| No. 08-322 | ||||
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| Docketed: | September 10, 2008 | |||
| Linked with 08A855 | ||||
| Lower Ct: | United States District Court for the District of Columbia | |||
| Case Nos.: | (06-1384) |
| Decision Date: | May 30, 2008 |
| Questions Presented |
| ~~~Date~~~ | ~~~~~~~Proceedings and Orders~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| Sep 8 2008 | Statement as to jurisdiction filed. (Response due October 10, 2008) |
| Sep 30 2008 | Order extending time to file response to jurisdictional statement to and including November 10, 2008, for all appellees. |
| Oct 10 2008 | Brief amicus curiae of Mountain States Legal Foundation filed. |
| Nov 4 2008 | Order further extending time to file response to the jurisdictional statement to and including November 24, 2008, for all appellees. |
| Nov 18 2008 | Order further extending time to file response to petition to and including November 26, 2008, for all appellees. |
| Nov 26 2008 | Motion to affirm filed by appellee Michael B. Mukasey, Attorney General. |
| Nov 26 2008 | Motion to affirm filed by appellees Intervenor-Appellees Texas State Conference of NAACP, et al. |
| Dec 9 2008 | Reply of appellant Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One filed. (Distributed) TBP |
| Dec 10 2008 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of January 9, 2009. |
| Jan 9 2009 | PROBABLE JURISDICTION NOTED The brief of appellant is to be filed on or before Thursday, February 19, 2009. The brief of appellees is to be filed on or before Wednesday, March 18, 2009. A reply brief, if any, is to be filed in accordance with Rule 25.3 of the Rules of this Court. |
| Jan 21 2009 | Consent to the filing of amicus briefs, in support of either party or neither party, received from counsel for all intervenor-appellees (other than the Attorney General of the United States). |
| Jan 23 2009 | Consent to the filing of amicus briefs, in support of either party or neither party, received from counsel for the appellant. |
| Jan 29 2009 | Consent to the filing of amicus briefs, in support of either party or neither party, received from counsel for the Diaz Intervenor-Appellees. |
| Feb 19 2009 | Joint appendix filed. (Statement of costs filed) |
| Feb 19 2009 | Brief of appellant Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One filed. |
| Feb 23 2009 | SET FOR ARGUMENT ON Wednesday, April 29, 2009. |
| Feb 25 2009 | Brief amicus curiae of Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation Goldwater Institute filed. |
| Feb 26 2009 | Brief amici curiae of Dr. Abigail Thernstrom and Former Justice Department Officials filed. |
| Feb 26 2009 | Brief amicus curiae of Honorable Bob Riley, Governor of Alabama in support of neither party filed. |
| Feb 26 2009 | Brief amici curiae of Nathaniel Persily, Stephen Ansolabehere, and Charles Stewart III in support of neither party filed. |
| Feb 26 2009 | Brief amicus curiae of Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue filed. |
| Feb 26 2009 | Brief amici curiae of Pacific Legal Foundation, et al. filed. |
| Feb 26 2009 | Brief amicus curiae of Mountain States Legal Foundation filed. |
| Feb 26 2009 | Brief amicus curiae of the Southeastern Legal Foundation filed. |
| Mar 9 2009 | Record from the U.S.D.C. for the District of Columbia is electronically filed. |
| Mar 13 2009 | DISTRIBUTED. |
| Mar 18 2009 | Brief of appellee Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General filed. (Distributed) |
| Mar 18 2009 | Brief of appellees Intervenors-Appellees Rodney and Nicole Louis, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
| Mar 18 2009 | Brief of appellees Intervenor-Appellees Texas State Conference of NAACP, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
| Mar 18 2009 | Brief of appellee Travis County filed. (Distributed) |
| Mar 19 2009 | Letter from counsel for Intervenors-Appellees Rodney and Nicole Louis, et al. proposing to lodge copies of letters issued by the U.S. Department of Justice. |
| Mar 25 2009 | Brief amicus curiae of Civil Rights Clinic at Howard University School of Law filed. (Distributed) |
| Mar 25 2009 | Brief amicus curiae of Constitutional Accountability Center filed. (Distributed) |
| Mar 25 2009 | Brief amici curiae of Members of the Texas House of Representatives filed. (Distributed). |
| Mar 25 2009 | Brief amicus curiae of Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law filed. (Distributed) |
| Mar 25 2009 | Brief amicus curiae of American Bar Association filed. (Distributed) |
| Mar 25 2009 | Motion for divided argument filed by appellees Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General. |
| Mar 25 2009 | Brief amici curiae of Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
