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Attached:
# Online Record Page #
in complied PDF
1) Docket - 08-205 Citizens United v Federal Election Commission 2
2) 2009 Term Court Orders [master list - jz] 16
3) Monday, February 22, 2010, Order List 20
4) 2009 Term Journal 57
5) Syllabus and Opinion of the Court - 08-205 Citizens United v Federal Election 1101
Commission
None of the online records could be deemed a valid certified judicial or clerical record.
1. Docket
The docket says:
Jan 21 2010 Adjudged to be AFFIRMED IN PART, REVERSED IN PART, and case
REMANDED. Kennedy, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which
Roberts, C. J., and Scalia and Alito, JJ., joined, in which Thomas, J., joined as
to all but Part IV, and in which Stevens, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Sotomayor,
JJ., joined as to Part IV. Roberts, C. J., filed a concurring opinion, in which
Alito, J., joined. Scalia, J., filed a concurring opinion, in which Alito, J., joined,
and in which Thomas, J., joined in part. Stevens, J., filed an opinion
concurring in part and dissenting in part, in which Ginsburg, Breyer, and
Sotomayor, JJ., joined. Thomas, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and
dissenting in part.
Feb 22 2010 JUDGMENT ISSUED.
2. 2009 Term Court Orders [master list - jz]
The header of the 2009 Term Court Orders says:
The vast majority of cases filed in the Supreme Court are disposed of summarily by unsigned orders.
Such an order will, for example, deny a petition for certiorari without comment. Regularly scheduled
lists of orders are issued on each Monday that the Court sits, but "miscellaneous" orders may be
issued in individual cases at any time.
Scheduled order lists are posted on this Website on the day of their issuance, while miscellaneous
orders are posted on the day of issuance or the next day.
Caution: These electronic orders may contain computer-generated errors or other deviations from the
official printed versions. Moreover, all order lists and miscellaneous orders are replaced within a few
months by paginated versions of them in a preliminary print of the United States Reports, and one year
after the issuance of the preliminary print by the final version of the orders in a U. S. Reports bound
volume. In case of discrepancies between the print and electronic versions of orders, the print version
controls. In case of discrepancies between order lists or miscellaneous orders and any later official
version of them, the later version controls.
The 2009 Term Court Orders shows:
02/22/10 Order List
z Page 2/2 March 17, 2011
The 2009 Term Court Orders shows no entry for January 21, 2009.
3. Monday, February 22, 2010, Order List
The February 22, 2010 Order List shows no entry pertaining to Citizens United v Federal Elections
Commission.
4. 2009 Term Journal
On Page 505, Journal entry appears for January 21, 2010, an abstract appears of the opinion in Citizens United
v Federal Elections Commission.
The opening statement says:
Present: Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Stevens, Justice Scalia, Jus-
tice Kennedy, Justice Thomas, Justice Ginsburg, Justice Breyer, Justice
Alito, and Justice Sotomayor.
The opening statement does not include any reference to certification.
On the next page, page 507 (no page 506 appears in the online Journal 1 ), Journal entry appears for January
25, 2010.
The opening statement says:
Present: Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Stevens, Justice Scalia, Jus-
tice Kennedy, Justice Thomas, Justice Ginsburg, Justice Alito, and Jus-
tice Sotomayor.
The Chief Justice said:
“We have issued orders today, they have been duly entered and certi-
fied, and filed with the Clerk.”
5. Syllabus and Opinion of the Court
The Syllabus (page 7) says:
KENNEDY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which
ROBERTS, C. J., and SCALIA and ALITO, JJ., joined, in which
THOMAS, J., joined as to all but Part IV, and in which STEVENS,
GINSBURG, BREYER, and SO-TOMAYOR, JJ., joined as to Part
IV. ROBERTS, C. J., filed a concurring opinion, in which ALITO, J.,
joined. SCALIA, J., filed a concurring opinion, in which ALITO, J.,
joined, and in which THOMAS, J., joined in part. STEVENS, J., filed
an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part, in which
GINSBURG, BREYER, and SOTOMAYOR, JJ., joined. THOMAS,
J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.
The Opinion itself includes no further reference to papers filed by the justices.
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The online Journal includes pages bearing Arabic numeral 1 through 1092, but a total of only 1035 such pages.
3/16/2011 Untitled Document
No. 08-205
Title: Citizens United, Appellant
v.
Federal Election Commission
Docketed: August 18, 2008
Lower Ct: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Case Nos.: (07-2240)
Decision Date: July 18, 2008
Questions
Presented
~~~Date~~~ ~~~~~~~Proceedings and Orders~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Aug 14 2008 Statement as to jurisdiction filed. (Response due September 17, 2008)
Sep 10 2008 Order extending time to file response to petition to and including October 17,
2008.
Sep 17 2008 Brief amicus curiae of American Civil Rights Union filed.
Oct 17 2008 Motion to dismiss or affirm filed by appellee Federal Election Commission.
Oct 24 2008 Reply of appellant Citizens United filed. (Distributed)
Oct 29 2008 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of November 14, 2008.
Nov 14 2008 PROBABLE JURISDICTION NOTED.
Dec 5 2008 Consent to the filing of amicus briefs, in support of either party or neither
party, received from counsel for the appellant.
Dec 11 2008 The time within which to file the joint appendix and petitioner's brief on the
merits is extended to and including January 8, 2009.
Dec 11 2008 The time within which to file respondent's brief on the merits is extended to
and including February 17, 2009.
Jan 8 2009 Joint appendix filed. Statement of costs received.
Jan 8 2009 Brief of appellant Citizens United filed.
Jan 12 2009 Brief amicus curiae of Foundation for Free Expression filed.
Jan 14 2009 Brief amicus curiae of Cato Institute filed.
Jan 15 2009 Brief amicus curiae of Committee for Truth in Politics, Inc. filed.
Jan 15 2009 Brief amicus curiae of Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press filed.
Jan 15 2009 Brief amicus curiae of Institute for Justice filed.
Jan 15 2009 Brief amicus curiae of National Rifle Association filed.
Jan 15 2009 Brief amicus curiae of Alliance Defense Fund filed.
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Jan 15 2009 Brief amicus curiae of Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America
filed. (Distributed).
Jan 15 2009 Brief amicus curiae of American Civil Rights Union filed.
Jan 15 2009 Brief amicus curiae of Center for Competitive Politics filed.
Jan 26 2009 SET FOR ARGUMENT ON Tuesday, March 24, 2009.
Jan 27 2009 Record from the U.S.D.C. for the District of Columbia is electronically filed.
Jan 29 2009 CIRCULATED.
Feb 3 2009 Exhibits and CDs received from U.S.D.C. for the District of Columbia.
Feb 17 2009 Brief of appellee Federal Election Commission filed. (Distributed)
Feb 23 2009 Brief amici curiae of Center for Political Accountability, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Feb 24 2009 Brief amici curiae of Senator John McCain, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Mar 17 2009 Reply of appellant Citizens United, Appellant filed. (Distributed)
Mar 24 2009 Argued. For appellant: Theodore B. Olson, Washington, D.C. For appellee:
Malcolm L. Stewart, Deputy Solicitor General, Department of Justice,
Washington, D.C.
Jun 29 2009 This case is restored to the calendar for reargument. The parties are directed
to file supplemental briefs addressing the following question: For the proper
disposition of this case, should the Court overrule either or both Austin v.
Michigan Chamber of Commerce, 494 U.S. 652 (1990), and the part of
McConnell v. Federal Election Comm'n, 540 U.S. 93 (2003), which addresses
the facial validity of Section 203 of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of
2002, 2 U.S.C. �441b? The briefs, not to exceed 6,000 words, are to be filed
simultaneously with the Clerk and served upon opposing counsel on or before
2 p.m., Friday, July 24, 2009. Amicus briefs, not to exceed 4,500 words, may
be filed with the Clerk and served upon counsel to the parties by 2 p.m.,
Friday, July 31, 2009. Reply briefs, not to exceed 3,000 words, may be filed
with the Clerk and served upon opposing counsel on or before 2 p.m.,
Wednesday, August 19, 2009. The case is set for oral argument at 10 a.m.,
Wednesday, September 9, 2009.
Jul 21 2009 Consent to the filing of amicus curiae briefs in support of either party or
neither party received from counsel for the appellee.
Jul 23 2009 Motion for divided argument filed by the Solicitor General.
Jul 24 2009 Supplemental brief of appellant Citizens United, Appellant filed. (Distributed)
Jul 24 2009 Supplemental brief of appellee Federal Election Commission filed.
(Distributed)
Jul 24 2009 Supplemental brief amicus curiae of Reporters Committee for Freedom of the
Press in support of appellant filed. (Distributed)
Jul 28 2009 Brief amici curiae of Seven Former Chairmen and One Former Commissioner
of the Federal Election Commission in support of appellant filed. (Distributed)
Jul 29 2009 Brief amicus curiae of Pacific Legal Foundation in support of appellant filed.
(Distributed)
Jul 29 2009 Brief amici curiae of Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy, et al. in
support of appellee filed. (Distributed)
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Jul 29 2009 Brief amici curiae of Center for Political Accountability, et al. in support of
Jul 30 2009 appellee to
Consent filed.
the(Distributed)
filing of amicus briefs, in support of either party or of neither
party, received from counsel for the appellant.
Jul 31 2009 Brief amicus curiae of Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America
in support of appellant filed. (Distributed).
Jul 31 2009 Brief amicus curiae of American Civil Liberties Union in support of the
appellant filed. (Distributed)
Jul 31 2009 Brief amicus curiae of Independent Sector in support of neither party filed.
(Distributed)
Jul 31 2009 Brief amici curiae of Montana, et al. in support of neither party filed.
(Distributed)
Jul 31 2009 Brief amici curiae of Former Officials of the American Civil Liberties Union in
support of neither party filed. (Distributed)
Jul 31 2009 Brief amici curiae of California Broadcasters Association, et al. in support of
Jul 31 2009 Brief amici curiae of American Justice Partnership, et al. in support of
Jul 31 2009 Brief amicus curiae of Institute for Justice in support of appellant filed.
(Distributed)
Jul 31 2009 Brief amicus curiae of Center for Competitive Politics in support of appellant
filed. (Distributed)
Jul 31 2009 Brief amicus curiae of Campaign Finance Scholars in support of appellant
Jul 31 2009 Brief amici curiae of Fidelis Center for Law and Policy, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Jul 31 2009 Brief amicus curiae of Alliance Defense Fund in support of appellant filed.
(Distributed)
Jul 31 2009 Brief amicus curiae of Senator Mitch McConnell in support of appellant filed.
(Distributed)
Jul 31 2009 Brief amicus curiae of Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence in support of
Jul 31 2009 Brief amicus curiae of National Rifle Association in support of appellant filed.
(Distributed)
Jul 31 2009 Brief amicus curiae of Michigan Chamber of Commerce in support of appellant
Jul 31 2009 Brief amicus curiae of California First Amendment Coalition in support of
Jul 31 2009 Brief amicus curiae of Cato Institute in suport of appellant filed. (Distributed)
Jul 31 2009 Brief amicus curiae of American Civil Rights Union in support of appellant
Jul 31 2009 Brief amici curiae of Wyoming Liberty Group, et al. in support of appellant
Jul 31 2009 Brief amici curiae of Free Speech Defense and Education Fund, Inc., et al., in
support of appellant filed. (Distributed)
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Jul 31 2009 Brief amici curiae of Hachette Book Group, Inc., et al. in support of neither
party filed. (Distributed)
Jul 31 2009 Brief amicus curiae of American Federation of Labor and Congress of
Industrial Organizations in support of appellant filed. (Distributed)
Jul 31 2009 Brief amicus curiae of Committee for Economic Development in support of
appellee filed. (Distributed)
Jul 31 2009 Brief amici curiae of Center for Independent Media, et al. in support of
Jul 31 2009 Brief amici curiae of Representatives Chris Van Hollen, et al. in support of
Jul 31 2009 Brief amici curiae of Norman Ornstein, et al. in support of appellee filed.
(Distributed)
Jul 31 2009 Brief amici curiae of Justice at Stake, et al. in support of the appellee filed.
(Distributed)
Jul 31 2009 Brief amicus curiae of Democratic National Committee in support of appellee
Jul 31 2009 Brief amici curiae of Sunlight Foundation, et al. in support of appellee filed.
(Distributed)
Jul 31 2009 Brief amici curiae of Campaign Legal Center, et al. in support of appellee filed.
(Distributed)
Jul 31 2009 Brief amici curiae of League of Women Voters of the United States, et al. in
support of appellee filed. (Distributed)
Jul 31 2009 Brief amicus curiae of Public Good in support of appellee filed. (Distributed)
Jul 31 2009 Brief amici curiae of Senator John McCain, et al. in support of appellee filed.
(Distributed)
Jul 31 2009 Brief amicus curiae of American Independent Business Alliance in support of
Jul 31 2009 Motion of Senator Mitch McConnell for leave to participate in oral argument as
amicus curiae and for divided argument filed.
Jul 31 2009 Brief amicus curiae of Judicial Watch, Inc. in support of appellant filed.
Aug 3 2009 Opposition of appellant to motion of Senator McConnell for divided argument.
Aug 10 2009 SET FOR REARGUMENT ON Wednesday, September 9, 2009.
Aug 17 2009 Motion of Senator Mitch McConnell for leave to participate in oral argument as
amicus curiae and for divided argument GRANTED.
Aug 17 2009 Motion for divided argument filed by the Solicitor General GRANTED. A total
of 80 minutes is allocated for oral argument and the time is divided as follows:
30 minutes to appellant, 10 minutes to Senator Mitch McConnell, 30 minutes
to appellee, and 10 minutes to Senator John McCain, et al.
Aug 18 2009 Motion of Wyoming Liberty Group, et al. in support of appellant for leave to
participate in oral argument as amici curiae and for divided argument filed.
Aug 19 2009 Supplemental reply of appellant Citizens United, Appellant filed. (Distributed)
Aug 19 2009 Supplemental reply of appellee Federal Election Commission filed.
(Distributed)
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Sep 4 2009 Motion of Wyoming Liberty Group, et al. in support of appellant for leave to
participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument
Sep 9 2009 DENIED.
Argued. For appellant: Theodore B. Olson, Washington, D.C.; and Floyd
Abrams, New York, N.Y., for Senator McConnell. For appellee: Elena Kagan,
Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., and Seth P.
Waxman, Washington, D.C. for Senator McCain, et al.
Jan 21 2010 Adjudged to be AFFIRMED IN PART, REVERSED IN PART, and case
REMANDED. Kennedy, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which
Roberts, C. J., and Scalia and Alito, JJ., joined, in which Thomas, J., joined as
to all but Part IV, and in which Stevens, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Sotomayor,
JJ., joined as to Part IV. Roberts, C. J., filed a concurring opinion, in which
Alito, J., joined. Scalia, J., filed a concurring opinion, in which Alito, J., joined,
and in which Thomas, J., joined in part. Stevens, J., filed an opinion
concurring in part and dissenting in part, in which Ginsburg, Breyer, and
Sotomayor, JJ., joined. Thomas, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and
dissenting in part.
Feb 22 2010 JUDGMENT ISSUED.
Mar 30 2010 Exhibits & CS's returned to U.S.D.C. for District of Columbia.
~~Name~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~Address~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~Phone~~~

Attorneys for Appellant:
(202) 955-
Theodore B. Olson Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP
8500
Counsel of Record 1050 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
TOlson@gibsondunn.com
Party name: Citizens United, Appellant
Attorneys for Appellee:
(202) 514-
Elena Kagan Solicitor General
2217
Counsel of Record United States Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20530-0001
SupremeCtBriefs@USDOJ.gov
Party name: Federal Election Commission
(202) 514-
Malcolm L. Stewart Deputy Solicitor General
2201
Department of Justice
malcolm.l.stewart@usjoj.gov
5/13
Party
Other:name: Federal Election Commission
(212) 701-
Floyd Abrams Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
3000
80 Pine Street
New York, NY 10005
fabrams@cahill.com
Party name: Senator Mitch McConnell in support of appellant
(202) 719-
Jan Witold Baran Wiley Rein, LLP
7000
1776 K Street, N.W.
jbaran@wileyrein.com
Party name: Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America
(240)-863-
Benjamin Barr Government Watch, PC
8280
10737 Hunting Lane
Rockville, MD 20850
benjamin.barr@gmail.com
Party name: Wyoming Liberty Group, et al. in support of appellant
(202) 637-
H. Christopher Bartolomucci Hogan & Hartson LLP
5810
555 Thirteenth Street, N.W.
christopher.bartolomucci@hoganlovells.com
Party name: Norman Ornstein, et al. in support of appellee
(202) 628-
Robert F. Bauer Perkins Coie LLP
6600
607 14th Street, NW
Party name: Democratic National Committee in support of appellee
(812) 232-
James Bopp Jr. Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom
2434
1 South 6th Street
Terre Haute, IN 47807-3510
jboppjr@aol.com
6/13
Party name: Seven Former Chairmen and One Former Commissioner of the Federal Election
Commission
(480) 444-
Benjamin W. Bull Alliance Defense Fund
0020
15100 N. 90th Street
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
Party name: Alliance Defense Fund in support of appellant
(714) 628-
Anthony T. Caso Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence
2530
c/o Chapman University School of Law
One University Drive
Orange, CA 92886
caso@chapman.edu
Party name: Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence
(212) 768-
M. Devereux Chatillon Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
6700
1221 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020-1089
DChatillon@Sonnenschein.com
Party name: Independent Sector in support of neither party
(212) 455-
Michael J. Chepiga Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
2000
425 Lexington Ave.
New York, NY 10017
Party name: Hachette Book Group, Inc. , et al. in support of neither party
(978)-287-
Jeffrey D. Clements Clements Law Office LLC
4901
Suite 4B-b
9 Damonmill Square
Concord, MA 01742
jclements@clementsllc.com
Party name: Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy, et al. in support of appellee
(202) 220-
Charles J. Cooper Cooper & Kirk, PLLC
9600
1523 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W.
7/13
ccooper@cooperkirk.com
Party name: National Rifle Association in support of appellant
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the (703) 807-

Lucy A Dalglish
Press 2100
1101 Wilson Blvd., Suite 1100
Arlington, VA 22209
ldalglish@rcfp.org
Party name: Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (Supplemental)
(910)-326-
Deborah Dewart 620 E. Sabiston Drive
4554
Swansboro, NC 28584-9674
debcpalaw@earthlink.net
Party name: Foundation for Free Expression
(212) 998-
Norman Dorsen Stokes Professor of Law
6172
New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
norman.dorsen@nyu.edu
Party name: Former Officials of the American Civil Liberties Union in support of neither partyi
(703) 582-
Peter J. Ferrara American Civil Rights Union
8466
1232 Pine Hill Road
McLean, VA 22101
peterferrara@msn.com
Party name: American Civil Rights Union
(312) 276-
Patrick T. Gillen Fidelis Center for Law & Policy
5109
190 South LaSalle Street
Suite 2130
Chicago, IL 60603
Party name: Fidelis Center for Law and Policy, et al.
(202) 637-
Laurence E. Gold AFL-CIO
5130
815 Sixteenth Street, N.W.
8/13
lgold@aflcio.org
Party name: American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations in support of
appellant
(703) 894-
Allison R. Hayward Professor
6800
Center for Competitive Politics
124 S. West Street, Suite 201
Alesandria, VA 22314
ahaward@campaignfreedom
Party name: Campaign Finance Scholars in support of appellant
(703) 894-
Stephen M. Hoersting Center for Competitive Politics
6800
124 S. West Street
Suite 201
Alexandria, VA 22314
shoersting@campaignfreedom.org
Party name: Center for Competitive Politics in support of appellant
(310) 979-
Jean-Paul Jassy Bostwick & Jassy LLP
6059
12400 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 400
Los Angeles, CA 90025
jpjassy@bostwickjassy.com
Party name: California First Amendment Coalition in support of appellant
(406)-444-
Anthony Johnstone Solicitor
2026
Department of Justice
215 North Sanders.
P.O.Box 201401
Helena, MT 59620-1401
ajohnstone@mt.gov
Party name: Montana, et al. in support of neither party
(916) 419-
Deborah J. La Fetra Pacific Legal Foundation
7111
3900 Lennane Dr., Suite 200
Sacramento, CA 95834
9/13
djl@pacificlegal.org
Party name: Pacific Legal Foundation in support of appellant
(206) 341-
William R. Maurer Institute for Justice
9300
101 Yesler Way, Suite 603
Seattle, WA 98104
Party name: Institute for Justice
(517) 374-
Richard D. McLellan Dykema Gossett PLLC
9181
201 Townsent Street
Suite 900
Lansing, MI 48933
Party name: Michigan Chamber of Commerce in support of appellant
(510) 548-
Seth E. Mermin Public Good
4064
3130 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705
Party name: Public Good in support of appellee
(202) 295-
Cleta Mitchell Foley & Lardner LLP
5300
Washington Harbour
3000 K Street, NW , Suite 600
Washinton, DC 20007
Party name: American Justice Partnership, et al. in support of appellant
(202) 588-
Scott L. Nelson Public Citizen Litigation
1000
1600 20th Street, N.W.
snelson@citizen.org
Party name: Senator John McCain, et al.
(202) 857-
Lawrence H. Norton -Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice
4429
1401 I Street, NW Seventh Floor
Party name: California Broadcasters Association, et al. in support of appellant
10/13
(703) 356-
William J. Olson William J.Olson PC
5070
370 Maple Avenue West, Suite 4
Vienna, VA 22180-5615
wjo@mindspring.com
Party name: Free Speech Defense and Education Fund, Inc., et al.
(202) 646-
Paul J. Orfanedes Judicial Watch, Inc.
5172
425 Third Street, S.W., Suite 800
porfanedes@judicialwatch.org
Party name: Judicial Watch, Inc.
(213) 683-
Bradley S. Phillips Munger Tolles & Olson LLP
9100
355 South Grand Ave., 35th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90071-1560
brad.phillips@mto.com
Party name: Representatives Chris Van Hollen, et al. in support of appellee
(202) 736-
Trevor Potter Campaign Legal Center
2200
1640 Rhode Island Ave., N.W.
Party name: Campaign Legal Center, et al. in support of appellee
(202)-628-
Karl J. Sandstrom Perkins Coie LLP
6600
607 14th Street NW 8th Floor
ksandstrom@perkinscoie.com
Party name: Center for Political Accountability, et al. in support of appellee
(303) 863-
James Eckford Scarboro Arnold & Porter, LLP
1000
370 17th Street, suite 4500
Denver, CO 80202
James.Scarboro@aporter.com
Party name: Justice at Stake, et al. in support of the appellee
11/13
(212) 549-
Steven R. Shapiro American Civil Liberties Union Foundation
2500
125 Broad Street
New York, NY 10004
sshapiro@aclu.org
Party name: American Civil Liberties Union in support of the appellant
(703) 682-
Steven M. Simpson Institute for Justice
9320
Institute for Justice
901 North Glebe Road, Suite 900
Arlington, VA 22203
ssimpson@ij.org
Party name: Institute for Justice in support of appellant
(202) 639-
Paul M. Smith Jenner & Block LLP
6000
1099 New York Avenue, N.W., Suite 900
PSmith@jenner.com
Party name: Committee for Economic Development in support of appellee
(201) 488-
Gary S. Stein Pashman Stein PC
8200
Court Plaza South
21 Main Street, Suite 100
Hackensack, NJ 07601
Party name: Sunlight Foundation, et al. in support of appellee
(202) 663-
Seth P. Waxman Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
6000
1875 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
seth.waxman@wilmerhale.com
Party name: Senator John McCain, et al. in support of appellee
(202)-457-
Benjamin D. Wood Patton Boggs LLP
6000
2550 M Street, NW
12/13
Party name: Cato Institute in suport of appellant
(617) 232-
Brenda Wright 358 Chestnut Hill Avenue
5885
Suite 303
Brighton, MA 02135
bwright@demos.org
Party name: American Independent Business Alliance in support of appellee
(202) 296-
Elizabeth B. Wydra Constitutional Accountability Center
6889
1200 18th St., N.W., Suite 1002
elizabeth@theusconstitution.org
Party name: League of Women Voters of the United States, et al. in support of appellee
Brennan Center for Justice At NYU School (212)-998-

Monica Youn
of Law 6730
161 Avenue of the Americas 12th Floor
New York, NY 10013
monica.youn@nyu.edu
Party name: Center for Independent Media, et al. in support of appellee
13/13
2009 Term Court Orders
The vast majority of cases filed in the Supreme Court are disposed of summarily by unsigned orders. Such an order
will, for example, deny a petition for certiorari without comment. Regularly scheduled lists of orders are issued on
each Monday that the Court sits, but "miscellaneous" orders may be issued in individual cases at any time.
Scheduled order lists are posted on this Website on the day of their issuance, while miscellaneous orders are
posted on the day of issuance or the next day.
Caution: These electronic orders may contain computer-generated errors or other deviations from the official printed
versions. Moreover, all order lists and miscellaneous orders are replaced within a few months by paginated versions
of them in a preliminary print of the United States Reports, and one year after the issuance of the preliminary print by
the final version of the orders in a U. S. Reports bound volume. In case of discrepancies between the print and
electronic versions of orders, the print version controls. In case of discrepancies between order lists or
miscellaneous orders and any later official version of them, the later version controls.
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(ORDER LIST: 559 U.S.)
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2010
ORDERS IN PENDING CASES
09M67 NEELY, ROBERT V. MARSHALL, SUPT., SING SING
The motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition
for a writ of certiorari out of time is denied.
09M68 MURRELL, ROGERS V. SHINSEKI, SEC. OF VA
09M69 THOMPSON, JAMES B. V. SHENSEKI, SEC. OF VA
The motions for leave to proceed as a veteran
are denied.
09M70 WILLIAMS, TERRY V. USDC CD CA, ET AL.
The motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
with the declaration of indigency under seal is denied.
08-998 HAMILTON, JAN V. LANNING, STEPHANIE K.
The motion of the Solicitor General for leave to
participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for
divided argument is granted.
08-1394 SKILLING, JEFFREY K. V. UNITED STATES
The motion of petitioner for leave to file a supplemental
volume of the joint appendix under seal is granted.
09-338 RENICO, WARDEN V. LETT, REGINALD
The motion of petitioner to dispense with printing the
joint appendix is granted.
09-520 CSX TRANSPORTATION, INC. V. AL DEPT. OF REVENUE, ET AL.
09-654 ORTHO BIOTECH PRODUCTS, L.P. V. UNITED STATES, EX REL. DUXBURY
The Solicitor General is invited to file briefs in these
cases expressing the views of the United States.
09-7260 REYNOSO, IGNACIO V. ROCK, SUPT., GREAT MEADOW
The motion of petitioner for reconsideration of order
denying leave to proceed in forma pauperis is denied.
09-8074 PARKER, JONATHAN J. V. ASRC OMEGA NATCHIQ
09-8472 STEPHENS, LLOYD T. V. FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT CT.
09-8583 WALKER, DARCY V. POTTER, POSTMASTER GEN.
The motions of petitioners for leave to proceed in forma
pauperis are denied. Petitioners are allowed until March 15,
2010, within which to pay the docketing fees required by Rule
38(a) and to submit petitions in compliance with Rule 33.1 of
the Rules of this Court.
CERTIORARI GRANTED
09-350 LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CA V. HUMPHRIES, CRAIG A., ET UX.
The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted limited
to Question 1 presented by the petition.
09-587 HARRINGTON, WARDEN V. RICHTER, JOSHUA
The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. In
addition to the question presented, the parties are directed to
brief and argue the following question: Does AEDPA deference
apply to a state court's summary disposition of a claim,
including a claim under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668
(1984)?
CERTIORARI DENIED
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08-1524 ) TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD V. DEPT. OF INTERIOR, ET AL.
08-10932 BATEKREZE, FIDELE B. V. ARIZONA
09-287 WESTON, DARREL A. V. UNITED STATES
09-342 ROSE ACRE FARMS, INC. V. UNITED STATES
09-357 SMITH, BRENT V. JONES, WARDEN
09-394 SAUDI AMERICAN BANK V. SWE&C LIQUIDATING TRUST
09-420 LEWIS, LINDA V. PALM BEACH, FL, ET AL.
09-426 EKLUND, DONALD S. V. WHEATLAND COUNTY, MT, ET AL.
09-435 ) NEW WEST, L.P., ET AL. V. JOLIET, IL, ET AL.

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09-445 ) DAVIS, TERESA, ET AL. V. JOLIET, IL, ET AL.
09-491 LONG BEACH, CA V. LONG BEACH AREA PEACE, ET AL.
09-532 FRY, THOMAS V. EXELON CORPORATION PLAN
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09-547 ) AM. FARM BUREAU FED., ET AL. V. BAYKEEPER, ET AL.
09-542 KAY, MITCHELL N., ET AL. V. GONZALEZ, JOSE
09-564 CITY COUNCIL OF ALBUQUERQUE V. ALBUQUERQUE COMMONS PARTNERSHIP
09-569 BYLIN, ROBERT, ET UX. V. BILLINGS, JOHN R., ET AL.
09-621 MINNEAPOLIS TAXI OWNERS COAL. V. MINNEAPOLIS, MN, ET AL.
09-623 MOODY, SALLY L., ET AL. V. ALLEGHENY VALLEY LAND, ET AL.
09-630 BENSON, ROYAL, ET AL. V. ST. JOSEPH REGIONAL, ET AL.
09-632 DOMINGUEZ, ERLINDA V. PRICE OKAMOTO HIMENO & LUM
09-637 SCHOOL BOARD OF BEAUREGARD V. HONEYWELL INT'L, INC., ET AL.
09-639 EILENDER, DAVID V. MI DEPT OF HUMAN SERVICES
09-641 VINING, FRED D. V. APPLIED POWER TECHNOLOGY, ET AL.
09-642 YOUNG, RANDALL S., ET UX. V. MEMORIAL HERMANN HOSP., ET AL.
09-643 BROWN, CARL H. V. MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL, INC.
09-657 BIRMINGHAM BOARD OF EDUCATION V. McCORD-BAUGH, CATHY
09-659 SPEIGHTS, MATTHEW V. OCEANSIDE, CA, ET AL.
09-660 NAIR, JAYRAJ V. SUPERIOR COURT OF CA, ET AL.
09-661 KASHARIAN, JOHN C. V. NJ DEPT. OF ENVTL. PROTECTION
09-662 ENG, CHHUN V. HOLDER, ATT'Y GEN.
09-670 LOCAL #46 METALLIC LATHERS UNION V. UNITED STATES, ET AL.
09-673 SEA HAWK SEAFOODS, ET AL. V. LOCKE, SEC. OF COMMERCE, ET AL.
09-675 BUTTE COUNTY, CA, ET AL. V. SUPERIOR COURT OF CA, ET AL.
09-677 KRISTINA S. V. CHARISMA R.
09-679 PARKERSON, GAIL V. McMURTREY, RICHARD, ET AL.
09-680 ARKANSAS V. OSBURN, KENNETH R.
09-682 BOSACK, LEONARD, ET AL. V. SOWARD, DAVID C., ET AL.
09-688 POPE, TIMOTHY D. V. ALABAMA, ET AL.
09-689 HUNSBERGER, MARK J., ET UX. V. WOOD, DEPUTY SHERIFF
09-690 CHAUDHARY, BELAL A. V. HOLDER, ATT'Y GEN.
09-693 KYLE, WILLIAM, ET AL. V. LEBOVITS, GERALD, ET AL.
09-695 U.S. MOTORS, ET AL. V. GENERAL MOTORS EUROPE
09-696 JOHN J. KANE REGIONAL CENTERS V. GRAMMER, SARAH
09-698 McKINNEY, GARY V. CO BD. OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS
09-701 ALLRITE SHEETMETAL, INC. V. BANK OF COMMERCE, ET AL.
09-702 ACUSHNET CO. V. CALLAWAY GOLF CO.
09-706 TUSINI, THOMAS V. POTTER, POSTMASTER GEN., ET AL.
09-710 HALL, MICHAEL P. V. TENNISON, CARINA N.
09-716 TERUYA BROTHERS, LTD. V. CIR
09-718 MATTISON, LAWRENCE V. VIRGINIA
09-719 KONAR, DANIEL V. ILLINOIS
09-730 HOLTZER, KEVIN C. V. DAVIS, WARDEN
09-731 MOUNT, JEANNE V. UNITED STATES, ET AL.
09-732 PELKEY, BRUCE A. V. SUPREME COURT OF AZ
09-734 AMES, GEOFFREY S. V. WA HEALTH DEPT.
09-743 JONES, VERNON, ET AL. V. BRYANT, MICHAEL, ET AL.
09-748 RADMORE, JAMES V. AEGIS COMMUNICATIONS
09-752 PENNEY, TERRY E. V. UNITED STATES
09-757 ASHBY, RICHARD J. V. UNITED STATES
09-762 CLAVILLE, VERNON V. UNITED STATES
09-764 MOWER, LESLIE D. V. UNITED STATES
09-773 LERMAN, STEVEN, ET AL. V. FORT LAUDERDALE, FL
09-780 PEDELEOSE, KENNETH M. V. DEPT. OF DEFENSE
09-789 UNISYS CORPORATION V. ADAIR, HARLEY J., ET AL.
09-801 WESCOTT, DAVID L. V. UNITED STATES
09-802 NITSCHKE, MARTIN V. CIR
09-811 HYATT, KENNETH R. V. UNITED STATES
09-832 THOMAS, OSCAR L. V. SHINSEKI, SEC. OF VA, ET AL.
09-844 WOOD, BRENT E. V. UNITED STATES
09-5887 SCOTT, WILLIAM G. V. MISSISSIPPI
09-6097 ROLLINS, SAHARRIS V. BEARD, SEC., PA DOC, ET AL.
09-6103 AUGUSTIN, PIERRE R. V. CHASE HOME FINANCE LLC
09-6255 TIEWLOH, WREH V. UNITED STATES
09-6384 MARTE, NOEL V. NEW YORK
09-6492 JACKSON, CHRISTOPHER R. V. UNITED STATES
09-6598 HERNANDEZ, ALEX J. V. UNITED STATES
09-6627 CONROY, PAMELIA J. V. UNITED STATES
09-6664 RESTREPO-MEJIA, LILIAM A. V. HOLDER, ATT'Y GEN.
09-6732 ROGERS, NORIS G. V. KBR TECHNICAL SERVICES INC.
09-6832 JONGEWAARD, LARRY V. UNITED STATES
09-6915 FALLS, DUPRE V. UNITED STATES
09-6928 ANDERSON, BARRY L. V. CALIFORNIA
09-7019 GRANT, JANICE V. UNITED STATES
09-7066 GONZALES, RAMIRO F. V. TEXAS
09-7257 IRICK, BILLY R. V. BELL, WARDEN
09-7370 AGUIRE-JARQUIN, CLEMENTE J. V. FLORIDA
09-7446 WOODS, NATHANIEL V. ALABAMA
09-7450 STEWART, TERRELL D. V. UNITED STATES
09-7486 SIGALA, MICHAEL A. V. THALER, DIR., TX DCJ
09-7547 AHMED, FAYAD V. GATES, SEC. OF DEFENSE
09-7564 EGGLESTON, ANTOINE C. V. UNITED STATES
09-7780 KENNEDY, RICHARD D. V. LOCKETT, JOHN R., ET AL.
09-7789 YARBOROUGH, OWEN J. V. THALER, DIR., TX DCJ
09-7791 TANI, KESS V. CEDAR, BRIAN, ET AL.
09-7794 RAMEY, LONNIE V. FLORIDA
09-7795 SELF, TERRY V. DEVON ENERGY PRODUCTION
09-7796 SMITH, FREDERICK W. V. DELAWARE, ET AL.
09-7798 RUSSELL, KEITH K. V. CALIFORNIA
09-7801 RATTIS, CHRIS V. JACKSON, SUPT., BROWN CREEK
09-7802 HANSEN, GEIR V. INDUSTRIAL CLAIM APPEALS OFFICE
09-7809 MOORE, GREGG V. CURRIE MOTORS, ET AL.
09-7813 PHILLIPS, CHERIE V. MIKE MURDOCK EVANGELISTIC ASS'N
09-7815 PALMER, MIGUEL F. V. TALLAHASSEE, FL, ET AL.
09-7817 LEWIS, CALVIN V. LEWIS, WARDEN
09-7820 JONES, RAFAEL A. V. MILLIGAN, ERIN, ET AL.
09-7821 LEAKE, PIERRE V. MINNESOTA
09-7822 JORDAN, BEN V. FLORIDA
09-7823 TARSHIK, YEFIM V. KANSAS, ET AL.
09-7824 OZENNE, GARY L. V. CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, ET AL.
09-7835 JAMES, DEVON R. V. WARREN, WARDEN
09-7837 BECK, DAVE V. WALKER, WARDEN
09-7840 WASHINGTON, ISAIAH V. BOWERSOX, SUPT., SOUTH CENTRAL
09-7842 WILLIAMS, TERRENCE V. McQUIGGIN, WARDEN
09-7844 LEE, EDDIE J. V. WOUGHTER, SUPT., MOHAWK, ET AL.
09-7856 ANDERSON, TERRY, ET UX. V. INDIAN SPRINGS LLC, ET AL.
09-7858 POWERS, COLEEN L. V. MESABA AVIATION, INC., ET AL.
09-7860 ANDRUS, CHARLES R. V. THALER, DIR., TX DCJ
09-7862 SORLIEN, MARTIN C. V. MICHIGAN
09-7863 WARREN, JAMES A. V. THALER, DIR., TX DCJ
09-7867 GARRAWAY, ANTHONY M. V. FISCHER, COMM'R, NY DOC, ET AL.
09-7874 GOFF, JOSEPH B. V. MISSISSIPPI
09-7878 DENNIS, SHEILA V. KELLER MEYER BLDG. SERVICES
09-7883 BLACKSHEAR, MICHAEL V. McNEIL, SEC., FL DOC, ET AL.
09-7887 McDUFFIE, TAVARES A. V. FLORIDA
09-7890 ROCHA, BRUNO V. FLORIDA
09-7892 KINNARD, SAMMIE D. V. METRO. POLICE DEPT., ET AL.
09-7894 LIGGON-REDDING, ELIZABETH V. WILLINGBORO TOWNSHIP, NJ, ET AL.
09-7896 WEATHERSPOON, MICHAEL V. FAYRAM, WARDEN
09-7897 SCHOOR, DAVID G. V. TEXAS
09-7900 McNEELY, DOCK V. SACRAMENTO COUNTY, CA, ET AL.
09-7902 D'ARY, CHARLES V. UNITED STATES
09-7905 COOPER, JOHN V. THALER, DIR., TX DCJ
09-7915 MORALES, MARLO U. V. BOATWRIGHT, WARDEN
09-7916 A. H. V. PENNSYLVANIA
09-7917 C. G. V. PENNSYLVANIA
09-7918 LEWIS, MICHAEL B. V. CALIFORNIA
09-7920 BOWMAN, FRANK V. CATE, SEC., CA DOC
09-7922 PALMER, DEXTER R. V. SMITH, WARDEN
09-7924 K. E. H. V. PENNSYLVANIA
09-7928 HENSLEY, SHANNON A. V. COLVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT
09-7931 PYE, DOUGLAS K. V. TEXAS
09-7933 JAMES, MICHAEL E. V. CALIFORNIA
09-7934 LINAREZ, RAUL R. V. CALIFORNIA
09-7935 JENNINGS, CHARLTON V. ROZUM, SUPT., SOMERSET
09-7937 MAYER, JAMES P. V. SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
09-7938 MANNING, COREY L. V. PALMER, WARDEN
09-7945 WIMBERLY, MARCIA E. V. ROYAL, ELBERT, ET AL.
09-7947 BAKARICH, GERALD C. V. NEW JERSEY
09-7951 HENRY, LISA J. V. OHIO
09-7953 VILLASANA, JAVIER C. V. HOLDER, ATT'Y GEN.
09-7955 MUHAMMAD, SHAKA S. V. SUPERIOR COURT OF CA, ET AL.
09-7956 BRADFORD, CHRISTOPHER P. V. SUBIA, WARDEN
09-7966 JAMES, HENRY V. RICHARDSON, SERGEANT, ET AL.
09-7967 JONES, PERCY L. V. LOUISIANA
09-7968 KING, WILLIAM V. MAYBERG, STEPHEN, ET AL.
09-7969 McFARLAND, UZELL V. CHANDLER, WARDEN
09-7970 MURPHY, BERNARD V. HAGAN, WARDEN
09-7977 SPEER, PAUL B. V. ARIZONA
09-7978 BLAXTON, OTIS V. McNEIL, SEC., FL DOC, ET AL.
09-7979 BRANTLEY, TONY E. V. SIRMONS, WARDEN
09-7986 GRIFFIN, JOHN R. V. WHITEFIELD, NH, ET AL.
09-7991 NGUYEN, HY T. V. CHRISTIANSON, BRITTA W.
09-7993 LANCE, GREGORY P. V. MORROW, WARDEN
09-7995 JACKSON, STEVEN V. ILLINOIS
09-7998 TAMEZ, RAUL G. V. THALER, DIR., TX DCJ
09-8000 THOMPSON, TRAVIS R. V. GONZALEZ, ACTING WARDEN, ET AL.
09-8001 TAYLOR, ERIC, ET UX. V. JACOBS, SAMUEL L., ET AL.
09-8005 RIDENER, KENNETH E. V. WISCONSIN
09-8006 SANTOS, MANUEL V. MASSACHUSETTS
09-8012 BATES, ALLEN D. V. DAVIS, JEFF, ET AL.
09-8015 AGUADO-GUEL, LEOPOLDO V. LARKIN, DEPUTY, ET AL.
09-8023 BAEZ, ROBERTO V. JAMES, JUDGE, ETC.
09-8024 CAILLOT, HERBY V. MASSACHUSETTS
09-8034 GRIGGS, ARTHUR L. V. CULLIVER, WARDEN
09-8037 FENTON, CASWELL V. McNEIL, SEC., FL DOC
09-8039 GALVAN, KIM J. V. CALIFORNIA
09-8041 GONZALES, JOHN V. RYAN, DIR., AZ DOC, ET AL.
09-8042 HOELSCHER, LOREN J. V. CALIFORNIA
09-8043 SMITH, ALEXIS D. V. LAFLER, WARDEN
09-8044 SORROW, LOYD L. V. THALER, DIR., TX DCJ
09-8046 HETT, H. PAUL V. WADE, JERRY C., ET AL.
09-8049 DAVIS, ROBERT J. V. FLORIDA
09-8050 DEDRICK, JERRY L. V. TEXAS
09-8053 BOWERSOCK, MARK V. SUPERIOR COURT OF CA, ET AL.
09-8061 SODERSTROM, RANDY L. V. NICHOLAS, HENRY T., ET AL.
09-8065 DAVIS, EDDIE W. V. McNEIL, SEC., FL DOC
09-8068 GARY, TONY L. V. FLORIDA
09-8069 GREEN, CLAUDELL V. SULLIVAN, WARDEN, ET AL.
09-8072 HUYNH, DUNG N. V. BAZE, JEREMY, ET AL.
