| No. 18-525 | |
| Title: | Fort Bend County, Texas, Petitioner v. Lois M. Davis |
| Docketed: | October 19, 2018 |
| Lower Ct: | United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit |
| Case Numbers: | (16-20640) |
| Decision Date: | June 20, 2018 |
| Rehearing Denied: | July 20, 2018 |
| Questions Presented | |
| Date | Proceedings and Orders |
| Oct 18 2018 | Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 19, 2018) |
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| Nov 12 2018 | Motion to extend the time to file a response from November 19, 2018 to December 19, 2018, submitted to The Clerk. |
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| Nov 14 2018 | Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including December 19, 2018. |
| Dec 19 2018 | Brief of respondent Lois Davis in opposition filed. |
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| Dec 21 2018 | Letter waiving the 14-day waiting period under Rule 15.5 filed. |
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| Dec 26 2018 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/11/2019. |
| Dec 26 2018 | Reply of petitioner Fort Bend County filed. (Distributed) |
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| Jan 11 2019 | Petition GRANTED. |
| Jan 29 2019 | Blanket Consent filed by Respondent, Lois Davis. |
| Blanket Consent | |
| Feb 04 2019 | Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, Fort Bend County. |
| Blanket Consent | |
| Feb 11 2019 | SET FOR ARGUMENT on Monday, April 22, 2019 |
| Feb 25 2019 | Brief of petitioner Fort Bend County filed. |
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| Feb 25 2019 | Joint appendix filed. |
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| Feb 27 2019 | Brief amicus curiae of Professor Scott Dodson in support of neither party filed. |
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| Mar 04 2019 | Brief amici curiae of Center for Workplace Compliance, et al. filed. |
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| Mar 04 2019 | Brief amici curiae of National Conference of State Legislatures, et al. filed. |
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| Mar 20 2019 | CIRCULATED |
| Mar 21 2019 | Record requested from the U.S.C.A. 5th Circuit. |
| Mar 27 2019 | Brief of respondent Lois Davis filed. (Distributed) |
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| Apr 03 2019 | Brief amicus curiae of NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. filed. (Distributed) |
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| Apr 03 2019 | Brief amicus curiae of Constitutional Accountability Center filed. (Distributed) |
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| Apr 03 2019 | Brief amicus curiae of United States filed. (Distributed) |
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| Apr 03 2019 | Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument filed. |
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| Apr 03 2019 | Brief amici curiae of National Employment Lawyers Association and The Employee Rights Advocacy Institute for Law & Policy filed. (Distributed) |
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| Apr 12 2019 | Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument GRANTED. |
| Apr 12 2019 | Reply of petitioner Fort Bend County filed. (Distributed) |
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| Apr 22 2019 | Argued. For petitioner: Colleen E. Roh Sinzdak, Washington, D. C. For respondent: Raffi Melkonian, Houston, Tex.; and Jonathan C. Bond, Assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (for United States, as amicus curiae.) |
| Jun 03 2019 | Adjudged to be AFFIRMED. Ginsburg, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court. |
| Jul 05 2019 | JUDGMENT ISSUED. |
| NAME | ADDRESS | PHONE |
| Attorneys for Petitioner | ||
| Colleen Elizabeth Roh Sinzdak Counsel of Record | Hogan Lovells LLP 555 13th Street NW Washington, DC 20004 colleen.sinzdak@hoganlovells.com | 202-637-5600 |
| Party name: Fort Bend County | ||
| Neal Kumar Katyal | Hogan Lovells US LLP 555 Thirteenth St., N.W. Washington, DC 20004 neal.katyal@hoganlovells.com | 202 637 5528 |
| Party name: Fort Bend County | ||
| Attorneys for Respondent | ||
| Raffi Melkonian Counsel of Record | Wright, Close & Barger LLP 1 Riverway, Suite 2200 Houston, TX 77056 melkonian@wrightclose.com | 713-572-4321 |
| Party name: Lois Davis | ||
| Other | ||
| Scott William Dodson Counsel of Record | UC Hastings College of the Law Professor of Law 200 McAlister Street San Francisco, CA 94102 dodson@alumni.duke.edu | 925-285-1445 |
| Party name: Scott Dodson | ||
| Michael L. Foreman Counsel of Record | Penn State Law - Civil Rights Appellate Clinic 329 Innovation Blvd. , Suite 118 University Park, PA 16803 mlf25@psu.edu | 814-865-3832 |
| Party name: National Employment Lawyers Association and The Employee Rights Advocacy Institute for Law & Policy | ||
| Noel J. Francisco | Solicitor General United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001 SupremeCtBriefs@USDOJ.gov | 202-514-2217 |
| Party name: United States of America | ||
| Brianne Jenna Gorod Counsel of Record | Constitutional Accountability Center 1200 18th Street, NW Suite 501 Washington, DC 20036 brianne@theusconstitution.org | 202 296 6889 |
| Party name: Constitutional Accountability Center | ||
| Samuel Spital Counsel of Record | NAACP Legal Defense And Educational Fund, Inc. 40 Rector Street 5th Floor NEW YORK, NY 10006 sspital@naacpldf.org | (212) 965-2200 |
| Party name: NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. | ||
| Collin O'Connor Udell Counsel of Record | Jackson Lewis P.C. 90 State House Square, 8th Floor Hartford, CT 06103-3708 collin.udell@jacksonlewis.com | 8605220404 |
| Party name: NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LEGISLATURES, et al. | ||
| Rae Thiesfield Vann Counsel of Record | NT Lakis, LLP 1501 M Street, NW Suite 1000 Washington, DC 20005 rvann@ntlakis.com | 2026295600 |
| Party name: Center for Workplace Compliance, NFIB Small Business Legal Center, Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, and National Retail Federation | ||