| Mar 25 2009 | Brief amici curiae of Alaska Native Voters and Tribes filed. (Distributed) |
| Mar 25 2009 | Brief amici curiae of Former Republican Officeholders filed. (Distributed) |
| Mar 25 2009 | Brief amici curiae of North Carolina, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
| Mar 25 2009 | Brief amici curiae of Asian American Justice Center, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
| Mar 25 2009 | Brief amici curiae of Navajo Nation, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
| Mar 25 2009 | Brief amici curiae of Jurisdictions That Have Bailed Out Under the Voting Rights Act filed. (Distributed) |
| Mar 25 2009 | Brief amici curiae of Julius Chambers, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
| Mar 25 2009 | Brief amici curiae of Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, et al. filed. |
| Mar 25 2009 | Brief amici curiae of Reps. John Conyers, Jr., et al. filed. (Distributed) |
| Mar 25 2009 | Brief amici curiae of Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
| Mar 25 2009 | Brief amicus curiae of Honorable Congressman John Lewis filed. |
| Mar 25 2009 | Brief amici curiae of Barbara Lee, Member of Congress, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
| Mar 30 2009 | Application (08A855) for leave to file appellant's reply brief on the merits in excess of the word limitation, submitted to The Chief Justice. |
| Apr 1 2009 | Application (08A855) denied by The Chief Justice. |
| Apr 3 2009 | Motion for divided argument filed by respondent GRANTED. |
| Apr 15 2009 | Reply of appellant Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One filed. (Distributed) |
| Apr 29 2009 | Argued. For appellant: Gregory S. Coleman, Austin, Tex. For appellee Holder: Neal K. Katyal, Deputy Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. For intervenor-appellees: Debo P. Adegbile, New York, N.Y. |
| Jun 22 2009 | Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED. Roberts, C. J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Stevens, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Alito, JJ., joined. Thomas, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment in part and dissenting in part. |
| Jul 24 2009 | JUDGMENT ISSUED. |
| ~~Name~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | ~~~~~~~Address~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | ~~Phone~~~ |
| Attorneys for Appellant: | ||
| Gregory S. Coleman | Yetter Coleman LLP | (512) 533-0150 |
| Counsel of Record | 221 West Sixth Street, Suite 750 | |
| Austin, TX 78701 | ||
| gcoleman@yettercoleman.com | ||
| Party name: Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One | ||
| Attorneys for Appellees: | ||
| Debo P. Adegbile | NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. | (212) 965-2249 |
| Counsel of Record | 99 Hudson Street, 16th Floor. | |
| New York, NY 10013 | ||
| dadegbile@naacpldf.org | ||
| Party name: Intervenors-Appellees Rodney and Nicole Louis, et al. | ||
| Renea Hicks | Law Office of Renea Hicks | (512) 480-8231 |
| Counsel of Record | 101 West 6th Street, Suite 504 | |
| Austin, TX 78701 | ||
| rhicks@renea-hicks.com | ||
| Party name: Travis County | ||
| Elena Kagan | Solicitor General | (202) 514-2217 |
| Counsel of Record | United States Department of Justice | |
| 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. | ||
| Washington, DC 20530-0001 | ||
| SupremeCtBriefs@USDOJ.gov | ||
| Party name: Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General | ||
| Paul R.Q. Wolfson | Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP | (202) 663-6390 |
| Counsel of Record | 1875 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. | |
| Washington, DC 20006 | ||
| paul.wolfson@wilmerhale.com | ||
| Party name: Intervenor-Appellees Texas State Conference of NAACP, et al. | ||
| Nina Perales | Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund | (210) 224-5476 |
| 110 Broadway, Suite 300 | ||
| San Antonio, TX 78205 | ||
| nperales@maldef.org | ||
| Party name: Intervenor Appellees David Diaz, Lisa Diaz, and Gabriel Diaz | ||
| Other: | ||
| Samuel R. Bagenstos | 405 Hilgard Avenue | (310) 267-4728 |
| Los Angeles, CA 90025 | ||
| Party name: Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, et al. | ||
| Lynn E. Blais | 727 East Dean Keeton Street | (512)-232-1334 |
| Austin, TX 78705 | ||
| Party name: Members of the Texas House of Representatives | ||
| Sharon L. Browne | Pacific Legal Foundation | (916) 419-7111 |
| 930 G Street | ||
| Sacramento, CA 95814 | ||
| slb@pacificlegal.org | ||
| Party name: Pacific Legal Foundation, et al. | ||
| Christopher G. Browning Jr. | Solicitor General | (919) 716-6900 |
