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Docket for 10-1491
No. 10-1491
Vide 11-63
Title:
Esther Kiobel, Individually and on Behalf of Her Late Husband, Dr. Barinem Kiobel, et al., Petitioners
v.
Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., et al.
Docketed:June 13, 2011
Linked with 10A1006
Lower Ct:United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
  Case Nos.:(06-4800, 06-4876)
  Decision Date:September 17, 2010
  Rehearing Denied:February 4, 2011
Questions Presented

~~~Date~~~ ~~~~~~~Proceedings  and  Orders~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Apr 12 2011 Application (10A1006) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from May 5, 2011 to June 4, 2011, submitted to Justice Ginsburg.
Apr 14 2011 Application (10A1006) granted by Justice Ginsburg extending the time to file until June 6, 2011.
Jun 6 2011 Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 13, 2011)
Jun 17 2011 Brief amici curiae of Professors of Legal History filed.
Jul 7 2011 Order extending time to file response to petition to and including August 12, 2011.
Jul 12 2011 Brief amicus curiae of Ambassador David Scheffer, Northwestern University School of Law filed.
Jul 13 2011 Brief amici curiae of Center for Constitutional Rights, et al. filed.
Jul 13 2011 Brief amici curiae of Nuremberg Scholars filed.
Jul 13 2011 Motion for leave to file amici brief filed by International Law Scholars.
Aug 12 2011 Brief of respondents Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., et al. in opposition filed.
Aug 24 2011 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of September 26, 2011.
Sep 2 2011 Reply of petitioners Esther Kiobel, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Oct 3 2011 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of October 7, 2011.
Oct 11 2011 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of October 14, 2011.
Oct 17 2011 Motion for leave to file amicus brief filed by International Law Scholars GRANTED.
Oct 17 2011 Petition GRANTED The case is to be argued in tandem with No. 11-88, Mohamad v. Rajoub.
Nov 15 2011 Consent to the filing of amicus curiae briefs, in support of either party or of neither party, received from counsel for the petitioners.
Nov 15 2011 Consent to the fiiing of amicus curiae briefs, in support of either party or of neither party, received from counsel for the respondents.
Nov 16 2011 The time to file the joint appendix and petitioners' brief on the merits is extended to and including December 14, 2011.
Nov 16 2011 The time to file respondents' brief on the merits is extended to and including January 27, 2012.
Dec 14 2011 Joint appendix filed.
Dec 14 2011 Brief of petitioners Esther Kiobel, et al. filed.
Dec 16 2011 Brief amicus curiae of Yale Law School Center for Global Legal Challenges filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
Dec 19 2011 SET FOR ARGUMENT ON Tuesday, February 28, 2012.
Dec 20 2011 Brief amicus curiae of EarthRights International filed.
Dec 20 2011 Brief amici curiae of Law Professors of Civil Liberties and 42 U.S.C. - 1983 filed. VIDED.
Dec 20 2011 Brief amicus curiae of Ambassador David Scheffer, Northwestern University School of Law filed.
Dec 20 2011 Brief amicus curiae of Thomas J. Schoenbaum filed.
Dec 21 2011 Brief amicus curiae of United States filed. (Distributed)
Dec 21 2011 Brief amici curiae of International Human Rights Organizations and International Law Experts filed.
Dec 21 2011 Brief amici curiae of Former U.S. Senator Arlen Specter, et al. filed. VIDED.
Dec 21 2011 Brief amici curiae of Professors of Legal History Barbara Aronstein Black, et al. filed.
Dec 21 2011 Brief amicus curiae of Navi Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights filed.
Dec 21 2011 Brief amicus curiae of the Rutherford Institute filed.
Dec 21 2011 Brief amicus curiae of American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations filed.
Dec 21 2011 Brief amicus curiae of International Law Scholars filed.
Dec 21 2011 Brief amici curiae of Civil Procedure Professors filed.
