/09 Remarks – ENRD 100th Anniversary Lecture DOJ
Series

funding.

Office, and the relationship between the SG’s
Office and the Environment and Natural
Resources Division.
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9/15/09 Remarks – Coke Appellate Inn of Court Washington,
DC
The sponsor of this event, the Coke Appellate
Inn of Court, did not provide me with any
funding.
Coke Appellate Inn of Court

1229 King Street, 2nd Floor
Alexandria, VA 22314

Office.
9/11/09 Panelist – “Reflections from the Solicitor HLS Press
General’s Office” with Charles Fried and John Provided
Manning

paid for my travel expenses.
I participated in a panel discussion on the role

of the Solicitor General.
8/31/09 Remarks and Q&A – Orientation for new DOJ
Assistant United States Attorneys

funding.
I gave brief remarks on the work of the

8/10/09 Remarks – DOJ Summer Interns Lecture Series DOJ Video
provided.
funding.
I spoke with Justice Department interns about

the work of the Solicitor General’s Office.
7/31/09 Swearing-in of new Social Security DOJ Video
Administration Administrative Law Judges provided.

funding.
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I swore in new ALJs.
7/23/09 Q&A with Chief Judge Kozinski – Ninth Monterey, CA Video at: c-
Circuit Judicial Conference spanvideo.org
/program/id/2
The sponsor of this event, the Ninth Circuit 10063
Judicial Conference, paid my travel expenses.
7/12/09 Remarks – NYU Institute of Judicial New York, NY
Administration Dinner
The sponsor of this event, the New York

University Institute of Judicial Administration,
paid my travel expenses.
NYU Institute of Judicial Administration

40 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012

Office.
7/10/09 Remarks – DOJ Orientation for New Attorneys DOJ

funding.
I spoke to a class of new Justice Department

lawyers.
6/18/09 Remarks – Appellate Chiefs Conference Videoconferenc
e at DOJ to
The sponsor of this event, the Justice Columbia, SC
funding.

Office.
6/3/09 Speech – Harvard Law School Class Day HLS Press
Ceremony provided.
The sponsor of this event, Harvard Law School, Video at:
paid my travel expenses. law.harvard.e
du/news/2009
/06/04_comm
encement.htm
l
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6/3/09 Remarks – Captain Promotion Ceremony for HLS Press
Kyle Scherer provided

paid my travel expenses.
I was asked to participate in the barring

ceremony for Captain Kyle Scherer, a Harvard
Law School graduate. I gave remarks praising
Capt. Scherer and his service.
5/20/09 Keynote Address – Conference on Independent Georgetown Notes
Courts Law School, Provided
Washington DC
The sponsor of this event, Georgetown Law
School, did not provide me with any funding.

5/19/09 Remarks – Women’s Bar Association of DC Washington DC Press
Annual Dinner provided.
The sponsor of this event, the Women’s Bar

Association of D.C., did not provide me with
any funding.
I gave remarks accepting the Woman Lawyer of

the Year Award.
5/6/09 Introduction of Neal Katyal at Asian Pacific Washington DC Video
Event at Department of Justice provided.

funding.
I gave remarks introducing Deputy Solicitor

General Neal Katyal.
5/1/09 Remarks – Annual Georgetown Supreme Court Washington DC
Institute Reception
The sponsor of this event, the Georgetown

Supreme Court Institute, did not provide me
with any funding.
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1/17/09 Remarks –Celebration Brunch for HLS Alumni Washington,
in honor of Barack Obama DC
12/5/08 Remarks -- Alumni Lunch NYC
I spoke with HLS alumni about the state of the

school.
12/3/08 Remarks -- Faculty Chair Lecture (Cass HLS Tape
Sunstein) Provided
11/21/08 Remarks – Globalization of the Legal MA Press
Profession Conference, sponsored by the provided.
American Society of International Law.
The American Society of International Law

2223 Massachusetts Ave., NW
I spoke on legal education in the global setting.

11/19/08 Remarks -- HLS Medal of Freedom Award HLS Press
Presentation to Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Provided
Chaudhry Tape
Provided
11/18/08 Remarks -- Ames Moot Court Final Round HLS
Argument
I introduced the participants in the finals of the

HLS moot court competition.
11/12/08 Welcome -- Islamic Legal Studies Program HLS
Workshop
I gave brief welcoming remarks to the

workshop attendees.
11/12/08 Remarks -- Introduced Francis W. Biddle HLS Tape
Memorial Lecture given by Ian Ayres Provided
11/10/08 Remarks -- Presentation of Gary Bellow Public HLS
Service Award
10/29/08 Remarks -- Faculty Chair Lecture (Jon Hanson) HLS Press
Provided
Tape
Provided
10/25/08 Q&A with Dean -- HLS Alumni Reunions HLS Tape
Provided
10/24/08 Moderate Panel -- Supreme Insights: HLS Tape
Examining the Future of America's Highest Provided
Court
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10/24/08 Remarks -- HLS Capital Campaign Recognition HLS
Luncheon
I thanked Harvard Law School donors for their

support of the school.
10/23/08 Remarks -- HLS Capital Campaign Celebration HLS Press
Dinner Provided
I thanked Harvard Law School donors for their

support of the school.
10/17/08 Remarks -- Introduce Sandra Day O'Connor as HLS Press
part of HLS Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Provided
Conference Tape
Provided
10/16/08 Remarks -- Equal Justice Works Dinner, Washington, Video
acceptance of Dean of the Year Award DC available at
http://www.yo
utube.com/wa
tch?v=XrJsh7
O8z3s
10/15/08 Remarks -- Dinner Honoring HLS Heyman Washington,
Fellows DC
I gave brief remarks praising the recipients of

the Heyman Fellowship.
10/15/08 Remarks -- Alumni Lunch Washington,
DC
school.
10/14/08 Welcome -- Introduce Supreme Court Moot HLS
Court Event
I introduced the moot court participants and the

case.
10/14/08 Remarks -- Faculty Chair Lecture (Yochai HLS Press
Benkler) Provided
Tape
Provided
10/7/08 Remarks -- HLS Public Service Initiative HLS
Dinner
I gave brief remarks on the importance of the

HLS Public Service Initiative.
10/6/08 Speech -- John W. King Lecture at New Concord, NH Text Provided
Hampshire Supreme Court
22
10/2/08 Remarks -- Introduction to Herbert W. Vaughan HLS Press
Lecture given by Justice Scalia Provided
Tape
Provided
10/1/08 Moderate Panel -- The Financial Crisis: Causes HLS Press
and Cures Provided
Tape
Provided
9/27/08 Welcome -- Introduce Panel at Harvard Harvard
University Gay and Lesbian Alumni Event University
I welcomed the event participants and spoke

generally about the event.
9/26/08 Remarks -- Conference Honoring HLS HLS Tape
Professor Morton Horwitz Provided
9/23/08 Remarks -- Introduce "The Idea of Justice," a HLS Press
lecture by Amartya Sen Provided
9/23/08 Remarks -- Program on Negotiation: Great HLS
Negotiator Award Presented to Christo and
Jeanne Claude
9/22/08 Moderate Panel -- Dean's Forum: Inside the HLS Tape
Laws and Policies of Televised Presidential Provided
Debates
9/22/08 Remarks – Introduce Deval Patrick at American HLS Press
Constitution Society event Provided
9/21/08 Remarks -- HLS Alumni "Celebration 55": HLS Tape
Presentation of Alumni Award to Provided
Congresswoman Jane Harman
9/20/08 Q&A with Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- HLS HLS Tape
Alumni "Celebration 55" Provided
9/19/08 Welcome and Remarks -- HLS Alumni HLS Tape
"Celebration 55: Women's Leadership Summit" Provided
9/19/08 Q&A with the Dean -- HLS Alumni HLS Tape
"Celebration 55" Provided
9/19/08 Remarks -- HLS Alumni Celebration 55: HLS Tape
Presentation of Alumni Award to Rita E. Provided
Hauser
9/17/08 Remarks -- HLS Public Service Orientation HLS Tape
Provided
9/16/08 Introduction -- Faculty Chair Lecture (Noah HLS Press
Feldman) Provided
Tape
Provided
9/15/08 Speech -- HLS State of the School Speech HLS Text Provided
9/12/08 Remarks -- Microsoft 10 Years Later HLS Tape
Conference Provided
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9/11/08 Remarks -- Faculty Comparative Law HLS
Conference
I welcomed the conference participants and

spoke generally about the event.
9/9/08 Welcome -- HLS Intellectual Property Law Cambridge, MA Video
Conference available at:
http://www.hl
I gave brief remarks welcoming the conference sipconference.
attendees. com/materials
_bios/
9/9/08 Moderate Panel -- Dean's Forum: The Role of HLS Tape
Courts in the War on Terror Provided
9/2- Remarks -- First Year Student Welcome HLS
10/08 Dinners
I spoke to incoming HLS students about the law

school.
8/29/08 Speech -- Dean's Speech to New 1L and LLM HLS Text Provided
Students
7/30/08 Remarks -- HLS Charles Hamilton Houston New York, NY
Institute, Thurgood Marshall Celebration

6/14/08 Moderate Panel--American Constitution Washington,
Society -- Celebrating Judge Patricia Wald. DC
American Constitution Society

1333 H Street, NW #11
I moderated a panel discussion on Judge Wald’s

career.
6/13/08 Moderate Panel--American Constitution Washington, Video at
Society, "Law & Justice Policies In A New DC acslaw.
Administration" org/node/6717
6/5/08 Speech -- HLS Commencement HLS Text Provided
6/4/08 Remarks--HLS Graduating Students Class Day HLS Tape
Provided
5/27/08 Remarks--Retirement Party for Professors Terry HLS
Martin and John Mansfield
I gave brief remarks praising Profs. Martin and
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Mansfield.
5/22/08 Welcome--HLS Leadership in Law Firms HLS

Conference
I gave brief remarks welcoming the conference

attendees.
5/15/08 Remarks--Berkman Center 10th Anniversary HLS Press
Event Provided
I gave brief remarks announcing an expansion

of the Berkman’s Center’s work.
5/3/08 Q & A with the Dean--Alumni Reunions HLS Tape
Provided
5/2/08 Remarks--Alumni Lunch HLS Tape
Provided
5/1/08 Remarks--Standing Committee of Judicial HLS
Conference Reception
I gave brief remarks welcoming the attendees.

4/24/08 Remarks--Harvard University Native American HLS
Program Event

4/18/08 Remarks--International Law Journal HLS Tape
Conference Provided
4/17/08 Remarks--Third Year Student Graduation HLS
Dinner
I gave remarks congratulating members of the

HLS Class of ’08.
4/15/08 Remarks--HLS Alumni Breakfast Washington,
DC
I spoke with HLS alumni about the school..
4/11/08 Welcome--Carbon Offsets Conference HLS
Luncheon

attendees.
4/4/08 Remarks--Memorial Service for Professor Clark HLS Text Provided
Byse
4/4/08 Remarks -- Introduce Robert Zoellick HLS
4/2/08 Introduction--Faculty Chair Lecture (Carol HLS Tape
Steiker) Provided
4/2/08 Remarks--Dinner Honoring HLS Kaufman HLS
25
Fellows

the Kaufman Fellowship.
3/31/08 Talk to federal judges re legal education HLS
I spoke on trends in legal education and

innovations at HLS.
3/19/08 Moderate Panel sponsored by ACS, Federalist HLS
Society on "Post-Partisanship"
I moderated a panel discussion on politics.

3/18- Remarks--Ames Moot Court Semi-Final Round HLS
19/08 Arguments
I introduced the participants in the HLS moot

court competition semi-finals.
3/15/08 Q & A with Dean--HLS Public Interest HLS Press
Reunion Provided
Tape
Provided
3/14- Remarks--Introduce Bryan Stevenson and Bill HLS Tape
15/08 Weld at HLS Public Interest Reunion Provided
3/14/08 Remarks -- Conversation with Jennifer HLS Press
Granholm at Public Interest Reunion Provided
Tape
Provided
3/11/08 Remarks -- Introduce Q&A with Justice HLS Tape
Kennedy Provided
3/10/08 Remarks--Dinner to Celebrate Justice HLS
Kennedy's 20th Year on the Supreme Court
I introduced Justice Kennedy and offered a

tribute to his service on the Supreme Court.
3/8/08 Panelist -- "Women and the Law" at the Peter Philadelphia, Audio
Jennings Project Conference PA available
http://feeds.fe
edburner.com/
nccprograms
2/27/08 Introduction--Faculty Chair Lecture (George HLS Tape
Triantis) Provided
2/22/08 Remarks--HLS Black Law Students HLS
Association Spring Conference Alumni Lunch
I spoke with HLS alumni and students about

developments at the school.
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2/20/08 Moderate Panel -- "20 Questions with Anthony Harvard
Lewis" University
I moderated a panel discussion featuring

Anthony Lewis.
2/19/08 Panelist-- HLS Democrats "Women in Politics" HLS
Panel
2/14/08 Remarks--Swearing-in Ceremony for Professor HLS Press
Mary Ann Glendon (U.S. Ambassador to the provided.
Vatican)
I gave a toast at the swearing-in of Mary Ann

Glendon.
2/4/08 Introduction--Faculty Chair Lecture (John HLS Tape
Coates) Provided
2/2/08 Panelist--Dean's Panel at Milbank Partner's West Palm
Meeting. Beach, FL
Milbank
One Chase Manhattan Plaza
New York, NY 10005-1413
I participated in a panel discussion on

developments in the legal profession and legal
education.
12/3/07 Introduction--Faculty Chair Lecture (Gerry HLS Tape
Neuman) Provided
11/14/07 Remarks--Ames Moot Court Final Round HLS
Argument
I introduced the participants in the final round

of the HLS moot court competition.
11/13/07 Moderate Panel -- Dean's Forum: Dealing with HLS Tape
Terrorism: What Congress and the President Provided
Should Do
11/8/07 Q & A with the Dean-- Alumni Leadership New York, NY
Conference
I participated in a question-and-answer session

with HLS alumni.
11/7/07 Remarks--Alumni Dinner HLS
I spoke to HLS alumni about the state of the

school.
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11/3/07 Remarks--Bellow Sacks Conference on Legal HLS
Services

attendees.
10/29/07 Introduction--Faculty Chair Lecture (Mark HLS Press
Tushnet) Provided
Tape
Provided
10/28/07 Remarks– Native American Alumni HLS Press
Celebration provided.
I gave brief remarks thanking the Oneida Indian

Nation for its gift to the law school
10/27/07 Q & A with the Dean--HLS Alumni Reunion HLS Tape
Provided
10/26/07 Remarks -- Conversation with Michael Kinsley HLS Tape
at Reunion Event Provided
10/24/07 Remarks--Dinner Honoring HLS Heyman Washington,
Fellows DC

the Heyman Fellowship.
10/17/07 Speech—Address to Cadets at West Point West Point Text Provided
Academy Academy
10/4/07 Remarks -- Introduced “Terrorism, Climate HLS
Change & Beyond” (panel featuring Cass
Sunstein)
10/3/07 Remarks--Asian and Pacific American Law HLS
Students Association Dinner
I have no recollection of my remarks at this

event.
10/1/07 Remarks--HLS Alumnae Luncheon New York, NY
I spoke with HLS alumnae about the state of the

school.
9/19/07 Remarks--HLS Public Service Orientation HLS Press
Provided
Tape
Provided
9/17/07 Speech--HLS State of the School Speech HLS Text Provided
9/17/07 Introduction--Faculty Chair Lecture (Janet HLS Tape
Halley) Provided
9/6/07 Remarks--Unveiling of Charles Hamilton HLS Tape
Houston Portrait Provided
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9/3- Remarks--First Year Student Welcome Dinners HLS
11/07
I spoke with incoming HLS students about the
law school.
8/31/07 Speech--Dean's Speech for New 1L and LLM HLS Text Provided
Students
7/28/07 Moderate Panel--ACS National Convention, Washington, Video at
Congress & Balance of Power Panel DC acslaw.org/No
de/5196
7/26/07 Remarks--Leadership in Law Firms Reception HLS
I gave brief remarks welcoming the reception

attendees.
6/14- Various Remarks and Q&A at HLS Alumni Washington, Press
15/07 Events DC provided.
I gave remarks at several alumni events over the

weekend. Among them, I presented Olara
Otunnu with the Harvard Law School
Association Award, and I participated in a
question-and-answer session.
6/6/07 Remarks -- HLS Graduating Students Class HLS Tape
Day Ceremony Provided
5/31/07 Remarks -- American Bar Association Law Broomfield, CO
School Development Conference: Soliciting
Law Firms.
The American Bar Association

321 N. Clark St.
Chicago, IL 60654-7598
I spoke about fundraising.

5/24/07 Remarks -- HLS Program on the Legal HLS
Profession Executive Education Program
I welcomed the program participants and spoke

about the relationship between private practice
and academia.
5/23/07 Remarks -- HLS Retiring Faculty Reception HLS
I gave remarks praising retiring faculty

members William Andrews, Arthur Miller, Paul
Weiler, and Bernard Wolfman.
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5/21/07 Conversation – Massachusetts HLS Alumnae Boston, MA Text
Network reception provided.
I led a conversation on women in the legal

profession.
5/5/07 Welcome – American Law and Economics HLS Press
Association Annual Meeting provided.
Text
I gave brief remarks welcoming the attendees. provided.
4/28/07 Q&A with Dean -- HLS Alumni Reunion HLS Tape
Provided
4/26/07 Remarks -- Cox-Richardson-Coleman Public HLS Press
Service Award, received by Patrick Fitzgerald provided.
Audio
I introduced the award winner. available at
www.law.har
vard.edu/medi
a/2007/04/26/
alm-rel.rm
4/25/07 Remarks -- Dinner Honoring HLS Kaufman HLS
Fellows
I gave remarks praising the recipients of the

Kaufman Fellowship.
4/24/07 Remarks -- Federal Judicial Center Conference HLS
on Legal Education

innovations at HLS.
4/23/07 Remarks -- Program on Negotiation: Great HLS Tape
Negotiator Award, received by Bruce Provided
Wasserstein
4/21/07 Remarks -- Latino Law and Public Policy HLS
Conference Breakfast
I gave brief remarks welcoming the

participants.
4/19/07 Remarks -- Supreme Court Advocacy Project HLS
Moot Court
I introduced the participants and gave a

description of the case.
4/19/07 Remarks -- Gary Bellow Public Service Award HLS
Ceremony
I presented the Gary Bellow Public Service
30
Award.
4/16/07 Introduction -- Faculty Chair Lecture (Ryan HLS Tape
Goodman) Provided
4/16/07 Remarks - Harvard Humanities Center Panel Harvard
on Human Enhancement University
I gave remarks at a panel discussion of Michael

Sandel’s book on genetic enhancement.
4/14/07 Remarks -- HLS Civil Rights & Civil Liberties HLS Press
Law Review Dinner provided.
I gave brief remarks honoring several attorneys

for their public service work.
4/13/07 Welcome -- ABA Conference: Children and the HLS Press
Law Provided
Tape
Provided
4/13/07 Welcome -- Harvard Law Journal on Law and HLS Transcript
Gender Conference on Title IX Provided
4/9/07 Remarks -- Introduced John Dewey Lecture in HLS Tape
the Philosophy of Law given by Robert George Provided
4/7/07 Remarks -- HLS Charles Hamilton Houston HLS Press
Institute 150th Anniversary of Dred Scott Event Provided
Tape
Provided
3/20/07 Remarks -- Ames Moot Court Semi-Final HLS
Round Arguments
I introduced the participants in the semi-final

round of the HLS moot court competition.
3/19/07 Moderate Panel -- Petrie-Flom Conference on HLS Press
Proper Legal Limits on Human Enhancement Provided
I moderated a panel discussion on the legal and

ethical limits of bio-engineering.
3/6/07 Remarks – I introduced Joel Klein, who gave HLS Tape
the HLS/Appleseed Inaugural Lecture Provided
3/3/07 Remarks – I introduced a panel at the HLS HLS
Lambda Conference on Don't Ask Don't Tell Press
provided.
Transcript
Provided
2/20/07 Introduction -- Faculty Chair Lecture (Randall HLS Press
Kennedy) provided.
2/16/07 Remarks -- Women's Law Association HLS
Conference Dinner
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I welcomed the attendees and spoke generally
about the conference.
2/9/07 Remarks -- HLS Constitutional Law HLS
Conference
I welcomed the conference attendees and spoke

generally about the conference.
2/6/07 Introduction -- Faculty Chair Lecture (William HLS Press
Stuntz) provided.
1/4/07 Panelist -- AALS Plenary Session on Academic Washington, Audio at
Freedom DC www.aals.org/
am2007/thurs
day/index.htm
l#plenary
12/1/06 Remarks -- HLS American Society for HLS Press
International Law Conference Provided
I welcomed the conference attendees and spoke

generally about the conference.
11/30/06 Remarks -- Q&A with Justice Scalia HLS Press
Provided
Tape
Provided
11/29/06 Remarks -- Dinner for Justice Scalia HLS
I gave remarks discussing Justice Scalia’s

service on the Supreme Court.
11/20/06 Moderate Panel -- Harvard Law Review HLS
Supreme Court Forum
I moderated a panel discussion about the

Supreme Court’s prior term.
Argument

11/8/06 Introduction of Jeffrey Toobin at HLS Alumni New York, NY
Dinner
11/7/06 Introduction -- Faculty Chair Lecture (Joseph HLS Tape
Singer) Provided
11/3/06 Remarks -- Festschrift Dinner Honoring HLS
Professor Paul Weiler
I gave remarks praising Prof. Paul Weiler.
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11/1/06 Remarks -- Introduced Francis W. Biddle HLS Text Provided
Memorial Lecture given by Reva Siegel
10/28/06 Q&A with Dean -- HLS Alumni Reunion HLS Tape
Provided
10/28/06 Remarks – Introduction of Justice Kennedy at HLS Text Provided
HLS Alumni Reunion Lunch
10/25/06 Remarks -- Reception Celebrating HLS Tape
Establishment of Rite E. Hauser Professorship Provided
of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
10/19/06 Remarks -- Program on International Financial HLS
Systems Conference
I gave brief remarks about the conference and

welcomed the attendees.
10/18/06 Remarks -- Dinner Honoring HLS Heyman Washington, Press
Fellows DC provided.
I gave brief remarks praising the Heyman

Fellowship recipients.
10/3/06 Remarks -- Introduced Oliver Wendell Holmes HLS Tape
Lecture given by Bruce Ackerman Provided
9/21/06 Remarks -- Introduced Israeli Supreme Court HLS Press
President Aharon Barak Provided
Tape
Provided
9/20/06 Speech -- State of School Address HLS
Press
provided
Text Provided
9/20/06 Remarks -- Gruber Foundation Dinner honoring HLS Press
Aharon Barak provided
I discussed Aharon Barak’s judicial career.

9/19/06 Remarks -- HLS Public Service Orientation HLS Press
Provided
Tape
Provided
9/8/06 Introduction -- Faculty Chair Lecture (Einer HLS Press
Elhauge) Provided
Tape
Provided
9/7/06 Welcome -- HLS Multi-Jurisdictional Mock HLS
Patent Trial
I introduced the mock trial and welcomed

participants.
33
9/7/06 Remarks -- HLS Petrie Flom Dinner on Law HLS
and Bioethics
I spoke about the recent activities of the Petrie

Flom Program at HLS.
9/4- Remarks -- First Year Student Welcoming HLS
14/06 Dinners
I spoke with incoming HLS students about the

law school.
9/1/06 Speech -- Dean's Speech to New 1L and LLM HLS Text Provided
Students
7/18/06 Remarks -- Middlesex Committee of the MA
Women's Bar Association.
Middlesex Committee of the Women’s Bar

Association
27 School Street, Suite 500
Boston, MA 02108
I spoke about issues relating to women in the

law.
6/7/06 Remarks -- HLS Alumni Lunch HLS

school.
6/7/06 Remarks – Introduced Linda Greenhouse at HLS Press
HLS Graduating Student Class Day Provided
Tape
Provided
6/3/06 Panelist -- Princeton Reunion Session on "The Princeton, NJ
Roberts Court: Year One."
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
I participated in a panel discussion on the 2005

Term of the Supreme Court.
5/26/06 Q&A with the Dean -- Harvard Law School Catania, ITALY
Association of Europe
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with alumni.
5/22/06 Welcome -- Law Teaching Workshop for HLS HLS
Alumni
I gave brief remarks welcoming the workshop

participants.
5/15/06 Remarks -- HLS Faculty Retirement HLS
Celebration (Professors Herwitz, Shapiro,
Sander)
I gave remarks praising retiring HLS faculty.

5/12/06 Remarks -- Introduce Paul Clement at Alumni Washington,
Event at Supreme Court DC
I introduced former Solicitor General Paul

Clement.
4/29/06 Q&A with the Dean -- HLS Alumni Reunion HLS

with alumni.
4/28/06 Remarks -- Dinner Honoring Professor Frank HLS
Sander
I gave remarks discussing Prof. Frank Sander’s

work.
4/27/06 Remarks -- HLS Scholarship Recipient Dinner HLS
I gave remarks to alumni and students

discussing the importance of contributions for
financial aid.
4/25/06 Moderate Panel -- Student Panel on Free HLS
Expression and Harassment
I moderated a student panel on how the law

should deal with incidents of harassment.
4/24/06 Remarks -- Dinner honoring HLS Kaufman HLS
Fellows
I gave brief remarks praising recipients of the

Kaufman Fellowship.
4/21/06 Welcome -- Breakfast for Annual Harvard HLS
Latino Law and Policy Conference

participants.
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4/21/06 Welcome -- Faculty Conference on Criminal HLS
Procedure

participants.
4/19/06 Remarks -- Memorial Service for Professor HLS Text Provided
Arthur von Mehren
4/12/06 Remarks -- Opening of Navajo Supreme Court HLS Press
Session Provided
Tape
Provided
4/11/06 Remarks -- HLS Law Firm Pro Bono Fair HLS
I gave remarks on the importance of pro bono

work.
4/11/06 Remarks -- Presentation of Gary Bellow Public HLS
Service Award
4/8/06 Moderate Panel -- LAMBDA Student HLS
Organization Panel on Relationship Between
Law Schools and the Military
I moderated a panel discussion on the Solomon

Amendment.
4/5/06 Q & A -- A Conversation with Mark Warner HLS Tape
Provided
4/4/06 Remarks and Q&A -- Federal Judiciary HLS
Conference on Legal Education
I spoke to judges about trends in legal education

and innovations at HLS.
3/25/06 Panelist -- Yale Law Journal Symposium, New Haven, CT Video
Session on "Energy in the Executive: The available at:
Power of Unitary Leadership" http://www.xa
nga.com/Judit
I participated in a panel discussion on the hEmily/46443
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3/21- Remarks -- Ames Moot Court Semi-Final HLS
22/06 Round Dinner

3/20/06 Welcome -- Harvard Journal on Legislation HLS
Symposium, "Middle Class Crunch"
I talked generally about the symposium and
36
welcomed the participants.
3/20/06 Introduction -- Faculty Chair Lecture (David HLS Tape

Rosenberg) Provided
3/17/06 Welcome -- HLS Journal of Law and HLS Video
Technology Conference available at:
http://www.la
I welcomed attendees to the conference and w.harvard.edu
introduced the keynote speaker, Prof. Jerry /media/d/2010
Thursby /05/17/kagan_
joltsymp_200
6_03_17.rm
3/17/06 Welcome -- National Democratic Law Students HLS Press
Council Kick-Off Convention Provided
I gave brief remarks about the event and

3/11/06 Welcome – HLS Black Law Students HLS
Association Annual Conference

3/10/06 Welcome – HLS Climate Policy Conference HLS Press
provided
3/10/06 Moderate Panel -- Harvard Journal on Law and HLS
Gender conference on legal education and
gender
I moderated a panel discussion among faculty

and students on legal education and gender.
3/7/06 Welcome -- Speech by Massachusetts HLS
Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey
I introduced Gov. Healey.

3/4/06 Welcome -- HLS International Law Journal HLS
Symposium
I spoke generally about the symposium and

welcomed the participants.
2/25/06 Welcome -- UN Reform and Human Rights HLS Press
Conference Provided
Tape
Provided
2/22/06 Introduction -- Faculty Chair Lecture (Martha HLS
37
Minow)
2/16/06 Welcome -- HLS Federalist Society and HLS
American Constitution Society Sponsored Moot
Court
I welcomed the moot court participants and

gave background about the case.
2/11/06 Remarks -- HLS Alumni of the Americas Miami, FL
Celebration

school.
2/6/06 Remarks -- Memorial Service for Professor HLS Text Provided
David Westfall
2/5/06 Remarks -- Dinner honoring HLS Skadden HLS
Fellows

the Skadden Fellowship.
1/19/06 Remarks and Q&A -- HLS Alumni Association Tokyo, JAPAN
of Japan

with alumni.
1/15/06 Remarks -- HLS Alumni Association of China Beijing,
CHINA
I gave brief remarks to HLS alumni on the state
of the school.
1/11/06 Remarks and Q&A -- HLS Alumni Association Seoul, KOREA
of Korea

with alumni.
12/3/05 Welcome--HLS Disability Law Workshop HLS
I spoke generally about the event and welcomed

the participants.
11/30/05 Remarks--HLS Petrie Flom Center Celebration New York, NY
I spoke about the recent activities of the Petrie

Flom Center at HLS.
11/17/05 Remarks--Ames Moot Court Final Competition HLS

11/16/05 Introduction--Faculty Chair Lecture (Allen HLS
38
Ferrell)
11/12/05 Welcome -- ACS Regional Conference HLS Press
Provided
I gave remarks welcoming the conference
attendees.
11/9/05 Moderate Panel--Dean's Forum: Executive HLS Tape
Power, Detention, and Interrogation Provided
11/7/05 Speech--Leslie H. Arps Memorial Lecture on New York, NY Text Provided
Women and the Law at the Association of the
Bar of the City of New York
11/5/05 Welcome--HLS China Symposium HLS

the participants.
11/4/05 Welcome--Panel on Director Liability, HLS
sponsored by HLS Corporate Governance
Program
I welcomed the participants in a panel

discussion on corporate executive liability.
11/3/05 Remarks--HLS Nuremberg Trials Conference HLS
on Pursuing Human Dignity

the participants.
11/2/05 Remarks--Alumni Dinner New York, NY

school.
11/1/05 Remarks -- Great Lawyers Forum with Ted HLS Press
Wells Provided
I introduced Ted Wells and interviewed him

about his career.
10/26/05 Welcome--Dinner Honoring HLS Heyman Washington,
Fellows DC
I gave remarks praising the recipients of the

Heyman Fellowship.
10/22/05 Q & A with the Dean--Alumni Reunion HLS
Weekend

with HLS alumni.
10/19/05 Remarks--HLS Conference on Intellectual HLS
Property Law
39
I spoke generally about the conference and
10/12/05 Remarks -- LAMBDA Student Event HLS
I do not recall the substance of my remarks.

