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JUDGMENT ISSUED.
Rehearing DENIED. (orders list)
DISTRIBUTED.
Petition for Rehearing filed.
Adjudged to be AFFIRMED. Roberts, C. J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, and Alito, JJ., joined. Scalia, J., filed a concurring opinion. Breyer, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and... (orders list)
Argued. For petitioner: Kent L. Richland, Los Angeles, Cal.; and Malcolm L. Stewart, Deputy Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (for United States, as amicus curiae.) For repondent: Roy T. Englert, Jr., Washington, D. C.
Reply of petitioner Howard K. Stern, Executor of the Estate of Vickie Lynn Marshall filed. (Distributed)
Motion of the Acting Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument GRANTED. (orders list)
Brief amicus curiae of Center for the Rule of Law filed. (Distributed)
Brief amici curiae of National Black Chamber of Commerce, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Brief amici curiae of Law Professors S. Todd Brown, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Brief amicus curiae of Washington Legal Foundation filed. (Distributed)
Record received from U.S.D.C. for Central District of Califronia. (36 boxes)
Brief of respondent Elaine T. Marshall, Executrix of the Estate of E. Pierce Marshall filed. (Distributed)
Record received from U.S.C.A. for 9th Circuit. (1 box)
CIRCULATED.
Motion of the Acting Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument filed.
Brief amicus curiae of National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees filed.
Brief amicus curiae of the United States filed.
Brief amici curiae of Professors Richard Aaron, et al. filed.
Brief amici curiae of Professors Richard Aaron, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Brief of petitioner Howard K. Stern, Executor of the Estate of Vickie Lynn Marshall filed.
Joint appendix filed. (Statement of costs filed)
SET FOR ARGUMENT ON Tuesday, January 18, 2011.
Consent to the filing of amicus briefs, in support of either party or of neither party, received from counsel for the petitioner.
Consent to the filing of amicus briefs, in support of either party or of neither party, received from counsel for the respondent.
Petition GRANTED limited to Questions 1, 2, and 3 presented by the petition. (orders list)
Reply of petitioner Howard K. Stern, Executor of the Estate of Vickie Lynn Marshall filed. (Distributed)
Brief of respondent Elaine T. Marshall, Executrix of the Estate of E. Pierce Marshall in opposition filed.
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 7, 2010)
Howard K. Stern, Executor of the Estate of Vickie Lynn Marshall, Petitioner, represented by Kent L. Richland
Elaine T. Marshall, Executrix of the Estate of E. Pierce Marshall, Respondent, represented by G. Eric Brunstad Jr.
Elaine T. Marshall, Executrix of the Estate of E. Pierce Marshall, Respondent, represented by Roy T. Englert Jr.
Center for the Rule of Law, Amicus Curiae, represented by Ronald A. Cass
Howard K. Stern, Executor of the Estate of Vickie Lynn Marshall v. Elaine T. Marshall, Executrix of the Estate of E. Pierce Marshall, Amicus Curiae, represented by Malcolm L. Stewart
Law Professors S. Todd Brown, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by William C. Heuer
National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees, Amicus Curiae, represented by Lynne F. Riley
National Black Chamber of Commerce, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by David B. Rivkin Jr.
Professors Richard Aaron, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Richard Lieb
the United States, Amicus Curiae, represented by Donald B. Verrilli Jr.
the United States, Amicus Curiae, represented by Neal Kumar Katyal
Washington Legal Foundation, Amicus Curiae, represented by Richard A. Samp