| North Carolina Department of Justice | ||
| P.O. Box 629 | ||
| 114 West Edenton Street | ||
| Raleigh, NC 27602-0629 | ||
| CBrowning@ncdoj.gov | ||
| Party name: North Carolina, et al. | ||
| Juan Cartagena | Community Service Society | (212) 614-5462 |
| 105 East 22 Street | ||
| New York, NY 10010 | ||
| Party name: Barbara Lee, Member of Congress, et al. | ||
| Michael A. Carvin | Jones Day | (202) 879-3939 |
| 51 Louisiana Avenue, N.W. | ||
| Washington, DC 20001 | ||
| macarvin@jonesday.com | ||
| Party name: Dr. Abigail Thernstrom and Former Justice Department Officials | ||
| Theodore K. Cheng | Proskauer Rose LLP | (212) 969-3000 |
| 1585 Broadway | ||
| New York, NY 10036-8299 | ||
| Party name: Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, et al. | ||
| Marvin S. Cohen | Sacks Tierney PA | (480) 425-2600 |
| 4250 N. Drinkwater Blvd. | ||
| Fourth Floor | ||
| Scottsdale, AZ 85251 | ||
| Party name: Navajo Nation, et al. | ||
| J. Scott Detamore | Mountain States Legal Foundation | (303) 292-2021 |
| 2596 South Lewis Way | ||
| Lakewood, CO 80227 | ||
| detamore@mountainstateslegal.com | ||
| Party name: Mountain States Legal Foundation | ||
| Nicholas C. Dranias | Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation | (602)-462-5000 |
| Goldwater Institute | ||
| 500 East Coronado Rd. | ||
| Phoenix, AZ 85004 | ||
| ndranias@goldwaterinstitute.org | ||
| Party name: Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation Goldwater Institute | ||
| Aderson B. Francois | Associate Professor of Law | (202) 806-8065 |
| Supervising Attorney Civil Rights Clinic | ||
| Howard University School of Law | ||
| 2900 Van Ness Street NW | ||
| Washington, DC 20008 | ||
| Afrancois@law.howard.edu | ||
| Party name: Civil Rights Clinic at Howard University School of Law | ||
| Shannon Lee Goessling | Southeastern Legal Foundation, Inc. | (770) 977-2131 |
| 2255 Sewell Mill Road | ||
| Suite 320 | ||
| Marietta, GA 30062 | ||
| shannon@southeasternlegal.org | ||
| Party name: Southeastern Legal Foundation | ||
| J. Gerald Hebert | The Campaign Legal Center | (202) 736-2200 |
| 215 E Street, NE | ||
| Washington, DC 20002 | ||
| ghebert@campaignlegalcenter.org | ||
| Party name: Jurisdictions That Have Bailed Out Under the Voting Rights Act | ||
| Matthew Michael Hoffman | Goodwin Proctor LLP | (202)-346-4000 |
| 901 New York Avenue N.W. | ||
| Washington, DC 20001 | ||
| Party name: Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, 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: Reps. John Conyers, et al. | ||
| William D. Kissinger | Bingham McCutchen LLP | (415)-393-2850 |
| Three Embarcadero Center | ||
| San Francisco, CA 94111 | ||
| william.kissinger@bingham.com | ||
| Party name: Julius Chambers, et al. | ||
| Anne W. Lewis | Strickland Brockington Lewis LLP | (678) 347-2200 |
| 1170 Peachtree NE | ||
| Suite 2000 | ||
| Atlanta, GA 30309 | ||
| Party name: Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue | ||
| Corey L. Maze | Solicitor General | (334) 353-4336 |
| Office of the Attorney General | ||
| 500 Dexter Avenue | ||
| Montgomery, AL 36130 | ||
| cmaze@ago.state.al.us | ||
| Party name: Honorable Bob Riley, Governor of Alabama in support of neither party | ||
| Nathaniel Persily | Columbia Law School | (212)-854-8379 |
| 435 W. 116th Street | ||
| New York, NY 10027 | ||
| Party name: Nathaniel Persily, Stephen Ansolabehere, and Charles Stewart III in support of neither party | ||
| Trevor Potter | Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered | (202) 862-5092 |
| 1 Thomas Circle, N.W., Suite 1100 | ||
| Washington, DC 20036 | ||
| tpotter@capdale.com | ||
| Party name: Former Republican Officeholders | ||
| Allegra R. Rich | Seyfarth Shaw LLP | (202) 463-2400 |
| 975 f Street, NW | ||
| Washington, DC 20004 | ||
| arich@seyfarth.com | ||
| Party name: Asian American Justice Center, et al. | ||
| Clifford M. Sloan | Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP | (202) 371-7000 |
| 1440 New York Avenue, N.W. | ||
| Washington, DC 20005 | ||
| cliff.sloan@skadden.com | ||
| Party name: Constitutional Accountability Center | ||
| Paul M. Smith | Jenner & Block LLP | (202) 639-6000 |
| 1099 New York Avenue, N.W. | ||
| Suite 900 | ||
| Washington, DC 20001 | ||
| psmith@jenner.com | ||
| Party name: Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law | ||
| James Thomas Tucker | Native American Rights Fund | (907) 276-0680 |
| 801 B Street, Suite 401 | ||
| Anchorage, AK 99501 | ||
| Party name: Alaska Native Voters and Tribes | ||
| H. Thomas Wells Jr. | President | (312) 988-5000 |
| American Bar Association | ||
| 321 N. Clark Street | ||
| Chicago, IL 60654 | ||
| Party name: American Bar Association | ||