09-8078 FELGAR, JOHN E. V. BURKETT, JEFFREY D., ET AL.
09-8079 GRANT, KRYSTLE Y. V. WHEELER, WARDEN
09-8080 McDOWELL, BRUCE V. UNITED STATES
09-8089 KLAT, SUSAN V. V. MITCHELL REPAIR INFORMATION CO.
09-8091 KOCH, JACK R. V. BROWN, ATTY. GEN. OF CA, ET AL.
09-8093 LEE, WILLIAM A. V. UNITED STATES
09-8095 VENTRY, MONTRELL D. V. ARKANSAS
09-8099 WOOLRIDGE, JOSHUA T. V. ANWAR, PARWANA
09-8100 UKAWABUTU, RA'ZULU V. RICCI, ASSOC. ADM'R, NJ, ET AL.
09-8103 LEE, RONNIE V. CALIFORNIA
09-8104 LASKEY, LAURIE M. V. PLATT ELECTRIC SUPPLY, INC.
09-8107 PATTERSON, MICAH A. V. CALIFORNIA
09-8108 PARMER, JAMES V. IDAHO CORRECTIONAL CORP., ET AL.
09-8110 SHAW, HERMAN V. McNEIL, SEC., FL DOC, ET AL.
09-8114 WILLIAMS, FRANK V. ILLINOIS
09-8119 BROWN, SHERWOOD V. UNITED STATES
09-8122 PARMELEE, GARY A. V. McCOLLUM, ATT'Y GEN. OF FL
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09-8133 HANNAH, DONALD E. V. FLORIDA
09-8134 GRAY, ROSS A. V. WEST VIRGINIA
09-8137 LEGGETT, TIMOTHY V. UNITED STATES
09-8144 FIGUEROA, JOSUE V. DiGUGLIELMO, SUPT., GRATERFORD
09-8157 COLEMAN, ARTHUR V. BAZZLE, WARDEN
09-8165 HALL, ALONZA V. UNITED STATES
09-8166 GRAY, DARRYL V. LEE, SUPT., GREEN HAVEN
09-8175 SMITH, ALBERT K. V. NORRIS., DIR., AR DOC
09-8187 RHETT, ANDREW V. POWER, T. MICHAEL
09-8191 HESTER, WARREN V. WEST VIRGINIA
09-8197 TILLIS, SHERROD V. ILLINOIS
09-8199 BOLLS, JONATHAN V. STREET, SEC., VA BD. EXAMINERS
09-8208 PADGETT, LYNN A. V. BRAMBLETT, KAREN
09-8212 REESE, BARRY V. UNITED STATES
09-8218 PERDUE, IVORY D. V. UNITED STATES
09-8222 GENEVIER, PIERRE V. DeMORE, BRIAN
09-8228 MONTAGUE, CHAUNCEY L. V. VIRGINIA
09-8248 NESTOR, BRIAN L. V. UNITED STATES
09-8251 GILLESPIE, JONAS E. V. UNITED STATES
09-8255 DRUMMOND, FRANK V. UNITED STATES
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09-8258 RICHARDSON, DORIAN W. V. UNITED STATES
09-8260 SOTOLONGO, ROBERTO V. UNITED STATES
09-8265 COOK, GLENN D. V. UNITED STATES
09-8269 SHMELEV, PYOTR V. MINNESOTA
09-8272 RIVERA, LAUREANO C. V. UNITED STATES
09-8273 ROBINSON, JOSEPH E. V. UNITED STATES
09-8274 SELLERS, FREDERICK L. V. UNITED STATES
09-8279 BELTRAN, HERNALDO V. UNITED STATES
09-8280 BROWN, JAMES V. PHELPS, WARDEN, ET AL.
09-8282 ACKER, JAMES V. McNEIL, SEC., FL DOC
09-8286 BLIGE, FRANKLIN L. V. UNITED STATES
09-8287 ARGUETA-FERNANDEZ, GILMAN V. UNITED STATES
09-8288 DALE, PHILIP L. V. UNITED STATES
09-8289 DE LEON-MARTINEZ, ROBERTO V. UNITED STATES
09-8290 ELLIS, FRANKIE C. V. UNITED STATES
09-8292 CREDELL, COREY T. V. SOUTH CAROLINA
09-8295 BRYANT, COYT V. UNITED STATES
09-8298 POPE, EMMANUEL V. UNITED STATES
09-8299 KRETSER, KARL D. V. UNITED STATES
09-8300 McCRAY, RICHARD O. V. UNITED STATES
09-8302 WEST, GARY W. V. UNITED STATES
09-8309 VEGA-FIGUEROA, JOSE A. V. UNITED STATES
09-8310 WREN, FREDDIE M. V. UNITED STATES
09-8313 SANDERS, CORNELL L. V. UNITED STATES
09-8314 RUFFIN, JOHNNY L. V. DiGUGLIELMO, SUPT., GRATERFORD
09-8315 SHAFER, ROBERT G. V. UNITED STATES
09-8319 WHITE, DERRICK V. UNITED STATES
09-8322 WILLIAMS, DERRICK V. UNITED STATES
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09-8323 GAINES, WILLIAM E. V. UNITED STATES
09-8325 BELL, MICHAEL D. V. SAMUELS, DOUGLAS, ET AL.
09-8328 DAVIS, CHARLES V. PENNSYLVANIA
09-8332 TERRY, GARY I. V. UNITED STATES
09-8336 RODRIGUEZ-PARRA, OSCAR V. UNITED STATES
09-8337 SALAZAR-BASALDUA, ROGELIO V. UNITED STATES
09-8339 MANN, DONNELL V. UNITED STATES
09-8340 LADOUCER, TODD R. V. UNITED STATES
09-8341 MACK, LARRY V. UNITED STATES
09-8343 JARAMILLO-AVELINO, JORGE V. UNITED STATES
09-8344 OPARAJI, MAURICE V. NY MORTGAGE COMPANY, LLC
09-8346 ORLANDO-MENA, MIGUEL V. UNITED STATES
09-8347 MEDINA-VILLA, COSME V. UNITED STATES
09-8348 MILLER, RODNEY R. V. UNITED STATES
09-8359 JOHNSON, JAMES T. V. UNITED STATES
09-8365 VERDUGO-MUNOZ, JOSE A. V. UNITED STATES
09-8369 JUDD, KEITH R. V. UNITED STATES
09-8370 LEONARD, FINIS V. ILLINOIS
09-8371 LEDEZMA, JOSEPHINE V. UNITED STATES
09-8372 VENTRUELLA, MARJORIE, ET AL. V. UNITED STATES
09-8374 SAAVEDRA-VELAZQUEZ, JOSE M. V. UNITED STATES
09-8376 PERRY, JAMES F. V. UNITED STATES
09-8380 BAKER, MARIO N. V. UNITED STATES
09-8382 CABRERA-ALEJANDRE, MANUEL V. UNITED STATES
09-8383 MOHSEN, AMR V. U.S. TRUSTEE
09-8384 PINSON, JEREMY V. V. UNITED STATES
09-8386 PENNANT, PAUL V. UNITED STATES
09-8387 MILLER, MARSHALL R. V. HOLDER, ATT'Y GEN., ET AL.
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09-8392 SMITH, TYREE T. V. UNITED STATES
09-8395 JAMES, IVANDER V. STANSBERRY, WARDEN
09-8397 LATHAM, KENDRICK V. UNITED STATES
09-8398 LAZO, REYMUNDO R. V. ARIZONA
09-8399 EDWARDS, BORIS M. V. UNITED STATES
09-8401 ATCHISON, ADONNIS V. UNITED STATES
09-8405 PUCHALSKI, ADAM V. ILLINOIS
09-8406 PATTON, JON V. UNITED STATES
09-8407 MILLER, RODNEY V. UNITED STATES
09-8408 PRICE, FOSTER J. V. UNITED STATES
09-8409 JENKINS, WILLIAM R. V. UNITED STATES
09-8411 BANKS, DONALD T. V. UNITED STATES
09-8413 ROGEL-TORRES, JOSUE V. UNITED STATES
09-8425 MOORE, WAYNE V. UNITED STATES
09-8431 PASSARO, DAVID A. V. UNITED STATES
09-8433 BANKS, ERIC J. V. OUTLAW, WARDEN, ET AL.
09-8435 VENEGAS-ZAMORA, RAFAEL V. UNITED STATES
09-8436 WALKER, MICHAEL V. UNITED STATES
09-8438 VASQUEZ-ROSALES, JUAN V. UNITED STATES
09-8439 PROCTOR, JOHN R. V. UNITED STATES
09-8440 JONES, MICHAEL C. V. UNITED STATES
09-8446 DAWKINS, TERRY L. V. UNITED STATES
09-8447 CARVER, TIMOTHY W. V. UNITED STATES
09-8449 McCOY, CHESTER V. UNITED STATES
09-8450 MILLS, ROBERT V. UNITED STATES
09-8452 POWELL, TONY E. V. UNITED STATES
09-8456 BEIRUTI, ISSA S. V. UNITED STATES
09-8457 DELVILLAR, OCTAVIO V. UNITED STATES
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09-8458 ELIAS, ALLAN V. UNITED STATES
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09-8460 COOPER, ANDRE V. UNITED STATES
09-8467 YOUNG, CONNIE J. V. UNITED STATES
09-8468 ORDUNO, GUILLERMO V. UNITED STATES
09-8469 STOTTS, NATHANIEL R. V. UNITED STATES
09-8471 SLADE, ARTIS E. V. UNITED STATES
09-8477 CHEN, QIAN V. MARTINEZ, JUDGE, USDC WD WA
09-8480 DAVIS, MACK A. V. UNITED STATES
09-8483 BYERS, EVERETT M. V. UNITED STATES
09-8484 CLEAVER, JAMES F. V. UNITED STATES
09-8485 DERROW, MICHAEL J. V. UNITED STATES
09-8490 HARRISON, REX T. V. UNITED STATES
09-8491 FLORES-MERAZ, ROBERTO V. UNITED STATES
09-8492 FAGAN, MAURICE J. V. UNITED STATES
09-8494 FULBRIGHT, SHANNON R. V. UNITED STATES
09-8495 HERNANDEZ-ORTIZ, HECTOR V. UNITED STATES
09-8498 REYES, JORGE V. UNITED STATES
09-8499 FIGUEROA-TREJO, RODRIGO V. UNITED STATES
09-8500 GARCIA-ALCANTAR, ADRIAN V. UNITED STATES
09-8501 GARCIA-APARICIO, SERGIO V. UNITED STATES
09-8503 TODD, MARCO V. UNITED STATES
09-8505 ADAMS, CHARLES J. V. UNITED STATES
09-8508 CHANEY, VINCENT V. UNITED STATES
09-8509 GARCIA-GARCIA, SANDRY V. UNITED STATES
09-8516 LONDONO-CARDONA, LEONEL V. UNITED STATES
09-8518 JACKSON, QUINCY F. V. UNITED STATES
09-8519 MARTINEZ-BLANCO, OLIVAR V. UNITED STATES
14
09-8520 AUSTON, RICHARD V. UNITED STATES
09-8523 VILLA, ESMERELDA V. UNITED STATES
09-8524 MYERS, EDWARD V. UNITED STATES
09-8531 TINDAL, ALPHONSO M. V. UNITED STATES
09-8532 STOVALL, CALVIN V. UNITED STATES
09-8534 JACKSON, EDWARD V. UNITED STATES
09-8535 WINTERS, DAVID V. U.S. PAROLE COMM'R, ET AL.
09-8537 RAMIREZ, PENNINA V. UNITED STATES
09-8538 ) RODRIGUEZ, DIUVEL V. UNITED STATES

)
09-8612 ) HERNANDEZ GARI, GEORMANI V. UNITED STATES
09-8539 PERTIL, ORATIN V. UNITED STATES
09-8540 DIAZ-GUTIERREZ, ALEJANDRO V. UNITED STATES
09-8542 ARCHULETA, TOBIAS V. UNITED STATES
09-8544 BERGARA, MARJIL L. V. UNITED STATES
09-8545 ALEXANDER, LAZZERICK V. UNITED STATES
09-8547 BOCHICCHIO, DAVID V. UNITED STATES
09-8549 MILLER, JOHN J. V. UNITED STATES
09-8553 PALADINO, ROBERT V. UNITED STATES
09-8554 YODER, JOHN M. V. UNITED STATES
09-8556 KIM, STANLEY V. UNITED STATES
09-8559 DALLUM, CHRISTOPHER W. V. UNITED STATES
09-8562 ADAMS, ROLAND V. UNITED STATES
09-8565 DRAKE, JOSHUA L. V. UNITED STATES
09-8611 GARCIA-BERCOVICH, ANGEL V. UNITED STATES
09-8614 HAMPTON, WILLIE A. V. UNITED STATES
09-8615 HAMMOND, EDWIN L. V. UNITED STATES
09-8617 GITARTS, BARRY E. V. UNITED STATES
09-8618 FRESHOUR, RUSSELL F. V. UNITED STATES
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09-8620 GOODWIN-BEY, SCOTT V. UNITED STATES
09-8621 GIESWEIN, SHAWN J. V. UNITED STATES
09-8627 ZAMORA-LAINES, SANTOS V. UNITED STATES
09-8629 CHEN, HUI V. UNITED STATES
09-8631 ALLEN, VERONICA M. V. UNITED STATES
09-8633 EVANS, ELLIS E. V. RIVERA, WARDEN
09-8635 PHILLIPS, MARK E. V. UNITED STATES
09-8636 MEDINA-MARTINEZ, NATIVIDAD V. UNITED STATES
09-8639 JONES, RAMONE S. V. UNITED STATES
09-8647 WASHINGTON, WILLIAM V. UNITED STATES
09-8649 WIMBLEY, BARRON V. UNITED STATES
09-8652 RICHARDSON, DANA S. V. UNITED STATES
09-8654 RICKS, ANDRE V. UNITED STATES
09-8655 SMITH, LEONARD V. V. UNITED STATES
09-8658 SALEAN, SALADEAN W. V. UNITED STATES
09-8661 ALEXANDER, CLARENCE E. V. UNITED STATES
09-8666 HUNN, RICHARD E. V. UNITED STATES
09-8668 HARRIS, THOMAS J. V. UNITED STATES
09-8670 GOPIE, WAYNE A. V. UNITED STATES
09-8672 ACIERNO, STEPHANIE V. UNITED STATES
09-8684 TORRES-MENCHACA, GUILLERMO V. UNITED STATES
09-8688 HOLGUIN, MARIO A. G. V. UNITED STATES
The petitions for writs of certiorari are denied.
09-375 AMATO, BALDASSARE V. UNITED STATES
The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. Justice
Sotomayor took no part in the consideration or decision of this
petition.
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09-517 PACIFIC INVESTMENT MGMT., ET AL. V. HERSHEY, RICHARD, ET AL.
The motion of DRI - The Voice of the Defense Bar for leave
to file a brief as amicus curiae is granted. The petition for
a writ of certiorari is denied.
09-570 DELAWARE V. COOKE, JAMES
The motion of respondent for leave to proceed in forma
pauperis is granted. The petition for a writ of certiorari
is denied.
09-652 FRIERSON-HARRIS, MICHAEL W. V. HOUGH, JOSEPH C., ET AL.
09-726 AMES DEPT. STORES, INC., ET AL. V. ASM CAPITAL, L.P.
09-6937 LAMAY, CRYSTAL V. ASTRUE, COMM'R, SOCIAL SEC.
The petitions for writs of certiorari are denied. Justice
Sotomayor took no part in the consideration or decision of these
petitions.
09-7785 ALBERT, IKECHI K. V. DAKOTA COMMUNITIES, INC., ET AL.
The motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
pauperis is denied, and the petition for a writ of certiorari
is dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
09-7800 RIZZO, AUGUSTINE V. ROCK, SUPT., GREAT MEADOW
The motion of petitioner to defer consideration of
the petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. The
petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
09-7853 WENDELL, DENNIS H. V. USDC ND NY
petition.
09-7925 HILL, THOMAS W. V. HILLIER, DAVID R.
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is dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As the petitioner has repeatedly
abused this Court's process, the Clerk is directed not to accept
any further petitions in noncriminal matters from petitioner
unless the docketing fee required by Rule 38(a) is paid and the
petition is submitted in compliance with Rule 33.1. See Martin
v. District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 506 U.S. 1 (1992) (per
curiam). Justice Stevens dissents. See id., at 4, and cases
cited therein.
09-7990 FORTE, ANTHONY V. ROCK, SUPT., GREAT MEADOW
petition.
09-8048 ELINE, RICHARD C. V. HAWAII DEPT. OF PUBLIC SAFETY
09-8124 PEEK, SHANE V. CUMMINGS, JUDGE, ETC., ET AL.
09-8294 AGOSTINI, ADRIAN V. UNITED STATES
09-8335 JACKSON, VANCE V. UNITED STATES
petitions.
09-8453 McCARTHY, JOHN J. V. UNITED STATES
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09-8476 KARRON, DANIEL B. V. UNITED STATES
09-8482 ALONSO, DANIEL P. V. UNITED STATES
petitions.
09-8646 JEFFUS, EDWARD D. V. DREW, WARDEN
HABEAS CORPUS DENIED
09-8455 IN RE WILLIE R. BUSH
09-8464 IN RE MITCHELL L. WALCK
09-8632 IN RE FREDDIE E. CASEY
The petitions for writs of habeas corpus are denied.
MANDAMUS DENIED
09-7885 IN RE BARRY N. WADDELL
09-7982 IN RE LORENZO TOWNSEND
09-8198 IN RE ALFREDO M. SANCHO
The petitions for writs of mandamus are denied.
09-8014 IN RE CHARLES W. ALPINE
pauperis is denied, and the petition for a writ of mandamus
and/or prohibition is dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As the
petitioner has repeatedly abused this Court's process, the
Clerk is directed not to accept any further petitions in
noncriminal matters from petitioner unless the docketing fee
required by Rule 38(a) is paid and the petition is submitted in
compliance with Rule 33.1. See Martin v. District of Columbia
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Court of Appeals, 506 U.S. 1 (1992) (per curiam). Justice
Stevens dissents. See id., at 4, and cases cited therein.
REHEARINGS DENIED
08-1472 USA MOBILITY WIRELESS, INC. V. QUON, JERILYN, ET AL.
08-10404 FULTZ, JAMES R. V. STATE FARM INSURANCE
08-10506 GARRETT, REGINA D. V. MISSISSIPPI
09-325 ARONOV, ALEXANDRE V. NAPOLITANO, SEC. OF HOMELAND
09-405 UNITED STATES, EX REL. DARIAN V. ACCENT BUILDERS, INC., ET AL.
09-406 UNITED STATES, EX REL. DARIAN V. PASTERNAK, DAVID J., ET AL.
09-5027 McNEILL, MICHAEL V. STAMPER, FRANK, ET AL.
09-5694 BOLDEN, ROBERT L. V. UNITED STATES
09-5728 HOLLIS, DARREN V. UNITED STATES
09-5973 TORAIN, BILLY J. V. AMERITECH ADVANCED DATA SERVICES
09-6078 KIM, GWANJUN V. PROGRESSIVE EXPRESS INS. CO.
09-6127 HAWTHORNE, RICKEY V. CARUSO, DIR., MI DOC, ET AL.
09-6136 NESBITT, RAYMOND V. CIRCUIT COURT OF IL
09-6203 MEREDITH, LYNNE V. ERATH, ANDREW, ET AL.
09-6382 ODOM, CHRISTOPHER A. V. OZMINT, DIR., SC DOC, ET AL.
09-6453 ROACH, WARREN T. V. ROCKINGHAM CTY. BD. OF ED.
09-6570 ADAMS, BRIAN V. HONDA ENGINEERING NORTH AMERICA
09-6864 LEWIS, KENNETH M. V. BURTT, WARDEN
09-6946 HANSLEY, JOHNNY L. V. UNITED STATES
09-6998 MACHADO, JESUS V. McNEIL, SEC., FL DOC
09-7173 MONACELLI, KATHALINA V. TARGET STORES, ET AL.
09-7174 MONACELLI, KATHALINA V. ENTERPRISE LEASING CO., ET AL.
09-7175 MONACELLI, KATHALINA V. EDISON STATE COLLEGE, ET AL.
09-7176 KING, WILLIE F. V. UNITED STATES
09-7372 WELCH, LARRY C. V. UNITED STATES
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09-7425 McGRIGGS, JONATHAN V. MISSISSIPPI
09-7688 IN RE DONALD J. TRUAX
The petitions for rehearing are denied.
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Per Curiam
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

JAMEY L. WILKINS v. OFFICER GADDY
ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED
STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 08–10914. Decided February 22, 2010
PER CURIAM.
In Hudson v. McMillian, 503 U. S. 1, 4 (1992), this
Court held that “the use of excessive physical force against
a prisoner may constitute cruel and unusual punishment
[even] when the inmate does not suffer serious injury.” In
this case, the District Court dismissed a prisoner’s exces
sive force claim based entirely on its determination that
his injuries were “de minimis.” Because the District
Court’s approach, affirmed on appeal, is at odds with
Hudson’s direction to decide excessive force claims based
on the nature of the force rather than the extent of the
injury, the petition for certiorari is granted, and the judg
ment is reversed.
I
In March 2008, petitioner Jamey Wilkins, a North
Carolina state prisoner, filed suit in the United States
District Court for the Western District of North Carolina
pursuant to 42 U. S. C. §1983. Wilkins’ pro se complaint
alleged that, on June 13, 2007, he was “maliciously and
sadistically” assaulted “[w]ithout any provocation” by a
corrections officer, respondent Gaddy.1 App. to Pet. for
Cert. C–4. According to the complaint, Gaddy, apparently
angered by Wilkins’ request for a grievance form,
“snatched [Wilkins] off the ground and slammed him onto
the concrete floor.” Ibid. Gaddy “then proceeded to punch,
kick, knee and choke [Wilkins] until another officer had to
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1 The materials in the record do not disclose Gaddy’s full name.
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physically remove him from [Wilkins].” Ibid. Wilkins

further alleged that, “[a]s a result of the excessive force
used by [Gaddy], [he] sustained multiple physical injuries
including a bruised heel, lower back pain, increased blood
pressure, as well as migraine headaches and dizziness”
and “psychological trauma and mental anguish including
depression, panic attacks and nightmares of the assault.”
Ibid.
The District Court, on its own motion and without a
response from Gaddy, dismissed Wilkins’ complaint for
failure to state a claim. Citing Circuit precedent, the court
stated that, “[i]n order to state an excessive force claim
under the Eighth Amendment, a plaintiff must establish
that he received more than a de minimus [sic] injury.” No.
3:08–cv–00138 (WD NC, Apr. 16, 2008), pp. 1, 2 (citing
Taylor v. McDuffie, 155 F. 3d 479, 483 (CA4 1998); Riley v.
Dorton, 115 F. 3d 1159, 1166 (CA4 1997) (en banc); foot
note omitted). According to the court, Wilkins’ alleged
injuries were no more severe than those deemed de mini
mis in the Circuit’s Taylor and Riley decisions. Indeed,
the court noted, Wilkins nowhere asserted that his inju
ries had required medical attention.
In a motion for reconsideration, Wilkins stated that he
was unaware that the failure to allege medical treatment
might prejudice his claim. He asserted that he had been
prescribed, and continued to take, medication for his
headaches and back pain, as well as for depression. And
he attached medical records purporting to corroborate his
injuries and course of treatment.
Describing reconsideration as “an extraordinary rem
edy,” the court declined to revisit its previous ruling. No.
3:08–cv–00138 (WD NC, Aug. 25, 2008), p. 1. The medical
records, the court observed, indicated that some of Wil
kins’ alleged injuries “were pre-existing conditions.” Id.,
at 3. Wilkins had sought treatment for high blood pres
sure and mental health issues even before the assault.
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The court acknowledged that Wilkins received an X ray

after the incident “to examine his ‘bruised heel,’ ” but it
“note[d] that bruising is generally considered a de mini
mus [sic] injury.” Id., at 4. The court similarly character
ized as de minimis Wilkins’ complaints of back pain and
headaches. The court denied Wilkins leave to amend his
complaint. In a summary disposition, the Court of Ap
peals affirmed “for the reasons stated by the district
court.” No. 08–7881 (CA4, Jan. 23, 2009).
II
In requiring what amounts to a showing of significant
injury in order to state an excessive force claim, the
Fourth Circuit has strayed from the clear holding of this
Court in Hudson. Like Wilkins, the prisoner in Hudson
filed suit under §1983 alleging that corrections officers
had used excessive force in violation of the Eighth
Amendment. Evidence indicated that the officers had
punched Hudson in the mouth, eyes, chest, and stomach
without justification, resulting in “minor bruises and
swelling of his face, mouth, and lip” as well as loosened
teeth and a cracked partial dental plate. 503 U. S., at 4.
A Magistrate Judge entered judgment in Hudson’s favor,
but the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed,
holding that an inmate must prove “a significant injury” in
order to state an excessive force claim. Hudson v. McMil
lian, 929 F. 2d 1014, 1015 (1990) (per curiam). According
to the Court of Appeals, Hudson’s injuries, which had not
required medical attention, were too “minor” to warrant
relief. Ibid.
Reversing the Court of Appeals, this Court rejected the
notion that “significant injury” is a threshold requirement
for stating an excessive force claim. The “core judicial
inquiry,” we held, was not whether a certain quantum of
injury was sustained, but rather “whether force was ap
plied in a good-faith effort to maintain or restore disci
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pline, or maliciously and sadistically to cause harm.” 503

U. S., at 7; see also Whitley v. Albers, 475 U. S. 312, 319–
321 (1986). “When prison officials maliciously and sadisti
cally use force to cause harm,” the Court recognized, “con
temporary standards of decency always are violated . . .
whether or not significant injury is evident. Otherwise,
the Eighth Amendment would permit any physical pun
ishment, no matter how diabolic or inhuman, inflicting
less than some arbitrary quantity of injury.” Hudson, 503
U. S., at 9; see also id., at 13–14 (Blackmun, J., concurring
in judgment) (“The Court today appropriately puts to rest
a seriously misguided view that pain inflicted by an exces
sive use of force is actionable under the Eighth Amend
ment only when coupled with ‘significant injury,’ e.g.,
injury that requires medical attention or leaves perma
nent marks”).
This is not to say that the “absence of serious injury” is
irrelevant to the Eighth Amendment inquiry. Id., at 7.
“[T]he extent of injury suffered by an inmate is one factor
that may suggest ‘whether the use of force could plausibly
have been thought necessary’ in a particular situation.”
Ibid. (quoting Whitley, 475 U. S., at 321). The extent of
injury may also provide some indication of the amount of
force applied. As we stated in Hudson, not “every malevo
lent touch by a prison guard gives rise to a federal cause of
action.” 503 U. S., at 9. “The Eighth Amendment’s prohi
bition of ‘cruel and unusual’ punishments necessarily
excludes from constitutional recognition de minimis uses
of physical force, provided that the use of force is not of a
sort repugnant to the conscience of mankind.” Ibid. (some
internal quotation marks omitted). An inmate who com
plains of a “push or shove” that causes no discernible
injury almost certainly fails to state a valid excessive force
claim. Ibid. (quoting Johnson v. Glick, 481 F. 2d 1028,
1033 (CA2 1973)).
Injury and force, however, are only imperfectly corre
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lated, and it is the latter that ultimately counts. An in

mate who is gratuitously beaten by guards does not lose
his ability to pursue an excessive force claim merely be
cause he has the good fortune to escape without serious
injury. Accordingly, the Court concluded in Hudson that
the supposedly “minor” nature of the injuries “provide[d]
no basis for dismissal of [Hudson’s] §1983 claim” because
“the blows directed at Hudson, which caused bruises,
swelling, loosened teeth, and a cracked dental plate, are
not de minimis for Eighth Amendment purposes.” 503
U. S., at 10.
The allegations made by Wilkins in this case are quite
similar to the facts in Hudson, and the District Court’s
analysis closely resembles the approach Hudson dis
avowed. Wilkins alleged that he was punched, kicked,
kneed, choked, and body slammed “maliciously and sadis
tically” and “[w]ithout any provocation.” Dismissing Wil
kins’ action sua sponte, the District Court did not hold that
this purported assault, which allegedly left Wilkins with a
bruised heel, back pain, and other injuries requiring medi
cal treatment, involved de minimis force. Instead, the
court concluded that Wilkins had failed to state a claim
because “he simply has not alleged that he suffered any
thing more than de minimus [sic] injury.” No. 3:08–cv–
00138 (WD NC, Apr. 16, 2008), at 2.
In giving decisive weight to the purportedly de minimis
nature of Wilkins’ injuries, the District Court relied on two
Fourth Circuit cases. See Riley, 115 F. 3d, at 1166–1168;
Taylor, 155 F. 3d, at 483–485. Those cases, in turn, were
based upon the Fourth Circuit’s earlier decision in Nor
man v. Taylor, 25 F. 3d 1259 (1994) (en banc), which
approved the practice of using injury as a proxy for force.
According to the Fourth Circuit, Hudson “does not fore
close and indeed is consistent with [the] view . . . that,
absent the most extraordinary circumstances, a plaintiff
cannot prevail on an Eighth Amendment excessive force
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claim if his injuries are de minimis.” 25 F. 3d, at 1263.

The Fourth Circuit’s strained reading of Hudson is not
defensible. This Court’s decision did not, as the Fourth
Circuit would have it, merely serve to lower the injury
threshold for excessive force claims from “significant” to
“non-de minimis”—whatever those ill-defined terms might
mean. Instead, the Court aimed to shift the “core judicial
inquiry” from the extent of the injury to the nature of the
force—specifically, whether it was nontrivial and “was
applied . . . maliciously and sadistically to cause harm.”
503 U. S., at 7. To conclude, as the District Court did
here, that the absence of “some arbitrary quantity of
injury” requires automatic dismissal of an excessive force
claim improperly bypasses this core inquiry. Id., at 9.2
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2 MostCircuits to consider the issue have rejected the Fourth Cir
cuit’s de minimis injury requirement. See, e.g., Wright v. Goord, 554
F. 3d 255, 269–270 (CA2 2009) (“[O]ur Court has reversed summary
dismissals of Eighth Amendment claims of excessive force even where
the plaintiff’s evidence of injury was slight . . . . [T]he absence of any
significant injury to [the plaintiff] does not end the Eighth Amendment
inquiry, for our standards of decency are violated even in the absence of
such injury if the defendant’s use of force was malicious or sadistic”);
Smith v. Mensinger, 293 F. 3d 641, 648–649 (CA3 2002) (“[T]he Eighth
Amendment analysis must be driven by the extent of the force and the
circumstances in which it is applied; not by the resulting injuries. . . .
[D]e minimis injuries do not necessarily establish de minimis force”);
Oliver v. Keller, 289 F. 3d 623, 628 (CA9 2002) (rejecting the view “that
to support an Eighth Amendment excessive force claim a prisoner must
have suffered from the excessive force a more than de minimis physical
injury” (internal quotation marks omitted)); United States v. LaVallee,
439 F. 3d 670, 687 (CA10 2006) (same).
The Fifth Circuit has sometimes used language indicating agreement
with the Fourth Circuit’s approach. See, e.g., Gomez v. Chandler, 163
F. 3d 921, 924 (1999) (“[T]o support an Eighth Amendment excessive
force claim a prisoner must have suffered from the excessive force a
more than de minimis injury”). But see Brown v. Lippard, 472 F. 3d
384, 386 (2006) (“This Court has never directly held that injuries must
reach beyond some arbitrary threshold to satisfy an excessive force
claim”). Even in the Fifth Circuit, however, Wilkins likely would have
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In holding that the District Court erred in dismissing

Wilkins’ complaint based on the supposedly de minimis
nature of his injuries, we express no view on the underly
ing merits of his excessive force claim. In order to prevail,
Wilkins will ultimately have to prove not only that the
assault actually occurred but also that it was carried out
“maliciously and sadistically” rather than as part of “a
good-faith effort to maintain or restore discipline.” Ibid.
Moreover, even if Wilkins succeeds, the relatively modest
nature of his alleged injuries will no doubt limit the dam
ages he may recover.
* * *
The petition for certiorari and the motion for leave to
proceed in forma pauperis are granted. The judgment of
the Court of Appeals is reversed, and the case is remanded
for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
It is so ordered.
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survived dismissal for failure to state a claim because that court’s
precedents have classified the sort of injuries alleged here as non-de
minimis. See, e.g., ibid. (permitting a prisoner’s Eighth Amendment
excessive force claim to proceed to trial where evidence indicated that
the prisoner suffered “one-centimeter abrasions on both his left knee
and left shoulder, pain in his right knee, and tenderness around his left
thumb,” as well as “back problems”); Gomez, 163 F. 3d, at 922 (refusing
to grant summary judgment on de minimis injury grounds where the
prisoner alleged “physical pain [and] bodily injuries in the form of cuts,
scrapes, [and] contusions to the face, head, and body”).
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THOMAS, J., concurring

JAMEY L. WILKINS v. OFFICER GADDY
STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
JUSTICE THOMAS, with whom Justice Scalia joins, con

curring in the judgment.
I agree with the Court that the Fourth Circuit’s Eighth
Amendment analysis is inconsistent with Hudson v.
McMillian, 503 U. S. 1 (1992). But I continue to believe
that Hudson was wrongly decided. Erickson v. Pardus,
551 U. S. 89, 95 (2007) (dissenting opinion); Farmer v.
Brennan, 511 U. S. 825, 858 (1994) (opinion concurring in
judgment); Helling v. McKinney, 509 U. S. 25, 37 (1993)
(dissenting opinion); Hudson, supra, at 17 (dissenting
opinion).
“At the time the Eighth Amendment was ratified, the
word ‘punishment’ referred to the penalty imposed for the
commission of a crime.” Helling, supra, at 38 (THOMAS, J.,
dissenting). The Court adhered to this understanding
until 1976, when it declared in Estelle v. Gamble, 429
U. S. 97, that the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause
also extends to prison conditions not imposed as part of a
criminal sentence. See generally Hudson, supra, at 18–20
(THOMAS, J., dissenting); Farmer, supra, at 861 (THOMAS,
J., concurring in judgment). To limit this abrupt expan
sion of the Clause, the Court specified that its new inter
pretation of the Eighth Amendment should not extend to
every deprivation a prisoner suffers, but instead should
apply “only [to] that narrow class of deprivations involving
‘serious’ injury inflicted by prison officials acting with a
culpable state of mind.” Hudson, supra, at 20 (THOMAS,
J., dissenting) (citing Estelle, supra, at 106); see generally
Wilson v. Seiter, 501 U. S. 294, 298 (1991).
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THOMAS, J., concurring in judgment
Hudson, however, discarded the requirement of serious

injury. Building upon Estelle’s mislaid foundation, the
Court concluded that force, rather than injury, is the
relevant inquiry, and that a prisoner who alleges excessive
force at the hands of prison officials and suffers nothing
more than de minimis injury can state a claim under the
Eighth Amendment. Hudson thus turned the Eighth
Amendment into “a National Code of Prison Regulation,”
503 U. S., at 28 (THOMAS, J., dissenting); Farmer, 511
U. S., at 859 (THOMAS, J., concurring in judgment), with
“federal judges [acting as] superintendents of prison condi
tions nationwide,” id., at 860. Although neither the Con
stitution nor our precedents require this result, no party
to this case asks us to overrule Hudson. Accordingly, I
concur in the Court’s judgment.
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Per Curiam

RICK THALER, DIRECTOR, TEXAS DEPARTMENT
OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, CORRECTIONAL INSTI-
TUTIONS DIVISION v. ANTHONY CARDELL
HAYNES
STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
PER CURIAM.
This case presents the question whether any decision of
this Court “clearly establishes” that a judge, in ruling on
an objection to a peremptory challenge under Batson v.
Kentucky, 476 U. S. 79 (1986), must reject a demeanor
based explanation for the challenge unless the judge per
sonally observed and recalls the aspect of the prospective
juror’s demeanor on which the explanation is based. The
Court of Appeals appears to have concluded that either
Batson itself or Snyder v. Louisiana, 552 U. S. 472 (2008),
clearly established such a rule, but the Court of Appeals
read far too much into those decisions, and its holding, if
allowed to stand, would have important implications. We
therefore grant the petition for certiorari, grant respon
dent’s motion to proceed in forma pauperis, and reverse
the judgment of the Court of Appeals.
I
Respondent was tried in a Texas state court for the
murder of a police officer, and the State sought the death
penalty. During voir dire, two judges presided at different
stages. Judge Harper presided when the attorneys ques
tioned the prospective jurors individually, but Judge
Wallace took over when peremptory challenges were exer
cised. When the prosecutor struck an African-American
juror named Owens, respondent’s attorney raised a Batson
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objection. Judge Wallace determined that respondent had

made out a prima facie case under Batson, and the prose
cutor then offered a race-neutral explanation that was
based on Owens’ demeanor during individual questioning.
Specifically, the prosecutor asserted that Owens’ de
meanor had been “somewhat humorous” and not “serious”
and that her “body language” had belied her “true feeling.”
App. to Pet. for Cert. 187. Based on his observations of
Owens during questioning by respondent’s attorney, the
prosecutor stated, he believed that she “had a predisposi
tion” and would not look at the possibility of imposing a
death sentence “in a neutral fashion.” Id., at 188. Re
spondent’s attorney did not dispute the prosecutor’s char
acterization of Owens’ demeanor, but he asserted that her
answers on the jury questionnaire “show[ed] that she was
a juror who [was] leaning towards the State’s case.” Ibid.
After considering the prosecutor’s explanation and the
arguments of defense counsel, Judge Wallace stated that
the prosecutor’s reason for the strike was “race-neutral”
and denied the Batson objection without further explana
tion. Id., at 189.
The case proceeded to trial, respondent was convicted
and sentenced to death, and the Texas Court of Criminal
Appeals affirmed the conviction. Rejecting respondent’s
argument that “a trial judge who did not witness the
actual voir dire cannot, as a matter of law, fairly evaluate
a Batson challenge,” id., at 173, the Court of Criminal
Appeals wrote:
“There are many factors which a trial judge—even one
who did not preside over the voir dire examinations—
can consider in determining whether the opponent of
the peremptory strikes has met his burden. These in
clude the nature and strength of the parties’ argu
ments during the Batson hearing and the attorneys’
demeanor and credibility. And, when necessary, a
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Per Curiam
trial judge who has not witnessed the voir dire may
refer to the record,” id., at 173–174 (footnote omitted).
With respect to the strike of juror Owens, the court held
that Judge Wallace’s acceptance of the prosecutor’s expla
nation was not clearly erroneous and noted that “[t]he
record does reflect that Owens was congenial and easygo
ing during voir dire and that her attitude was less formal
than that of other veniremembers.” Id., at 172. This
Court denied respondent’s petition for a writ of certiorari.
Haynes v. Texas, 535 U. S. 999 (2002).
After the Texas courts denied his application for state
habeas relief, respondent filed a federal habeas petition.
The District Court denied the petition and observed that
this Court had never held that the deference to state-court
factual determinations that is mandated by the federal
habeas statute is inapplicable when the judge ruling on a
Batson objection did not observe the jury selection. App.
to Pet. for Cert. 80, n. 10.
A panel of the Court of Appeals granted a certificate of
appealability with respect to respondent’s Batson objec
tions concerning Owens and one other prospective juror.
Haynes v. Quarterman, 526 F. 3d 189, 202 (CA5 2008). In
its opinion granting the certificate, the panel discussed
our opinion in Snyder at length and then concluded:
“Under Snyder’s application of Batson, . . . an appel
late court applying Batson arguably should find clear
error when the record reflects that the trial court was
not able to verify the aspect of the juror’s demeanor
upon which the prosecutor based his or her peremp
tory challenge.” 526 F. 3d, at 199.
When the same panel later ruled on the merits of re
spondent’s Batson claim regarding juror Owens,1 the court
——————
1 Because the panel held that the strike of Owens violated Batson, the
panel did not rule on the legitimacy of the other strike as to which a
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Per Curiam
adopted the rule that it had previously termed “ar

guabl[e].” See 526 F. 3d, at 199; Haynes v. Quarterman,
561 F. 3d 535, 541 (CA5 2009). The court concluded that
the decisions of the state courts were not owed “AEDPA
deference” in this case “because the state courts engaged
in pure appellate fact-finding for an issue that turns en
tirely on demeanor.” Ibid. The court then held that
“no court, including ours, can now engage in a proper
adjudication of the defendant’s demeanor-based Bat
son challenge as to prospective juror Owens because
we will be relying solely on a paper record and would
thereby contravene Batson and its clearly-established
‘factual inquiry’ requirement. See, e.g., Snyder, [552
U. S., at 477]; Batson, [476 U. S., at 95].” Ibid. (foot
note omitted).
II
Respondent cannot obtain federal habeas relief under 28
U. S. C. §2254(d)(1) unless he can show that the decision
of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals “was contrary to,
or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly estab
lished Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court.”
A legal principle is “clearly established” within the mean
ing of this provision only when it is embodied in a holding
of this Court. See Carey v. Musladin, 549 U. S. 70, 74
(2006); Williams v. Taylor, 529 U. S. 362, 412 (2000).
Under §2254(d)(1), a habeas petitioner may obtain relief
(1) “if the state court arrives at a conclusion opposite to
that reached by this Court on a question of law or if the
state court decides a case differently than this Court has
on a set of materially indistinguishable facts”; or (2) “if the
state court identifies the correct governing legal principle
from this Court’s decisions but unreasonably applies that
——————
certificate of appealability had been issued. Haynes v. Quarterman,
561 F. 3d 535, 541, n. 2 (CA5 2009).
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principle to the facts of the prisoner’s case.” Id., at 413.

III
In holding that respondent is entitled to a new trial, the
Court of Appeals cited two decisions of this Court, Batson
and Snyder, but neither of these cases held that a de
meanor-based explanation for a peremptory challenge
must be rejected unless the judge personally observed
and recalls the relevant aspect of the prospective juror’s
demeanor.
The Court of Appeals appears to have concluded that
Batson supports its decision because Batson requires a
judge ruling on an objection to a peremptory challenge to
“ ‘undertake “a sensitive inquiry into such circumstantial
and direct evidence of intent as may be available.” ’ ” 561
F. 3d, at 540 (quoting Batson, 476 U. S., at 93, in turn
quoting Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Devel
opment Corp., 429 U. S. 252, 266 (1977)). This general
requirement, however, did not clearly establish the rule on
which the Court of Appeals’ decision rests. Batson noted
the need for a judge ruling on an objection to a peremptory
challenge to “tak[e] into account all possible explanatory
factors in the particular case,” 476 U. S., at 95 (internal
quotation marks omitted). See also Miller-El v. Dretke,
545 U. S. 231, 239 (2005); Johnson v. California, 545 U. S.
162, 170 (2005). Thus, where the explanation for a per
emptory challenge is based on a prospective juror’s de
meanor, the judge should take into account, among other
things, any observations of the juror that the judge was
able to make during the voir dire. But Batson plainly did
not go further and hold that a demeanor-based explana
tion must be rejected if the judge did not observe or cannot
recall the juror’s demeanor.