10/11/05 Introduction--Faculty Chair Lecture (Howell HLS
Jackson)
10/8/05 Speech--American Academy of Arts & HLS Text Provided
Sciences Induction Ceremony
10/5/05 Remarks--Great Lawyers Forum with Newton HLS Tape
Minow Provided
10/3/05 Moderate Panel--Dean's Forum: The U.S. HLS Tape
Supreme Court's 2005 Term Provided
10/2/05 Remarks--Alliance of Independent Feminists, HLS
Harvard Federalist Society, and Journal of Law
& Public Policy Event

9/29/05 Q & A with Dean--American Constitution HLS
Student Society

with an HLS student group.
9/28/05 Moderate Panel--Anglo-American Legal HLS Press
Exchange Panel (with Justices Breyer and Provided
Scalia and British counterparts) Tape
Provided
9/28/05 Remarks--Anglo-American Legal Exchange HLS
Dinner

9/22/05 Speech--State of the School Address HLS Text Provided
9/19/05 Remarks--Federalist Society and American HLS
Constitution Society Moot Court
I welcomed the moot court participants and

described the case.
9/17/05 Q & A with the Dean-Alumni Leadership HLS
Conference & Celebration of Black Alumni

with alumni.
9/17/05 Remarks-- HLS Celebration of Black Alumni & HLS Press
Alumni Award to Senator Barack Obama Provided
Tape
40
Provided
9/16/05 Remarks--HLS Alumni Leadership Conference HLS Press

Dinner provided.
I gave brief welcoming remarks to the

conference attendees.
9/15/05 Remarks--HLS Charles Hamilton Houston HLS Press
Institute Event provided.
Tape
Provided
9/10/05 Remarks--HLS Black Law Students HLS
Association Luncheon

9/9/05 Welcome-- HLS Public Service Student HLS
Orientation
I gave remarks on the importance of public

service.
9/2/05 Speech--Dean's Speech to New 1L and LLM HLS
Students

school.
9/1- Remarks--First Year Student Welcome Dinners HLS
14/05
school.
7/29/05 Moderate Panel-American Constitution HLS Transcript
Society-Commander-in-Chief Power in the 21st provided
Century
6/22/05 Welcome – Internet Law Program sponsored by HLS Press
the Berkman Center for Internet & Society provided.
Video
I gave brief welcoming remarks to open the available at:
conference. http://www.la
w.harvard.edu
/media/d/2010
/05/17/kagan_
intlaw_welco
me_2005_06_
22.rm
41
school.
6/8/05 Remarks -- HLS Graduating Student Class Day HLS Press
provided.
I introduced the Class Day speaker, Eliot
Spitzer.
6/1/05 Panelist -- New Realities of Fundraising at Jackson Hole,
American Bar Association Conference. WY
The American Bar Association

321 N. Clark St.
I participated in a panel discussion on

fundraising.
5/18/05 Remarks -- Federal Judicial Center Program at HLS
HLS
I gave remarks on the state of legal education.

4/29/05 Remarks -- HLS Federalist Society & HLS HLS
Journal of Law & Public Policy Banquet

Fellows

4/23/05 Remarks -- 8th Annual Harvard Latino Law and HLS
Policy Conference Breakfast

participants.
4/16/05 Q&A with the Dean -- HLS Reunions HLS Tape
Provided
4/8/05 Remarks -- In Response to Paper Given by Yale HLS
Law School Professor Akhil Amar at
Constitutional Law Conference
I critiqued a section of Akhil Amar’s book The

American Constitution: A Biography.
4/8/05 Welcome -- HLS Student Conference on HLS
Women and War
42
I spoke about the conference and welcomed
attendees.
4/6- Remarks -- Third-Year Student Graduation HLS
19/05 Dinners
I congratulated members of the HLS Class of

’05.
3/24/05 Remarks -- Faculty Conference on Governance HLS
by Design
I spoke about the conference and welcomed the

participants.
23/05 Round Arguments

3/19/05 Welcome -- Harvard Civil Rights-Civil HLS
Liberties Law Review 40th Anniversary
Conference
I spoke about the conference and welcomed the

attendees.
3/16/05 Remarks and Q&A -- HLS Students Law HLS
Teaching Colloquium

on law teaching.
3/12/05 Welcome -- Black Law Students Association Harvard
Banquet
I welcomed the banquet attendees.

3/5/05 Moderate Panel -- International Law Journal HLS
Discussion on Professors Detlav Vagts and
Henry Steiner
I moderated a panel discussion on international

law.
2/26/05 Remarks -- Federalist Society Symposium HLS
Banquet.

2/16/05 Remarks -- Dinner Honoring HLS Skadden Harvard
Fellows
43
2/7/05 Introduction -- Faculty Chair Lecture (Richard HLS
Fallon)
1/17/05 Panelist -- Free Speech in Wartime: Theoretical Rutgers Univ.
and Practical Perspectives. Law School,
Camden NJ
Rutgers Law School

217 North Fifth Street
Camden, NJ 08102
I participated in a panel discussion on the First

Amendment in times of crisis.
1/10/05 Remarks -- California Alumni Capital Los Angeles,
Campaign Kickoff CA
I spoke with HLS alumni about the school.

1/9/05 Remarks -- Capital Campaign Dinner Los Angeles,
CA
I introduced Congresswoman Jane Harman
1/8/05 Remarks -- West Coast Alumni Capital San Francisco,
Campaign Kickoff CA

12/10/04 Welcome – Internet & Society Conference HLS Video
available at:
I gave brief welcoming remarks http://www.la
w.harvard.edu
/media/d/2010
/05/17/kagan_
berkman_wel
come_2004_1
2_09.rm
Argument

11/17/04 Remarks -- Chicago Alumni Capital Campaign Chicago, IL
Kickoff
I spoke with HLS alumni.

11/15/04 Moderate Panel -- Dean's Forum: Perilous HLS Video
Times: Free Speech in Wartime - a available at:
Conversation with Geoffrey Stone http://www.la
44
w.harvard.edu
I moderated a panel discussion on the First /media/2004/1
Amendment in times of crisis. 1/15/dean_ge
offstone.mov
11/8/04 Moderate Panel -- Dean's Forum: 9/11 HLS Video
Commission available at:
http://www.la
I moderated a panel discussion on the work of w.harvard.edu
the 9/11 Commission. /media/2004/1
1/08/dean_91
1_comm.mov
11/3/04 Remarks -- Radcliffe Women's Faculty Lunch Harvard
I spoke on the differences between men’s and

women’s experiences at law school.
10/29/04 Moderate Panel -- Comparative Rationalities in HLS
European and U.S. Administrative Law
I moderated a panel discussion on comparative

administrative law.
10/28/04 Moderate Panel -- Equal Justice Works Washington DC
Conference, Session on Moral Lawyering.
Equal Justice Works

2120 L Street, NW, Suite 450
I moderated a panel discussion on the legal

profession.
10/27/04 Remarks -- HLS Capital Campaign Kickoff Washington DC

10/23/04 Remarks – Harvard Legal Aid Buearu 90th HLS Press
Anniversary provided.
I gave brief remarks at a reception

commemorating the 90th anniversary of the
Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.
10/23/04 Q&A with the Dean -- HLS Alumni Reunion HLS

with HLS alumni.
10/19/04 Remarks -- American Friends of Hebrew NYC Text Provided
University Torch of Learning Award Lunch
45
10/16/04 Remarks -- Human Rights Program 20th HLS Text Provided
Anniversary Reception
10/15/04 Remarks -- LAMBDA Student Event HLS Press
Provided
I discussed my views on the Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell Policy and the Solomon Amendment.
10/14/04 Welcome -- Conference on The Past, Present & HLS Tape
Future of Jewish Settlements in the West Bank Provided
and Gaza
10/12/04 Moderate Panel -- Letters to a Young Lawyer HLS
Discussion for First-Year HLS Students
I moderated a panel discussion on the career

paths of young lawyers.
10/8/04 Remarks -- Archibald Cox Memorial Service HLS Text Provided
10/7/04 Remarks -- Dinner Honoring HLS Heyman Washington DC
Fellows

the Heyman Fellowship
10/5/04 Moderate Panel -- Dean's Forum: U.S. Supreme HLS Tape
Court's 2004 Term Provided
I moderated a panel discussion on the 2004

Term of the Supreme Court.
10/4/04 Remarks -- Presentation of Cox-Richardson- HLS
Coleman Public Service Award
I gave remarks honoring California State

Senator Sheila Kuehl.
10/4/04 Moderate Panel -- Women in Elected Office HLS
Discussion
I moderated a panel discussion on women

politicians.
10/2/04 Welcome -- Just Democracy Organization HLS
Conference
I welcomed the conference participants.

9/23/04 Remarks -- HLS Program on the Legal HLS
Profession Lunch

9/23/04 Speech -- HLS State of the School Speech HLS Press
Provided
I gave the dean’s annual speech on the state of
46
the school.
9/22/04 Welcome -- Law Firm Pro Bono Fair HLS
I gave welcoming remarks on the importance of

pro bono work.
9/21/04 Remarks -- HLS Public Service Orientation HLS
I gave brief remarks on the importance of

public service.
9/20/04 Remarks -- LLM Student Welcome Dinner HLS
I gave remarks welcoming new students.

9/6- Remarks -- First-Year Student Welcoming HLS
14/04 Dinners

9/3/04 Speech -- Dean's Speech to New 1L and LLM HLS
Students

8/5/04 Remarks -- Dinner Celebrating New Faculty HLS
Chair (Hieken Professorship of Patent Law)
I gave remarks praising the donors of a new

chair in patent law.
6/15- Welcome, Remarks -- HLS International London, Press
19/04 Alumni Meeting England Provided
I gave remarks on the connections between the

University of Cambridge and Harvard
University.
6/11/04 Remarks -- National Pre-Law Advisors Lunch HLS

innovations at HLS.
I spoke with HLS alumni on the state of the

school.
6/9/04 Remarks -- HLS Graduating Students Class HLS
Day
I introduced the class day speakers and

presented student awards.
47
6/3/04 Remarks -- Dinner Celebrating New Faculty HLS
Chair (Robert C. Clark Professorship)
I gave remarks praising the donors of a new

faculty chair.
5/15/04 Speech -- North American Meeting of Lex Boston, MA Text Provided
Mundi
5/6/04 Remarks -- Boston Alumni Regional Campaign HLS
Kickoff

5/4/04 Remarks -- Introduction to Lecture by Jeremy HLS
Waldron ("Safety, Security & Public Goods
With Structure")
4/29/04 Remarks -- Massachusetts Superior Court Dedham, MA
Judges Lunch.
Massachusetts Superior Court

Three Pemberton Square
Boston, MA 02108
I spoke about trends in legal education.

Fellows

4/24/04 Q&A with the Dean -- HLS Alumni Reunions HLS

with HLS alumni.
4/23/04 Remarks -- Alumni Lunch HLS Tape
Provided
4/22/04 Remarks -- HLS Dinner For Donors and HLS
Scholarship Recipients
I gave brief remarks discussing the importance

of support for financial aid.
4/21/04 Moderate Panel -- Dean's Forum on Faculty HLS Tape
Book (David Kennedy: The Dark Side of Provided
Virtue)
4/13- Various Remarks -- Brown v. Board of HLS Press
17/04 Education at 50 Conference Provided
Tape
48
I spoke on a panel of Justice Thurgood Provided
Marshall’s former clerks about the Justice’s
legacy.
4/7- Remarks -- Third-Year Student Graduation HLS`
26/04 Dinners
I congratulated the HLS Class of ’04.

18/04 Arguments

3/16/04 Remarks -- Cox-Richardson-Coleman Public HLS Press
Service Award (honoring Senator Paul Provided
Sarbanes and DOJ Inspector General Glenn
Fine)
I gave brief remarks honoring the award

recipients.
3/11/04 Moderate Panel -- Dean's Forum on Faculty HLS Tape
Book (Charles Fried: Saying What the Law Is: Provided
The Constitution in the Supreme Court)
3/7/04 Remarks -- HLS Black Law Students HLS
Association Brunch

3/1/04 Remarks -- Talk to Federal Judicial Conference HLS
on Legal Education
I spoke about trends in legal education and

innovations at HLS.
2/27/04 Remarks -- HLS Alumni of Florida Dinner Miami, FL

school.
2/17/04 Moderate Panel -- Dean's Forum on Gender and HLS Press
the Classroom Provided
Tape
Provided
2/14/04 Welcome – Latter-Day Saint Student HLS Press
Association Conference provided.

attendees.
2/11/04 Remarks -- Harvard Alumni of Illinois Lunch Chicago, IL
49
school.
2/10/04 Remarks -- HLS Alumni of Houston Breakfast Houston, TX

school.
2/9/04 Remarks -- HLS Alumni of Dallas Lunch Dallas, TX

school.
2/5/04 Moderate Panel -- Dean's Forum on Goodridge HLS Tape
v. Dept. of Public Health Provided
1/30/04 Remarks -- HLS Alumni of New York Lunch New York City,
NY
school.
1/23/04 Remarks -- Dinner Honoring HLS Skadden HLS
Fellows

1/22/04 Speech -- NYU New Building Dedication New York City, Text Provided
(speech on Dean Roscoe Pound's 1952 Speech NY
"Legal Education in a Unified World")
1/5/04 Remarks -- HLS Atlanta/Regional Alumni Atlanta, GA
Lunch

school.
12/8/03 Remarks -- Harvard Alumni of Illinois Lunch Chicago, IL

school.
11/15/03 Remarks -- In Response to Paper Given by HLS
Professor Bruce Ackerman at Constitutional
Law Conference
I critiqued a paper by Bruce Ackerman on

emergency powers under the Constitution.
11/13/03 Remarks -- HLS JD/MBA Reunion Dinner New York City,
NY
school.
Argument
50
11/7/03 Remarks -- Environmental Law Conference HLS
I spoke generally about the conference and

welcomed participants.
11/6/03 Q&A with the Dean -- HLS Alumni of New New Jersey
Jersey

with alumni about the school.
10/30/03 Remarks -- HLS Alumni of Southern California Los Angeles,
Lunch CA

school.
10/28/03 Remarks -- HLS Alumni of Massachusetts Boston. MA
Lunch

school.
10/25/03 Q&A with the Dean -- HLS Alumni Reunions HLS

with HLS alumni about the school.
10/24/03 Remarks -- Hale & Dorr Legal Services Center HLS
10th Anniversary
I spoke about the importance of the clinic’s

work in educating students and providing legal
services to the community.
10/23/03 Remarks -- HLS Law Teachers' Colloquium for HLS
Students
I talked to students about pursuing a career in

academia.
10/20/03 Moderate Panel -- Dean's Forum on the judicial HLS Tape
confirmation process Provided
10/16/03 Remarks -- HLS Alumni Dinner New York City,
NY
school.
10/15/03 Introduction -- Faculty Chair Lecture (Terry HLS Tape
Fisher) Provided
10/14/03 Remarks -- Gary Bellow Public Service Award HLS
Reception
51
I presented the Gary Bellow Public Service
Award.
10/10/03 Welcome -- LAMBDA Student Conference HLS Press
Provided
I gave remarks regarding the Solomon
Amendment and FAIR v. Rumsfeld.
10/9/03 Moderate Panel -- Dean's Forum on U.S. HLS Tape
Supreme Court's 2003 Term Provided
10/8/03 Remarks -- Unveiling of Archibald Cox Portrait HLS Press
Provided
10/7/03 Introduction – Jerry Wurf Memorial Lecture HLS Transcript
given by Governor Bill Richardson provided.
10/2/03 Moderate Panel -- Letters to a Young Lawyer HLS Tape
Discussion for First-Year HLS Students Provided
9/22/03 Remarks - Faculty Book Party (Elizabeth Washington,
Warren: The Two-Income Trap) DC
I gave remarks on Elizabeth Warren’s book.

9/20/03 Remarks -- HLS Gay and Lesbian Alumni Cambridge, MA Press
Reunion Provided
I gave brief remarks about the significance of

the event.
9/19/03 Remarks -- HLS Alumni Leadership HLS
Conference Lunch
I spoke on the state of the school.

9/17/03 Speech -- HLS State of the School Speech HLS Text Provided
9/5/03 Remarks -- Introduce Warren Christopher HLS Press
Provided
I introduced Warren Christopher and praised his
public service.
9/2- Remarks -- First-Year Student Welcome HLS
11/03 Dinners
I welcomed incoming HLS students.

8/31/03 Remarks -- ColorLines Conference -- Plenary HLS
Session: The Future of Race in the Law

8/29/03 Speech -- Dean's Speech to New 1L & LLM HLS
Students
I gave remarks to incoming HLS students about

the law school.
52
8/2/03 Moderate Panel -- American Constitution Washington, Transcript
Society conference (Originalism, Orignal DC Provided
Intent, Original Meaning Panel)
7/24/03 Remarks -- HLS Alumni Reception Washington,
DC
law school.
6/21/03 Remarks on judicial review to Princeton Williamsburg, Notes
Alumni VA Provided
5/3/03 Remarks – 50th Anniversary of Women HLS Press
Graduates provided.
I gave brief welcoming remarks at an alumni

event commemorating 50 years of women
graduates at the law school.
4/30/03 Remarks to bankruptcy judges HLS

innovations by HLS.
4/8/03 Moderate panel on Second Amendment and gun HLS Press
control sponsored by the Harvard Law School provided
Target Shooting Club. Video
available at:
http://www.la
w.harvard.edu
/media/d/2010
/05/17/kagan_
gunctrl_2003-
04-08.rm
4/4/03 Dean Acceptance Speech HLS Press
provided
I gave an acceptance speech on the
announcement of my appointment as dean.
2/24/03 Remarks on judicial review in administrative University of Notes
and constitutional law at academic conference Minnesota Law Provided
School
2/13/03 Remarks on Presidential Administration article. Florida State
Law School
Florida State Law School

425 W. Jefferson St.
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1601
I gave remarks discussing my 2001 law review

article Presidential Administration.
53
1/5/03 Remarks on Presidential Administration article Washington,
at academic conference (American Association DC
of Law Schools).
American Association of Law Schools

1201 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 800
I gave remarks discussing my 2001 law review

article Presidential Administration.
11/11/02 Moderated Harvard Law Review Supreme HLS Press
Court Forum provided.
Video
I moderated a panel discussion with Chief available at:
Justice Aharon Barak and Prof. Charles Fried http://www.c-
on Barak’s Harvard Law Review Foreword. spanarchives.
org/program/1
74324-1
10/18/02 Remarks on Congressional Interpretation of Williamsburg,
Constitution at academic conference. VA
William & Mary College

P.O. Box 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187

3/12/02 Moderated Journal of Legislation Panel HLS
I moderated a panel discussion on affirmative

action in higher education.
11/1/01 Remarks at American Bar Association Washington, Notes
conference DC Provided
I spoke on executive review of regulation

10/12/01 Conference Remarks. Duke Law
School,
The name and address is: Durham, NC
Duke Law School

Science Drive and Towerview Road
Durham, NC 27708
54
I critiqued a paper by Professor Chris Schroeder
on deliberative democracy
9/13/01 Remarks -- Yale Law School Legal Theory New Haven, CT

Workshop.
Yale Law School

127 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
I spoke on my 2001 law review article

Presidential Administration
4/21/01 Toastmaster and Introduce Merrick Garland at Boston, MA Text
Harvard Law Review Banquet Provided
11/17/00 Remarks -- HLS Faculty Workshop on HLS Notes
Presidential Administration article Provided
10/3/00 Debate with Charles Fried Harvard
Kennedy
I participated in a debate with Prof. Fried on School,
presidential elections. Cambridge, MA
4/5/97 Remarks – I spoke on presidential appointment Case Western
power at a conference, “Presidential Power in Law School,
the 21st Century” OH
Case Western Law School

11075 East Blvd.
Cleveland, OH 44106
I spoke on presidential appointment power.

5/16/96 Remarks to University of Chicago alumni. This Washington,
event was sponsored by the University of DC
Chicago.
I spoke on the work of the White House

Counsel's Office.
5/9/96 Remarks to Treasury Department Lawyers. Washington,
DC
Treasury Department
1500 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
55
I spoke on the work of the White House
Counsel's Office
2/16/96 Remarks – I spoke on speech codes at a University of Notes
conference, “Developments in Free Speech California at Provided
Doctrine: Charting the Nexus Between Speech Davis
and Religion, Abortion, and Equality”
9/21/95 Remarks on Relationship Between First McLean, VA Notes
Amendment Doctrine and Technological Provided
Change at Libel Lawyers' Conference
8/2/95 Remarks on work of White House Counsel's Washington,
Office to Sidley and Austin summer associates. DC
Sidley & Austin

1501 K St., NW
4/28/95 Remarks on constitutionality of speaker-based Washington, Notes
restrictions at American Bar Association panel DC Provided
on communications law
12/3/94 Conference Remarks University of
Chicago Law
I spoke on gender and legal education School
I spoke on Shaw v. Reno. Chicago Law
School
2/10/94 Remarks on First Amendment doctrine at University of Notes
faculty workshop Chicago Law Provided
School
11/15/93 Remarks to law school alumni Chicago, IL
I spoke on the judicial confirmation process.

10/23/93 Remarks on critical race theory to high school Chicago, IL Notes
teachers Provided
10/16/93 Remarks on censorship in schools at Chicago Chicago, IL Notes
Humanities Festival Provided
Chicago Law
I spoke on hate speech. School
4/23/93 Faculty Workshop. St. Louis
University Law
The name and address of the group is: School
St. Louis University Law School

3700 Lindell Blvd.
56
St. Louis, MO 63108
I gave remarks on my First Amendment

scholarship.
Chicago Law
I spoke on hate speech. School
2/11/93 Remarks on Thurgood Marshall to law school Chicago, IL
alumni
10/10/92 Moderated panel at academic conference University of
Chicago Law
I moderated a panel discussion on the freedom School
of the press.
Fall Remarks on legal education to law school University of Notes
1992 alumni Chicago Law Provided
School
e. If you do not have a copy of the speech or a transcript or recording of your

remarks, give the name and address of the group before whom the speech was
given, the date of the speech, and a summary of its subject matter. If you did not
speak from a prepared text, furnish a copy of any outline or notes from which you
spoke.
Where I do not have a video or transcript, I have listed the name and address of
the group before which the speech was given in the table above. Several of the
speeches were given to Harvard Law School groups. The address for all those
groups is:
Harvard Law School

1563 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Several of the speeches were given to Justice Department groups. The address for
all those groups is:
U.S. Department of Justice

Washington, DC 20530-0001
Several of the speeches were given to Chicago Law School groups. The address
for all those groups is:
University of Chicago Law School

1111 East 60th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
57
f. List all interviews you have given to newspapers, magazines, or other
publications, or radio or television stations, providing the dates of these
interviews and four (4) copies of the clips or transcripts of these interviews where
they are available to you.
I have tried to recall and search for interviews to the best of my ability. I have
relied on a search of Nexis to accomplish this task for publications other than
those associated with Harvard University. I have separately searched the archives
of all Harvard publications. I list below (and provide) all articles I have found in
which I am quoted, first from my search of Nexis and next from my search of
Harvard publications:
These articles are from general publications:
DATE PUBLICATION HEADLINE

12/22/09 National Public Radio Solicitor General Holds Views Close to Her Chest
10/19/09 Main Justice Blog Thurgood Marshall Still Watching Over Kagan
5/4/2009 National Law Journal Kagan: Just Call Her ‘The General’
Harvard Lightning Rod Finds Path to Renewal
12/7/2008 New York Times With Obama
Ex-Treasury, Congressional Tax Expert Berman
to Head Graduate Tax Program at BU Law
6/18/2008 States News Service School
5/12/2008 National Law Journal Harvard Law Faculty Articles To Be Free on Net
Harvard Law plan good news for public
sector/Tuition waiver makes choice more
3/19/2008 Boston Globe attractive
Harvard Law, Hoping Students Will Consider
3/18/2008 New York Times Public Service, Offers Tuition Break
Autumn The Journal of Blacks in The Decline in Black Enrollments at the Nation's
2007 Higher Education Highest-Ranked Law Schools
10/31/2007 New York Times Training Law Students for Real-Life Careers
6/18/07 National Law Journal More Job Hopping at Schools
At Berkeley Law, a Challenge to Overcome All
1/17/2007 New York Times Barriers
Harvard Law Decides to Steep Students in 21st-
10/7/2006 New York Times Century Issues
March
2006 Student Lawyer Magazine Restoring Lawyers as Public Servants
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Obama urges alumni to help fight poverty/Gives
9/18/2005 Boston Globe speech at Harvard meeting of black grads
Elite Colleges' Welcome Brings Unexpected
9/10/2005 Boston Globe Boon
8/4/2005 Associated Press Roberts Puts Harvard Law on Hot Streak
Top Law Professors Are a Hot Commodity, and
6/14/2004 National Law Journal Schools are Scrambling To Keep Them
The Metropolitan Corporate New England and Boston - Law Schools; Harvard
May 2004 Counsel Law School: Progress on Many Fronts
Winter
2004 HCHS Alum Notes Alum Profile
9/21/03 Boston Globe Harvard Law Dean’s Goal Is Revolution
Summer
2003 Ms. Magazine Taking the Law in Her Hands
Harvard Law School Launches Ambitious Fund-
6/15/2003 Boston Globe Raising Campaign
State Joins Fight to Keep Tobacco Money From
1/22/1999 Seattle Post-Intelligencer Feds
11/21/1998 The National Journal Clinton and Tobacco: What Now?
A Weaker Settlement? New Tobacco Deal Not as
11/12/1998 Newsday (New York) Strong on Teen Smoking, Critics Say
With Fear, Fascination, Lockhart Takes Press
10/1/1998 Associated Press Secretary Role
Court Rules FDA Cannot Regulate Tobacco as
Drug; Law: Appeals Panel's Decision Deals Key
Blow to Clinton Administration's Fight to Curb
Youth Smoking. Judges Say Congress Never
8/15/1998 Los Angeles Times Gave the Agency Jurisdiction.
Big Tobacco's Victory / Appeals Court Bars FDA
8/15/1998 Newsday (New York) Regulation
Clinton to Survey Teen Smoking Habits / The
President, Still Hoping for a Tobacco-Control
Bill, Said the Data Would Reveal Which Ads
6/23/1998 Philadelphia Inquirer Entice Children.
5/18/1998 The New Republic Wonderwonk
Star Tribune (Minneapolis,
5/9/1998 MN) Cost of National Deal Probably Just Went Up
St. Petersburg Times As Clinton Returns, Foes Who Smelled Victory
4/3/1998 (Florida) Taste Defeat
4/1/1998 New York Times Heated Hearing Over the Fate of an Agency
3/31/1998 San Antonio Express-News Tobacco Bill Would Limit Annual Liability at
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(Texas) $6.5 Billion
Tobacco Deal's Hazy Outlook. Working Out

3/22/1998 Newsday (New York) Details of the Tobacco Deal
Cigarette Execs Get Cool Reception at House
Hearing; Tobacco: They Express Regret, Push for
Ratification of Landmark Settlement. But Deal's
1/30/1998 Los Angeles Times Prospects Have Grown Cloudy.
National Perspective; Legislation; Proposed
Tobacco Settlement Isn't Setting Congress on
Fire; Some Lawmakers are Beginning to
Gravitate Toward a Scaled-Back Alternative to
1/29/1998 Los Angeles Times the Sweeping Deal.
Disclosure of Targeting Teens Could Smother
1/27/1998 Newsday (New York) Smoking Deal
11/10/1997 Associated Press Clinton Opens Hate Crime Conference
Knight Ridder Washington Clinton Wants Business to View Welfare
8/10/1997 Bureau Recipients as Untapped Resources
Austin American-Statesman Clinton Tells States to Put Welfare to Work for
7/28/1997 (Texas) Poor
Charlotte Observer (North Funds for the Poor Should Go to Poor, Clinton
7/28/1997 Carolina) Says
G.O.P. Backing Off a Deal to Restore Aid to
6/5/1997 New York Times Immigrants
Mikva's Political Skills to be Tested as Clinton's
8/12/1994 Associated Press New Counsel
In His Court; Mikva Brings a Politician's
1/16/1994 Chicago Tribune Perspective to the Federal Bench
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4/26/07 Record Legal Services Center Budget Cut by $200K
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4/1/07 Bulletin Diversified Portfolio
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2/1/07 Today Noah Feldman Joins the Harvard Law Faculty
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9/1/06 Today Fallon Joins American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Spring of Law and The Conservative Influence of the Federalist Society on the
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5/24/06 Harvard Crimson President
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4/1/06 Today Accepting Their Chairs
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2/22/06 Harvard Crimson Outside FAS, Support Was Strong for Summers
2/21/06 Harvard Crimson Report: Summers Set To Resign
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2/16/06 Record First Circuit Relocates to HLS
Harvard Law New Center to Explore Intersections of Health, Technology,
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9/12/05 Harvard Crimson Senate To Commence Hearings on Roberts
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9/1/05 Today Five New Professors Join HLS Faculty
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9/1/05 Today Packing the Court
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4/29/05 Harvard Crimson Academy Honors 13 Harvard Faculty
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2/17/05 Harvard Gazette FAS, HLS to Renovate Hemenway Gymnasium

