Record returned to First Judicial District Court of Nevada.

Record returned to Supreme Court of Nevada.

MANDATE ISSUED.

Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED. Scalia, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan, JJ., joined. Kennedy, J., filed a concurring opinion. Alito, J., filed an opi... (orders list)

Letter from counsel for petitioner Nevada Commission on Ethics filed. (Distributed).

Argued. For petitioner: John P. Elwood, Washington, D. C. For respondent: E. Joshua Rosenkranz, New York, N. Y.

Motion of The Nevada Legislature for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument DENIED. (orders list)

Reply of petitioner Nevada Commission on Ethics filed. (Distributed)

Brief amici curiae of James Madison Center and the Center for Competitive Politics filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of International Municipal Lawyers Association filed. (Distributed)

Record recevied from 1st Judicial District Court of Nevada, (Carson City) . (1 box)

Record received from Supreme Court of Nevada (1 box).

Record received from Supreme Court of Nevada.

Petitioner's opposition to motion of Nevada Legislature.

Brief of respondent Michael A. Carrigan filed. (Distributed).

Motion of The Nevada Legislature for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument filed.

Motion of The Nevada Legislature for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument filed.

CIRCULATED.

Brief amicus curiae of The Nevada Legislature filed.

Brief amicus curiae of Public Citizen, Inc. filed.

Brief amici curiae of Florida, et al. filed.

Brief amici curiae of Reporters Committee for Freedom on the Press, et al. filed.

Joint appendix filed. (Statement of costs filed)

Brief of petitioner Nevada Commission on Ethics filed.

SET FOR ARGUMENT ON Wednesday, April 27, 2011.

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

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

Petition GRANTED. (orders list)

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of January 7, 2011.

Reply of petitioner Nevada Commission on Ethics filed. (Distributed)

Supplemental brief of respondent filed.

Brief of respondent Michael A. Carrigan in opposition filed.

Brief amici curiae of Florida, et al. filed.

Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 29, 2010)

Nevada Commission on Ethics, Petitioner, represented by John P. Elwood

Michael A. Carrigan, Respondent, represented by Douglas R. Thornley

Michael A. Carrigan, Respondent, represented by E. Joshua Rosenkranz

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

International Municipal Lawyers Association, Amicus Curiae, represented by Douglas R. Thornley

James Madison Center and the Center for Competitive Politics, Amicus Curiae, represented by James Bopp Jr.

Public Citizen, Inc., Amicus Curiae, represented by Scott L. Nelson

Reporters Committee for Freedom on the Press, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Lucy A Dalglish

The Nevada Legislature, Amicus Curiae, represented by Kevin C. Powers