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No. 23-124
Title:William K. Harrington, United States Trustee, Region 2, Petitioner
v.
Purdue Pharma L.P., et al.
Docketed:August 10, 2023
Linked with 23A87
Lower Ct:United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
   Case Numbers:(22-110, 22-113, 22-115, 22-116, 22-117, 22-119, 22-121, 22-299, 22-203)
   Decision Date:May 30, 2023
   Rehearing Denied:
  Discretionary Court Decision Date:
Questions Presented

DateProceedings and Orders
Jul 28 2023Application (23A87) for a stay, submitted to Justice Sotomayor.
Proof of ServiceMain DocumentLower Court Orders/Opinions
Jul 28 2023Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (See order of August 10, 2023)
Jul 28 2023Response to application (23A87) requested by Justice Sotomayor, due by noon (EDT), Friday, August 4, 2023.
Aug 04 2023Response to application from respondent State of California, et al. filed.
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Aug 04 2023Response to application from respondent Ad Hoc Group of Individual Victims of Purdue Pharma, L.P., et al. filed.
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Aug 04 2023Response to application from respondent The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Purdue Pharma L.P., et al. filed.
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Aug 04 2023Response to application from respondent Debtors, Purdue Pharma L.P., and Its Affiliates filed.
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Aug 04 2023Response to application from respondent Multi-State Governmental Entities Group filed.
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Aug 04 2023Response to application from respondent City of Grande Prairie, et al. filed.
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Aug 04 2023Response to application from respondent The Ad Hoc Committee of Governmental and Other Contingent Litigation Claimants filed.
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Aug 07 2023Reply of applicant William K. Harrington filed.
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Aug 08 2023Sur-Reply to Application of Debtors, Purdue Pharma L.P., and Its Affiliates not accepted for filing. (August 08, 2023)
Aug 09 2023Motion to Direct the Clerk to File a Sur-Reply filed by respondent Debtors, Purdue Pharma L.P., and Its Affiliates.
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Aug 09 2023Motion to Direct the Clerk to File a Sur-Reply denied by Justice Sotomayor.
Aug 10 2023Application (23A87) referred to the Court.
Aug 10 2023Petition GRANTED.
Aug 10 2023Application (23A87) granted by the Court. The application for stay presented to Justice Sotomayor and by her referred to the Court is granted. The mandate of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in case No. 22-110 and the consolidated cases is recalled and stayed. Applicant suggested this Court treat the application as a petition for a writ of certiorari; doing so, the petition is granted. The parties are directed to brief and argue the following question: Whether the Bankruptcy Code authorizes a court to approve, as part of a plan of reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, a release that extinguishes claims held by nondebtors against nondebtor third parties, without the claimants’ consent. The Clerk is directed to establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be argued in the December 2023 argument session. The stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
Aug 21 2023The following briefing schedule is established: The joint appendix, petitioner's brief on the merits, and the brief of any respondent in support, is to be filed on or before Wednesday, September 20, 2023. Respondents' briefs on the merits are to be filed on or before Friday, October 20, 2023. Any reply brief is to be filed in accordance with Rule 25.3.
Sep 14 2023Letter of respondents California, Connecticut and Oregon notifying the Clerk that they will not be filing or joining a brief on the merits filed.
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Sep 20 2023Brief of petitioner William K. Harrington, United States Trustee, Region 2 filed.
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Sep 20 2023Joint appendix (Volume 1) filed. (Statement of cost for 2 vols. filed.)
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Sep 20 2023Joint appendix (Volume 2) filed.
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Sep 20 2023Brief of respondent Ellen Isaacs, on behalf of Patrick Ryan Wroblewski, in support filed.
Main DocumentCertificate of Word CountProof of Service
Sep 20 2023Brief of respondents City of Grande Prairie, as representative plaintiff for a class consisting of all Canadian municipalities, et al., in support filed.
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Sep 21 2023Brief amici curiae of The Honorable Eugene Wedoff (Ret.), et al. filed.
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Sep 26 2023Brief amici curiae of Martin J. Bienenstock, et al. filed.
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Sep 27 2023Brief amici curiae of NexPoint Advisors, L.P., et al. filed.
Main DocumentCertificate of Word CountProof of Service
Sep 27 2023Brief amicus curiae of American College of Bankruptcy in support of neither party filed.
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Sep 27 2023Brief amicus curiae of Insolvency Law Committee of Business Law Section of California Lawyers Association in support of neither party filed.
