| No. 19-348 | |
| Title: | St. James School, Petitioner v. Darryl Biel, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Kristen Biel |
| Docketed: | September 17, 2019 |
| Lower Ct: | United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit |
| Case Numbers: | (17-55180) |
| Decision Date: | December 17, 2018 |
| Rehearing Denied: | June 25, 2019 |
| Questions Presented | |
| Date | Proceedings and Orders |
| Sep 16 2019 | Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 17, 2019) |
| PetitionAppendixCertificate of Word CountProof of Service | |
| Sep 27 2019 | Brief amici curiae of Church of God in Christ, Inc. and Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America filed. VIDED |
| Main DocumentCertificate of Word CountProof of Service | |
| Oct 11 2019 | Motion to extend the time to file a response from October 17, 2019 to November 13, 2019, submitted to The Clerk. |
| Main DocumentProof of Service | |
| Oct 16 2019 | Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including November 13, 2019. |
| Oct 16 2019 | Brief amici curiae of Professors Douglas Laycock, et al. filed. |
| Main DocumentCertificate of Word CountProof of Service | |
| Oct 17 2019 | Brief amici curiae of General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, et al. filed. |
| Main DocumentCertificate of Word CountProof of Service | |
| Oct 17 2019 | Brief amicus curiae of Asma T. Uddin filed. |
| Main DocumentCertificate of Word CountProof of Service | |
| Oct 17 2019 | Brief amicus curiae of Stephen Wise Temple filed. |
| Main DocumentCertificate of Word CountProof of Service | |
| Nov 13 2019 | Brief of respondent Darryl Biel in opposition filed. |
| Main DocumentCertificate of Word CountProof of Service | |
| Nov 21 2019 | Waiver of 14-day waiting period for the distribution of the petition under Rule 15.5 filed. |
| Main Document | |
| Nov 22 2019 | Reply of petitioner St. James School filed. |
| Main DocumentCertificate of Word CountProof of Service | |
| Nov 26 2019 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/13/2019. |
| Dec 18 2019 | Petition GRANTED. The petition for a writ of certiorari in No. 19-267 is granted. The cases are consolidated, and a total of one hour is allotted for oral argument. VIDED. |
| Dec 18 2019 | Because the Court has consolidated these cases for briefing and oral argument, future filings and activity in the cases will now be reflected on the docket of No. 19-267. Subsequent filings in these cases must therefore be submitted through the electronic filing system in No. 19-267. Each document submitted in connection with one or more of these cases must include on its cover the case number and caption for each case in which the filing is intended to be submitted. Where a filing is submitted in fewer than all of the cases, the docket entry will reflect the case number(s) in which the filing is submitted; a document filed in all of the consolidated cases will be noted as “VIDED.” |
| Jan 31 2020 | SET FOR ARGUMENT on Wednesday, April 1, 2020. VIDED |
| Feb 19 2020 | CIRCULATED |
| Feb 19 2020 | Record requested from the U.S.C.A. 9th Circuit. |
| Mar 04 2020 | The record from the U.S.C.A. 9th Circuit is electronic and located on Pacer. |
| Mar 16 2020 | ORAL ARGUMENT POSTPONED. VIDED. |
| Apr 13 2020 | Argument to be rescheduled for May 2020. |
| Apr 15 2020 | RESCHEDULED FOR ARGUMENT on Monday, May 11, 2020. VIDED. |
| May 11 2020 | Argued. For petitioners: Eric C. Rassbach, Washington, D. C.; and Morgan L. Ratner, Assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (for United States, as amicus curiae.). For respondents: Jeffrey L. Fisher, Menlo Park, Cal. VIDED. |
| Jul 08 2020 | Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED. Alito, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Thomas, Breyer, Kagan, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh, JJ., joined. Thomas, J., filed a concurring opinion, in which Gorsuch, J., joined. Sotomayor, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Ginsburg, J., joined. VIDED. |
| Aug 10 2020 | JUDGMENT ISSUED. |
| NAME | ADDRESS | PHONE |
| Attorneys for Petitioner | ||
| Eric Christopher Rassbach Counsel of Record | The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty 1200 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Suite 700 Washington, DC 20036 erassbach@becketlaw.org | 2029550095 |
| Party name: St. James School | ||
| Attorneys for Respondent | ||
| Jennifer Anne Lipski Counsel of Record | JML Law, A Professional Law Corporation 5855 Topanga Canyon Boulevard, Suite 300 Woodland Hills, CA 91367 jennifer@jmllaw.com | 818-610-8800 |
| Party name: Darryl Biel | ||
| Other | ||
| Paul D. Clement Counsel of Record | Kirkland & Ellis LLP 1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20004 paul.clement@kirkland.com | 2023895000 |
| Party name: Stephen Wise Temple | ||
| Victoria Dorfman Counsel of Record | Jones Day 51 Louisiana Ave. NW Washington, DC 20001 vdorfman@jonesday.com | (202) 879-3939 |
| Party name: Professors Douglas Laycock, et al. | ||
| Thomas Henderson Dupree Jr. Counsel of Record | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP 1050 Connecticut Ave., NW Washington, DC 20036 tdupree@gibsondunn.com | 202-955-8500 |
| Party name: Church of God in Christ, Inc. and Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America | ||
| Toby Jay Heytens Counsel of Record | Office of the Attorney General 202 North Ninth Street Richmond, VA 23219 SolicitorGeneral@oag.state.va.us | (804) 786-7240 |
| Party name: Virginia, et al. | ||
| Daniel Patrick Kearney Jr. Counsel of Record | Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP 1875 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20006 Daniel.Kearney@wilmerhale.com | 202-663-6000 |
| Party name: Asma T. Uddin | ||
| Eric D. McArthur Counsel of Record | Sidley Austin LLP 1501 K Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20005 emcarthur@sidley.com | (202) 736-8018 |
| Party name: General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty | ||
| Jesse Michael Panuccio Counsel of Record | Boies Schiller Flexner LLP 1401 New York Ave, NW Washington, DC 20005 jpanuccio@bsfllp.com | 202 237 2727 |
| Party name: Senator Mike Lee, et al. | ||
| Zachary Guy Parks Counsel of Record | Covington & Burling LLP 850 Tenth St. NW Washington, DC 20001 zparks@cov.com | 2022850524 |
| Party name: Professor John D. Inazu | ||
| James A. Sonne Counsel of Record | Religious Liberty Clinic, Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way Stanford, CA 94305-8610 jsonne@law.stanford.edu | (650) 723-1422 |
| Party name: National Catholic Educational Association | ||
| Misha Tseytlin Counsel of Record | Troutman Sanders LLP One North Wacker Drive Suite 2905 Chicago, IL 60606 misha.tseytlin@troutman.com | 312-759-5947 |
| Party name: The Association of Classical Christian Schools, et al., | ||
| Heather Lynn Weaver Counsel of Record | Americans United for Separation of Church and Stat 518 C Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 hweaver@aclu.org | 202-675-2330 |
| Party name: The American Civil Liberties Union et al | ||