Nor did we establish such a rule in Snyder.2 In that
——————
2 Even if Snyder did alter or add to Batson’s rule (as the Court of
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case, the judge who presided over the voir dire also ruled
on the Batson objections, and thus we had no occasion to
consider how Batson applies when different judges preside
over these two stages of the jury selection process. Sny
der, 552 U. S., at 475–478. The part of Snyder on which
the Court of Appeals relied concerned a very different
problem. The prosecutor in that case asserted that he had
exercised a peremptory challenge for two reasons, one of
which was based on demeanor (i.e., that the juror had
appeared to be nervous), and the trial judge overruled the
Batson objection without explanation. 552 U. S., at 478–
479. We concluded that the record refuted the explanation
that was not based on demeanor and, in light of the par
ticular circumstances of the case, we held that the per
emptory challenge could not be sustained on the de
meanor-based ground, which might not have figured in the
trial judge’s unexplained ruling. Id., at 479–486. Nothing
in this analysis supports the blanket rule on which the
decision below appears to rest.
The opinion in Snyder did note that when the explana
tion for a peremptory challenge “invoke[s] a juror’s de
meanor,” the trial judge’s “first hand observations” are of
great importance. Id., at 477. And in explaining why we
could not assume that the trial judge had credited the
claim that the juror was nervous, we noted that, because
the peremptory challenge was not exercised until some
time after the juror was questioned, the trial judge might
not have recalled the juror’s demeanor. Id., at 479. These
observations do not suggest that, in the absence of a per
——————
Appeals seems to have concluded), Snyder could not have constituted
“clearly established Federal law as determined by” this Court for
purposes of respondent’s habeas petition because we decided Snyder
nearly six years after his conviction became final and more than six
years after the relevant state-court decision. See Williams v. Taylor,
529 U. S. 362, 390 (2000) (opinion for the Court by STEVENS, J.); id., at
412 (opinion for the Court by O’Connor, J.).
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sonal recollection of the juror’s demeanor, the judge could

not have accepted the prosecutor’s explanation. Indeed,
Snyder quoted the observation in Hernandez v. New York,
500 U. S. 352, 365 (1991) (plurality opinion), that the best
evidence of the intent of the attorney exercising a strike is
often that attorney’s demeanor. See 552 U. S., at 477.
Accordingly, we hold that no decision of this Court
clearly establishes the categorical rule on which the Court
of Appeals appears to have relied, and we therefore re
verse the judgment and remand the case for proceedings
consistent with this opinion. Our decision does not man
date the rejection of respondent’s Batson claim regarding
juror Owens. On remand, the Court of Appeals may con
sider whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals’ de
termination may be overcome under the federal habeas
statute’s standard for reviewing a state court’s resolution
of questions of fact.
It is so ordered.
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Reference Index
Contents: Page
Statistics ....................................................................................... II
General .......................................................................................... III
Appeals ......................................................................................... III
Applications ................................................................................. III
Arguments ................................................................................... IV
Attorneys ...................................................................................... IV
Briefs ............................................................................................. IV
Certified Questions ..................................................................... V
Certiorari ..................................................................................... V
Granted Cases ............................................................................. V
Motions ......................................................................................... VI
Opinions ........................................................................................ VI
Original Cases ............................................................................. VII
Rehearing ..................................................................................... VIII
Rules ............................................................................................. VIII
Stays .............................................................................................. VIII
Conclusion .................................................................................... VIII
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II
STATISTICS AS OF JUNE 30, 2010
Paid In Forma
Original Pauperis Total
Cases
Cases
Number of cases on docket..................... 6 1908 7388 9302

Cases disposed of...................................... 2 1572 6520 8093
Remaining on docket 4 337 868 1209
Cases docketed during term:

Paid cases ............................................................................................ 1580
In forma pauperis cases.................................................................. 6576
Original cases ..................................................................................... 3
Total ..................................................................................................... 8159
Cases remaining from last term ............................................................... 1143
Total cases on the docket ........................................................................... 9302
Cases disposed of ......................................................................................... 8093
Number remaining on docket.................................................................... 1209
Petitions for certiorari granted:
Paid case.............................................................................................. 68
In forma pauperis cases.................................................................. 8
Appeals granted:
Paid cases ............................................................................................ 1
Total cases granted plenary review ......................................................... 77
Cases argued during term ......................................................................... 82
Number disposed of by full opinions ............................................. 77
Number disposed of by per curiam opinions .............................. 4
Number set for reargument for next term .................................. 0
Cases available for argument at beginning of term............................. 47
Disposed of summarily after review was granted ................................ 4
Original cases set for argument ............................................................... 1
Cases reviewed and decided without oral argument ........................... 95
Total cases available for argument at start of next term ................... 40
Number of written opinions of the Court............................................... 73

Per curiam opinions in argued cases ...................................................... 4
Number of lawyers admitted to practice as of June 30, 2010:

On written motion ............................................................................. 2208
On oral motion.................................................................................... 1693
Total ..................................................................................................... 3901
III
GENERAL: Page
2008 Term closed and 2009 Term convened October 5,

2009.......................................................................................... 1
Allotment Order.................................................................. 1035, 1089
Chief Justice welcomes guests from the Supreme Court
of Columbia ............................................................................ 176
Chief Justice welcomes guest from the New Supreme
Court of the United Kingdom ............................................ 623
Chief Justice announces the death of John Jay O’Connor 299
Chief Justice welcomes the Chief Justice of Canada and
other members of the Supreme Court of Canada .......... 689
Chief Justice announces the death of Martin David
Ginsburg ................................................................................. 1005
Chief Justice announces the retirement of Reporter of De
cisions Frank D. Wagner ..................................................... 1030
Chief Justice reads letter to Justice Stevens concerning
his retirement and Justice Stevens reads his letter ...... 1030
Investiture of Justice Kagan (Justice Kagan took the Con
stitutional and the Judicial Oaths at the Court on Au
gust 7, 2010) ........................................................................... 1091
Statement Concerning the Closing of the Supreme
Court’s Front Entrance ....................................................... 831
APPEALS:
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction with explanation
(09–46 & 09–553; 09–797) ................................................ 479, 917
Jurisdiction Postponed (09–1233) ........................................... 941
Judgment affirmed, three Justices would note probable
jurisdiction (09–1287) ........................................................... 1033
APPLICATIONS:
Amicus briefs filed in capital case (09A1061; 09–1345) ..... 867
Application to vacate stay denied without prejudice
(09A736; 09A1133)............................................................. 539, 916
Dissent to granting of temporary stay and stay
(09A648) .............................................................................. 469, 475
Dissenting statement to denial of stay (10A52) .................. 1039
Preliminary injunction denied (Org. 1, 2, 3) ......................... 481
Stay of District Court order in per curiam opinion
(09A648) .................................................................................. 475
Stay of execution granted (09–9000; 09A743) ...................... 688
IV
Stay of execution denied, two Justices would grant, cita

tion noted (09A1222) ............................................................ 970
Stay of order staying a preliminary injunction (09A356).. 237
Temporary stay granted by Court (09A648)........................ 469
Vacate stay granted (09A1163) ............................................... 935
ARGUMENTS:
Amicus argued in support of affirmance (08–651).............. 211
Amicus appointed by the Court argued in support of the
judgment below (08–911)..................................................... 298
Argument pro hac vice (08–1065)........................................... 278
Argument rescheduled two days before argument (Org.
138)........................................................................................... 211
Interveners argued (Org. 138)................................................. 211
Justice Alito recused (08–992; 09–6338) ............................ 274, 708
Justice Breyer recused (09–475) ............................................. 800
Justice Sotomayor recused (08–103; 08–969; 08–1198; 08–
1341; 08–1191) ........................................... 179, 276, 397, 590, 705
Motion for additional time to argue granted (Org. 132) .... 281
Respondent argued in support of petitioners (08–674; 09–
475) ...................................................................................... 275, 800
Respondent’s motion for divided argument granted (08–
1214; 08–1521) .................................................................... 282, 507
ATTORNEYS:
Court appointed amicus to brief and argue in support of
judgment below (09–6822)................................................... 1043
Motion for appointment of counsel granted (08–7412; 08–
1569; 09–5327; 09–158; 09–338; 09–367; 09–150; 09–7073;
09–5801; 09–868; 09–9000) .................................. 5, 300, 373, 421,
481, 648, 737, 738, 808, 1007, 1087

BRIEFS:
Court ordered supplemental briefs in letter format
(08–1457) ................................................................................. 735
Invitation to Solicitor General of Texas to file brief
(08–1596) ................................................................................. 5
Letter briefs ordered (08–1234; 08–1457) ......................... 537, 735
Motion to file amicus curiae brief out of time denied (08–
1448; 09–930) .................................................................... 780, 1024
Motion to file amicus curiae brief out of time granted
(08–1151; 08–1415; 09–559) .......................................... 4, 263, 737
Motion to file supplemental brief after argument denied
(08–1457) ................................................................................. 808
CERTIFIED QUESTIONS:
Certified question dismissed (09–166) ................................... 244
Question certified to the Montana Supreme Court
(09–940) ................................................................................... 917
CERTIORARI:
Affirmed under 28 U. S. C. 2109 (09–906; 09–1318) ....... 592, 1006
Dismissed as Improvidently Granted (08–7621; 08–
6261) .................................................................................... 861, 889
Granted and remanded as Court reversed judgment in
argued case (08–1497) .......................................................... 1033
Granted, vacated and remanded for further consideration
in light of Section of Act (09–160) ..................................... 333
in light of the Seventh Circuit’s en banc opinion (09–
8367; 09–8859).................................................................... 689, 973
Granted, vacated and remanded in light of the position
asserted by the Solicitor General (08–906; 08–10150;
08–7757; 09–122; 09–5370; 09–8915)........................... 1, 480, 974
in light of the Solicitor General’s suggestion of moot
ness (09–724) .......................................................................... 779
Granted, vacated and remanded with dissent by four Jus
tices with citation (09–8915) ............................................... 974
Granted, vacated and remanded with instructions to dis
miss as moot (09–285) .......................................................... 399
Invitation to Solicitor General of Texas to file brief
(08–1596) ................................................................................. 5
Motion for reconsideration of order denying leave to pro
ceed in forma pauperis granted, previous order va
cated (08–9822) ...................................................................... 5
Question certified to Montana Supreme Court (09–940) ... 917
Statement respecting the denial of certiorari (08–1407;
09–9634) .............................................................................. 204, 927
GRANTED CASES:
Briefing schedule for cross-petitions amended (08–1498 &
09–89) ...................................................................................... 242
Cases to be argued in tandem (09–1343 and 10–76) ........... 1088
VI
Consolidated cases, argument limited to question from

each case (09–1298 and 09–1302)........................................ 1088
Court appointed amicus to brief and argue in support of
judgment below (09–6822)................................................... 1043
Court ordered parties to file letter briefs addressing an
additional question (08–1234; 08–1457) ......................... 537, 735
Dismissed as improvidently granted (08–7621; 08–
6261) .................................................................................... 861, 889
Expedited briefing schedule ordered by the Court (09–
337; 09–448; 09–497; 09–559; 09–475) ................................ 477
Granted and consolidated from different circuits (09–
479 & 09–7073)....................................................................... 509
Question presented added by the Court (09–587)............... 545
Question presented reformulated by the Court (08–6261;
08–1438) .............................................................................. 401, 870
Question presented replaced with question proposed by
Solicitor General in amicus brief (08–998; 09–520) ... 243, 941
Reversed and remanded without scheduling argument
(08–559)................................................................................... 421
MOTIONS:
Motion to amend the briefing schedule and expand word
limits granted (08–1498 & 09–89) ...................................... 242
Motion for divided argument by the Solicitor General
granted and 10 extra minutes allocated (08–661; 08–
6261) .................................................................................... 399, 645
Motion for reconsideration of order denying leave to pro
ceed in forma pauperis is granted, previous order va
cated (08–9822) ...................................................................... 5
Motion for remand denied (09–8671) ..................................... 727
Motion to file supplemental volume of the joint appendix
under seal granted (08–1394).............................................. 544
Motion to proceed as a seaman granted (09M94) ................ 835
Motion to proceed as a veteran denied (09M45; 09M49;
09M68; 09M69; 09M84) ..................................... 281, 299, 543, 715
Motion to proceed as a veteran granted (09M11)................ 2
Motion to proceed in forma pauperis with the declaration
of indigency under seal denied (09M78; 09M81) ......... 647, 689
Motion to proceed without affidavit of indigency granted
(09M38; 09M48; 09M43; 09M62; 09M86) ................................ 241,
299, 373, 421, 779
VII
OPINIONS:
Concurring opinion announced (08–964) ............................... 1029
Concurring opinion in order granting vacating and re
manding (08–1307) ................................................................ 737
Concurring opinion in the denial of the petition for certio
rari (09–7839) ......................................................................... 370
Dissenting opinion announced (08–1498 & 09–89; 08–1521;
08–861) .................................................................... 997, 1029, 1030
Dissenting opinion from denial of certiorari (08–1385; 09–
35; 09–671).................................................................. 230, 525, 673
Dissenting opinion from order granting, vacating and re
manding (08–10314; 08–1229; 08–7721; 08–1307; 09–
8854) .................................................................. 333, 591, 737, 1033
Justice Alito recused (08–992; 08–6338) ............................ 393, 969
Justice Breyer recused (09–475) ............................................. 997
Justice Sotomayor recused (08–969; 08–103; 09–810; 08–
1198; 08–1341; 08–1191)................. 530, 621, 773, 799, 888, 1004
Justice Stevens recused (08–1151).......................................... 969
Opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part an
nounced (08–205) ................................................................... 505
Per Curiam; argued cases; (07–11191; 08–7621; 08–6261;
08–1196) ............................................................ 530, 861, 889, 1003
Per Curiam granting application for stay (09A648) .......... 475
Per Curiam certifying question to Montana Supreme
Court (09–940) ....................................................................... 917
Per Curiam in granted case but not argued (08–1234) ..... 591
Per Curiam; no argument (08–10495; 09–144; 08–1263;
08–10537; 09–91; 08–559; 09–5270; 08–10914; 09–273;
09–5731; 09–8852; 09–8854) ..................................................... 219,
281, 299, 333, 373, 421, 479, 543, 869, 1033
Special sitting to release opinion (08–205) ........................... 505
Statement respecting the denial of certiorari (08–1407;
09–7328; 09–7839; 09–9634) ............................. 204, 296, 370, 927
Statement respecting the dismissal of the certified ques
tion (09–166)........................................................................... 244
ORIGINAL CASES:
1, 2 & 3 Original, Preliminary injunction denied................ 481
1, 2 & 3 Original, Renewed motion for preliminary injunc
tion denied.............................................................................. 648
1, 2, & 3 Original, Motion to reopen denied ......................... 779
VIII
132 Original, Exceptions to the Report of the Special
Master are set for oral argument ...................................... 181
132 Original, Opinion on exceptions,..................................... 913
137 Original, Report of the Special Master received and
ordered filed; exception schedule set ................................ 625
138 Original, Argument by interveners ............................... 211
139 Original, Motion for leave to file denied without
prejudice ................................................................................. 507
REHEARING:
Rehearing granted (09–5373) .................................................. 972
RULES:
Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure amended................. 804
Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure amended............. 805
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure amended ......................... 805
Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure amended .................. 805
Federal Rules of Evidence amended ..................................... 806
Revised Rules of the Court approved ................................... 471
STAYS:
Application to vacate stay denied without prejudice
(09A736; 09A1133)............................................................. 539, 916
Dissent to granting of temporary stay and stay
(09A648) .............................................................................. 469, 475
Dissenting statement to denial of stay (10A52) .................. 1039
Stay of District Court order in per curiam opinion
(09A648) .................................................................................. 475
Stay of execution granted (09–9000; 09A743) ...................... 688
Stay of order staying a preliminary injunction (09A356).. 237
Stay of execution denied, two Justices would grant, cita
tion noted (09A1222) ............................................................ 970
Temporary Stay granted by Court (09A648) ....................... 469
Vacate stay granted (09A1163) ............................................... 935
CONCLUSION:
Remarks of Chief Justice regarding the end of the Term 1031
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Present: Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Stevens, Justice Scalia, Jus

“I have the honor to announce, on behalf of the Court, that the Octo
ber 2008 Term of the Supreme Court of the United States is now
closed, and the October 2009 Term is now convened.
“We have issued orders today, they have been duly entered and certi
fied, and filed with the Clerk.”
Certiorari—Summary Dispositions
No. 08–906. Joseph Afanwi, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attor
ney General. On petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Petition for writ of certiorari
granted. Judgment vacated, and case remanded to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for further consideration in
light of the position asserted by the Solicitor General in her brief for
the respondent filed August 26, 2009.
No. 08–10150. Martin Frankel, Petitioner v. United States. On peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for
the Second Circuit. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
pauperis and petition for writ of certiorari granted. Judgment vacated,
and case remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sec
ond Circuit for further consideration in light of the position asserted
by the Solicitor General in her brief for the United States filed August
4, 2009.
No. 09–5115. Kevin M. Hamilton, Petitioner v. Massachusetts. On
petition for writ of certiorari to the Appeals Court of Massachusetts.
Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and peti
tion for writ of certiorari granted. Judgment vacated, and case re
manded to the Appeals Court of Massachusetts for further consider
ation in light of Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, 557 U. S. ––– (2009).
Orders in Pending Cases

No. 08A1098 (08–1204). John Gimbel, Applicant v. California, et al.
Application for leave to file a petition for rehearing in excess of word
limit addressed to Justice Ginsburg and referred to the Court denied.
2 MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2009
No. 09A140 (09–246). Bridgeport Roman Catholic Diocesan Corpo

ration, et al., Applicants v. New York Times Co., et al. Application for
stay addressed to Justice Scalia and referred to the Court denied.
No. 08M92. Karen Torres, Petitioner v. Amerada Hess Corporation.
Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for writ of certiorari out of
time under Rule 14.5 denied.
No. 09M1. Nathan J. Sturdivant, Petitioner v. United States District
Court for the District of Columbia. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a
petition for writ of certiorari out of time denied.
No. 09M2. Myra Jones, Petitioner v. General Nutrition Centers, Inc.
time denied.
No. 09M3. Garry Moore, Petitioner v. Adventist Health System/
Georgia Inc., et al. Motion for leave to file a petition for writ of certio
rari under seal with redacted copies for the public record granted.
No. 09M4. Russell E. Scohy, II, Petitioner v. Sand River Properties,
LLC. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for writ of certiorari
out of time denied.
No. 09M5. Lonnie Frazier, Jr., Petitioner v. Jennifer Riley, et al. Mo
tion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for writ of certiorari out of
time denied.
No. 09M6. Gustavo Lacen-Berrios, Petitioner v. United States. Mo
tion for leave to file a petition for writ of certiorari under seal with
redacted copies for the public record granted.
No. 09M7. Cliffton John Mottram, Petitioner v. Keith W. Davis, War
den. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for writ of certiorari
out of time denied.
No. 09M8. William Bryan Cottingham, Petitioner v. Policy Studies,
Inc. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for writ of certiorari
out of time denied.
No. 09M9. Carry Joe Vang, Petitioner v. Mike McDonald, Acting
Warden. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for writ of certio
rari out of time denied.
No. 09M10. Paul Eichwedel, Petitioner v. Illinois. Motion to direct
the Clerk to file a petition for writ of certiorari out of time denied.
No. 09M11. Vincent E. Staub, Petitioner v. Proctor Hospital. Motion
for leave to proceed as a veteran granted.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2009 3

No. 09M12. Stephanie Roberson, Petitioner v. LFI Fort Pierce, Inc.,
et al. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for writ of certiorari
out of time under Rule 14.5 denied.
No. 09M13. Flavia Benitez, Petitioner v. Sodexho Marriott Services.
time denied.
No. 09M14. Sealed Petitioner, Petitioner v. United States. Motion
for leave to file a petition for writ of certiorari under seal with redacted
copies for the public record granted.
No. 09M15. Sealed Petitioners, Petitioners v. United States. Motion
No. 09M16. Barnita P. Vann, Petitioner v. United Air Lines, Inc.
time denied.
No. 09M17. Brenda Abercrombie, Petitioner v. Department of Agri
culture. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for writ of certio
rari out of time under Rule 14.5 denied.
No. 09M18. Linda Cone Selensky, Petitioner v. Alabama. Motion to
direct the Clerk to file a petition for writ of certiorari out of time
denied.
No. 09M19. Launeil Sanders, Petitioner v. North Carolina, et al. Mo
time denied.
No. 09M20. Chineze Ndukwe, Petitioner v. Robert J. Violette, Jr.,
out of time denied.
No. 09M21. Anthony Solomon, Petitioner v. Philadelphia Newspa
pers, Inc., et al. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for writ of
certiorari out of time denied.
No. 09M22. William Hale, Petitioner v. Howard Riggins, et al. Mo
time denied.
No. 09M23. Malcolm T. Riley, III, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania Unem
ployment Compensation Board of Review. Motion to direct the Clerk
to file a petition for writ of certiorari out of time denied.
No. 09M24. Launeil Sanders, Petitioner v. Environmental Protection
Agency, et al. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for writ of
No. 09M25. Anthony Watson, Petitioner v. John Prelesnik, Warden.

time denied.
No. 09M26. William Harry West, Petitioner v. United States. Motion
to direct the Clerk to file a petition for writ of certiorari out of time
denied.
No. 65, Original. State of Texas, Plaintiff v. State of New Mexico.
Motion of the River Master for fees and reimbursement of expenses
granted, and the River Master is awarded a total of $6,910.61 for the
period July 1, 2008, through June 30, 2009, to be paid equally by the
parties.
No. 137, Original. State of Montana, Plaintiff v. State of Wyoming
and State of North Dakota. Motion of the Special Master for allowance
of fees and reimbursement of expenses granted, and the Special Master
is awarded a total of $40,808.96 for the period October 20, 2008, through
June 12, 2009, to be paid equally by the parties.
No. 08–472. Ken L. Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, et al., Peti
tioners v. Frank Buono. Motion of Veterans of Foreign Wars of the
United States, et al. for leave to intervene denied.
No. 08–538. William G. Schwab, Petitioner v. Nadejda Reilly. Motion
of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as
amicus curiae and for divided argument granted.
No. 08–586. Jerry N. Jones, et al., Petitioners v. Harris Associates
L.P. Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral
argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument granted.
No. 08–674. NRG Power Marketing, LLC, et al., Petitioners v. Maine
Public Utilities Commission, et al. Motion of the Solicitor General for
divided argument granted.
No. 08–911. Agron Kucana, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attor
ney General. Motion of the Solicitor General for divided argument
granted.
No. 08–1151. Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc., Petitioner v. Flor
ida Department of Environmental Protection, et al. Motion of Owners’
Counsel of America for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae out of
time granted.
No. 08–1200. Karen L. Jerman, Petitioner v. Carlisle, McNellie, Rini,
Kramer & Ulrich LPA, et al. Motion of petitioner to dispense with
printing the joint appendix granted.

No. 08–1314. Delbert Williamson, et al., Petitioners v. Mazda Motor
of America, Inc., et al. The Solicitor General is invited to file a brief in
this case expressing the views of the United States.
No. 08–1423. Costco Wholesale Corporation, Petitioner v. Omega,
S. A. The Solicitor General is invited to file a brief in this case express
ing the views of the United States.
No. 08–1458. Missouri Gas Energy, Petitioner v. Monica Schmidt,
Woods County, Oklahoma Assessor. The Solicitor General is invited to
file a brief in this case expressing the views of the United States.
No. 08–1515. Golden Gate Restaurant Association, Petitioner v. City
and County of San Francisco, California, et al. The Solicitor General is
invited to file a brief in this case expressing the views of the United
States.
No. 08–1596. Tracy Rhine, Petitioner v. Carl Deaton, et ux. The
Solicitor General of Texas is invited to file a brief in this case express
ing the views of the State of Texas.
No. 08–7412. Terrance Jamar Graham, Petitioner v. Florida. Motion
of petitioner for appointment of counsel granted. Bryan S. Gowdy, Es
quire, of Jacksonville, Florida, is appointed to serve as counsel for the
petitioner in this case.
No. 08–8224. Michael A. Burke, Petitioner v. William Aniskovich,
et al. Motion of petitioner for reconsideration of order denying leave
to proceed in forma pauperis denied.
No. 08–9547. In Re Barry Dwayne Minnfee, Petitioner. Motion of
petitioner for reconsideration of order denying leave to proceed
in forma pauperis denied.
No. 08–9603. In Re Constance E. Haddad, Petitioner. Motion of peti
tioner for reconsideration of order denying leave to proceed in forma
pauperis denied.
No. 08–9685. David T. Veale and Scott W. Veale, Petitioners v.
United States, et al. Motion of petitioners for reconsideration of order
denying leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied.
No. 08–9822. Bernard Bagley, Petitioner v. South Carolina. Motion
of petitioner for reconsideration of order denying leave to proceed
in forma pauperis granted. The order entered June 15, 2009, is
vacated.
No. 08–10258. Pat H. Hayes, Petitioner v. United States. Motion of
No. 08–10306. In Re Kay Elliott Farley, II, Petitioner. Motion of

No. 08–10333. William G. Moore, Petitioner v. United States District
Court for the Western District of Washington. Motion of petitioner for
reconsideration of order denying leave to proceed in forma pauperis
denied.
No. 08–10440. Stephanie Lynn Ford, Petitioner v. Christiana Care
Health Systems, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed
in forma pauperis denied. Petitioner allowed until October 26, 2009,
within which to pay the docketing fee required by Rule 38(a) and to
submit a petition in compliance with Rule 33.1 of the Rules of this
Court.
No. 08–10625. GwanJun Kim, Petitioner v. Department of Labor,
et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis de
nied. Petitioner allowed until October 26, 2009, within which to pay the
docketing fee required by Rule 38(a) and to submit a petition in compli
ance with Rule 33.1 of the Rules of this Court.
No. 08–10997. Phill J. Williams, Petitioner v. Church’s Chicken, et al.
Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied.
Petitioner allowed until October 26, 2009, within which to pay the dock
eting fee required by Rule 38(a) and to submit a petition in compliance
with Rule 33.1 of the Rules of this Court.
No. 09–5205. Franklin Nicoloudakis, Petitioner v. Lynne Abraham,
Philadelphia District Attorney, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to
proceed in forma pauperis denied. Petitioner allowed until October 26,
2009, within which to pay the docketing fee required by Rule 38(a)
and to submit a petition in compliance with Rule 33.1 of the Rules of
this Court.
No. 09–5294. Magno J. Ortega, Petitioner v. Napa County, California.
No. 09–5305. Peter J. Corines, Petitioner v. Broward County Sher
iff ’s Department, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed
in forma pauperis denied. Petitioner allowed until October 26, 2009,
Court.

No. 09–5346. Joseph Potter, Petitioner v. South Coast Plumbing Sys
tems, Inc., et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
pauperis denied. Petitioner allowed until October 26, 2009, within
which to pay the docketing fee required by Rule 38(a) and to submit a
petition in compliance with Rule 33.1 of the Rules of this Court.
No. 09–5400. James Bryan Menke, Petitioner v. Philip C. Gaddy,
nied. Petitioner allowed until October 26, 2009, within which to pay the
No. 09–5448. Jose F. Rodriguez, Petitioner v. Quality Engineering
Products, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
pauperis denied. Petitioner allowed until October 26, 2009, within
No. 09–5496. Charles Gary-Don Abbey, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5515. Darlene R. Quinn, Petitioner v. United States. Motion
of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied. Petitioner
allowed until October 26, 2009, within which to pay the docketing fee
required by Rule 38(a) and to submit a petition in compliance with
Rule 33.1 of the Rules of this Court.
No. 09–5728. Darren Hollis, Petitioner v. United States. Motion of
petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied. Petitioner
allowed until October 26, 2009, within which to pay the docketing fee
Certiorari Denied
No. 08–1048. Lynda Marquardt, Petitioner v. Kathleen Sebelius, Sec

retary of Health and Human Services. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1082. City of Maywood, California, et al., Petitioners v. Jo
seph Densmore, Jr. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1097. David P. Adam, et al., Petitioners v. Ken L. Salazar,

Secretary of the Interior. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1100. Antoinette Pirant, Petitioner v. United States Postal
Service. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Seventh Circuit denied.
No. 08–1117. Scott Davis Bowen, Petitioner v. Oregon. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Oregon denied.
No. 08–1122. Paul Martin Clark, et al., Petitioners v. Gladys Elaine
Blanton Jenkins. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals
of Texas, Seventh District, denied.
No. 08–1133. Frank D. Wuterich, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
the Armed Forces denied.
No. 08–1144. J.L. Spoons, Inc., et al., Petitioner v. Henry Guzman,
Director, Ohio Department of Public Safety, et al. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
denied.
No. 08–1172. Joseph P. Nacchio, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the
Tenth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1176. Tyson Ford, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the First
Circuit denied.
No. 08–1184. Linden D. Bowman, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
the Sixth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1188. Gerald Robinson, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Lucas County, denied.
No. 08–1205. A. Stephan Botes, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
Eleventh Circuit denied.
No. 08–1213. Patricia L. Caruso, Director, Michigan Department of
Corrections, et al., Petitioners v. Michelle Bazzetta, et al.; and
No. 08–1345. Michelle Bazzetta, et al., Petitioners v. Patricia L. Ca
ruso, Director, Michigan Department of Corrections, et al. Petitions for
writs of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth
Circuit denied.

No. 08–1216. Amadou Baillo Barry, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
Attorney General. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit denied.
No. 08–1232. Carlyle Fortran Trust, Petitioner v. NVIDIA Corpora
tion, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1238. Yuri J. Stoyanov, Petitioner v. Ray Mabus, Secretary
of the Navy, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1245. National Taxpayers Union, Petitioner v. Social Secu
rity Administration, Office of the Inspector General. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Cir
cuit denied.
No. 08–1266. Isabel Guerra, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Elev
enth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1280. Ronald Mikos, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh
Circuit denied.
No. 08–1283. Choose Life Illinois, Incorporated, et al., Petitioners v.
Jesse White, Illinois Secretary of State. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit denied.
No. 08–1284. DBC, Petitioner v. Patent and Trademark Office, Board
of Patent Appeals and Interferences. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied.
No. 08–1285. Lazar S. Finker, et al., Petitioners v. Galina Weber.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals
for the Eleventh Circuit denied.
No. 08–1287. Family Dollar Stores, Inc., Petitioner v. Janice Morgan,
et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
peals for the Eleventh Circuit denied.
No. 08–1291. Odis Tucker, et al., Petitioners v. Hardin County, Ten
nessee, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1295. Jeffrey Cheek, et al., Petitioners v. City of Edwards
ville, Kansas, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1300. Clark Gunderson, et al., Petitioners v. Liberty Mutual

Insurance Company, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1306. Deborah K. Hendrix, et al., Petitioners v. Wallace Cof
fey, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Tenth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1309. Hill Dermaceuticals, Inc., Petitioner v. Rx Solutions,
No. 08–1317. Gilbert Eman, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attor
ney General. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1321. New York, Petitioner v. Anthony Romeo. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of New York denied.
No. 08–1325. Derek Barr, et al., Petitioners v. Steve Lafon, Individu
ally and in His Official Capacity as Principal of William Blount High
School, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 08–1328. David Greenwell, Petitioner v. Paul Parsley. Petition
Sixth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1330. Leevan Sands, et al., Petitioners v. Department of
Homeland Security, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit denied.
No. 08–1337. Thomas L. Knight, Petitioner v. Chicago Tribune Com
pany, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Appellate Court of
Illinois, First District, denied.
No. 08–1340. Matthew Wiggenhorn, et al., Petitioners v. AXA Equi
table Life Insurance Company, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1346. David Acosta, Petitioner v. Marie D. Campbell, et al.
No. 08–1348. Donald Eugene Railsback, Petitioner v. Washington.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Washington,
Division 2, denied.
No. 08–1349. Denise J. Coffey, et al., Petitioners v. Southwestern
Bell Telephone, L. P., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit denied.

No. 08–1351. Cameron Frazier, Petitioner v. Eric J. Smith, Commis
sioner, Florida Department of Education, et al. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Cir
cuit denied.
No. 08–1352. Arkansas Annual Conference of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. New Direction Praise and
Worship Center, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme
Court of Arkansas denied.
No. 08–1353. Borough of Carlstadt, New Jersey, et al., Petitioners v.
Tomu Development, Co., Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supe
rior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, denied.
No. 08–1355. Roger Lucas, Petitioner v. University of Colorado,
Health Sciences Center. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of
Appeals of Colorado denied.
No. 08–1359. Deborah Fisher, Petitioner v. Harry VanLoveren, et al.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Hamilton
County, denied.
No. 08–1360. Samuel Clayton, Jr., Petitioner v. Pennsylvania Depart
ment of Welfare, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied.
No. 08–1363. John Arter Narron, III, Petitioner v. North Carolina.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of North Caro
lina denied.
No. 08–1366. John Patrick Rosch, Petitioner v. Whatcom County,
Washington. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of
Washington, Division 1, denied.
No. 08–1368. Fred P. Gilbert, Petitioner v. Robert S. Post. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Civil Appeals of Oklahoma, Third
Division, denied.
No. 08–1370. Marquerite A. Johnson, Petitioner v. Orlando J.
George, Jr., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied.
No. 08–1373. Warren Stancourt, et ux., Parents of Gregory Stan
court, Petitioners v. Worthington City School District. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Morgan County, denied.
No. 08–1374. Chris Robinson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–1376. George Rudy Cundiff, et al., Petitioners v. United

States. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Sixth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1379. Arnie Gonzalez, Petitioner v. City of Deerfield Beach,
Florida. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit denied.
No. 08–1384. James H. O’Bryan, et al., Petitioners v. Holy See, et al.
for the Sixth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1387. Dwight Cahoon, Petitioner v. Utah. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Utah denied.
No. 08–1391. Isaac Simone Achobe, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
the Fifth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1393. Stephen Edward May, Petitioner v. Arizona. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division
One, denied.
No. 08–1396. The Coffee Beanery, Ltd., et al., Petitioners v. WW,
LLC, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 08–1397. Christopher Morley, et ux., Petitioners v. Lorre Smith,
peals for the Ninth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1403. Carissa Marie Daniels, Petitioner v. Washington. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Washington denied.
No. 08–1404. Devon Energy Corporation, Petitioner v. Ken L. Sala
zar, Secretary of the Interior. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
denied.
No. 08–1409. Ford Motor Company, Petitioner v. Delaware Director
of Revenue. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of
Delaware denied.
No. 08–1412. Steven J. Thorogood, Petitioner v. Sears, Roebuck and
Company. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 08–1414. L. M., a Minor, By and Through His Guardian ad
Litem, Sam M. and Mariette M., et al., Petitioners v. Capistrano Unified
School District. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States

No. 08–1421. Richard A. Van Auken, Petitioner v. Catron, Catron &
Pottow, P.A., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Ap
peals of New Mexico denied.
No. 08–1424. Louis R. Rosenthal, Petitioner v. Committee on Profes
sional Standards, Appellate Division, Supreme Court of New York,
Third Judicial Department. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Appel
late Division, Supreme Court of New York, Third Judicial Depart
ment, denied.
No. 08–1429. Janet M. Beal, Petitioner v. CSX Corporation, et al.
No. 08–1430. Micky A. Smith and J. Scott Brown, as Co-Personal
Representatives of the Estate of Elizabeth Ashley Smith, Deceased,
et al., Petitioners v. Ford Motor Company, et al. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Civil Appeals of Oklahoma, Third Division,
denied.
No. 08–1431. Krishna Reddy, Petitioner v. Vesta M. Matthews, et al.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California,
Fourth Appellate District, Division Two, denied.
No. 08–1433. Stephan Jay Lawrence, Petitioner v. Alan L. Goldberg.
No. 08–1434. Michael J. Katz, Petitioner v. Ray Mabus, Secretary of
the Navy. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Third Circuit denied.
No. 08–1435. Wayne Chung, Petitioner v. Superior Court of Califor
nia, San Francisco County, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, denied.
No. 08–1437. Timothy J. Russell, et ux., Petitioners v. United States.
for the Tenth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1440. David S. Haeg, Petitioner v. Brent R. Cole. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Alaska denied.
No. 08–1444. Aspen Creek Estates, Ltd., Petitioner v. Town of
Brookhaven, New York, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
Court of Appeals of New York denied.
No. 08–1445. Ron Childress, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth
Circuit denied.
No. 08–1446. Peter G. Grain, et ux., Petitioners v. Trinity Health,

peals for the Sixth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1447. St. Johns United Church of Christ, et al., Petitioners v.
Randy Babbitt, Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration, et al.
for the District of Columbia Circuit denied.
No. 08–1449. Connection Distributing Co., et al., Petitioners v. Eric
H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1450. Lavon Jones, Jr., Petitioner v. Bayer Healthcare, LLC.
for the Ninth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1451. Gerard D. Matthew, et al., Petitioners v. Department
of the Army. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied.
No. 08–1452. Grant O. Adams, et al., Petitioners v. Federal Aviation
Administration, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied.
No. 08–1454. Asociacion de Empleados del Estado Libre Asociado
de Puerto Rico, Petitioner v. Michelle Monteagudo. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
denied.
No. 08–1455. Richard S. Baumhammers, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,
Eastern District, denied.
No. 08–1456. George Quinones, Petitioner v. New York. Petition for
No. 08–1460. Donna J. Arensdorf, Petitioner v. Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue, et al.; Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 08–1461. Mylan Laboratories, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Takeda
Chemical Industries, Ltd., et al.; and
No. 08–1463. Alphapharm Pty., Ltd., et al., Petitioners v. Takeda
Chemical Industries, Ltd., et al. Petitions for writs of certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied.
No. 08–1464. East End Property Company #1, LLC, et al., Petition
ers v. Town Board of Brookhaven, New York, et al. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Appellate Division, Supreme Court of New York, Sec
ond Judicial Department, denied.

No. 08–1466. Sumardi Sunarto, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., At
torney General. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1467. Nicolas Carranza, Petitioner v. Ana Chavez, et al. Peti
No. 08–1468. Ann C. Donovan, Petitioner v. Arkansas Supreme
Court Committee on Professional Conduct. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the Supreme Court of Arkansas denied.
No. 08–1469. Orion Reserves Limited Partnership, Petitioner v. Ken
L. Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit denied.
No. 08–1471. Livonia Shropshire, Individually and as Next Friend
of Hannah Shropshire, Petitioner v. Laidlaw Transit, Inc. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth
Circuit denied.
No. 08–1474. Isaiah Jordan and Dorothy Jordan, Petitioners v.
Tommy Mosley. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 08–1475. Hung Lin Wu, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attor
of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1477. Baden Sports, Inc., Petitioner v. Molten USA, Inc.,
peals for the Federal Circuit denied.
No. 08–1483. Brandon Kuhn, Petitioner v. Bureau of Alcohol, To
bacco, Firearms and Explosives. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1485. Carolyn Brown, Deloise Fikes, and James Russell, Peti
tioners v. One Beacon Insurance Company, Inc. Petition for writ of
cuit denied.
No. 08–1486. Christian Gagnon, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–1487. Curtis Hart, Petitioner v. Safeway, Inc. Petition for
No. 08–1488. HK Systems, Inc., Petitioner v. Eaton Corporation.

for the Seventh Circuit denied.
No. 08–1489. Margaret D. Edwards Flynn, Petitioner v. Cheryl Ann
Yara, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of New
Mexico denied.
No. 08–1490. J. D. Hopkins, Petitioner v. D. C. Chapman Ventures,
Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of West Virginia,
Nicholas County, denied.
No. 08–1491. Carl R. Wagenknecht, Jr., Petitioner v. Richard A.
Levin, Ohio Tax Commissioner. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
Supreme Court of Ohio denied.
No. 08–1492. Gloria Willett, Petitioner v. West Virginia. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
denied.
No. 08–1493. Brenda R. Babb, Petitioner v. Eleanor G. Watson and
Pamela Watson Fehlig, as Personal Representatives of the Estate of
Charles L. Watson, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of
Appeals of South Carolina denied.
No. 08–1495. John M. Dunn, Petitioner v. Indiana. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Indiana, First District, denied.
No. 08–1496. Deniss Gladkihs, Petitioner v. Colorado. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the District Court of Colorado, Arapahoe County
denied.
No. 08–1499. Robert Scott Fisher, Petitioner v. Colorado. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Colorado denied.
No. 08–1502. Vikas Sareen, Petitioner v. Reema Sareen, et al. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Appellate Division, Supreme Court of
New York, Second Judicial Department, denied.
No. 08–1503. Dale Argo, Petitioner v. Tennessee, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 08–1504. Annemarie Bothe, Petitioner v. Pamela Jean Hansen.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the District Court of Appeal of Flor
ida, Second District, denied.
No. 08–1505. Calvin P. Roach, Petitioner v. Terri L. Roach. Petition
Two, denied.

No. 08–1508. Kyung Suh Kim, et al., Petitioners v. Synod of South
ern California and Hawaii, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, denied.
No. 08–1510. Alex M. Grijalva, Petitioner v. Merit Systems Protec
tion Board. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied.
No. 08–1511. Wendell F. Gilley, Petitioner v. Monsanto Company,
Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 08–1512. Cynthia Gates, et al., Petitioners v. Speedway Super
america, L.L.C. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals
of Ohio, Cuyahoga County, denied.
No. 08–1514. Marcus W. Stephens, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–1516. Alice Faye Cox, Petitioner v. DeSoto County, Missis
sippi. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
peals for the Fifth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1517. Horacio Fernandez, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–1518. Mayer Unified School District, et al., Petitioners v.
Arizona State Land Commissioner, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the Supreme Court of Arizona denied.
No. 08–1519. David Chrin, Petitioner v. Ibrix, Inc. Petition for writ
cuit denied.
No. 08–1522. Robina Jenkins, Petitioner v. Nancy Worley, Individu
ally and in Her Capacity as Alabama Secretary of State, et al. Petition
No. 08–1523. Anthony Lionetti, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
Third Circuit denied.
No. 08–1525. Improv West Associates, et al., Petitioners v. Comedy
Club, Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 08–1526. Darin L. Hauman, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Petition

for writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, Harris
burg Office, denied.
No. 08–1527. Clinton W. Finstad, Petitioner v. Florida Department
of Business and Professional Regulation, et al. Petition for writ of cer
tiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Cir
cuit denied.
No. 08–1531. Daniel G. Wolf, Petitioner v. Wisconsin. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, District III,
denied.
No. 08–1532. Donald Asher, Petitioner v. Chase Bank USA, N. A.
No. 08–1533. Dana Lynn Mehen, Petitioner v. Delta Air Lines, Inc.,
No. 08–1534. Terry F. Zdun, et al., Petitioners v. Paula Henderson,
No. 08–1535. Aruna Kavali, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Divi
sion. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
No. 08–1536. Maria Carmen Palazzo, Petitioner v. United States.
for the Fifth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1537. Padam Kumar Khanna, Petitioner v. State Bar of Cali
fornia, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 08–1538. Lynne Feigenbaum, Petitioner v. Merrill Lynch and
Co., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 08–1540. Fred Dixon, Petitioner v. Miami-Dade County, Florida.
