No. 12-1281
Title:
National Labor Relations Board, Petitioner
v.
Noel Canning, et al.
Docketed:April 25, 2013
Linked with 13A209
Lower Ct:United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
  Case Nos.:(12-1115)
  Decision Date:January 25, 2013
Questions Presented

~~~Date~~~ ~~~~~~~Proceedings  and  Orders~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Apr 25 2013 Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 28, 2013)
May 13 2013 Brief of respondent International Brotherhood of Teamster Local 760 in support filed.
May 23 2013 Brief of respondent Noel Canning filed.
May 23 2013 Brief amicus curiae of Coalition for a Democratic Workplace filed.
May 28 2013 Brief amicus curiae of Constitutional Accountability Center filed.
May 28 2013 Brief amicus curiae of Professor Victor Williams filed.
May 28 2013 Brief amici curiae of Senate Republican Leader, Mitch McConnell, et al. filed.
Jun 4 2013 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of June 20, 2013.
Jun 6 2013 Reply of petitioner National Labor Relations Board filed. (Distributed)
Jun 24 2013 Petition GRANTED In addition to the questions presented by the petition, the parties are directed to brief and argue the following question: Whether the President's recess-appointment power may be exercised when the Senate is convening every three days in pro forma sessions.
Jul 12 2013 The time to file the joint appendix and petitioner's brief on the merits is extended to and including September 13, 2013.
Jul 12 2013 The time to file respondents' brief on the merits is extended to and including November 18, 2013.
Aug 26 2013 Application (13A209) to exceed the word limits of the parties briefs on the merits, submitted to The Chief Justice.
Aug 28 2013 Application (13A209) granted by The Chief Justice to exceed the word limits of the parties briefs on the merits. provided that each opening brief does not exceed 18,000 words, and that the reply brief does not exceed 7,200 words.
Sep 3 2013 Consent to the filing of amicus curiae briefs in support of either party or neither party received from counsel for the respondent International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 760.
Sep 12 2013 Consent to the filing of amicus curiae briefs, in support of either party or neither party, received from counsel for petitioner National Labor Relations Board.
Sep 13 2013 Brief of petitioner NLRB filed.
Sep 13 2013 Motion to dispense with printing the joint appendix filed by petitioner NLRB.
Sep 13 2013 Brief of respondent International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 760 in support of the petitioner filed.
Sep 20 2013 Brief amicus curiae of The Brennan Center for Justice filed.
Sep 20 2013 Brief amicus curiae of Constitutional Accountability Center filed.
Sep 20 2013 Brief amicus curiae of Professor Victor Williams filed.
Oct 7 2013 Motion to dispense with printing the joint appendix filed by petitioner GRANTED.
Nov 4 2013 SET FOR ARGUMENT ON Monday, January 13, 2014.
Nov 5 2013 CIRCULATED
Nov 12 2013 Consent to the filing of amicus curiae briefs, in support of either party or of neither party, received from counsel for Noel Canning.
Nov 18 2013 Brief of respondent Noel Canning filed. (Distributed)
Nov 19 2013 Record from the U.S.C.A. District of Columbia Circuit is electronic and located on PACER.
Nov 21 2013 Brief amicus curiae of Landmark Legal Foundation filed.
Nov 22 2013 Brief amicus curiae of Southeastern Legal Foundation filed. (Distributed)
Nov 25 2013 Administrative record received from the National Labor Relations Board. (1Box)
Nov 25 2013 Brief amici curiae of Senate Parliamentary Experts Robert B. Dove and Martin B. Gold filed. (Distributed)
Nov 25 2013 Brief amicus curiae of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, John Boehner filed.
