Acknowledgement of receipt (07/28/08) of judgment from Clerk, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit received.

Record returned to the U.S.D.C. for the District of Minnesota.

Record returned to the U.S.C.A. for the 8th Circuit.

JUDGMENT ISSUED.

Judgment VACATED and case REMANDED. Ginsburg, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, and Thomas, JJ., joined. Breyer, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment. Alito, J., filed a dissenting (orders list)

Argued. For petitioner: Amy Howe, Washington, D.C. For United States: Deanne E. Maynard, Assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. For amicus curiae in support of the judgment below: Jay T. Jorgensen, Washington, D.

Reply of respondent United States filed. (Distributed)

Letter from counsel for petitioner received. (Distributed).

Reply of petitioner Michael Greenlaw, aka Mikey filed. (Distributed)

Record received from the U.S.D.C. District of Minnesota. (2 boxes)

Motion for divided argument filed by respondent GRANTED. (orders list)

Brief of Court-Appointed Amicus Curiae In Support of the Judgment Below filed. (Distributed)

The time within which to file the Court appointed brief of amicus curiae in support of the judgment below is extended to and including March 14, 2008.

Motion for divided argument filed by respondent United States.

CIRCULATED.

Brief amicus curiae of National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers filed.

Brief of respondent United States filed.

Brief of petitioner Michael Greenlaw, aka Mikey filed.

Joint appendix filed. (Statement of costs received)

Record received from U.S.C.A. for the 8th Circuit. (1 envelope) A portion of this record is under seal.

SET FOR ARGUMENT ON Tuesday, April 15, 2008.

Jay T. Jorgensen, Esquire, of Washington, D.C., is invited to brief and argue this case, as amicus curiae, in support of the judgment below.

Petition GRANTED. The brief of petitioner is to be filed on or before Thursday, February 14, 2008. The brief of respondent is to be filed on or before Wednesday, March 12, 2008. A reply brief, if any, is to be filed in accordance with Rule 25.3 of the R (orders list)

Reply of petitioner Michael Greenlaw, aka Mikey filed.

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of January 4, 2008.

Brief of respondent United States filed.

Order extending time to file response to petition to and including November 13, 2007.

Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 12, 2007)

Application (07A80) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until September 7, 2007.

Application (07A80) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from August 8, 2007 to September 7, 2007, submitted to Justice Alito.

Michael Greenlaw, aka Mikey, Petitioner, represented by Kevin K. Russell

Michael Greenlaw, aka Mikey, Petitioner, represented by Amy Howe

In Support of the Judgment Below, Respondent, represented by Jay Thomas Jorgensen

United States, Respondent, represented by Gregory G. Garre

United States, Respondent, represented by Deanne E. Maynard

National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Amicus Curiae, represented by Jonathan D. Hacker