Dec 21 2011 Brief amicus curiae of The Brennan Center for Justice ar NYU School of Law filed.
Dec 21 2011 Brief amici curiae of Dr. Juan Romagoza Arce, et al. filed. VIDED.
Dec 21 2011 Brief amicus curiae of Joseph E. Stiglitz filed. VIDED.
Dec 21 2011 Brief amici curiae of Nuremberg Scholars Omer Bartov, et al. filed. VIDED.
Dec 21 2011 Brief amici curiae of Nuremberg Historians and International Lawyers in support of neither party filed.
Dec 21 2011 Brief amici curiae of Former United States Government Counterterrorism and Human Rights Officials filed.
Jan 12 2012 CIRCULATED
Jan 24 2012 Record received from U.S.C.A. for 2nd Circuit. (1 Box). Portiions of this record are electronic.
Jan 25 2012 Record received from U.S.D.C. for Southern District of New York. (3 boxes) The remainder of this record is electronic.
Jan 27 2012 Brief of respondents Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., et al. filed. (Distributed)
Feb 2 2012 Brief amicus curiae of The Federal Republic of Germany filed. (Distributed)
Feb 2 2012 Brief amicus curiae of KBR, Inc. filed.
Feb 3 2012 Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument filed.
Feb 3 2012 Brief amicus curiae of The Clearing House Association L.L.C. filed. (Distributed)
Feb 3 2012 Brief amici curiae of Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Feb 3 2012 Brief amici curiae of Rio Tinto Group and Occidental Petroleum Corp. filed. (Distributed)
Feb 3 2012 Brief amici curiae of Professors of International Law, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Feb 3 2012 Brief amici curiae of BP America, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Feb 3 2012 Brief amici curiae of Chevron Corporation, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Feb 3 2012 Brief amicus curiae of Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America filed. (Distributed)
Feb 3 2012 Brief amici curiae of International Law Professors filed. (Distributed)
Feb 3 2012 Brief amici curiae of Governments of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Feb 3 2012 Brief amici curiae of The Coca-Cola Company, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Feb 3 2012 Brief amici curiae of National Foreign Trade Council, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Feb 3 2012 Brief amici curiae of Law Professors of Constitutional and Federal Procedure Law filed. (Distributed)
Feb 3 2012 Brief amicus curiae of Cato Institute filed. (Distributed)
Feb 3 2012 Brief amicus curiae of Product Liability Advisory Counsel, Inc. filed. (Distributed)
Feb 17 2012 Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument GRANTED.
Feb 21 2012 Reply of petitioners Esther Kiobel, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Feb 28 2012 Argued. For petitioners: Paul Hoffman, Venice, Cal.; and Edwin S. Kneedler, Deputy Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (for United States, as amicus curiae.) For respondents: Kathleen M. Sullivan, New York, N. Y.
Mar 5 2012 This case is restored to the calendar for reargument. The parties are directed to file supplemental briefs addressing the following question: �Whether and under what circumstances the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. �1350, allows courts to recognize a cause of action for violations of the law of nations occurring within the territory of a sovereign other than the United States.� The supplemental brief of petitioners is due on or before Thursday, May 3, 2012. The supplemental brief of respondents is due on or before Monday, June 4, 2012. The reply brief is due on or before Friday, June 29, 2012. The time to file amicus curiae briefs is as provided for by Rule 37.3(a). The word limits and cover colors for the briefs should correspond to the provisions of Rule 33.1(g) pertaining to briefs on the merits rather than to the provision pertaining to supplemental briefs.
Mar 16 2012 The time to file petitioners' supplemental brief is extended to and including June 6, 2012.
Mar 16 2012 The time to file respondents' supplemental brief is extended to and including August 1, 2012.
Mar 22 2012 Consent to the filing of amicus curiae briefs, in support of either party or of neither party, received from counsel for the respondents.