Harvard Law Fallon Appointed to Ralph S. Tyler, Jr. Professorship of
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1/24/05 Harvard Crimson Minds
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1/1/05 Today Subramanian Joins Tenured Faculty
Harvard Law Cox Family Establishes Fund to Assist Students Pursuing
1/1/05 Today Careers in Public Service
12/10/04 Harvard Crimson Icy Welcome for New Law Prof
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12/8/04 Harvard Crimson Law School Looks for New Blood
12/1/04 Harvard Crimson Law Student Forced off Panel
12/1/04 Harvard Crimson HLS Bans Military
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12/1/04 Today Editors of Indian Law Handbook Convene
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12/1/04 Today Election Round-Up
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11/23/04 Website Editors of Indian Law Handbook Convene
11/10/04 Harvard Crimson Ice Skating Rink to Open in the Square
11/2/04 Harvard Crimson Kerry May Tap Kagan for Court
9/30/04 Harvard Crimson Military Recruits at HLS
9/27/04 Harvard Crimson Prof Admits To Misusing Source
Harvard Law Dean Renovates Hark, Creating Improved Façade for Student
9/25/04 Record Center
9/22/04 Harvard Crimson Harkness, Law School's Loker, Gets Facelift
9/21/04 Harvard Crimson Professors Trade Pads
9/16/04 Harvard Gazette Big Plans Highlight Dean Elena Kagan's 2L Year
9/15/04 Harvard Crimson Law School Announces New Hires
9/13/04 Harvard Crimson Ogletree Faces Discipline for Copying Text
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9/1/04 Today Three Professors Added to Tenured Faculty Ranks
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2/19/04 Record Dean Richardson Steps Down
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2/5/04 Record Great Skate!
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2/5/04 Record Harvard Increases Joint Degree Programs
1/22/04 Harvard Gazette Lawyers on Ice
1/16/04 Harvard Crimson Law Students Lace Up Their Skates
1/14/04 Harvard Crimson Faculty File Brief Against Pentagon
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1/1/04 Today School Wins Record Number of Skadden Fellowships
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11/10/03 Harvard Crimson Law Review Draws Fire for Gender Gap
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7/1/03 Magazine At the HLS Helm
6/27/03 Harvard Crimson Law School Launches $400M Campaign
6/5/03 Harvard Crimson University Inches Toward Allston Decision
6/5/03 Harvard Crimson All Quiet on the Cambridge Front
6/5/03 Harvard Crimson People in the News: Elena Kagan

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5/1/03 Today Elena Kagan Named the Next Dean of Harvard Law School
4/28/03 Harvard Crimson Letter to the Editor: HLS International Law Program Healthy
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4/24/03 Record Student Input for Allston
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4/10/03 Record Structure"
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7/1/02 Harvard Law Cambridge v. Allston
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3/19/02 Harvard Crimson Two Groups Weigh the Future of Harvard’s Allston Land
12/3/01 Harvard Crimson Pressured, Law Profs Consider Relocation
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10/4/01 Record Coates, Kagan Reap Benefits of Experience
An April Fool’s article in the Harvard Law Record entitled, “Administration Cuts
Internet in Classrooms” contains made-up quotes attributed to me. Although I did
not give these quotes or provide an interview for this article, I am including it as
an attachment.
While Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, on March 2, 1999, I
participated in an on-line interview on a variety of subjects conducted by MS-
NBC. I am providing a transcript of this interview.
While a professor at the University of Chicago, I appeared at least twice on the

Mara Tapp show on WBEZ. On February 4, 1993, I discussed Thurgood
Marshall, and on December 15, 1994, I participated in a roundtable on the Bill of
Rights. I also may have participated in a discussion of the Supreme Court on
WGN in Chicago on October 25, 1994. (My calendar contains such an entry, but
I do not recall it.) I have been unable to locate transcripts or tapes of these
appearances.
g. If, in connection with any public office you have held (see 14b), there were any
reports, memoranda, or policy statements prepared or produced with your
participation, supply four (4) copies of these materials. Also provide four (4)
copies of any resolutions, motions, legislation, nominations, or other matters on
which you voted as an elected official, the corresponding votes and minutes, as
well as any speeches or statements you made with regard to policy decisions or
positions taken. “Participation” includes, but is not limited to, membership in any
subcommittee, working group, or other such group, which produced a report,
memorandum, or policy statement, even where you did not contribute to it. If any
of these materials are not available to you, please give the name of the document,
the date of the document, a summary of its subject matter, and where it can be
found.
As Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and Associate Counsel
to the President, I prepared or participated in the preparation of various
memoranda to other governmental officials, and I participated in the drafting of
some statements made by the President. In my domestic policy role, I also may
have participated in the preparation of formal reports or policy statements,
particularly any issued by the Domestic Policy Council, but I do not now recall
any such documents. Those documents are in the custody of the Clinton Library.
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The publicly-available work that I have produced as Solicitor General is set forth
in response to question 15.
I have never held elected office.
h. Supply four (4) copies of all community-wide letters, emails, or other

communications that you sent to the Harvard Law School or the Harvard
undergraduate community, including to the student body or faculty in your
capacity as Dean of the Harvard Law School, including those related to Harvard’s
antidiscrimination policy and/or its implementation.
Attached are emails I sent to the entire Harvard Law School community or to all
faculty and staff. I also sent emails to the faculty only on matters related to the
administration of the law school; these emails are confidential.
i. Supply four (4) copies of all letters, pamphlets, website content, articles, or other
materials you prepared or supervised in the preparation of, which were distributed
to the Harvard Law School community (as defined in 12h) describing the reforms
you made in your capacity as Dean of Harvard Law School to the curriculum,
community atmosphere, or instructional process.
Attached are the following materials discussing developments at Harvard Law

School during my tenure as Dean:
 Letters I sent to admitted and returning students;

 The “Year in Review” sent to alumni (although the question does not
request letters to alumni, I am attaching these documents because they
describe many of the initiatives I undertook to improve the school);
 Admitted student binders, which the law school began sending in 2007;
 An introduction to the Harvard Law School Public Service Job Guide
written by me.
13. Recusal: Identify and describe the process that you have followed as Solicitor General in
determining whether to recuse yourself from particular matters. Provide a list of any
cases, motions, or matters in which you have recused yourself and a list of cases,
motions, or matters in which you identified a potential conflict of interest but did not
recuse yourself. Identify each such case and, for each, provide the following information:
a. a brief description of the asserted conflict of interest or other ground for recusal;
b. your reason for recusing or declining to recuse yourself, including any action
taken to remove the real, apparent, or asserted conflict of interest or to cure any
other ground for recusal.
As Solicitor General, I have never been asked to recuse myself from any matter. I
recused myself voluntarily from one matter in the Supreme Court: Horne v.
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Flores, docket number 08-0289, in which the United States filed an amicus brief
on March 25, 2009. I did so because of the participation of a Harvard Law School
clinic in the case.
I also recused myself from participation in three appellate and district court cases:
“In the matter of the application of the New York Times Company to unseal
wiretap and search warrant,” United States District Court for the Southern District
of New York, docket number M-50: I recused because of my personal friendship
with an interested party, Eliot Spitzer.
Murray v. Geithner, United States District Court for the Eastern District of
Michigan, docket number 08-15147: I recused because of the participation of a
Harvard Law School clinic in the case.
Balintulo v. Daimler, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit,
docket number 09-2778: I recused because of the participation of a Harvard Law
School clinic in the case.
I identified a potential conflict of interest in United States v. Philip Morris USA,

Inc., No. 09-978, stemming from my work in the tobacco initiatives of the Clinton
Administration and from my participation as a deponent in the case at issue. I
consulted with Janice Rogers of the Department Ethics Office and Jerri Dunston
of the Professional Responsibility Advisory Office regarding the question of
recusal. Both advised me that there was no reason to recuse myself from the case.
c. Explain the procedure you will follow in determining whether to recuse yourself
from matters coming before the Court, if confirmed.
If confirmed, I would recuse in all matters for which I was counsel of record. I
would also look to the letter and spirit of the Code of Conduct for United States
Judges (although it is not formally binding on members of the Supreme Court of
the United States), the Ethics Reform Act of 1989, 28 U.S.C. 455, and any other
relevant prescriptions. I would also consult with my colleagues in any case where
recusal might be advisable.
14. Public Office, Political Activities, and Affiliations:
a. List chronologically any public offices you have held, other than judicial offices,
including the terms of service and whether such positions were elected or
appointed. If appointed, please include the name of the individual who appointed
you. Also, state chronologically any unsuccessful candidacies you have had for
elective office or unsuccessful nominations for appointed office.
Solicitor General, March 2009-present, nominated by President Barack Obama

and confirmed by Senate
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U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, nominated in 1999 by President
William Clinton; nomination never acted upon.
Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and Deputy Director of the
Domestic Policy Council, 1997-99, appointed by President William Clinton
Associate Counsel to the President, 1995-96, appointed by President William

Clinton
Special Counsel, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, summer 1993, appointed by

Senator Joseph Biden
I have never been a candidate for elective public office.
b. List all memberships and offices held in, and services rendered, whether
compensated or not, to any political party or election committee. If you have ever
held a position or played a role in a political campaign, identify the particulars of
the campaign, including the candidate, dates of the campaign, your title, and
responsibilities.
Between July and November 1988, I worked as a researcher for the Dukakis for
President campaign. I was a junior staffer and do not believe I had an official
title. I mostly worked on “defense research” – i.e., preparing responses to attacks
on Governor Dukakis’s record.
In the fall of 1996, I played a small role in debate preparation for President
Clinton during his re-election campaign. I did this work (mostly preparing mock
questions and answers) in accordance with the law addressing political activity of
White House employees.
c. List all political events for which you were on the host committee, including the
date, location, which candidate or organization it benefitted, and how much was
raised at the event.
I do not recall any such events, although I cannot say for certain that none exists.
15. Legal Career: Answer each part separately.
a. Describe chronologically your law practice and legal experience after graduation
from law school including:
i. whether you served as clerk to a judge, and if so, the name of the judge,
the court, and the dates of the period you were a clerk;
Hon. Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court, 1987-88
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Hon. Abner Mikva, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1986-87
ii. whether you practiced alone, and if so, the addresses and dates;
I have never practiced alone.
iii. the dates, names, and addresses of law firms or offices, companies, or
governmental agencies with which you have been affiliated, and the nature
of your affiliation with each;
Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, March

2009-present
Professor and Dean, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA 02138, 1999-

2009 (2003-09 as dean, 2001-present as professor (currently on leave),
1999-2001 as visiting professor)
Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and Deputy

Director of the Domestic Policy Council, Executive Office of the
President, Washington, D.C. 20502, 1997-99
Associate Counsel to the President, Executive Office of the President,

Washington, D.C. 20502, 1995-96
Professor, University of Chicago Law School, 1111 E. 60th St., Chicago,

IL 60637, 1991-97 (1991-94 as assistant professor)
Special Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee, Summer 1993
Associate, Williams & Connolly, 725 12th St., Washington, DC 20005,

1989-91
iv. whether you served as a mediator or arbitrator in alternative dispute

resolution proceedings and, if so, a description of the 10 most significant
matters with which you were involved in that capacity.
No.
b. Describe:
i. the general character of your law practice and indicate by date when its
character has changed over the years;
My legal career (following two years of clerking) has had a number of

distinct stages. From 1989 to 1991, I served as an associate at Williams &
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Connolly, a Washington, D.C. law firm. I handled a mix of commercial
litigation, First Amendment litigation, and criminal matters at the firm.
From 1991 to 1995, I was a professor at the University of Chicago; my
principal scholarship during that time was in the field of constitutional
law. I took one summer off during that period to serve as special counsel
to the Senate Judiciary Committee, working on the nomination of Ruth
Bader Ginsburg to the U.S. Supreme Court. From 1995 to 1999, I worked
at the White House, first in the Counsel’s Office and then in the Domestic
Policy Council (DPC). In the Counsel’s Office, I primarily acted as a
lawyer for the White House policy councils and legislative office. In the
DPC, I played a role in the formulation, advocacy, and implementation of
law and policy in areas ranging from education to crime to public health.
Between 1999 and 2003, I again served as a professor, but at Harvard Law
School; my scholarship and teaching during these years focused on
constitutional and administrative law. Between 2003 and 2009, I served
as the dean of Harvard Law School. In this capacity, I oversaw every
aspect of the institution, academic and non-academic alike. Beginning in
March 2009, I have served as Solicitor General of the United States. In
this capacity, I represent the United States in the Supreme Court and
oversee all appellate litigation in which the United States is a party.
ii. your typical clients and the areas at each period of your legal career, if
any, in which you have specialized.
As Solicitor General, my client is the United States. I have had private

clients only during the time I was an associate at Williams & Connolly.
Those clients included business entities in civil litigation, press
organizations defending themselves in libel and related actions, and white-
collar criminal defendants.
c. Describe the percentage of your practice that has been in litigation and whether
you appeared in court frequently, occasionally, or not at all. If the frequency of
your appearances in court varied, describe such variance, providing dates.
My work as Solicitor General is entirely in litigation. I have argued six cases

before the Supreme Court this year. The only previous part of my practice that
involved litigation was my work as an associate at Williams & Connolly between
1989 and 1991. I appeared in federal district courts and state courts occasionally
during that time.
i. Indicate the percentage of your practice in:

1. federal courts;
2. state courts of record;
3. other courts;
4. administrative agencies.
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My practice as Solicitor General is entirely in federal court, although I
frequently represent administrative agencies there. My practice at
Williams & Connolly was primarily in federal court, but included some
cases in state and local courts.
ii. Indicate the percentage of your practice in:

1. civil proceedings;
2. criminal proceedings.
My practice as Solicitor General is approximately two-thirds civil and

one-third criminal. My practice at Williams & Connolly was
approximately the same.
d. List, by case name, all cases in courts of record, including cases before
administrative law judges, you tried to verdict, judgment, or final decision (rather
than settled), indicating whether you were sole counsel, chief counsel, or associate
counsel. For each such case, include the docket number and provide any opinions
or filings available to you.
i. What percentage of these trials were:

1. jury;
2. non-jury.
I have never tried a case to verdict or judgment.
e. Describe your practice, if any, before the Supreme Court of the United States, the
highest court of any state, or any state or federal courts of appeals, including in
your capacity as Solicitor General of the United States. Supply four (4) copies of
any briefs, amicus or otherwise, and, if applicable, any oral argument transcripts
before these courts in connection with your practice. Give a detailed summary of
the substance of each case, outlining briefly the factual and legal issues involved,
the party or parties whom you represented, the nature of your participation in the
litigation, and the final disposition of the case. Also provide the individual
names, addresses, and telephone numbers of co-counsel and of principal counsel
for each of the other parties.
Oral Arguments
As Solicitor General, I have argued six cases before the Supreme Court.
Information regarding the first case is set forth in the “Merits Amicus Briefs”
section below; information regarding the other five cases is set forth in the
“Merits Briefs” section below. They are:
Robertson v. United States, No. 08-6261 (March 31, 2010)
Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, Nos. 08-1498 and 08-1547 (Feb. 23, 2010)
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United States v. Comstock, No. 08-1224 (Jan. 12, 2010)
Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, No. 08-
861 (Dec. 7, 2009)
Salazar v. Buono, No. 08-472 (Oct. 7, 2009)
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (Sept. 9, 2009)
As Solicitor General, I have served as counsel of record on the following briefs

filed with the Supreme Court:
Merits Party Briefs
Dolan v. United States, No. 09-0367

The question presented is whether a district court’s failure to calculate restitution within 90 days
after sentencing is per se prejudicial error that requires the restitution award to be vacated. The
Office of the Solicitor General represented respondent in this case and took the position that
failure to calculate restitution does not necessarily require that the restitution award be vacated.
The Court has not yet issued its decision.
Attorneys for Petitioner:

Pamela S. Karlan
Stanford Law School
Supreme Court Litigation Clinic
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305-8610
(650) 725-4851
Party name: Brian Russell Dolan
Co-Counsel:
LANNY A. BREUER, Assistant Attorney General
MICHAEL R. DREEBEN, Deputy Solicitor General
ERIC D. MILLER, Assistant to the Solicitor General
ELIZABETH D. COLLERY, Attorney
950 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, D.C. 20530-0001
(202) 514-2217
Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms, No. 09-475

This case arose out of the decision of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to
deregulate alfalfa that had been genetically engineered to tolerate glyphosate, the active
ingredient in the herbicide Roundup, based on APHIS’s determination that the alfalfa did not
present a plant pest risk. Petitioner Monsanto owns the intellectual property rights to the subject
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alfalfa and licenses the technology exclusively to co-petitioner Forage Genetics International.
After finding that APHIS had not adequately analyzed the environmental impacts of its
deregulation action under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. 4321 et
seq., the district court entered, and the court of appeals affirmed, a permanent injunction
requiring APHIS to prohibit further planting of Roundup Ready alfalfa pending the agency’s
completion of an Environmental Impact Statement and final decision regarding deregulation.
The questions presented are: (1) whether the court of appeals erred in affirming an overly broad
permanent nationwide injunction based upon an incorrect legal standard that presumed
irreparable harm; and (2) whether the court of appeals erred in determining that the district court
did not abuse its discretion when it declined petitioners’ request for an evidentiary hearing on the
scope of the permanent injunctive relief. The Office of the Solicitor General represents federal
respondents in this case, but filed in support of petitioners. The Office took the position that the
district court erred in entering an overly broad injunction based on a presumption that APHIS’s
NEPA violation constituted irreparable harm, that the court of appeals erred in upholding that
injunction, and that the Court should not adopt a rule requiring a district court to hold a full
evidentiary hearing with live witnesses and cross-examination in every Administrative Procedure
Act case before it may enter an injunction. The Court has not yet issued its decision.
Attorneys for Petitioners:

Gregory G. Garre
Maureen E. Mahoney
Latham & Watkins, LLP
555 11th Street, NW Suite 1000
[email protected]; [email protected]
(202) 637-2207
Party name: Monsanto Company, et al.
Attorneys for Respondents:

Lawrence S. Robbins
Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck, Untereiner & Sauber LLP
1801 K Street, N.W., Suite 411
[email protected]
(202) 775-4500
Party name: Geertson Seed Farms, et al.
George A. Kimbrell
The Center for Food Safety
2601 Mission Street, Suite 803
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 826-2770
Party name: Geertson Seed Farms, et al.
Co-Counsel:
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IGNACIA S. MORENO, Assistant Attorney General
EDWIN S. KNEEDLER, Deputy Solicitor General
SARAH E. HARRINGTON, Assistant to the Solicitor General
ANDREW C. MERGEN, ELLEN J. DURKEE, and ANNA T. KATSELAS, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder, No. 09-60

The question presented in this case is whether a second or subsequent state conviction for
possession of a controlled substance automatically qualifies as an “aggravated felony” for
purposes of 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(43)(B), or instead qualifies only if the State applied a recidivist
enhancement in that second or subsequent conviction. The Office of the Solicitor General
represented respondent in this case and took the position that the second or subsequent state
conviction automatically qualifies as an “aggravated felony.” The Court has not yet issued its
decision.

Sri Srinivasan
O'Melveny & Myers LLP
1625 Eye Street, N.W.
[email protected]
(202) 383-5300
Party name: Jose Angel Carachuri-Rosendo
Co-Counsel:
TONY WEST, Assistant Attorney General
EDWIN S. KNEEDLER and MICHAEL R. DREEBEN, Deputy Solicitors General
NICOLE A. SAHARSKY, Assistant to the Solicitor General
DONALD E. KEENER, W. MANNING EVANS, SAUL GREENSTEIN, ANDREW
MACLACHLAN, and HOLLY M. SMITH, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
Dillon v. United States, No. 09-6338

The question presented in this case is whether the holding of United States v. Booker, 543 U.S.
220 (2005), which remedied the constitutional defect in the Sentencing Guidelines by rendering
them advisory, applies in a sentence modification proceeding under 18 U.S.C. 3582(c). The
Office of the Solicitor General represented respondent in this case and took the position that the
holding in Booker does not apply in such a proceeding. The Court has not yet issued its
decision.
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Lisa B. Freeland, Federal Public Defender
Renee Domenique Pietropaolo, Assistant Federal Public Defender
1500 Liberty Center
1001 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
[email protected]
(412) 644-6565
Party name: Percy Dillon
Co-Counsel:
LEONDRA R. KRUGER, Assistant to the Solicitor General
DEBORAH WATSON, Attorney
(202) 514-2217
Barber v. Thomas, 09-5201

The questions presented in this case are (1) whether 18 U.S.C. 3624(b), which provides that a
federal prisoner may receive credit toward the service of his sentence for exemplary conduct,
requires the Federal Bureau of Prisons to calculate such credit on the basis of the sentence
imposed rather than on the basis of the time served; and (2) whether Congress has delegated the
interpretation of 18 U.S.C. 3624(b) to the United States Sentencing Commission rather than to
the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The Office of the Solicitor General represented respondents in
this case and took the position that the calculation of such credit should be based on time served
and that Congress delegated the interpretation of the statute to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Stephen R. Sady
Chief Deputy Federal Public Defender
101 SW Main St., Suite 1700
Portland, OR 97204
(503) 326-2123
Party name: Michael Gary Barber, et al.
Co-Counsel:
JEFFREY B. WALL, Assistant to the Solicitor General
KEVIN R. GINGRAS, Attorney
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(202) 514-2217
Kiyemba v. Obama, No. 08-1234

The question presented in this case is whether a federal court exercising its habeas corpus
jurisdiction may order the United States government to bring petitioners into the United States
for release, outside of the framework of the federal immigration laws. The Office of the Solicitor
General represented respondents in this case and took the position that a federal court may not
order that the petitioners be released inside the United States. On February 12, 2010, the Court
ordered the parties to file letter briefs addressing the effect of recent offers of resettlement to the
petitioners who had not previously received such offers. The Office filed a letter brief
addressing this question on February 19, 2010. On March 1, 2010, the Court vacated the
judgment and remanded the case to the court of appeals for further proceedings in light of the
resettlement offers.

Clive Stafford Smith
Reprieve
P.O. Box 52742
London, United Kingdom, XX EC4P 4WS
[email protected]
011 44 207 353 4640
Party name: Khalid Ali, Abdul Sabour, and Sabir Osman
Sabin Willett
Bingham McCutcheon LLP
One Federal Street
Boston, MA 02110
(617) 951-8000
Party name: Jamal Kiyemba, et al.
Co-Counsel:
NICOLE A. SAHARSKY and LEONDRA R. KRUGER, Assistants to the Solicitor General
DOUGLAS N. LETTER, THOMAS M. BONDY, ROBERT M. LOEB, and SHARON
SWINGLE, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
New Process Steel LP v. National Labor Relations Board, No. 08-1457

The question presented in this case is whether Section 3(b) of the National Labor Relations Act,
29 U.S.C. 153(b), authorizes the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to act when only two
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of its five positions are filled, if the Board has previously delegated its full powers to a three-
member group of the Board that includes the two remaining members. The Office of the
Solicitor General represented respondents in this case and took the position that the NLRB may
act under those circumstances. The Court has not yet issued its decision.

Sheldon Edward Richie
Richie & Gueringer, P.C.
100 Congress Ave., Suite 1750
Austin, TX 78701
[email protected]
(512) 236-9220
Party name: New Process Steel, L.P.
Co-Counsel:
NEAL KUMAR KATYAL, Deputy Solicitor General
(202) 514-2217
RONALD MEISBURG, General Counsel

JOHN E. HIGGINS, JR., Deputy General Counsel
JOHN H. FERGUSON, Associate General Counsel
LINDA DREEBEN, Deputy Associate General Counsel
DAVID HABENSTREIT, Assistant General Counsel
RUTH E. BURDICK, Attorney
National Labor Relations Board
1099 14th Street NW
(202) 273-3700
Skilling v. United States, No. 08-1394

The question presented in this criminal case is (1) whether, to convict petitioner of conspiring to
commit wire fraud by depriving his employer and its shareholders of the right to petitioner’s
honest services under 18 U.S.C. 1343 and 1346, the government was required to prove that
petitioner intended to obtain some private gain, and, if not, whether 18 U.S.C. 1346 is
unconstitutionally vague; and (2) whether the court of appeals correctly held that petitioner was
tried by an impartial jury despite any prejudicial pretrial publicity about the case. The Office of
the Solicitor General represented respondent in this case and took the position that the
government is not required to prove private gain, that the statute is not unconstitutionally vague,
and that the court of appeals correctly held that petitioner was tried by an impartial jury. The
Court has not yet issued its decision.
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Daniel M. Petrocelli
O'Melveny & Myers LLP
1999 Avenue of the Stars, 7th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90067
(310) 553-6800
Party name: Jeffrey K. Skilling
Jonathan D. Hacker
O'Melveny & Meyers LLP
[email protected]
(202) 383-5285
Party name: Jeffrey K. Skilling
Co-Counsel:
MYTHILI RAMAN, Acting Assistant Attorney General
DAVID A. O'NEIL, Assistant to the Solicitor General
JOEL GERSHOWITZ and KEVIN GINGRAS, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
Carr v. United States, No. 08-1301

The questions presented in this case are (1) whether 18 U.S.C. 2250(a), which imposes criminal
penalties on certain sex offenders who fail to register or update a registration as required by the
Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), applies to petitioner, whose interstate
travel occurred after his conviction for a covered sex offense, but before SORNA’s enactment;
and (2) whether the Ex Post Facto Clause precludes a prosecution under Section 2250(a) of a
person whose underlying sex offense and interstate travel predated SORNA’s enactment, but
whose failure to register occurred substantially after SORNA’s requirements became applicable
to him. The Office of the Solicitor General represented respondent in this case and took the
position that the provision applies to petitioner and that such application does not violate the Ex
Post Facto Clause. The Court has not yet issued its decision.

Charles A. Rothfeld
Mayer Brown LLP
1999 K Street, N.W.
[email protected]
(202) 263-3000
Party name: Thomas Carr
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Co-Counsel:
CURTIS E. GANNON, Assistant to the Solicitor General
RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, Attorney
(202) 514-2217
Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project & Humanitarian Law Project v. Holder, Nos. 08-1498
& 08-1547
The questions presented in this case are (1) whether 18 U.S.C. 2339B(a)(1), which prohibits the
knowing provision of “any . . . service, . . . training, [or] expert advice or assistance,” 18 U.S.C.
2339A(b)(1), to a designated foreign terrorist organization, is unconstitutionally vague; and (2)
whether the criminal prohibitions in 18 U.S.C. 2399B(a)(1) on the provision of “expert advice or
assistance” “derived from scientific [or] technical . . . knowledge” and “personnel” are
unconstitutional with respect to speech that furthers only lawful, nonviolent activities of
proscribed organizations. The Office of the Solicitor General represented Attorney General
Holder in this case and took the position that both provisions are constitutional. The Court has
not yet issued its decision.
Attorneys for Humanitarian Law Project:

David D. Cole
c/o Georgetown University Law Center
[email protected]
(202) 662-9078
Party name: Humanitarian Law Project, et al.
Co-Counsel:
DOUGLAS N. LETTER and JOSHUA WALDMAN, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
United States v. Marcus, No. 08-1341

The question presented in this criminal case is whether the court of appeals departed from the
Court’s interpretation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) by adopting as the
appropriate standard for plain-error review of an asserted ex post facto violation whether “there
is any possibility, no matter how unlikely, that the jury could have convicted based exclusively
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on pre-enactment conduct.” The Office of the Solicitor General represented petitioner in this
case and took the position that the court of appeals’ conclusion was not consistent with Federal
Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b). The Court has not yet issued its decision.
Attorneys for Respondent:

Herald Price Fahringer
Fahringer & Dubno
120 East 56th Street, Suite 1150
New York, NY 10022
[email protected]
(212) 319-5351
Party name: Glenn Marcus
Co-Counsel:
THOMAS E. PEREZ, Assistant Attorney General
JESSICA DUNSAY SILVER and TOVAH R. CALDERON, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
United States v. O’Brien, No. 08-1569

The question presented in this case is whether, under 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(1), the sentence
enhancement for use of a machine gun during the commission of a criminal offense is an element
of the offense that must be charged and proved to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt, or instead is
a sentencing factor that may be found by a judge by a preponderance of the evidence. The
Office of the Solicitor General represented petitioner in this case and took the position that the
enhancement is a sentencing factor that the district court may determine. The Court has not yet
issued its decision.

Leslie Feldman-Rumpler
101 Tremont Street, Suite 708
Boston, MA 02108
[email protected]
(617) 728-9944
Party name: Arthur Burgess
Timothy P. O'Connell
C-8 Shipway Place
Charlestown, MA 02129
[email protected]
(617)-242-4806
Party name: Martin O'Brien
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Co-Counsel:
BENJAMIN J. HORWICH, Assistant to the Solicitor General
SANGITA K. RAO, Attorney
(202) 514-2217
Astrue v. Ratliff, No. 08-1322

The question presented in this case is whether an “award of fees and other expenses” under the
Equal Access to Justice Act, 28 U.S.C. 2412(d), is properly paid to the “prevailing party,” and
not to the prevailing party’s attorney, and thus can be used to offset the party’s debt to the
government. The Office of the Solicitor General represented petitioner in this case and took the
position that the text of the Equal Access to Justice Act provides awards to prevailing parties
and, for that reason, the government can reduce such awards for debts that the prevailing party
may owe the government. The Court has not yet issued its decision.

James D. Leach
1617 Sheridan Lake Road
Rapid City, SD 57702
[email protected]
(605) 341-4400
Party name: Catherine G. Ratliff
Co-Counsel:
MALCOLM L. STEWART, Deputy Solicitor General
ANTHONY A. YANG, Assistant to the Solicitor General
WILLIAM KANTER and MICHAEL E. ROBINSON, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
Weyhrauch v. United States, No. 08-1196

The question presented in this case is whether, to convict a state official for depriving the public
of its right to the defendant’s honest services through the non-disclosure of material information,
in violation of the mail-fraud statute (18 U.S.C. 1341 and 1346), the government must prove that
the defendant violated a disclosure duty imposed by state law. The Office of the Solicitor
General represented respondent in this case and took the position that the government need not
prove that the defendant violated a state-imposed disclosure duty in order to obtain such a
conviction. The Court has not yet issued its decision.
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Donald B. Ayer
Jones Day
51 Louisiana Avenue, N.W.
[email protected]
(202) 879-3939
Party name: Bruce Weyhrauch
Co-Counsel:
DEMETRA LAMBROS, Attorney
(202) 514-2217
United States v. Milavetz, Gallop, & Milavetz, P.A. & Milavetz, Gallop, & Milavetz, P.A. v.
United States, Nos. 08-1119 & 08-1225
The questions presented in these cases are (1) whether an attorney who provides bankruptcy
assistance in return for valuable consideration, and who does not fall into one of the five
exceptions, is a “debt relief agency” for purpose of 11 U.S.C. 526; and (2) whether 11 U.S.C.
526(a)(4) violates the First Amendment. The Office of the Solicitor General represented the
United States and took the position that such an attorney may be a “debt relief agency” and that
11 U.S.C. 526(a)(4) does not violate the First Amendment. The Court held that such an attorney
is a “debt relief agency” for purposes of the statute, and that the statute is constitutional.
Attorneys for Milavetz, Gallop, & Milavetz, P.A.:

G. Eric Brunstad Jr.
Dechert LLP
90 State House Square
Hartford, CT 06103
[email protected]
(860) 524-3999
Party name: Milavetz, Gallop & Milavetz, P.A., et al.
Alan Scott Milavetz

Milavetz, Gallop & Milavetz, P. A.
6500 France Avenue South
Edina, MN 55435
[email protected]
(952) 236-4298
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Co-Counsel:
WILLIAM M. JAY, Assistant to the Solicitor General
MARK B. STERN and MARK R. FREEMAN, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
RAMONA D. ELLIOTT, General Counsel

P. MATTHEW SUTKO, Associate General Counsel
Executive Office for United States Trustees
20 Massachusetts Ave NW, 8th Floor
(202) 616-1192
Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Bd., No. 08-861
The question presented in this case is whether Title I of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 15 U.S.C. 7211-
7219, which creates the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, violates the
Appointments Clause of the Constitution and separation-of-powers principles because it does not
permit adequate Presidential control over the Board. The Office of the Solicitor General
represented the federal respondent in this case and took the position that the provision does not
violate the Appointments Clause or separation-of-powers principles. The Court has not yet
issued its decision.