No. 08–1541. Benjamin Covarrubias Ruezga, Petitioner v. California.
First Appellate District, denied.

No. 08–1542. Michael Spielvogel, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
the Eleventh Circuit denied.
No. 08–1544. Massood Jallali, Petitioner v. Nova Southeastern Uni
versity, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the District Court of Ap
peal of Florida, Fourth District, denied.
No. 08–1545. Morteza Eghbal, et al., Petitioners v. United States.
No. 08–1546. Kenneth C. Keener, William P. Smith, and Anne D.
Smith., Petitioners v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 08–1548. Business Planning Systems, Inc., Petitioner v. Person
nel Decisions, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court
of Delaware denied.
No. 08–1550. James G. Franke, Petitioner v. Poly-America Medical
and Dental Benefits Plan. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1552. Herbert Freeman, Individually and in His Capacity as
Representative of the Estate of Ethel Freeman, et al., Petitioners v.
United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1557. Luis Jacinto Marti, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–1558. Imperial Merchant Services, Inc., dba Check Recovery
Systems, Inc., Petitioner v. Brandy G. Hunt, Individually and on Behalf
of All Others Similarly Situated. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1560. William B. Jolley, Petitioner v. Department of Housing
and Urban Development. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied.
No. 08–1561. Sansan Dewi Chandra Tjong, Petitioner v. Eric H.
Holder, Jr., Attorney General. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 08–1563. Herman Aster, Petitioner v. Zdenka Aster. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, Sixth Appellate
District, denied.
No. 08–1565. Ivan Kriger, Andrey Samolovov, and Joseph Esposito,

Petitioners v. Bowen Property Management, et al. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
denied.
No. 08–1567. Daniel TePoel, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 08–1568. Richard Garrett Turay, Petitioner v. Henry Richards,
No. 08–1570. Austin L. Curtis, Petitioner v. Janet Napolitano, Secre
tary of Homeland Security. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 08–1572. Peter Hoffman, et al., Petitioners v. Jonesfilm; and
No. 09–75. Jonesfilm, Petitioner v. Peter Hoffman, et al. Petitions for
writs of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit denied.
No. 08–1573. Richard I. Fine, Petitioner v. State Bar of California.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of California
denied.
No. 08–1574. Sami Gaber, Petitioner v. Kristin Henderson, et al.
for the Fourth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1576. Rosalina Linam, Petitioner v. Daniel Linam. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Florida denied.
No. 08–1577. Milton H. Greene Archives, Inc., Petitioner v. BPI
Communications, Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 08–1578. Teresa L. Luke, et al., Petitioners v. Emergency
Rooms, P.S., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 08–1579. The Rector, Wardens and Vestrymen of Saint James
Parish in Newport Beach, California, et al., Petitioners v. The Protes
tant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Los Angeles, et al. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of California denied.
No. 08–1580. John Sandoval, Petitioner v. Los Angeles County De
partment of Public Social Services, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, denied.

No. 08–1581. Karris A. Bilal, Petitioner v. Illinois Attorney Regis
tration and Disciplinary Commission. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the Supreme Court of Illinois denied.
No. 08–1582. Richard A. Radwanski, Petitioner v. Samuel Ruiz, et al.
for the Third Circuit denied.
No. 08–1583. Coley Quinn, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 08–1584. ValuePest.com of Charlotte, Inc., fka Budget Pest Pre
vention, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Bayer Corporation, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 08–1585. Evelyn S. Harris, Petitioner v. Standard Insurance
Company, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 08–1586. Marie A. Faltas, Petitioner v. Sharon B. Koon. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of South Carolina denied.
No. 08–1587. Jerry Paull, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 08–1588. Daniel Opoku Mensah, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
Attorney General, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1590. RAR Development Associates, Petitioner v. New Jer
sey Schools Construction Corporation, et al. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, denied.
No. 08–1591. Teresa Pichoff, as Special Administrator of the Estate
of Bruce Pichoff, Deceased, Petitioner v. QHG of Springdale, Inc., dba
Northwest Health System, aka Northwest Medical Center of Washing
ton County, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1593. John Nicholas, et ux., Individually and as Successors
in Interest to the Estate of Demetrios John Nicholas, Deceased, Peti
tioners v. Richard M. Boyd, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit denied.
No. 08–1594. Amr Mohammed Khalil, Petitioner v. Eric H.
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied.
No. 08–7683. Rodney M. Patton, Petitioner v. Wilvis Harris, et al.

No. 08–8246. Thavirak Sam, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Eastern Dis
trict, denied.
No. 08–8672. Anthony Feurtado, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
the Fourth Circuit denied.
No. 08–8682. Christian F. Meister, Petitioner v. Mike Scott, et al.;
and Christian F. Meister, Petitioner v. Mike Scott, et al. Petition for
No. 08–8713. David Lee Jackson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–8844. Walid Ihmoud, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth
Circuit denied.
No. 08–8848. Herbert Watson, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Eastern
District, denied.
No. 08–8871. Jeffery William Paul, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
the Eighth Circuit denied.
No. 08–9100. Juan Ramon Meza Segundo, Petitioner v. Texas. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
denied.
No. 08–9130. James Jones, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Petition for
trict, denied.
No. 08–9180. Michael Sklar, et ux., Petitioners v. Commissioner of
Internal Revenue. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 08–9276. Cirilo Flores-Perez, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
the Ninth Circuit denied.

No. 08–9303. Derrick Smith, Petitioner v. Hawaii, et al. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit denied.
No. 08–9319. William Brent, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth
Circuit denied.
No. 08–9339. Cherlyn R. Armstrong, et al., Petitioners v. United
Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied.
No. 08–9481. Hazim Elashi, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 08–9602. Ghassan Elashi, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 08–9938. Bayan Elashi, Petitioner v. United States; and
No. 08–9939. Basman Elashi, Petitioner v. United States. Petitions
for writs of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the
Fifth Circuit denied.
No. 08–9484. Cleveland Franklin, Jr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–9493. Joseph Daniel Miller, Petitioner v. Jeffrey A. Beard,
Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third
Circuit denied.
No. 08–9531. Faisad Nader Palis, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–9535. James Blake McFarlin, Petitioner v. United States.
for the Eighth Circuit denied.
No. 08–9543. Allen Gary Zweigart, Sr., Petitioner v. Oregon. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Oregon denied.
No. 08–9578. William Fredrick Mohr, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–9606. Alan Dale Walker, Paul Everett Woodward, and Gerald
James Holland, Petitioners v. Christopher B. Epps, Commissioner, Mis
sissippi Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied.
No. 08–9607. Fernando L. Garcia, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District,
denied.
No. 08–9610. Edward Lee Jones, Petitioner v. Nevada. Petition for

writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Nevada denied.
No. 08–9676. Tilon Lashon Carter, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas denied.
No. 08–9684. Robert A. Blaylock, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–9737. Darryl Boynes, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Petition
Fourth Circuit denied.
No. 08–9814. Nicholas Ragin, Petitioner v. United States; and
No. 08–9977. David L. Howard, Petitioner v. United States. Petitions
No. 08–9834. Kevin Henderson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
Seventh Circuit denied.
No. 08–9882. Damon Franklin Spence, Petitioner v. Eric H.
No. 08–9884. Maurice Donnell Cooper, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–9887. Krishnaswamy Sampath, Petitioner v. Concurrent
Technologies Corporation. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 08–9944. Edward Zuniga, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–9948. Ted Anthony Prevatte, Petitioner v. James French,
Warden, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit denied.
No. 08–9992. Louis Mullen, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 08–9994. David Barnett, Petitioner v. Don Roper, Superintend
ent, Potosi Correctional Center. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit denied.

No. 08–9995. Joseph Bannister, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Illinois denied.
No. 08–10000. Rose Huff, Petitioner v. Kentucky Retirement Sys
tems. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ken
tucky denied.
No. 08–10028. Mario Robledo-Leyva, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10038. Dain Bennett, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10041. Leonard A. Pelullo, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
the Third Circuit denied.
No. 08–10046. Fred Furnish, Petitioner v. Kentucky. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Kentucky denied.
No. 08–10061. John L. Nyhammer, Petitioner v. New Jersey. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of New Jersey denied.
No. 08–10071. Joel Garcia Nunez, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 08–10074. Richard Thomas Stitt, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10075. Abdur Rashid, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 08–10508. Abrar Haque, Petitioner v. United States; and
No. 09–5712. Akram Haque, Petitioner v. United States. Petitions
No. 08–10079. Briheim Lafee Rice, Petitioner v. Keith W. Davis,
Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Vir
ginia denied.
No. 08–10080. Rodriguez Spear, Petitioner v. Tony Howerton, War
den. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
No. 08–10083. Melvin Ray, Petitioner v. Richard F. Allen, Commis
sioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh

Circuit denied.
No. 08–10084. Luis Ruiz, Petitioner v. Thomas Birkett, Warden.
No. 08–10085. William Roger McNeill, Petitioner v. Preston Goff, Jr.,
Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 08–10087. Richard Maurice Dumont, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10091. Duwayne Bartsch, Petitioner v. California. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, First Appel
late District, denied.
No. 08–10093. Percy Lavae Bacon, Petitioner v. Randy Laswell,
et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Nevada
denied.
No. 08–10094. Rogelio Munoz, Petitioner v. David Fortner, et al.
No. 08–10099. Michael Cook, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District,
denied.
No. 08–10106. Timothy Peoples, Petitioner v. Barber, et al.; and Tim
othy Peoples, Petitioner v. Barber, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied.
No. 08–10107. Thomas Braley, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, Second Appel
No. 08–10112. Robert Curtis, Petitioner v. Oregon. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Oregon denied.
No. 08–10116. Eric Wayne Bennett, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 08–10118. Jerry Lynn Davis, Petitioner v. Third Judicial District
Court of Nevada, Lyon County, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the Supreme Court of Nevada denied.
No. 08–10120. Roger Erhardt Stubl, Petitioner v. Inspector Place.

No. 08–10138. Brian Anderson, Petitioner v. Mike Cunningham.
No. 08–10140. Donald Edward Beaty, Petitioner v. Charles L. Ryan,
Director, Arizona Department of Corrections. Petition for writ of cer
tiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
denied.
No. 08–10141. Douglas Beeks, Petitioner v. Domingo Uribe, Jr., Act
ing Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 08–10144. Joe Luna, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas denied.
No. 08–10148. Kim McMullen, Petitioner v. Franklin J. Tennis,
Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Peti
No. 08–10153. John Henry Massie, Jr., Petitioner v. Walter A. Mc-
Neil, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Florida denied.
No. 08–10175. Tyrone G. Jenkins, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ
Circuit denied.
No. 08–10176. Michael Kaiser, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Fifth District, denied.
No. 08–10189. Elias Morales, Petitioner v. Leticia J. Marques. Peti
No. 08–10190. William J. Pandolfi, Petitioner v. Ashbel T. Wall, II,
Director, Rhode Island Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 08–10192. Franklin Dewayne Alix, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler,
Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institu
tions Division. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 08–10193. Brian Ellis Porter, Petitioner v. Derral G. Adams,
No. 08–10194. Bernard Lee Hamilton, Petitioner v. California. Peti

tion for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of California denied.
No. 08–10195. Jose Farias-Gonzalez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10201. Michael David Ledbetter, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Fifth District,
denied.
No. 08–10205. Quentin Jones, Petitioner v. Gene M. Johnson, Direc
tor, Virginia Department of Corrections. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the Supreme Court of Virginia denied.
No. 08–10209. Willie Berry, Petitioner v. Burl Cain, Warden. Peti
No. 08–10211. Rick Douglas Romandetta, Petitioner v. Matthew
Cate, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilita
No. 08–10214. Gregory Paul Wilson, Petitioner v. Brian Belleque,
Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied.
No. 08–10215. Manuel Atienza Wagan, Petitioner v. Edward S.
Alameida, Jr. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 08–10216. Donna Marie Conner, Petitioner v. American Arbitra
tion Association, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied.
No. 08–10219. John R. Lay, Petitioner v. Brian Shefferman. Petition
No. 08–10221. Fermine Louis Castillo, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Third District,
denied.
No. 08–10225. Al-Muhammad Aleek Shabazz, aka Roger L.
Dennis, Jr., Petitioner v. First Correctional Medical Services, et al.
No. 08–10230. James Eugene Hunter, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition

No. 08–10234. Bruce Rich, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
tary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ of cer
cuit denied.
No. 08–10235. Corey Lovell Arnold, Petitioner v. Anthony A. La
marque, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 08–10237. Alfred Toliver, Petitioner v. James Hartley, Acting
No. 08–10244. Jorge Hermelo, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
cuit denied.
No. 08–10246. Flenoid Greer, Petitioner v. Mary Berghuis, Warden.
No. 08–10247. Kurtis E. Armann, Petitioner v. Franciso Quintanais,
No. 08–10248. Barry Leon Ardley, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10255. Kris Edward Helton, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections. Petition for writ of cer
tiorari to the Supreme Court of Florida denied.
No. 08–10257. Joseph Hawkins, Petitioner v. Hamlet, Ltd., et al.
No. 08–10259. Preston Hughes, III, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
No. 08–10261. David Matthew McKinney, Petitioner v. Tracy Ray,
Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied.
No. 08–10262. Adam Fletcher Young, Petitioner v. Oklahoma. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Okla
homa denied.
No. 08–10265. Manuel Antonio Gonzalez, III, Petitioner v. William

Sullivan, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 08–10267. Ron Isaac, Petitioner v. Blaine Lafler, Warden. Peti
No. 08–10268. Colleen F., Petitioner v. Riverside County Depart
ment of Public Social Services. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division
Two, denied.
No. 08–10269. Montusa Karundo T. Pace, Petitioner v. Gene M. John
son, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth
Circuit denied.
No. 08–10270. Derrick Quintero, Petitioner v. Tennessee. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee,
Middle Division, denied.
No. 08–10273. Antonio Laron Collins, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10278. Demilious Kelly, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10282. Jesse Bond, Petitioner v. Jeffrey A. Beard, Secretary,
Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ of cer
tiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
denied.
No. 08–10288. William Moore, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10291. Ker’Sean Olajuwa Ramey, Petitioner v. Texas. Peti
denied.
No. 08–10296. Steven Lee Updike, Petitioner v. Gene M. Johnson,
Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ
Circuit denied.
No. 08–10304. Larry Moorer, Petitioner v. Andrew Jackson, Warden.

No. 08–10309. Timothy Doan Payne, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Third District,
denied.
No. 08–10312. Peter Szanto, Petitioner v. Phillip Szanto. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appel
late District, Division Three, denied.
No. 08–10315. Robin Lee Archer, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
cuit denied.
No. 08–10319. Glen Allen Bethany, Jr., Petitioner v. Rick Thaler,
No. 08–10321. Arthur Lee Bishop, Petitioner v. William Terry, War
No. 08–10323. Burt Leon Setts, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the District Court of Appeal of Florida, First Dis
trict, denied.
No. 08–10326. Juan Gonzalez-Zotelo, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10336. Andre Batista, Petitioner v. New York. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Appellate Division, Supreme Court of New
York, First Judicial Department, denied.
No. 08–10338. Issac Brown, Petitioner v. South Carolina. Petition
No. 08–10341. Ronald Cunniff, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second
District, denied.
No. 08–10343. Thomas W. Hawkins, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, East
ern District, denied.
No. 08–10346. Anthony Darrell Hines, Petitioner v. Tennessee. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennes
see, Middle Division, denied.
No. 08–10347. John Lee Johnson, Petitioner v. Gary Gibson, Warden.

No. 08–10350. Arturo Garcia, Petitioner v. Michael Yarborough,
No. 08–10351. Odis David Smith, Petitioner v. Louisiana. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Louisiana denied.
No. 08–10352. Anthony Riley, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, denied.
No. 08–10355. M. L. S., Petitioner v. Missouri. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Missouri, Western District,
denied.
No. 08–10358. Anthony Dwayne Swift, Petitioner v. Barry Stanford.
No. 08–10361. Kathalina Monacelli, Petitioner v. The UPS Store,
No. 08–10362. Saul Cruz-Meza, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10363. Dino D’Saachs, Petitioner v. Jim Hall, Warden. Peti
No. 08–10365. Anthony Gill, Petitioner v. David Rock, Superintend
ent, Great Meadow Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the Court of Appeals of New York denied.
No. 08–10371. Steven A. Garcia, Petitioner v. S. Ryan, Warden. Peti
No. 08–10372. Wallace A. Gardner, Petitioner v. Larry B. Norris,
Director, Arkansas Department of Correction. Petition for writ of cer
tiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
denied.
No. 08–10373. Billy Donnell Heath, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
tor, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions
Division. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of

No. 08–10374. Robert Michael Hughes, Petitioner v. Estate of
Tammy A. Hughes, Deceased. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
Court of Appeals of Minnesota denied.
No. 08–10375. Timothy L. Humphrey, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second
District, denied.
No. 08–10376. Raul Hernandez, Petitioner v. Derrick L. Ollison,
No. 08–10378. Kevin Dewayne Graham, Petitioner v. Gerald K.
Washington, Warden, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 08–10379. Anthony Trevino, Petitioner v. Mike Evans, Warden.
No. 08–10382. Louis Lutz, Petitioner v. Barack H. Obama, President
of the United States, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 08–10387. Shannon Lee Simon, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Fourteenth Dis
trict, denied.
No. 08–10393. Clarence S. Allen, Petitioner v. Judy Belcher. Petition
No. 08–10396. Michael Orlando McDaniel, Petitioner v. Texas. Peti
denied.
No. 08–10397. James W. Davis, III, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
cuit denied.
No. 08–10398. Lester Hardy, Petitioner v. Boyd Bennett, et al. Peti
No. 08–10399. Kevin Hayes, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
No. 08–10402. Edgar Franco, Petitioner v. California. Petition for

late District denied.
No. 08–10403. William Lewis Gaskin, Petitioner v. Lawrence Kelly,
Superintendent, Mississippi State Penitentiary. Petition for writ of cer
tiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
denied.
No. 08–10404. James R. Fultz, Petitioner v. State Farm Mutual Au
tomobile Insurance Company. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Su
preme Court of Delaware denied.
No. 08–10405. Harris Emanuel Ford, Petitioner v. Marvin L. Polk,
No. 08–10408. Luella S. Christopher, Petitioner v. William J. Be
thune. Petition for writ of certiorari to the District of Columbia Court
of Appeals denied.
No. 08–10411. Charles Alan Davidson, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
rector, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institu
No. 08–10413. Harold H. Hodge, et ux., Petitioners v. Calvert
County Public Schools, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied.
No. 08–10414. Jason Andrew Simpson, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition
No. 08–10415. Brandon Lavelle Santifer, Petitioner v. Mike Evans,
No. 08–10416. Michael Ray Rekow, Petitioner v. Guy Hall, Super
intendent, Two Rivers Correctional Institution. Petition for writ of cer
denied.
No. 08–10421. Kevin Jamal Rogers, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 08–10422. Edward Portillo, Petitioner v. California. Petition for

No. 08–10424. Danny E. Osborne, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10427. Brian Joseph Babinski, Petitioner v. Tom Voss. Peti
No. 08–10428. Winfred R. Bright, Petitioner v. Edward Wright, War
peals for the Fourth Circuit denied.
No. 08–10431. Ronnie Jean Davis, Sr., Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
No. 08–10432. William Thomas Coats, Petitioner v. California. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, Third
Appellate District, denied.
No. 08–10434. Ronald Harris, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 08–10435. Lamont Henderson, Petitioner v. P. Liggin, et al. Peti
No. 08–10438. Angelo Gonzalez, Petitioner v. Blandon Smith, et al.
No. 08–10439. Adegbenga Tito Ijadimini, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler,
No. 08–10444. Jarvis A. Ware, Petitioner v. Lt. Laney, et al. Petition
No. 08–10445. Roger Timothy, Petitioner v. Howard Skolnik, Direc
tor, Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ of cer
denied.
No. 08–10450. Nicholas Purpura, Petitioner v. Bushkin, Gaimes,
Gains, Jonas & Stream, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 08–10451. Dorian Frank O’Kelley, Petitioner v. Hilton Hall, War

den. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Georgia
denied.
No. 08–10458. Damon B. Cook, Petitioner v. George M. Galaza, War
No. 08–10461. Troy T. Coleman, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10466. William John Daughtery, Petitioner v. California.
Fourth Appellate District, Division One, denied.
No. 08–10469. Andrew G. Piazza, Petitioner v. Ben Curry, Warden.
No. 08–10471. Lelyn T. Bates, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10472. Stanley Johnson, Petitioner v. Don Roper, Super
intendent, Potosi Correctional Center, et al. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
denied.
No. 08–10473. Luis Lagaite, Jr., Petitioner v. Brad Livingston, Exec
utive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. Petition
denied.
No. 08–10475. Myron E. Wood, Petitioner v. Debra Scutt, Warden.
No. 08–10476. Bryan Woodard, Petitioner v. City of New Albany,
Indiana. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Indi
ana, First District, denied.
No. 08–10477. Dean Cairo Rodriguez, Petitioner v. California. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, Second
No. 08–10480. Steve Owens, Petitioner v. Greg Grams, Warden. Peti
the Seventh Circuit denied.

No. 08–10483. John Olivares, Petitioner v. Silvia Garcia, Warden.
No. 08–10484. Eric B. Philpot, aka Erik B. Philpot, Petitioner v.
Walter A. McNeil, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Florida denied.
No. 08–10487. James Widner, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
tary, Florida Department of Corrections. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit denied.
No. 08–10488. Darryl Bernard Watts, Petitioner v. D. L. Runnels,
No. 08–10489. Jason Tucker, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
denied.
No. 08–10493. William Lovelle Stringer, Petitioner v. Iowa. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Iowa denied.
No. 08–10496. Robert Consalvo, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Florida denied.
No. 08–10497. James Earl Dorsey, Petitioner v. Brian Coleman,
Superintendent, Fayette State Correctional Institution. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 08–10498. Reginald Chapman, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Appellate Court of Illinois, First District,
denied.
No. 08–10503. Ducan Fanfan, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
First Circuit denied.
No. 08–10504. Thomas Hawkins, III, Petitioner v. California, et al.
No. 08–10505. Reginald Milon Fields, Petitioner v. Sergeant Berry,
No. 08–10506. Regina Darlene Garrett, Petitioner v. Mississippi.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Mississippi
denied.
No. 08–10509. Gregory Alan Gaylor, Petitioner v. Richard M. Gerry,

Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of New
Hampshire, Merrimack County, denied.
No. 08–10510. Darrell J. Harper, Petitioner v. Southern Star Con
crete. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
No. 08–10511. Michael Raihala, Petitioner v. William C. Whitbeck,
No. 08–10512. Anthony Swift, Petitioner v. Mississippi. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Mississippi denied.
No. 08–10514. Bill Bunn, Petitioner v. California. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate Dis
trict, denied.
No. 08–10515. Manuel Burruel, III, Petitioner v. Rocky Spurgeon.
No. 08–10518. David Bright, Petitioner v. Paul O’Flaherty, et al.
No. 08–10519. Vincent Doan, Petitioner v. Harold E. Carter, Warden.
No. 08–10523. Anthony Small, Petitioner v. Connecticut. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Connecticut denied.
No. 08–10525. Kenneth R. Abraham, Petitioner v. Delaware. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Delaware denied.
No. 08–10526. Michael C. Brannon, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10529. John Hawkins Husser, Petitioner v. Debra Dexter,
No. 08–10532. Jose Adilio Rivera, aka Jose Alirio Rivera, aka Jose
Nochez-Rivera, aka Jose A. Rivera, aka Jose Rivera, Petitioner v.
No. 08–10534. Anthony Diggs, Petitioner v. Louisiana. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Louisiana denied.

No. 08–10535. Winniefred D. Ramsay, Petitioner v. Broward County
Sheriff ’s Office, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 08–10538. Howard Powell, Petitioner v. Arkansas. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Arkansas denied.
No. 08–10540. John C. Votta, Jr., Petitioner v. Massachusetts. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Appeals Court of Massachusetts
denied.
No. 08–10541. Erasmo Vasquez-Ochoa, Petitioner v. Eric H.
No. 08–10542. Mostafa Mohd Khondaker, Petitioner v. United
No. 08–10545. Stephen Michael Fleming, Petitioner v. Lloyd Ra
pelje, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 08–10546. Raymond Don Wai Mui, Petitioner v. Joe McGrath,
No. 08–10547. William Josef Berkley, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
No. 08–10552. Donald Jones, Petitioner v. Google, Inc., et al. Petition
No. 08–10553. Guadalupe Rodriguez, aka Jose Rodriguez, Petitioner
v. Texas. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Ap
peals of Texas denied.
No. 08–10556. Kevin Mercer, Petitioner v. South Carolina. Petition
No. 08–10558. Henry Tuten, Petitioner v. Franklin J. Tennis, Super
intendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Petition
No. 08–10559. Leroy P. Mower, Petitioner v. David Ballard, Warden.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of West Virginia,
Mercer County, denied.
No. 08–10560. Randall A. Scotti, Petitioner v. Richard J. Corriveau,

No. 08–10561. Herdius Evans, Petitioner v. Steven J. O’Brien, Super
intendent, Old Colony Correctional Center. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit denied.
No. 08–10563. Wesley Edward Smith, Petitioner v. Pepsi Bottling
Group, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 08–10565. Teresa Renita Burwell, Petitioner v. City of Las
Vegas, Nevada. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of
Nevada denied.
No. 08–10569. Laurel A. Kendall, Petitioner v. State Bar of Michi
gan, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of
Michigan denied.
No. 08–10571. Troy Duane Kamps, Petitioner v. Maggie Miller-
Stout, Superintendent, Airway Heights Correctional Center. Petition
Ninth Circuit denied.
No. 08–10572. Robert Panton, Petitioner v. John Nash, Warden.
No. 08–10575. Wylene Dinkins, Petitioner v. Kathleen Sebelius, Sec
the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit denied.
No. 08–10576. Ernie Young, Petitioner v. Elvis A. Presley, et al.
No. 08–10577. David Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10582. Darrell K. Whittington, Petitioner v. Owens-Illinois,
Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
No. 08–10583. Gerald A. McGuigan, Petitioner v. Guy Hall, Super
denied.

No. 08–10585. Paul Wright, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 08–10586. Timothy Thorne, Petitioner v. Steve Larkins, War
peals for the Eighth Circuit denied.
No. 08–10588. James Samuel Kor, Jr., Petitioner v. Tom Felker, War
No. 08–10591. Larry Charvell Jones, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10592. Raymond Tucker, Petitioner v. Carmen Palmer, War
No. 08–10594. Terry Nichols, Petitioner v. David Mills, Warden.
No. 08–10597. Joshua Meshell, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
No. 08–10600. Michael D. Wright, Petitioner v. Greg Zoeller, Attor
ney General of Indiana. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit denied.
No. 08–10603. David Anthony Babb, Petitioner v. Drug Enforcement
Administration, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 08–10606. Antonio Aguilar, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
No. 08–10607. Isaias Bermudez, Petitioner v. Brian Fischer, Com
missioner, New York Department of Correctional Services. Petition for
York, Third Judicial Department, denied.
No. 08–10612. Roger Erhardt Stubl, Petitioner v. Unknown Place.
No. 08–10614. Freddie Barnett, Petitioner v. Ana Boatwright, War
peals for the Seventh Circuit denied.
No. 08–10616. Elijah Burke, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Petition for

writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Office, denied.
No. 08–10617. Samuel Ethelbert Ayres, II, Petitioner v. Virginia.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Virginia denied.
No. 08–10618. Douglas Charles Bridgeford, Petitioner v. Maryland.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Special Appeals of Mary
land denied.
No. 08–10626. William Sim Spencer, Petitioner v. Michigan Depart
ment of Corrections. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of
Appeals of Michigan denied.
No. 08–10629. Lee Roy Brown, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 08–10631. Michael Brent, Petitioner v. Keith Anglin, Warden.
No. 08–10632. Mario McCree, Petitioner v. Shirlee Harry, Warden.
No. 08–10634. Steven Wayne Pierce, Petitioner v. Mississippi. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Mississippi denied.
No. 08–10635. Jeffrey Atwater, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
No. 08–10636. Gregory Wilson, Petitioner v. Thomas L. Simpson,
No. 08–10639. Terry Jackson, Petitioner v. Stephen Benton, Warden.
No. 08–10640. Samuel Wollstein, Petitioner v. Mary Washington
Hospital, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 08–10641. Preston Davis, Petitioner v. North Carolina. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of North Carolina denied.
No. 08–10643. Harland P. Kenyon, Petitioner v. Wyoming Depart
ment of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United

No. 08–10644. Fateen L. Jackson, Petitioner v. Victor Almager, War
No. 08–10646. Roger Allen Raymond, Petitioner v. Douglas Weber,
Appeals for the Eighth Circuit denied.
No. 08–10652. Frederick Eldred Renneke, Petitioner v. Nebraska
Department of Health and Human Services. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the Supreme Court of Nebraska denied.
No. 08–10658. Roszetta Marie McNeill, Petitioner v. Wayne County,
Michigan, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 08–10659. Mark A. Cassell, Petitioner v. Adam Toler Memorial
Funeral Home, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court
of West Virginia, Wyoming County, denied.
No. 08–10661. Michael Stuart Dale, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 08–10662. Kyle Watson, Petitioner v. New York. Petition for
York, Second Judicial Department, denied.
No. 08–10664. Theresa Torricellas, Petitioner v. Dawn Davidson,
No. 08–10665. Charles G. Willenbring, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10667. Jerry Jay Wrenn, Petitioner v. Oregon Board of Pa
role and Post Prison Supervision, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 08–10668. Yhosogn Jiles, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10670. James Edward Jenkins, Petitioner v. Matthew Cate,
Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
No. 08–10671. Gustave Link, Petitioner v. David Rhodes, et al. Peti

No. 08–10672. Patrick A. Triumph, Petitioner v. Connecticut. Peti
the Second Circuit denied.
No. 08–10676. Karen Snider, Petitioner v. Stephen M. Grayless, et al.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Oklahoma
denied.
No. 08–10678. Tony Bernard Johnson, Petitioner v. Arkansas. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Arkansas denied.
No. 08–10680. Nathan Wilson, Petitioner v. Guthria, et al. Petition
No. 08–10681. Nathan Wilson, Petitioner v. C. Caldwell, et al. Peti
No. 08–10682. Gilbert R. Williams, Petitioner v. Robert S. Bitner,
peals for the Third Circuit denied.
No. 08–10683. Demetrius Brown, Petitioner v. Gregg McQuiggin,
No. 08–10684. David Lee Brown, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
Circuit denied.
No. 08–10686. James Earl Brown, Petitioner v. Francisco Gutierrez,
No. 08–10687. Glynis Bethel, Petitioner v. City of Daphne, Alabama.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Alabama denied.
No. 08–10689. Nolgie Rodriguez-Zamot, Petitioner v. United States.
for the First Circuit denied.
No. 08–10690. Rebecca T. Shumye, Petitioner v. Samuel D. Felleke.

No. 08–10691. Jose Jesus Ruvalcaba, Petitioner v. Edmund G.
Brown, Jr., Attorney General of California. Petition for writ of certio
No. 08–10692. Larry Rodriguez, Petitioner v. Mallinckrodt, Inc.
No. 08–10693. Delio Jesus Candia, aka Big Mike, aka Delia Jesus
Candia, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 08–10695. Timothy Rouse, Petitioner v. Kentucky. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Kentucky denied.
No. 08–10696. O. Z. Martin, Petitioner v. Matthew Cate, Secretary,
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Peti
No. 08–10697. John R. Lay, Petitioner v. Douglas F. Gansler, Attor
ney General of Maryland, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 08–10698. Thomas F. Brown, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10700. Billy Wayne Farris, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10701. Walter Harris, aka Dion, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10702. Juan Gil, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ
Circuit denied.
No. 08–10703. Stan Taran Ford, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10704. Sameena Ikbal, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10705. Toby Franklin Heath, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10706. Adrian Granado-Mena, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 08–10707. David A. Hicks, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10708. Ramon Garza, Jr., Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
denied.
No. 08–10709. Carl A. Hageman, Jr., Petitioner v. Mark Nooth,
Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Cir
cuit denied.
No. 08–10710. Juan Zuniga, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 08–10711. William P. Trainor, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10713. Syed Maaz Shah, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10714. Louie M. Schexnayder, Petitioner v. Louisiana. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Louisiana denied.
No. 08–10715. William N. Staples, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10716. Angel Eliazar Noriega-Valenzuela, Petitioner v.
No. 08–10717. Leandre Eugene Harwell, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10718. Demetrio Columna-Romero, Petitioner v. United
No. 08–10719. Jean Ronel Dor, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 08–10720. Demetrius Tyrone Gardner, Petitioner v. United
No. 08–10721. David Eric Garcia, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10722. Cuong Tan Huynh, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10725. William Garner, Petitioner v. Betty Mitchell, Warden.
No. 08–10726. James Mero, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 08–10727. Angel Luis Reyes, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Peti
No. 08–10728. Theodore Stevens, Petitioner v. Nevada. Petition for
No. 08–10729. Harry Ronald Seay, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10730. Montrey K. Singleton, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
No. 08–10731. Michael Paul Haymond, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10733. Lal Bhatia, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 08–10734. Luis A. Alicea-Cardoza, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10736. T. C. Anderson, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 08–10737. Kirby Perritte, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
denied.
No. 08–10738. Maurice Pierre Olivier, Petitioner v. California. Peti
No. 08–10739. Mondric Bradley, Petitioner v. Mississippi. Petition
No. 08–10740. James Edward Brown, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10741. Chris J. Jacobs, Petitioner v. Wisconsin. Petition for
denied.
No. 08–10742. Jason Newell, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
to the Supreme Court of Florida denied.
No. 08–10743. Theodore W. Oswald, Petitioner v. Michael Thurmer,
No. 08–10744. Chaddrick Levell Thomas, Petitioner v. United
No. 08–10745. Eddie Lamar Taylor, Petitioner v. North Carolina.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of North Caro
lina denied.
No. 08–10746. Everett Watson, Petitioner v. City of Akron, Ohio,
et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio,
Summit County, denied.
No. 08–10747. Scott Koth, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 08–10748. Babatunde Osiname, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 08–10749. Oumar Kamara, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10750. Ruben Orlando Escobar, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10751. Robert Jerome Jones, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10752. Carlos Salazar Lopez, aka Carlos Salazar, Petitioner
v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 08–10753. Steven Ellery Springer, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10754. Raymond Darryl Harvey, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10755. Jeffery Jannuzzi, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10756. John W. Barrett, Petitioner v. Mississippi. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 08–10757. Sedrick Brooks, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10758. Mario Caesar Zapata, Petitioner v. James Hartley,
Acting Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 08–10761. Fernando Lemus-Gonzalez, Petitioner v. United
No. 08–10762. Stephen Shane Styles, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10763. James Darnell Scott, Petitioner v. South Carolina.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of South Carolina
denied.
No. 08–10764. Antron Smith, Petitioner v. Kenneth R. Cameron,

Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Cresson, et al. Peti
No. 08–10765. Russell Caston, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10767. Emilio Davis, Petitioner v. City of New Bern, North
Carolina, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals
of North Carolina denied.
No. 08–10768. Tai Wang Mak, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10769. James W. Long, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10770. Reginald Dewayne Jeffries, Petitioner v. United
No. 08–10771. Jerome Pigford, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10772. David Sandoval, Petitioner v. Robert Ulibarri, War
peals for the Tenth Circuit denied.
No. 08–10773. Kenneth E. Stewart, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10774. Travis Deshan Stewart, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10775. Julio Cesar Rodriguez-Duberney, Petitioner v. United
No. 08–10776. Rufus Sims, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.

No. 08–10777. David Williams, Petitioner v. Darryl Drew, Warden.
No. 08–10778. John Michael Crim, aka Red, Petitioner v. United
No. 08–10779. Robert Darin Crute, aka Kenneth R. Griffin, Peti
tioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 08–10780. John Jay Dittrich, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
Circuit denied.
No. 08–10781. Antonio Andrade Calles, Petitioner v. Domingo
Uribe, Jr., Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 08–10782. Severette Orval Cheek, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10785. Joel Merced-Rodriguez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10786. Jean Herbert Joseph, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
No. 08–10788. Kylin Little, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 08–10789. William Plump, III, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10790. Marvin McCaleb, aka Marvin Darryl McCaleb, Peti
No. 08–10791. Steven Blaine Rooks, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10792. Preston C. Pinkston, Petitioner v. North Carolina.

Petition for writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of North Carolina,
Stanly County, denied.
No. 08–10793. Nour Eddine Elasali, Petitioner v. John Mayer. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, Fourth
Appellate District, Division One, denied.
No. 08–10794. Keith Clayton Brooks, Jr., Petitioner v. Ron Johnson,
No. 08–10795. Hawa Mosere, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attor
No. 08–10796. Richard J. Harley, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10797. Adrian Hernandez-Garay, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10798. Hector Manuel Nunez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10800. Gregory Morgan, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10801. Eric Nabried, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 08–10802. Terry W. Mowatt, Petitioner v. Eldon Vail, Secretary,
Washington Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ of cer
denied.
No. 08–10803. Peter A. King, Petitioner v. Mark Nooth, Super
intendent, Snake River Correctional Institution. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 08–10804. Gary James Johnson, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
tor, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Criminal Institutions Divi

No. 08–10805. Patrick Neil Kinney, Petitioner v. David Bergh, War
No. 08–10806. Kesetbrhan M. Keleta, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10807. Terryance A. Smith, Petitioner v. California. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Ap
pellate District, Division Three, denied.
No. 08–10808. Carl Strunk, Petitioner v. Mike Evans, Warden. Peti
No. 08–10809. Julio Carrion Santiago, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10810. Donald Frank Smith, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10811. Josefina Olacirequi Sanchez, Petitioner v. United
No. 08–10812. Ronald Weaver, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
Eighth Circuit denied.
No. 08–10815. Lee E. Dismuke, Petitioner v. Mississippi. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Mississippi denied.
No. 08–10816. William Blake Caldwell, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10818. Khalafala Khalafala, Petitioner v. United States Dis
trict Court for the Eastern District of California. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 08–10819. Tanis Jocelyn Watt, Petitioner v. David Lee Roth,
No. 08–10820. Fredrick Damond Watts, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10821. Raiphael B. Williams, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 08–10822. Anthony L. Tarkington, Petitioner v. Superior Court
of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 08–10824. Leonard Tyrone Jones, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10825. Donald A. Logan, Jr., Petitioner v. Louisiana. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Cir
cuit, denied.
No. 08–10826. Martin Sotero Menzor, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10828. Jorge Osvaldo Medina-Vargas, Petitioner v. United
No. 08–10829. Rebecca Murray, Petitioner v. J. La Ron Locke, State
Medical Examiner, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 08–10830. Percy Moore, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 08–10831. Kenneth Baumruk, Petitioner v. Missouri. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Missouri denied.
No. 08–10832. Gregory Backey, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10833. Daniel D. Benham, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10834. Stephen Dale Barbee, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
No. 08–10835. Harvey Barry Jacobs, Petitioner v. Matthew Cate,

No. 08–10836. Ronald Clutter, Petitioner v. David Ballard, Warden.
No. 08–10837. Donnie Ray Daley, Petitioner v. Burl Cain, Warden.
No. 08–10838. Jose Rodriguez-Marrero, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10839. Joe Richard Randle, Jr., Petitioner v. D. Woods. Peti
No. 08–10840. Lamarr Rowell, Petitioner v. Nevada. Petition for
No. 08–10841. Darrell Samuel, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10842. Michael T. Sontchi, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 08–10843. Louis Jahmal Jones, Petitioner v. Jan E. Trombley.
No. 08–10848. David A. Riley, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10849. Sayaphone Sengvong, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second
District, denied.
No. 08–10850. James T. Reed, Petitioner v. Carol Swilley, et al. Peti
No. 08–10851. David Lee Scott, Petitioner v. Ben Curry, Warden.
No. 08–10852. Harvey C. Jackson, IV, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10853. James D. Haburn and Stefanie A. Roden, Petitioners

v. John F. Kilby, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 08–10854. Alexander Wehr, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10855. James A. McKeighan, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10856. Reginald Cooper, Petitioner v. Tom L. Carey, Warden.
No. 08–10857. J. R., Petitioner v. Mental Health Board of the Fourth
Judicial District; and O. S., Petitioner v. Mental Health Board of the
Fourth Judicial District. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme
Court of Nebraska denied.
No. 08–10858. Gene E. Smith, Sr., Petitioner v. ATM Vancom of Las
Vegas, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 08–10859. Jaime Del Rio, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10863. Albert Carl Camacho, aka Albert Camacho, Petitioner
No. 08–10864. David O. Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10865. Arturo Hernandez Torres, Petitioner v. United
No. 08–10866. Rhonda J. Turpin, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10867. Michele Walker, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate
District, denied.
No. 08–10868. Berlie Daniels, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
tary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al.; and Berlie Daniels,

Petitioner v. United States District Court for the Middle District of
Florida. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 08–10869. Osmond O’Neil Christie, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10870. Eric Bernard Chism, Petitioner v. Glen Turner, War
No. 08–10871. Robert Caldwell, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 08–10872. John Roosevelt Miller, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10873. Robert McCulligan, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, Phila
delphia Office, denied.
No. 08–10874. Quinshela Turner, Petitioner v. Jackson Park Hospi
tal, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 08–10875. Darrell J. Moore, Petitioner v. Housing Authority of
the City of Los Angeles, California. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, denied.
No. 08–10876. Sharon McNulty, Petitioner v. J.C. Penney, et al. Peti
No. 08–10877. Victor Vargas, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10878. Christopher Shane Walton, Petitioner v. United
No. 08–10879. Anthony Graham Trotter, Petitioner v. Charles Har
rison, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 08–10880. Frank David Miller, Petitioner v. Carmen Palmer,

No. 08–10881. Marcus Rivers, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10882. Wesley Miller, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Ninth District, denied.
No. 08–10883. Noel Cervando Diaz-Pineda, Petitioner v. United
No. 08–10884. Rodica Waivio, Petitioner v. Advocate Health Care
Network, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit denied.
No. 08–10887. Abraham Adkins, Petitioner v. Stephen N. Six, Attor
ney General of Kansas. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 08–10888. Deborah Lucille Blue, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10889. Herman Lewis Billups, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10892. GwanJun Kim, Petitioner v. Ronald C. Wernette, Jr.,
et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Michi
gan denied.
No. 08–10893. Christopher J. Martin, Petitioner v. Virginia. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Virginia denied.
No. 08–10894. Jeffrey E. Johnson, Petitioner v. Wisconsin. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, District I,
denied.
No. 08–10895. Casey Dale Mayer, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10896. Vernell Kelly, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.

No. 08–10897. Wallace Lee Johnson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10898. Page Penk, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth
Circuit denied.
No. 08–10900. Leyda Rey-Gonzalez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10901. Bernaldino Munoz-Mendez, Petitioner v. United
No. 08–10903. Cornelius Martin, Petitioner v. Loren Grayer, War
den, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Geor
gia denied.