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Sep 27 2023Brief amicus curiae of Adam J. Levitin filed.
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Sep 27 2023Brief amici curiae of The Commercial Law League of America, et al. in support of neither party filed.
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Sep 27 2023Brief amicus curiae of Kim Harold Peterson filed.
Main DocumentCertificate of Word CountProof of Service
Sep 27 2023Brief amicus curiae of Atlantic Basin Refining, Inc. filed.
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Sep 27 2023Brief amici curiae of Bankruptcy Law Professors Ralph Brubaker, et al. filed.
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Sep 27 2023Brief amici curiae of "Texas Two-Step" Victims filed.
Main DocumentCertificate of Word CountProof of Service
Sep 27 2023Brief amici curiae of Bankruptcy Law Professors (Oct. 4, 2023) filed.
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Sep 27 2023Brief amicus curiae of Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 12 2023SET FOR ARGUMENT on Monday, December 4, 2023.
Oct 16 2023Record requested from the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Oct 18 2023Complete record on appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit electronically received and available with the Clerk.
Oct 19 2023CIRCULATED
Oct 20 2023Brief of respondents The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Purdue Pharma L.P., et al. filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 20 2023Brief of respondent Multi-State Governmental Entities Group filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 20 2023Brief of respondents Ad Hoc Group of Individual Victims of Purdue Pharma, L.P., et al. filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 20 2023Brief of respondents The Ad Hoc Committee of Governmental and Other Contingent Litigation Claimants filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 20 2023Brief of Debtor Respondents filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 20 2023Brief of Mortimer-Side Initial Covered Sackler Respondents filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 20 2023Letter of respondent Raymond Sackler Family filed.
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Oct 23 2023Brief amici curiae of The Arkansas Opiod Recovery Partnership, The Association of Arkansas Counties, and the Arkansas Municipal League filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 25 2023Brief amici curiae of The Recovery Advocacy Project, et al. filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 26 2023Brief amicus curiae of Certain Former Commissioners of the American Bankruptcy Institute's Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11 filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 27 2023Brief amicus curiae of U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 27 2023Brief amici curiae of Law Professors filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 27 2023Brief amici curiae of Boy Scouts of America filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 27 2023Brief amicus curiae of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 27 2023Brief amicus curiae of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York filed.
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Oct 27 2023Brief amici curiae of The Chamber Of Commerce Of The United States Of America, The American Tort Reform Association, The Product Liability Advisory Counsel, Inc., And The National Association Of Manufacturers filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 27 2023Brief amici curiae of Cheryl Juaire, et al. filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 27 2023Brief amicus curiae of Ad Hoc Group of Local Councils of the Boy Scouts of America filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 27 2023Brief amici curiae of Aldrich Pump LLC, Murray Boiler LLC, and Bestwall LLC filed. (Hard copy correction required and received--11/2/23.) (Distributed)
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Oct 27 2023Brief amicus curiae of Highland Capital Management, L.P. filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 27 2023Motion for divided argument filed by the debtor respondents and the creditor respondents.
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Nov 06 2023Motion for divided argument filed by debtor respondents and creditor respondents GRANTED.
Nov 20 2023Reply of respondents City of Grand Prairie, et al., in support filed. (Distributed)
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Nov 20 2023Reply of petitioner filed. (Distributed)
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Dec 04 2023Argued. For petitioner: Curtis E. Gannon, Deputy Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. For respondents Purdue Pharma L.P., et al.: Gregory G. Garre, Washington, D. C. For respondents The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Purdue Pharma L.P., et al.: Pratik A. Shah, Washington, D. C.
Jun 27 2024Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED. Gorsuch, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Thomas, Alito, Barrett, and Jackson, JJ., joined. Kavanaugh, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Roberts, C. J., and Sotomayor and Kagan, JJ., joined.
Jul 29 2024Judgment Issued.
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NAMEADDRESSPHONE
Attorneys for Petitioner
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
    Counsel of Record		Solicitor General
United States Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001

