Record returned to Circuit Court for Washington County Maryland.

Record returned to Court of Appeals of Maryland.

MANDATE ISSUED. (orders list)

Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED. Scalia, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Alito, and Sotomayor, JJ., joined, and in which Thomas, J., joined as to Part III. Thomas, J., filed an opin...

Argued. For petitioner: Douglas F. Gansler, Attorney General, Baltimore, Md.; and Toby J. Heytens, Assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (for United States, as amicus curiae.) For respondent: Celia A. Davis, Assis

Argued. For petitioner: Douglas F. Gansler, Attorney General, Baltimore, Md.; and Toby J. Heytens, Assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (for United States, as amicus curiae.) For respondent: Celia A. Davis, A...

Record received from Circuit Court for Washington County (1 envelope)

Record received from Court of Appeals of Maryland. (1 envelope)

Briefs received from the Court of Appeals of Maryland. (1 envelope)

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

CIRCULATED.

SET FOR ARGUMENT ON Monday, October 5, 2009.

Reply of petitioner Maryland filed.

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

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

Brief of respondent Michael Blaine Shatzer, Sr. filed.

Brief amicus curiae of Criminal Justice Legal Foundation filed.

Brief amici curiae of Florida, et al. filed.

Brief amicus curiae of United States filed.

Joint appendix filed. Statement of costs received.

Brief of petitioner Maryland filed.

The time within which to file respondent's brief on the merits is extended to and including June 1, 2009.

The time within which to file the joint appendix and petitioner's brief on the merits is extended to and including April 13, 2009.

Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed by respondent GRANTED. (orders list)

Petition GRANTED. (orders list)

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of January 23, 2009.

Brief of respondent Michael Blaine Shatzer, Sr. in opposition filed.

Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed by respondent.

Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 24, 2008)

Maryland, Petitioner, represented by Brian Scott Kleinbord

Maryland, Petitioner, represented by Douglas F. Gansler

Maryland, Petitioner, represented by Brian S. Kleinbord

Michael Blaine Shatzer, Sr., Respondent, represented by Celia Anderson Davis

Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, Amicus Curiae, represented by Kent S. Scheidegger

Florida, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Scott D. Makar

Maryland v. Michael Blaine Shatzer, Sr., Amicus Curiae, represented by Toby Jay Heytens

National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Amicus Curiae, represented by Daniel Meron

United States, Amicus Curiae, represented by Elena Kagan