No. 08–10904. Sam Lewis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 08–10905. Barbara Blackwell, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10906. Calvin Lewis Berry, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10907. James Francis Leinenbach, Petitioner v. United
No. 08–10908. Jason L. Finney, Sr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
the Tenth Circuit denied.
No. 08–10909. Michael A. Hernandez, Jr., Petitioner v. Florida. Peti
No. 08–10911. Michael Flores, Petitioner v. Derral G. Adams, War
No. 08–10912. Stefanie A. Roden and James D. Haburn, Petitioners
v. Bhula Diah, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 08–10913. Malik S. K. Wright, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 08–10915. Lloyd Anthonie Williams, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10916. Frederick Pharm, Petitioner v. Bryan Bartow, Direc
tor, Wisconsin Resource Center. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit denied.
No. 08–10917. Lamont D. Tharps, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10918. Ezekiel Phillips, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for
No. 08–10919. Andre Keyes, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 08–10920. Raymond Donald Curry, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10921. Wenley McClaren, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10922. Marilyn Fischer Lynch, Petitioner v. John Hertzig,
et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California,
Third Appellate District, denied.
No. 08–10924. Nehemiah H. Reed, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10925. Edward H. Saterstad, Petitioner v. Kevin Stover,
et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of Pennsylva
nia, Harrisburg Office, denied.
No. 08–10926. Walter LaCedrick Rodgers, Petitioner v. Colorado.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Colorado
denied.
No. 08–10928. Larry Jones Hand, III, Petitioner v. Walter A. Mc-
Neil, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for

No. 08–10929. Ivory L. Suttle, Petitioner v. Byran Bartow, Director,
Wisconsin Resource Center. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 08–10931. Franklin X. Baines, Petitioner v. Louis S. Folino,
Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 08–10933. Brandon Blackmon, Petitioner v. Thomas McBride,
Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of West
Virginia, Logan County, denied.
No. 08–10934. Andrew Bonner, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 08–10935. Richard Adamson, Petitioner v. De Poorter, et al.
No. 08–10936. Charles Moore, Petitioner v. K. Comaites. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 08–10937. Ruben Martinez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10938. Tamara L. Martin, et vir, Petitioners v. Select Portfo
lio Servicing Holding Corporation, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit denied.
No. 08–10939. Clarence Dee, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 08–10943. Piontek A. Young, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10944. Heriberto Urista, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
No. 08–10945. Anthony Vasquez, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10946. Gloria Dale Wilkerson, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 08–10947. Anthony Watley, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10948. Thomas J. Stone, Petitioner v. Kenneth T. McKee,
No. 08–10949. Clarence L. Cerf, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 08–10950. Justin Mertis Barber, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth
District, denied.
No. 08–10951. Walter John Bates, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10952. Shrenik Bavishi, Petitioner v. UBS Financial Serv
ices, Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 08–10953. James Broomfield, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10955. Brian G. Bennett, Petitioner v. Donald Hulick, War
No. 08–10956. Jerome Blackshear, Petitioner v. T. Dowling, et al.
No. 08–10957. Carl E. Sanders, Petitioner v. Department of Housing
and Urban Development, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 08–10958. Timothy Handley, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 08–10960. Lashawn Jermaine Johnson, Petitioner v. United
No. 08–10961. Christopher Ryan King, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10962. Adolfo Rojas-Barrera, Petitioner v. Timothy Wengler,
No. 08–10963. Delores Brown Redd and Starsky Darnell Redd, Peti
tioners v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 08–10964. James Michael McClain, Petitioner v. Millicent War
ren, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 08–10965. Samuel Lowe, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Supreme Court of Ohio denied.
No. 08–10966. Keith Zon Doolin, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 08–10967. Ignacio Medina-Beltran, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10968. Lee Ronald Nesgoda, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10970. Mark E. Gonzales, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10972. Michael Norwood, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10973. Ben Roten, Petitioner v. Michael DeLoy, Warden,
No. 08–10975. Anthony Saunders, aka Anthony Lucente, aka Big T,
Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit denied.
No. 08–10976. Reginald Yauman, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 08–10977. Laurie Marie Laskey, Petitioner v. Charles Indus
tries. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of Califor
nia, First Appellate District, denied.
No. 08–10978. Vincent White, Petitioner v. Michael B. Donley, Secre
tary of the Air Force, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 08–10979. Anthony Lanza, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Sec
retary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ of
cuit denied.
No. 08–10980. Randy J. Linniman, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10981. Marianne Baziruwiha, Petitioner v. Supershuttle In
ternational Corporation, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 08–10983. Winfred B. Abrams, Petitioner v. Department of Vet
erans Affairs. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 08–10984. Darin Luis Ayala, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10985. Syed A. Razvi, Petitioner v. FIA Card Services, N. A.,
fka MBNA America Bank, N. A. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, denied.
No. 08–10987. Kathryn V. Erickson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10990. Jaime Segura Moreno, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10991. Lori Ann Parr, Petitioner v. Middle Tennessee State
University, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States

No. 08–10992. Juan Ramon Bataz Martinez, Petitioner v. United
No. 08–10995. Richard Eric Jarrard, Steven Larry Jarrard, and Nor
man Kyle Jarrard, Petitioners v. United States. Petition for writ of
cuit denied.
No. 08–10998. Sunday Udoinyion, Petitioner v. REMAX of Atlanta,
No. 08–10999. Bishme Walker, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–11000. Timothy Taylor, Petitioner v. Kentucky. Petition for
No. 08–11001. Lamount Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–11002. Darnell Rials, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 08–11004. Bobby David Starling, Petitioner v. Arkansas. Peti
No. 08–11005. James H. Bentley, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–11006. Roy Oswald Bodden, Petitioner v. North Carolina.
lina denied.
No. 08–11008. William J. McCorkle, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–11009. Reginald Morgan, Petitioner v. Johnny Ford, et al.
No. 08–11010. Roberto Rangel, Petitioner v. Derral G. Adams, War
den, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 08–11011. Luis M. Thomas, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 08–11014. Laurie Marie Laskey, Petitioner v. United Online, Inc.
No. 08–11015. Joseph Leroy Kramer, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–11017. Marc Richard Jakaj, Petitioner v. Michigan. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Michigan, Wayne County,
Criminal Division, denied.
No. 08–11018. Douglas Lee Kinney, Petitioner v. Iowa. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 08–11019. Derrick Jomell Perry, aka Mel, Petitioner v. United
No. 08–11020. Ricky McGregory, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for
denied.
No. 08–11021. Donte Lejuan Perkins, Petitioner v. North Carolina.
No. 08–11022. Nicholas Rheault, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
the First Circuit denied.
No. 08–11024. John A. Ward, Petitioner v. Delaware. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Delaware denied.
No. 08–11025. Carl Wells, Petitioner v. Gregory Carro, Judge, Su
preme Court of New York, New York County. Petition for writ of cer
tiorari to the Appellate Division, Supreme Court of New York, First
Judicial Department, denied.
No. 08–11026. Jason L. Wheeler, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
No. 08–11027. Christopher Williams, Petitioner v. Jeffrey A. Beard,
Circuit denied.

No. 08–11028. Anthony P. Johnson, Petitioner v. Timothy Wengler,
No. 08–11029. Donald H. Kirkey, Petitioner v. Brett Mize, Super
intendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
denied.
No. 08–11030. Reginald Leon Edwards, aka Reginald L. Edwards,
No. 08–11031. Robert H. Davis, aka Pops, Petitioner v. United
No. 08–11032. Keith Navarro Carter, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of Pennsylvania,
Pittsburgh Office, denied.
No. 08–11033. Richard L. Johnson, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
No. 08–11036. Angel G. Diaz, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth Dis
trict, denied.
No. 08–11037. Darren Steel, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 08–11039. Julio Jose Leon Sanchez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–11040. Jose Gonzalez Rivera, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–11041. Adam W. Sharpe, Petitioner v. State Bar of California.
denied.
No. 08–11042. Troy Lewis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the District
of Columbia Circuit denied.
No. 08–11043. Anthony Long, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 08–11044. Larry Donnell Lindsey and Lonnie DeWayne Robin

son, Petitioners v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 08–11045. Daniel Lugo, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
No. 08–11046. Arthur J. Kessler, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
Circuit denied.
No. 08–11047. Juan Jimenez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–11048. Michael Frederick Schulze, Petitioner v. Paul Schultz,
No. 08–11049. Shawn Maurice Lucas, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–11051. Pedro Moytez-Pineda, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–11052. Jesus Perez-Cruz, aka Indio, Petitioner v. United
Appeals for the First Circuit denied.
No. 08–11053. Christopher Chase Crain, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–11054. Emile DeWeaver, Petitioner v. David L. Runnels,
No. 08–11055. James Carl Crandell, Petitioner v. Louisiana. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Cir
cuit, denied.
No. 08–11056. Fabian Roberson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–11057. Joseph James Ramirez, Petitioner v. California. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, Sixth

No. 08–11059. Decory Franklin, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for
denied.
No. 08–11061. Edwin Freeman, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for
denied.
No. 08–11062. Renee Island, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 08–11063. Vodie Goodman, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–11064. Donald Gatewood, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Appellate Court of Illinois, First District
denied.
No. 08–11066. Thom Shiraishi, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–11067. Moses Stamps, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 08–11068. Travis Wayne Bowman, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–11069. Wesley Alford Boyd, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–11071. Johnny Ray Luna, Petitioner v. Louisiana. Petition
No. 08–11072. Bridget R. Wright, Petitioner v. Southwest Airlines,
No. 08–11073. Dwayne Westbrook, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for
denied.
No. 08–11074. David L. Bruce, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Fairfield County, denied.
No. 08–11075. Jermaine Baker, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–11076. Brian Works, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ

No. 08–11077. Melvin Bradley Boutte, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–11078. R. Casper Adamson, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
cuit denied.
No. 08–11079. Torris Dixon, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second Dis
trict, denied.
No. 08–11081. Greg Nesselrode, Petitioner v. Bruce Measure, et al.
No. 08–11082. Ivan Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–11083. Bruce Douglas Pace, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
cuit denied.
No. 08–11084. Ida Williams, Petitioner v. William Beaumont Hospi
tal. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals
No. 08–11085. Jarrot A. Cooper, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–11086. Thomas E. Cotton, Petitioner v. Walter W. Kelley,
Trustee. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 08–11087. Fidencio Alberto Estrada-Guerra, Petitioner v.
No. 08–11088. Johnny Lee Evans, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–11089. Eugene Travis Smith, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di

No. 08–11090. Fidel Sigala-Trejo, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–11091. Jessie Lee Swanson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–11092. Randall Scotti, Petitioner v. Joy Scotti. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Michigan denied.
No. 08–11093. Efren Mendoza-Sandoval, aka Efren Armando
Mendoza-Sandoval, aka Efren Sandoval Mendoza, Petitioner v. United
No. 08–11094. Jaime Pena-Gomez, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–11095. Scott William Thompson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–11096. Robert Knight, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–11097. Thomas F. Lovett, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
Circuit denied.
No. 08–11098. Judson Witham, Petitioner v. Christian County, Mis
souri, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit denied.
No. 08–11099. Jose Mondragon-Santiago, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–11100. James Wallace, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 08–11101. Patrick Kit Plumlee and Max Orvel Plumlee, Petition
ers v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 08–11102. William Emerson Townsend, Petitioner v. Mike

Knowles, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 08–11103. Chad D. Bouman, Petitioner v. Steve Robinson, et al.
No. 08–11104. Donald Vaughn, Petitioner v. David L. Runnels, War
No. 08–11106. Cesar Carrillo, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–11108. Bruno Choiniere, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–11109. Sealed Petitioner, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–11110. Michael Charles Gunter, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–11111. Trevor Nelson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–11112. Blondell F. Mitchell, Petitioner v. KDJM-FM, et al.
No. 08–11113. Felix Hernandez-Castillo, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–11114. Donald R. Handy, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–11115. William Hernandez, aka William Moreno, Petitioner
No. 08–11116. Bobby Samuel Hughes, Jr., Petitioner v. United

No. 08–11117. Rogelio Figuereo-Sanchez, Petitioner v. United
No. 08–11119. Juan Jesus Hernandez-Zuniga, Petitioner v. United
No. 08–11120. Dionisio Hernandez, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–11121. Kenneth James Hanna, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–11122. Willie Lee Gant, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–11124. Harris L. Winns, Petitioner v. United States District
Court for the Western District of Washington. Petition for writ of cer
denied.
No. 08–11125. Walter B. Tech, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–11126. Valentino Leon Tucker, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–11127. Robert Cheeseman, Petitioner v. City of Reedsport,
Oregon, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of
Oregon denied.
No. 08–11128. Shariff Ysalam Caughman, Petitioner v. United
No. 08–11131. Sanco Grant, III, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–11132. Willie Ulysess Grant, Petitioner v. California. Petition
pellate District, Division One, denied.
No. 08–11133. Michael Maurice Ingram, Petitioner v. Pat L. Vazquez,

No. 08–11134. Aaron Hyche, Petitioner v. Nedra Chandler, Warden.
No. 08–11135. Curtis Lee Ellis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–11136. Joshua Davis, Petitioner v. Kurt Jones, Warden. Peti
No. 08–11137. Michael A. Nelson, Petitioner v. United States; and
Michael A. Nelson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Cir
cuit denied.
No. 08–11138. Michael Andre Davis, Petitioner v. Oregon. Petition
No. 08–11139. Donald Felix Winnett, Petitioner v. Saline County
Jail, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 08–11140. Ronald M. Williams, Petitioner v. J. F. Salazar, War
No. 08–11141. Yvonne Thomas, Petitioner v. St. Louis Board of Po
lice Commissioners, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 08–11142. Robert Burke, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–2. Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Fund Incorpo
rated, et al., Petitioners v. TXU Corp., et al. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied.
No. 09–4. Edwin I. Ejikeme, Petitioner v. Don Violet, et al. Petition
No. 09–5. Bret Freeman, Petitioner v. Norfolk Southern Corpora

No. 09–6. Jeffory C. Young and Morris Roller, Petitioners v. United
No. 09–7. James Stevens, Petitioner v. Vons Companies, Inc. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, Second Ap
pellate District, denied.
No. 09–11. Raybestos Products Company, Petitioner v. Indiana De
partment of Environmental Management. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the Supreme Court of Indiana denied.
No. 09–12. Juan Sandoval, et al., Petitioners v. City of Chicago, Illi
nois. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
No. 09–13. Redstone Resources, Inc., Petitioner v. Holme, Roberts &
Owen, LLP, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals
of Colorado denied.
No. 09–14. Catherine Shannon, Director, Illinois Department of
Labor, et al., Petitioners v. 520 South Michigan Avenue Associates,
Ltd., dba The Congress Plaza Hotel & Convention Center. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–15. Frank Adamo, as Executor of the Estate of Norma Rose,
et al., Petitioners v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, as Suc
cessor in Interest to The American Tobacco Company, et al. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of New York denied.
No. 09–16. Andrew T. Muraski, Petitioner v. Minnesota. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Minnesota denied.
No. 09–17. Mark L. Silverman, et al., Petitioners v. State Farm Mu
tual Automobile Insurance Company. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit denied.
No. 09–18. Gang Song, Petitioner v. Pamela Turner, et al. Petition
No. 09–19. Reginald Hill, Petitioner v. United States, et al. Petition
No. 09–20. Steven Green, et al., Petitioners v. Jefferson County Com
mission, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–22. Frederick Jelovsek, Petitioner v. Phil Bredesen, Governor

of Tennessee, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–25. Anthony Diodoro, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Middle Dis
trict, denied.
No. 09–27. Todd Anthony Hernandez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–30. Blake H. Moore, Petitioner v. Williamsburg Regional
Hospital, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–31. Francisco J. Reyes, Petitioner v. Board of County Com
missioners of the County of Arapahoe, Colorado, et al. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Cir
cuit denied.
No. 09–33. Roger C. S. Lin, et al., Petitioners v. United States. Peti
the District of Columbia Circuit denied.
No. 09–37. Pilipus Santoso, et ux., Petitioners v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
No. 09–39. Dufrene Boats, Inc., Petitioner v. Nga Trinh, Individually
and on Behalf of Hao Tran and Lynn Tran. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit, denied.
No. 09–40. Illinois Investment Trust No. 92–7163, Petitioner v.
American Grading Company. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–41. Juan Francisco Luna-Hernandez, Petitioner v. Eric H.
No. 09–42. Hugh T. Butler, Sr., Petitioner v. Greif, Inc., et al. Petition
No. 09–43. Ron L. Pannell, Petitioner v. Hilton Hall, Warden. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Georgia denied.
No. 09–44. Ramon Cano, Petitioner v. Industrial Commission of Ari
zona, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of
Arizona, Division One, denied.

No. 09–46. United States, ex rel. Lokesh Vuyyuru, Petitioner v. Gop
inath Jadhav, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–48. Frank J. Lawrence, Jr., Petitioner v. Janet K. Welch, et al.
No. 09–50. Atle Lygren, Petitioner v. Mirror Image Internet, Inc.,
et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Dela
ware denied.
No. 09–51. Richard Singleton, Petitioner v. Florida Department of
Juvenile Justice. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–52. Shawn Michael Skropits, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Ohio denied.
No. 09–54. Department of the Interior, et al., Petitioners v. Kerr-
McGee Oil and Gas Corporation. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–56. Diane Marshall, Petitioner v. Brandywine Chesapeake
Housing Corp. Petition for writ of certiorari to the District of Columbia
Court of Appeals denied.
No. 09–57. Peter Paul Mitrano, Petitioner v. Virginia Lee Kelly. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Court of Special Appeals of Mary
land denied.
No. 09–58. Kaleem Arshad, Individually and on Behalf of Jameela
Arshad, Deceased, et al., Petitioners v. Nick Congemi, in His Capacity
as Chief of Police for the City of Kenner, Louisiana, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–59. Robert W. Douglas, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–61. Lincoln Meyers, Petitioner v. Sovereign Bank, et al. Peti
No. 09–62. Floyce Reed Peyton, Petitioner v. Fred’s Stores of Arkan
sas, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–64. Daniel H. George, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–65. Hamid Mike Samadi, Petitioner v. Marlene H. Oliver.
No. 09–66. Collier Douglas Sessoms, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–67. Ryan Whiteside, Petitioner v. Russellville Newspapers,
Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Ar
kansas denied.
No. 09–68. Derrick Odomes, Petitioner v. Louisiana. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Louisiana denied.
No. 09–72. Douglas K. Brocail, Petitioner v. Detroit Tigers, Inc. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Fourteenth
District, denied.
No. 09–73. Annette Lundeby, Petitioner v. Bill Bruinsma, Executive
Director, Thomas J. Frederick Juvenile Justice Center, South Bend,
Indiana, Custodian, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–81. Williams Controls, Inc., Petitioner v. Braulio M. Cuesta
and Eric L. Golden, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly
Situated. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Okla
homa denied.
No. 09–83. Poo-Bah Enterprises, Inc., dba Crazy Horse Too, Peti
tioner v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the Supreme Court of Illinois denied.
No. 09–85. Hani Chen, Petitioner v. City of New York, New York,
et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Appellate Division, Supreme
Court of New York, Second Judicial Department, denied.
No. 09–87. Ginger Martinez, Individually and as Personal Repre
sentative of the Estate of Kenneth Wayne Ginn, Petitioner v. DeWayne
Beggs, Sheriff, Cleveland County, Oklahoma, et al. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
denied.
No. 09–90. Kathleen Pierce, et al., Petitioners v. San Diego Unified
Port District. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court

No. 09–92. Laura Davis, et vir, Petitioners v. Commissioner of Inter
nal Revenue. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–93. William Stuart Anapoell, Petitioner v. American Express
Business Finance Corporation, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit denied.
No. 09–96. Bernice Sommers, as Executrix of the Estate of Sheldon
Charles Sommers, Deceased, Petitioner v. Wendy Sommers, et al. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Indiana, Second
District, denied.
No. 09–97. Steven D. Ritchie, et al., Petitioners v. Vast Resources,
No. 09–99. Stacy Ann Patterson, Petitioner v. AFSCME #2456. Peti
No. 09–100. Michigan, Petitioner v. Raymond Desha Davis. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Michigan denied.
No. 09–101. Patricia Smith, et al., Petitioners v. Thomas Jefferson
University Hospital, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–105. Aura LaBro Karagiannopoulos, Petitioner v. City of
Lowell, North Carolina. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–107. Ralph Cordy, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–110. HCA, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Aon Corporation, et al.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Appellate Court of Illinois, First
District, denied.
No. 09–111. Robert Ingrum, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit denied.
No. 09–112. Angel Ruiz Rivera, et al., Petitioners v. Department of
Education, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit denied.
No. 09–114. Otis Kirkland, Carol Kirkland, and Vivian Kirkland,
Petitioners v. Wayne County, Michigan, et al. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit denied.
No. 09–116. Valer V. Secarea, Jr., Petitioner v. Regents of the Uni

versity of California, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court
of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three,
denied.
No. 09–118. Louto J. Braquet, Jr., Petitioner v. Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied.
No. 09–119. Margaret A. Badura, et al., Petitioners v. Susan J.
Spahn, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of
Nebraska denied.
No. 09–120. T. G., Mother, Petitioner v. Kentucky Cabinet for Health
and Family Services. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme
Court of Kentucky denied.
No. 09–121. Gene Hoy, Petitioner v. Mentor Township, Michigan.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Michigan denied.
No. 09–123. Judy Kodrin, et vir, Petitioners v. State Farm Fire and
Casualty Company. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–124. Clark A. Morres, Petitioner v. Deer’s Head Hospital
Center, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–125. William Edward Piers, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–126. Alex Tandiono, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attor
No. 09–127. Carl Burnett, Petitioner v. General Motors Corporation,
et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Michi
gan denied.
No. 09–128. William Covalt, et al., Petitioners v. Allstate Insurance
No. 09–129. American Crystal Sugar Company, Petitioner v. Thomas
J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–130. Gaile K. Owens, Petitioner v. Jewel Steele, Warden. Peti

No. 09–131. Ryan W. Pannell, Petitioner v. Frederick Burnette, War
denied.
No. 09–132. Scott Winfield Davis, Petitioner v. Georgia. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Georgia denied.
No. 09–134. James F. Ripley, Petitioner v. Wyoming Medical Center,
No. 09–135. Fred A. Green, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–136. Roberta Lynn Martin, Petitioner v. City of San Antonio,
Texas, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–137. David Gowan, Petitioner v. Ward County Commission.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of North Dakota
denied.
No. 09–138. Thomas Graber, et al., Petitioners v. Richard L. Fuqua.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Texas denied.
No. 09–143. Hudson Area Schools, Petitioner v. David Patterson,
et ux. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–147. Estate of Dorothy Martin, Petitioner v. California De
partment of Veterans Affairs, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied.
No. 09–148. MSEJ, LLC, Petitioner v. Transit Casualty Company in
Receivership. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of
Missouri denied.
No. 09–151. Willie S. Phillips, et al., Petitioners v. Robert M. Gates,
Secretary of Defense. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–153. Taylor Acquisitions, LLC, Petitioner v. City of Taylor,
No. 09–154. Florida Association of Professional Lobbyists, Inc.,
et al., Petitioners v. Division of Legislative Information Services of the
Florida Office of Legislative Services, et al. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
denied.
No. 09–155. Anthony Martini, et ux., Petitioners v. Eric H.

No. 09–156. Charles C. Appleby, Petitioner v. Pete Geren, Secretary
of the Army. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied.
No. 09–159. Philip Garland, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–169. Donna J. Arensdorf, Petitioner v. Timothy F. Geithner,
Secretary of the Treasury. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–170. United States, ex rel. Jack J. Grynberg, Petitioner v.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit denied.
No. 09–173. Ming Yen Hou, Petitioner v. New York City Department
of Environmental Protection. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied.
No. 09–175. Ronny Immanuel Jao, et al., Petitioners v. Eric H.
No. 09–178. Isidor Farash, Petitioner v. Fleet Bank, fka Summit
Bank, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied.
No. 09–181. Robert C. McMath, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–184. Vergie White, Petitioner v. Michael B. Donley, Secretary
of the Air Force. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–189. Scott Helgerson, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Thirteenth District,
denied.
No. 09–190. Michael Robles, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–192. Sherrel Jones, et vir, Petitioners v. Commissioner of

No. 09–206. Anette Forsman, Individually and as Personal Repre
sentative of the Estate of Robin Forsman and Christer Forsman, et al.,
Petitioners v. Cessna Aircraft Company. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–219. Wilfredo Schery, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–238. Armando Navar, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–245. Jack L. Clark, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5001. Billy D. Davis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5002. Jonathan Marcus Green, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
No. 09–5003. Neal Moses, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5004. Mark Howard McClain, Petitioner v. Hilton Hall, War
No. 09–5005. Luis Pereira, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5006. Russell Dean Landers, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5007. Jorge Fernandez Martinez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5008. John Calhoun Kipple, Jr., Petitioner v. Georgia. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Georgia denied.
No. 09–5009. Angel Lopez-Moldonado, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–5010. Pierre James, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, denied.
No. 09–5011. Monty Marshall, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5013. Cherie Phillips and Erline Phillips, Petitioners v.
Thomas L. Phillips, Executor of the Estate of James Iverson
Phillips, Sr., Deceased, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Su
preme Court of Virginia denied.
No. 09–5014. Darrell T. Middlebrooks, aka D-Lo, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–5015. Alvaro F., Petitioner v. Connecticut. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Connecticut denied.
No. 09–5017. David Wayne Askew, Petitioner v. Robert Ayres, Jr.,
No. 09–5018. Edwin Baez, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Petition for
Office, denied.
No. 09–5019. Adrein Bennett, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5020. William Arthur Brown, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5021. Juan Carlos Ramos, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5023. Robert Thomas Maxwell, Petitioner v. Arkansas. Peti
No. 09–5025. Anthony Claude Ambrose, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5026. Michael Banks, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ

No. 09–5028. Anthony L. Olvis, aka Tony, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–5030. Thurman Van Lilly, Petitioner v. Stan Burtt, Warden,
No. 09–5031. Steve Langon, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
No. 09–5032. Johnny Ray Lee, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5033. Timothy Ray Spencer, Petitioner v. Jerry Hofbauer,
No. 09–5034. Charles Elvis Raby, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–5036. Thornton Savage, Petitioner v. Alex Bonavitacola,
No. 09–5037. William C. Runyon, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Butler County, denied.
No. 09–5038. David Solan, Petitioner v. Viola Ranck, et al. Petition
No. 09–5039. Robert Dillard, Petitioner v. E. Richard Bazzle, War
No. 09–5040. David McDowell Robinson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5042. Barry Ferguson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5044. Robert Harper, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
trict, denied.
No. 09–5045. Robert C. Hoefert, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,

Circuit denied.
No. 09–5046. Cora Moss Haywood, Petitioner v. Tribeca Lending
Corporation, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–5047. Scott Darrel Hogues, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–5048. Willie Hearod, Petitioner v. D. L. Ollison, Warden. Peti
No. 09–5049. Jason Ian Harris, Petitioner v. Don Jarriel, Warden.
No. 09–5050. Ayanna Green, Petitioner v. Tina Hornbreak, Warden.
No. 09–5051. Michael Farmer, Petitioner v. Maryland. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland denied.
No. 09–5052. Clarence Hicks, aka Bunky, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5053. John Anthony Gruff, Petitioner v. Harry E. Wilson,
No. 09–5054. Larry Hooker, Jr., Petitioner v. Michael Thurmer, War
No. 09–5056. Mike Flora, Petitioner v. Michael Sheets, Warden. Peti
No. 09–5057. Charles C. Peterson, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
No. 09–5058. Erwin B. Patterson, Jr., Petitioner v. City of Chesa
peake, Virginia, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United

No. 09–5059. Jesse L. Harrod, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of California denied.
No. 09–5060. Aubrey Dale Fontenot, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
No. 09–5061. Said Abdullah Hakim, Petitioner v. Sandra F. Thomas,
Superintendent, Lumberton Correctional Institution. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of North Carolina denied.
No. 09–5062. Tracy Turner, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–5063. Steve Wilhelm, Petitioner v. Ken Clark, Warden. Peti
No. 09–5064. Rosemary Toriola, Petitioner v. Appellate Division, Su
preme Court of New York, Second Judicial Department, et al. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Appellate Division, Supreme Court of New
No. 09–5065. Elbert Welch, Petitioner v. T. Charlan, et al. Petition
Second Circuit denied.
No. 09–5066. Gary Lee Williams, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
cuit denied.
No. 09–5067. Joseph Watson, Petitioner v. Gerald L. Rozum, Super
intendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset. Petition for writ
cuit denied.
No. 09–5068. Gary Hallford, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
No. 09–5069. Henry Kurt Hughes, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
No. 09–5071. Edward C. Daniel, Petitioner v. Victor D. Trancoso,
Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Illi
nois denied.
No. 09–5072. Laura D. Zahn, Petitioner v. City of San Diego, Califor

nia. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
No. 09–5073. Jason Whitfield, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–5075. Brett Dagan Jones, Petitioner v. E. K. McDaniel, War
No. 09–5079. Badayah Brazelton, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5080. Chancellor Aaron, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for
denied.
No. 09–5081. Jeff Voigt, Petitioner v. Wisconsin. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, District III, denied.
No. 09–5082. Richard O. Weeks, Petitioner v. White’s Mill Colony,
Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of South
Carolina denied.
No. 09–5084. William Morehouse, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5085. Timothy Peoples, Petitioner v. J. Davis, et al. Petition
No. 09–5086. Zachary Smith, Petitioner v. Larry Denny, Warden.
No. 09–5087. Tina L. Greene, Petitioner v. FLDDSO, et al. Petition
No. 09–5088. Keith E. Peer, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5091. Paulina Garcia-Gracia, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–5092. Allen Green, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5093. Carlos Anthony Hawthorne, Petitioner v. California.
denied.
No. 09–5094. Clarence E. Godbouldt, Petitioner v. Anthony A. La
No. 09–5095. Julio Alexis Fernandez-Rosario, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–5097. Robert V. Hostetter, Petitioner v. Virginia. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Virginia denied.
No. 09–5100. Jonathan King, Petitioner v. Stuart J. Ryan, Warden.
No. 09–5101. Michael A. Jackson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5103. Jose Romero-Facio, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5104. Guadalupe Ramirez-Rosales, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–5105. James Edward Rose, aka Kwali Smith, aka Buck, Peti
No. 09–5107. Cesar Tlatenchi-Enriquez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5108. Elias Morales-Morales, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5109. Charlotte V. Woods, Petitioner v. Social Security Ad
ministration. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–5110. James M. Davis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–5112. Arnold Brewer, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5113. Wayne A. Branigan, Kelly Scott Branigan, and An
thony L. Jones, Petitioners v. United States. Petition for writ of certio
denied.
No. 09–5116. Ricky Lamont Garrett, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5117. Carlos Herrera-Miranda, aka Carlos Gabriel Herrera,
No. 09–5118. Judy Gemmill, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5119. Tina Emerson, Petitioner v. Detective Couvillion, et al.
No. 09–5121. Clifford Alan Scoville, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5125. William Maitre, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
No. 09–5126. Jose I. Macia, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–5127. Daniel Nixon, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5129. Martin Elery Beal, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–5130. Jorge Avalos-Rios, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5132. Michael M. Corjasso, III, Petitioner v. Edmund G.
Brown, Jr., Attorney General of California, et al. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–5133. Mickey Lee Waggoner, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5134. Derrick Woodard, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5136. Matthew Allen Propst, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5137. Thurman Van Lilly, Petitioner v. Harvey Knox, et al.
No. 09–5140. Ekueta Palega, aka “Q” Palega, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–5141. Henry Moore, Petitioner v. Ray Lawler, Superintend
ent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5143. Wellington A. Rosa, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5145. Gerald Adrian Brown, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5147. Jose Beltran, Petitioner v. Debra Dexter, Warden. Peti
No. 09–5148. Leopoldo Aguado-Guel, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5149. Anthony Robinson, Petitioner v. Virginia. Petition for

No. 09–5150. John Ruelas, Petitioner v. Arizona. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, denied.
No. 09–5151. Lendro M. Thomas, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5152. Eddie Zabala, Petitioner v. New York. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Appellate Division, Supreme Court of New York,
First Judicial Department, denied.
No. 09–5153. Elvira Vidal, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5154. Joe Thomas Bell, Petitioner v. Tammy Bass-Jones Les
ure, Judge, District Court for Oklahoma County. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–5155. Armando Bernal-Jimenez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5157. Dwayne Antonio Fuller, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5158. Phillip Lamont Jones, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5160. Clarence J. Lomax, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5161. Jason Carl Thomas, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5163. Juan Luis Leonor, Petitioner v. Robert Houston. Peti
No. 09–5165. John Cannedy, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
trict, denied.

No. 09–5166. Gabriel Castaneda, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5167. Linda A. Cowan, Petitioner v. Office of Personnel Man
agement. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied.
No. 09–5169. James W. Kittrell, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5170. Teresa M. Flood, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5172. Gary W. Flanders, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5173. Jose Pedro Garcia, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5174. Russell John Hatton, Petitioner v. Minnesota. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Minnesota denied.
No. 09–5175. Rodney Hutchinson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5176. Ronald X. Gordon, Petitioner v. Supreme Court of
No. 09–5177. Donny Joel Harvey, Petitioner v. Larry Lynch, Sheriff,
McLennan County, Texas. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–5178. Bahaa Iswed, Petitioner v. Raymond Booker, Warden,
No. 09–5179. Anthony Graham, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5180. Franklin Delano Floyd, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5181. Eddie Hill, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

Circuit denied.
No. 09–5182. Lorenza Gerald Ferebee, Jr., Petitioner v. Virginia.
No. 09–5184. Steven Craig Griffin, Petitioner v. Tennessee. Petition
Middle Division, denied.
No. 09–5185. Adan Gonzalez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5186. John Jesus Hernandez, Petitioner v. Matthew Cate,
No. 09–5187. Heather Hoffman, Petitioner v. Lincoln General Insur
ance, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–5188. Orlando Cain Febles, Petitioner v. P. Rider, Warden,
No. 09–5189. Dontay D. Hayes, Petitioner v. Silvia Garcia, Warden.
No. 09–5191. Stephen Saccoccia, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5193. Charles Andrew Thurman, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5196. Earl Lee Johnson, Petitioner v. Steven Pinchak, et al.
No. 09–5197. Joshua David Giddings, Petitioner v. Montana. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Montana denied.
No. 09–5198. Michael Charles Gorman, Petitioner v. National Trans
portation Safety Board, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
denied.

No. 09–5199. John Joseph Price, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5200. Jasen Byers, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5203. Luis Enrique Ruiz-Arriaga, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–5204. Philip Michael Sebolt, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5206. Juan Guerrero-Robledo, aka Juan Guerrero, Petitioner
No. 09–5207. Joel Dallas Hammond, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5208. Dustin Robert Eastom, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5209. Gonzalo Loya-Sotello, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5210. Michael Paul Jones, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5211. Monkile Clemmons, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5212. Marlon D. Kiser, Petitioner v. Tennessee. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Tennessee, Eastern Divi
sion, denied.
No. 09–5215. Ladarius Venice Cook, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5218. Rodney Keith Rodebaugh, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5219. Jose Antonio Torres-Tontle, Petitioner v. United

No. 09–5223. Eric Pineda, Petitioner v. California. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, Fifth Appellate Dis
trict, denied.
No. 09–5224. Oracio Cardosa-Ferreira, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5225. Earl Travis, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ of
No. 09–5227. Robert A. Soy, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5228. Peter T. McCarthy, Petitioner v. Nicholas Jenkins,
Second Appellate District, denied.
No. 09–5229. Bobby Ray Hailey, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–5230. William Hoffman, Petitioner v. New Jersey, et al. Peti
No. 09–5231. Clifford Farra, Petitioner v. Howard Carlton, Warden.
No. 09–5232. Mitchell Holbach, Petitioner v. North Dakota. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of North Dakota denied.
No. 09–5233. Troy Lamar Giddens, Petitioner v. Gene M. Johnson,
Director, Virginia Department of Corrections. Petition for writ of cer
tiorari to the Supreme Court of Virginia denied.
No. 09–5234. Charlie Gaines, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
No. 09–5235. Roger Stewart Harris, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition
No. 09–5236. Ricky Glen Grumbles, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc

No. 09–5237. Rodney Jerome Greene, Petitioner v. Walter A. Mc-
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5238. Anthony G. Hunt, Petitioner v. Hugh Wolfenbarger,
No. 09–5239. Rodney Stephon Hairston, Petitioner v. J. Haynes,
Superintendent, Warren Correctional Institution. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Cir
cuit denied.
No. 09–5240. Maria Alicia Hungate, Petitioner v. Ray Mabus, Secre
tary of the Navy. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–5241. Leslie Wade Walker, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5244. Michael Dewayne Tensley, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5245. Cho-Ing Tseng, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5246. James Franklin Brooks, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5249. Yesenia Leal, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5250. Donald G. Sager, Petitioner v. Guy Hall, Warden. Peti
No. 09–5252. Christopher Dwayne McGee, Petitioner v. Haskell Hig
gins, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit denied.
No. 09–5253. Tanesha Bannister, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–5254. Thomas Robinson and Luis A. Ramirez, Petitioners
v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
denied.
No. 09–5255. Anthony Heinemann, Petitioner v. Eddie Wilson, War
No. 09–5257. Jimmy Elliott, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5258. Richard Edwards, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5259. Rawia El Farra, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5260. Josiah Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5261. Julian Marquez, Petitioner v. Connecticut. Petition for
No. 09–5262. Jesse J. Johnson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5263. Jared William Jones, Petitioner v. Oklahoma. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
denied.
No. 09–5264. Kevin Jones, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5265. Rene Alberto Mascorro-Chavarria, Petitioner v.
No. 09–5266. Richard Tandy Smith, Petitioner v. Randall G. Work
man, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court

No. 09–5268. Larry Darnell Williams, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5271. Celina May Clay, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5272. Eric Cantrell, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–5273. William Lee Edwards, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5274. Jeffrey Allen Sonczalla, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5275. Mario Uriel Sanchez-Alvarez, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–5276. Gerald Jones, Petitioner v. Kenneth S. Perlman, Super
intendent, Midstate Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied.
No. 09–5277. Charles M. Martin, Petitioner v. Jeffrey Merrill, War
peals for the First Circuit denied.
No. 09–5278. Alvin Christopher Martin, Petitioner v. Eric H.
No. 09–5279. Michael A. Jointer, Petitioner v. Sylvia Garcia, Warden.
No. 09–5280. Len John Allen, Petitioner v. Guy Hall, Superintend
ent, Two Rivers Correctional Institution. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–5282. William Best, Petitioner v. Geico Casualty Company.
ida, Fourth District, denied.
No. 09–5284. Jermaine McFarland, Petitioner v. Jodine Deppisch,
No. 09–5286. Maurice Pickens, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–5287. Ben J. Mullins, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5288. Dwayne Mingo, aka Dwayne Mine, Petitioner v. Ray
Lawler, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon,
No. 09–5291. Cesar Nahum Montufar, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5292. Johnny Luke, Petitioner v. Alabama. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama denied.
No. 09–5293. Salvatore Letizia, Petitioner v. New York. Petition for
York, Fourth Judicial Department, denied.
No. 09–5295. Emery Videl McFadden, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5296. Gilberto G. Rossaty, aka Gilberto Rossatti Mendez,
Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–5297. Frank Leon Robinson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5298. Dijuan Santos, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5299. Christopher E. Washington, Petitioner v. Experian,
No. 09–5300. Damion Wilson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–5302. Troy Yearby, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–5303. Waldo Waldron-Ramsey, Petitioner v. Dan Pacholke,
Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center. Petition for writ
cuit denied.
No. 09–5304. Erran G. Evans, Petitioner v. Louisiana. Petition for
No. 09–5306. Minerva Lachira, Petitioner v. Stanford Sutton. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Appellate Court of Connecticut denied.
No. 09–5307. Jarmal Anthony Joyner, Petitioner v. Gene M. Johnson,
tiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
denied.
No. 09–5309. Harry Jarrell, Petitioner v. William Haines, Warden.
No. 09–5310. Dale Frank Maisano, Petitioner v. Kristi Youtsey Ruiz.
No. 09–5311. Michael Sanchez-Oxio, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5312. Kathalina Monacelli, Petitioner v. Heartland Educa
tional Consortium, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–5313. Moshe Perry, Petitioner v. Sandra J. Byrnes; and
Moshe Perry, Petitioner v. Sandra J. Byrnes. Petition for writ of certio
No. 09–5314. Alejandro Amelo-Rodriguez, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–5315. Stephen Balogh, Jr., Petitioner v. New Jersey. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate
Division, denied.
No. 09–5316. Andre Dion Brown, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5317. Luis Arias, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

Circuit denied.
No. 09–5318. John Berger, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5319. Chijioke Victor Okoro, aka Victor Okoro, aka Chiji V.
Okoro, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–5320. John C. Duvall, Petitioner v. George Lombardi, Direc
tor, Missouri Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ of cer
denied.
No. 09–5323. Tania Ofelia Hernandez-Lopez, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–5324. Juan Hernandez-Luna, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5325. Jerome Franz Gonzalez, Petitioner v. California. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, First
No. 09–5326. E. L. G., Petitioner v. Oregon. Petition for writ of cer
tiorari to the Court of Appeals of Oregon denied.
No. 09–5328. Wells Holland, Petitioner v. Renee Holland. Petition
No. 09–5329. Jose Gil-Hernandez, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5331. Manuel Field, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5333. Kenney Lee Matheson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5334. Milton Spikes, Petitioner v. Connecticut. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Appellate Court of Connecticut denied.

No. 09–5335. Andre Rhodes, Petitioner v. Brian K. Murphy, Commis
sioner, Connecticut Department of Correction. Petition for writ of cer
tiorari to the Appellate Court of Connecticut denied.
No. 09–5336. Jose Del Valle, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5337. Nicolas Franco-Flores, aka Nico, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–5338. David Ezel Simpson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5339. Jerry L. Thomas, Petitioner v. David Parker, Warden,
No. 09–5340. Lonza Wilson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5341. Wendell Ross, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5342. Jeffery B. Prater, Petitioner v. John Rubitschun, et al.
No. 09–5343. Grayland A. Darty, Petitioner v. Superior Drive
Source. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–5344. Carl Michael Crowe, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5345. Cornell Vincent, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5348. Antwan Jones, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5349. Willie S. Merriweather, Petitioner v. Cecilia Reynolds,
No. 09–5350. Brett Anthony Pelch, Petitioner v. Michael Yarbor

ough, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–5351. Musa Donzo, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5353. Eve Del Castello, Petitioner v. Superior Court of Cali
fornia, Alameda County. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–5354. John Jacob Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5357. Guy M. Rasmussen, Petitioner v. Scott Frakes, Super
intendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center. Petition for writ of certio
No. 09–5358. Roberto Mendez-Sanchez, aka Carlos Lopez, aka Al
berto, aka Pecas, aka Beto, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5359. Stuart Wayne Tompkins, Petitioner v. R. David Mitch
ell, Correctional Administrator IV, Mountain View Correctional Insti
tution. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–5360. Terrence Washington, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5361. Patrick Alexandre, Petitioner v. Maine. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5362. Scott Everett Brewer, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5364. Donald William Lynch, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5365. Rafael Colman, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,

No. 09–5366. Larry Donnell King, Petitioner v. P. Noland, et al. Peti
No. 09–5368. Curtis Scott, Petitioner v. R. Q. Hickman, Warden.