Mar 27 2012 Consent to the filing of amicus curiae briefs, in support of either party or of neither party, received from counsel for the petitioners
Jun 6 2012 Supplemental brief of petitioners Esther Kiobel, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Jun 8 2012 Brief amicus curiae of Navi Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights filed.
Jun 11 2012 Brief amici curiae of Volker Beck and Christoph Strasser, Members of Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany filed.
Jun 11 2012 Brief amici curiae of Law of Nations Scholars supporting neither party filed.
Jun 12 2012 Brief amici curiae of Former UN Special Representative for Business and Human Rights, Professor John Ruggie, et al. filed.
Jun 12 2012 Brief amicus curiae of The Rutgers Law School Constitutional Litigation Clinic filed.
Jun 12 2012 Brief amici curiae of Genocide Victims of Krajina filed.
Jun 12 2012 Brief amici curiae of Victims of the Hungarian Holocaust filed.
Jun 12 2012 Brief amici curiae of Human Rights First, et al. filed.
Jun 12 2012 Brief amici curiae of Professors of Civil Procedure, et al. filed.
Jun 12 2012 Brief amicus curiae of European Commission on Behalf of the European Union in support of neither party filed.
Jun 12 2012 Brief amici curiae of Professors of Legal History and Federal Jurisdiction, Martin Flaherty, and John V. Orth filed.
Jun 12 2012 Brief amicus curiae of American Civil Liberties Union filed.
Jun 13 2012 Brief amicus curiae of United States filed.
Jun 13 2012 Brief amici curiae of Australian International Law Scholars filed.
Jun 13 2012 Brief amicus curiae of Yale Law School Center for Global Legal Challenges filed.
Jun 13 2012 Brief amicus curiae of Government of the Argentine Republic filed.
Jun 13 2012 Brief amicus curiae of Ambassador David Scheffer, Northwestern University School of Law filed.
Jun 13 2012 Brief amici curiae of Abukar Hassan Ahmed, et al. filed.
Jun 13 2012 Brief amici curiae of South African Jurists Anton Katz, et al. filed.
Jun 13 2012 Brief amici curiae of International Law Scholars filed.
Jun 13 2012 Brief amici curiae of Institute for Human Rights and Business, et al. filed.
Jun 13 2012 Brief amici curiae of International Human Rights Organizations filed.
Jun 13 2012 Brief amici curiae of Professors of Legal History filed.
Jun 13 2012 Brief amici curiae of Eleven Jewish Former Residents of Iran Whose Family Members "Disappeared" filed.
Jun 13 2012 Brief amicus curiae of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York filed.
Jun 13 2012 Brief amicus curiae of American Bar Association filed.
Jun 13 2012 Brief amici curiae of German Institute for Human Rights, et al. filed.
Jun 13 2012 Brief amicus curiae of EarthRights International filed.
Jun 13 2012 Brief amici curiae of Comparative Law Scholars, et al. filed.
Jun 13 2012 Brief amicus curiae of Juan E. Mendez U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture filed.
Jun 13 2012 Brief amici curiae of Former United States Diplomats Diego Asencio, et al. filed.
Jun 13 2012 Brief amici curiae of The Governments of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, et al. filed.
Jun 13 2012 Brief amici curiae of English Law Practitioners Martyn Day, et al. filed.
Jun 13 2012 Brief amici curiae of Certain Plaintiffs in In Re: Terrorists Attacks on September 11, 2001 in support of neither party filed.
Jun 13 2012 Brief amici curiae of Professor Alex-Geert Castermans (Leiden University), et al. filed.
Jun 13 2012 Brief amici curiae of Former United States Government Counterterrorism and Human Rights Officials filed.
Jul 13 2012 CIRCULATED.
Jul 23 2012 SET FOR REARGUMENT ON Monday, October 1, 2012.
