Acknowledgement of receipt (07/26/07) of judgment from Clerk, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit received.

JUDGMENT ISSUED.

Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED. Stevens, J., announced the judgment of the Court and delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I, II-B, III and IV, in which Roberts, C.J., and Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Alito, JJ.,

Argued. For petitioner: Maureen Mahoney, Washington, D.C.; and Dan Himmelfarb, Assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (for United States, as amicus curiae.) For respondent: James F. Blumstein, Nashville, Tenn.

Record received from U.S.D.C. Middle District of Tennessee (Nashville). (5 boxes)

Motion of Association of Christian Schools International for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument DENIED. (orders list)

Reply of ACSI to petitioner's opposition filed.

Reply of petitioner Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association filed. (Distributed)

Opposition of petitioner to motion of ACSI for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument.

Motion of Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument filed.

Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument GRANTED. (orders list)

Brief of respondent Brentwood Academy filed. (Distributed)

Brief amici curiae of Center for Education Reform and Excellent Education for Everyone filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of Tennessee Lawyers' Association for Women filed. (Distributed).

Brief amici curiae of National Alliance for Public Charter School, et al. filed. (Distributed).

Brief amici curiae of National Association of Independent Schools, et al. filed. (Distributed).

Brief amicus curiae of Institute for Justice filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of Association of Christian Schools International filed. (Distributed)

Brief amici curiae of Roman Catholic Diocese of Nashville, Tennessee and Father Ryan High School filed. (Distributed)

Brief amici curiae of Brentwood Academy Parents, et al. filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of Bridges Academy, Nashville Tennessee filed. (Distributed)

Brief amici curiae of National Women's Law Center, et al. filed. (Distributed)

Consent to the filing of amicus briefs in support of either party received from counsel for the respondent.

Record received from U.S.C.A. for 6th Circuit. (1 binder)

CIRCULATED.

Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument filed.

Brief amicus curiae of National School Boards Association filed.

Brief amicus curiae of United States filed.

Joint appendix filed.

Brief of petitioner Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association filed.

Brief amici curiae of Boyd-Buchanan School, et al. filed.

Brief amicus curiae of National Federation of State High School Associations filed.

Brief amicus curiae of National Collegiate Athletic Association filed.

Brief amici curiae of Arizona Interscholastic Association, Inc. et al. filed.

SET FOR ARGUMENT ON Wednesday, April 18, 2007.

Petition GRANTED. (orders list)

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of January 5, 2007.

Reply of petitioner Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association filed.

Brief amicus curiae of National Federation of State High School Associations filed.

Brief of respondent Brentwood Academy in opposition filed.

Brief amici curiae of Colorado High School Activities Association, et al. filed.

Brief amici curiae of Michigan High School Athletic Association, et al. filed.

Consent to the timely filing of amicus briefs in support of either party received from counsel for the petitioner.

Order further extending time to file response to petition to and including November 30, 2006.

Order extending time to file response to petition to and including November 27, 2006.

Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 26, 2006)

Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association, Petitioner, represented by Maureen E. Mahoney

Brentwood Academy, Respondent, represented by H. Lee Barfield

Brentwood Academy, Respondent, represented by James F. Blumstein

Association of Christian Schools International, Amicus Curiae, represented by Floyd Abrams

Boyd-Buchanan School, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by W. Lee Maddux

Brentwood Academy Parents, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Robert M. Bastress Jr.

Bridges Academy, Nashville Tennessee, Amicus Curiae, represented by Christopher D. Kratovil

Center for Education Reform and Excellent Education for Everyone, Amicus Curiae, represented by Martin S. Kaufman

Institute for Justice, Amicus Curiae, represented by Andrew G. McBride

Interscholastic Association, Inc., et al.Colorado High School Activities Association, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by James B. Gessford

Michigan High School Athletic Association, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Edmund J. Sikorski Jr.

National Alliance for Public Charter School, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Christopher P. Ferragamo

National Association of Independent Schools, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Sheldon Steinbach

National Collegiate Athletic Association, Amicus Curiae, represented by William C. Odle

National Federation of State High School Associations, Amicus Curiae, represented by William E. Quirk

National School Boards Association, Amicus Curiae, represented by Pamela S. Karlan

National Women's Law Center, Amicus Curiae, represented by Virginia A. Seitz

Roman Catholic Diocese of Nashville, Tennessee and Father Ryan High School, Amicus Curiae, represented by William Bradford Reynolds

Tennessee Lawyers' Association for Women, Amicus Curiae, represented by Linda Carver Whitlow Knight

Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association v. Brentwood Academy, Amicus Curiae, represented by Dan Himmelfarb

United States, Amicus Curiae, represented by Paul D. Clement