No. 09–5369. Durand Chaunce Ford, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5372. Carlos De La O, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–5373. Robert Bryant Melson, Petitioner v. Richard F. Allen,
Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections. Petition for writ
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5376. Reginald S. Carr, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5378. Gregory Banks, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5379. Stacy Powell, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–5380. Julio Acuna, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–5381. Donald Prince, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5382. William Birtha, Petitioner v. Louisiana. Petition for
No. 09–5384. Pedro Pagan Gonzales, Petitioner v. J. F. Salazar, War
No. 09–5385. Joe Raymond Felix, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–5387. Paul Merez Graham, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5390. Lonnie M. Ford, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5392. Billy Campbell, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
to the District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District, denied.
No. 09–5393. Amos Carrasquillo, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5394. Louis Jemison, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5395. Donald Wayne Cooks, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–5397. Bilal Abdul Shamsud-Din, Petitioner v. Oregon Board
of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the Court of Appeals of Oregon denied.
No. 09–5399. Jermaine L. Levy, Petitioner v. Ohio, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5402. Sharon McCloud, Petitioner v. Kentucky. Petition for
No. 09–5403. Tracy Vaughn, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5404. R. W., Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals denied.
No. 09–5405. Roberto Velazquez, Petitioner v. William Lape, Super
intendent, Coxsackie Correctional Facility, et al. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Cir
cuit denied.

No. 09–5406. Carmen Powell, Petitioner v. San Diego County Health
and Human Services Agency. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court
of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division One,
denied.
No. 09–5408. Calvin Wilson, Petitioner v. Lewis Smith, Correctional
Administrator, Albermarle Correctional Institution. Petition for writ
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5409. Anthony Charles Graves, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Tenth Dis
trict, denied.
No. 09–5410. Michael Moment, Petitioner v. Maryland, et al. Petition
No. 09–5412. Jonathan Mark Brinda, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5413. Kenyatta Hasani Adams, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5414. Desburn Pinnock, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5415. Adekunle Oloba-Aisony, Petitioner v. L. E. Scribner,
No. 09–5416. Christopher Raye Brown, Petitioner v. Gene M. John
son, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Supreme Court of Virginia denied.
No. 09–5417. Dunieskis Rodriguez Pinero, aka Pineriro Domieque-
Rodriguez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–5418. Frank Berryman, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5420. Roberto Concepcion, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
cuit denied.
No. 09–5422. Brian Tyrone Scott, Petitioner v. David Parker, War

No. 09–5423. Tavaris Wiggins, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5424. Louella Oldbear, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5425. Juan Antonio Vazquez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5427. Robert James Butler, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5428. Kevin A. Baker, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5431. Mark Belcher, Petitioner v. Tanisha Younger. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Appellate Court of Connecticut denied.
No. 09–5432. Aiden I. Anuforo, Petitioner v. Georgia. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Georgia denied.
No. 09–5433. Jose Brito, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5435. Christina Stone, aka Big Baby, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–5438. April Griffin, Petitioner v. Matthew Sebuliba. Petition
No. 09–5439. Ernest Cornes, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Illinois denied.
No. 09–5440. Willie Davis, Petitioner v. Blaine C. Lafler, Warden.
No. 09–5441. Thomas W. Hill, Petitioner v. David Richard Hillier,

No. 09–5443. Carol Tucker, Petitioner v. Chipla College. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the District Court of Appeal of Florida, First
District, denied.
No. 09–5444. Cyrus Vance, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–5445. Rafael Omar Villegas-Martinez, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–5446. Gerardo Pina-Garcia, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5447. Thomas Richard Baugh, Petitioner v. California, et al.
No. 09–5449. Albert Stephens, Jr., aka Elbert Stephens, Petitioner
No. 09–5450. Justino Santa, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–5452. Earnest Timothy Rainey, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5453. Jose Luis Silva, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5454. Taniko Curt Smith, Petitioner v. Nevada. Petition for
No. 09–5456. Marcus Dixon, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5457. Anibal Jose Diaz-Argueta, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5458. Christopher Robinson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5459. Paul Sepulveda, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–5460. Manuel Alejandro Calderon, Petitioner v. Eric H.
No. 09–5461. Davide De La Fe, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
trict, denied.
No. 09–5462. Anthony L. Ciocchetti, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5463. John William Clements, aka Bam, aka Greg Dion, aka
John Harmon, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied.
No. 09–5464. Ben Littles, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–5465. Collin Marshall, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5467. Elbert Thomas Martin, Petitioner v. W. J. Sullivan,
No. 09–5468. Widney Joseph, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5469. Robert Holland Koon, Petitioner v. South Carolina.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Common Pleas of South
Carolina, Cherokee County, denied.
No. 09–5470. Chester Ray Wiseman Pine, Petitioner v. California.
denied.
No. 09–5471. Rasheen Mines, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5472. Gregory Monroe, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–5473. George Arthur Williams, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5475. Roger Dean Cordell, Petitioner v. Carolyn A. Sabol,
of Appeals for the First Circuit denied.
No. 09–5476. Michael Tarnell Davis, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5477. Kala B. White, Petitioner v. Michigan Department of
Corrections. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–5478. Vernon Williams, Petitioner v. Hugh Wolfenbarger,
No. 09–5479. Marco Antonio Velez, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5481. James Edward Wright, Jr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5482. Travis Beckles, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5483. Julius Recardo Young, Petitioner v. Marty Sirmons,
No. 09–5484. Anthony Jones, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5485. Andrew Lee Carter, Jr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5486. Michael Adam Carneal, Petitioner v. Kentucky. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Kentucky denied.
No. 09–5489. Lee Henry Berry, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5492. Amar Gueye, Petitioner v. Thomas M. Cooley Law

School, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–5493. Darrick Capal Rogers, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–5494. Kenneth Earl Fults, Petitioner v. Stephen Upton, War
denied.
No. 09–5495. Chadwick E. Anderson, Petitioner v. Southland Bank,
et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Alabama
denied.
No. 09–5497. Phillip Germaine Boice, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5498. David Lee Anderson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5499. Robert Burkell, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
trict, denied.
No. 09–5500. Clifford Murphy, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5501. David Brian Magnan, Petitioner v. Oklahoma. Petition
denied.
No. 09–5504. Peter Jaquez, Petitioner v. Gary Sandor, Warden. Peti
No. 09–5505. Jessie Ailsworth, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5506. Watson Poland, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Petition for
Office, denied.

No. 09–5507. Robert J. Meizlik, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth
District, denied.
No. 09–5508. Juan Espinosa-Martinez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5509. Thomas Albert Nichols, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5510. Manuel Nieves, Petitioner v. Perry Phelps, Warden,
No. 09–5511. Maurice Robinson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5513. Zinia Aponte, Petitioner v. Dawn Chamberlain, Super
intendent, State Correctional Institution at Muncy, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5514. Kingsley Lydell Wright, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5516. John Ray Ervin, Petitioner v. Robert A. Horel, War
No. 09–5518. Frederick M. Creusere, Petitioner v. Rosa L. Weaver,
No. 09–5519. Ronnie Glenn Triplett, Petitioner v. Keith Roy, War
No. 09–5520. Adam Trobee, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5521. Courtney J. Owens, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5522. Dylan Lerone Perry, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc

No. 09–5523. Alfonso Moya-Breteon, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5524. Rodney Tipton, Petitioner v. Howard Carlton, Warden.
No. 09–5525. Craig Toaz, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5526. Donald Jamal Wilson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5527. Arthur Van Swait, Petitioner v. Mike Evans, Warden.
No. 09–5528. Troy M. Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5529. Joseph Michael Mooney, aka bjmjbm, Petitioner v.
No. 09–5530. James Terry Moore, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5531. Mohammad Ashray Mohammad-Omar, Petitioner v.
No. 09–5532. Virgil Morris, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5534. Dion M. Clark, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5535. Emmitt Dewayne Crum, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition
District, denied.

No. 09–5536. Robert N. Smithback, Petitioner v. Christina Melton
Crain, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–5537. Nelson Rivera-Garcia, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5538. Robert K. Fowler, Petitioner v. Lawrence Kelly, Super
intendent, Mississippi State Penitentiary. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–5539. Antonio DeShawn Robinson, Petitioner v. Gene M.
Johnson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5540. Vincent Sinclair, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5541. Robert Allen Seaman, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5543. Rodriguez D. Jones, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5544. Ernest Flowers, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
cuit denied.
No. 09–5545. Samy Gharb, Petitioner v. Unitronics (1989) (R"G) Ltd.,
No. 09–5548. Michael Marr, Petitioner v. Kym Worthy, Warden, et al.
No. 09–5549. Corey E. Johnson, Petitioner v. Loretta K. Kelly, War
No. 09–5551. Charles Clay Wilson, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–5552. Wayne Tatum, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed
Forces denied.
No. 09–5554. Lasalle Boone, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5555. Seymour J. Abdullah, Petitioner v. Janice K. Brewer,
Governor of Arizona, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–5557. Robert Argueta-Lopez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5558. Donald Ray Williams, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
cuit denied.
No. 09–5559. Dean Allen Harrell, Petitioner v. Idaho. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Idaho denied.
No. 09–5560. Jerry Glenn Greene, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5561. John C. George, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5562. Ronny V. Green, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5563. Travis Sentel Granger, aka Wacko, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–5564. Shane Robert Ferguson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5565. Robert Harris, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–5566. Joshua Fluellen, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–5567. Stanley O’Neal Gill, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5568. Donald E. Hannah, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5569. Richard Kilbourne, Petitioner v. Michigan. Petition for
No. 09–5570. Kenneth Meyer Fortner, Petitioner v. Walter A. Mc-
No. 09–5571. Otis O’Brien Fearon, aka Brien Fearon, Petitioner v.
No. 09–5572. Eddie Oliver, Jr., aka Bo Diddley, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–5573. Jose Monteverde, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
District, denied.
No. 09–5574. Sergio Carrasco-Flores, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5575. David D. Lauer, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–5578. Michael Spano, Sr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5579. Robert L. Rose, Petitioner v. Montana. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Montana denied.
No. 09–5580. Marcos Uscanga-Mora, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5581. Lashawn Dante Troup, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–5582. Murlin R. Phillips, Petitioner v. Missouri. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Missouri, Southern Dis
trict, denied.
No. 09–5584. Terry Layton, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5585. Flavio Martinez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5586. Milton J. Kern, Jr., Petitioner v. Eric K. Shinseki, Sec
retary of Veterans Affairs. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–5587. Tony DeJuan Jackson, Petitioner v. Minnesota. Petition
No. 09–5588. Harvey Dudley, Petitioner v. New York. Petition for
No. 09–5590. Mindy Jaye Zied-Campbell, Petitioner v. Estelle Rich
man, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–5592. Christopher Hess, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania Depart
ment of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Su
preme Court of Pennsylvania, Middle District, denied.
No. 09–5593. Anthony Dean, Petitioner v. Tennessee. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, West
ern Division, denied.
No. 09–5594. Jesse Van Myers, Petitioner v. Ennis Independent
School District. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–5596. Adrian L. Hudson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5600. Herbert Hamer, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–5601. Alpidio Gonzalez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5602. Clinton French, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5603. Neudis Infantes Hernandez, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–5604. William Eric Green, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5605. Carlos Gonzalez, Petitioner v. Asset Acceptance, LLC,
No. 09–5607. Tyrone Lorenzo Robinson, Petitioner v. South Carolina
Department of Public Safety, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–5608. Walter Mangual Santiago, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5609. Keith Douglas Robinson, Petitioner v. Herbert Jack
son, Superintendent, Brown Creek Correctional Institution. Petition
No. 09–5611. Alfred Lee Mauldin, Petitioner v. United States Proba
tion Office. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–5613. Juan Carlos Araujo-Contreras, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–5614. Darren Pleaze, Petitioner v. John Kerestes, Super
intendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5616. William S. Price, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5617. Blake Hankins Stover, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–5618. Henry O. Allen, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals
denied.
No. 09–5620. Wallace C. Jones, Jr., Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
No. 09–5621. Mitchell Allen Jensen, Petitioner v. Missouri. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Missouri denied.
No. 09–5622. Malado Diallo, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attor
No. 09–5623. Anthony T. Charles, Petitioner v. Pentagon Federal
Credit Union. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of
Colorado denied.
No. 09–5624. Tyrone Eugene Yates, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5625. Gary Lavel Thomas, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5626. Robin Ronald Thorward, Petitioner v. Mike Knowles,
No. 09–5627. Antoine Ilon Thompson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5628. Francisco Javier Soto-Martinez, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–5629. Malcolm Reid McDonald, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5631. Sherry Lou Frasure, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–5632. Marvin Maurice Goodson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5633. Ronald Reed, Sr., Petitioner v. West Virginia. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Vir
ginia denied.
No. 09–5634. Schearean Jean Means, aka Jean, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–5635. Allen L. M. Dobshinsky, Petitioner v. California. Peti
No. 09–5638. Wendell Graves, Petitioner v. Gerald L. Rozum, Super
intendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Petition
No. 09–5640. Howard Charles Hudson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5643. Jeffrey Dean Hanks, Petitioner v. Ed Wright, Warden,
No. 09–5644. Vincent Hallman, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, Philadel
phia Office, denied.
No. 09–5646. Lamon L. Freeman, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5647. John Eric Hughes, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5648. Joseph Horace Fields, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5649. Anthony Trevino Pate, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5650. Robert Steele, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–5652. Paul Padilla-Rodriguez, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–5653. Joshua Leland Devore, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5654. Bobby J. Weatherton, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5655. Carl Marshall, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5656. Scott A. Hacker, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5657. Jose Antonio Saucedo-Martinez, aka Jose Antonio
Saucedo, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–5658. Fred Daniel Miller, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5660. Juan Armando Lechuga-Montalvo, aka Juan Armando
Lechoga-Sanchez, aka Juan Armando Lechuga-Sanchez, Petitioner v.
No. 09–5662. Demond Andre Jackson, aka D. J., Petitioner v. United
No. 09–5666. Victor C. Harris, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5667. Eric Lamar Grooms, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5668. Angel Ibanez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit denied.

No. 09–5669. Gene E. Smith, Sr., Petitioner v. Richard C. Tallman,
No. 09–5670. Juan Jose Vasquez-Garcia, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5671. Toribio Arriaga-Guerrero, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5672. James Bohol, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5675. Jermaine M. Hill, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5676. Joe Felder, Petitioner v. Brian Fischer, Commissioner,
New York Department of Correctional Services. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Cir
cuit denied.
No. 09–5677. Abdul L. Holyfield, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5680. Roy D. Houston, Sr., Petitioner v. Jody Hathaway, War
No. 09–5682. Jason D. Inman, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5685. Arnel Lovert Johnson, Petitioner v. Derral G. Adams,
No. 09–5687. Alfredo Longoria, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5688. Roy Lee Jones, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5690. Colin F. Gordon, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–5691. Richard Brooks Nelson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5692. Remi Chide Njoku, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
No. 09–5699. Steven Medows, aka Steven Edward Medows, Peti
tioner v. City of Cayce, South Carolina, et al. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
denied.
No. 09–5702. Carlos Ramirez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5703. Michael Aponte Singala, Petitioner v. United States,
No. 09–5705. Dwayne Lamar Wright, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5706. Elijah White, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5707. Mary E. White, Petitioner v. Supreme Court of New
Jersey, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–5709. Larry Donnell Frye, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5722. Starsky Darnell Redd, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5729. Wilson Thomas, Petitioner v. Jeffery Thomas, Warden.

No. 09–5730. Jasper Vargas, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5732. Nelson Valdes, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–5736. Milenko Krstic, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5737. Allan L. Hall, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
cuit denied.
No. 09–5738. Servando Ferguson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5743. Leonard Brown, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5745. Alexis Rolon Ayala, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5746. Otto Barbour, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5749. Leonard Hadley, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
No. 09–5752. Christopher Fekos, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5757. Stephen Dicenso, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5758. Oscar Cruz-Barrientos, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5759. John Cuthbert, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5760. Lonnie Ray Davis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–5764. Edward Dryden, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5766. Gary Dale Moore, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5769. Edgar William Arteaga-Giron, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–5771. Shakir Aasim Venson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5772. Ricky R. Vann, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
cuit denied.
No. 09–5773. Aistis Batavichus, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
No. 09–5775. Euclides Rosado, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5779. Christopher J. Hunter, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5781. Sidney L. Shelton, aka Andre Henderson, Petitioner v.
No. 09–5782. Ya Jelani Simba, Petitioner v. Wendy Branch, et al.
No. 09–5783. Juan Ramos, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

No. 09–5784. Marcus Duane Jerdine, Petitioner v. West Virginia.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of West Virginia,
Kanawha County, denied.
No. 09–5785. Christopher Creed, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
cuit denied.
No. 09–5786. Robert Lester James, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5787. Tony L. Ford, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–5788. Anthony Keith Wilson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5791. Manuel Tiscorena Renteria, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–5792. Oliver Keith Browner, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5793. Derrick Brown, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5795. Alix Denis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5797. Detroit Hines, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5799. Omar Rafael Claudio-Pantojas, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–5802. Jesus Garcia-Cardenas, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5804. Rafael Orlando Marinero-Revelo, Petitioner v. United

No. 09–5805. Francisco Loredo-Olivera, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5806. Kenneth Lockard, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5808. Adolfo Castillo-Valle, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5809. Maurice Simmons, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5810. Cevin Alexander, Petitioner v. Charles L. Ryan, Direc
tor, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ of cer
denied.
No. 09–5811. Gregory Robinson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5817. Sokol Yann, Petitioner v. California. Petition for writ
trict, denied.
No. 09–5819. John William Doble, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5820. Johnny Lee Dawson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5821. Eddie Davis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–5823. James Walker, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

No. 09–5824. Glenn E. Wagner, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5826. Fred D. Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5827. Garrett Johnson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5831. Michael Baird Jordan, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5837. Keith Anderson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5838. Andrew Acosta, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5839. Fermin Barragan, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5840. Leartis Barnes, Petitioner v. Jerry C. Martinez, War
No. 09–5841. Shaun Roberts, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5842. Carla Erica Gonzales Sanchez, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–5845. John Palmer, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5846. Donald Jay Streich, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5847. Edward Ronwin, Petitioner v. Bayer Corporation. Peti
No. 09–5848. Joseph Rodney Brooks, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–5853. Walter A. McCullough, Petitioner v. Larry B. Norris,
denied.
No. 09–5854. Malvin S. Prince, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5857. Christopher Waterman, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5859. John Ernest Dade, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5868. Carlous Gerrard Hood and Corey Allen Brooks, Peti
No. 09–5870. Brian A. Falkner, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5871. Geoffrey Harold Harvey, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5875. Patrick Keith Hirt, Petitioner v. Montana. Petition for
No. 09–5879. Christopher Doak, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District,
denied.
No. 09–5881. Terry Lynn Peter, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5884. Simon Lundy, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5888. Eric Moorman, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–5890. Dana December Smith, Petitioner v. Thomas McBride,
Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Ap
peals of West Virginia denied.
No. 09–5893. Derrick Damon Rainwater, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5895. Gayland Bruce Hewitt, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5897. Johnny Brett Gregory, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5898. Javier Serrano-Rangel, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5900. Gary Lee Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5905. Gregory L. Walker, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5908. Christopher Davis, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5909. Kirstin Blaise Lobato, Petitioner v. Nevada. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Nevada denied.
No. 09–5910. Jeremy Alexander Doe, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5911. Jose Brito, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5914. George Anthony Corrales, Petitioner v. Dwight W.
Neven, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–5915. Ricardo B. Rodriguez, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania
Board of Probation and Parole. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania denied.
No. 09–5917. Dannie Ingram, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–5918. Willie Hughley, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5919. Robert Ronald Gibson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5922. Robert Curtis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5927. Charles J. Kerns, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5930. Jonathan J. McKinney, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5932. Brose Roberts, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5933. Nicholas Emory Stallard, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5934. Tremaine Burt, Petitioner v. Michael Yarborough, War
No. 09–5936. Paul W. Moore, II, aka Antoine Petroye Roberts, Peti
No. 09–5937. Joseph Leon Plummer, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5939. Damon Lee Flagler, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5940. Maurico Kejuan Smith, aka Maurico Kijuan Smith,

No. 09–5942. Michael Rinaldi, Petitioner v. T. R. Sniezek, Warden.
No. 09–5946. Bounket Thongsophaporn, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5947. Anthony J. Thompson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5950. Jose Edgar Padilla, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5951. Kevin Petties, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5954. Timothy S. DeGarmo, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5955. Kenny Lidyall Eason, et al., Petitioners v. United
No. 09–5957. Sohail Chaudhry, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5958. Timothy Lamont Jenkins, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5959. Dennis Mork Lam, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5961. Janet Marcusse, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5964. Loretta Otero, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5967. Anthony Jordan, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5968. Gary Roberge, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

Circuit denied.
No. 09–5969. Stacey L. Busby, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
denied.
No. 09–5970. Alan D. Bevers, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5971. Rafael Balderas, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5975. Enar Bolanos-Renteria, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5978. Russell Robinson, Petitioner v. United States District
Court for the District of the Virgin Islands. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied.
No. 09–5979. Jorge Ramirez-Ponce, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5985. Charles E. Sisney, Petitioner v. Best, Inc., et al. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of South Dakota
denied.
No. 09–5987. Sammy Nichols, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5991. Pablo Vazquez-Henriquez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5992. Miguel Tapia-Cortez, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5993. Gene Edward Lucas, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–5996. Frederick Lim Johnson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6000. Joseph Kennedy, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6001. Duane J. Johnson, Petitioner v. United States; and
Duane J. Johnson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of cer
tiorari to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals denied.
No. 09–6002. Denaine L. Allen, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6003. Angel Benitez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6005. Mylan Brown, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6007. Victor Garry Baxter, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6011. Jevaryas Devonn Gaynor, aka Jarvis Gaynor, Peti
No. 09–6012. Gilberto Gonzalez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6014. James Anthony Frink, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6015. Michael D. Horton, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6016. Gary Lynn Gaines, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6017. Francis Darrell Hayden, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6018. Willie M. Hill, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

writ of certiorari to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals denied.
No. 09–6019. Donald Ray Horne, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6023. Jemel Stone, aka Satin Stone, aka Teddy Blaze, aka
Satin Marshall, aka Derrick Volt, aka John Hatchet, aka Freddie Reese,
aka B, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit denied.
No. 09–6026. Andre Denson, aka Dre, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6029. Robert Blake Keller, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6031. Brian David Martin, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6032. Jose Reynaldo Martinez, Jr., Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6039. Roger Jerome Baylor, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6040. Emanuel Brown, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6041. Christopher D. White, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6044. Harold Earl Scallon, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6045. Byron Demarcus Moore, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6047. Joseph Dyson, Petitioner v. Tom Corbett, Attorney
General of Pennsylvania, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the

No. 09–6051. Eddie Santiago, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6052. Raymond Leo McKenzie, Jr., Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6056. Daniel W. Wirsing, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6060. Irene M. Moore, Petitioner v. Merit Systems Protec
No. 09–6063. Frank Wood Thomas, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6065. Darnell Hines, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6067. Paris Lamar Wilson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6069. Wesley J. Crawford, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6070. Dexter Leon Grant, aka Leon, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6073. Daniel Almonte, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6074. Jose Armenta-Alcantar, Petitioner v. United States;
Luis Pizarro-Montes, Petitioner v. United States; and Samuel
Contreras-Bracamonte and Roman Martinez-Diaz, Petitioners v.
No. 09–6076. Linwood Cola Parker, aka Lenny, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6080. Carl Marshall, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

Circuit denied.
No. 09–6082. Winston Paul, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–6087. Todd Lamar Moss, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6088. Delvin McKinney, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6090. Daryl W. Davis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6091. Jose Camacho-Jimenez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6092. Charley Collamore, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6093. Jessie William Newton, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6094. Jose Ramirez-Medina, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6095. Ramon Sanchez-Rosado, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6096. Leavie Scott, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6098. Bobby Martin, Petitioner v. United States; and
No. 09–6123. Sean Garrison, Petitioner v. United States. Petitions

No. 09–6100. Elizabeth Salazar-Galvan, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6104. Dexter Anderson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6106. Charles Allen Brown, Petitioner v. United States Dis
trict Court for the District of South Dakota. Petition for writ of certio
denied.
No. 09–6107. Paul Azzara, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6110. Mack Charles Williams, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6112. Donald McMullin, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6113. Jonathan Lacue, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
cuit denied.
No. 09–6114. John D. Kuehne, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6115. Dionne Jay Lewis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6116. Patrick Knighton, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6117. Morgan Earl Windrix, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6122. Aubrey Conarte, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
denied.
No. 09–6124. Jesse Hoffman, III, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–6126. Ian Greenstein, aka John Dinunzio, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6128. Mark Harris, aka Omar Suluki, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6129. Jeffrey Greenwood, aka Reginald Grimes, Petitioner v.
No. 09–6131. Dagoberto Figueroa-Cuevas, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6137. Joe Nathan Graham, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6138. Elijah Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6140. P. J. Morante, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6141. Gerald Dasean Jarrett, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6142. Elonzo L. Matthews, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6143. Christopher D. Jones, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6150. Clarence Hall, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6151. Edward Charles Hunter, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–6152. George Billy Lee Gantt, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6155. Christopher Culberson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6158. Earnest Pickett, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6159. James Starling, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6161. Patricia A. Gray, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6162. Edward Ross, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6163. Edward Omar Spearman, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6164. Ahmad Simmion Linton, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6171. Harrison Jack Havens, Jr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6172. Cedric Mitchell, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6175. Dave A. Taylor, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6176. Hans Sherrer, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6178. Godfrey Brooks, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6182. Marcos Xavier Ramirez, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–6183. Thomas Ereco Cameron, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6187. Antoine E. Coleman, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the District of Columbia Court of Ap
peals denied.
No. 09–6190. Demetreous A. Brown, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6191. Tomas Balleza-Cortez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6193. Gregory L. Billups, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6195. Jorge Heriberto Duarte, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6196. Michael Declouet, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6210. Juan N. Guevara-Vielma, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6212. Juan E. Tejada, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6214. Cornelius Clarence Lewis, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6220. Charles Bowman, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
denied.
No. 09–6221. Arturo Arzate, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–6222. Christian Alander, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6223. Randall L. Atwell, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–1103. Michigan, Petitioner v. Christopher Jamal Anderson
Williams. Motion of respondent for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
granted. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Michi
gan denied.
No. 08–1159. Texas, Petitioner v. Raul Adam Martinez, Jr. Motion of
respondent for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas denied.
No. 08–1226. Leonyer Richardson, Petitioner v. Commission on
Human Rights & Opportunities, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied. Jus
tice Sotomayor took no part in the consideration or decision of this
petition.
No. 08–1242. Jeffrey A. Beard, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department
of Corrections, et al., Petitioners v. Jesse Bond. Motion of respondent
for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 08–1310. Robert Gibbons, Petitioner v. Richard A. Savage,
Superintendent, Gowanda Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
denied. Justice Sotomayor took no part in the consideration or decision
of this petition.
No. 08–1319. Ronnie Adcock, et al., Petitioners v. Freightliner LLC,
et al. Motion of National Federation of Independent Business, et al. for
leave to file a brief as amici curiae granted. Petition for writ of certio
denied.
No. 08–1350. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Cor
rections, Petitioner v. James L. Styers. Motion of respondent for leave
to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 08–1354. Ann M. DeSalvo, Petitioner v. Joachim J. Volhard, et al.
for the Second Circuit denied. Justice Sotomayor took no part in the
consideration or decision of this petition.
No. 08–1358. Brandy Aileen Holmes, Petitioner v. Louisiana. Motion
of National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome for leave to file a
brief as amicus curiae granted. Motion of Constitution Project for
leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted. Motion of Louisiana
Association of Criminal Lawyers for leave to file a brief as amicus
curiae granted. Motion of National Center on Domestic and Sexual
Violence, et al. for leave to file a brief as amici curiae granted. Petition
No. 08–1361. Swisher International, Inc., Petitioner v. Thomas J.
Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture. Motion of Pacific Legal Foundation,
et al. for leave to file a brief as amici curiae granted. Petition for writ
Circuit denied.
No. 08–1389. John Prelesnik, Warden, Petitioner v. Chamar Avery.
Motion of respondent for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted.
No. 08–1425. Robert Welch, Warden, Petitioner v. John C. Moore, Jr.
No. 08–1436. Gerald K. Smith, as Litigation Trustee of the Farmland
Dairies LLC Litigation Trust, et al., Petitioners v. Bank of America
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied. Justice Sotomayor took
no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
No. 08–1439. Susan Roe, Jr., et al., Petitioners v. City of Waterbury,
Connecticut, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 08–1459. Michigan, Petitioner v. Jasmine Dorsey. Motion of re
spondent for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Petition for
No. 08–1479. Pfizer, Inc., Petitioner v. James D. Dotson; and
No. 09–29. James D. Dotson, Petitioner v. Pfizer Inc. Petitions for
writs of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth
Circuit denied. The Chief Justice took no part in the consideration or
decision of these petitions.

No. 08–1506. Joel Tenenbaum, Petitioner v. Sony BMG Music Enter
tainment, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit denied. The Chief Justice and
Justice Breyer took no part in the consideration or decision of this
petition.
No. 08–1528. Patrick J. Sikorski, Petitioner v. Okemo Mountain, Inc.,
peals for the Second Circuit denied. Justice Sotomayor took no part in
the consideration or decision of this petition.
No. 08–1539. Jonathan K. Smith, aka Shinnecock Smoke Shop, Peti
tioner v. Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General of New York. Petition
Second Circuit denied. Justice Sotomayor took no part in the consider
ation or decision of this petition.
No. 08–1543. Timothy O. Sonuga, Petitioner v. Janet Napolitano,
Secretary of Homeland Security. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied. Justice
Sotomayor took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
No. 08–1551. David J. Falso, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied. Justice Sotomayor took no part in the consideration or
decision of this petition.
No. 08–1556. Claude W. Thomas, Petitioner v. City of New York,
New York, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied. Justice Breyer and
Justice Sotomayor took no part in the consideration or decision of
this petition.
No. 08–1562. Sea Hawk Seafoods, Inc., Petitioner v. Exxon Mobil
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied. Justice Alito took no
part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
No. 08–1589. Dow Chemical Company, Petitioner v. Aka Raymond
Tanoh, et al. Motion of Chamber of Commerce of the United States of
America, et al. for leave to file a brief as amici curiae granted. Motion
of Centerpoint Energy, et al. for leave to file a brief as amici curiae
granted. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 08–9348. Darryl Henderson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 08–9899. Steven Bradley, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 08–9990. Jeffrey Hurell, Petitioner v. United States; and
No. 08–10019. Brian D. Watkins, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
tions for writs of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals
consideration or decision of these petitions.
No. 08–10089. Jacob Zedner, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10117. Joanne Boyd, Petitioner v. Wachovia Bank NA, et al.
Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied,
and petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals
for the Third Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner has re
peatedly abused this Court’s process, the Clerk is directed not to accept
any further petitions in noncriminal matters from petitioner unless the
docketing fee required by Rule 38(a) is paid and petition submitted in
compliance with Rule 33.1. See Martin v. District of Columbia Court
of Appeals, 506 U. S. 1 (1992) (per curiam). Justice Stevens dissents.
See id., at 4, and cases cited therein.
No. 08–10168. Howard Herships, Petitioner v. California. Motion of
petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied, and petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, Sixth Appel
late District, dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 08–10266. Earnest L. Hobley, Petitioner v. District of Columbia.
and petition for writ of certiorari to the District of Columbia Court of
Appeals dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner has repeatedly abused
this Court’s process, the Clerk is directed not to accept any further
petitions in noncriminal matters from petitioner unless the docketing
fee required by Rule 38(a) is paid and petition submitted in compliance
with Rule 33.1. See Martin v. District of Columbia Court of Appeals,
506 U. S. 1 (1992) (per curiam). Justice Stevens dissents. See id., at 4,
and cases cited therein.
No. 08–10274. Wade Larry Cole, Petitioner v. Gerald J. Branker,
Warden. Motion of North Carolina Conference of NAACP Branches for
leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted. Motion of Arc of North
Carolina for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted. Petition for

Circuit denied.
No. 08–10277. Joanne Wood Kiley, Petitioner v. American Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Petition for writ of certiorari
this petition.
No. 08–10328. Amr I. Elgindy, aka Anthony Pacific, aka Anthony
Elgindy, aka Herbert Manny Velasco, aka Heriberto Manny Velazco,
aka Tony Elgindy, Petitioner v. United States; and
No. 08–10357. Jeffrey Royer, Petitioner v. United States. Petitions
ation or decision of these petitions.
No. 08–10348. Terry Lee Gialto, Petitioner v. George W. Bush, et al.
No. 08–10401. Marvin Harris, Petitioner v. James Walker, Warden,
nied, and petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 08–10457. Vincent Mark Castillo, Petitioner v. Fred M.
Guidry, Jr. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
denied, and petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of
Louisiana, Fifth Circuit, dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 08–10490. Colvin McCright, Petitioner v. Mike Evans, Warden.
for the Ninth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 08–10543. Delores M. Karnofel, Petitioner v. Girard Police De
partment, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
pauperis denied, and petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of
Appeals of Ohio, Trumbull County, dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 08–10567. James Antoine, Petitioner v. Michelle Patterson,
Judge, Supreme Court of New York, Kings County, et al. Petition for
No. 08–10578. Robert Steve Wells, Petitioner v. Daniel Vasquez,

Warden. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
denied, and petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 08–10593. Russell D. Palmer, Petitioner v. City of New York,
No. 08–10595. Johnny L. McGowan, Jr., Petitioner v. Tennessee. Mo
tion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied, and
petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Ten
nessee, Middle Division, dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner has
repeatedly abused this Court’s process, the Clerk is directed not to
accept any further petitions in noncriminal matters from petitioner
unless the docketing fee required by Rule 38(a) is paid and petition
submitted in compliance with Rule 33.1. See Martin v. District of Co
lumbia Court of Appeals, 506 U. S. 1 (1992) (per curiam). Justice Ste
vens dissents. See id., at 4, and cases cited therein.
No. 08–10596. Dennis J. Nelson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10619. Billy G. Asemani, Petitioner v. Islamic Republic of
Iran, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
denied, and petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 08–10620. Antonio Duran, Petitioner v. Robert Ercole, Super
intendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of cer
tiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
of this petition.
No. 08–10624. Marco Lavayen, Petitioner v. David Rock, Super
intendent, Great Meadow Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of cer
of this petition.
No. 08–10650. Mihretu Bulti Dasisa, Petitioner v. University of Mas
sachusetts Board of Trustees. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed
in forma pauperis denied, and petition for writ of certiorari to the

United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit dismissed. See
Rule 39.8.
No. 08–10673. Elbert Welch, Petitioner v. Donald Selsky, et al. Peti
the Second Circuit denied. Justice Sotomayor took no part in the con
sideration or decision of this petition.
No. 08–10685. Billy G. Asemani, Petitioner v. United States. Motion
of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied, and peti
the Fourth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 08–10724. Alfonso Forney, Petitioner v. R. K. Woods. Petition
No. 08–10783. Wesley Edward Smith, Petitioner v. Charleston
County School District, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit dismissed. See
Rule 39.8.
No. 08–10787. Edgar Ventura Lopez-Ajuado, Petitioner v. United
Appeals for the Second Circuit denied. Justice Sotomayor took no part
in the consideration or decision of this petition.
No. 08–10813. Deangelo Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
the Ninth Circuit denied. Justice Breyer took no part in the consider
No. 08–10817. Steven Lee Craig, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari before judgment to the United States Court
No. 08–10823. Juan Manuel Huezo, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10847. Melvin Joseph Simmons, Jr., Petitioner v. T. Flecker.
No. 08–10860. Luis Noel Cruz, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 08–10861. Sergey Shishkin, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10890. Tyrone F. Swain, Petitioner v. Larry Small, Warden.
and petition for writ of certiorari before judgment to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 08–10891. John L. Jorgensen, Petitioner v. Sony BMG Music
Entertainment. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 08–10899. Page Penk, Petitioner v. Mike Coffman, Colorado Sec
retary of State, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
pauperis denied, and petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme
Court of Colorado dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 08–10902. Russell D. Palmer, Petitioner v. Robert Ercole,
Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second
No. 08–10910. Garney Hayes, Petitioner v. James Conway, Super
intendent, Attica Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of certiorari
this petition.
No. 08–10923. Joshua Shabazz, Petitioner v. California. Motion of
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of California dismissed. See
Rule 39.8. As petitioner has repeatedly abused this Court’s process,
the Clerk is directed not to accept any further petitions in noncriminal
matters from petitioner unless the docketing fee required by Rule 38(a)
is paid and petition submitted in compliance with Rule 33.1. See Martin
v. District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 506 U. S. 1 (1992) (per cu
riam). Justice Stevens dissents. See id., at 4, and cases cited therein.
No. 08–10930. Jaborie Brown, Petitioner v. United States. Motion of

Eleventh Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 08–10954. Billy G. Asemani, Petitioner v. Maryland, et al. Motion
No. 08–10959. Wilfredo Guerrero, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10969. Billy G. Asemani, Petitioner v. Lois I. Fisher, et al.
for the Fourth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 08–10971. Sean Carr, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 08–10986. Jeff Strong, Petitioner v. Illinois Department of
Human Services. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
pauperis denied, and petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 08–10989. John Ernest Dade, Petitioner v. United States Dis
trict Court for the District of Idaho. Motion of petitioner for leave to
proceed in forma pauperis denied, and petition for writ of certiorari
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit dismissed.
See Rule 39.8.
No. 08–10996. Joan Legeno, Petitioner v. Douglas Elliman, LLC.
No. 08–11012. Franklin Minaya, aka Frank LNU, aka Hermano,
States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied. Justice Soto
mayor took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
No. 08–11013. Billy G. Asemani, Petitioner v. S. Smith, et al. Motion
No. 08–11035. Eugene Alexander Dey, Petitioner v. California. Mo

petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of California dis
missed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 08–11058. Rocky Samas, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–11107. Eric Edwards, Petitioner v. Luis Marshall, Super
intendent, Sing Sing Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit de
nied. Justice Sotomayor took no part in the consideration or decision
of this petition.
No. 08–11118. Henry Francis, Petitioner v. United States. Motion of
No. 08–11129. Donald Wesley Deeks, Petitioner v. United States.
for the Ninth Circuit denied. Justice Breyer took no part in the consid
eration or decision of this petition.
No. 08–11130. Tommie Green, Petitioner v. David Rock, Super
intendent, Great Meadow Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of cer
of this petition.
No. 09–8. Oliver W. Williams, et ux., Petitioners v. Commissioner of
No. 09–9. Alton H. Maddox, Jr., Petitioner v. A. Gail Prudenti, Asso
ciate Justice, Appellate Division, Supreme Court of New York, Second
Judicial Department, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–24. American Family Mutual Insurance Company, et al., Peti
tioners v. Sharon Mondry. Motion of respondent for leave to proceed
in forma pauperis granted. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United

No. 09–36. Republic of Argentina, Petitioner v. Capital Ventures In
ternational. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied. Justice Sotomayor took no
No. 09–63. E. K. McDaniel, Warden, Petitioner v. Ricky David Sechr
est. Motion of respondent for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
No. 09–71. Nathaniel Slater, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–76. Jeffrey Nordella, Petitioner v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield
of California, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit denied. The Chief Justice
took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
No. 09–78. Briarpatch Limited, LP, et al., Petitioners v. Geisler Rob
erdeau, Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–80. George Schoedinger, et al., Petitioners v. United Healthc
are of the Midwest, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit denied. Justice Thomas
No. 09–84. Brian K. Murphy, Commissioner, Connecticut Depart
ment of Correction, Petitioner v. Bernale Bryant. Motion of respondent
certiorari to the Supreme Court of Connecticut denied.
No. 09–214. Hurgenes Pignard, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5029. Ronnie S. Martin, Petitioner v. California. Motion of
Rule 39.8.
No. 09–5041. Larry L. Daigneault, Petitioner v. Eaton Corporation.
No. 09–5055. Robert Maxwell Fenlon, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di

tions Division. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pau
peris denied, and petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–5074. Franz A. Wakefield, Petitioner v. Cordis Corporation.
for the Eleventh Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–5077. Sheldon P. Johnson, Petitioner v. Roy Girdich, Super
intendent, Upstate Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of certiorari
this petition.
No. 09–5078. Bernard Jerry, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Motion of
for writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
Office, dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner has repeatedly abused
No. 09–5083. Ulises O. Mejia, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5096. Gregory T. Howard, Petitioner v. Industrial Commis
sion of Ohio, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
pauperis denied, and petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme
Court of Ohio dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–5099. Timothy Doyle Young, Petitioner v. Department of Jus
tice, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–5111. Melvin Joseph Simmons, Jr., Petitioner v. California,

No. 09–5114. Richard R. Drachenberg, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5142. Mike Redford, Petitioner v. Theresa Redford. Motion
tion for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Georgia dismissed.
See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–5146. Billy G. Asemani, Petitioner v. Mahmood Ahmadinejad,
President of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Motion of petitioner for leave
to proceed in forma pauperis denied, and petition for writ of certiorari
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit dismissed.
See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–5159. Rafael Martinez, Petitioner v. Dale Artus, Super
intendent, Clinton Correctional Facility, et al. Petition for writ of cer
of this petition.
No. 09–5162. Kenneth Maxwell, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5183. Kevin Howard, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5190. Russell Jay Reger, Petitioner v. James K. Walker, et al.
for the Fifth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–5214. Albert Edmond, Petitioner v. Mississippi. Motion of
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Mississippi dismissed.
See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–5216. Michael Spinelli, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5222. Charles Miloro, aka Frank Rizzo, aka Charles
DeAngelo, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to

petition.
No. 09–5247. Daniel E. Marino, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5281. Robert Roy Butcher, Petitioner v. Judith K. Guthrie,
Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas,
Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–5283. Sayed A. Monsif, Petitioner v. Commissioner of Inter
No. 09–5289. Anthony Moore, Petitioner v. Timothy Schuetzle, War
den. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis de
Appeals for the Eighth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–5290. Frank M. Muniz, Petitioner v. New Mexico. Motion of
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of New Mexico dismissed.
See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–5322. Caroline Mason, Petitioner v. Jeffrey Guzdek, et al.
No. 09–5352. Michael Dede, aka Sunshine, aka Bart, Petitioner v.
