JUDGMENT ISSUED

Adjudged to be AFFIRMED IN PART, REVERSED IN PART, and case REMANDED. Sotomayor, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court. Thomas, J., filed a concurring opinion, in which Scalia and Alito, JJ., joined.

Argued. For petitioner: Tejinder Singh, Washington, D. C.; and Ian H. Gershengorn, Deputy Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (for United States, as amicus curiae.) For respondent Burrow: Luther J. Strange, III, Attorney General, Montgomery, Ala. For respondent Franks: Mark T. Waggoner, Birmingham, Ala.

Letter from counsel for petitioner Edward R. Lane filed. (Distributed)

Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae, for divided argument, and for allocation of argument time GRANTED.

Reply of respondent Susan Burrow filed. (Distributed)

Reply of petitioner Edward R. Lane filed. (Distributed)

Brief amici curiae of The International Municipal Lawyers Association, et al. filed. (Distributed)

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

Brief of respondent Steve Franks filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of Government Accountability Project filed. (Distributed)

Motion to dispense with printing the joint appendix filed by petitioner GRANTED.

CIRCULATED.

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

Brief amici curiae of Law Professors filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of United States supporting affirmance in part and reversal in part filed.

Brief amicus curiae of The National Association of Police Organizations filed. (Distributed)

Brief amici curiae of National Education Association, et al. filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of First Amendment Coalition filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations filed. (Distributed)

Record received from U.S.D.C. Northern District of Alabama is electronic. (Not on PACER).

Brief amicus curiae of National Whistleblower Center filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of Alliance Defending Freedom filed.

Brief of petitioner Edward R. Lane filed.

Brief of respondent Susan Burrow in support of reversal in part and affirmance in part filed.

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

Motion to dispense with printing the joint appendix filed by petitioner Edward R. Lane.

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

SET FOR ARGUMENT ON Monday, April 28, 2014

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

Petition GRANTED.

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of January 17, 2014.

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of January 10, 2014.

Reply of petitioner Edward R. Lane filed.

Brief of respondent Steve Franks in opposition filed.

Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 18, 2013)

Edward R. Lane, Petitioner, represented by Thomas C. Goldstein

Edward R. Lane, Petitioner, represented by Tejinder Singh

Susan Burrow, Respondent, represented by Andrew L. Brasher

Susan Burrow, Respondent, represented by Luther J. Strange III.

Alliance Defending Freedom, Amicus Curiae, represented by David A. Cortman

American Civil Liberties Union, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Lisa S. Blatt

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, Amicus Curiae, represented by Matthew J. Ginsburg

First Amendment Coalition, Amicus Curiae, represented by Floyd Abrams

Government AccountabilityProject, Amicus Curiae, represented by Andrew J. Pincus

Law Professors, Amicus Curiae, represented by Paul M. Secunda

National Education Association, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Alice M. O'Brien

National Whistleblower Center, Amicus Curiae, represented by Stephen M. Kohn

The International Municipal Lawyers Association, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Matthew J. Delude

The National Association of Police Organizations, Amicus Curiae, represented by J. Michael McGuinness

United States, Amicus Curiae, represented by Ian Heath Gershengorn

United States supporting affirmance in part and reversal in part, Amicus Curiae, represented by Donald B. Verrilli Jr.