Michael A. Carvin
Jones Day
[email protected]
(202) 879-7643
Party name: Free Enterprise Fund and Beckstead and Watts, LLP

Jeffrey A. Lamken
Molo Lamken LLP
The Watergate
600 New Hampshire Ave., NW
[email protected]
(202) 556-2010
Party name: Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, et al.
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James R. Doty
Baker Botts LLP
(202) 639-7792
Co-Counsel:
(202) 514-2217
DAVID M. BECKER, General Counsel

MARK D. CAHN, Deputy General Counsel
JACOB H. STILLMAN, Solicitor
JOHN W. AVERY, Senior Litigation Counsel
Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street NE
(202) 551-5100
Black v. United States, No. 08-876

The questions presented in this case are (1) whether petitioners are entitled to reversal of their
mail fraud convictions because the district court did not instruct the jury that, to find them guilty
under an honest-services theory, the jury had to find that their fraudulent scheme “reasonably
contemplated identifiable economic harm” to their employer; and (2) whether by opposing the
government’s request for a special verdict that would have required separate findings on
property-rights and honest-services mail fraud, petitioners forfeited their claim that their mail
fraud convictions must be reversed because the honest-services theory was legally invalid. The
Office of the Solicitor General represented respondent in this case and took the position that such
an instruction is not required, and even if it is, the petitioners forfeited that argument by opposing
the special verdict request. The Court has not yet issued its decision.

Miguel A. Estrada
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
1050 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
[email protected]
(202) 955-8500
Party name: Conrad M. Black, et al.
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Michael S. Schachter
Wilkie Farr & Gallagher
767 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10019-6099
(212) 728-8000
Party name: Peter Y. Atkinson in support of petitioners
Co-Counsel:
MATTHEW D. ROBERTS, Assistant to the Solicitor General
JOEL M. GERSHOWITZ, Attorney
(202) 514-2217
Bilski v. Kappos, No. 08-964

The questions presented in this case are (1) whether a “process” must be tied to a particular
machine or apparatus, or transform a particular article into a different state or thing (“machine-
or-transformation” test), to be eligible for patenting under 35 U.S.C. 101; and (2) whether the
“machine-or-transformation” test for patent eligibility contradicts congressional intent that
patents protect “method[s] of doing business,” 35 U.S.C. 273. The Office of the Solicitor
General represented respondent in this case and took the position that a process must involve a
particular machine or apparatus, or transform matter or energy into a different state or thing, and
that the PTO correctly determined that petitioners’ method for hedging is not patent-eligible.

J. Michael Jakes
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner, LLP
901 New York Avenue, NW
[email protected]
(202) 408-4045
Party name: Bernard L. Bilski and Rand A. Warsaw
Co-Counsel:
GINGER D. ANDERS, Assistant to the Solicitor General
SCOTT R. MCINTOSH and MARK R. FREEMAN, Attorneys
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(202) 514-2217
CAMERON F. KERRY, General Counsel

QUENTIN A. PALFREY, Associate General Counsel
JOAN BERNOTT MAGINNIS, Assistant General Counsel
U.S. Department of Commerce
Herbert Clark Hoover Building
14th Street and Constitution Ave, NW
(202) 482-4772
RAYMOND T. CHEN, Solicitor and Deputy General Counsel

THOMAS W. KRAUSE and SCOTT C. WEIDENFELLER, Associate Solicitors
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Madison West Building
600 Dulany Street
(202) 272-8724
United States v. Comstock, No. 08-1224

The question presented in this case is whether Congress had the constitutional authority to enact
18 U.S.C. 4248, which authorizes court-ordered civil commitment by the federal government of
“sexually dangerous” persons who are already in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons, when the
resulting civil commitment will extend beyond the end of a federal prison sentence, and of
“sexually dangerous” persons who are in the custody of the Attorney General because they have
been found mentally incompetent to stand trial. The Office of the Solicitor General represented
petitioner in this case and took the position that Congress had authority to pass the statute. The
Court held that the Necessary and Proper Clause grants Congress the authority to enact the
statute.

Jane E. Pearce
Assistant Federal Public Defender
150 Fayetteville Street Mall, Suite 450
Raleigh, NC 27601
[email protected]
(919) 856-4236
Party name: Graydon Earl Comstock, Jr., et al.
Co-Counsel:
MARK B. STERN and SAMANTHA L. CHAIFETZ, Attorneys
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(202) 514-2217
Bloate v. United States, No. 08-728

The question presented in this case is whether time granted at the request of a criminal defendant
to prepare pretrial motions qualifies as a “delay resulting from other proceedings concerning the
defendant” and is thus excludable from the time within which trial must commence under the
Speedy Trial Act of 1974, 18 U.S.C. 3161 et seq. The Office of the Solicitor General
represented respondent in this case and took the position that such time is excludable. The Court
held that such time is not automatically excludable, but may be excluded if the trial court makes
certain findings enumerated in the statute.

Mark T. Stancil
Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck & Untereiner, LLP
1801 K Street, N.W., Suite 411-L
[email protected]
(202) 775-4520
Party name: Taylor James Bloate
Co-Counsel:
DAVID E. HOLLAR, Attorney
(202) 514-2217
Johnson v. United States, No. 08-6925

The question presented in this case is whether, under the federal Armed Career Criminal Act, 18
U.S.C. 924(e), a prior state conviction for battery is in all cases a “violent felony.” The Office of
the Solicitor General represented respondent in this case and took the position that such a
conviction is a violent felony, triggering an enhanced penalty under the Act. The Court held that
a prior state conviction for battery is not necessarily a “violent felony” for purposes of the Act.

Lisa Call
200 West Forsyth Street, Suite 1240
Jacksonville, FL 32202
[email protected]
(904) 232-3039
Party name: Curtis Darnell Johnson
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Co-Counsel:
(202) 514-2217
Citizens United v. FEC, No. 08-205

The question presented in this case is whether federal campaign finance laws apply to a critical
film about then-Senator Hillary Clinton that was intended to be shown in theaters and on-demand
to cable subscribers. The Office of the Solicitor General represents respondent and took the
position that campaign finance laws do apply to this film. On June 29, 2009, the Supreme Court
set the case for reargument and ordered that the parties file supplemental briefs. The Court
ordered the parties, at reargument and in their supplemental briefs, to address whether the Court
should “overrule either or both Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, 494 U.S. 652 (1990),
and the part of McConnell v. Federal Election Comm’n, 540 U.S. 93 (2003), which addresses the
facial validity of Section 203 of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, 2 U.S.C. § 441b.”
Austin and Section 203 involve restrictions on corporations’ expenditures for express advocacy
and electioneering communications. The Office took the position that the court should not
overrule Austin or McConnell. The Court held that Section 203 violates the First Amendment,
overruling Austin and the part of McConnell upholding the statute.
Attorneys for Appellant:

Theodore B. Olson
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP
[email protected]
(202) 955-8500
Party name: Citizens United, Appellant
Co-Counsel:
(202) 514-2217
THOMASENIA P. DUNCAN, General Counsel

DAVID KOLKER, Associate General Counsel
KEVIN DEELEY, Assistant General Counsel
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ADAV NOTI, Attorney
Federal Election Commission
999 E Street NW
(202) 694-1650
Kucana v. Holder, No. 08-911

The question presented in this case is whether 8 U.S.C. 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii) removes jurisdiction
from federal courts to review rulings on motions to reopen by the Board of Immigration Appeals.
The Office of the Solicitor General represented respondent in this case, but we filed a top-side
brief. The Office took the position that § 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii) does not bar judicial review of the
Board’s denial of a motion to reopen. The Court held that the statute does not bar judicial review
of the Board’s denial of a motion to reopen.

Rick M. Schoenfield
DiVicenzo Schoenfield Swartzman
33 N. LaSalle, 29th Floor
Chicago, IL 60602
[email protected]
(312) 334-4800
Party name: Agron Kucana

Amanda C. Leiter
Columbus School of Law
3600 John McCormack Rd., N.E.
[email protected]
(202) 319-6755
Party name: Amicus curiae in support of the judgment below
Co-Counsel:
JUAN OSUNA, Deputy Assistant Attorney General
(202) 514-2217
NRG Power Marketing v. Maine Public Utilities Commission, No. 08-674

The question presented in this case is whether the principles set out in United Gas Pipe Line Co.
v. Mobile Gas Service Corp., 350 U.S. 332 (1956), and FPC v. Sierra Pacific Power Co., 350
U.S. 348 (1956), apply to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s review of wholesale
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electricity rates set by contract when those rates are challenged by a non-contracting party. The
Office of the Solicitor General represented the federal respondents, but we filed a top-side brief.
The Office took the position that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission permissibly acted
within its discretion when it approved the settlement at issue in this case. The Court upheld the
Commission’s approval of the settlement.

John N. Estes III
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
1440 New York Avenue, N.W.
[email protected]
(202) 371-7950
Party name: NRG Power Marketing, LLC, et al.
Thomas James Eastment

Baker Botts L.L.P.
1299 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
[email protected]
(202) 639-7717
Jeffrey A. Lamken
Molo Lamken LLP
The Watergate
[email protected]
(202) 556-2010

Robert J. Deichert, Assistant Attorney General
Office of Attorney General
55 Elm Street
P.O. Box 120
Hartford, CT 06141-0120
(860)-808-5020
Party name: Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General for the State of Connecticut
John S. Wright
10 Franklin Square
New Britian, CT 06051
[email protected]
(860) 827-2684
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Party name: Maine Public Utilities Commission, et al.
Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General

Office of the Attorney General
55 Elm Street
P.O. Box 120
Hartford, CT 06141-0120
(860) 808-5270
Party name: Maine Public Utilities Commission, et al.
Co-Counsel:
(202) 514-2217
CYNTHIA A. MARLETTE, General Counsel

ROBERT H. SOLOMON, Solicitor
LONA T. PERRY, Senior Attorney
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
888 First Street NE
(202) 502-6000
United States v. Stevens, No. 08-769

The question presented in this case is whether 18 U.S.C. 48 -- which prohibits the knowing
creation, sale, or possession of a depiction of a live animal being intentionally maimed,
mutilated, tortured, wounded, or killed, with the intention of placing that depiction in interstate
or foreign commerce for commercial gain, where the conduct depicted is illegal under Federal
law or the law of the State in which the creation, sale, or possession takes place, and the
depiction lacks serious religious, political, scientific, educational, journalistic, historical, or
artistic value -- is facially invalid under the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment. The
Office of the Solicitor General represented petitioner in this case and took the position that the
statue is constitutional. The Court held that the statute violates the First Amendment.

Patricia A. Millett
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
[email protected]
(202) 887-4450
Party name: Robert J. Stevens
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Lisa B. Freeland, Federal Public Defender
Karen Sirianni Gerlach, Assistant Federal Public Defender
1500 Liberty Center
1001 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
[email protected]
(412) 644-6565
Party name: Robert J. Stevens
Co-Counsel:
VICKI S. MARANI, Attorney
(202) 514-2217
Salazar v. Buono, No. 08-472

The questions presented in this case are (1) whether an individual has Article III standing to
bring an Establishment Clause suit challenging the display of a religious symbol on government
land; and (2) whether an Act of Congress directing that the land be transferred to a private entity
is a permissible accommodation. The Office of the Solicitor General represented petitioner in
this case and took the position that respondent does not have standing, and even if respondent
has standing, the court of appeals erred. The Court reversed the judgment of the court of
appeals, with a plurality of the Court concluding that the respondent has standing but that the
district court erred when it enjoined the transfer of the land.

Peter Eliasberg
ACLU Foundation of Southern California
1313 W. 8th St., Ste. 200
[email protected]
(213) 977-5228
Party name: Frank Buono
Co-Counsel:
JOHN C. CRUDEN, Acting Assistant Attorney General
ANDREW C. MERGEN, CHARLES R. SHOCKEY, KATHRYN E. KOVACS, Attorneys
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(202) 514-2217
ARTHUR E. GARY, Acting Solicitor

Department of the Interior
1849 C Street NW
(202) 208-4423
Cuomo v. Clearing House Ass’n, No. 08-0453

The question presented in this case is whether measures taken by the New York State Attorney
General to enforce state fair lending laws against national banks would subject the banks to
“visitorial powers” in contravention of 12 U.S.C. 484. The Office of the Solicitor General
represented respondent in this case and took the position that the State’s actions would
contravene the statute. The Court held that the statute prohibited the State from issuing
executive subpoenas to the banks but not from bringing judicial enforcement actions against the
banks.

Barbara D. Underwood
Solicitor General
120 Broadway, 25th Floor
New York, NY 10271
[email protected]
(212) 416-8016
Party name: Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General of New York
Co-Counsel:
(202) 514-2217
JULIE L. WILLIAMS, First Senior Deputy Comptroller and Chief Counsel

DANIEL P. STIPANO, Deputy Chief Counsel
HORACE G. SNEED and DOUGLAS B. JORDAN, Attorneys
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
250 E Street SW
(202) 874-5200
Nijhawan v. Holder, No. 08-0495

The question presented in this case is whether petitioner’s conviction for conspiracy to commit
mail, bank, and wire fraud qualifies as an aggravated felony under 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(43)(M)(i),
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the penalty for which is removal from the country, when the amount of loss caused by the fraud
was not proved to a jury. The Office of the Solicitor General represented respondent in this case
and took the position that petitioner’s conviction qualifies as an aggravated felony. The Court
upheld the lower court’s decision that petitioner’s conviction qualifies as an aggravated felony.

Thomas E. Moseley
One Gateway Center, Suite 2600
Newark, NJ 07102
(973) 622-8176
Party name: Manoj Nijhawan
Co-Counsel:
MICHAEL F. HERTZ, Acting Assistant Attorney General
DONALD E. KEENER, JENNIFER J. KEENEY, W. MANNING EVANS, HOLLY M. SMITH
ANDREW C. MACLACHLAN, SAUL GREENSTEIN, and ERICA B. MILES, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
Coeur Alaska, Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, Nos. 07-984 and 07-990
The questions presented in this case are: (1) whether the Clean Water Act gives authority to the
United States Army Corps of Engineers or to the Environmental Protection Agency to issue a
permit for the discharge of mineral waste; and (2) whether, when the Corps issued that permit, it
acted in accordance with law. The government’s brief in this case, which was filed by my
predecessor, argued that the Act gives the Corps the authority to issue such a permit and that the
permit issued by the Corps in this case was lawful. After I became Solicitor General, the Court
requested that the parties file supplemental briefs addressing the scope of a court’s authority to
set aside the Corps permit and whether both agencies could issue a permit for the discharge. The
Office of the Solicitor General filed a supplemental brief arguing that a court would have the
authority to set aside the permits and that the statute does not authorize both the Corps and the
EPA to issue a permit for the discharge of mineral waste. The Court held that the Corps was the
appropriate agency to issue the permit and that the permit is lawful.

Jonathan S. Franklin
Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.
801 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
[email protected]
(202) 662-0466
Party name: Alaska
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Theodore B. Olson
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP
[email protected]
(202) 955-8500
Party name: Coeur Alaska, Inc.

David C. Crosby
5280 Thane Road
Juneau, AK 99801-7717
(907) 586-6262
Party name: Goldbelt, Inc.
Thomas S. Waldo
Earthjustice
325 Fourth Street
Juneau, AK 99801
[email protected]
(907) 586-2751
Party name: Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, et al.
Merits Amicus Briefs
Michigan v. Bryant, No. 09-150

The question presented is whether a shooting victim’s statements identifying and describing his
assailant and the circumstances of the shooting in response to police officers’ initial on-the-scene
questioning are “testimonial” within the meaning of Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36
(2004). The Office of the Solicitor General filed a brief as amicus curiae and took the position
that such statements are not testimonial and that their admission in the absence of the shooting
victim does not violate the Confrontation Clause. The Court has not yet issued its decision.

Lori Baughman Palmer
Assistant Prosecuting Attorney
1441 St. Antoine, 11th Floor
Detroit, MI 48226
[email protected]
(313)-224-2698
Party name: Michigan

Peter Jon Van Hoek
Assistant Defender
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645 Griswold, Suite 3300
Detroit, MI 48226
[email protected]
(313) 256-9833
Party name: Richard Perry Bryant
Co-Counsel:
(202) 514-2217
Robertson v. United States ex rel. Watson, No. 08-6261

The question presented in this case is whether an action for criminal contempt in a
congressionally created court may be brought in the name of a private person, rather than in the
name of the United States. The Office filed a brief at the certiorari stage at the invitation of the
Court; that brief is described in the “Briefs Filed at the Invitation of the Court” section below.
At the merits stage, the Office filed a brief in support of respondent. The government took the
position that an action for criminal contempt in a congressionally created court must be brought
pursuant to the power of the United States, even if it is prosecuted by a private individual. The
government argued that the petitioner’s conviction nonetheless should be affirmed because the
Constitution does not require that a criminal contempt action be prosecuted in the name of the
United States, and nothing in petitioner’s plea agreement barred a contempt proceeding initiated
by a private individual. The Court has not yet issued its decision.

James W. Klein
Public Defender Service
633 Indiana Avenue, N.W.
(202) 628-1200
Party name: John Robertson

Robert A. Long Jr.
Covington & Burling LLP
[email protected]
(202) 662-6000
Party name: Wykenna Watson
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Todd S. Kim, Solicitor General
Office of the Attorney General for D.C.
441 Fourth Street, N.W. Suite 600-S
[email protected]
(202) 724-6609
Party name: District of Columbia
Co-Counsel:
JOSEPH R. PALMORE, Assistant to the Solicitor General
JOSEPH F. PALMER, Attorney
(202) 514-2217
Hardt v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Co., No. 09-448

The questions presented are (1) whether ERISA Section 502(g)(1) permits courts to award
reasonable attorney’s fees only to a “prevailing party”; and (2) whether a benefits claimant may
be awarded attorney’s fees pursuant to ERISA Section 502(g) when a district court finds that the
administrator has violated ERISA and orders it to redetermine claimant’s entitlement to benefits,
after which the administrator grants the benefits sought. The Office of the Solicitor General filed
a brief as amicus curiae in support of petitioner and took the position that Section 502(g)(1) does
not impose a strict prevailing party requirement and that an ERISA claimant who obtains a court
order finding a violation of law requiring a claims administrator to redetermine benefits
eligibility, and who is thereafter granted benefits, is eligible for attorney’s fees. The Court has

John R. Ates
Ates Law Firm, P. C.
1800 Diagonal Road, Suite 600
[email protected]
(703) 647-7501
Party name: Bridget Hardt

R. Ted Cruz
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
1000 Louisiana Street Suite 4000
Houston, TX 77002
[email protected]
(713) 890-5000
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Party name: Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company
Joshua Bachrach
Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker LLP
The Curtis Center, Ste.1130 East
Independence Square West
Philadelphia, PA 19106-3308
[email protected]
(215) 606-3906

Dechert LLP
Hartford, CT 06103
[email protected]
(860) 524-3999
Co-Counsel:
PRATIK A. SHAH, Assistant to the Solicitor General
(202) 514-2217
M. PATRICIA SMITH, Solicitor of Labor

TIMOTHY D. HAUSER, Associate Solicitor
ELIZABETH HOPKINS, Counsel for Appellate and Special Litigation
THOMAS TSO, Attorney
Department of Labor
200 Constitution Ave NW
(202) 693-5260
Morrison v. National Australia Bank, Ltd., No. 08-1191

The questions presented in this case are (1) whether the antifraud provisions of the United States
securities laws extend to transnational frauds where (a) the foreign-based parent company
conducted substantial business in the United States and (b) claims arose from an accounting
fraud perpetrated by American citizens at the parent company’s Florida-based subsidiary; and (2)
whether subject matter jurisdiction extends to transnational fraud-on-the-market claims. The
Office filed a brief at the certiorari stage at the invitation of the Court; that brief is described in
the “Briefs Filed at the Invitation of the Court” section below. On the merits, the Office filed a
brief as amicus curiae in support of respondents and took the position that the court of appeals
erred by treating the question as one of subject matter jurisdiction, but the judgment should be
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affirmed because the antifraud provisions of the United States securities laws do not extend to
the type of fraud at issue in this case. The Court has not yet issued its decision.

Thomas A. Dubbs
140 Broadway 34th Floor
New York, NY 10005
[email protected]
(212)-907-0871
Party name: Robert Morrison, et al.
James W Johnson
Labaton Sucharow LLP
140 Broadway
New York, NY 10005
(212) 907-0700

George T. Conway III
Wachtel Lipton Rosen & Katz
51 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019
[email protected]
(212) 403-1000
Party name: National Australia Bank Ltd., et al.
Co-Counsel:
(202) 514-2217

MARK PENNINGTON, Assistant General Counsel
WILLIAM K. SHIREY, Counsel to the General Counsel
BENJAMIN L. SCHIFFRIN, Senior Counsel
100 F Street NE
(202) 551-5100
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City of Ontario, California v. Quon, No. 08-1332
The questions presented in this case are (1) whether a government employee has a reasonable
expectation of privacy in messages sent through government-issued communications equipment
when his employer has notified him that his use of the equipment is subject to monitoring
without notice; (2) whether, if those messages are deemed private, a government employer’s
non-investigative review is unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment because the employer
reviewed the messages’ content; and (3) whether the sender of the message has a reasonable
expectation that the message will remain private once the message is delivered to the recipient.
The Office of the Solicitor General filed a brief in support of petitioner and took the position that
the government’s review of the messages did not violate the Fourth Amendment. The Court has

Kent L. Richland
Greines Martin Stein & Richland LLP
5900 Wilshire Blvd., 12th Floor
[email protected]
(310) 859-7811
Party name: City of Ontario, California, et al.

Dieter C. Dammeier
367 N. Second Ave
Upland, CA 91786
[email protected]
(909)-985-3285
Party name: Jeff Quon, et al.
Bruce Emery Disenhouse

Kinkle, Rodiger, and Spriggs
3333 14th St.
Riverside, CA 92501
(951)-683-2410
Party name: Debbie Glenn
Michael A. McGill
Lackie Dammeier & McGill APC
367 North Second Avenue
Upland, CA 91786
(909) 985-4003
Party name: Jeff Quon, et al.
Co-Counsel:
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JOSH GOLDFOOT and VIJAY SHANKER, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
Hamilton v. Lanning, No. 08-998

Under Section 1325(b)(1)(B) of Title 11 of the United States Code, when a trustee or unsecured
creditor objects to the confirmation of a debtor’s Chapter 13 plan, the bankruptcy court can
confirm that plan if “all of the debtor’s projected disposable income to be received” during the
plan period “will be applied to make payments to unsecured creditors under the plan.” The
debtor’s “disposable income” is calculated by examining her monthly expenses when the
Chapter 13 petition was filed and her average monthly income during the six-month period
before the petition was filed. The question presented is whether, in calculating the debtor’s
“projected disposable income” during the plan period, the bankruptcy court may consider
evidence suggesting that the debtor’s income or expenses during that period are likely to be
different from her income or expenses during the pre-filing period. The Office filed a brief at the
certiorari stage at the invitation of the Court; that brief is described in the “Briefs Filed at the
Invitation of the Court” section below. On the merits, the Office of the Solicitor General filed a
brief as amicus curiae in support of respondents and took the position that the court of appeals
was correct in holding that the bankruptcy court may consider such evidence. The Court has not
yet issued its decision.

Jan Hamilton
P.O. Box 3527
Topeka, KS 66601-3527
[email protected]
(785) 234-1551
Party name: Jan Hamilton, Chapter 13 Trustee

Thomas C. Goldstein
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP
1333 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W.
[email protected]
(202) 887-4060
Party name: Stephanie Kay Lanning
Co-Counsel:
WILLIAM KANTER and EDWARD HIMMELFARB, Attorneys
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(202) 514-2217

DAVID I. GOLD and CATHERINE B. SEVCENKO, Attorneys
(202) 616-1192
Healthcare Service Corp. v. Pollitt, No. 09-38

The questions presented in this case are (1) whether the Federal Employees Health Benefit Act
(“FEHBA”), 5 U.S.C. 8902(m)(1) completely preempts, and therefore makes removable to
federal court, a state court lawsuit filed against a government contractor administering health
benefits; and (2) whether the federal officer removal statute, 28 U.S.C. 1442(a)(1), which
authorizes federal removal jurisdiction over state court suits brought against persons acting under
color of federal office, encompasses a suit against a government contractor administering a
FEHBA plan. The Office of the Solicitor General filed a brief as amicus curiae in support of
respondents and took the position that FEHBA does not completely preempt such a suit and that
the federal officer removal statute does not apply. The Court has not yet issued its decision.

Anthony F. Shelley
Miller & Chevalier Chartered
655 Fifteenth Street, N.W., Suite 900
[email protected]
(202) 626-5800
Party name: Health Care Service Corporation

David C. Frederick
Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, P.L.L.C.
1615 M Street, N.W., Suite 400
[email protected]
(202) 326-7900
[email protected]
Party name: Juli A. Pollitt, and Michael Nash
Michael A. Nash
12538 W. Bairstow Avenue
Beach Park, IL 60087
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[email protected]
(847) 263-9504
Party name: Juli A. Pollitt and Michael A. Nash
Co-Counsel:
MELISSA ARBUS SHERRY, Assistant to the Solicitor General
MARK B. STERN, TEAL LUTHY MILLER, and DANA KAERSVANG, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
Samantar v. Yousuf, No. 08-1555

The questions presented in this case are (1) whether a foreign state’s immunity from suit under
the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), 28 U.S.C. 1604, extends to an individual acting in
his official capacity on behalf of a foreign state; and (2) whether an individual who is no longer
an official of a foreign state at the time suit is filed retains immunity for acts taken in the
individual’s former capacity as an official acting on behalf of a foreign state. The Office of the
Solicitor General filed a brief as amicus curiae in support of the respondent and took the position
that immunity of foreign government officials from suit is governed not by the FSIA but by
common law principles of immunity articulated by the Executive Branch, and that even if the
Court were to hold that the FSIA applies, former officials generally retain immunity, either under
the FSIA itself or under common law principles. The Court has not yet issued its decision.

Michael A. Carvin
Jones Day
[email protected]
(202) 879-7643
Party name: Mohamed Ali Samantar

Patricia A. Millett
[email protected]
(202) 887-4450
Party name: Bashe Abdi Yousuf, et al.
Robert R. Vieth
Cooley Godward Kronish LLP
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One Freedom Square
11951 Freedom Drive
Reston, VA 20190
(703) 456-8000
Party name: Bashe Abdi Yousuf, et al.
Co-Counsel:
DOUGLAS N. LETTER, SHARON SWINGLE, and LEWIS S. YELIN, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
HAROLD HONGJU KOH, Legal Advisor

JONATHAN B. SCHWARTZ, Deputy Legal Adviser
Department of State
2201 C Street NW
(202) 647-9598
Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd. v. Regal-Beloit Corp. & Union Pacific Railroad Co. v. Regal-
Beloit Corp., Nos. 08-1553 & 08-1554
The question presented in this case is whether the Carmack Amendment to the Interstate
Commerce Act of 1887, which governs certain rail and motor transportation by common carriers
within the United States, 49 U.S.C. 11706, 1407, applies to the inland rail leg of an intermodal
shipment from overseas when the shipment was made under a “through” bill of lading issued by
an ocean carrier that extended the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 46 U.S.C. 30701. The Office
of the Solicitor General filed a brief as amicus curiae in support of petitioner and took the
position that the Carmack Amendment does not apply to import carriage from non-adjacent
foreign countries; that Carmack applies to “rail carriers” only, and not to ocean carriers; and that
if Carmack were to apply to the shipment at issue, the rail carrier cannot be relieved of all
Carmack obligations by executing a contract under 49 U.S.C. 10709, but that the rail carrier met
its Carmack obligations by offering the shipper the option of Carmack-compliant terms. The
Court has not yet issued its decision.

Maureen E. Mahoney
Latham & Watkins, LLP
555 11th Street, NW Suite 1000
[email protected]
(202) 637-2207
Party name: Union Pacific Railroad Co.
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Kathleen M. Sullivan
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP
51 Madison Avenue, 22nd Floor
New York, NY 10010
[email protected]
(212) 849-7000
Party name: Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd., et al.

David C. Frederick
[email protected]
(202) 326-7900
[email protected]
Party name: Regal-Beloit Corporation, et al.
Dennis A. Cammarano
555 East Ocean Blvd. Suite 501
Long Beach, CA 90802
(562)-495-9501
Party name: Regal-Beloit Corporation, et al.
Co-Counsel:
MICHAEL JAY SINGER and KELSI BROWN CORKRAN, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
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Berghuis v. Thompkins, No. 08-1470
The questions presented in this case are (1) whether the Miranda rule prohibits an officer from
attempting to noncoercively persuade a suspect to cooperate when the officer informs the suspect
of his rights, the suspect acknowledges that he understands them, and the suspect does not
invoke them but does not waive them; and (2) whether the Sixth Circuit erred in granting habeas
relief with respect to an ineffective assistance of counsel claim when substantial evidence of
petitioner’s guilt allowed a state court to reasonably reject the claim. The Office of the Solicitor
General filed a brief as amicus curiae in support of petitioner and with respect to the first
question, the Office took the position that the Miranda rule does not prohibit such conduct. The
Office took no position on the second question. The Court has not yet issued its decision.