No. 09–5356. Patricia J. Curto, Petitioner v. Donna M. Siwek. Motion
the Second Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8. Justice Sotomayor took
no part in the consideration or decision of this motion and this petition.
No. 09–5363. Sergey Maltsev, Petitioner v. Albany County Probation
Department, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States

No. 09–5367. Rodney Eugene Smith, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5375. Robert Bruce Carroll, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5383. Ricardo Glover, Petitioner v. Michael S. Thurmer, War
Appeals for the Seventh Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner
has repeatedly abused this Court’s process, the Clerk is directed not
to accept any further petitions in noncriminal matters from petitioner
No. 09–5396. Joel Spigelman, aka Joe, aka Judas, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–5398. Sol Jaffe, Petitioner v. US Air Airways, Inc., et al.
and petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Arizona,
Division One, dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner has repeatedly
abused this Court’s process, the Clerk is directed not to accept any
further petitions in noncriminal matters from petitioner unless the
No. 09–5430. Ethan Book, Jr., Petitioner v. Fleming Norcott, Jr.,
No. 09–5436. Byron Elroy Crutcher, Petitioner v. Brian Williams,
Warden, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pau
No. 09–5451. Lester Jon Ruston, Petitioner v. Dallas County, Texas,

No. 09–5488. Tyrone Wallace, Petitioner v. Correctional Officer Mob
erg, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
No. 09–5503. Stephen Locurto, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5512. Jaborie Brown, Petitioner v. Mildred L. Rivera, War
Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–5517. Larry L. Daigneault, Petitioner v. Connecticut Judicial
Branch. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–5576. Eric D. Smith, Petitioner v. Jeff Wrigley, Superintend
ent, New Castle Correctional Facility. Motion of petitioner for leave to
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit dis
missed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner has repeatedly abused this Court’s
process, the Clerk is directed not to accept any further petitions in
noncriminal matters from petitioner unless the docketing fee required
by Rule 38(a) is paid and petition submitted in compliance with Rule
33.1. See Martin v. District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 506 U. S. 1
(1992) (per curiam). Justice Stevens dissents. See id., at 4, and cases
cited therein.
No. 09–5599. Shawn Grant, Petitioner v. R. K. Woods. Petition for
No. 09–5610. Abdel Raheim, Petitioner v. New York City Board of
Education, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States

No. 09–5630. Inyang Peter Oduok, Petitioner v. John Ferro, Individ
ually and in His Official Capacity as Police Officer, et al. Motion of
No. 09–5697. Julio Cesar Valencia-Lopez, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–5710. Benjamin Figueroa, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5726. James Peace, Petitioner v. Michael J. Astrue, Commis
sioner of Social Security. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–5733. Raphael Vargas, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5790. Montgomery Blair Sibley, Petitioner v. Grievance Com
mittee of the Seventh Judicial District. Motion of petitioner for leave
to the Appellate Division, Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Judicial
Department, dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–5800. David K. Danser, Petitioner v. William T. Lawrence,
Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Indi
ana. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis de
Appeals for the Seventh Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–5833. Pete Nichols, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney
General. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–5856. Theodore Wagner, Petitioner v. United States. Motion
No. 09–5878. James A. Childs, Petitioner v. Zita L. Weinshienk, Se

nior Judge, United States District Court for the District of Colorado.
for the Tenth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–5894. Vito Forestier, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–5913. Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5931. Stephen Robinson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5976. Bela Borcsok, Petitioner v. William R. Crowe, Parole
Commissioner, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–6054. Woody Voinche, Petitioner v. United States District
Court for the Middle District of Louisiana, et al. Motion of petitioner
for leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied, and petition for writ of
certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–6120. Demetric Savoy, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
Habeas Corpus Denied

No. 08–10564. In Re Wesley Edward Smith, Petitioner;
No. 08–10988. In Re Peter J. Corines, Petitioner;
No. 08–11038. In Re Jesse Simmons, Petitioner;
No. 08–11050. In Re Walter Salazar, Petitioner;
No. 09–5139. In Re Gregorio R. Ortiz, Jr., Petitioner;
No. 09–5156. In Re Richard Morrison, Petitioner;
No. 09–5213. In Re Carlos Martinez, Petitioner;
No. 09–5308. In Re Stevie Wayne Johnson, Petitioner;

No. 09–5606. In Re Ivan Stamps, Petitioner;
No. 09–5696. In Re Nathaniel Usher, Petitioner;
No. 09–5719. In Re Florentino C. Bojonquez, Petitioner;
No. 09–5753. In Re Eric M. Gordon, Petitioner;
No. 09–5754. In Re Hilario T. Hernandez, Petitioner;
No. 09–5755. In Re Jose Luis Tapia-Fierro, Petitioner;
No. 09–5803. In Re Merle Richard Schmidt, Petitioner;
No. 09–5873. In Re Martin Scott Morris, Petitioner;
No. 09–5880. In Re Walter Hayward Coppage, Petitioner;
No. 09–5882. In Re Dion Lavell Neal-El, Petitioner;
No. 09–5907. In Re Malachi York, Petitioner;
No. 09–5912. In Re John Butler, Petitioner;
No. 09–5948. In Re Sotero Del Toro, Petitioner;
No. 09–5953. In Re Avon Davies, Petitioner;
No. 09–6049. In Re Leon Henry Carter, III, Petitioner;
No. 09–6145. In Re Fonza Jackson, Petitioner; and
No. 09–6189. In Re Willie Ray Bush, Petitioner. Petitions for writs
of habeas corpus denied.
No. 08–10784. In Re Wesley Edward Smith, Petitioner;
No. 08–10886. In Re Charles Willy Alpine, Petitioner;
No. 09–5106. In Re David E. Sinquefield, Petitioner;
No. 09–5122. In Re William Sherratt, Petitioner;
No. 09–5768. In Re Gerald Hinrick Miller, Petitioner;
No. 09–5814. In Re Charles A. Treece, Petitioner;
No. 09–5945. In Re Gary B. Williams, Petitioner;
No. 09–6154. In Re Kevin Millen, Petitioner; and
No. 09–6233. In Re Mary Leandra Cluck, Petitioner. Motions of peti
tioners for leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied, and petitions
for writs of habeas corpus dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–6291. In Re James Davis Bennett, Petitioner. Motion of peti
tioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied, and petition for
writ of habeas corpus dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner has re
Mandamus Denied
No. 08–1559. In Re John L. Corrigan, Petitioner;
No. 08–10443. In Re Thomas P. Richard, Sr., Petitioner;

No. 08–10712. In Re Harold Stonier, Petitioner;
No. 08–10759. In Re James Renwick Manship, Petitioner;
No. 08–10927. In Re LeSean Roberts, Petitioner;
No. 08–10974. In Re Monty Shelton, Petitioner;
No. 08–11007. In Re Stanley E. Brown, Petitioner;
No. 08–11123. In Re Harris L. Winns, Petitioner;
No. 09–211. In Re Donald C. Fleming, et ux., Petitioners;
No. 09–5332. In Re Russell Robinson, Petitioner;
No. 09–5487. In Re Barnita P. Vann, Petitioner; and
No. 09–5876. In Re Dameon Daley, Petitioner. Petitions for writs of
mandamus denied.
No. 08–1549. In Re Charles W. Birks, Petitioner. Petition for writ of
mandamus and/or prohibition denied.
No. 08–10356. In Re Charles Willy Alpine, Petitioner;
No. 08–10732. In Re Charles Willy Alpine, Petitioner; and
No. 08–10846. In Re Michael S. Michalski, Petitioner. Motions of
petitioners for leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied, and peti
tions for writs of mandamus and/or prohibition dismissed. See Rule
39.8.
No. 08–11003. In Re Albert Bruce Singletary, Petitioner; and
No. 08–11070. In Re Pierre-Richard Augustin, Petitioner. Petitions
for writs of mandamus and/or prohibition denied.
No. 09–5098. In Re Carolyn J. Foose, Petitioner. Motion of petitioner
mandamus dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–5411. In Re Lee Arnold, Jr., Petitioner. Petition for writ of
No. 09–5442. In Re Thomas W. Hill, Petitioner; and
No. 09–5595. In Re Akeem Muhammad, Petitioner. Motions of peti
for writs of mandamus dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–5612. In Re Victor J. Bravo, Petitioner. Motion of petitioner
mandamus dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner has repeatedly

Prohibition Denied
No. 08–10941. In Re Michael Telemaque, Petitioner. Petition for writ
of prohibition denied.
Rehearings Denied
No. 08–7213. Stephen Gill and Barbara Anne Riley, Petitioners v.
United States;
No. 08–9569. Dana Linn Flynn, Petitioner v. Kansas, et al.;
No. 08–9773. Danny Hawk, Petitioner v. James K. Redding, et al.;
and Danny Hawk, Petitioner v. James K. Redding, et al.;
No. 08–9942. Wesley Edward Smith, Petitioner v. Washington Mu
tual Bank FA, et al.;
No. 08–9980. David Sonachansingh, aka Archie, Petitioner v. New
York;
No. 08–10034. David Lee Ballard, Petitioner v. Nicholas Simien,
et al.;
No. 08–10044. Kevin Lawrence Hendrickson, Petitioner v.
Washington;
No. 08–10217. Rodica Waivio, Petitioner v. Board of Trustees of the
University of Illinois at Chicago, et al.; and
No. 08–10218. Donna Marie Conner, Petitioner v. Lions Gate Enter
tainment Corporation, et al. Petitions for rehearing denied.
No. 08–9749. Yvonne Pearson, Petitioner v. Bestcare, et al. Motion
for leave to file a petition for rehearing denied.
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Marcia R. Clark Los Angeles, CA Linnea M. Johnson
Larry D. Cohen Chicago, IL Michael P. Seng
Beth A. Colgan Seattle, WA Charles Christian
Sipos
Susan Glasscock Copeland Montgomery, AL Robert D. Segall
Jennifer Anne Courtney Yardely, PA Robert L.
Katzenstein
Brian Lee Cramer Edmond, OK James Martin
Tisdal
Bartholomew J. Dalton Wilmington, DE Adam Balick
Lynn Deffebach Portland, OR Stephen Reese
Sady
Gerald L. DePardo Hartford, CT Ronald E. Myrick
Terrance D. Dill, Jr. College Station, Gaines F. West, II
TX
Rose F. DiMartino New York, NY Honorable Mario
Matthew
Cuomo
Thomas J. Dougherty Milton, MA David S. Clancy
Anna Christina Dover New York, NY Jerome M.
Congress
Susan Elizabeth Driscoll Charlotte, NC Thomas C.

Goldstein
John Bettes Dunlap, III Baton Rouge, LA Richard Phillip
Ieyoub
Bryce K. Earl Las Vegas, NV Kenneth Allen
Woloson
Samuel Edwin Earley, Jr. Winder, GA Ronald Lamar
Hilley
Elizabeth Anne Ellis Xenia, OH Stephen K. Haller
Craig Trively Enoch Austin, TX William H.
Webster
Drew Curtis Ensign Washington, DC Maureen E.
Mahoney
Lester Lee Eubanks, IV Houston, TX Manish B. Vyas
Kevin D. Evans Denver, CO Ty Cobb
Leonard Oliver Evans, III Alexandria, VA D. Jacques Smith
Ali R. Fazel Houston, TX David Adler
Patricia Ferguson-Bohnee Scottsdale, AZ Marvin Sanford
Cohen
Jami Lynn Ferrara San Diego, CA Benjamin James
Ferrara
Nina Hunter Fields Charleston, SC Michael Joseph
Brickman
Lisa C. Fink Brunswick, ME Andrew S. Hagler
Jennifer Ann Fiore Baton Rouge, LA Richard Phillip
Ieyoub
John Matthew Fitzgerald Chicago, IL Michael I.
Rothstein
Martin John Foncello, III New York, NY Mark Ryan Dwyer
Renn Cordell Fowler Annapolis, MD James Albert
Calderwood
Laurie M. Fowles Medway, MA Melvin Norris
Frederic S. Fox New York, NY Robert N. Kaplan
Randall Charles Fudge Long Beach, CA Jack D. Fudge
Jacob Alexander Fuller Montgomery, AL Robert D. Segall
James Doyle Fuller Montgomery, AL Robert D. Segall
Martin T. Galvin Cleveland, OH Clifford Charles
Masch
Jeremy Gilman Cleveland, OH Pete Christopher
Elliott

Shaun Alaric Goho Cambridge, MA Todd D. True

Aleksander J. Goranin Philadelphia, PA John W. Caldwell
Jonathan S. Gowdy Washington, DC Brian Robert
Matsui
Chad D. Graddy Memphis, TN Leo M. Bearman
Britan D. Groom Washington, DC Robert Leonard
Rothman
Mark Paul Porter Hadley Arlington, VA Teri JoHanna
McGrath
Donald R. Hall New York, NY Robert N. Kaplan
Jeffrey John Hardiman Cranston, RI Stephen M.
Brusini
John Paul Heil, Jr. Peoria, IL Bradford B.
Ingram
Jill J. Ho San Francisco, CA Edward R. Reines
Eric M. Hoffman Muncie, IN Mark Richard
McKinney
James E. Houpt Sacramento, CA Cynthia J. Larsen
Johnny R. Huckabay, II Monroe, LA D. Brian Allen
Marshall S. Huebner New York, NY Charles S. Duggan
Matthew C. Hurley Southborough, William Wade
MA Kannel
Chijioke Obinnaya Ikonte Los Angeles, CA Emmanuel
Chukwuemeka
Akudinobi
Ronald L. Israel Livingston, NJ Armen Shahinian
David A. Jacobs Eugene, OR Ralph Fallon Cobb
Wendy B. Jacobs Cambridge, MA Richard James
Lazarus
Paul S. Jasper San Francisco, CA Margaret A.
Keane
Robert Lyston Jennings Stuart, FL Herbert T.
Schwartz
Jeffrey Dale Jensen Palm Harbor, FL Thomas Robert
Unice, Jr.
Michael Alexander Johnson Washington, DC Melvin Carl
Garbow
Richard D. Jones Charleston, WV Charles Richard
DiSalvo
Zlatko Jurisic Harrisburg, PA David Nathan

Cooper
Anna Grazyna Kaminska New York, NY Charles Stephen
Sims
Stacey A. Kartchner San Diego, CA Brian Jude White
Steven Kaufhold San Francisco, CA Reginald David
Steer
Lawrence P. Kelley, Sr. Cleveland, OH Honorable William
Kent Suter,
Clerk of the
Supreme Court
Kurt M. Koepke Springfield, IL Joseph Albert
Bleyer
Jessie A. Kohler Los Angeles, CA Joan B. Tucker
Fife
Joshua David Koskoff Bridgeport, CT William M. Bloss
Lee Kovarsky New York, NY Claudia Wilson
Frost
Lana Noel Kraus Irvine, CA Robert J. Stein,
III
Joel E. Krissoff Grand Rapids, MI John R. Oostema
Marcy J. Lamar Columbia, SC Mark Davis
Cauthen
William P. Lane Lubbock, TX Donald L. Graf
Peter A. Law Atlanta, GA Richardson R.
Lynn
Susan K. Leach Los Angeles, CA Douglas J. Woods
Joseph Edward Lee, III New Orleans, LA Francis Aitkens
Courtenay, Jr.
Christine J. Levin Fresno, CA Louis N. Hiken
Dana Nisen Levitt Los Angeles, CA David Barry
Goroff
Jordan M. Lewin Miami, FL Michelle
Rodriguez
Walsh
Craig Allen Livingston Walnut Creek, CA James C. Ughetta
Charles Dominick Lombino Las Vegas, NV Dominic Pasquale
Gentile
Paul D. Mark Lucas Stuart, FL Charlene Renee
Banks

Gregory J. Lucht Cleveland, OH Pete Christopher

Elliott
Joel Edward Lueck Bakersfield, CA Glenn D. Nelson
Jefferey B. Lurner Irvine, CA Nathan Golberg
Osvaldo G. Machado Danbury, CT Michael Wallace
Dunn
Thomas Edward Madden Williamsport, OH Stephen Edward
Maher
David S. Marshall Seattle, WA Timothy K. Ford
Diana L. Martin Palm Beach Theodore Jon
Gardens, FL Leopold
Samuel John Marzarella Belmar, NJ Roberta DiBiase
Laura P. Masurovsky Washington, DC Herbert H. Mintz
Kim M. McGinnis Detroit, MI Jacqueline Jenni
McCann
David A. Mendoza San Marcos, TX William Bailey
Barton
Gillian Elizabeth Metzger New York, NY Henry Paul
Monaghan
John Michael Miano Summit, NJ Edwin Judson
Jennings
Anthony P. Miller Dallas, TX Paul V. Storm
Kevin David Mills Martinsburg, WV Robert Cameron
Stone, Jr.
Greg E. Mitchell Lexington, KY Patrick Herrera
Cantilo
E. Michael Moran Atlanta, GA Richardson R.
Lynn
Donald P. Morris Charleston, WV Robert William
Schulenberg,
III
Michelle D. Morris Washington, DC George W. Miller
George D. Murphy, Jr. Houston, TX George McCall
Secrest, Jr.
Karen Oehling Myrick Washington, DC Todd A. Lard
Mark J. Neal Monroe, LA D. Brian Allen
Barbara Nilva Nevin Edina, MN Robert J. Milavetz
Michelle Benedict Nowlin Durham, NC James Patrick
Longest, Jr.
Nicholas Michael O’Donnell Boston, MA Patrick P. Dinardo
George Patrick O’Hara, Jr. Edmond, OK James Martin

Tisdal
George Patrick O’Hara, Sr. Edmond, OK James Martin
Tisdal
Bryan J. Olmos Los Angeles, CA David Nathan
Cooper
Timothy David Osterhaus Tallahasse, FL Scott Douglas
Makar
Graham Edward Oswald St. Louis, MO Thomas Joseph
Plunkert
Sean Brian Patton Allentown, PA Michael E. Maffei
Karen Phyllis Paull San Francisco, CA Elizabeth M.
McQuillan
Sarah M. Paxson Dallas, TX Lisa Staler
Gallerano
Aviah Cohen Pierson New York, NY Robert N. Kaplan
Beverly Tillett Pine Sherman Oaks, Norman Pine
CA
Brett C. Powell Palmetto Bay, FL Mark Hicks
Sharis A. Pozen Washington, DC Honorable Elena
Kagan, Solicitor
General of the
United States
Kathryn Mary Pratt Beaverton, OR Joel S. DeVore
Eric Proshansky New York, NY Leonard J.
Koerner
Michael Ashek Rahman Dallas, TX Paul V. Storm
Frederick Matthew Ralph Minneapolis, MN Michael James
Wahoske
Katherine Parks Rasin Baltimore, MD Howard Mark
Colvin
Charles Durham Reaves Memphis, TN Jerome Anthony
Broadhurst
Stephen J. Rehfuss Albany, NY Paul
DerOhannesian,
II
Booth Marcos Ripke Baltimore, MD Gary E. Proctor
Kristine Leporati Roberts Memphis, TN Leo M. Bearman
Joseph R. Robinson New York, NY Melvin C. Garner

Jose A. Rodriguez-Aponte San Juan, PR Jorge Martinez-

Luciano
Emil Rodriguez-Escudero San Juan, PR Jorge Martinez-
Luciano
Sherby Dianne Scurto Oakbrook Terrace, Michael Samuel
IL Danian
Michael C. Seamands St. Louis, MO Kenneth Charles
Brostron
Paul M. Secunda Milwaukee, WI David C.
Frederick
Ronald E. Seibel Cincinnati, OH Firooz Taghi
Namei
J. Gordon Seymour Chevy Chase, MD Daniel L. Goelzer
James Wade Sheedy Charlotte, NC Thomas C.
Goldstein
Siri Shetty San Diego, CA Kurt David
Hermansen
David Silver Bethesda, MD Stanley O. Sher
Joel B. Sklar Detroit, MI Robert M. Morgan
Michael C. Sloan Washington, DC Richard L. Cys
Andrew B. Smith Summit, NJ John J. Gibbons
Julianne McHale Spatz Lincoln, NE David Winfield
Rowe
Ronald T. Spriggs Amarillo, TX John L. Owen
Craig L. Stahl The Woodlands, Thomas W. Taylor
TX
Cyntha M. Stange Saint Paul, MN Bruce E. Gagnon
Chad Allen Stegeman San Francisco, CA Reginald David
Steer
Heather C. Stewart Nashville, TN William Nelson
Bates
Philip Clark Strassburger Stamford, CT Melvin C. Garner
Alycia N. Sykora Bend, OR Keith M. Garza
Joe R. Tanguma, II Bay City, TX Bridget R.
Robinson
Michael Grant Tanner Jacksonville, FL Thomas Edward
Bishop
Leslie I. Tennen Phoenix, AZ Patricia Margaret
Sterns
Gregg Edward Thornton Lexington, KY Donald P.

Moloney, II
W. Theodore Vander Wel Bellevue, WA Leslie Caryl
Ruiter
Christine A. Varney Washington, DC Honorable Elena
Kagan, Solicitor
General of the
United States
Matthew W. Walch Chicago, IL Mark S. Mester
James Frederick Watson Lynchburg, VA Leighton
Summerson
Houck
Stephen R. Welby St. Louis, MO Lee Thomas
Lawless
David Turner Wiley Birmingham, AL Shannon Leigh
Miller
Margarett Mary Williams Bohemia, NY Richard Jordan
Eisenberg
Stuart Fraser Williams Jacksonville, FL Thomas Edward
Bishop
Laurie Wilmore Half Moon Bay, Sandra Uribe
CA
Julie Pauline Wilson Milwaukee, WI Raymond J. Pollen
Douglas Neil Yeargin West Palm Beach, Claudia Modder
FL McKenna
Bennett G. Young San Francisco, CA Margaret A.
Keane
Steven Y. Yurowitz New York, NY Richard Alfred
Greenberg
Donald Henry Zeigler, III Monroe, LA D. Brian Allen
Admissions to the Bar on Oral Motions
Stephen Edward Vance Washington, DC Melissa Aubin

H. Tor Christensen Washington, DC Andrea S.
Christensen
Suzanne Wall Alcocer Marietta, GA Daniel Francis
Diffley
Mary Louise Lucasse Raleigh, NC James Carey
Gulick

James Michael Murphy Weymouth, MA Ronni S. Jillions

Edgar Javier Reynoso Newport Beach, Robert Walton
CA Liles
John Peter Matheson Boston, MA Robert Walton
Liles
Emily Katherine Allen Los Angeles, CA Honorable
Kenneth
Winston Starr
Wendy McGuire Coats Los Angeles, CA Honorable
Kenneth
Winston Starr
Julia Lynne Cronin Washington, DC Honorable
Kenneth
Winston Starr
Kelly Marie McIntyre Solana Beach, CA Honorable
Kenneth
Winston Starr
Megan Yumi Saito Johnson Honolulu, HI Honorable
Kenneth
Winston Starr
Andrew George Braniff Washington, DC Honorable
Kenneth
Winston Starr
Frances Connie Bajada Edgewater, NJ Judge Douglas E.
Arpert
Stacey Allison Levine Newark, NJ Judge Douglas E.
Arpert
Andrew J. McNally Newark, NJ Judge Douglas E.
Arpert
Susan D. Wigenton Newark, NJ Judge Douglas E.
Arpert
Caroline Ann Sadlowski Newark, NJ Judge Douglas E.
Arpert
Serina Marie Vash Newark, NJ Judge Douglas E.
Arpert
Oral Arguments
No. 08–680. Maryland, Petitioner v. Michael Blaine Shatzer, Sr. Ar
gued by Mr. Douglas F. Gansler for the petitioner, by Mr. Toby J.
Heytens for the United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of
the Court, supporting the petitioner, and by Ms. Celia A. Davis for
the respondent.
No. 08–678. Mohawk Industries, Inc., Petitioner v. Norman Carpen
ter. Argued by Mr. Randall L. Allen for the petitioner, by Ms. Judith
Resnik for the respondent, and by Mr. Edwin S. Kneedler for the
United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, support
ing the respondent.
Adjourned until Tuesday, October 6, 2009, at 10 o’clock.

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John Andrew Riedel Washington, DC Mark Richard

Boswell
Rory Gerard Ritrievi Harrisburg, PA Christopher
Michael Cicconi
John Lloyd Romaker Poway, CA George Fredrick
Braun
Jennifer Mari Blunt Bowie, MD Barry Paul
Steinberg
Joseph Leigh Fuller Fairfax Station, Barry Paul
VA Steinberg
Joseph A. Ingrisano Washington, DC Barry Paul
Steinberg
Jeremy T. Johnson Washington, DC Barry Paul
Steinberg
Seth David Kirshenberg Washington, DC Barry Paul
Steinberg
Debbie Sinclair Ruskin Washington, DC Barry Paul
Steinberg
Kimberly Anne Pierro Richmond, VA Barry Paul
Steinberg
Christopher R. Carton Neward, NJ Patrick Esmond
Hobbs
Elga A. Goodman Randolph, NJ Patrick Esmond
Hobbs
Raffi Negol Karakashian Middletown, NJ Patrick Esmond
Hobbs
Wendy Johnson Lario Morristown, NJ Patrick Esmond
Hobbs
Sheilagh M. Clarke New York, NY Patrick Esmond
Hobbs
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Oral Arguments
No. 08–769. United States, Petitioner v. Robert J. Stevens. Argued
by Mr. Neal K. Katyal for the petitioner and by Ms. Patricia A. Millett
for the respondent.
No. 08–6925. Curtis Darnell Johnson, Petitioner v. United States.
Argued by Ms. Lisa Call for the petitioner and by Ms. Leondra R.
Kruger for the respondent.
No. 08–728. Taylor James Bloate, Petitioner v. United States. Ar
gued by Mr. Mark T. Stancil for the petitioner and by Mr. Matthew D.
Roberts for the respondent.
“Before we rise for the afternoon, I would like to note that we are
very pleased to have visiting with us today President Augusto Ibáñez
and other members of the Colombian Supreme Court. Welcome.”
Adjourned until Wednesday, October 7, 2009, at 10 o’clock.

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Daniel C. Tvedt Cedar Rapids, IA Pamela Gordon

Montgomery
Derek Carl Araujo New York, NY Ronald Alan
Lindsay
Erik Sigvard Quist Knoxville, TN Matthew Jeffrey
MacLean
Wendy Hawkins Hermes Dallas, TX Kelly J.
Shackelford
Kim Ellis Ritchie Pryor, OK Brant Edward
Shallenburger
Ryan Matthew Roberts Pryor, OK Brant Edward
Shallenburger
Stuart Neil Braiterman Towson, MD Honorable Charles
Albert
Ruppersberger,
III
C. William Clark Towson, MD Honorable Charles
Albert
Ruppersberger,
III
Diana B. Denrich Reisterstown, MD Honorable Charles
Albert
Ruppersberger,
III
Robert K. Erdman, Jr. Towson, MD Honorable Charles
Albert
Ruppersberger,
III
Robert Lee Hanley, Jr. Baltimore, MD Honorable Charles
Albert
Ruppersberger,
III
178 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2009
Jonathan Martin Herbst Baltimore, MD Honorable Charles

Albert
Ruppersberger,
III
Sarah Nathalie Laura Koop Baltimore, MD Honorable Charles
Albert
Ruppersberger,
III
Craig John Little Towson, MD Honorable Charles
Albert
Ruppersberger,
III
Wendy Sare Meadows Towson, MD Honorable Charles
Albert
Ruppersberger,
III
Michael John Pappas Baltimore, MD Honorable Charles
Albert
Ruppersberger,
III
Adam Thomas Sampson Baltimore, MD Honorable Charles
Albert
Ruppersberger,
III
Michael W. Siri Baltimore, MD Honorable Charles
Albert
Ruppersberger,
III
James Michael Donnelly Elizabeth, NJ David John
Hancock
Bart T. East Elizabeth, NJ David John
Hancock
David Hummel Elizabeth, NJ David John
Hancock
Caroline Rebecca Lawlor Fanwood, NJ David John
Hancock
Julie Ann Peterman Elizabeth, NJ David John
Hancock
Scott Michael Peterson Mayetta, NJ David John
Hancock
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Melissa Ann Spagnoli Elizabeth, NJ David John

Hancock
Karyn Rita Weingarten Elizabeth, NJ David John
Hancock
Oral Arguments
tioners v. Frank Buono. Argued by Ms. Solicitor General Elena Kagan
for the petitioners and by Mr. Peter J. Eliasberg for the respondent.
No. 08–103. Reed Elsevier, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Irvin Muchnick,
et al. Argued by Mr. Charles S. Sims for the petitioners, by Ms. Ginger
Anders for the United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the
Court, supporting the petitioners, and by Ms. Deborah Jones Merritt,
appointed by this Court, as amicus curiae, supporting the judgment
below. Justice Sotomayor recused.
No. 08–604. Union Pacific Railroad Company, Petitioner v. Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen General Committee of
Adjustment, Central Region. Argued by Mr. J. Scott Ballenger for the
petitioner and by Mr. Thomas H. Geoghegan for the respondent.
Adjourned until Tuesday, October 13, 2009, at 10 o’clock.




No. 09A165. Stanley Hall, Applicant v. Terry Goddard, Attorney
General of Arizona, et al. Application for stay addressed to Justice
Sotomayor and referred to the Court denied.
No. 09M27. Jerry Wanzer, Petitioner v. Texas. Motion to direct the
Clerk to file a petition for writ of certiorari out of time denied.
No. 09M28. Nancy A. Hey, Petitioner v. Arlington County Depart
ment of Human Services. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition
for writ of certiorari out of time denied.
No. 09M29. Charles Owens, Petitioner v. Providian Financial Corpo
ration, et al. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for writ of
certiorari out of time denied. Justice Sotomayor took no part in the
consideration or decision of this motion.
No. 09M30. Rakesh Wahi, Petitioner v. Charleston Area Medical
Center, et al. Motion for leave to file a petition for writ of certiorari
under seal with redacted copies for the public record granted.
No. 09M31. William Sharkozy, Petitioner v. Donna Allison. Motion
denied.
No. 09M32. Shirley A. Tyus, Petitioner v. Marty Montgomery, Sher
iff, Faulkner County, Arkansas, et al. Motion to direct the Clerk to file
a petition for writ of certiorari out of time under Rule 14.5 denied.
No. 09M33. Ralph Oyague, Petitioner v. United States District
Court for the Eastern District of New York. Motion to direct the Clerk
to file a petition for writ of certiorari out of time denied. Justice Soto
mayor took no part in the consideration or decision of this motion.
No. 132, Original. State of Alabama, et al., Plaintiffs v. State of
North Carolina. Exceptions to the Report of the Special Master are set
for oral argument in due course.
No. 09–5713. Ashton R. O’Dwyer, Jr., Petitioner v. Daniel E.

Becnel, Jr., et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
pauperis denied. Petitioner allowed until November 3, 2009, within
No. 09–5763. Daniel Cole James, Petitioner v. Oklahoma. Motion of
allowed until November 3, 2009, within which to pay the docketing fee
No. 09–6392. Leon R. Rouse, Petitioner v. Department of State,
nied. Petitioner allowed until November 3, 2009, within which to pay
the docketing fee required by Rule 38(a) and to submit a petition in
compliance with Rule 33.1 of the Rules of this Court.
No. 09–6442. In Re James Edward Leaf, Petitioner. Motion of peti
tioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied. Petitioner al
lowed until November 3, 2009, within which to pay the docketing fee
Certiorari Granted
No. 08–1341. United States, Petitioner v. Glenn Marcus. Petition for
Circuit granted. Justice Sotomayor took no part in the consideration or
No. 08–1394. Jeffrey K. Skilling, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
Fifth Circuit granted.
No. 09–38. Health Care Service Corporation, Petitioner v. Juli A.
Pollitt, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit granted.
No. 09–5327. Albert Holland, Petitioner v. Florida. Motion of peti
tioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Petition for
enth Circuit granted.
Certiorari Denied
No. 08–1211. Church Homes, Inc., dba Avery Heights, Petitioner v.
National Labor Relations Board. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
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No. 08–1356. Sungwook Kim, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attor
No. 08–1395. Len Wallace, et al., Petitioners v. Montana, et al.; and
Kim J. Kafka, et al., Petitioners v. Jack Bridgewater, et al. Petition for
No. 08–1476. Dwight J. Loving, Petitioner v. Department of Defense,
peals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied.
No. 08–1478. Husain Rafik Kurji, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
No. 08–1482. Tommy Zeke Mincey, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–1530. Matthew Sirmons, et al., Petitioners v. Melanie Wil
liams. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
No. 08–9822. Bernard Bagley, Petitioner v. South Carolina. Petition
No. 08–10386. Gary Lee Rodriguez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–10699. Walter Fayall, III, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10799. Aaron Dale Poe, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–10814. Lynn M. Alberico, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10862. Reginald Castel, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., At
No. 09–23. Richard A. Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–32. John A. Barrett, Jr., et ux., Petitioners v. United States.

No. 09–53. William Harold Kelley, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
No. 09–133. Ronald W. Morters, Petitioner v. Charles H. Barr, et al.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin,
District I, denied.
No. 09–139. Jacqueline Everson, Petitioner v. Liberty Mutual Assur
ance Company. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–140. James R. Rushing, Jr., Petitioner v. Lawrence Kelly,
Superintendent, Mississippi State Penitentiary. Petition for writ of cer
tiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
denied.
No. 09–145. Edward A. Barsch, Petitioner v. Michael O’Toole, et al.
No. 09–146. Lennon Anderson, Petitioner v. Vanguard Car Rental
USA Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–149. Johnnie Walker, Petitioner v. GEICO General Insurance
No. 09–161. Andrew J. Miller, Commissioner, Indiana Bureau of
Motor Vehicles, Petitioner v. Miguel Villegas, et al. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Indiana, First District, denied.
No. 09–164. Gary Richmond, as Personal Representative of the Es
tate of Kyle Dalton Richmond, Deceased, Petitioner v. PeaceHealth,
dba PeaceHealth Medical Group, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the Court of Appeals of Oregon denied.
No. 09–165. William H. Whitehead, Petitioner v. Bradley, Arant,
Rose & White, LLP, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme
Court of Alabama denied.
No. 09–171. Michael Halliwell and James Parker, Petitioners v. Supe
rior Court of California, Sonoma County, et al. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate Dis
trict, denied.

trict, denied.
No. 09–177. Danny M. Bennett, et al., Petitioners v. Dennis Lee Hen
drix, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Forsyth
County, Georgia, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–179. George Hofmeister, et ux., Petitioners v. Cincinnati In
surance Company. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Ap
peals of Kentucky denied.
No. 09–180. Tyler Hill Corporation, Petitioner v. Sara Yakin. Peti
No. 09–196. Joseph P. Ward, Petitioner v. International Union of
Operating Engineers, Local 150, AFL–CIO. Petition for writ of certio
denied.
No. 09–210. Robert E. Frazier, Petitioner v. Kathleen Sebelius, Sec
No. 09–226. Richard French, Petitioner v. Jonathan Lemery. Petition
No. 09–240. Barbara Hafterson, et vir, as Personal Representatives
of the Estate of Nathan Nicholas Hafterson, Deceased, Petitioners v.
No. 09–243. David P. Leibowitz, Trustee, Petitioner v. Systems Divi
sion, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–249. Anthony Martini, Petitioner v. AT&T, Inc., et al. Petition
No. 09–255. Victor Velez, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ of
No. 09–256. David Olofson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–268. Robin Allen Morris, Petitioner v. Family Dollar Stores

of Ohio, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–269. James Wright, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–276. Liberty Counsel, et al., Petitioners v. The Florida Bar
Board of Governors, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme
Court of Florida denied.
No. 09–281. Roger Demarest, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–290. Jose Battle, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–295. Colvin I. Bert, Petitioner v. Comptroller of the Treasury
of Maryland. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Special Ap
peals of Maryland denied.
No. 09–316. John E. Davis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–319. Steven Lacey, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–324. Judy A. Wiley, Petitioner v. Timothy F. Geithner, Secre
tary of the Treasury, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–5012. Gerald Delane Murray, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition
No. 09–5090. Christopher Shane Hyde, Petitioner v. Alabama. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Ala
bama denied.
No. 09–5192. George L. Upton, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5251. Jeffrey Dewayne Roach, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–5269. Joseph D. Murphy, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Cir
cuit denied.
No. 09–5636. Arthur Lee Henderson, Sr., Petitioner v. Robert J.
Hernandez, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–5637. Leontae Hill, Petitioner v. Mike Kemna, Superintend
ent, Crossroads Correctional Center. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit denied.
No. 09–5639. Larry Hudson, Jr., Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–5641. Michael R. Haynes, Petitioner v. Lisa Blacketter, et al.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Oregon denied.
No. 09–5642. Delbert James Gunnett, Petitioner v. Jeffrey J. Wood,
No. 09–5645. Antonio Green, Petitioner v. William Pollard, Warden.
No. 09–5651. Jimmie Roach, Petitioner v. Mississippi. Petition for
No. 09–5663. Curtis Warlick, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
tiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5664. Curtis Warlick, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5665. Johnny A. Rucker, Jr., Petitioner v. Larry B. Norris,
denied.
No. 09–5673. Roszetta Marie McNeill, Petitioner v. Wayne County,
Michigan. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Michi
gan, Wayne County, denied.
No. 09–5678. David G. Huusko, Petitioner v. Larry Jenkins, Warden.

No. 09–5679. Manuel Lee Hunt, Petitioner v. Tom Felker, Warden.
No. 09–5681. Jeremy David Gross, Petitioner v. Stanley Knight,
Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of
cuit denied.
No. 09–5684. Neal Thomas Graham, Petitioner v. Mike Addison,
No. 09–5686. Rudolfo Lopez, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Fourth District, denied.
No. 09–5689. Rudolfo Lopez, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Fourth District, denied.
No. 09–5693. Carlos Moore, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5695. Lorenzo Estabon Thomas, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler,
tions Division, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–5698. Maximo Valladares, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
cuit denied.
No. 09–5700. Curtis R. Moffett, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Second District, denied.
No. 09–5701. Kelley A. McFarland, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–5704. Benjamin Williams, Jr., Petitioner v. Larry B. Norris,
tiorari to the Supreme Court of Arkansas denied.

No. 09–5711. Donald Anthony Grant, Petitioner v. Oklahoma. Peti
homa denied.
No. 09–5716. Thaddeus Keith Bonner, Petitioner v. John Marshall,
No. 09–5717. Roderick Allen Batiste, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
No. 09–5718. Larry Brooks, Petitioner v. Dave Dormire, Super
intendent, Jefferson City Correctional Center. Petition for writ of cer
denied.
No. 09–5720. Christopher Baker, Petitioner v. Georgia. Petition for
No. 09–5721. Dean Philip Andrews, Petitioner v. Carol Howes, War
No. 09–5723. Levar Darnell Shannon, Petitioner v. Mary Berghuis,
No. 09–5724. Darrin Robinson, Petitioner v. James LeBlanc, War
No. 09–5725. David D. Richardson, Petitioner v. Paul Thomas, et al.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Commonwealth Court of Pennsyl
vania denied.
No. 09–5727. James McDaniel, Petitioner v. John W. Suthers, Attor
ney General of Colorado, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–5735. Jesus Maria Lopez, Petitioner v. Michael Wallace, et al.
No. 09–5740. Norman Brown, Petitioner v. United States Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–5741. Otis D. Blaxton, Petitioner v. Boca Grande Foods, et al.

No. 09–5742. Jose Chepito Aguilar, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Fifth District,
denied.
No. 09–5744. Larry James Barber, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third
District, denied.
No. 09–5748. David Allen Hawkins, Petitioner v. Washington. Peti
No. 09–5750. Victor Harris, Petitioner v. William Terry, Warden.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Georgia denied.
No. 09–5751. Richard D. Gocio, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
No. 09–5756. Jacqueline A. M. Phillips, Petitioner v. District of Co
lumbia, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–5762. Darren Anthony Joseph, Petitioner v. Ben Curry, War
No. 09–5765. Aror O’Diah, Petitioner v. New York. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of New York denied.
No. 09–5770. Anna Karin Antonsson, Petitioner v. John Kast. Peti
No. 09–5774. Bamrung P. Chumpia, Petitioner v. City of Memphis,
Tennessee, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–5777. Jeremiah Johnson, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
trict, denied.
No. 09–5794. Louis A. Olivarez, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–5796. Raymond Lamont Gaskins, Petitioner v. Virginia. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Virginia denied.

No. 09–5798. Jerry Rangel, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Tenth District, denied.
No. 09–5807. John E. Davis, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
No. 09–5813. Michael Thomas and Brian Conover, Petitioners v. City
of St. Paul, Minnesota. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–5822. Ernest Lee Tillman, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
trict, denied.
No. 09–5825. Thomas J. Torrence, Petitioner v. Jon Ozmint, Director,
South Carolina Department of Corrections. Petition for writ of certio
denied.
No. 09–5828. Thomas Michael Larry, Petitioner v. Gerald J. Branker,
No. 09–5829. Milton Douglas Johnson, Petitioner v. California. Peti
No. 09–5832. Richard Lay, Petitioner v. Louisiana. Petition for writ
No. 09–5834. Bryan Eric Page, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–5835. Gary S. Dean, Petitioner v. Larry Blaisdell, Warden.
No. 09–5836. Michael E. Allen, Petitioner v. Jeffrey Barnes, Deputy
Sheriff, Los Angeles County, California, et al. Petition for writ of cer
denied.
No. 09–5843. Ronnie M. Lyles, Petitioner v. Mary Ann Vial Lemmon,
No. 09–5849. T. Terell Bryant, Petitioner v. Metro/State Newspaper.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of South Carolina
denied.
No. 09–5850. Tameche A. Perkins, Petitioner v. Virginia. Petition

No. 09–5851. Nestor Medina, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–5855. Rahn Thompson, Petitioner v. Derral G. Adams, War
No. 09–5858. Dawn Kelley, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Mahoning County, denied.
No. 09–5860. Shannon Ewing, Petitioner v. Karin Bergeron, Super
intendent, Bridgewater State Hospital. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the Appeals Court of Massachusetts denied.
No. 09–5862. Frank Jerrod Dortch, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, Har
risburg Office, denied.
No. 09–5864. Charles Miller, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5865. Charles L. Muldrow, Petitioner v. Larry Denney, War
No. 09–5866. Ricky Benson, Petitioner v. Mark Luttrell, Sheriff,
Shelby County, Tennessee, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–5867. Bryan Davis, Sr., Petitioner v. D. E. Vanderville, et al.
No. 09–5869. Dwayne Hearns, Petitioner v. New Hampshire State
Prison. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–5872. Timothy Peoples, Petitioner v. Barbara Jene Williams,
No. 09–5874. Jorge Guadarrama, Petitioner v. James E. Tilton, et al.

No. 09–5877. Derrick Campbell, Petitioner v. SEPTA. Petition for
trict, denied.
No. 09–5883. Athena Young, Petitioner v. James W. Holderness,
et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Special Appeals of
Maryland denied.