Aug 1 2012 Supplemental brief of respondents Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., et al. filed. (Distributed)
Aug 8 2012 Brief amici curiae of Rio Tinto Group filed. (Distributed)
Aug 8 2012 Brief amicus curiae of Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America filed. (Distributed)
Aug 8 2012 Brief amicus curiae of Cato Institute filed. (Distributed)
Aug 8 2012 Brief amici curiae of Chevron Corporation, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Aug 8 2012 Brief amici curiae of Washington Legal Foundation and Allied Educational Foundation filed. (Distributed)
Aug 8 2012 Brief amici curiae of Former State Department Legal Advisers filed. (Distributed)
Aug 8 2012 Brief amicus curiae of OTP Bank filed. (Distributed)
Aug 8 2012 Brief amicus curiae of Engility Corporation filed. (Distributed)
Aug 8 2012 Brief amici curiae of Professors Anthony J. Bellia Jr. and Bradford R. Clark filed. (Distributed)
Aug 8 2012 Brief amici curiae of National Foreign Trade Council, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Aug 8 2012 Brief amici curiae of BP America, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Aug 8 2012 Brief amicus curiae of KBR, Inc. filed. (Distributed)
Aug 8 2012 Brief amici curiae of Professors of International Law, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Aug 8 2012 Brief amicus curiae of US-China Law Society filed. (Distributed)
Aug 8 2012 Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument filed.
Aug 31 2012 Reply of petitioners Esther Kiobel, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Sep 25 2012 Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument GRANTED.
Oct 1 2012 Argued. For petitioners: Paul L. Hoffman, Venice, Cal. For respondents: Kathleen M. Sullivan, New York, N. Y.; and Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (for United States, as amicus curiae.)
Apr 17 2013 Adjudged to be AFFIRMED. Roberts, C. J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, and Alito, JJ., joined. Kennedy, J., filed a concurring opinion. Alito, J., filed a concurring opinion, in which Thomas, J., joined. Breyer, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, in which Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan, JJ., joined.
May 20 2013 JUDGMENT ISSUED.
Jun 18 2013 Record returned to U.S.C.A. for 2nd Circuit.
Jun 18 2013 Record returned to U.S.D.C. for Southern District of New York.


~~Name~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~    ~~~~~~~Address~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   ~~Phone~~~
Attorneys for Petitioners:
Paul L. Hoffman Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris & Hoffman LLP(310) 396-0731
    Counsel of Record723 Ocean Front Walk
Venice, CA  90291
Hoffpaul@aol.com
Party name: Esther Kiobel, et al.
Attorneys for Respondents:
Kathleen M. Sullivan Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP(212) 849-7000
    Counsel of Record51 Madison Avenue
22nd Floor
New York, NY  10010
kathleensullivan@quinnemanuel.com
Party name: Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., et al.
 
Rowan D. Wilson Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP(212) 474-1000
825 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY  10019-7475
rwilson@cravath.com
Party name: Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., et al.
Other:
William J. Aceves California Western School of Law(619) 525-1413
225 Cedar Street
San Diego, CA  92101
wja@cwsl.edu
Party name: Former U.S. Senator Arlen Specter, et al.
 
Donald Kris Anton Australian National University College of Law011 61 2 6125 3516
Canberra, ACT, XX  0200X
antond@law.anu.edu.au
Party name: Australian International Law Scholars.
 
Donald I Baker Baker & Miller PLLC(202) 663-7820
2401 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC  20037
dbaker@bakerandmiller.com
Party name: Governments of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, et al.
 
Gary L. Bostwick 12400 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 400(310) 979-6059
Los Angeles, CA  90025
gbostwick@bostwickjassy.com
Party name: Professor Alex-Geert Castermans (Leiden University), et al.
 
Douglass W. Cassel Notre Dame Law School(574) 631-7896
2142 Eck Hall of Law
Notre Dame, IN  46556
Doug.Cassel@nd.edu
Party name: Former United States Diplomats Diego Asencio, et al.