B. Eric Restuccia
Solicitor General
Michigan Attorney General's Office
P.O. Box 30212
Lansing, MI 48909
[email protected]
(517) 373-1124
Party name: Mary Berghuis, Warden

Elizabeth L. Jacobs
615 Griswold St. Suite 1125
Detroit, MI 48226
[email protected]
(313) 962-4090
Party name: Van Chester Thompkins
Co-Counsel:
(202) 514-2217
Hui v. Castaneda, No. 08-1529

The question presented in this case is whether 42 U.S.C. 233(a), which provides that a suit
against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act is exclusive of any other action
against a commissioned officer or employee of the Public Health Service for injury resulting
from the performance of medical functions, bars a suit against such an officer or employee based
on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971).
The Office previously filed a brief at the certiorari stage at the invitation of the Court; that brief
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is described in the “Briefs Filed at the Invitation of the Court” section below. On the merits, the
Office of the Solicitor General filed a brief as amicus curiae in support of petitioners and took
the position that Section 233(a) bars such suits. The Court held that the statute bars suits against
PHS officers for harms arising out of constitutional violations committed while acting within the
scope of their office.

Patrick L. Hurley
One California Street Suite 1100
[email protected]
(415)-217-6990
Party name: Esther Hui
David P. Sheldon
512 8th Street, S.E.
(202) 546-9575
Party name: Commander Stephen Gonsalves
Matthew S. Freedus
Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP
2001 L Street, N.W.
[email protected]
(202) 466-8960
Party name: Eugene Migliaccio, et al.
Elaine Goldenberg
Jenner & Block LLP
1099 New York Avenue, N.W., Suite 900
(202) 639-6000
Party name: Esther Hui, et al.
Steven J. Renick
Manning & Marder Kass Ellrod Ramirez LLP
801 S. Figueroa Street, 15th Floor
[email protected]
(213) 624-6900

Adele P. Kimmel
Public Justice, PC
108
1825 K St., NW, Suite 200
[email protected]
(202) 797-8600
Party name: Yanira Castaneda and Vanessa Castenada
Conal Doyle
Willoughby Doyle LLP
1814 Franklin Street, Suite 800
Oakland, CA 94612
(510) 451-2777
Party name: Yanira Castaneda, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Francisco Castaneda,
et al.
Co-Counsel:
BARBARA L. HERWIG and HOWARD S. SCHER, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
DAVID S. CADE, Acting General Counsel

Department of Health and Human Services
100 Independence Ave SW
(202) 690-7741
Lewis v. City of Chicago, No. 08-974

The question presented in this case is whether, where an employer adopts an employment
practice that discriminates against African Americans in violation of Title VII’s disparate impact
provision, a plaintiff must file an EEOC charge within 300 days after the announcement of the
practice, or whether the plaintiff may file the charge within 300 days after the employer’s use of
the discriminatory practice. The Office previously filed a brief at the certiorari stage at the
invitation of the Court; that brief is described in the “Briefs Filed at the Invitation of the Court”
section below. On the merits, the Office of the Solicitor General filed a brief as amicus curiae in
support of petitioners and took the position that the plaintiff may file the charge within 300 days
of the employer’s use of the discriminatory practice. The Court has not yet issued its decision.

John A. Payton
Matthew Colangelo
NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
99 Hudson Street, 16th Floor
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New York, NY 10013
[email protected]
(212) 965-2200
Party name: Arthur L. Lewis, Jr., et al.
Judson Hirsch Miner

Miner, Barnhill & Galland, P.C.
14 W. Erie Street
Chicago, IL 60654
(312) 751-1170

Benna Ruth Solomon, Deputy Corporation Counsel
Nadine J. Wichern, Assistant Corporation Counsel
30 North LaSalle Street, Suite 800
[email protected]
(312) 744-7764
Party name: City of Chicago, Illinois
Co-Counsel:
SAMUEL R. BAGENSTOS, Deputy Assistant Attorney General
DENNIS J. DIMSEY and TERESA KWONG, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
JAMES L. LEE, Deputy General Counsel

VINCENT J. BLACKWOOD, Acting Associate General Counsel
LORRAINE C. DAVIS, Assistant General Counsel
ANNE NOEL OCCHIALINO, Attorney
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
131 M Street NE
(202) 663-4196
Conkright v. Frommert, No. 08-810

The question presented is whether the court of appeals applied the correct standards of review
when it concluded that the administrator of an ERISA plan whose denial of benefits violated
ERISA was not entitled to deference regarding its opinion on how to remedy the violation, and
that the district court's choice of remedy should therefore be reviewed for abuse of discretion.
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The Office previously filed a brief at the certiorari stage at the invitation of the Court; that brief
is described in the “Briefs Filed at the Invitation of the Court” section below. On the merits, the
Office of the Solicitor General filed a brief as amicus curiae in support of respondent and took
the position that the court of appeals applied the correct standards of review. The Court held that
the court of appeals should have applied a deferential standard of review.

Robert D. Wick
Robert A. Long Jr.
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
(202) 662-5487
Party name: Sally L. Conkright, et al.

Peter K. Stris
Whittier Law School
3333 Harbor Blvd.
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
[email protected]
(714) 444-4141
Party name: Paul J. Frommert, et al.
Robert H. Jaffe
Robert H. Jaffe & Associates, P.A.
8 Mountain Avenue
Springfield, NJ 07081
[email protected]
(973) 467-2246
Party name: Thirty-three Respondents
Brendan S. Maher
Stris & Maher LLP
1920 Abrams Pkwy, #430
Dallas, TX 75214
[email protected]
(214) 224-0091
Party name: Sixty-two Respondents & Seven Cross-Respondents
Co-Counsel:
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DEBORAH GREENFIELD, Acting Deputy Solicitor

EDWARD D. SIEGER, Attorney
Department of Labor
(202) 693-5260
Briscoe v. Virginia, No. 07-11191

The question presented in this case is whether a state statute that authorizes the prosecution to
introduce a certificate of a forensic laboratory analysis without presenting the live testimony of
the analyst who prepared the certificate, on condition that the prosecution produce the analyst
and permit the defendant to call the analyst for cross-examination on the defendant’s timely
request, complies with the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment. The Office of the
Solicitor General filed a brief as amicus curiae and took the position that the statute complies
with the Confrontation Clause. The Court vacated the judgment and remanded the case to the
Virginia Supreme Court for further proceedings in light of Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, 552
U.S. ___ (2009).

Richard D. Friedman
625 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
[email protected]
(734) 647-1078
Party name: Mark A. Briscoe, et al.

Stephen R. McCullough, Senior Appellate Counsel
William E. Thro, State Solicitor General
900 East Main Street
Richmond, VA 23219
(804) 786-2436
Party name: Virginia
Co-Counsel:
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(202) 514-2217
Graham County Soil and Water Conservation Dist. v. United States ex rel. Wilson, No. 08-304
The question presented in this case is whether an audit and investigation performed by a State or
its political subdivision constitutes an “administrative . . . report . . . audit, or investigation”
within the meaning of the public disclosure jurisdictional bar of the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C.
3730(e)(4)(A). The Office previously filed a brief at the certiorari stage at the invitation of the
On the merits, the Office of the Solicitor General filed a brief as amicus curiae in support of
respondent and took the position that such audits and investigations do not qualify as
administrative reports, audits or investigations under the Act. The Court held that the statute
encompasses audits and investigations performed by a State or its political subdivision.

Christopher G. Browning Jr.
North Carolina Department of Justice
P.O. Box 629
Raleigh, NC 27603
[email protected]
(919) 716-6900
Party name: Graham County Soil and Water Conservation District, et al.

Mark T. Hurt, Attorney at Law
159 West Main Street
Abingdon, VA 24210
[email protected]
(276) 623-0808
Party name: Karen T. Wilson
Co-Counsel:
DOUGLAS HALLWARD-DRIEMEIER, Assistant to the Solicitor General
DOUGLAS N. LETTER and STEPHANIE R. MARCUS, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
Merck & Co., Inc. v. Reynolds, No. 08-905

The questions presented in this case are (1) whether the statute of limitations applicable to
federal securities fraud claims begins to run when the plaintiff is on "inquiry notice" of a possible
claim, and (2) whether a plaintiff is on “inquiry notice” when he has reason to suspect that the
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defendant has made a false statement, or only when the victim has no reason to suspect the
defendant acted with the scienter necessary to establish a violation of the securities laws. The
the positions (1) that the statute of limitations does not begin to run upon “inquiry notice” of a
potential claim but instead when a plaintiff acting with reasonable diligence would discover the
facts constituting the violation, and (2) that “inquiry notice,” which would cause a reasonable
investor to undertake further inquiry, does not occur until the investor has reason to suspect that
the defendant acted with scienter. The Court held that a cause of action accrues when a
reasonably diligent plaintiff would have discovered the facts constituting the violation, including
the fact of scienter.

Kannon K. Shanmugam
Williams & Connolly LLP
725 Twelfth Street, N.W.
[email protected]
(202) 434-5050
Party name: Merck & Co., Inc., et al.
Evan R. Chesler
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
825 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10019-475
[email protected]
(212) 474-1000
Party name: Merck & Co., Inc., et al.

David C. Frederick
[email protected]
(202) 326-7900
[email protected]
Party name: Richard Reynolds, et al.
Max W. Berger
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP
1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019
[email protected]
(212) 554-1400
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David A. P. Brower
Brower Piven
488 Madison Avenue, Eighth Floor
New York, NY 10022
[email protected]
(212) 501-9000
Co-Counsel:
(202) 514-2217

MICHAEL A. CONLEY, Deputy Solicitor
DAVID LISITZA, Senior Counsel
100 F Street NE
(202) 551-5100
Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dep’t of Environmental Protection, No. 08-
1151
The question presented in this case is whether Florida’s legislation to restore storm-eroded
beaches, which would modify private-property boundary lines, constitutes a judicial taking or
violates the due process clause. The Office of the Solicitor General filed a brief as amicus curiae
in support of respondent and took the position that the Florida Supreme Court did not take
property of petitioners’ members without just compensation. The Court has not yet issued its
decision.

D. Kent Safriet
Hopping Green & Sams, P.A.
119 South Monroe Street, Suite 300
Tallahassee, FL 32301
[email protected]
(850) 222-7500
Party name: Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc.

Scott D. Makar, Solicitor General
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The Capitol - PL- 01
[email protected]
(850) 414-3681
Party name: Florida Department of Environmental Protection, et al.
Thomas W. Merrill
Yale Law School
127 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
[email protected]
(203) 436-8990
Party name: Walton County and City of Destin
Hala A. Sandridge
Fowler White Boggs, P.A.
501 East Kennedy Blvd. Suite 1700
Tampa, FL 33602
[email protected]
(813) 228-7411
Party name: Walton County and City of Destin
Co-Counsel:
KATHERINE J. BARTON and JUSTIN R. PIDOT, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
American Needle, Inc. v. Nat’l Football League, No. 08-661

The questions presented in this case are (1) whether the NFL and its member teams are a single
entity that is exempt from rule of reason claims under Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. 1;
and (2) whether an agreement of NFL teams among themselves and with Reebok International,
pursuant to which teams agreed not to compete with each other in the licensing and sale of
consumer headwear and clothing decorated with teams’ respective logos and trademarks, and not
to permit any licenses to be granted to Reebok’s competitors for a period of 10 years, is subject
to a rule of reason claim under Section 1 of the Sherman Act. The Office previously filed a brief
at the certiorari stage at the invitation of the Court; that brief is described in the “Briefs Filed at
the Invitation of the Court” section below. On the merits, the Office of the Solicitor General
filed a brief as amicus curiae in support of petitioner and took the position that the court of
appeals did not undertake the appropriate inquiry into whether the NFL, the teams, and NFLP
functioned as a single entity with respect to the challenged restraints and the case should be
remanded for further consideration. The Court has not yet issued its decision.
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Glen D. Nager
Jones Day
(202) 879-3939
Party name: American Needle, Inc.
Jeffrey Martin Carey

790 Frontage Rd., Suite 306
Northfield, IL 60093
(847) 441-2480

Timothy B. Hardwicke
Sears Tower, Suite 5800
233 S. Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606
(312) 876-7619
Party name: Reebok International, Ltd.
Gregg H. Levy
[email protected]
(202) 662-5292
Party name: National Football League
Richard M. Brunell
American Antitrust Institute
2919 Ellicott St., NW
(617) 435-6464
Party name: American Antitrust Institute and Consumer Federation of America
Co-Counsel:
CHRISTINE A. VARNEY, Assistant Attorney General
PHILIP J. WEISER, Deputy Assistant Attorney General
CATHERINE G. O'SULLIVAN and NICKOLAI G. LEVIN, Attorneys
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(202) 514-2217
WILLARD K. TOM, General Counsel

Federal Trade Commission
(202) 326-3020
Jerman v. Carlisle, No. 08-1200

The question presented in this case is whether a debt collector’s legal error qualifies for the bona
fide error defense under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1692. The Office of
the Solicitor General filed a brief as amicus curiae in support of petitioner and took the position
that a debt collector’s legal error does not qualify for the bona fide error defense. The Court held
that the bona fide error defense does not apply to a debt collector’s mistaken interpretation of the
legal requirements of the Act.

Kevin K. Russell
Amy Howe
Howe & Russell, P.C.
7272 Wisconsin Ave. Suite 300
Bethesda, MD 20814
[email protected]
(301) 941-1913
Party name: Karen L. Jerman

George S. Coakley
1400 Midland Building
101 Prospect Ave., West
Cleveland, OH 44115
[email protected]
(216) 687-1311
Party name: Carlisle, McNellie, Rini, Kramer & Ulrich, L.P.A., et al.
Co-Counsel:
(202) 514-2217

JOHN F. DALY, Deputy General Counsel
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LAWRENCE DEMILLE-WAGMAN, Assistant General Counsel
(202) 326-3020
Abbott v. Abbott, No. 08-645

The question presented in this case is whether a ne exeat clause confers a “right of custody”
within the meaning of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child
Abduction. The Office previously filed a brief at the certiorari stage at the invitation of the
petitioner and took the position that a ne exeat clause does confer a right of custody under the
Hague Convention. The Court held a parent does have a right of custody under the Convention
by reason of the parent’s ne exeat right.

Amy Howe
7272 Wisconsin Ave. Suite 300
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 941-1913
Party name: Timothy Mark Cameron Abbott

Karl E. Hays
701 West 11th Street
Austin, TX 78701
[email protected]
(512)-476-1911
Party name: Jacquelyn Vaye Abbott
Stephen B. Kinnaird
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
875 15th Street, NW
[email protected]
(202) 551-1700
Co-Counsel:
MICHAEL J. SINGER and HOWARD S. SCHER, Attorneys
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(202) 514-2217
HAROLD HONGJU KOH, Legal Adviser

JAMES H. THESSIN, Deputy Legal Adviser
KEITH LOKEN, Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law
KATHLEEN H. HOOKE, Assistant Legal Adviser for Consular Affairs
MARY HELEN CARLSON and JAMES L. BISCHOFF, Attorney-Advisers
Department of State
2201 C Street NW
(202) 647-9598
United Student Aid Funds, Inc. v. Espinosa, No. 08-1134

The question presented in this case is whether a debtor may obtain a discharge of a student loan
debt in a Chapter 13 bankruptcy plan rather than through an adversary proceeding. The Office of
that the bankruptcy court’s discharge order did not discharge respondent’s student loan debt
because the court did not find, pursuant to the procedures specified in the Bankruptcy Rules, that
failure to do so would create undue hardship for the debtor and his dependents. The Court held
that the bankruptcy court’s order discharging the debt was not a void judgment.

Charles W. Wirken
Gust Rosenfeld, PLC
201 E. Washington St., Ste. 800
Phoenix, AZ 85004-2327
[email protected]
(602) 257-7959
Party name: United Student Aid Funds, Inc.
Madeleine C. Wanslee
Gust Rosenfeld, PLC
201 E. Washington Street, Suite 800
Phoenix, AZ 85004
[email protected]
(602)-257-7430
Party name: United Student Aid Funds, Inc.

Michael J. Meehan
Munger Chadwick, P.L.C.
333 North Wilmot, Suite 300
Tucson, AZ 85711
[email protected]
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(520) 721-1900
Party name: Francisco J. Espinosa
Co-Counsel:
TOBY J. HEYTENS, Assistant to the Solicitor General
WILLIAM KANTER and PETER R. MAIER, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
Florida v. Powell, No. 08-1175

The question presented in this case is whether Miranda warnings to a suspect in police custody
must include an explicit assurance that the individual may have a lawyer in the room during
police questioning. The Office of the Solicitor General filed a brief as amicus curiae in support
of petitioner and took the position that pre-interrogation warnings that advise the suspect that he
has a “right to talk to a lawyer before answering any of our questions” and a “right to use” that
right “at any time you want during this interview” comply with the requirement under Miranda
that the suspect be informed of the right to the presence of counsel during questioning. The
Court held that the warnings satisfied Miranda.

Robert J. Krauss
Chief Asst. AG, Tampa Criminal Appeals
Concourse Center 4
3507 E. Frontage Rd., Suite 200
Tampa, FL 33607-7013
[email protected]
(813) 287-7900
Party name: Florida
Joseph W. Jacquot
Deputy Attorney General
The Capitol, Plaza Level 1
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0150
[email protected]
(850)-245-0184
Party name: Florida

Cynthia J. Dodge
Assistant Public Defender
255 N. Broadway
P.O. Box 9000 - PD
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Bartow, FL 33831-9000
[email protected]
(863) 534-4347
Party name: Kevin Dewayne Powell
Deborah K. Brueckheimer
Assistant Public Defender
Polk County Courthouse
PO Box 9000 - Drawer PD
Bartow, FL 33831
(813) 534-4200
Party name: Kevin Dewayne Powell
Co-Counsel:
DANIEL S. GOODMAN, Attorney
(202) 514-2217
Mac’s Shell Serv. v. Shell Oil Prods. Co. & Shell Oil Prods. Co. v. Mac’s Shell Serv., Nos. 08-
240 & 08-372
The question presented in this consolidated case is whether, and under what circumstances, a
service station operator may bring suit against an oil refiner or distributor for “constructive
termination” or “constructive non-renewal” under the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act, 15
U.S.C. 2801 et seq. The Office previously filed a brief at the certiorari stage at the invitation of
the Court; that brief is described in the “Briefs Filed at the Invitation of the Court” section below.
Shell Oil and took the position that a station operator may not claim “constructive termination”
when it continues to operate the franchise and may not claim “constructive non-renewal” when it
signs and operates under a renewed franchise agreement. The Court held that a franchisee
cannot recover for constructive termination under the statute if the franchisor’s allegedly
wrongful conduct did not compel the franchisee to abandon the franchise. The Court also held
that a franchisee who signs and operates under a renewal agreement with a franchisor may not
maintain a claim for constructive non-renewal.
Attorneys for Mac’s Shell Serv.:

John F. Farraher, Jr.
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
One International Place, 20th Fl.
Boston, MA 02110
[email protected]
(617) 310-6000
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Party name: Mac's Shell Service, Inc., et al.
Attorneys for Shell Oil Prods. Co.:

Jeffrey A. Lamken
Molo Lamken LLP
The Watergate
[email protected]
(202) 556-2010
Party name: Shell Oil Products Company LLC, et al.
Co-Counsel:
(202) 514-2217
Padilla v. Kentucky, No. 08-651

The question presented in this case is whether the Sixth Amendment requires a criminal defense
attorney to advise a non-citizen client that pleading guilty to an aggravated felony will trigger
mandatory, automatic deportation, and if so, whether the failure to so advise the client amounts
to ineffective assistance of counsel warranting that the guilty plea be set aside. The Office of the
Solicitor General filed a brief as amicus curiae in support of respondent and took the position
that a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel may be based on incompetent advice about the
immigration consequences of a plea, but not on the simple failure to provide any advice at all,
and that the defendant must establish prejudice. The Court held that constitutionally competent
counsel would have advised petitioner that his conviction subjected him to automatic
deportation, and remanded for a determination whether petitioner suffered prejudice.

Stephen B. Kinnaird
875 15th Street, NW
[email protected]
(202) 551-1700
Party name: Jose Padilla
Richard Edwin Neal

U'Sellis & Kitchen, PLC
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600 East Main Street, Ste. 100
Louisville, KY 40202
[email protected]
(502)-736-3600
Party name: Jose Padilla

Wm. Robert Long Jr.
1024 Capital Center Drive, Suite 200
Frankfort, KY 40601
[email protected]
(502) 696-5342
Party name: Kentucky
David A. Smith
Assistant Attorney General
1024 Capital Center Drive, Suite 200
Frankfort, KY 40601
(502) 696-5243
Party name: Kentucky
Co-Counsel:
WILLIAM C. BROWN, Attorney
(202) 514-2217
Pottawattamie County v. McGhee, No. 08-1065

The question presented in this case is whether a prosecutor can be held liable under Section 1983
for a wrongful conviction and incarceration stemming from the prosecutor’s procurement of false
testimony during the investigation of a crime and the subsequent use of that testimony at trial.
The Office of the Solicitor General filed a brief as amicus curiae in support of petitioners and
took the position that prosecutors are not liable for such actions. The case was dismissed under
Supreme Court Rule 46.

Jeffrey W. Sarles
Mayer Brown LLP
71 South Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606
[email protected]
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(312) 782-0600
Party name: Pottawattamie County, Iowa, et al.

Paul D. Clement
King and Spalding LLP
[email protected]
(202) 626-0500
Party name: Curtis W. McGhee, Jr., et al.
Stephen D. Davis
Canel Davis & King
10 S. LaSalle Street, Suite 3400
Chicago, IL 60603
[email protected]
(312) 372-4142
Party name: Curtis W. McGhee, Jr.
J. Douglas McCalla
The Spence Law Firm, LLC
P.O. Box 548
15 S. Jackson St.
Jackson, WY 83001
(307) 733-7290
Party name: Terry J. Harrington
Alan O. Olson
3116 Ingersoll Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50312
Gerald Leonard Spence

P.O. Box 548
Jackson, WY 83001
Co-Counsel:
BARBARA L. HERWIG and JOSHUA WALDMAN, Attorneys
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(202) 514-2217
Schwab v. Reilly, No. 08-538

The question presented in this case is whether a Chapter 7 trustee is required by Federal Rule of
Bankruptcy 4003(b) or this Court’s decision in Taylor v. Freeland & Kronz, 503 U.S. 638
(1992), to object to a debtor’s claimed exemption when the debtor is entitled to an exemption in
the amount claimed, but the debtor incorrectly lists the market value of the property as equal to
the amount of the exemption. The Office of the Solicitor General filed a brief as amicus curiae
in support of petitioner and took the position that a Chapter 7 trustee is not required to object in
such a situation. The Court has not yet issued its decision.

Craig Goldblatt
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
[email protected]
(202) 663-6483
Party name: William G. Schwab
William G. Schwab
P.O. Box 56
811 Blakeslee Boulevard Drive East
Lehighton, PA 18235
(610) 377-5200
Seth P. Waxman
[email protected]
(202) 663-6000

Dechert LLP
Hartford, CT 06103
[email protected]
(860) 524-3999
Party name: Nadejda Reilly
Gino L. Andreuzzi
85 Drasher Road, Suite II
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Drums, PA 18222
Party name: Nadejda Reilly
Co-Counsel:
WILLIAM S. KANTER and MELISSA N. PATTERSON, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217

ERIC K. BRADFORD and CATHERINE B. SEVCENKO, Attorneys
(202) 616-1192
State of Alabama v. State of North Carolina, Orig. 132

This is an original action about the disposal of low-level radioactive waste. The questions
presented are (1) whether sovereign immunity principles require the dismissal of the Southeast
Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Commission (Commission) as a plaintiff in this
action and (2) whether the Southeast Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact
(Compact) authorizes the Commission to impose monetary sanctions against North Carolina in
response to North Carolina’s alleged breach of its obligations under the Compact. The Office of
the Solicitor General filed a brief as amicus curiae and took the position that the Commission
should not be dismissed from this action and that the Compact does not authorize the
Commission to impose monetary sanctions. The Court has not yet issued its decision.
Attorneys for Plaintiff:

Carter G. Phillips
Sidley Austin LLP
1501 K Street, N.W.
[email protected]
(202) 736-8000
Party name: Alabama, et al., Plaintiffs

Grayson Kelley
Senior Deputy Attorney General
N.C. Department of Justice
PO Box 629
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Raleigh, NC 27602
(919) 716-6900
Party name: North Carolina
Jonathan D. Hacker
O'Melveny & Meyers LLP
[email protected]
(202) 383-5285
Party name: North Carolina
Co-Counsel:
CHARLES FINDLAY and BARCLAY T. SAMFORD, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
Mohawk Indus. v. Carpenter, No. 08-678

The question presented in this case is whether a party may immediately appeal, as a collateral
order, an order to disclose materials said to be covered by the attorney-client privilege. The
the position that discovery orders do not satisfy the traditional requirements of the collateral
order doctrine. The Court held that orders to disclose material alleged to be protected by the
attorney-client privilege do not qualify for immediate appeal under the collateral order doctrine.

Randall L. Allen
Alston & Bird LLP
1201 West Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA 30309-3424
[email protected]
(404) 881-7000
Party name: Mohawk Industries, Inc.

Jonathan Craig Smith
Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder PC
350 Fairfield Ave.
Bridgeport, CT 06604
[email protected]
(203)-336-4421
Party name: Norman Carpenter
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Judith Resnik
127 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
[email protected]
(203) 432-1447
Party name: Norman Carpenter
Co-Counsel:
MICHAEL S. RAAB and ERIC FLEISIG-GREENE, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
Perdue v. Kenny A., No. 08-970

The question presented in this case is whether an attorney’s fee award under a federal fee-
shifting statute can be enhanced beyond the lodestar calculation based on quality of performance
and results obtained. The Office of the Solicitor General filed a brief as amicus curiae in support
of petitioner and took the position that the fee award cannot be enhanced. The Court held that a
fee award may be enhanced beyond the lodestar calculation based on superior performance, but
only in extraordinary circumstances.

Mark H. Cohen
Troutman Sanders LLP
Bank of America Plaza, Suite 5200
600 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30308
[email protected]
(404) 885-3597
Party name: Sonny Perdue, Governor of Georgia, et al.

Paul D. Clement
King and Spalding LLP
[email protected]
(202) 626-0500
Party name: Kenny A., By His Next Friend Linda Winn, et al.
Michael B. de Leeuw
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Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP
One New York Plaza
New York, NY 10004
(212) 859-8000
Party name: Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, et al.
Marcia Robinson Lowry

Children's Rights
330 7th Avenue, Fourth Floor
New York, NY 10016
[email protected]
(212) 683-2210
Party name: Kenny A., By His Next Friend Linda Winn, et al.
Co-Counsel:
MICHAEL JAY SINGER and JEFFRICA JENKINS LEE, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
Jones v. Harris Assoc., No. 08-586

The question presented in this case is whether a security holder’s claim that a mutual fund’s
investment adviser breached its fiduciary duty by charging an excessive fee -- more than twice
the fee it charged to clients with which it was not affiliated -- is cognizable under Section 36(b)
of the Investment Company Act of 1940, 15 U.S.C. 80a-35(b), even if the security holder does
not show that the adviser misled the mutual fund directors who approved the fee. The Office of
that such a claim is cognizable under Section 36(b) and that the case should be remanded for a
determination whether petitioners have provided sufficient evidence of material facts to survive
summary judgment. The Court held that, to face liability under Section 36(b), an investment
adviser must charge a fee that is so disproportionately large that it bears no reasonable
relationship to the services rendered and could not have been the product of arm’s length
bargaining.

David C. Frederick
[email protected]
(202) 326-7900
[email protected]
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Party name: Jerry N. Jones, et al.

John D. Donovan Jr.
Ropes & Gray LLP
One International Place
Boston, MA 02110-2624
[email protected]
(617) 951-7566
Party name: Harris Associates L.P.
Co-Counsel:
(202) 514-2217

TRACEY A. HARDIN, Senior Counsel
100 F Street NE
(202) 551-5100
Reed Elsevier Inc. v. Muchnick, No. 08-103

The question presented in this case is whether 17 U.S.C. 411(a) restricts the subject matter
jurisdiction of the federal courts over copyright infringement actions. The Office of the Solicitor
General filed a brief as amicus curiae in support of vacatur and remand. The Office took the
position that Section 411(a), which requires copyright owners, before instituting an infringement
action, to have registered their copyright with the Copyright Office or have been refused
registration, is not jurisdictional. Rather, the registration requirement is a mandatory prerequisite
to suit that may be enforced sua sponte by district courts prior to judgment. The Court held that
Section 411(a)’s registration requirement is a precondition to filing a claim that does not restrict
a federal court’s subject-matter jurisdiction.

Charles S. Sims
Proskauer Rose LLP
1585 Broadway
New York, NY 10036-8299
[email protected]
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(212) 969-3950
Party name: Reed Elsevier, Inc., et al.

Michael J. Boni
15 St. Asaphs Road
Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004
[email protected]
(610)-822-0201
Party name: Letty Cottin Pogrebin, et al.
Charles D. Chalmers
769 Center Blvd., # 148
Fairfax, CA 94930
[email protected]
(415) 860-8134
Party name: Irvin Muchnick, et al.
Deborah Jones Merritt

55 West 12th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
[email protected]
(614) 688-4039
Party name: Amicus Curiae In Support of the Judgment Below
George W. Croner
Kohn Swift & Graf PC
One South Broad Street, Suite 2100
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 238-1700
Party name: Letty Cottin Pogrebin, et al.
Co-Counsel:
SCOTT R. MCINTOSH and JONATHAN H. LEVY, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
Alvarez v. Smith, No. 08-351

The question presented in this case is whether local law enforcement agencies may seize
personal property and then retain custody of the property indefinitely, without judicial or
administrative review of the lawfulness of the continued detention of the property. The Office of
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that the forfeiture procedure does not facially violate the Due Process Clause merely because it
does not offer a preliminary probable cause hearing at an early stage. The Court held that the
case was moot because the underlying property disputes had all been resolved.

Paul A. Castiglione
Assistant State's Attorney Cook County
500 Richard J. Daley Center
Chicago, IL 60602
[email protected]
(312) 603-1840
Party name: Anita Alvarez, Cook County State's Attorney

Thomas Peters
407 S. Dearborn Street, Suite 1675
Chicago, IL 60605
[email protected]
(312) 697-0022
Party name: Chermane Smith, et al.
Co-Counsel:
LANNY A. BREUER and TONY WEST, Assistant Attorneys General
HARRY HARBIN, MICHAEL S. RAAB, and SYDNEY FOSTER, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
BERNARD J. KNIGHT, JR., Acting General Counsel

Department of the Treasury
(202) 622-0283
DAVID A. MARTIN, Acting General Counsel

Department of Homeland Security
(202) 282-8137
ALFONSO ROBLES, Chief Counsel

U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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(202) 344-2940
McDaniel v. Brown, No. 08-559

The question presented in this case is whether a federal habeas court, when considering a
sufficiency-of-the-evidence claim pursuant to Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), may
expand the record or consider non-record evidence to determine the reliability of testimony and
evidence given at trial. The Office of the Solicitor General filed a brief as amicus curiae in
support of petitioners and took the position that, in evaluating the sufficiency of the trial
evidence under Jackson, claims of evidentiary insufficiency must be evaluated only on the
evidence adduced at trial and not on post-trial submissions that were not before the jury. The
Court reversed the court of appeals’ decision granting habeas relief to respondent.

