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JUDGMENT ISSUED.
Writ of certiorari DISMISSED as improvidently granted. These cases were granted to resolve �[w]hether allegations that members of a business association agreed to adhere to the association�s rules and possess governance rights in the association, without more, are sufficient to plead the element of conspiracy in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act.� Pet. for Cert. in No. 15-961, p. i, and No. 15-962, p. I. After �[h]aving persuaded us to grant certiorari� on this issue, however, petitioners �chose to rely on a different argument� in their merits briefing. City and County of San Francisco v. Sheehan, 575 U. S. __, (2015) (slip op., at 7). The Court, therefore, orders that the writs in these cases be dismissed as improvidently granted. VIDED.
Reply of petitioners Visa Inc., et al. filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
Motion of the Acting Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument GRANTED.
Record received from the U.S.D.C. District of Columbia is electronic and located on PACER.
Record requested from the U.S.C.A. District of Columbia Circuit.
CIRCULATED.
Brief amicus curiae of ATM Industry Association filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
Brief amicus curiae of American Antitrust Institute filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
Brief amicus curiae of Public Justice, P.C. filed. VIDED.
Brief amici curiae of National Retail Federation, et al. filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
Brief amici curiae of Antitrust- Law Professors and Economists filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
Brief amicus curiae of United States filed. VIDED.
Motion of the Acting Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument filed. VIDED.
SET FOR ARGUMENT on Wednesday, December 7, 2016. VIDED
Brief amicus curiae of United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund, Inc. filed. VIDED.
Consent to the filing of amicus curiae briefs, in support of either party or of neither party received from counsel for respondents.
Brief of the Non-Consumer Respondents filed. VIDED.
Brief of Consumer Respondents filed. VIDED.
Motion to dispense with printing the joint appendix filed by petitioners GRANTED. VIDED
The time to file respondents' briefs on the merits is extended to and including October 17, 2016. VIDED
The time to file the joint appendix and petitioners' brief on the merits is extended to and including September 1, 2016. VIDED
Petition GRANTED The petition for a writ of certiorari in No. 15-961 is granted. The cases are consolidated and a total of one hour is allotted for oral argument.
Rescheduled.
Reply of petitioners Visa Inc., et al. filed.
Brief of respondents Mary Stoumbos, et al. in opposition filed. VIDED.
Order extending time to file response to petition to and including March 30, 2016.
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 29, 2016)
Application (15A654) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until January 27, 2016.
Application (15A654) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 27, 2015 to January 27, 2016, submitted to The Chief Justice.
Visa Inc., et al., Petitioner, represented by Neal Kumar Katyal
Visa Inc., et al., Petitioner, represented by Anthony J. Franze
Consumer Respondents, Respondent, represented by Steve W. Berman
The National ATM Council, Inc., et al., Respondent, represented by Jonathan L. Rubin
The Non-Consumer Respondents, Respondent, represented by Thomas C. Goldstein
American Antitrust Institute, Amicus Curiae, represented by Richard M. Brunell
Antitrust -Law Professors and Economists, Amicus Curiae, represented by Gary J. Malone
ATM Industry Association, Amicus Curiae, represented by Richard Henry Dolan
National Retail Federation, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by James A. Wilson
Public Justice, P.C., Amicus Curiae, represented by F. Paul Bland Jr.
the United States, Amicus Curiae, represented by Ian Heath Gershengorn
United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund, Inc., Amicus Curiae, represented by Michael Colin Landis