 
Judith Brown Chomsky Law Offices of Judith Brown Chomsky(215) 782-8367
P.O. Box 29726
Elkins Park, PA  19027
jchomsky@igc.org
Party name: Volker Beck and Christoph Strasser, Members of Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany
 
Paul D. Clement Bancroft PLLC(202) 234-0090
1919 M Street, N.W., Suite 470
Washington, DC  20036
pclement@bancroftpllc.com
Party name: BP America, et al.
 
Anne E. Cohen Debevoise & Plimpton LLP(212) 909-6000
919 Third Avenue
New York, NY  10022
aecohen@debevoise.com
Party name: Product Liability Advisory Counsel, Inc.
 
Thomas G. Corcoran Jr. Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe(202) 293-5555
1101 Seventeenth St., NW
Suite 1100
Washington, DC  20036
tgc@bcr-dc.com
Party name: OTP Bank
 
Vivian Grosswald Curran University of Pittsburgh School of Law(412) 648-1393
3900 Forbes Ave.
Wexford, PA  15090
vcurran@pitt.edu
Party name: Comparative Law Scholars, et al.
 
Anthony D'Amato Northwestern University School of Law (312) 587-8997
375 East Chicago Ave.
Chicago, IL  60611-3069
a-damato@law.northwestern.edu
Party name: Law of Nations Scholars supporting neither party
 
Richard A. Edlin Greenberg Traurig LLP(212) 801-9200
200 Park Ave.
New York, NY  10116
edlinr@gtlaw.com
Party name: Law Professors of Constitutional and Federal Procedure Law
 
Andrea C. Evans The Center for Justice & Accountability(415) 544-0444
870 Market Street
Suite 682
San Francisco, CA  94102
andreacevans@cja.org
Party name: Dr. Juan Romagoza Arce, et al.
 
Susan H. Farbstein International Human Rights Clinic(617) 495-9263
Harvard Law School
6 Everett St., 3rd Floor
Cambridge, MA  02138
sfarbstein@law.harvard.edu
Party name: Professors of Legal History Barbara Aronstein Black, et al.
 
Meir Feder Jones Day(212) 326-3939
222 East 41st Street
New York, NY  10017
mfeder@jonesday.com
Party name: Professors of International Law, et al.
 
Agnieszka M. Fryszman Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll PLLC(202) 408-4600
1100 New York Avenue, N. W.
Suite 500, West Tower
Washington, DC  20005
afryszman@cohenmilstein.com
Party name: Civil Procedure Professors
 
Katherine M. Gallagher Center for Constitutional Rights(212)-614-6455
666 Broadway, 7th Floor
New York, NY  10012
kgallagher@ccrjustice.org
Party name: International Human Rights Organizations
 
Tyler Richard Giannini International Human Rights Clinic(617) 495-9263
Harvard Law School, Pound Hall 401
1563 Massachusetts Avenue
1563 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA  02138
giannini@law.harvard.edu
Party name: Professors of Legal History
 
Jack L. Goldsmith 1563 Massachusetts Avenue08102009
Cambridge, MA  02138
goldsmith@pobox.com
Party name: Chevron Corporation, et al.
 
Jennifer M. Green Director (612) 625-7247
Human Rights Litigation and International Advocacy Clinic
University of Minnesota Law School
225 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN  55455
jmgreen@umn.edu
Party name: Institute for Human Rights and Business, et al.
 
Jonathan D. Hacker O'Melveny & Myers LLP(202) 383-5300
1625 Eye Street, N.W.
Washington, DC  20006
jhacker@omm.com
Party name: Rio Tinto Group and Occidental Petroleum Corp.
 
Jeffrey Harris Rubin Winston Diercks Harris & Cooke LLP(202) 861-0870
1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W.