Nov 25 2013 Brief amici curiae of Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Nov 25 2013 Brief amicus curiae of Daycon Products Company, Inc. filed. (Distributed)
Nov 25 2013 Brief amici curiae of Citizens United, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Nov 25 2013 Brief amicus curiae of International Longshore and Warehouse Union filed. (Distributed)
Nov 25 2013 Brief amicus curiae of American Civil Rights Union filed. (Distributed)
Nov 25 2013 Brief amici curiae of Constitutional Law Scholars filed. (Distributed)
Nov 25 2013 Brief amicus curiae of Cato Institute filed. (Distributed)
Nov 25 2013 Brief amici curiae of Originalist Scholars filed. (Distributed)
Nov 25 2013 Brief amici curiae of Political Scientists and Historians filed. (Distributed)
Nov 25 2013 Brief amicus curiae of Council on Labor Law Equality filed. (Distributed)
Nov 25 2013 Brief amici curiae of Alabama, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Nov 25 2013 Brief amicus curiae of Independence Institute filed. (Distributed)
Nov 25 2013 Brief amici curiae of Judicial Watch, Inc., et al. filed. (Distributed)
Nov 25 2013 Brief amicus curiae of National Federation of Independent Business Small Business Legal Center filed. (Distributed)
Nov 25 2013 Brief amicus curiae of Mountain States Legal Foundation filed. (Distributed)
Nov 25 2013 Brief amici curiae of Brian W. Bulger, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Nov 25 2013 Brief amici curiae of Atlantic Legal Foundation, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Nov 25 2013 Brief amici curiae of State National Bank of Big Spring, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Nov 25 2013 Brief amici curiae of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and 44 Other Members of the United States Senate filed. (Distributed)
Nov 25 2013 Brief amicus curiae of Professor Tuan Samahon filed. (Distributed)
Nov 25 2013 Motion of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and 44 Other Members of the United States Senate for leave to participate in oral argument as amici curiae, for divided argument, and for additional argument time filed.
Nov 25 2013 Brief amici curiae of National Right to Work Legal Defense and Education Foundation, Inc., and Jeanette Geary. filed. (Distributed)
Nov 25 2013 Motion of Professor Victor Williams for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument filed.
Nov 25 2013 Response of Noel Canning, et al. to motion of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, et al. for leave to participate in oral argument as amici curiae, for divided argument, and for additional argument time filed.
Dec 9 2013 Motion of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, et al., for leave to participate in oral argument as amici curiae and for divided argument GRANTED, the time is to be divided as follows: 45 minutes for petitioner, 30 minutes for respondent Noel Canning, and 15 minutes for amici curiae Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, et al.,
Dec 9 2013 Motion of Professor Victor Williams for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument DENIED.
Dec 13 2013 Letter received from counsel of record for amicus for The Brennan Center for Justice. (Distributed).
Dec 18 2013 Reply of petitioner National Labor Relations Board filed. (Distributed)
Dec 18 2013 Reply of respondent International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 760 in support of petitioner filed. (Distributed)
Jan 13 2014 Argued. For petitioner: Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. For respondents: Noel J. Francisco, Washington, D. C.; and Miguel A. Estrada, Washington, D. C. (for Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, et al., as amici curiae).
Jun 26 2014 Adjudged to be AFFIRMED. Breyer, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Kennedy, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan, JJ., joined. Scalia, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, in which Roberts, C. J., and Thomas and Alito, JJ., joined.
Jul 28 2014 JUDGMENT ISSUED.
Jul 28 2014 Record returned for U.S.C.A. for District of Columbia Circuit.



~~Name~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~    ~~~~~~~Address~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   ~~Phone~~~
Attorneys for Petitioner:
Donald B. Verrilli Jr. 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: NLRB
Attorneys for Respondents:
James B. Coppess American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations(202) 637-5337
    Counsel of Record815 Sixteenth Street, NW
Washington, DC  20006
jcoppess@aflcio.org
Party name: International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 760
 
Noel J. Francisco Jones Day(202) 879-3939
    Counsel of Record51 Louisiana Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC  20001
njfrancisco@jonesday.com
Party name: Noel Canning
Other:
Brian Wegg Bulger Meckler Bulger Tilson Marick & Pearson LLP(312) 474-7900
Suite 1800
123 North Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL  60606
brian.bulger@mbtlaw.com
Party name: Brian W. Bulger, et al.
 
William S. Consovoy Wiley Rein LLP(202) 719-7000
1776 K Street, NW
Washington, DC  20006
wconsovoy@wileyrein.com
Party name: Atlantic Legal Foundation, et al.
 
Miguel A. Estrada Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP(202) 955-8500
1050 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC  20036
mestrada@gibsondunn.com
Party name: Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and 44 Other Members of the United States Senate
 
Peter J. Ferrara 2011 Freedom Lane(703) 582-8466
Falls Church, VA  22043
peterferrara@msn.com
Party name: American Civil Rights Union
 
Sean R. Gallagher Polsinelli Shughart PC(303) 572-9300
1515 Wynkoop St., Suite 600
Denver, CO  80202
sgallagher@polsinelli.com
Party name: Independence Institute
 
Shannon Lee Goessling Southeastern Legal Foundation, Inc.(770) 977-2131
2255 Sewell Mill Rd., Suite 320
Marietta, GA  30062
shannon@southeasternlegal.org
Party name: Southeastern Legal Foundation
 
Allyson N. Ho Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP(214) 466-4000
1717 Main Street Suite 3200
Dallas, TX  75201
aho@morganlewis.com
Party name: Political Scientists and Historians
 
Richard P. Hutchison Landmark Legal Foundation(816) 931-5559
3100 Broadway
Suite 1210
Kansas City, MO  64111
rpetehutch@aol.com
Party name: Landmark Legal Foundation
 
Jay Paul Krupin BakerHostetler LLP(202) 861-1700
1050 Connecticut Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC  20036
jkrupin@bakerlaw.com
Party name: Daycon Products Company, Inc.
