Decided

No. 08-861

Free Enterprise Fund and Beckstead and Watts, LLP v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, et al.

from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

See other cases from the District of Columbia Circuit.

Docket Entries

Record returned to U.S.Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

JUDGMENT ISSUED.

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

Argued. For petitioners: Michael A. Carvin, Washington, D.C. For respondent United States: Elena Kagan, Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. For respondents Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, et al.: Jeffrey A. Lamk...

Reply of petitioners Free Enterprise Fund, and Beckstead and Watts, LLP filed. (Distributed)

Motion of the Solicitor General for divided argument GRANTED. (orders list)

Brief amici curiae of Former Chairmen of the Securities and Exchange Commission filed. (Distributed)

Brief amici curiae of Constitutional and Administrative Law Scholars filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of National Association of State Boards of Accountancy filed.(Distributed).

Brief amicus curiae of Center for Audit Quality filed. (Distributed)

Additional Record received from the U.S.C.A. for the District of Columbia. (1 envelope)

Motion for divided argument filed by respondent United States.

Brief amici curiae of Council of Institutional Investors, et al. filed. (Distributed).

Application (09A354) granted by The Chief Justice for an extension of time within which to file petitioner's reply brief on the merits to and including November 23, 2009.

Application (09A354) to extend the time to file a reply brief on the merits from November 12, 2009 to November 25, 2009, submitted to The Chief Justice.

Record received from U.S.C.A. for the D.C. Circuit. (1 box)

Brief of respondent United States filed. (Distributed).

Brief of respondents Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, et al. filed. (Distributed)

CIRCULATED

The time within which to file respondents' briefs on the merits is further extended to and including October 13, 2009.

SET FOR ARGUMENT ON Monday, December 7, 2009.

The time within which to file respondents' briefs on the merits is extended to and including September 29, 2009.

Brief amicus curiae of Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports filed.

Brief amici curiae of William P. Barr, et al. filed.

Brief amici curiae of Law Professors, Steven Calabresi, et al. filed.

Brief amici curiae of Law Professors, Stephen Bainbridge, et al filed.

Brief amici curiae of American Civil Rights Union, et al. filed.

Brief amicus curiae of The Claremont Institute Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence filed.

Brief amici curiae of Law Professors filed.

Brief amici curiae of Cato Institute, et al. filed.

Brief amicus curiae of Mountain States Legal Foundation filed.

Brief amicus curiae of Center for Individual Rights filed.

Joint appendix filed (statment of costs received).

Brief of petitioners Free Enterprise Fund and Beckstead and Watts, LLP filed.

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

The time within which to file the joint appendix and petitioner's brief on the merits is extended to and including July 27, 2009.

Petition GRANTED. (orders list)

Reply of petitioners Free Enterprise Fund, and Beckstead and Watts, LLP filed. (Distributed)

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of May 14, 2009.

Brief of respondent United States in opposition filed.

Brief of respondents Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, et al. in opposition filed.

Order further extending time to file response to petition to and including April 10, 2009, for all respondents.

Brief amicus curiae of American Civil Rights Union filed.

Brief amicus curiae of Mountain States Legal Foundation filed.

Brief amicus curiae of Washington Legal Foundation filed.

Order extending time to file response to petition to and including March 11, 2009, for all respondents.

Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 9, 2009)

Parties

Free Enterprise Fund and Beckstead and Watts, LLP, Petitioner, represented by Michael A. Carvin

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, et al., Respondent, represented by Elena Kagan

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, et al., Respondent, represented by Jeffrey A. Lamken

United States, Respondent, represented by Elena Kagan

Amici Curiae

American Civil Rights Union, Amicus Curiae, represented by Peter J. Ferrara

Cato Institute, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Steffen N. Johnson

Center for Audit Quality, Amicus Curiae, represented by Douglas R. Cox

Center for Individual Rights, Amicus Curiae, represented by Michael E. Rosman

Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports, Amicus Curiae, represented by Kannon K. Shanmugam

Constitutional and Administrative Law Scholars, Amicus Curiae, represented by Caitlin Joan Halligan

Council of Institutional Investors, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Gregory S. Coleman

Former Chairmen of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Amicus Curiae, represented by Richard H. Pildes

Law Professors, Amicus Curiae, represented by Christopher S. Yoo

Mountain States Legal Foundation, Amicus Curiae, represented by William Perry Pendley

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

National Association of State Boards of Accountancy, Amicus Curiae, represented by James R. Doty

Stephen Bainbridge, et al, Amicus Curiae, represented by Donna M. Nagy

The Claremont Institute Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, Amicus Curiae, represented by John C. Eastman

Washington Legal Foundation, Amicus Curiae, represented by Helgi C. Walker

 
Last updated: October 26, 2010