SUPREMECTBRIEFS@USDOJ.GOV		202-514-2217
Party name: William K. Harrington, United States Trustee, Region 2
Attorneys for Respondents
Paul D. Clement
    Counsel of Record		Clement & Murphy, PLLC
706 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314

PAUL.CLEMENT@CLEMENTMURPHY.COM		(202) 742-8900
Party name: Mortimer-Side Initial Covered Sackler Respondents
Roy T. Englert Jr.
    Counsel of Record		Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
1177 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036

RENGLERT@KRAMERLEVIN.COM		212-715-9100
Party name: The Ad Hoc Committee of Governmental and Other Contingent Litigation Claimants
Gregory George Garre
    Counsel of Record		Latham & Watkins LLP
555 Eleventh Street, NW
Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20004

GREGORY.GARRE@LW.COM		202-637-2207
Party name: Debtors, Purdue Pharma L.P., and Its Affiliates
Mara Ann Leventhal
    Counsel of Record		Joseph Hage Aaronson LLC
800 Third Ave., 30th Fl.
New York, NY 10022

mleventhal@jhany.com		(212) 407-1218
Party name: Raymond Sackler Family
Kevin C. Maclay
    Counsel of Record		Caplin and Drysdale, Chartered
One Thomas Circle, NW
Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20005

KMACLAY@CAPDALE.COM		202-862-7841
Party name: Multi-State Governmental Entities Group
Joshua Patashnik
    Counsel of Record		California Department of Justice
600 West Broadway, Suite 1800
San Diego, CA 92101

JOSH.PATASHNIK@DOJ.CA.GOV		619-738-9628
Party name: California
Pratik Arvind Shah
    Counsel of Record		Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP
2001 K Street N.W.
Washington, DC 20006

PSHAH@AKINGUMP.COM		202-887-4210
Party name: The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Purdue Pharma L.P., et al.
John Christopher Shore
    Counsel of Record		White & Case LLP
1221 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020-1095

cshore@whitecase.com		(212) 819-8394
Party name: Ad Hoc Group of Individual Victims of Purdue Pharma, L.P., et al.
Joseph Carl CecereCecere, PC
6035 McCommas Blvd.
Dallas, TX 75206

ccecere@cecerepc.com		469-600-9455
Party name: City of Grande Prairie, as representative plaintiff for a class consisting of all Canadian municipalities, et al.
Ze-wen Julius ChenAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
2001 K Street N.W.
Washington, DC 20006

chenj@akingump.com		202-887-4475
Party name: The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Purdue Pharma L.P., et al.
Brian Thomas EdmundsOffice of the Attorney General
200 St. Paul Place
Baltimore, MD 21202

bedmunds@oag.state.md.us		410-576-6578
Party name: Maryland
Neil F. X. KellyVermont Attorney General
109 State Street
Montpelier, VT 05609-1001

Neil.Kelly@Vermont.gov		(802) 828-2378
Party name: Multi-State Governmental Entities Group
Jeffrey Allen LiesemerCaplin & Drysdale, Chartered
One Thomas Circle, N.W., Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20005

jliesemer@capdale.com		2028625007
Party name: Multi-State Governmental Entities Group
Michael Sague QuinnEisenberg & Baum LLP
24 Union Square East PH
New York, NY 10003

mquinn@eandblaw.com		212-353-8700
Party name: Ellen Isaacs, on behalf of Patrick Ryan Wroblewski
Other
Martin J. Bienenstock
    Counsel of Record		Proskauer Rose LLP
Eleven Times Square
New York, NY 10036

MBIENENSTOCK@PROSKAUER.COM		(212) 969-3000
Party name: Martin J. Bienenstock And Daniel S. Desatnik
Timothy Murphy Cornell
    Counsel of Record		Cornell Dolan, P.C.
Ten Post Office Square, Suite 800 South
Boston, MA 02109

tcornell@cornelldolan.com		(617) 850-9036
Party name: FEDERATION OF SOVEREIGN INDIGENEOUS NATIONS
Robert Edward Dunn
    Counsel of Record		Eimer Stahl LLP
99 S. Almaden Blvd. Suite 600
San Jose, CA 95113

RDUNN@EIMERSTAHL.COM		4088891690
Party name: The Chamber Of Commerce Of The United States Of America, The American Tort Reform Association, The Product Liability Advisory Counsel, Inc., And The National Association Of Manufacturers
Noel John Francisco
    Counsel of Record		Jones Day
51 Louisiana Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001

NJFRANCISCO@JONESDAY.COM		(202) 879-3939
Party name: Ad Hoc Group of Local Councils of the Boy Scouts of America
Andrew Kenton Glenn
    Counsel of Record		Glenn Agre Bergman & Fuentes LLP
1185 Avenue of the Americas, 22nd Floor
New York, NY 10036

aglenn@glennagre.com		(212) 970-1600
Party name: Bankruptcy Law Professors Ralph Brubaker, Bruce A. Markell, and Jonathan M. Seymour
Leonard L. Gumport
    Counsel of Record		Gumport Law Firm, PC
225 S. Lake Ave
Suite 300
Passadena, CA 91101

lgumport@gumportlaw.net		626-432-7283
Party name: Insolvency Law Committee of Business Law Section of California Lawyers Association
Deepak Gupta
    Counsel of Record		Gupta Wessler LLP
2001 K Street NW
Suite 850 North
Washington, DC 20006

DEEPAK@GUPTAWESSLER.COM		(202) 888-1741
Party name: "Texas Two-Step" Victims
Douglas Harry Hallward-Driemeier
    Counsel of Record		Ropes & Gray, LLP
2099 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20006-6807

