Acknowledgement of receipt (08/04/08) of judgment from Clerk, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit received.

JUDGMENT ISSUED.

Judgment REVERSED. Roberts, C. J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, and Alito, JJ., joined, and in which Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer, JJ., joined as to Part II. Ginsburg, J., filed an opinion concurring in (orders list)

Letter dated April 22, 2008 received from counsel for the respondent. (Distributed).

Argued. For petitioner: Paul A. Banker, Minneapolis, Minn. For respondents: David C. Frederick, Washington, D.C.; and Curtis E. Gannon, Assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (for United States, as amicus curiae.)

Record for the U.S.D.C. for the District of South Dakota is electronically filed.

Reply of petitioner Plains Commerce Bank filed. (Distributed)

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

Brief amici curiae of National Network to End Domestic Violence, et al. filed. (Distributed)

Brief amici curiae of National Congress of American Indians, et al. filed. (Distributed)

Brief amici curiae of National American Indian Court Judges Association, et al. filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of United States filed. (Distributed)

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

Brief of respondents Long Family Land and Cattle Company, Inc., et al. filed.

CIRCULATED.

Record received from the U.S.C.A. for the 8th Circuit. (1 envelope)

Brief amici curiae of Idaho County and Lewis County, Idaho, and Cass County and Mahnomen County, Minnesota filed.

Brief amicus curiae of Association of American Railroads filed.

Brief amici curiae of American Bankers Association, et al. filed.

Brief amicus curiae of Mountain States Legal Foundation filed.

Brief amici curiae of Idaho, et al. filed.

Letter from counsel for the respondents consenting to the filing of amicus curiae briefs in support of either party, or neither party, filed.

Brief of petitioner Plains Commerce Bank filed.

Joint appendix filed. (Statement of costs filed)

Letter from counsel for the petitioner consenting to the filing of amicus curiae briefs in support of either party, or neither party filed.

SET FOR ARGUMENT ON Monday, April 14, 2008.

Petition GRANTED. The brief of petitioner is to be filed on or before Thursday, February 14, 2008. The brief of respondents 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 (orders list)

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of January 4, 2008.

Reply of petitioner Plains Commerce Bank filed.

Brief of respondent Long Family Land and Cattle Company, Inc., et al. in opposition filed.

Order extending time to file response to petition to and including November 26, 2007.

Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 26, 2007)

Plains Commerce Bank, Petitioner, represented by Paul A. Banker

Long Family Land and Cattle Company, Inc., et al., Respondent, represented by David C. Frederick

Long Family Land and Cattle Company, Inc., et al., Respondent, represented by James P. Hurley

American Bankers Association, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Brett M. Koenecke

Association of American Railroads, Amicus Curiae, represented by Lynn H. Slade

Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Amicus Curiae, represented by Mark I. Levy

Idaho County and Lewis County, Idaho, and Cass County and Mahnomen County, Minnesota, Amicus Curiae, represented by Scott Gregory Knudson

Idaho, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Clay R. Smith

Mountain States Legal Foundation, Amicus Curiae, represented by J. Scott Detamore

National American Indian Court Judges Association, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by William R. Stein

National Congress of American Indians, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Virginia A. Seitz

National Network to End Domestic Violence, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Fernando R. Laguarda

Plains Commerce Bank v. Long Family Land and Cattle Company, Inc., et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Curtis Gannon

the United States, Amicus Curiae, represented by Gregory G. Garre