 
Steven J. Lechner Mountain States Legal Foundation(303) 292-2021
2596 South Lewis Way
Lakewood, CO  80227
lechner@mountainstateslegal.com
Party name: Mountain States Legal Foundation
 
Michael W. McConnell 559 Nathan Abbott Way(650) 736-1326
Stanford, CA  94305
mcconnell@law.stanford.edu
Party name: Constitutional Law Scholars
 
John C. Neiman Jr. Solicitor General(334) 242-7300
Office of the Alabama Attorney General
501 Washington Avenue
Montgomery, AL  36104
jneiman@ago.state.al.us
Party name: Alabama, et al.
 
Thomas H. Odom 646 Lenape Road (888) 313-0416
Bechtelsville, PA  19505
todom@princelaw.com
Party name: National Right to Work Legal Defense and Education Foundation, Inc., and Jeanette Geary.
 
William J. Olson William J.Olson PC(703) 356-5070
370 Maple Avenue West, Suite 4
Vienna, VA  22180-5615
wjo@mindspring.com
Party name: Citizens United, et al.
 
Paul J. Orfanedes Judicial Watch, Inc.(202) 646-5172
425 Third Street, S.W., Suite 800
Washington, DC  20024
porfanedes@judicialwatch.org
Party name: Judicial Watch, Inc., et al.
 
Michael D. Ramsey University of San Diego School of Law(619) 260-4145
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA  92110
mramsey@sandiego.edu
Party name: Originalist Scholars
 
Robert Steven Remar 1188 Franklin Street, Suite 201(415) 771-6400
San Francisco, CA  94109-6839
rremar@leonardcarder.com
Party name: International Longshore and Warehouse Union
 
Sidney S. Rosdeitcher Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP(212) 373-3000
1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY  10019-6064
srosdeitcher@paulweiss.com
Party name: The Brennan Center for Justice
 
Tuan Naim Samahon Professor of Law(610)-519-7088
Faculty Office 338
Villanova University School of Law
299 North Spring Mill Road
Villanova, PA  19085
tsamahon@law.villanova.edu
Party name: Professor Tuan Samahon
 
D. John Sauer Clark & Sauer LLC(314)-332-2980
7733 Forsyth Blvd., Suite 625
St. Louis, MO  63105
jsauer@clarksauer.com
Party name: Senate Parliamentary Experts Robert B. Dove and Martin B. Gold
 
Jay Alan Sekulow American Center for Law & Justice(202) 546-8890
201 Maryland Ave., N.E.
Washington, DC  20002
sekulow@aclj.org
Party name: Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, John Boehner
 
Ilya Shapiro Cato Institute(202) 842-0200
1000 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC  20001
ishapiro@cato.org
Party name: Cato Institute
 
Arthur B. Smith Jr. 155 North Wacker Dr., Suite 4300(312) 807-3619
Chicago, IL  60606
arthur.smith@odnss.com
Party name: Council on Labor Law Equality
 
Mark E. Solomons Greenberg Traurig LLP(202) 533-2362
2101 L Street, N.W.
Suite 1000
Washington, DC  20037
Solomonsm@gtlaw.com
Party name: National Federation of Independent Business Small Business Legal Center
 
Mark T. Stancil Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck Untereiner & Sauber, LLP(202) 775-4500
1801 K Street, N.W., Suite 411L
Washington, DC  20006
mstancil@robbinsrussell.com
Party name: Coalition for a Democratic Workplace
 
Adam Jeffrey White Boyden Gray & Associates(202) 955-0620
1627 I Street, NW, Suite 950
Washington, DC  20006
adam@boydengrayassociates.com
Party name: State National Bank of Big Spring, et al.
 
Victor Keith Williams Columbus School of Law(202)-319-5559
Catholic University of America
Washington, DC  20064
williamv@law.edu
Party name: Professor Victor Williams
 
Elizabeth B. Wydra Constitutional Accountability Center(202) 296-6889
1200 18th St., N.W., Suite 501
Washington, DC  20036
elizabeth@theusconstitution.org
Party name: Constitutional Accountability Center