Suite 200
Washington, DC  20036
jharris@rwdhc.com
Party name: The Federal Republic of Germany
 
Oona A. Hathaway 127 Wall Street (203) 436-1869
New Haven, CT  06511
oona.hathaway@yale.edu
Party name: Yale Law School Center for Global Legal Challenges
 
Michael D. Hausfeld Hausfeld LLP(202) 540-7200
1700 K Street, NW, Suite 650
Washington, DC  20005
mhausfeld@hausfeldllp.com
Party name: Joseph E. Stiglitz
 
Richard L. Herz EarthRights International(202) 466-5188
1612 K Street N.W., Suite 401
Washington, DC  20006
rick@earthrights.org
Party name: EarthRights International
 
Deena R. Hurwitz 580 Massie Road (434)-924-4776
Charlottesville, VA  22903
deena@virginia.edu
Party name: Juan E. Mendez U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture
 
Allan Ides Loyola Law School(213) 736-1464
919 Albany Street
Los Angeles, CA  90041
idesa@lls.edu
Party name: Professors of Civil Procedure, et al.
 
Pamela S. Karlan Stanford Law School(650) 725-4851
Supreme Court Litigation Clinic
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA  94305-8610
karlan@stanford.edu
Party name: Abukar Hassan Ahmed, et al.
 
Stephen L. Kass Chair, Committee on International Human Rights(212) 382-6600
Association of the Bar of the City of New York
42 W. 44th St.
New York, NY  10036
kass@clm.com
Party name: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York
 
Neal Kumar Katyal Hogan Lovells US LLP(202) 637-5528
555 Thirteenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC  20004
neal.katyal@hoganlovells.com
Party name: Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America
 
Matthew J. Kemner 44 Montgomery St. Ste. 400 (415) 989-5900
San Francisco, CA  94104
mkemner@cbmlaw.com
Party name: International Law Professors
 
Edwin S. Kneedler Deputy Solicitor General(202) 514-2217
United States Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC  20530-0001
Party name: Esther Kiobel, Individually and on Behalf of Her Late Husband, Dr. Barinem Kiobel, et al. v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., et al.
 
Jonathan S. Massey Massey & Gail, LLP(202) 652-4511
1325 G Street, NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC  20005
jmassey@masseygail.com
Party name: Nuremberg Historians and International Lawyers in support of neither party
 
Jonathan M. Miller Southwestern Law School(213) 738-6784
3050 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA  90010
jmiller@swlaw.edu
Party name: Government of the Argentine Republic
 
Frederick W. Morris Leonard Street and Deinard(612) 335-1500
150 South Fifth Street
Minneapolis, MN  55402
frederick.morris@leonard.com
Party name: Professors of Legal History and Federal Jurisdiction, Martin Flaherty, and John V. Orth
 
Kristin Linsley Myles Munger Tolles & Olson LLP(415) 512-4000
560 Mission Street, 27th Floor
San Francisco, CA  94105
kristin.myles@mto.com
Party name: The Coca-Cola Company, et al.
 
Burt Neuborne 40 Washington Square South(212) 998-6172
New York, NY  10012
burt.neuborne@nyu.edu
Party name: The Brennan Center for Justice ar NYU School of Law
 
Vincent F. O'Rourke Jr. Bowditch & Dewey LLP(508) 926-3424
311 Main Street
P.O. Box 15156
Worcester, MA  01615
vorourke@bowditch.com
Party name: Former UN Special Representative for Business and Human Rights, Professor John Ruggie, et al.
 
Christopher Julian Paolella Reich & Paolella, LLP(212) 804-7090
111 Broadway
Suite 2002
New York, NY  10006
cpaolella@reichpaolella.com
Party name: Professors Anthony J. Bellia Jr. and Bradford R. Clark
 
Robert J. Pavich 20 South Clark Street Suite 700(312)-782-8500
Chicago, IL  60603
rpavich@pavichlawgroup.com
Party name: Genocide Victims of Krajina
 
Owen C. Pell White & Case, LLP(212) 819-8200
1155 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY  10036-2787
opell@whitecase.com
Party name: Cato Institute
 
Carter G. Phillips Sidley Austin LLP(202) 736-8270
1501 K Street, N.W.
Washington, DC  20005
cphillips@sidley.com
Party name: Certain Plaintiffs in In Re: Terrorits Attacks on September 11, 2011 in support of neither party
 
Andrew J. Pincus Mayer Brown LLP(202) 263-3000
1999 K Street, NW
Washington, DC  20006-1101
apincus@mayerbrown.com
Party name: The Clearing House Association L.L.C.
