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

Acknowledgement of receipt (07/03/08) of judgment from Clerk, United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama received.

JUDGMENT ISSUED.

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

Argued. For appellant: Kevin C. Newsom, Birmingham, Ala. For appellees: Pamela S. Karlan, Stanford, Cal.; and Kannon K. Shanmugam, Assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (for United States, as amicus curiae.)

Reply of appellant Bob Riley, Governor of Alabama, Appellant filed. (Distributed)

Motion of Florida, et al. for leave to participate in oral argument as amici curiae and for divided argument DENIED. (orders list)

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

Motion of Florida, et al. for leave to participate in oral argument as amici curiae and for divided argument filed.

Brief amicus curiae of NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of United States supporting appellees in part filed. (Distributed)

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

Brief amici curiae of American Civil Liberties Union, et al. filed. (Distributed)

Brief of appellees Yvonne Kennedy, et al. filed. (Distributed)

CIRCULATED.

Record received from the U.S.D.C. for the Middle District of Alabama. (1 box)

SET FOR ARGUMENT ON Monday, March 24, 2008

Brief amici curiae of Florida, et al. filed.

Brief amicus curiae of Project on Fair Representation filed.

Brief amici curiae of Former State Court Justices Charles Fried and Thomas R. Phillips filed.

Brief amici curiae of Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom filed.

Joint appendix filed. (Statement of costs filed)

Brief of appellant Bob Riley, Governor of Alabama, Appellant filed.

Consent to the filing of amicus briefs in support of either party, or neither party, received from counsel for the appellees.

Consent to the filing of amicus curiae briefs in support of either or neither party received from counsel for the appellant.

The time within which to file the joint appendix and petitioner's brief on the merits is extended to and including January 14, 2008.

Further consideration of the question of jurisdiction is POSTPONED to the hearing of the case on the merits.

Reply of appellant Bob Riley, Governor of Alabama, Appellant filed. (Distributed)

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of November 20, 2007.

Motion to dismiss or affirm filed by appellees Yvonne Kennedy, et al.

Order extending time to file response to jurisdictional statement to including October 22, 2007.

Statement as to jurisdiction filed. (Response due August 22, 2007)

Bob Riley, Governor of Alabama, Appellant, Appellant, represented by Kevin C. Newsom

Bob Riley, Governor of Alabama, Appellant, Appellant, represented by Margaret L. Fleming

Yvonne Kennedy, et al., Appellant, represented by Edward Still

Yvonne Kennedy, et al., Appellant, represented by Pamela S. Karlan

Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom, Amicus Curiae, represented by Keith A. Noreika

American Civil Liberties Union, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Laughlin McDonald

Bob Riley, Governor of Alabama, Appellant v. Yvonne Kennedy, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Kannon K. Shanmugam

Florida, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Gene C. Schaerr

Former State Court Justices Charles Fried and Thomas R. Phillips, Amicus Curiae, represented by H. Christopher Bartolomucci

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Amicus Curiae, represented by Jonathan E. Nuechterlein

NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc, Amicus Curiae, represented by Debo P. Adegbile

Project on Fair Representation, Amicus Curiae, represented by Bert W. Rein

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