Robert E. Wieland Jr.
Senior Deputy Attorney General
Nevada Office of the Attorney General
5420 Kietzke Lane, Suite 202
Reno, NV 89511
[email protected]
(775) 688-1818
Party name: E. K. McDaniel, Warden, et al.

Paul G. Turner
411 E. Bonneville Avenue, Suite 250
Las Vegas, NV 89101
[email protected]
(702) 388-6577
Party name: Troy Brown
Co-Counsel:
ELIZABETH D. COLLERY, Attorney
(202) 514-2217
Maryland v. Shatzer, No. 08-680

The question presented is whether Edwards v. Arizona, 451 U.S. 477 (1981), requires the
suppression of voluntary statements that respondent made after receiving Miranda warnings
because, two-and-a-half years earlier, respondent, who was incarcerated on a separate crime and
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was later released back to the general prison population, had invoked his Fifth Amendment right
to counsel when a different law enforcement official sought to question him about the same
offense. The Office of the Solicitor General filed a brief as amicus curiae in support of
petitioner and took the position that the Fifth Amendment does not require suppression of
respondent’s warned and voluntary statements. The Court held that the Fifth Amendment did
not require suppression of respondent’s statements.

Brian Scott Kleinbord
200 St. Paul Place, 17th Floor
Baltimore, MD 21202
[email protected]
(410) 576-6435
Party name: Maryland
Douglas F. Gansler
Attorney General
200 Saint Paul Place
Baltimore, MD 21202
[email protected]
(410)-576-6311
Party name: Maryland

Celia Anderson Davis, Assistant Public Defender
Office of Public Defender, Appellate Division
6 Saint Paul Street, Suite 1302
Baltimore, MD 21202-1608
[email protected]
(410) 767-8527
Party name: Michael Blaine Shatzer, Sr.
Co-Counsel:
RITA M. GLAVIN, Acting Assistant Attorney General
(202) 514-2217
Forest Grove School District v. T.A., No. 08-305

The question presented is whether parents of a student who has never previously received special
education services from a school district may be eligible under the Individuals with Disabilities
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Education Act, 20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq., for reimbursement of private school tuition. The Office
of the Solicitor General filed a brief as amicus curiae in support of respondent and took the
position that such parents are entitled to reimbursement. The Court held that the IDEA
authorizes reimbursement for private special-education services when a public school fails to
provide a free appropriate public education and the private-school placement is appropriate,
regardless of whether the child previously received special-education services through the public
school.

Gary Feinerman
Sidley Austin LLP
One South Dearborn Street
Chicago, IL 60603
[email protected]
(312) 853-2174
Party name: Forest Grove School District

David B. Salmons
Bingham McCutchen LLP
2020 K Street, NW
[email protected]
(202) 373-6000
Party name: T. A.
Mary E. Broadhurst
P.O. Box 11377
Eugene, OR 97440
(541) 683-8530
Party name: T. A.
Bonnie I. Robin-Vergeer
Public Citizen Litigation Group
1600 20th Street, N.W.
(202) 588-1000
Party name: T. A.
Co-Counsel:
LORETTA KING, Acting Assistant Attorney General
MARK L. GROSS and KARL N. GELLERT, Attorneys
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(202) 514-2217
PHILIP H. ROSENFELT, Deputy General Counsel

Department of Education
400 Maryland Ave SW
(202) 401-6000
United States ex rel Eisenstein v. City of New York, No. 08-660

The question presented is whether the 30-day time limit in Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(A) for filing a
notice of appeal, or the 60-day time limit in Rule 4(a)(1)(B), applies to a qui tam action under the
False Claims Act. The Office of the Solicitor General filed a brief as amicus curiae in support of
respondents and took the position that the 30-day time limit applies because the United States is
not a party for purposes of this appeal. The Court held that the 30-day time limit applies.

Gideon A. Schor
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C.
1301 Avenue of the Americas, 40th Fl.
New York, NY 10019
[email protected]
(212) 497-7753
Party name: United States, ex rel. Irwin Eisenstein

Paul T. Rephen
Corporation Counsel of the City of New York
100 Church Street
New York, NY 10007
[email protected]
(212) 788-1200
Party name: City of New York, New York, et al.
Leonard J. Koerner
Corporation Counsel for the City of New York
NYC Law Department
100 Church Street
New York, NY 10007
[email protected]
(212) 788-1010
Party name: City of New York, New York, et al.
Co-Counsel:
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DOUGLAS N. LETTER, MICHAEL D. GRANSTON, BENJAMIN M. SHULTZ, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
Montejo v. Louisiana, No. 07-1529

The question presented is whether petitioner’s statements in response to police questioning after
the court ordered appointment of counsel at a preliminary hearing were admissible under the
Sixth Amendment. The Office of the Solicitor General did not file a brief at the merits stage
initially. The Court then requested supplemental briefing on whether Michigan v. Jackson, 475
U.S. 625 (1986), should be overruled. In Jackson, the Court held that a defendant’s waiver of his
right to counsel under the Sixth Amendment is presumed invalid if the police initiate
interrogation after he has asserted the right at an arraignment or similar proceeding. The Office
of the Solicitor General filed a brief as amicus curiae in support of respondent arguing that the
Sixth Amendment should not prevent a criminal defendant from waiving his right to counsel and
answering questions from police following assertion of the right at arraignment. The Court
overruled Jackson.

G. Ben Cohen
The Capital Appeals Project
636 Baronne Street
New Orleans, LA 70113
[email protected]
(504) 529-5955
Party name: Jesse Jay Montejo
Paul M. Smith
Jenner & Block LLP
(202) 639-6000
[email protected]
Ian Heath Gershengorn

Jenner & Block LLP
[email protected]
(202) 639-6083
Donald B. Verrilli Jr.
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Jenner & Block LLP
1099 New York Avenue, N.W. Suite 900
[email protected]
(202) 639-6000

Kathryn Landry
P.O. Box 82659
Baton Rouge, LA 70884-2659
[email protected]
(225)-766-0023
Party name: Louisiana
Co-Counsel:
RITA M. GLAVIN, Acting Assistant Attorney General
JOEL M. GERSHOWITZ, Attorney
(202) 514-2217
Petitions for Certiorari
FCC v. AT&T, Inc. No. 09-1279

Exemption 7(C) of the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552, exempts from mandatory
disclosure records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes where the disclosure of
such records or information could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion
of “personal privacy.” 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(7)(C). The question presented in this case is whether
Exemption 7(C)’s protection for “personal privacy” protects the “privacy” of corporate entities.
The court of appeals held that this personal privacy protection applies to corporate entities. The
Office of the Solicitor General took the position that only individuals and not corporations have
“personal privacy” under the FOIA. The Court has not yet acted on the petition.

Mary C. Albert
COMPTEL
900 17th Street, NW, Suite 400
[email protected]
(202) 296-6650
Party name: COMPTEL
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Co-Counsel:
LEONARD SCHAITMAN and HENRY C. WHITAKER, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
AUSTIN C. SCHLICK, General Counsel

DANIEL M. ARMSTRONG, Associate General Counsel
MICHAEL A. KRASNOW, Counsel
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street SW
(202) 418-1700
United States v. Philip Morris USA, Inc., No. 09-978

Under 18 U.S.C. 1964(a), a district court has jurisdiction to issue “appropriate orders” to
“prevent and restrain” violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
(RICO), 18 U.S.C. 1961 et seq. Respondents were found liable for decades-long RICO
violations that entailed a multi-faceted scheme to defraud the American public for the purpose of
addicting smokers, deceiving actual and prospective smokers about the health effects and
addictive properties of respondents’ products, and thereby obtaining revenue from the sale of
cigarettes. The question presented is whether 18 U.S.C. 1964(a) categorically bars a district
court from ordering disgorgement of ill-gotten gains as well as other equitable relief, such as
smoking-cessation and public-education remedies, designed to redress the continuing
consequences of RICO violations. The court of appeals held that the statute empowers a district
court only to grant forward-looking remedies aimed at future violations, and that disgorgement is
not such a remedy. The Office took the position that the statute does not bar disgorgement and
other equitable relief to address the continuing consequences of RICO violations. The Court has
not yet acted on the petition.

Miguel A. Estrada
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
[email protected]
(202) 955-8500
Party name: Philip Morris USA Inc.
Howard M. Crystal
Meyer Glitzenstein & Crystal
1601 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite 700
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[email protected]
(202) 588-5206
Party name: Tobacco- Free Kids Action Fund in support of petitioners.
Co-Counsel:
EDWIN S. KNEEDLER and MICHAEL R. DREEBEN, Deputy Solicitors General
MARK B. STERN, ALISA B. KLEIN, MARK R. FREEMAN, and GREGORY C.J. LISA,
Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
United States v. Juvenile Male, No. 09-940

On February 9, 2010, the Office of the Solicitor General filed a petition for certiorari in this
case. The question presented is whether application of the registration and notification
provisions of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) to a juvenile who
was adjudicated delinquent under the Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act before SORNA’s
enactment violates the Ex Post Facto Clause of the Constitution. The court of appeals held that
such an application of the statute violates the Ex Post Facto Clause. The Office took the position
that (1) the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that application of SORNA to such a juvenile violates
the Ex Post Facto Clause; (2) that plenary review would be warranted; and (3) that the Court may
nonetheless wish to grant the petition, vacate the judgment, and remand for further proceedings
on whether the case is moot because the juvenile’s sentencing conditions expired prior to the
Ninth Circuit’s decision. The Court has not yet acted on the petition.

Anthony R. Gallagher
104 Second Street, South, Suite 301
P.O. Box 3547
Great Falls, MT 59403-3547
(406) 727-5328
Party name: United States

Michael J. Donahoe
Assistant Federal Defender
P.O. Box 250
Helena, MT 59624-0250
(406) 449-8381
Party name: Juvenile Male
Co-Counsel:
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DEMETRA LAMBROS, Attorney
(202) 514-2217
United States v. Tohono O’odham Nation, No. 09-0846

The question presented is whether 28 U.S.C. 1500 deprives the Court of Federal Claims of
jurisdiction over a plaintiff’s breach-of-trust claims if the plaintiff has a lawsuit pending in
district court seeking related, though not the “same,” relief. The court of appeals held that the
statute applies only if the plaintiff’s suit arises from the same operative facts and seeks the same
relief as a claim pending in another court. The Office took the position that Section 1500 does
deprive the Court of Federal Claims of jurisdiction in this case. The Court granted the petition.

Keith M. Harper
Kilpatrick Stockton LLP
607 14th Street, N.W., 9th Floor
[email protected]
(202) 824-1448
Party name: Tohono O'odham Nation
Co-Counsel:
IGNACIA S. MORENO, Assistant Attorney General
AARON P. AVILA, Attorney
(202) 514-2217
HILARY C. TOMPKINS, Solicitor

Department of the Interior
1849 C Street NW
(202) 208-4423
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United States v. Smith, No. 09-549
The question presented in Smith is whether the Inmate Accident Compensation Act, 18 U.S.C.
4126(c), which the Supreme Court has found provides the “exclusive” remedy for a federal
prisoner suffering a work-related injury, see United States v. Demko, 385 U.S. 149, 152, 154
(1966), bars a suit against individual government employees based on Bivens v. Six Unknown
Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971). The court of appeals held
that the statute does not preclude a Bivens remedy against a prison official who allegedly violates
the Eighth Amendment in the context of an inmate work assignment. The Office of the Solicitor
General filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to hold the case pending the decision in Hui v.
Castaneda, which was pending before the Court and in which the Office of the Solicitor General
filed a brief as amicus curiae. The Court denied the petition.

Daniel S. Volchok
Wilmer Cutler Hale and Dorr LLP
(202) 663-6000
Party name: Byron Smith
Co-Counsel:
BARBARA L. HERWIG and EDWARD HIMMELFARB, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
National Aeronautics and Space Administration v. Nelson, No. 09-530

The questions presented are (1) whether the government violates a federal contract employee’s
constitutional right to informational privacy when it asks whether the employee has received
counseling or treatment for illegal drug use that has occurred within the past year, and the
employee’s response is used only for employment purposes and is protected under the Privacy
Act, 5 U.S.C. 552a; and (2) whether the government violates a federal contract employee’s
constitutional right to informational privacy when it asks the employee’s designated references
for any adverse information that may have a bearing on the employee’s suitability for
employment at a federal facility, the reference’s response is used only for employment purposes,
and the information obtained is protected under the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. 552a. The court of
appeals held that collection of this information violates a constitutional right to information
privacy. The Office took the position that the federal contract employee’s constitutional right to
information privacy is not violated in either instance. The Court granted the petition.

Dan Stormer
Hadsell Stormer Keeny Richardson & Renick, LLP
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128 N. Fair Oaks Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91103
[email protected]
(626) 585-9600
Party name: Robert M. Nelson, et al.
Paul R.Q. Wolfson

(202) 663-6000
Party name: Robert M. Nelson, et al.
Co-Counsel:
MARK B. STERN and MELISSA N. PATTERSON, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
United States v. Williams, 09-466

The question presented is whether 18 U.S.C 924(c), which sets forth mandatory consecutive
sentences for committing certain weapons offenses during and in relation to “any crime of
violence or drug trafficking crime,” prohibits imposition of such a sentence if the defendant is
also subject to a greater mandatory minimum sentence on a different count of conviction. The
court of appeals held that the statute does prohibit such a sentence. The Office took the position
that the mandatory consecutive sentences in Section 924(c) apply regardless of whether the
defendant is subject to a higher mandatory minimum sentence for another count of conviction.
The Court has not yet acted on the petition.

B. Alan Seidler
580 Broadway
New York, NY 10012
(212) 334-3131
Party name: Leon Williams
Co-Counsel:
JOHN M. PELLETTIERI, Attorney
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(202) 514-2217
National Labor Relations Board v. Laurel Bay Healthcare of Lake Lanier, No. 09-377
The question presented is whether Section 3(b) of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C.
153(b), authorizes the National Labor Relations Board to act when only two of its five positions
are filled, if the Board has previously delegated its full powers to a three-member group of the
Board that includes the two remaining members. The court of appeals held that the Board is not
authorized to act under these circumstances. The Office took the position that Section 3(b)
authorizes the Board to act in this situation. The Court has not acted on the petition.

James B. Coppess
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
815 Sixteenth Street, NW
(202) 637-5337
Party name: United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, Local 1996
Charles P. Roberts
Constangy Brooks & Smith LLP
100 North Cherry Street, Suite 300
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
(336) 721-6852
Party name: Laurel Baye Healthcare of Lake Lanier, Inc.
Co-Counsel:
(202) 514-2217
RONALD MEISBURG, General Counsel

JOHN E. HIGGINS, JR., Deputy General Counsel
JOHN H. FERGUSON, Associate General Counsel
LINDA DREEBEN, Deputy Associate General Counsel
DAVID HABENSTREIT, Assistant General Counsel
RUTH E. BURDICK, Attorney
National Labor Relations Board
1099 14th Street NW
(202) 273-3700
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United States v. Bowden, No. 09-244
The question presented is whether 21 U.S.C. 851(a), which requires the government to file and
serve, before trial or the entry of a guilty plea, an information containing the prior convictions on
which the government intends to rely in seeking an enhanced sentence, limits the court’s
jurisdiction to impose the enhanced sentence. The court of appeals held that the requirement is
jurisdictional. The Office took the position that errors in the notice do not divest the court of
jurisdiction to impose an enhanced sentence, such that a defendant who fails to raise the claimed
deficiency in the district court must meet the plain-error standard of review. The Court denied
the petition.

Gwendolyn L. Spivey
Office of the Federal Public Defender
227 North Bronough Street, Suite 4200
(850) 942-8818
Party name: Mikola Bowden
Thomas C. Goldstein
[email protected]
(202) 887-4060
Party name: Mikola Bowden
Co-Counsel:
MICHAEL A. ROTKER, Attorney
(202) 514-2217
Dep’t of Defense v. ACLU, No. 09-160

The questions presented are (1) whether photographs of detainees in military investigatory
records are exempt from mandatory disclosure under Freedom of Information Act Exemption
7(F) because their release could reasonably be expected to endanger the lives or physical safety
of U.S. personnel overseas; and (2) whether photographs of detainees in military investigatory
records are exempt from mandatory disclosure under Freedom of Information Act Exemption
7(C) because their release with redactions could reasonably be expected to constitute an
unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. The court of appeals held that the photographs are not
exempt from disclosure. The Office took the position that the FOIA exemptions apply. The
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Court granted the petition, vacated the judgment, and remanded the case for further consideration
in light of Section 565 of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2010 and
the certification by the Secretary of Defense pursuant to that provision.

Jameel Jaffer
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation
125 Broad Street
New York, NY 10004
(212) 549-2500
Party name: American Civil Liberties Union, et al.
Co-Counsel:
ANTHONY A. YANG and PRATIK A. SHAH, Assistants to the Solicitor General
DOUGLAS N. LETTER, MATTHEW M. COLLETTE, SEAN H. LANE, PETER M.
SKINNER, and HEATHER K. MCSHAIN, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
JEH CHARLES JOHNSON, General Counsel

Department of Defense
1600 Defense Pentagon
(703) 695-3341
LEVATOR NORSWORTHY, JR., Acting General Counsel

Department of the Army
104 Army Pentagon
(703) 697-9235
United States Dep’t of Interior v. Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas Corp., No. 09-54
The question presented is whether the 1995 statute governing the bidding for oil and gas leases
on certain tracts of submerged lands in the Gulf of Mexico between 1996 and 2000 allowed the
Department of the Interior to include a lease term that would suspend relief from royalties at
times when the price of gas or oil exceeds a threshold specified in the lease. The court of appeals
held that the leases were invalid under the Royalty Relief Act. The Office took the position that
the lease term was valid, and it noted that if the court of appeals’ decision is allowed to stand, it
will likely result in the loss of at least $20 billion in federal revenue. The Court denied the
petition.
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Jonathan S. Franklin
Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.
[email protected]
(202) 662-0466
Party name: Kerr-McGee Oil and Gas Corporation
Co-Counsel:
MICHAEL T. GRAY, Attorney
(202) 514-2217
United States v. O’Brien, No. 08-1569 & 09-597

The question presented is whether, under 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(1), the sentence enhancement for use
of a machine gun during the commission of a criminal offense is an element of the offense that
must be charged and proved to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt, or instead is a sentencing factor
that may be found by a judge by a preponderance of the evidence. The court of appeals held that
the enhancement is an element of the offense. The Office took the position that the enhancement
is a sentencing factor that the district court may determine. The Office filed a second petition in
this case after the lower court entered an amended judgment to ensure that the Court had the
operative judgment before it. The Court granted the petition.
Attorneys for Respondent O’Brien:

Timothy Patrick O'Connell
C-8 Shipway Place
[email protected]
(617)-242-4806
Co-Counsel:
(202) 514-2217
Attorneys for Respondent Burgess:
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Leslie Feldman-Rumpler
101 Tremont Street, Suite 708
Boston, MA 02108
[email protected]
(617) 728-9944
Party name: Arthur Burgess
Timothy P. O'Connell
C-8 Shipway Place
[email protected]
(617)-242-4806
Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, No. 08-1498

The question presented is whether 18 U.S.C. 2339B(a)(1), which prohibits the knowing
provision of “any . . . service, . . . training, [or] expert advice or assistance,” 18 U.S.C.
2339A(b)(1), to a designated foreign terrorist organization, is unconstitutionally vague. The
court of appeals held the provision unconstitutional. The Office took the position that the
provision is not unconstitutionally vague. The Court granted the petition.

David D. Cole
c/o Georgetown University Law Center
[email protected]
(202) 662-9078
Party name: Humanitarian Law Project, et al.
Co-Counsel:
DOUGLAS N. LETTER and JOSHUA WALDMAN, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
United States v. Marcus, 08-1341

The question presented is whether the court of appeals departed from the Court’s interpretation
of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) by adopting as the appropriate standard for plain-
error review of an asserted ex post facto violation whether “there is any possibility, no matter
how unlikely, that the jury could have convicted based exclusively on pre-enactment conduct.”
The Office took the position that the court of appeals’ conclusion was not consistent with Federal
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Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) and that the Court should grant, vacate, and remand in light of
its recent decision in Puckett v. United States, 129 S. Ct. 1423 (2009). The Court granted the
petition.

Herald Price Fahringer
Fahringer & Dubno
120 East 56th Street, Suite 1150
New York, NY 10022
[email protected]
(212) 319-5351
Party name: Glenn Marcus
Co-Counsel:
JESSICA DUNSAY SILVER and TOVAH R. CALDERON, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
Astrue v. Wilson & Astrue v. Ratliff, Nos. 08-1335 & 08-1322

The question presented is whether an “award of fees and other expenses” under the Equal Access
to Justice Act, 28 U.S.C. 2412(d), is properly paid to the “prevailing party,” and not to the
prevailing party’s attorney, and thus can be used to offset the party’s debt to the government.
The court of appeals held that EAJA awards may not be offset against a party’s debt to the
government. The Office took the position that the text of the Equal Access to Justice Act
provides awards to prevailing parties and, for that reason, the government can reduce such
awards for debts that the prevailing party may owe the government. The Court granted the
petition.
Attorneys for Respondent Wilson:

E. Gregory Wallace
Campbell University School of Law
P.O. Box 158
Buis Creek, NC 27506
(910) 893-1775
Party name: Brandy Wilson
Co-Counsel:
WILLIAM KANTER and MICHAEL E. ROBINSON, Attorneys
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(202) 514-2217
Attorneys for Respondent Ratliff:

James D. Leach
1617 Sheridan Lake Road
Rapid City, SD 57702
[email protected]
(605) 341-4400
Party name: Catherine G. Ratliff
United States v. Comstock, No. 08-1224

The question presented is whether Congress had the constitutional authority to enact 18 U.S.C.
4248, which authorized court-ordered civil commitment by the federal government of “sexually
dangerous” person who are already in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons, when the resulting
civil commitment will extend beyond the end of a federal prison sentence, and of “sexually
dangerous” persons who are in the custody of the Attorney General because they have been
found mentally incompetent to stand trial. The court of appeals held the statute exceeds
Congress’s authority. The Office took the position that Congress had authority to enact this law
under the Necessary and Proper Clause. The Court granted the petition.

Jane E. Pearce
150 Fayetteville Street Mall, Suite 450
Raleigh, NC 27601
[email protected]
(919) 856-4236
Party name: Graydon Earl Comstock, Jr., et al.
Co-Counsel:
MARK B. STERN and SAMANTHA L. CHAIFETZ, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
United States v. Milavetz Gallop & Milavetz, P.A. No. 08-1225,

The questions presented are whether 11 U.S.C. 526(a)(4) -- which provides that bankruptcy
professionals who qualify as “debt relief agencies” and who are hired by consumer debtors for
bankruptcy services may not advise those debtors “to incur more debt in contemplation of” filing
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a bankruptcy petition -- precludes only advice to incur more debt with a purpose to abuse the
bankruptcy system, and whether 11 U.S.C. 526(a)(4) is facially overbroad under the First
Amendment. The court of appeals held that the statute prohibits debt relief agencies from
advising clients to incur any additional debt when the client is contemplating bankruptcy, and
that the statute as so construed violates the First Amendment. The Office took the position that
11 U.S.C. 526(a)(4) should be construed so as only to apply to advice to incur more debt with a
purpose to abuse the bankruptcy system, and therefore, the statute would not be facially
overbroad. The Court granted the petition.

Dechert LLP
Hartford, CT 06103
[email protected]
(860) 524-3999
Alan Scott Milavetz

Milavetz, Gallop & Milavetz, P. A.
6500 France Avenue South
Edina, MN 55435
[email protected]
(952) 236-4298
Party name: Milavetz, Gallop & Milavetz, P.A., Robert J. Milavetz, and Barbara Nilva Nevin
Co-Counsel:
(202) 514-2217
Briefs Filed at the Invitation of the Court
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Williamson v. Mazda Motor of American, Inc., No. 08-1314
At the invitation of the Supreme Court, the Office of the Solicitor General filed a brief at the
petition stage as amicus curiae. The questions presented are (1) whether a federal minimum
safety standard allowing vehicle manufacturers to install either lap-only or lap/shoulder seatbelts
in certain seating positions impliedly preempts a state common-law claim alleging that the
manufacturer should have installed lap/shoulder belts in one of those seating positions; (2)
whether, under Wyeth v. Levine, 77 U.S.L.W. 4165 (U.S. 2009), those federal safety standards
impliedly preempt a state tort suit alleging that the manufacturer should have warned consumers
of the known dangers of lap-only seatbelts installed in one of its vehicles. The Office took the
position that the federal safety standard does not preempt state law and urged the court to grant
certiorari as to that question. The Office took the position that the Court does not have
jurisdiction to consider the second question presented because the state appellate court’s
disposition of that question rested on the adequate and independent state-law ground of waiver.
The Court has not yet acted on the petition.

Martin N. Buchanan
Niddrie Fish & Buchanan LLP
750 B Street, Suite 2640
San Diego, CA 92101
(619) 238-2426
Party name: Delbert Williamson, et al.

Mark Vincent Berry
Bowman and Brooke, LLP
879 West 190th Street, Suite 700
Gardena, CA 90248
Party name: Mazda Motor of America, Inc., et al.
Co-Counsel:
DOUGLAS N. LETTER and HELEN L. GILBERT, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
ROBERT S. RIVKIN, General Counsel

PAUL M. GEIER, Assistant General Counsel for Litigation
PETER J. PLOCKI, Deputy Assistant General Counsel for Litigation
Department of Transportation
1200 New Jersey Ave, SE
153
(202) 366-4702
O. KEVIN VINCENT, Chief Counsel

LLOYD S. GUERCI, Assistant Chief Counsel
TIMOTHY H. GOODMAN, Senior Trial Attorney
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
1200 New Jersey Ave, SE
(202) 366-9511
Sossamon v. Texas & Cardinal v. Metrish, Nos. No. 08-1438 & 09-109
At the invitation of the Supreme Court, the Office of the Solicitor General filed briefs at the
petition stage as amicus curiae. Both cases present the question whether an individual may sue a
State or a state official in her official capacity for damages for violations of the Religious Land
Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). Sossomon v. Texas also presents the question
whether state officials are subject to suit in their individual capacities for damages for violations
of RLUIPA. The Office of the Solicitor General took the position that official-capacity suits are
allowed because a State that receives federal funds for its correctional institutions waives its
Eleventh Amendment immunity against damages actions under RLUIPA. Although the Office
of the Solicitor General agreed with the Sossomon petitioner that state officials are also subject to
such suits in their individual capacities, it took the position that the issue does not warrant the
Supreme Court’s review. The Office therefore recommended that the petition for writ of
certiorari in Cardinal v. Metrish be granted and that the petition in Sossamon v. Texas be held for
disposition of the Cardinal case, or else granted only with respect to the issue of official-capacity
suits. The Court has not yet acted on the petition.
Counsel in Cardinal v. Metrish

Kevin K. Russell
7272 Wisconsin Ave.
Suite 300
Bethesda, MD 20814
[email protected]
(301) 941-1913
Party name: Gerald William Cardinal

B. Eric Restuccia
Solicitor General
Michigan Attorney General's Office
P.O. Box 30212
Lansing, MI 48909
[email protected]
(517) 373-1124
Party name: Linda Metrish, Warden
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Co-Counsel:
JESSICA DUNSAY SILVER and ANGELA M. MILLER, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
Counsel in Sossamon v. Texas

Kevin K. Russell
7272 Wisconsin Ave.
Suite 300
Bethesda, MD 20814
[email protected]
(301) 941-1913
Party name: Harvey Leroy Sossamon, III

James C. Ho
Attorney General
P.O. Box 12548 (MC0 59)
Austin, TX 78711-2548
[email protected]
(512) 936-1700
Party name: Texas, et al.
Co-Counsel:
JESSICA DUNSAY SILVER and ANGELA M. MILLER, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
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Costco Wholesale Corp. v. Omega SA, No. 08-1423
petition stage as amicus curiae. Section 602(a)(1) of Title 17 of the United States Code
generally prohibits the “[i]mportation into the United States, without the authority of the owner
of copyright under this title, of copies or phonorecords of a work that have been acquired outside
the United States.” Under 17 U.S.C. 109(a), however, “the owner of a particular copy of
phonorecord lawfully made under this title, or any person authorized by such owner, is entitled,
without the authority of the copyright owner, to sell or otherwise dispose of the possession of
that copy or phonorecord.” In Quality King Distributors, Inc. v. L’anza Research International,
Inc., 523 U.S. 135 (1998), the Supreme Court held that, where Section 109(a) applies, it provides
an exception to the general ban on the unauthorized importation into the United States of copies
of copyrighted works. The question presented in this case is whether a copy made outside of the
United States by the owner of the United States copyright is “lawfully made under [Title 17]”
and is therefore covered by section 109(a)’s exception to the general ban on unauthorized
importation. The Office took the position that a copy is “lawfully made under [Title 17]” when it
is made within the United States, and not simply by the owner of a U.S. copyright, and
recommended that the petition for writ of certiorari be denied. The Court granted the petition.

Roy T. Englert Jr.
Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck & Untereiner LLP
1801 K Street, N.W., Suite 411
[email protected]
(202) 775-4500
Party name: Costco Wholesale Corporation

Michael K. Kellogg
[email protected]
(202) 326-7900
Party name: Omega, S.A.
Co-Counsel:
SCOTT R. MCINTOSH and MARK R. FREEMAN, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
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Staub v. Proctor Hospital, No. 09-400
petition stage as amicus curiae. The question presented is whether an employer may be held
liable under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act based on the
unlawful intent of officials who cause or influence but do not make an adverse employment
decision. The Office took the position that an employer may be liable when its anti-military
animus is a motivating factor for an adverse employment action and recommends that the
petition for a writ of certiorari be granted. The Court granted the petition.