 
Steven A. Reiss Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP(212) 310-8174
767 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY  10153
steven.reiss@weil.com
Party name: European Commission on Behalf of the European Union in support of neither party
 
Lynn K. Rhinehart 815 16th Street, N.W. (202)-637-5155
Washington, DC  20006
Party name: American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
 
David B. Rivkin Jr. Baker & Hostetler LLP(202) 861-1731
1050 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC  20036
drivkin@bakerlaw.com
Party name: KBR, Inc.
 
William T. Robinson III. President(312) 988-5000
American Bar Association
321 N. Clark Street
Chicago, IL  60654-7598
abapresident@americanbar.org
Party name: American Bar Association
 
Richard A. Samp Washington Legal Foundation(202) 588-0302
2009 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC  20036
rsamp@wlf.org
Party name: Washington Legal Foundation and Allied Educational Foundation
 
David J. Scheffer Center for International Human Rights(312) 503-2224
Northwestern University School of Law
375 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL  6000611-3069
d-scheffer@law.northwestern.edu
Party name: Ambassador David Scheffer, Northwestern University School of Law
 
Thomas J. Schoenbaum Professor of Law202222299440391
George Washington University Law School
2000 H Street, NW
Washingrton, DC  20052
tschoen@law.gwu.edu
Party name: Thomas J. Schoenbaum
 
Steven R. Shapiro American Civil Liberties Union Foundation(212) 549-2500
125 Broad Street
New York, NY  10004
sshapiro@aclu.org
Party name: American Civil Liberties Union
 
David Sloss Santa Clara University School of Law(408)-554-2170
500 El Camino Road
Santa Clara, CA  95053
dlsloss@scu.edu
Party name: Navi Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
 
Carol A. Sobel 3110 Main Street, Suite 210(310) 393-3055
Santa Monica, CA  90405
carolsobel@aol.com
Party name: South African Jurists Anton Katz, et al.
 
Ralph G. Steinhardt George Washington University Law School(202) 994-5739
2000 H Street, NW
Washington, DC  20052
rstein@law.gwu.edu
Party name: International Law Scholars
 
Robert J. Tolchin The Berkman Law Office, LLC(718)-855-3627
111 Livingston Street, Suite 1928
Brooklyn, NY  11201
tolchinlaw@gmail.com
Party name: Eleven Jewish Former Residents of Iran Whose Family Members "Disappeared"
 
Alan E. Untereiner Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck, Untereiner & Sauber LLP(202) 775-4500
1801 K Street, N.W., Suite 411
Washington, DC  20006
auntereiner@robbinsrussell.com
Party name: Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce, et al.
 
Penny M. Venetis Rutgers Constitutional Litigation Clinic(973) 353-5687
123 Washington Street
Newark, NJ  07102
penny@kinoy.rutgers.edu
Party name: Law Professors of Civil Liberties and 42 U.S.C. - 1983
 
Donald B. Verrilli Jr. Solicitor General(202) 514-2217
United States Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC  20530-0001
SupremeCtBriefs@USDOJ.gov
Party name: United States
 
Seth P. Waxman Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP(202) 663-6000
1875 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC  20006
seth.waxman@wilmerhale.com
Party name: National Foreign Trade Council, et al.
 
Ruth Wedgwood 1619 Massachusetts Ave., NW(202) 663-5618
Washington, DC  20036
rwedgwood@jhu.edu
Party name: Former United States Government Counterterrorism and Human Rights Officials
 
John W. Whitehead The Rutherford Institute(434) 978-3888
1440 Sachem Place
Charlottesville, VA  22901
johnw@rutherford.org
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