DOUGLAS.HALLWARD-DRIEMEIER@ROPESGRAY.COM		202-508-4776
Party name: Law Professors
Michael Robert Huston
    Counsel of Record		Perkins Coie LLP
2901 North Central Avenue
Suite 2000
Phoenix, AZ 85012-2788

mhuston@perkinscoie.com		202-434-1630
Party name: Boy Scouts of America
Colin Robert Jorgensen
    Counsel of Record		Association of Arkansas Counties
1415 West Third Street
Little Rock, AR 72201

cjorgensen@arcounties.org		(501) 372-7947
Party name: The Arkansas Opiod Recovery Partnership, The Association of Arkansas Counties, and the Arkansas Municipal League
Robert James Keach
    Counsel of Record		Bernstein Shur Sawyer & Nelson, P.A.
100 Middle Street, West Tower
Portland, ME 04104

rkeach@bernsteinshur.com		207-774-1200
Party name: Certain Former Commissioners of the American Bankruptcy Institute's Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11
David R. Kuney
    Counsel of Record		9200 Cambridge Manor Court
Potomac, MD 20854

DAVIDKUNEY@DKUNEY.COM		(301) 299-4336
Party name: The Honorable Eugene Wedoff (Ret.) and Law Professors Sara Green, George Kuney, Stephen Lubben, and Lawrence Ponoroff
Jeffrey Alan Lamken
    Counsel of Record		MoloLamken LLP
The Watergate, Suite 500
600 New Hampshire Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC 20037

JLAMKEN@MOLOLAMKEN.COM		2025562010
Party name: NexPoint Advisors, L.P. and NexPoint Asset Management, L.P.
Jonathan Charles Lipson
    Counsel of Record		Temple University--Beasley School of Law
1719 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122

jlipson@temple.edu		(215) 204-0608
Party name: Bankruptcy Law Professors
Robert Mark Loeb
    Counsel of Record		Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
1152 15th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005

RLOEB@ORRICK.COM		202-339-8475
Party name: American College of Bankruptcy
Traci L. Lovitt
    Counsel of Record		Jones Day
250 Vesey Street
New York, NY 10281-1047

tlovitt@jonesday.com		(212) 326-7830
Party name: U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
Charles Kevin Marshall
    Counsel of Record		Jones Day
51 Louisiana Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20001

ckmarshall@jonesday.com		(202) 879 3939
Party name: Aldrich Pump LLC, Murray Boiler LLC, and Bestwall LLC
Jamie Billotte Moses
    Counsel of Record		Holland & Knight
200 South Orange Avenue
Suite 2600
Orlando, FL 32801

jamie.moses@hklaw.com		(407) 244-5103
Party name: Cheryl Juaire, Tiffinee Scott, Dede Yoder, Kathleen Scarpone, Stephanie Lubinski, Lynn Wencus, Gary Carter, Wendy Petrowsky, Kara Trainor, Kathleen Strain, Lindsey Arrington, Shannie Jenkins, Kerri Morales, C.R. Foster, and Robert Prochno
Jeffrey Nathan Pomerantz
    Counsel of Record		Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones
10100 Santa Monica Blvd, Suite 1300
Los Angeles, CA 90067

jpomerantz@pszjlaw.com		(310) 772-2336
Party name: Highland Capital Management, L.P.
Douglas Barrett Rosner
    Counsel of Record		Goulston & Storrs, P.C.
400 Atlantic Avenue
Boston, MA 02110

drosner@goulstonstorrs.com		617-5746517
Party name: The Commercial Law League of America and The National Bankruptcy Venue Reform Committee
Jennifer Lynne Shelfer
    Counsel of Record		Arnall Golden Gregory LLP
2100 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Suite 350S
Washington, DC 20037

jennifer.shelfer@agg.com		(202) 677-4030
Party name: The Recovery Advocacy Project, the Kennedy Forum, End Overdose, and Team Sharing Inc.
Andrew C. Simpson
    Counsel of Record		Andrew C Simpson, PC
2191 Church street
Ste 5
Christiansted, VI 00820

asimpson@coralbrief.com		3407193900
Party name: Atlantic Basin Refining, Inc.
Rupa Gupta Singh
    Counsel of Record		Niddrie Addams Fuller Singh LLP
501 West Broadway, Suite 800
San Diego, CA 92101

rsingh@appealfirm.com		858.699.7278
Party name: Kim Harold Peterson
Daniel R. Walfish
    Counsel of Record		Katsky Korins LLP
605 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10158

dwalfish@katskykorins.com		212-716-3293
Party name: Adam J. Levitin
Paul Howard Zumbro
    Counsel of Record		Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Worldwide Plaza--825 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10019

pzumbro@cravath.com		2124741000
Party name: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York

 

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