Eric Schnapper
University of Washington School of Law
P.O. Box 353020
Seattle, WA 98195
[email protected]
(206) 616-3167
Party name: Vincent E. Staub

Roy G. Davis
Davis & Campbell LLC
401 Main Street, Suite 1600
Peoria, IL 61602
(309) 673-1681
Party name: Proctor Hospital
Co-Counsel:
(202) 514-2217
M. PATRICIA SMITH, Solicitor of Labor

Department of Labor
(202) 693-5260

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131 M Street NE
(202) 663-4196
American Home Products Corp. v. Ferrari, No. 08-1120

petition stage as amicus curiae in this case. The question presented is whether the National
Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, 42 U.S.C. § 300aa-1 et seq., preempts state-law design-
defect claims against vaccine manufacturers. The Office took the position that the Act preempts
such claims, but because of mootness concerns, the case should be held and the Court should
instead grant certiorari in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth, Inc., petition for cert. pending, No. 09-152, which
presents the same question The Court has not yet acted on the petition.

Daniel J. Thomasch
Orrick Herrington & Sutliffe
666 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10103-0001
(212) 506-5000
Party name: American Home Products Corporation, dba Wyeth, et al.

Lanny B. Bridgers
260 Peachtree Street, Suite 2000
Atlanta, GA 30303
(404) 522-0150
Party name: Marcelo A. Ferrari, et al.
Co-Counsel:
MICHAEL S. RAAB and IRENE M. SOLET, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217

DAVID BENOR, Associate General Counsel for Public Health
EMILY MARCUS LEVINE and ELIZABETH H. SAINDON, Senior Attorneys
(202) 690-7741
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Missouri Gas Energy v. Schmidt, No. 08-1458
petition stage as amicus curiae in this case. The questions presented are (1) whether the Due
Process Clause or the dormant Commerce Clause prohibits a State from imposing an ad valorem
tax on natural gas stored in the State but connected to an interstate pipeline system for out-of-
state transport; and (2) whether the Due Process Clause or the dormant Commerce Clause
prohibits a State from using the particular formula applied in this case for allocating ownership
of stored natural gas among various shippers for purposes of assessing an ad valorem tax. The
Office took the position that the petition for certiorari should be denied because there is no
conflict of authority on the questions presented and the decision below rejecting the Due Process
Clause and dormant Commerce Clause challenges was correct. The Court denied the petition.

Harriet E. Miers
Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, LLP
401 9th Street, N. W. Suite 400 South
(202) 220-6900
Party name: Missouri Gas Energy

Mart Tisdale
Tisdale & O'Hara
Post Office Box 1387
Clinton, OK 73601
(580) 323-3964
Party name: Monica Schmidt, Woods County, Oklahoma Assessor
Co-Counsel:
(202) 514-2217
THOMAS R. SHEETS, General Counsel

ROBERT H. SOLOMON, Solicitor
KATHRINE HENRY, Attorney
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
888 First Street NE
(202) 502-6000
Robertson v. United States ex rel. Watson, No. 08-6261
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petition stage as amicus curiae in support of respondents in this case. The question presented is
whether an action for criminal contempt in a congressionally created court may be brought in the
name of a private person, rather than in the name of the United States. The Office took the
position that the court of appeals’ decision does not conflict with any decision of the Supreme
Court or another court of appeals and that this case is an inappropriate vehicle to address the
question presented. The Court granted the petition

James W. Klein
Public Defender Service
633 Indiana Avenue, N.W.
(202) 628-1200
Party name: John Robertson

Robert A. Long Jr.
[email protected]
(202) 662-6000
Party name: Wykenna Watson
Todd S. Kim
Solicitor General
Office of the Attorney General for D.C.
441 Fourth Street, N.W. Suite 600-S
[email protected]
(202) 724-6609
Party name: District of Columbia
Co-Counsel:
JOSEPH F. PALMER, Attorney
(202) 514-2217
Morrison v. National Australia Bank, Ltd., No. 08-1191
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petition stage as amicus curiae in this case. The questions presented are (1) whether the
antifraud provisions of the United States securities laws extend to transnational frauds where (a)
the foreign-based parent company conducted substantial business in the United States and (b)
claims arose from an accounting fraud perpetrated by American citizens at the parent company’s
Florida-based subsidiary; and (2) whether subject matter jurisdiction extends to transnational
fraud-on-the-market claims. The Office of the Solicitor General took the position that the court
of appeals erred by treating the question as one of subject matter jurisdiction, but the petition
should be denied because the antifraud provisions of the United States securities laws do not
extend to the type of fraud at issue in this case. The Court granted the petition.

Thomas A. Dubbs
140 Broadway 34th Floor
New York, NY 10005
[email protected]
(212) 907-0871
James W Johnson
Labaton Sucharow LLP
140 Broadway
New York, NY 10005
(212) 907-0700

George T. Conway III
Wachtel Lipton Rosen & Katz
51 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019
[email protected]
(212) 403-1000
Party name: National Australia Bank Ltd., et al.
Co-Counsel:
(202) 514-2217

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WILLIAM K. SHIREY, Counsel to the General Counsel
100 F Street NE
(202) 551-5100
Hamilton v. Lanning, No. 08-998

petition stage as amicus curiae in this case. Under Section 1325(b)(1)(B) of Title 11 of the
United States Code, when a trustee or unsecured creditor objects to the confirmation of a
debtor’s Chapter 13 plan, the bankruptcy court can confirm that plan if “all of the debtor’s
projected disposable income to be received” during the plan period “will be applied to make
payments to unsecured creditors under the plan.” The debtor’s “disposable income” is calculated
by examining her monthly expenses when the Chapter 13 petition was filed and her average
monthly income during the six-month period before the petition was filed. The question
presented is whether, in calculating the debtor’s “projected disposable income” during the plan
period, the bankruptcy court may consider evidence suggesting that the debtor’s income or
expenses during that period are likely to be different from her income or expenses during the pre-
filing period. The Office of the Solicitor General took the position that the court of appeals was
correct in holding that the bankruptcy court may consider such evidence, but that the petition
should be granted to resolve the circuit split. The Court granted the petition.

Jan Hamilton
P.O. Box 3527
Topeka, KS 66601-3527
[email protected]
(785) 234-1551
Party name: Jan Hamilton, Chapter 13 Trustee

Thomas C. Goldstein
[email protected]
(202) 887-4060
Party name: Stephanie Kay Lanning
Co-Counsel:
WILLIAM KANTER and EDWARD HIMMELFARB, Attorneys
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(202) 514-2217

DAVID GOLD and CATHERINE B. SEVCENKO, Attorneys
(202) 616-1192
Patton v. Harris, No. 08-7683

petition stage as amicus curiae supporting respondents in this case. 28 U.S.C. 1915(b)(1)
provides that “if a prisoner brings a civil action or files an appeal in forma pauperis, the prisoner
shall be required to pay the full amount of a filing fee.” The question presented is whether, a
prisoner who files a notice of appeal and an application to proceed in forma pauperis, remains
liable for the appellate filing fee if his application is denied and his appeal is dismissed for
failure to timely pay the filing fees. The Office took the position that the lower court was correct
in ordering the prisoner to pay the filing fees and recommended that the Court deny certiorari.
The Court denied the petition.

Kenneth N. Flaxman
200 South Michigan Avenue, Suite 1240
Chicago, IL 60604
(312) 427-3200
Party name: Rodney M. Patton

Brian F. Barov
100 West Randolph Street, 12th Floor
Chicago, IL 60601
[email protected]
(312) 814-2234
Party name: Wilvis Harris, et al.
Co-Counsel:
BARBARA L. HERWIG and MICHAEL P. ABATE, Attorneys
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(202) 514-2217
Lewis v. City of Chicago, No. 08-974

petition stage as amicus curiae supporting petitioners in this case. The question presented is
whether, where an employer adopts an employment practice that discriminates against African
Americans in violation of Title VII’s disparate impact provision, a plaintiff must file an EEOC
charge within 300 days after the announcement of the practice, or whether the plaintiff may file
the charge within 300 days after the employer’s use of the discriminatory practice. The Office
took the position that the plaintiff may file the charge within 300 days of the employer’s use of
the discriminatory practice and recommended that the Court grant certiorari. The Court granted
the petition.

John A. Payton
Matthew Colangelo
NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
99 Hudson Street, 16th Floor
New York, NY 10013
[email protected]
(212) 965-2200
Judson Hirsch Miner

Miner, Barnhill & Galland, P.C.
14 W. Erie Street
Chicago, IL 60654
(312) 751-1170

Benna Ruth Solomon, Deputy Corporation Counsel
Nadine J. Wichern, Assistant Corporation Counsel
30 North LaSalle Street, Suite 800
[email protected]
(312) 744-7764
Party name: City of Chicago, Illinois
Co-Counsel:
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(202) 514-2217

LORRAINE C. DAVIS, Assistant General Counsel
ANNE NOEL OCCHIALINO, Attorney
131 M Street NE
(202) 663-4196
Hui v. Castaneda & Henneford v. Castaneda, Nos. 08-1529 & 08-1547

petition stage as amicus curiae supporting petitioners in these cases. The question presented is
whether 42 U.S.C. 233(a), which provides that a suit against the United States under the Federal
Tort Claims Act is exclusive of any other action against a commissioned officer or employee of
the Public Health Service for injury resulting from the performance of medical functions, bars a
suit against such an officer or employee based on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of
Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971). The Office recommended that the Court
grant certiorari. The Court granted the petition.
Counsel in Hui v. Castaneda

Patrick L. Hurley
One California Street Suite 1100
[email protected]
(415) 217-6990
David P. Sheldon
512 8th Street, S.E.
(202) 546-9575
Party name: Commander Stephen Gonsalves
Matthew S. Freedus
Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP
2001 L Street, N.W.
[email protected]
(202) 466-8960
Party name: Eugene Migliaccio, et al.
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Elaine Goldenberg
Jenner & Block LLP
(202) 639-6000
Party name: Esther Hui, et al.
Steven J. Renick
Manning & Marder Kass Ellrod Ramirez LLP
801 S. Figueroa Street, 15th Floor
[email protected]
(213) 624-6900

Adele P. Kimmel
Public Justice, PC
[email protected]
(202) 797-8600
Conal Doyle
Willoughby Doyle LLP
1814 Franklin Street, Suite 800
Oakland, CA 94612
(510) 451-2777
Party name: Yanira Castaneda, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Francisco Castaneda,
et al.
Co-Counsel:
(202) 514-2217

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(202) 690-7741
Counsel in Henneford v. Castaneda
John K. Rubiner
Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert, Nessim, Drooks & Lincenberg, P.C.
1875 Century Park East, 23rd Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90067-2561
[email protected]
(310) 201-2100
Party name: Chris Henneford

Adele P. Kimmel
Public Justice, PC
[email protected]
(202) 797-8600
Co-Counsel:
(202) 514-2217

(202) 690-7741
Cable News Network, Inc. v. CSC Holdings, Inc., No. 08-0448

petition stage as amicus curiae supporting respondents in this case. A copyright holder has the
exclusive rights “to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies” and, in the case of audiovisual
works and other specified classes of works, “to perform the copyrighted work publicly.” 17
U.S.C. 106(1) and 106(4). Respondents intend to offer a remote-storage digital video recorder
(RS-DVR) service that would allow subscribers to record television programs when they air and
watch the programs at a later time. The questions presented are as follows: (1) whether
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respondents would directly infringe petitioners’ reproduction rights when the RS-DVR system
makes copies of programs and stores those copies on computer hard drivers located at facilities
owned by respondents, (2) whether respondents would directly infringe petitioners’ reproduction
rights when the RS-DVR system, as part of its normal operations, temporarily stores in transient
data buffers small portions of all programs that respondents broadcast, and (3) whether
respondents would directly infringe petitioners’ public-performance rights when the RS-DVR
system transmits previously recorded programs to a subscriber at the subscriber’s request. The
Office of the Solicitor General took the position that certiorari should be denied because the
decision presented no conflict with decisions of other courts, this case is a poor vehicle to
address the questions presented, and the court of appeals reasonably and narrowly resolved the
issues presented to it. The Court denied the petition.

Paul M. Smith
Donald B. Verrilli Jr.
Jenner & Block LLP
(202) 639-6000
Party name: Cable News Network, Inc., et al.

Jeffrey A. Lamken
Molo Lamken LLP
The Watergate
[email protected]
(202) 556-2010
Party name: CSC Holdings, Inc., and Cablevision Systems Corporation.
Co-Counsel:
SCOTT R. MCINTOSH and SARANG VIJAY DAMLE, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
Vos v. Barg., No. 08-603

petition stage as amicus curiae supporting respondents in this case. The question presented is
whether, under 42 U.S.C. 1396p(b)(4)(B), a State that seeks to recover correctly paid Medicaid
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benefits is limited to recovering the value of assets in which the recipient had a legal interest at
the time of her death. The Office of the Solicitor General took the position that certiorari should
be denied because the Minnesota Supreme Court correctly held that the State was limited to
recovering the value of assets in which the recipient had a legal interest at the time of her death,
and while this decision came to a different result than a North Dakota Supreme Court decision,
those results may be based on state law. The Court denied the petition.

Robin Christopher Vue-Benson
Office of the Minnesota Attorney General
Bremer Tower, Suite 900, 445 Minnesota Street
St. Paul, MN 55101
[email protected]
(651) 297-1075
Party name: Leo Vos, Director, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, Family Services and Welfare
Department, et al.

Thomas J. Meinz
107 Sixth Avenue South
Princeton, MN 55371
[email protected]
(763) 389-1243
Party name: Michael F. Barg
Co-Counsel:
TEAL LUTHY MILLER, Attorney
(202) 514-2217

JANICE L. HOFFMAN, Associate General Counsel
CAROL J. BENNETT, Deputy Associate General Counsel
LESLIE M. STAFFORD and BARBARA J. COLLINS, Attorneys
(202) 690-7741
Federal Insurance Co. v. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, No. 08-640
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petition stage as amicus curiae supporting respondents in this case. The questions presented are
(1) whether the immunity from suit of foreign governmental officials for acts within their official
capacity is governed by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), 28 U.S.C. 1330, 1602 et
seq., or by principles of immunity recognized by the Executive Branch in the exercise of its
authority over foreign affairs; (2) whether tort claims may be asserted against a foreign state
under FSIA’s tort exception, 28 U.S.C. 1605(a)(5), where the foreign state’s asserted liability is
based on donations to charitable institutions outside the United States that were allegedly
diverted to a terrorist group that committed acts of terrorism within the United States; and (3)
whether courts in the United States may, consistent with the Due Process Clause, exercise
personal jurisdiction over civil claims against foreign nationals on the ground that those
individuals made donations abroad to charitable institutions that foreseeably diverted some of
those funds to a group that intended to commit terrorist attacks against the United States. The
Office of the Solicitor General took the position that certiorari should be denied because the
Saudi Princes are immune from suit for their official acts that form the basis of petitioners’ suit,
the court of appeals correctly held that petitioners’ claims do not satisfy the domestic tort
exception, and the court of appeals’ personal jurisdiction holding does not warrant the Court’s
review as the scope of its holding is unclear and does not conflict with decisions of other courts.
The Court denied the petition.

Carter G. Phillips
Sidley Austin LLP
1501 K Street, N.W.
[email protected]
(202) 736-8000
Party name: Federal Insurance Company, et al.

Louis R. Cohen
Washington,, DC 20006
(202) 663-6000
Party name: Prince Mohamed al Faisal al Saud
Michael K. Kellogg
[email protected]
(202) 326-7900
Party name: His Royal Highness Prince Turki Al-Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud
Jeffrey A. Lamken
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Molo Lamken LLP
The Watergate
[email protected]
(202) 556-2010
Party name: HRH Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, et al.
Co-Counsel:
DOUGLAS N. LETTER and SHARON SWINGLE, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
JAMES H. THESSIN, Acting Legal Adviser

Department of State
2201 C Street NW
(202) 647-9598
American Bankers Association v. Brown, No. 08-730

whether the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act preempts the California Information Privacy Act
to the extent state law restricts the exchange among affiliated financial institutions of information
on consumers. The Office of the Solicitor General took the position that certiorari should be
denied because, although the court of appeals erred, the decision presented no conflict with
decisions of other courts. The Court denied the petition.

Robert A. Long Jr.
[email protected]
(202) 662-6000
Party name: American Bankers Association, et al.

Douglas M. Gooding
Senior Corporations Counsel
California Department of Corporations
171
71 Stevenson St., Suite 2100
(415) 972-8548
Party name: Preston DuFauchard, Commissioner of the Dept. Corporations, State of California,
et al.
Co-Counsel:
MARK B. STERN and HENRY C. WHITAKER, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
Abbott v. Abbott, No. 08-645

petition stage as amicus curiae supporting petitioners in this case. The question presented is
whether a ne exeat order, which prohibits either parent from removing a child from the country
without the other parent’s consent, confers a “right of custody” within the meaning of the Hague
Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, thus allowing a parent to seek
to have a child who was removed to another country in violation of the ne exeat order returned to
his or her country of habitual residence. The Office of the Solicitor General took the position
that certiorari should be granted because the court of appeals erred in holding that ne exeat right
is not a right of custody, there is disagreement among the circuits as to whether a ne exeat right is
a custody right, this is an important question that merits the Court’s review, and this case is a
suitable vehicle for addressing the question. The Court granted the petition.

Amy Howe
7272 Wisconsin Ave., Suite 300
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 941-1913
Party name: Timothy Mark Cameron Abbott

Karl E. Hays
701 West 11th Street
Austin, TX 78701
[email protected]
(512) 476-1911
Stephen B. Kinnaird
172
875 15th Street, NW
[email protected]
(202) 551-1700
Co-Counsel:
MICHAEL JAY SINGER and HOWARD S. SCHER, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
JAMES H. THESSIN, Deputy Legal Adviser

KEITH LOKEN, Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law
MARY CATHERINE MALIN, Assistant Legal Adviser for Consular Affairs
MARY HELEN CARLSON and JAMES L. BISCHOFF, Attorney-Advisers
Department of State
2201 C Street NW
(202) 647-9598
Level 3 Communications, LLC v. City of St. Louis & Sprint Telephone PCS, L.P. v. County of
San Diego, Nos. 08-626 & 08-759
petition stage as amicus curiae supporting petitioners in these cases. The questions presented are
(1) whether 47 U.S.C. 253(a), which provides that “[n]o State or local statute or regulation, or
other State or local legal requirement, may prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting the ability of
any entity to provide any interstate or intrastate telecommunications service,” preempts only
those state and local requirements that have an actual effect on the ability to provide service, as
opposed to those that might have such an effect in the future, and (2) whether 47 U.S.C. 253(c),
which provides that “[n]othing in this section affects the authority of a State or local government
to manage the public rights-of-way or to require fair and reasonable compensation * * * for
use of public rights-of-way,” preempts regulations not otherwise preempted by 47 U.S.C. 253(a).
The Office of the Solicitor General took the position that certiorari should be denied because the
courts of appeals’ decisions were correct and any possible conflict among the circuits did not
warrant the Court’s review at this time. The Court denied the petition.
Counsel in Level 3 Communications, LLC v. City of St. Louis

Thomas C. Goldstein
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[email protected]
(202) 887-4060
Party name: Level 3 Communications, LLC

Kenneth A. Brunetti
Miller & Van Eaton
1155 Connecticut Avene, N.W.
Suite 1000
Washington, D.C., WA 20036
[email protected]
(202) 785-0600
Party name: City of St. Louis, Missouri
Co-Counsel:
(202) 514-2217
P. MICHELE ELLISON, Acting General Counsel

JOSEPH R. PALMORE, Deputy General Counsel
RICHARD K. WELCH, Deputy Associate General Counsel
NANDAN M. JOSHI, Counsel
445 12th Street SW
(202) 418-1700
Counsel in Sprint Telephone PCS v. County of San Diego

Kannon K. Shanmugam
Williams & Connolly LLP
725 Twelfth Street, N.W.
[email protected]
(202) 434-5050
Party name: Sprint Telephony PCS, L.P.
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Thomas D. Bunton, Senior Deputy
County of San Diego Office of County Counsel
1600 Pacific Highway Room 355
San Diego, CA 92101-2469
(619) 531-6456
Party name: San Diego County, California, et al.
Co-Counsel:
(202) 514-2217
P. MICHELE ELLISON, Acting General Counsel

JOSEPH R. PALMORE, Deputy General Counsel
RICHARD K. WELCH, Deputy Associate General Counsel
NANDAN M. JOSHI, Counsel
445 12th Street SW
(202) 418-1700
American Needle, Inc. v. NFL, No. 08-661

petition stage as amicus curiae supporting respondents in this case. For several decades, the
National Football League (NFL) and its member teams have collectively licensed their
trademarks and logos to manufacturers through a common licensing agent, National Football
League Properties (NFLP). Until 2001, NFLP granted headwear licenses to several vendors. In
2001, however, NFLP entered into an exclusive headwear licensing contract with one company,
following ratification by the teams. The question presented in this case is as follows: Whether
NFLP, the NFL, and the teams functioned as a “single entity” when granting the company an
exclusive headwear license and therefore could not violate Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15
U.S.C. 1, which requires proof of collective action involving “separate entities,” Copperweld
Corp. v. Independence Tube Corp., 467 U.S. 752, 768 (1984). The Office of the Solicitor
General took the position that certiorari should be denied because the decision presented no
conflict with decisions of other courts, even though the court of appeal’s reasoning was
problematic. The Court granted the petition.

Glen D. Nager
Jones Day
(202) 879-3939
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Jeffrey Martin Carey

90 Frontage Rd., Suite 306
Northfield, IL 60093
(847) 441-2480

Timothy B. Hardwicke
Sears Tower, Suite 5800
233 S. Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606
(312) 876-7619
Party name: Reebok International, Ltd.
Gregg H. Levy
[email protected]
(202) 662-5292
Party name: National Football League
Richard M. Brunell
American Antitrust Institute
2919 Ellicott St., NW
(617) 435-6464
Party name: American Antitrust Institute and Consumer Federation of America
Co-Counsel:
(202) 514-2217

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(202) 326-3020
Frommert v. Conkright, Conkright v. Frommert & Pietrowski v. Conkright, Nos. 08-803, 08-
810 & 08-826
petition stage as amicus curiae supporting respondents in these cases. The questions presented
are (1) whether the court of appeals applied the correct standard of review when it concluded that
(a) the administrator of an ERISA plan whose denial of benefits violated ERISA was not entitled
to deference regarding its opinion on how to remedy the violation and (b) the district court’s
choice of remedy should be reviewed for abuse of discretion; and (2) whether the court of
appeals applied correct legal principles in holding that employees who signed general releases
knowingly and voluntarily waived their claims under ERISA. The Office of the Solicitor
General took the position that certiorari should be denied because the court of appeals correctly
held that it did not have to defer to the administrator of an ERISA plan in such circumstances and
the waiver question is a fact-bound issue that does not merit the Court’s review. The Court
denied the petition in 08-803 and 08-826, and granted the petition in 08-810.
Counsel in Frommert v. Conkright

Robert H. Jaffe
8 Mountain Avenue
[email protected]
(973) 467-2246
Party name: Matthew D. Alfieri, et al.
Michael K. Kellogg
[email protected]
(202) 326-7900
Party name: Matthew D. Alfieri, et al.
Co-Counsel:
(202) 514-2217
CAROL A. DE DEO, Deputy Solicitor for National Operations

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(202) 693-5260
Counsel in Conkright v. Frommert

Robert D. Wick
Robert A. Long Jr.
(202) 662-5487

Peter K. Stris
Whittier Law School
3333 Harbor Blvd.
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
[email protected]
(714) 444-4141
Party name: Paul J. Frommert, et al.
Robert H. Jaffe
8 Mountain Avenue
[email protected]
(973) 467-2246
Party name: Thirty-three Respondents
Brendan S. Maher
Stris & Maher LLP
Dallas, TX 75214
[email protected]
(214) 224-0091
Party name: Sixty-two Respondents & Seven Cross-Respondents
Co-Counsel:
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(202) 514-2217

(202) 693-5260
Counsel in Pietrowski v. Conkright

Michael K. Kellogg
[email protected]
(202) 326-7900
Party name: Matthew Alfieri, et al.
Brendan S. Maher
Stris & Maher LLP
Dallas, TX 75214
[email protected]
(214) 224-0091
Party name: Kenneth Pietrowski, et al.

Robert D. Wick
[email protected]
(202) 662-5487
Co-Counsel:
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(202) 514-2217

(202) 693-5260
Fin-Ag, Inc. v. Pipestone Livestock Auction Market, No. 08-576

whether a buyer of farm products in the ordinary course of business is entitled to the protections
of the Food Security Act of 1985, 7 U.S.C. 1631(d), and thus to take purchased property free of a
security interest created by the seller, where the creditor fails to include the debtor-seller’s
“doing business as” name on its financing statement, as required under state law. The Office of
the Solicitor General took the position that certiorari should be denied because the decision
turned on state law, presented no conflict with decisions of other courts, and did not involve
issues of exceptional importance. The Court denied the petition.

Dechert LLP
Hartford, CT 06103
[email protected]
(860) 524-3999
Party name: Fin-Ag, Inc.
Jason W. Shanks
May & Johnson, PC
6805 S. Minnesota Avenue, Suite 100
PO Box 88738
Sioux Falls, SD 57109
(605) 336-2565
Party name: Fin-Ag, Inc.

Michael J. Schaffer
Schaffer Law Office, Prof. LLC
412 W. 9th Street, Suite 1
Sioux Falls, SD 57104
(605) 274-6760
Party name: Pipestone Livestock Auction Market, Inc., et al.
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Co-Counsel:
MICHAEL JAY SINGER and JEFFRICA JENKINS LEE, Attorneys
(202) 514-2217
Graham County Soil & Water Conservation District v. United States ex rel. Wilson, No. 08-
304
petition stage as amicus curiae supporting petitioner in this case. The False Claims Act (FCA)
provides that no court has jurisdiction over a qui tam action “based upon the public disclosure of
allegations or transactions in a criminal, civil, or administrative hearing, in a congressional,
administrative, or Government Accounting Office report, hearing, audit, or investigation, or from
the news media” unless the relator “is an original source of the information.” 31 U.S.C.
3730(e)(4)(A). The question presented is whether a state or local government report or audit
qualifies as a “congressional, administrative, or Government Accounting Office report * * * [or]
audit” within the meaning of the FCA. The Office of the Solicitor General recommended that
certiorari be granted to resolve the circuit conflict on this issue. The Court granted the petition.

Christopher G. Browning Jr.
North Carolina Department of Justice
P.O. Box 629
Raleigh, NC 27603
[email protected]
(919) 716-6900
Party name: Graham County Soil and Water Conservation District, et al.

Mark T. Hurt, Attorney at Law
159 West Main Street
Abingdon, VA 24210
[email protected]
(276) 623-0808
Party name: Karen T. Wilson
Co-Counsel:
DOUGLAS N. LETTER and STEPHANIE R. MARCUS, Attorneys
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(202) 514-2217
Mac’s Shell Service v. Shell Oil & Shell Oil v. Mac’s Shell Service, Nos. 08-240 & 08-372
petition stage as amicus curiae recommending that certiorari be granted. The question presented
is whether, and under what circumstances, a service station operator may bring suit against an oil
refiner or distributor for “constructive termination” or “constructive non-renewal” under the
Petroleum Marketing Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. 2801 et seq. The Office of the Solicitor General
took the position that a station operator may not claim “constructive termination” when it
continues to operate the franchise and may not claim “constructive non-renewal” when it signs
and operates under a renewed franchise agreement. The Court granted the petition.

Boston, MA 02110
[email protected]
(617) 310-6000

Jeffrey A. Lamken
Molo Lamken LLP
The Watergate
[email protected]
(202) 556-2010
Co-Counsel:
(202) 514-2217
08-0372 Shell Oil Products, Inc. v. Mac's Shell Service, Inc.

Jeffrey A. Lamken
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Molo Lamken LLP
The Watergate
[email protected]
(202) 556-2010

Boston, MA 02110
[email protected]
(617) 310-6000
Co-Counsel:
(202) 514-2217
Trainer Wortham Co. v. Betz, No. 07-1489

petition stage as amicus curiae supporting respondent in this case. The federal statute of
limitations for private securities-fraud claims provides that a plaintiff must file suit within two
years after “the discovery of the facts constituting the violation.” 28 U.S.C. 1658(b). The lower
courts have uniformly construed the term “discovery” in that provision to refer to actual or
constructive discovery. The questions presented are (1) whether a potential plaintiff is on
“inquiry notice” regarding a claim of securities fraud when he has reason to suspect that the
defendant has made a false statement, even if the victim has no reason to suspect that the
defendant made the misstatement with the scienter necessary to constitute a violation of the
securities laws; and (2) whether an investor who has been placed on “inquiry notice” may
reasonably delay further investigation of the defendant’s possible fraud on the basis of
assurances by the defendant. The Office of the Solicitor General took the position that the
petition should be denied with respect to both questions because the court of appeals articulated
the correct legal standards and any fact-specific errors do not warrant the Court’s review. The
Court granted the petition, vacated the judgment, and remanded for further consideration in light
of Merck & Co. v. Reynolds, 559 U.S. ___ (2010).
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E. Joshua Rosenkranz
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP
51 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019
[email protected]
(212) 506-5000
Party name: Trainer Wortham & Company, Inc., et al.

Joseph M. Alioto Jr.
555 California St.
31st Floor, Suite 3160
[email protected]
(415) 434-8900
Party name: Heide Betz
Co-Counsel:
(202) 514-2217

DAVID LISITZA, Senior Counsel
100 F Street NE
(202) 551-5100
Miscellaneous Filings
Although the question does not call for them, I am providing as attachments the following
miscellaneous filings by the Office of the Solicitor General:
Case # Case File Date Description

New Process Steel Co. v.
National Labor Relations Letter brief addressing new
08-1457 Board 4/26/2010 developments related to case
New Process Steel Co. v.
National Labor Relations Letter re: outside developments
08-1457 Board 3/29/2010 related to case
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Graham County Soil & Water
Conservation District v. Letter re: outside developments
08-304 United States ex rel. Wilson 3/26/2010 related to case
Wisconsin v. Illinois; 22-
0002 Michigan v. Illinois; 22-
22-0001 0003 New York v. Illinois 3/22/2010 Opposition to motion to reopen
Letter re: outside developments
09-8367 Welton v. United States 3/17/2010 related to case
0002 Michigan v. Illinois; 22- Memorandum in opp to renewed
22-0001 0003 New York v. Illinois 2/25/2010 motion for preliminary injunction
Memorandum in opposition to
09-8548 Brown v. United States 2/25/2010 motion to seal
Perkins v. Department of Letter re: outside developments
09-0513 Veterans Affairs 2/23/2010 related to case
08-1234 Kiyemba v. Obama 2/19/2010 related to case
0002 Michigan v. Illinois; 22- Letter re: outside developments
22-0001 0003 New York v. Illinois 1/19/2010 related to case
08-1224 United States v. Comstock 1/8/2010 related to case
Wisconsin v. Illinois; 22- Corrected memorandum in
0002 Michigan v. Illinois; 22- opposition to motion for prelimimary
22-0001 0003 New York v. Illinois 1/8/2010 injunction
Wisconsin v. Illinois; 22- Letter re: corrected memorandum in
0002 Michigan v. Illinois; 22- opposition to motion for preliminary
22-001 0003 New York v. Illinois 1/8/2010 injunction
0002 Michigan v. Illinois; 22-
22-001 0003 New York v. Illinois 1/6/2010 Letter re: correction
Letter re: Assistant Solicitor
22-0132 Alabama v. North Carolina 1/5/2010 General's Rule 7 violation
0002 Michigan v. Illinois; 22- Memorandum in oppposition to
22-0001 0003 New York v. Illinois 1/5/2010 motion for preliminary injunction
Chekkouri v. Obama (under Letter re: outside developments
09A0484 seal) 12/4/2009 related to case
Graham County Soil & Water
Conservation District v.
08-0304 United States ex rel Wilson 12/1/2009 Letter re: post-argument clarification
08-7757 Watts v. United States 11/25/2009 Supplemental memorandum
Chekkouri v. Obama (under Opposition to motion to unseal;
09A0484 seal) 11/25/2009 Opposition to motion for stay
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09-0098 Scurlark v. United States 11/5/2009 related to case
Department of Defense v.
American Civil Liberties Letter re: outside developments
09-160 Union 10/29/2009 related to case
09A0324 Fulks v. United States 10/14/2009 Response to application for stay
Department of Defense v.
American Civil Liberties Letter re: outside developments
09-160 Union 10/8/2009 related to case
09A0244 Gathungu v. Holder 9/21/2009 Response to application for stay
Letter with corrected copies of brief
08-1453 Rollins v. United States 9/18/2009 originally filed 9/16
08-1427 Brockman v. United States 8/31/2009 related to case
08-1322 Astrue v. Ratliff 8/24/2009 related to case
08-1335 Astrue v. Wilson 8/24/2009 related to case
Holder v. Humanitarian Law
Project (and 09-09 HLP v. Letter re: Assistant Solicitor
08-1498 Holder) 8/20/2009 General's Rule 7 violation
Center for Auto Safety v. Letter expressing no objection to
08-1513 Chrysler 8/14/2009 dismissal
08-
11105 Barriteau v. Holder (09A121) 8/7/2009 Response to application for stay
09A0061 Gonzalez-Mira v. Holder 7/23/2009 related to stay application
Letter waiving right to respond to
08-1384 O'Bryan v. Holy See 7/10/2009 cert petition
Response to motion to modify the
08-1196 Weyrauch v. United States 7/2/2009 questions presented
Indiana State Police Pension Supplemental memorandum in
08A1096 Trust v. Chrysler 6/9/2009 opposition to application for stay
Indiana State Police Pension Memorandum in opposition to
08A1096 Trust v. Chrysler 6/8/2009 application for stay
Letter proposing to lodge material
08-769 United States v. Stevens 6/8/2009 with Clerk relevant to case
08-876 Black v. United States 6/5/2009 Memorandum in opposition to bail
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08A0899 Diaby v. Holder 4/24/2009 Response to application for stay
08-5411 Woods v. United States 4/15/2009 related to case
08A863 United States v. Comstock 4/3/2009 Application for stay
Sur-reply in opposition to application
08A0793 Williams v. Holder 3/30/2009 for stay
Department of Health and
08A0794 Human Services v. Alley 3/23/2009 Response to application for stay
During my tenure as Solicitor General, the Office has filed approximately 700 responses to
petitions for certiorari. Given that these responses run to more than 10,000 pages, I understand
that the White House Counsel’s Office and Committee staff have agreed that I may provide them
to the Committee in electronic form only. They are attached to this questionnaire, with a table to
identify the cases.
f. Supply four (4) copies of any briefs submitted to the Supreme Court of the
United States on your behalf as a party or amicus. Summarize your reason for
interest or involvement in each brief.
While dean of Harvard Law School, I joined an amicus brief in the Supreme
Court (as well as in the Third Circuit) with many of my faculty colleagues in
support of respondent Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, Inc. (FAIR)
in an action against Secretary Rumsfeld challenging the Solomon Amendment,
which governs universities’ treatment of military recruiters. I did not participate
in the drafting of this brief. Whereas the main brief in the case presented a
constitutional argument, the amicus brief presented a statutory argument – that the
Amendment did not require universities to exempt the military from generally
applicable anti-discrimination rules governing employers. The Supreme Court
unanimously rejected all claims, constitutional and statutory alike in Rumsfeld v.
FAIR, 547 U.S. 47 (2006).
g. Identify all cases from the date of your confirmation (March 19, 2009) to the
present in which the Office of the Solicitor General issued decisions on
requests for leave to file a petition for certiorari or an opposition to certiorari,
to file a petition for rehearing en banc in the Federal Courts of Appeals,
decisions to settle or otherwise not to proceed on a matter in litigation or on
appeal in the Courts of Appeals or the Supreme Court, or to join as amicus in
litigation to which the United States was not a party. For each case, identify
the name of the case, the court and docket number (and where available,
citation), and, to the extent such information can be provided consistent with
applicable claims of privilege or confidentiality, the identity of the Executive
Branch agency or department, if any, recommending that the Office appeal,
seek certiorari or file an amicus brief in that particular matter.
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The attached spreadsheet lists all recommendations acted upon by the Office
of the Solicitor General from March 19, 2009, to May 14, 2010. This
spreadsheet includes decisions by the Office of the Solicitor General to
authorize an appeal from a district court decision to the federal court of
appeals, even though the question does not appear to call for such decisions.
The “Action Taken By” column lists the senior lawyer in the Office who
approved the final decision and the “Division” column lists the Justice
Department division from which the case arose. The information that has
been redacted from the spreadsheet is the recommendation from the Justice
Department division. That information is privileged and confidential.
16. Litigation: Describe the ten (10) most significant litigated matters which you personally
handled, whether or not you were the attorney of record. Give the citations, if the cases
were reported, and the docket number and date if unreported. Give a capsule summary of
the substance of each case. Identify the party or parties whom you represented; describe
in detail the nature of your participation in the litigation and the final disposition of the
case. Also state as to each case:
a. the date of representation;
b. the name of the court and the name of the judge or judges before whom
the case was litigated; and
c. the individual name, addresses, and telephone numbers of co-counsel and

of principal counsel for each of the other parties.
As Solicitor General, I have served as counsel of record in the cases listed in response to
Question 16. The following ten cases are representative of my litigation experience as an
associate at Williams & Connolly between 1989 and 1991. Please note that these matters
occurred some time ago. I have tried to update addresses and telephone numbers to the
extent possible.
(a) Federal Realty Investment Trust v. Pacific Insurance Co., No. R-88-3658. We
represented a real estate investment trust in an action against an insurer for the costs of
defense associated with a prior litigation. I began work on the case in the middle of the
litigation; I did some late discovery and drafted most of the pre-trial motions. On the eve
of trial, Judge Norman Ramsey of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
ruled in favor of our position on the appropriate standard for allocating defense costs
between covered and uncovered parties and claims (760 F. Supp. 533 (1991)). This
ruling immediately produced a settlement favorable to our client.
Co-Counsel: Paul Martin Wolff

Williams & Connolly
(202) 434-5079
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Richard S. Hoffman
Then – Williams & Connolly
Now – Executive Vice President for Mergers, Acquisitions &
Business Development
Marriott International, Inc.
10400 Fernwood Road
Bethesda, MD 20817
(301) 380-3000
William A. McDaniel, Jr.

Then – McDaniel & Marsh
Now – Law Offices of William Alden McDaniel, Jr.
118 West Mulberry Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
(410) 685-3810
Opposing Counsel: John R. Gerstein

Then – Ross, Dixon & Bell
Now – Troutman Sanders
Suite 100
(202) 662-2009
Eleni Constantine
Department of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
(202) 622-1934
(b) In re Seatrain Lines, Inc., Nos. 81 B 10311, 81 B 10916, 81 B 11059, 81 B 12345, 81

B 12525, 81 B 11845, 81 B 11004, 81 B 11512. We represented Seatrain Lines, Inc., a
debtor in bankruptcy, in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York
(Judge Burton Lifland presiding) in connection with an application by Chase Manhattan
Bank and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy for legal fees associated with the
bankruptcy case. In response to the filing of the fee application, our client
counterclaimed against Chase for the recovery of the costs of preserving and disposing of
certain properties subject to Chase’s security interest. I handled some of the discovery
and drafted most of the pleadings. When the court denied Chase’s motion to strike our
counterclaim (and a subsequent motion for reconsideration), the parties settled on terms
favorable to our client.
Co-Counsel: Kevin T. Baine

Williams & Connolly
189
(202) 434-5010
Victoria Radd Rollins

Williams & Connolly
(202) 434-5040
Hon. John G. Koeltl

Judge, U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
500 Pearl Street
New York, NY 10007
(212) 805-0222
Lorin L. Reisner
Debevoise & Plimpton
919 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10022
(212) 909-6191
Opposing Counsel: Stephen J. Blauner

Then – Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Now – Latigo Partners
590 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022
(212) 754-1610
Cynthia Cunningham
Then – Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Now – Unknown
(c) Toyota of Florence, Inc. v. Lynch, Nos. 4-89-594-15, 4-89-595-15. We represented

Southeast Toyota Distributors, Inc. in a suit brought by one of its franchisees alleging
fraud, intentional interference with contract, violations of RICO, and a host of other
claims. I drafted numerous pleadings in the case, including an opposition to the plaintiff’s
motion to remand (granted by Judge Hamilton of the U.S. District Court for South
Carolina at 713 F. Supp. 898 (1989)), as well as motions to dismiss and discovery
motions (ruled on by Judge Edwin Cottingham of the Court of Common Pleas for
Darlington County). I also handled some of the discovery. I left the firm prior to trial.
Ultimately, a verdict for the plaintiff was dismissed on appeal.
Co-Counsel: Robert B. Barnett

Williams & Connolly
190
(202) 434-5034
Raymond W. Bergan (deceased)

Williams & Connolly
Daniel F. Katz
Williams & Connolly
(202) 434-5143
Opposing Counsel: D. Kenneth Baker

Baker Law Office
54 Public Square
Darlington, SC 29532
(843) 393-8191
(d) Byrd v. Randi, No. MJG-89-636. We represented defendant Montcalm Publishing

Corp. in a libel action arising from an allegation that the plaintiff was in prison for child
molestation. The case presented issues relating to the “libel-proof plaintiff” doctrine, the
definition of a “limited purpose public figure,” and the actual malice standard. I did most
of the discovery, drafted our summary judgment motion and other pleadings, and argued
the summary judgment motion before the district court. After initially denying the
motion, Judge Marvin Garbis of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
dismissed the case a few months later on a motion for reconsideration.
Co-Counsel: David Kendall

Williams & Connolly
(202) 434-5145
William A. McDaniel, Jr.

Then – McDaniel & Marsh
Now – Law Offices of William Alden McDaniel, Jr.
118 West Mulberry Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
(410) 685-3810
Nancy L. Harrison
170 Jennifer Road
Annapolis, MD 21401-3047
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(410) 841-5421
Opposing Counsel: Donald J. Katz

Last Known – Suite 225, Greenspring Station
2360 West Joppa Road
Lutherville, MD 21093
(e) In Re Application of News World Communications, Inc., Nos. 89-3160, 89-212. We

represented the Washington Post and WRC-TV in this effort to compel release to the
public of unredacted transcripts of audiotapes to be received in evidence at a criminal
trial. I argued motions before Judge Charles Richey of the U.S. District Court for the
District of Columbia to compel release of the transcripts and to prevent redaction. Judge
Richey granted both motions, with the latter reported at 17 Media L. Rep. 1001 (1989).
The Court of Appeals for the D. C. Circuit, with Judges Wald, Silberman, and Sentelle
hearing argument, denied a motion to stay this order (17 Media L. Rep. 1004 (1989)).
Co-Counsel: David Kendall

Williams & Connolly
(202) 434-5145
Allen V. Farber
Then – Green, Stewart, Farber & Anderson
Now – Drinker Biddle & Reath
1500 K Street, NW, Suite 1100
(202) 230-5154
James A. Barker, Jr.

Then – Green, Stewart, Farber & Anderson
Now – Drinker Biddle & Reath
1500 K Street, NW, Suite 1100
(202) 230-5166
Opposing Counsel: Elise Haldane

1900 L Street, N.W.
(202) 659-8700
(f) J. Odell Anders v. Newsweek, Inc., No. 90-715. We represented Newsweek, Inc. on
appeal from a jury verdict in its favor in a libel action filed in the Southern District of
Mississippi. The case raised questions about the actual malice standard, as well as
numerous evidentiary issues. I drafted the appellate brief urging affirmance. The U.S.
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Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held in our favor by unpublished opinion (judgment
reported at 949 F.2d 1159 (1991)).

Williams & Connolly
(202) 434-5010
Opposing Counsel: John E. Mulhearn, Jr.

Mulhearn & Mulhearn
202 South Wall Street
P.O. Box 967
Natchez, MS 39120
(601) 442-4808
(g) Luke Records, Inc. v. Nick Navarro, No. 90-5508. We filed an amicus brief in the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on behalf of the Recording Industry
Association of America and numerous record companies, challenging the decision of the
district court that a musical recording was obscene under the standard set forth by the
Supreme Court in Miller v. California. I drafted the brief in the case, which stressed the
difficulty of holding music obscene under prevailing constitutional law. Judge Lively,
joined by Judges Anderson and Roney, reversed the district court’s decision (960 F.2d
134 (1992)).

Williams & Connolly
(202) 434-5010
Victoria Radd Rollins

Williams & Connolly
(202) 434-5040
Bruce Rogow
Nova Southeastern University Law Center
3305 College Avenue
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314
(954) 262-6100
Opposing Counsel: John W. Jolly, Jr.

Then – Skelding, Labasky, Corry, Hauser, Jolly, Metz & Daws
Now – Jolly & Peterson
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P.O. Box 37400
(850) 422-0282
(h) Bagbey v. National Enquirer, No. CV 89-2177. We represented the National

Enquirer in this libel action brought by a person mistakenly identified in the publication
as being Jimmy Swaggert’s father. I drafted all pleadings and did all discovery in the
case, which began in Louisiana state court but which we removed to the U.S. District
Court for the Western District of Louisiana (Judge F.A. Little, Jr.). We eventually settled
the case on terms favorable to our client.
Co-Counsel: Richard S. Hoffman

Now – Executive Vice President for Mergers, Acquisitions &
Business Development
Marriott International, Inc.
10400 Fernwood Road
Bethesda, MD 20817
(301) 380-3000
Patrick Caffery
Then – Caffery, Oubre, Dugas & Campbell
Now – 209 West Main Street, Suite 200
New Iberia, LA 70560-3862
(337) 364-1816
Opposing Counsel: Eugene P. Cicardo, Sr.

P.O. Box 11635
Alexandria, LA 71309
(318) 445-2097
(i) Chuang v. United States, No. 89-1309. We represented Joseph Chuang, a former
bank president, on his appeal from a criminal conviction for numerous counts of bank
fraud. The principle issues in the case concerned the propriety of two warrantless
searches of the bank, one by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and one by the
FDIC. I drafted most sections of the brief, which argued among other matters (1) that the
statute authorizing the OCC’s search failed to provide a constitutionally adequate
substitute for a warrant, as required by the Supreme Court, and (2) that the FDIC’s search
was invalid because it went beyond the bank premises into Chuang’s law firm offices.
The Second Circuit affirmed the conviction, with Judge Timbers writing and Judges
Newman and Altimari joining (897 F.2d 646 (1990)).
Co-Counsel: Robert S. Litt

Now – Office of the Director of National Intelligence
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Bruce S. Oliver
Now - Associate General Counsel
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.
8200 Jones Branch Drive
McLean, VA 22102
(703) 903-2600
Opposing Counsel: Herve Gouraige

Then – Latham & Watkins
Now – Epstein Becker & Green
Two Gateway Center
12th Floor
Newark, NJ 07102-5003
(973) 639-8536
(j) United States v. Jarrett Woods, We represented the former head of the Western
Savings Association, a failed savings and loan, in both a grand jury investigation and a
number of civil suits brought against him. The Federal Home Loan Bank Board had
declared the S&L insolvent and placed it in receivership after discovering various suspect
real estate loans. In addition to trying to keep the civil suits at bay, we tracked the grand
jury investigation of Woods closely for more than a year – interviewing each of the many
people brought before the grand jury – before Woods became unable to afford the
representation. Woods was subsequently indicted and convicted of numerous counts of
bank fraud.
Co-Counsel: Paul Martin Wolff

Williams & Connolly
(202) 434-5079
Jeffrey Kindler
Now – Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals
235 East 42nd Street
New York, NY 10017-5755
(212) 733-4935
Heidi K. Hubbard
Williams & Connolly
(202) 434-5451
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17. Legal Activities: Describe the most significant legal activities you have pursued,
including significant litigation which did not progress to trial or legal matters that did not
involve litigation. Describe fully the nature of your participation in these activities. List
any client(s) or organization(s) for whom you performed lobbying activities and describe
the lobbying activities you performed on behalf of such client(s) or organizations(s).
(Note: As to any facts requested in this question, please omit any information protected
by the attorney-client privilege.)
I currently serve as Solicitor General of the United States. In that capacity, I am the
principal advocate for the United States in the Supreme Court, and make a wide variety
of decisions concerning the appellate litigation of the United States.
For almost six years, I served as the dean of Harvard Law School. That job had a very
significant academic component: as dean, I led efforts to expand and enhance the faculty
and to reform and modernize the curriculum. The job also had a very significant
managerial component: Harvard Law School has a $180 million operating budget, over
500 employees, and almost 1 million square feet of physical space. Finally, the job
included significant outreach to and interaction with key parts of the profession,
including judges, government officials, private attorneys, and public interest lawyers.
Significant parts of my career have been devoted to scholarship and teaching. Between
1999 and 2003, I principally focused on administrative and associated constitutional law
questions. My major work during this period concerned the relationship between the
President and the administrative agencies. Between 1991 and 1995, I wrote primarily
about issues of free expression. My major work at this time proposed a theory of the
First Amendment focused on the nature of governmental motives underlying speech
restrictions.
My work in the White House, both in the Counsel’s Office and the Domestic Policy
Council, centered on the development and implementation of law and policy in areas
ranging from education to crime to welfare to public health. Among other matters, I led
the Clinton Administration’s inter-agency effort to analyze all legal and regulatory
aspects of the Attorney Generals’ tobacco settlement and then participated actively in the
development and congressional consideration of tobacco legislation. I also worked on
legislative or executive action involving constitutional issues, including the separation of
powers, governmental privileges, freedom of expression, and church-state relations.
I have never performed lobbying activities for any client or organization.
18. Teaching: What courses have you taught? For each course, state the title, the institution
at which you taught the course, the years in which you taught the course, compensation
received, and describe briefly the subject matter of the course and the major topics taught.
If you have a syllabus of each course, provide four (4) copies to the committee.
Administrative Law – numerous times at Harvard; most recent syllabus attached.
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Constitutional Law – numerous times at Harvard and University of Chicago; most recent
syllabus attached
Civil Procedure – numerous times at Harvard and University of Chicago; most recent
syllabus attached
Labor Law – three times at University of Chicago; most recent syllabus attached
Presidential Lawmaking (seminar) – once at Harvard; syllabus attached
The President and the Law (seminar) – once at Harvard; syllabus attached
Law of Political Process (seminar) – once at University of Chicago; no syllabus found;

dealt with issues of election law such as districting and campaign finance.
19. Deferred Income/ Future Benefits: List the sources, amounts, and dates of all
anticipated receipts from deferred income arrangements, stock, options, uncompleted
contracts, and other future benefits which you expect to derive from previous business
relationships, professional services, firm memberships, former employers, clients, or
customers. Describe the arrangements you have made to be compensated in the future
for any financial or business interest.
None. I am currently a faculty member on leave from Harvard Law School. If

nominated and confirmed, I would give up my faculty appointment.
20. Outside Commitments During Court Service: Do you have any plans, commitments,
or agreements to pursue outside employment, with or without compensation, during your
service with the court? If so, explain.
None.
21. Sources of Income: List sources and amounts of all income received during the calendar
year preceding your nomination and for the current calendar year, including all salaries,
fees, dividends, interest, gifts, rents, royalties, licensing fees, honoraria, and other items
exceeding $500 or more (if you prefer to do so, copies of the financial disclosure report,
required by the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, may be substituted here).
I have provided financial disclosure reports for my years of government service through
2008. I have not yet filed a financial disclosure report for 2009 and 2010. I expect to do
so in the next week, and I will provide the Committee with a copy.
22. Statement of Net Worth: Please complete the attached financial net worth statement in
detail (add schedules as called for).
Please see attached.
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23. Potential Conflicts of Interest:
a. Identify the family members or other persons, parties, categories of litigation, and
financial arrangements that are likely to present potential conflicts of interest
when you first assume the position to which you have been nominated. Explain
how you would address any such conflict if it were to arise. Specifically, explain
how you will resolve any conflicts that may arise by virtue of your service as
Solicitor General of the United States.
The principal conflicts of interest that I would encounter arise from my service as
Solicitor General. I would be recused in all matters for which I was counsel of
record. I would handle recusal questions in all other matters involving my
service as Solicitor General consistent with the procedure set forth in my answer
to question 13(c). The only other potential conflicts of interest of which I am
aware would arise from litigation involving Harvard University. I would handle
recusal questions in these cases in the same way.
b. Explain how you will resolve any potential conflict of interest that may arise,
including the procedure you will follow in determining these areas of concern.
I would resolve any potential conflicts of interest in accordance with the

procedure set forth in my answer to question 13(c).
24. Pro Bono Work: An ethical consideration under Canon 2 of the American Bar
Association’s Code of Professional Responsibility calls for “every lawyer, regardless of
professional prominence or professional workload, to find some time to participate in
serving the disadvantaged.” Describe what you have done to fulfill these responsibilities,
listing specific instances and the amount of time devoted to each.
As noted in my answer to question 6, I have served on the boards of numerous non-profit

organizations, including several specifically devoted to ensuring the availability of legal
services for indigent persons. As dean of Harvard Law School, I did not engage in any
individual representation of clients, but I promoted public service and pro bono work in a
variety of ways, including by enhancing resources for the school’s loan forgiveness
program and its summer public interest funding program in order to increase the number
of students engaged in public interest work, especially on behalf of indigent persons,
during law school and after graduation.
25. Selection Process:
a. Describe your experience in the entire judicial selection process, from beginning
to end (including the circumstances which led to your nomination and the
interviews in which you participated). List all interviews or communications you
had with anyone in the Executive Office of the President, Justice Department, or
outside organizations or individuals at the behest of anyone in the Executive
Office of the President or Justice Department regarding this nomination, the dates
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of such interviews or communications, and all persons present or participating in
such interviews or communications. Do not include any contacts with Federal
Bureau of Investigation personnel concerning your nomination.
I was contacted by Bob Bauer, White House Counsel, and Susan Davies, Deputy
White House Counsel, on March 5, 2010, to inform me that the President wished
to consider me for a possible Supreme Court vacancy. Between that date and the
day of my nomination, I had frequent contact with Mr. Bauer and Ms. Davies. On
April 7, 2010, Ron Klain, Chief of Staff to the Vice President, contacted me about
meeting with the Vice President. Also that day, I met with David Axelrod, Senior
Advisor to the President; Cynthia Hogan, Counsel to the Vice President; and Lisa
Brown, Staff Secretary to the President. On April 13, 2010, I met with Ms.
Davies and Danielle Gray, an Associate White House Counsel. On April 15,
2010, I met with Amy Sabrin of Skadden Arps, as well as Leslie Abrams, Robyn
Carr, and Maya Florence of that firm; Ms. Davies also attended this meeting. I
met again with Ms. Sabrin and Ms. Carr on April 28, 2010. I met with Vice
President Biden on April 27, 2010, and was interviewed by President Obama on
April 30, 2010. I met with Valerie Jarrett on May 6, 2010. President Obama
informed me on May 9, 2010 that he wished to nominate me to the Supreme
Court. During this period, I also had numerous other communications with the
White House staff members listed above, or groups of them, as well as with
Daniel Meltzer, Principal Deputy White House Counsel; Julia Kazaks of Skadden
Arps; and Attorney General Eric Holder.
b. Has anyone involved in the process of selecting you for this nomination
(including, but not limited to anyone in the Executive Office of the President, the
Justice Department, or the Senate and its staff) ever discussed with you any
currently pending or specific case, legal issue, or question in a manner that could
reasonably be interpreted as seeking any express or implied assurances
concerning your position on such case, issue, or question? If so, explain fully.
Identify each communication you had prior to the announcement of your
nomination with anyone in the Executive Office of the President, the Justice
Department, or the Senate or its staff referring or relating to your views on any
case, issue, or subject that could come before the Supreme Court of the United
States, state who was present or participated in such communication, and describe
briefly what transpired.
No.
c. Did you make any representations to any individuals or interest groups as to how
you might rule as a Justice, if confirmed? If you know of any such
representations made by the White House or individuals acting on behalf of the
White House, please describe them, and if any materials memorializing those
communications are available to you, please provide four (4) copies.
No.
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT
NET WORTH – As of January 1, 2010
____
Provide a complete, current financial net worth statement which itemizes in detail all
assets (including bank accounts, real estate, securities, trusts, investments, and other financial
holdings) all liabilities (including debts, mortgages, loans, and other financial obligations) of
yourself, your spouse, and other immediate members of your household.
ASSETS LIABILITIES
Notes payable to banks-
Cash on hand and in banks $739,783 secured
U.S. Government securities-add Notes payable to banks-
schedule A $198,532 unsecured
Listed securities-add schedule Notes payable to relatives
Unlisted securities--add schedule Notes payable to others
Accounts and notes receivable: Accounts and bills due
Due from relatives and friends Unpaid income tax
Due from others Other unpaid income and
interest
Doubtful Real estate mortgages
payable-add schedule
Real estate owned-add schedule Chattel mortgages and other
liens payable
Real estate mortgages receivable Other debts-itemize:
Autos and other personal property
Cash value-life insurance
Other assets itemize:
Retirement funds – from employment $824,204
and inherited IRAs
Total liabilities 0
Net Worth $1,762,519
Total Assets Total liabilities and net worth $1,762,519
CONTINGENT LIABILITIES GENERAL INFORMATION
As endorser, comaker or guarantor Are any assets pledged? (Add No
schedule)
On leases or contracts Are you defendant in any No
suits or legal actions?
Legal Claims Have you ever taken No
bankruptcy?
Provision for Federal Income Tax
Other special debt
Schedule A: Securities are money market fund held at Vanguard ($40,024) and mutual funds held at
Vanguard ($113,848) and Franklin Templeton Investments ($44,660).
AFFIDAVIT
I, _______________________________________________, do swear that the information

provided in this statement is, to the best of my knowledge, true and accurate.
_________________________ __________________________________
(DATE) (NAME)
__________________________________
(NOTARY)

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UNITED STATES SENATE

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

QUESTIONNAIRE FOR NOMINEE FOR THE SUPREME COURT

1. Name: State full name (include any former names used).

Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court

4. Birthplace: State date and place of birth.

April 28. 1960. New York, New York.

Harvard Law School, 1983-86, J.D. magna cum laude 1986

6. Employment Record: List in reverse chronological order all governmental agencies,

Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, 2009-present

Special Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee, Summer 1993

Staff member, Dukakis for President Campaign, Boston, MA, 1988

Judicial Clerk, Hon. Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court, 1987-88

Research Assistant, Professor Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA

Member, New York State Commission on Higher Education, 2007-08

Member, Board of Directors, American Law Deans Association, 2004-09

Member, Board of Trustees, Skadden Fellowship Foundation, 4 Times Square, NY, NY

Member, Litigation Committee, American Association of University Professors, 1133

Public Member, Administrative Conference of the United States, 1994-95

Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005-

Honorary Fellow, Worcester College, Oxford University, 2005-

Recipient, Woman Lawyer of the Year, Women’s Bar Association of District of

National Law Journal, Top 50 Most Influential Women Lawyers, 2007

Recipient, Class of 1993 University of Chicago Graduating Students’ Award for

Recipient, Sachs Scholarship, Princeton University, 1981.

Phi Beta Kappa, Princeton University, 1981

9. Bar Associations: List all bar associations or legal or judicial-related committees,

I am a member of the American Bar Association.

In a questionnaire I submitted to the Senate in connection with a judicial nomination in

10. Bar and Court Admission:

Supreme Court of the United States, 2009

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, 1990 (inactive)

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 1990 (inactive)

a. List all professional, business, fraternal, scholarly, civic, charitable, or other

Harvard Law School Alumni Association

In a questionnaire I submitted to the Senate in connection with a judicial

b. The American Bar Association's Commentary to its Code of Judicial Conduct

I have done my best to identify published materials through searches of publicly

“Foreword” in Daniel Hamilton and Alfred Brophy, eds., Transformations in

Harvard Law Revisited, 11 The Green Bag 475 (2008).

In Memoriam: Clark Byse, 121 Harvard Law Review 454 (2007).

In Memoriam: David Westfall, 119 Harvard Law Review 947 (2006).

Presidential Administration, 114 Harvard Law Review 2245 (2001).

Libel and the First Amendment (Update), Encyclopedia of the American

Masson v. New Yorker Magazine, Inc., Encyclopedia of the American

Confirmation Messes, Old and New (Book Review), 62 University of Chicago

Regulation of Hate Speech and Pornography After R.A.V., 60 University of

For Justice Marshall, 71 Texas Law Review 1125 (1993).

In addition to these more formal publications, during my time as dean, I wrote a

DATE TITLE OF RELEASE

I wrote two letters to the editors of Harvard publications:

9/13/78 Social life discussed at open house

The Locational Options Committee of Harvard Law School, which I chaired,

The Chicago Council of Lawyers, on whose Board of Governors I served from