No. 09–5891. Luis Ruiz, Petitioner v. Gerald Hofbauer, Warden,
No. 09–5892. Henry Sebastian Rohden, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition
No. 09–5902. Henry Lee Griffin, Jr., Petitioner v. Joseph G. Ortiz,
et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Colo
rado denied.
No. 09–5903. Jonathan Michael Harris, Petitioner v. California. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, Fifth
No. 09–5904. Rodney Monroe Hunter, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
No. 09–5916. Thomas Powers, Petitioner v. Donald N. Snyder, Jr.,
No. 09–5921. Serajul Haque, Petitioner v. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–5925. Ivan Eric Linton, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
No. 09–5928. Avram Nika, Petitioner v. Nevada. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Supreme Court of Nevada denied.
No. 09–5938. Elliott D. Tyson, Petitioner v. Brett Mize, Warden.
No. 09–5956. Lee Catledge, Petitioner v. Robert S. Mueller, III, Di
rector, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. Petition for writ of cer
tiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
denied.
No. 09–5962. Robert S. Wilson, Petitioner v. Luis Spencer, Super

intendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk. Petition
No. 09–5977. Daniel L. Rittner, Sr., Petitioner v. Jesse Williams,
No. 09–5980. Fereshteh Sabet, Petitioner v. Intel Corporation. Peti
No. 09–5988. Steven E. Warman, Petitioner v. H. J. Marberry, War
No. 09–6006. Robert R. Barnes, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
District, denied.
No. 09–6010. Joseph Lee Gurnsey, Petitioner v. California, et al.
No. 09–6013. Edward Hill, Petitioner v. District of Columbia Depart
ment of Employment Services, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the District of Columbia Court of Appeals denied.
No. 09–6028. Armando Benavides Cortinas, Petitioner v. Nevada.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Nevada denied.
No. 09–6066. Robert Taylor, Petitioner v. Don Roper, Superintend
No. 09–6089. Raymond Childress, Petitioner v. Kenneth R. Cam
eron, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Cresson. Peti
No. 09–6109. Jeffrey A. Walker, Petitioner v. Michael A. Zenk, War
No. 09–6119. John Conn, Petitioner v. Michael D. Klopotoski, Super
intendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.

No. 09–6174. Kanal V. Gaston, Petitioner v. United States Postal
Service, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–6200. David Williams, III, Petitioner v. Darryl Drew, War
No. 09–6205. Joe L. McIntyre, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6206. Bryan L. Travis, Petitioner v. Park City Municipal Cor
poration, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–6207. Katrina V. Tate, Petitioner v. Merit Systems Protec
No. 09–6211. Owen Britton Troxelle, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6217. Malik Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6218. Rodney Lee Rollness, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6219. Dennis Spriggs, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6230. Amanza James Pollino, aka Jiggy, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6232. Glen B. Clay, aka Glenn B. Clay, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6235. Errol Brown, Petitioner v. John Kerestes, Superintend
ent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy et al. Petition for writ
cuit denied.
No. 09–6240. Aleem Hussain, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–6242. Ninous Isom, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6246. Terry Tyler, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6247. Boris Alexeev, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6251. Cornelius Birdsong, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6252. Pedro Mendoza-Zaragoza, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6253. Mauricio Antonio Paredes, Petitioner v. John Marshall,
No. 09–6254. Blaine Charles Moore, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6259. Wade Randall Pine, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6262. Tony Hoey, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6263. Lee Curtis Robinson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6264. Edgar Nelson Pitts, aka Marlon Smith, Petitioner v.
No. 09–6269. Avonta Dinkens, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–6271. Abdel-Illah Elmardoudi, aka Hussein Mohsen Safied
dine, aka George Labibe, aka Abdullah, aka Jean-Pierre Tardelli, Peti
No. 09–6275. Rayford Norris, aka Poochie, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6278. Eric Delon Fonville, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6279. Antonio Zaldivar, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6284. Franklin Azubike, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6286. Francisco J. Bermea-Boone, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6287. Henry E. Miller, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6288. Hector Rodriguez, aka Chamo, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6289. Osei Rivera, aka S, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6290. Andre Scales, aka Andre Simms, aka Anthony Johnson,
aka Dre, aka Lo Coito, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6292. Kenyoun Gilyard, aka Pop, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6293. Darrell Dorian Miggins, aka Darrell Miggins, Peti
No. 09–6295. Hugh Epps, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

Circuit denied.
No. 09–6298. Xavier S. Todd, Petitioner v. FCI Memphis, et al. Peti
No. 09–6300. Luis Zayas, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6301. Antonio Brown, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6303. Maurice Deleon Roberts, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6305. Otis Leon Story, aka Shawn Jones, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6310. Gary C. Pratt, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6314. Anthony Green, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6315. Melvin Taylor, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6316. Eric V. Wells, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6317. Travis Littlejohn, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
denied.
No. 09–6320. Eric Jonelle Cochran, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6321. Michael Dean, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.

No. 09–6322. Maino Robin De Leon-Godinez, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6323. Vasile Ciocan, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6324. Conrado Cantu, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6325. Enrique Quezada-Enriquez, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6326. Alphonso Stewart, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6329. Thomas J. Savoca, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6330. Kelvin Settle, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6331. Luis F. Rivera, Petitioner v. David Nolan. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6333. Karl Sullivan, aka Adrian Karl Cathey, aka Karl
Adrian Cathey, aka Karl Edwards, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6335. Brian Dickens, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6336. Carl Chester, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6337. Patrick Doyle, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6340. Harold Jackson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–6342. Kenneth Wayne Lewis, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6343. Ethel Mae Jackson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6346. Milton Adam Lirette, III, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6347. Billy Brown, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6348. Rodney Antonio Alexander, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6349. Salvi Rafael Benitez-Avila, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6350. Mark James Konsavich, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6354. Ahmad Bishawi, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6355. David Carey Underwood, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6356. Norris Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6357. Clevon Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6358. James Edward Thomas, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–6359. Brian Underwood, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6360. Reisa Lynn Pettiette, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6361. Arnie Porter, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6364. Lesean Roberts, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6368. Mark Jordan, Petitioner v. Federal Bureau of Prisons,
No. 09–6370. Ruben Diaz, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–6373. Ahmad Jasir Rashad, aka Diamond L. Coleman, Peti
No. 09–6374. Kenneth L. Davis, Petitioner v. Tennessee. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, West
No. 09–6377. Gregory Hill, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6380. German Gallagos, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6381. Keith Leonard Mullen, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6386. Phasung Lu Baccam, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6390. Trevino E. Rogers, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6393. Marshall Tilghman, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–6403. Steven James, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6404. Jimmy Malone, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6405. James Wheeler, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6407. Robbie S. Urbano, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6409. Toriano Hoivey Blocker, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6415. Brett Styer, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6418. Thomas H. Clark, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6423. Gino Velez Scott, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6427. Carlos Jesus Marguet-Pillado, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6432. Patrick Thomas Boam, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6438. Benjamin Thomas, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6444. Anthony Dartez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–6445. Bernard Douglas, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6446. Clarence Leonard Chatman, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6452. Robert Carlos Love, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6455. Jesus Pomales-Pizarro, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6456. Curtis Moore, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6460. Gregory Earl Setser, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6466. Eddy Raul Zetino-Morales, aka Eddy Raul Cety-
Morales, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–6476. Michael Colson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6478. Tony L. Collins, aka T-Cag, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6482. Antonio Bell, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–6484. Michael Ivan Brewster, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6485. Jose Magana Barajas, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6487. Willie H. Jones, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6489. Shelton Johns, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

Circuit denied.
No. 09–6490. Robert Earl Noble, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6496. James Bunchan, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6498. Lonnell Brown, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6499. Travis Ray Bender, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6503. Christian Soto-Cosme, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6506. Larry Ray Eames, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–1407. DTD Enterprises, Inc., aka Together, aka Together-
Clark, aka Together Dating Service, et al., Petitioners v. Janice H.
Wells, on Behalf of Herself and All Others Similarly Situated. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of New Jersey, Middlesex
County, denied. Statement of Justice Kennedy, with whom The Chief
Justice and Justice Sotomayor join, respecting denial of the petition for
writ of certiorari.
No. 08–10604. Jonathan Baker and George Fuller, Petitioners v.
No. 08–10885. Dustin L. McCargo, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–45. Larry B. Norris, Director, Arkansas Department of Cor
rection, Petitioner v. Andrew Sasser. Motion of respondent for leave to
proceed in forma pauperis granted. Petition for writ of certiorari to

No. 09–186. Miriam Rosario Colon, aka Annamaria Lopez, Petitioner
v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General. Petition for writ of certiorari
this petition.
No. 09–5194. Richard Josephberg, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5683. Willie J. Griffin, Jr., Petitioner v. Charles E.
Samuels, Jr., Warden, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit dismissed. See
Rule 39.8.
No. 09–5761. Jenn-Ching Luo, Petitioner v. Town of Hempstead,
No. 09–5789. Montgomery Blair Sibley, Petitioner v. United States
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Motion of peti
of Columbia Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–5816. Cheryl D. Uzamere, Petitioner v. Allen E. Kaye, P.C.,
No. 09–5861. Christopher Carbin, Petitioner v. Arthur Bennett,
Appeals for the Sixth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner
No. 09–5863. Jalone Davis, Petitioner v. Joseph T. Smith, Super
intendent, Shawangunk Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of cer

of this petition.
No. 09–5885. Montgomery B. Sibley, Petitioner v. The Florida Bar,
Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–5889. Eric D. Smith, Petitioner v. Stephen J. Huckins. Motion
tion for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Indiana, Fourth
District, dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–5899. Carlos Soto, Petitioner v. Thomas Birkett, et al. Motion
tion for writ of certiorari ton the United States Court of Appeals for
the Sixth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–5920. Harold J. Farris, Petitioner v. Nancy J. Whaley, et al.
No. 09–6280. Alex A. Luna, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–6296. Ayfer Yalincak, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6408. Paul G. Azzara, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6430. Tairu Alabi, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–6454. Hasan Mitchell, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–6313. In Re Ralph Fredrick, Petitioner;
No. 09–6388. In Re Kenneth D. Beverly, Petitioner;
No. 09–6414. In Re Armando Ramirez, Petitioner;
No. 09–6448. In Re Atul Dhurandhar, Petitioner;
No. 09–6529. In Re Akube Wuromoni Ndoromo, Petitioner; and
No. 09–6622. In Re S. C. Liles, Petitioner. Petitions for writs of ha
beas corpus denied.

Mandamus Denied
No. 09–5815. In Re Barnita P. Vann, Petitioner. Petition for writ of

mandamus denied.
No. 09–6108. In Re Carter T. Bush, Petitioner. Petition for writ of
Attorney Discipline
No. D–2453. In the Matter of Disbarment of Laurence P. Sutley.

Disbarment order entered.
No. D–2456. In the Matter of Disbarment of Jeffrey B. Feinman.

Olga Agnello Detroit, MI Timothy A.

Baughman
David S. Almeling San Francisco, CA Mark Simon
Davies
Jeremy Charles Bates New York, NY John L. Warden
Peter M. Bollinger Los Angeles, CA Daniel P. Barer
Michael J. Bond Seattle, WA Thomas M.
Fitzpatrick
Olan John Boudreaux Houston, TX Judge David
Hittner
D. Craig Brinker Dallas, TX Roger Dean
Hepworth
Michael A. Condyles Richmond, VA Barry Paul
Steinberg
Jonathan K. Corley Opelika, AL Davis Butterfield
Whittelsey
Jennifer Cooke Craig Jackson, TN Milton Dale

Conder, Jr.
Daniel K. Dik Los Angeles, CA Craig Richard
Donahue
Timothy Allen Dunn Dallas, TX Robert Jacob
Davis
Anthony Marino Eleftheri Indianapolis, IN Sharon Funcheon
Murphy
Thomas J. Fisher Alexandria, VA Arthur Irwin
Neustadt
Joseph P. Garland White Plains, NY I. Stephen Rabin
Julie Jarrell Gresham Biloxi, MS Stephen James
Carmody
William H. Gussman, Jr. New York, NY Howard Owen
Godnick
Jennifer Sullivan Hanson Atlanta, GA Bruce Steven
Harvey
Barry J. Herman Alexandria, VA Arthur Irwin
Neustadt
David Edward Hollar Chicago, IL Honorable Elena
Kagan, Solicitor
General of the
United States
James G. Hunt Helena, MT William E. Hunt
Gary K. Hunter, Jr. Tallahassee, FL Richard S.
Brightman
Max Thomas Hyde, Jr. Spartanburg, SC John B. White, Jr.
Zandra Lynn Johnson Greenville, SC Natalma M.
McKnew
George Wilton Kuney Knoxville, TN Penny J. White
Gaby Lorraine Longsworth Washington, DC Robert Greene
Sterne
Kristopher K. Madsen Council Bluffs, IA Michael Arthur
Sciortino
Philip William Marsh Washington, DC Allan M. Soobert
Aaron Michael McKown Newport Beach, Jeffery W. Ring
CA
John Chester Mitby Madison, WI Frank J. Bucaida
Roy L. Morris Washington, DC David B. B.
Helfrey

Jon H. Patterson Birmingham, AL Victor L. Hayslip

Mitchell L. Perry Bronx, NY Mitchell Lane
Perry
Teresa S. Renaker Oakland, CA Jeffrey Greg
Lewis
John Joseph Richard Atlanta, GA Scott Gilbert
Blews
Jimmy L. Roark Hazard, KY Forrest E. Cook
Patricia Ryan-Westpfahl Washington, DC Barry Paul
Steinberg
Eric W. Schweibenz Alexandria, VA Arthur Irwin
Neustadt
Sung-Hee Suh New York, NY Howard Owen
Godnick
Robert A. Sweetapple Boca Raton, FL Robert C. Furr
William A. Tanenbaum New York, NY Steven James
Glassman
Jeffrey Allen Turner Dallas, GA James W.
Friedewald
David Jay Weiss Los Angeles, CA Daniel P. Barer
Ryan Donnelly Shadrick Washington, DC Thomas Stewart
Wilson Shadrick
Catha Worthman Oakland, CA Jeffrey Greg
Lewis
Herbert A. Yarbrough, III Tyler, TX Herschel Tracy
Crawford
Joseph J. Zito Washington, DC Roger L. Browdy
Roger E. Zuckerman Washington, DC David Adam
Reiser
Carrie Anne Orlikowski Durham, NC Christopher G.

Browning, Jr.
Christina R. Neff Jefferson City, MO Cynthia June
Rapp
Leonardo Abueg Canesco Rockville, MD Steven Arthur
Winkelman
Elizabeth Holliday Smith Columbia, SC David C.
Frederick
Christopher David Burch Arlington, VA Bree A.

Ermentrout
Tamia Nicole Gordon Washington, DC Bree A.
Ermentrout
Robert Paul Gugino Arlington, VA Bree A.
Ermentrout
Ross David Hyams Washington, DC Bree A.
Ermentrout
Tamara Rachel Killian Washington, DC Bree A.
Ermentrout
Bravitt Cola Manley, Jr. Washington, DC Bree A.
Ermentrout
Eric Marc Allmendinger Parker, CO Alan Paul
Bernstein
Fitzgerald Anthony Frater Naples, FL Alan Paul
Bernstein
Donald B. Boyd, Jr. Oak Park, IL Alan Paul
Bernstein
Nancy Kemp DuCharme Tinley Park, IL Alan Paul
Bernstein
Maurice Grant Chicago, IL Alan Paul
Bernstein
Lesley Abigail Hoenig Mount Pleasant, Alan Paul
MI Bernstein
Laura Marie Urbik Kern Elmhurst, IL Alan Paul
Bernstein
Majdel Sami Musa Chicago, IL Alan Paul
Bernstein
Eileen Wilhelmina Van Des Plaines, IL Alan Paul
Roeyen Bernstein
Megan Marie Wallace Washington, DC Alan Paul
Bernstein
Nancy Ann Mayer Durham, NC Alan Paul
Bernstein
Manette Dennis New York, NY Alan Paul
Bernstein
Oral Arguments
No. 08–651. Jose Padilla, Petitioner v. Kentucky. Argued by
Mr. Stephen B. Kinnaird for the petitioner, by Mr. Michael R. Dreeben

for the United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court,
supporting affirmance, and by Mr. Wm. Robert Long, Jr., for the
respondent.
No. 08–724. Keith Smith, Warden, Petitioner v. Frank G. Spisak, Jr.
Argued by Mr. Attorney General Richard Cordray for the petitioner
and by Mr. Michael J. Benza, appointed by this Court, for the
respondent.
No. 138, Original. State of South Carolina, Plaintiff v. State of
North Carolina. Argued by Mr. David C. Frederick for the plaintiff, by
Mr. Eric D. Miller for the United States as amicus curiae, by special
leave of the Court, supporting the plaintiff, by Mr. H. Christopher Bar
tolomucci for the interveners, and by Mr. Solicitor General Christopher
G. Browning, Jr., for the defendant.
Adjourned until Wednesday, October 14, 2009, at 10 o’clock.

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Irina G. Axelrod-Angres Washington, DC Melissa Aubin

Robert Julian Angres Washington, DC Melissa Aubin
Robert Joel Kimmer Washington, DC David I. Pincus
David R. Gerk Arlington, VA Maria M.
DiMoscato
Ashley Ann Romito Chicago, IL Amy Watroba
Kern
Adam J. Sutton McLean, VA David Nathan
Cooper
Rose Marie Rocklein Alexandria, VA David Nathan
Cooper
Margaret A. Johnson Washington, DC David Nathan
Cooper
Andria A. Kerney Arlington, VA David Nathan
Cooper
Steven L. Scher Oxford, NJ David Nathan
Cooper
Stephen R. Foster Arp, TX David Nathan
Cooper
Jennifer Ann Gorman Arlington, VA David Nathan
Cooper
Amber Yerkey James Decatur, AL Ronni S. Jillions
Kathleen Ann Brown Costa Mesa, CA Ronni S. Jillions
Brian Alexander Costa Honolulu, HI Ronni S. Jillions
James Arthur DeLacy Honolulu, HI Ronni S. Jillions
Heidi Lynn Keenan Matteson, IL Ronni S. Jillions
Maryse-Noelle Mills Washington, DC Ronni S. Jillions
Apenteng
Tabitha Renee Brown Upper Marlboro, Ronni S. Jillions
MD
214 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2009
Rahemoon Husain Bethesda, MD Ronni S. Jillions

Halfmann
Bret Keisling Harrisburg, PA Ronni S. Jillions
Anna Kemmerly Teller Euless, TX Ronni S. Jillions
Donald Edward Teller, Jr. Euless, TX Ronni S. Jillions
Brian V. Lee Washington, DC Ronni S. Jillions
Oral Arguments
No. 08–351. Anita Alvarez, Cook County State’s Attorney, Petitioner
v. Chermane Smith, et al. Argued by Mr. Paul Castiglione for the peti
tioner, by Mr. William M. Jay for the United States as amicus curiae,
by special leave of the Court, supporting the petitioner, and by
Mr. Thomas Peters for the respondents.
No. 970. Sonny Perdue, Governor of Georgia, et al., Petitioners v.
Kenny A., By His Next Friend Linda Winn, et al. Argued by Mr. Mark
H. Cohen for the petitioners, by Mr. Pratik A. Shah for the United
States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting the
petitioners, and by Mr. Paul D. Clement for the respondents.
Adjourned until Monday, October 19, 2009, at 10 o’clock.

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Present: Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Scalia, Justice Kennedy,

Justice Thomas, Justice Ginsburg, Justice Breyer, Justice Alito, and
Justice Sotomayor.
“Disposition of items scheduled for conference today will be reflected
on the orders list that will be released at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning.”

Adam J. Lysinski Chicago, IL Melissa Aubin

Anastasia Davis Washington, DC Jeremiah S.
Buckley
Michael Jeffrey Webb Newcastle upon Cyril Chern
Tyne, United
Kingdom
Enrique Gerardo Serna San Antonio, TX Cornelius Joseph
Martinez Calnan
Carla Tachau Lawrence Seattle, WA Robert S. Peck
Rebecca Lynn Thompson Washington, DC Fletcher D.
Thompson
James Fletcher Thompson Spartanburg, SC Fletcher D.
Thompson
John Lindsay Grow Williamson, NY Anthony J. Villani
Mary Katherine Villani Lyons, NY Anthony J. Villani
Michele Ann Villani Lyons, NY Anthony J. Villani
Larry Laron Archie Greensboro, NC Judge Susan
Elizabeth Bray
Deborah J. Bowers Greensboro, MT Judge Susan
Elizabeth Bray
David Leonard Brown Greensboro, NC Judge Susan
Elizabeth Bray
Martha Perkowski Brown Greensboro, NC Judge Susan
Elizabeth Bray
Paul D. Coates Greensboro, NC Judge Susan
Elizabeth Bray
Jennifer N. Fountain Greensboro, NC Judge Susan
Elizabeth Bray
Kimberly Bullock Gatling Greensboro, NC Judge Susan

Elizabeth Bray
Patrice A. Hinnant Greensboro, NC Judge Susan
Elizabeth Bray
Tessa T. Leftwich Greensboro, NC Judge Susan
Elizabeth Bray
Howard Arthur MacCord, Greensboro, NC Judge Susan
Jr. Elizabeth Bray
John Irvin Malone, Jr. Greensboro, NC Judge Susan
Elizabeth Bray
Richard L. Pinto Greensboro, NC Judge Susan
Elizabeth Bray
Desmond Sheridan Greensboro, NC Judge Susan
Elizabeth Bray
Neil Berger New York, NY Joan Gottesman
Wexler
Patrick Joseph Creegan Briancliff Manor, Joan Gottesman
NY Wexler
Marguerite S. Dougherty New York, NY Joan Gottesman
Wexler
Paul J. Farrell Melville, NY Joan Gottesman
Wexler
Raphaela M. Giampiccolo New York, NY Joan Gottesman
Wexler
Alphonzo A. Grant, Jr. Brooklyn, NY Joan Gottesman
Wexler
Joy Hochstadt New York, NY Joan Gottesman
Wexler
Edward Marshall Kaplan Boca Raton, FL Joan Gottesman
Wexler
Laurie June Friedman New Rochelle, NY Joan Gottesman
Korngold Wexler
Paul James Korngold New York, NY Joan Gottesman
Wexler
Mary Cheasty Kornman New York, NY Joan Gottesman
Wexler
Joan Levenson New York, NY Joan Gottesman
Wexler
Jacqueline McMickens Brooklyn, NY Joan Gottesman
Wexler

Michael Bruce Mirotznik East Meadow, NY Joan Gottesman

Wexler
Deborah L. Morse New York, NY Joan Gottesman
Wexler
Gary O. Ravert New York, NY Joan Gottesman
Wexler
Deborah Ellen Riegel New York, NY Joan Gottesman
Wexler
Andrew Louis Rosenberg New York, NY Joan Gottesman
Wexler
Rodney Stilwell Staten Island, NY Joan Gottesman
Wexler
Kathleen O’Leary Van De New York, NY Joan Gottesman
Loo Wexler
Walter P. Wagner Rockville Centre, Joan Gottesman
NY Wexler
John Truscott Wright Brooklyn, NY Joan Gottesman
Wexler
Dawnn Elayne Briddell Camden, NJ Richard A.
DeMichele
Mark Caira Westmont, NJ Richard A.
DeMichele
William F. Cook Westmont, NJ Richard A.
DeMichele
Michael Joseph DiPiero, Jr. Westmont, NJ Richard A.
DeMichele
Shawn Christian Huber Philadelphia, PA Richard A.
DeMichele
Jeffrey R. Johnson Westmont, NJ Richard A.
DeMichele
Louis R. Lessig Westmont, NJ Richard A.
DeMichele
Joseph M. Nardi, III Westmont, NJ Richard A.
DeMichele
John V. Petrycki, Jr. Moorestown, NJ Richard A.
DeMichele
Adjourned until Monday, November 2, 2009, at 10 o’clock.



Opinion Per Curiam

No. 08–10495. Joseph E. Corcoran, Petitioner v. Mark Levenhagen,
Superintendent, Indiana State Prison. On petition for writ of certiorari
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Motion
of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and petition for
writ of certiorari granted. Judgment vacated, and case remanded to
the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit for further
proceedings consistent with the opinion of this Court. Opinion per
curiam.
No. 09M34. Michael Winstead, nka Kwasi Sekou Muhammad, Peti
tioner v. New Jersey. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for
writ of certiorari out of time denied.
No. 09M35. Alvaro Eduardo Corredor, Petitioner v. Federal Aviation
Administration. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for writ of
No. 08–969. Hemi Group, LLC and Kai Gachupin, Petitioners v. City
of New York, New York. Motion of The Campaign for Tobacco-Free
Kids for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted. Justice Soto
No. 08–1134. United Student Aid Funds, Inc., Petitioner v. Francisco
J. Espinosa. Motion of Professor Rafael I. Pardo for leave to file a brief
as amicus curiae granted.
ida Department of Environmental Protection, et al. Motion of the Solic
itor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae
and for divided argument granted.
No. 09–5973. Billy J. Torain, Petitioner v. Ameritech Advanced Data
Services. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
denied. Petitioner allowed until November 10, 2009, within which to
pay the docketing fee required by Rule 38(a) and to submit a petition
in compliance with Rule 33.1 of the Rules of this Court.
No. 09–6078. GwanJun Kim, Petitioner v. Progressive Express In

surance Company, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed
in forma pauperis denied. Petitioner allowed until November 10, 2009,
Court.
No. 09–6453. Warren T. Roach, Petitioner v. Rockingham County
Board of Education, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed
in forma pauperis denied. Petitioner allowed until November 10, 2009,
Court.
No. 09–6595. Charlene Schmitz, Petitioner v. United States. Motion
allowed until November 10, 2009, within which to pay the docketing
fee required by Rule 38(a) and to submit a petition in compliance with
Certiorari Granted
No. 08–1234. Jamal Kiyemba, et al., Petitioners v. Barack H. Obama,
President of the United States, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit granted.
No. 08–1553. Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd., et al., Petitioners v.
Regal-Beloit Corporation, et al.; and
No. 08–1554. Union Pacific Railroad Company, Petitioner v. Regal-
Beloit Corporation, et al. Petitions for writs of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted. The cases are
consolidated and a total of one hour is allotted for oral argument.
Certiorari Denied
No. 08–1427. Corey Alan Brockman, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–1428. John Burkey, Petitioner v. Helen J. Marberry, Warden.
No. 08–1453. Tommy Ray Rollins, Jr., Petitioner v. United States.

No. 08–1465. Carlos J. Rodriguez, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–9991. Kenneth Mosley, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 08–10521. Tremayne Parker, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third
District, denied.
No. 08–10993. Adrian Ivan Macias, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–183. Dianna Joyce Roberts, Petitioner v. Bank of New York.
No. 09–185. John F. Anderson, Petitioner v. Iowa City Development
Board, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of
Iowa denied.
No. 09–191. J. W., Petitioner v. David W. Knight, Senior Status
Judge, Circuit Court of Mercer County, West Virginia. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia denied.
No. 09–193. Janice Abner, Petitioner v. Probate Court of Mobile,
Alabama. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Ala
bama denied.
No. 09–195. Dan Reust, Petitioner v. Alaska. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Supreme Court of Alaska denied.
trict, denied.
No. 09–209. Brian S. Culver, Petitioner v. Alabama. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama denied.
No. 09–232. Justin Cox, Petitioner v. California. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate Dis
trict, Division Two, denied.
No. 09–266. Stephanie Bowens, et al., Petitioners v. Pat Quinn, Gov
ernor of Illinois. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–286. Cornelius C. Sullivan, Jr., Petitioner v. University of

Texas Health Science Center at Houston Dental Branch, et al. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Tenth Dis
trict, denied.
No. 09–313. Lynn Howard, Petitioner v. Department of the Army.
No. 09–318. Terrance Morris, et al., Petitioners v. Jarrett Lanpher,
No. 09–323. Thomas T. Scambos, Jr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–332. Minh Huynh and Nu Huynh, Petitioners v. United
No. 09–339. William J. Tway and Robert T. Ford, Petitioners v.
No. 09–344. Jerry Davis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–349. Victoria Yaitsky, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5022. Larissa Marie Rothery, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition
District, denied.
No. 09–5128. John Lezell Balentine, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–5131. Phillip Antwan Davis, Petitioner v. Gerald Branker,
No. 09–5389. Samuel Steven Fields, Petitioner v. Kentucky. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Kentucky denied.

No. 09–5391. Krister Sven Evertson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5896. Charles M. Cassell, III, Petitioner v. Darlyn White,
Correctional Administrator, Maury Correctional Institution. Petition
No. 09–5923. Dale Frank Maisano, Petitioner v. Charles L. Ryan,
Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ
cuit denied.
No. 09–5926. Steven L. Reed, Petitioner v. Brenda Cirtin. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Missouri, Southern
District, denied.
No. 09–5929. Timothy Pruitt, Petitioner v. Derrick Schofield, War
denied.
No. 09–5952. Marlon Olivas, Petitioner v. Dwight Neven, Warden,
No. 09–5960. George A. Long, Jr., and Rose Mary Long, Petitioners
v. Wood Mizer Products Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–5963. Balwinder Singh Tung, Petitioner v. Ramon Cuevas,
Fifth Appellate District, denied.
No. 09–5965. Marc Lance Neufer, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–5966. Scott E. Moorman, Petitioner v. John C. Jowers, et al.
No. 09–5972. Buwlus A. Muhammad, aka Paul Cooper, Petitioner v.
Vencent Kannrine, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–5974. Christopher Barnes, Petitioner v. Burl Cain, Warden.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Louisiana
denied.
No. 09–5982. Kenneth M. Sutton, Petitioner v. Corrections Corpora

tion of America, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–5983. Suleiman A. Qazza, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–5984. Luis A. Serna, Petitioner v. Kevin Goodno, et al. Peti
No. 09–5989. Michael Wordlow, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for
denied.
No. 09–5990. David W. Wilson, Petitioner v. J. Curiel, et al. Petition
No. 09–5997. Jerome Johnson, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–5999. Michael A. Powell, Petitioner v. Tim Curry, et al. Peti
No. 09–6008. Michael Carl Deakins, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–6020. Roy Fitzgerald Harris, Petitioner v. James Sweatt,
No. 09–6021. Leon Steven Gates, Petitioner v. California. Petition
pellate District, Division Two, denied.
No. 09–6022. Marco Antonio G. Rodriguez, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler,
No. 09–6025. Joseph Carver, Petitioner v. Eldon W. Vail, Secretary,
Washington Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ of cer
denied.

No. 09–6027. Brian Jeffrey Dann, Petitioner v. Arizona. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Arizona denied.
No. 09–6030. Daniel Lacey, Petitioner v. Montana. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Montana denied.
No. 09–6033. Larry Latham, Petitioner v. United States, et al. Peti
No. 09–6042. Allen Hon, Petitioner v. Cosmos Jewelry, Ltd. Petition
No. 09–6046. Ray Brent Hampton, Petitioner v. Brian Belleque,
No. 09–6048. Loredo Cole, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–6053. Stephen Kopy, Petitioner v. Stuart J. Ryan, Warden.
No. 09–6057. Robert A. Bell, Petitioner v. Tommy Norwood, et al.
No. 09–6058. Lawrence Higgins, Petitioner v. Randall County Sher
iff ’s Office. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of
Texas, Seventh District, denied.
No. 09–6059. Julien Garcon, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
No. 09–6061. Andre L. Oliphant, Petitioner v. Kathy Mendoza-
Powers, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–6062. Kristian Kristiadi, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
No. 09–6064. Angela Fan, Petitioner v. Charles R. Roe. Petition for
No. 09–6079. John Knight, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secretary,
Florida Department of Corrections. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District, denied.
No. 09–6136. Raymond Nesbitt, Petitioner v. Circuit Court of Illi

nois, Cook County. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court
of Illinois denied.
No. 09–6180. Robert Edward Barrett, Petitioner v. Anthony A. La
No. 09–6181. Kevin R. Balko, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
tary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ of
cuit denied.
No. 09–6198. Charles Montague, Petitioner v. Howard Carlton, War
No. 09–6199. Carlos John Williams, Petitioner v. Ken Quinn, Super
intendent, Monroe Correctional Complex. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–6229. Antonios Stamos, Petitioner v. New Jersey. Petition
Division, denied.
No. 09–6238. Peter James Little, Petitioner v. Charles L. Ryan, Di
rector, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–6260. Johnnie Mack Owens, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
cuit denied.
No. 09–6273. Ndubuisi Joseph Okafor, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6277. Thomas E. Leftwich, Petitioner v. West Virginia. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of West Virginia, Raleigh
County, denied.
No. 09–6306. Ralph R. Stogner, Petitioner v. Burl Cain, Warden.
No. 09–6327. Norman E. Wiegand, Petitioner v. Aristedes W. Za
vares, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al.

No. 09–6332. Rafael Sabino-Morales, Petitioner v. United States; and
No. 09–6599. Saul Flores-De-Jesus, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
tions for writs of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for
No. 09–6383. Curtis G. Lockett, et ux., Petitioners v. Commissioner
of Internal Revenue. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–6422. Charles Gordon, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
District, denied.
No. 09–6433. Timothy L. Vores, Petitioner v. Merit System Protec
No. 09–6462. Bilal Abdul Rashid, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6464. Sean Wright, Petitioner v. Phillip Volland, Judge, Su
perior Court of Alaska, Third Judicial District at Anchorage, et al.
No. 09–6494. John Delos Wilson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6495. Santos Felipe Bonilla, Petitioner v. United States; and
No. 09–6517. Oscar Villatoro, Petitioner v. United States. Petitions
for writs of certiorari to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals
denied.
No. 09–6507. Randy Lee Werst, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6508. Mark Wright, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6513. Erick Gonzalez-Gamez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6514. Vernard L. Green, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6515. Jerome Hayes, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

No. 09–6519. Steven Desmond Peterson, aka Primo, Petitioner v.
No. 09–6520. Thomas Rutherford Carson, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6523. Jerry Deckard, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6524. Vincent C. White, Petitioner v. Robert M. Gates, Secre
tary of Defense. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–6530. Carl Dennis Johnson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6534. Eric Martin Matthews, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6539. Dwayne Williams and James Bryant, Petitioners v.
No. 09–6541. Alfredo Delapaz Vasquez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6547. Anthony Eugene Boyd, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6548. Robert Bluntson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6551. Johnny Joseph, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6555. Antonio Lopez-Castas, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–6561. Leroy Maurice DeVeaux, aka Leroy Dover, Petitioner
No. 09–6566. Emanuel Preston Sohn, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6567. Shawn Robinson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6568. Ever Arturo Rodriguez-Orozco, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6578. Roger Duronio, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6582. Marvin Wilbert Powell, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6588. Matthew Dewayne Smith, aka Mackie, aka Smac, Peti
No. 09–6589. Gregory Robinson, aka Dusty, aka Darnley Wane
Mathurin, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–6593. Tyrone Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–6596. Jose Soto-Maciel, aka Jose Macias, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6597. Henry Garza Gallego, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6611. Albon Jones, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–6612. Raymond James Lamere, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6613. Jose Luis Manzo, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–6614. Tony Jones, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6615. Adon Joshua Muniz, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6616. Walter Merle Overton, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6618. Travis John O’Connor, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6620. Mohamed M. Mohamed, Petitioner v. United States.
for the Armed Forces denied.
No. 09–6625. James R. Niblock, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6628. Isaac Jacob DeBerry, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6629. Raul Espinosa, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6632. Spencer Peterson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6633. Marc Russ, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–6634. Walter Oriley Poindexter, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 08–1385. Virginia, Petitioner v. Joseph A. Moses Harris, Jr. Mo
tion of respondent for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted.

Dissenting opinion by The Chief Justice, with whom Justice Scalia
joins, dissenting from denial of certiorari.
No. 08–1441. Stanley Boim, et ux., Petitioners v. Muhammad Abdul
Hamid Khalil Salah. Motion of Zionist Organization of America for
leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted. Petition for writ of cer
denied.
No. 09–200. Cyrus Y. Kim, Petitioner v. City of Federal Way, Wash
ington. Petition for writ of certiorari before judgment to the United
No. 09–205. Frank Lapetina, Petitioner v. Scott Carlsen, Super
intendent, Ulster Correctional Facility, et al. Petition for writ of certio
of this petition.
No. 09–5906. Roger L. Wheeler, Petitioner v. Kentucky. Motion of
petitioner to defer consideration of the petition for writ of certiorari
denied. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Ken
tucky denied.
No. 09–5941. Christopher Rodriguez, Petitioner v. Robert Ercole,
Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility. Petition for writ
No. 09–5986. Roberto Mendoza, Petitioner v. Luis Marshall, Super
of this petition.
No. 09–6035. Kevin Millen, Petitioner v. Kansas City Star. Motion
the Eighth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–6037. David Ruezga, Petitioner v. James A. Yates, Warden.
No. 09–6077. Shahab Saqib, Petitioner v. Federal Bureau of Investi
gation, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court

No. 09–6121. Montgomery Blair Sibley, Petitioner v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Motion of petitioner for leave
See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–6165. William DiGianni, Petitioner v. Andrew M. Cuomo, At
torney General of New York, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to
See Rule 39.8. Justice Sotomayor took no part in the consideration or
decision of this motion and this petition.
No. 09–6312. Floyd Junior Powell, Petitioner v. Tony A. Keller, et al.
No. 09–6525. Pierre Genevier, Petitioner v. Superior Court of Cali
fornia, Los Angeles County, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to
to the Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, dis

No. 09–6658. In Re Robert E. Curtis, Petitioner;
No. 09–6677. In Re John Frank Warren, Jr., Petitioner;
No. 09–6716. In Re Jose Elias Martinez, Petitioner; and
No. 09–6733. In Re Luis Velarde, Petitioner. Petitions for writs of
habeas corpus denied.
No. 09–6708. In Re Jeffrey Rodney Berry, Petitioner; and
No. 09–6748. In Re Christopher Carbin, Petitioner. Motions of peti
for writs of habeas corpus dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
Mandamus Denied
No. 09–204. In Re Susan V. Klat, Petitioner. Petition for writ of
No. 09–5944. In Re Gary B. Williams, Petitioner;
No. 09–6024. In Re Julian Rochester, Petitioner; and

No. 09–6139. In Re Johnny Traylor, Petitioner. Motions of petition
ers for leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied, and petitions for
writs of mandamus and/or prohibition dismissed. See Rule 39.8.

J. Mitchell Aberman Charlotte, NC Edward T.

Hinson, Jr.
James C. Alison Huntsville, AL John Allen
Brinkley
Salvatore Anastasi Berwyn, PA George C.
Werner, Jr.
Peter J. Armenio New York, NY John M. Desmarais
Thomas M. Beason Tallahassee, FL Jennifer L.
Fitzwater
Gregory S. Bernabeo Philadelphia, PA Mark Douglas
Simpson
Barry R. Bess Southfield, MI Barry M.
Rosenbaum
Christopher Don Boutwell Montgomery, AL Rhon E. Jones
John Patrick Briggs El Paso, TX Tom A. Darnold
Mark Gregory Briggs El Paso, TX Hector M.
Zavaleta
Ray R. Brown Anchorage, AK Douglas Pope
Craig William Canetti Fairfax, VA Kenneth Steven
Geller
Carlos Eduardo Cardenas El Paso, TX Joseph
Abraham, Jr.
Linda Yee Chew El Paso, TX Robert Paul Perel
Patricia Barrie Chew El Paso, TX David Wellington
Chew
David Ray Cleveland North Muskegon, Michael Jeffrey
MI Dale
Theresa Conduah New York, NY Larry Currell
Jones
Adam M. Conrad Charlotte, NC Honorable
Clarence
Thomas,
Associate
Justice of the
Supreme Court
James O. Crewse Dallas, TX Theodore Joseph

Riney
Terrence Joseph Cullen Bedford, MA David B. Salmons
Richard Deck El Paso, TX Thomas E.
Stanton
Bridget Benoit Denicola Baton Rouge, LA David Glen
Sanders
Stephen Andrew Dixon New York, NY Paul R. Baier
Stephen C. Dwight Lake Charles, LA David Frank
Dwight
Andrew Zachary Edelstein Los Angeles, CA James Patrick
Clark
Stefani Eisenstat Dallas, TX Theodore Joseph
Riney
Ramona D. Elliott Washington, DC Lisa A. Tracy
Gareth T. Evans Los Angeles, CA James Patrick
Clark
Deborah Lane Fischer El Paso, TX Selena Norah Solis
Mark Daniel Fitzgerald Norfolk, NE Robert Franklin
Bartle
Kathryn A. Kusske Floyd Washington, DC Michael E.
Lackey, Jr.
Alan B. Gadlin New York, NY Susan Axelrod
Timothy Kelso Gilman New York, NY John M. Desmarais
David Straley Givens Wheeling, WV John Tyler
Dinsmore
Scott C. Goebel Boston, MA Marc Gary
Robert Bruce Goss Houston, TX Joe S. Maida
Michael Julian Gottlieb Washington, DC Honorable John
Paul Stevens,
Associate
Justice of the
Supreme Court
Mary Alison Gutierrez El Paso, TX James Michael
Callan
Cori Ann Harbour El Paso, TX Kathleen Salome
Smith
John Hilton Alexandria, VA Glenn Mark
Willard

Seth Alexander Horvath Chicago, IL F. Thomas Hecht

Gerald G. Howard El Paso, TX Selena Norah Solis
Gregory G. Iskander Walnut Creek, CA Henry David
Lederman
Sharon Elizabeth Jacks St. Paul, MN Cathryn Young
Middlebrook
Jay Christopher Johnson Washington, DC Michael E.
Lackey, Jr.
William H. Jones, Jr. Ashland, KY Kimberly Faye
Scott McCann
Christopher Brett Chicago, IL William Lafayette
Kaczynski Smith, Jr.
Jonathon A. Katcher Anchorage, AK Douglas Pope
Linda M. Keller San Diego, CA Kenneth Joseph
Vandevelde
Joseph Timothy Kelliher Washington, DC Stephen L.
Huntoon
Matthew Joseph Kelly Chicago, IL Timothy C. Meece
Deborah A. Knauer Jacksonville, FL Christopher
Lawson Nuland
Cheryl S. Lay-Davis El Paso, TX Selena Norah Solis
William Franklin Lewis, Jr. El Paso, TX Stanley Michael
Serwatka, Jr.
Myer Jack Lipson El Paso, TX H. Keith Myers
Kevin Kosta Marcantel El Paso, TX James Michael
Callan
Rosemary Morales Marin El Paso, TX Selena Norah Solis
Robert Gerard McCoid Wheeling, WV John Joseph
Pizzuti
Gregory Edward McDonald El Paso, TX Robert Davidson
Dinsmoor
John Marshall Miller El Paso, TX Selena Norah Solis
Kyle William Kenneth New York, NY Garland Thomas
Mooney Smith
Leonard Morales El Paso, TX William Robert
Maynard
Richard A. Olivo El Paso, TX Selena Norah Solis
Bruce K. Packard Dallas, TX Theodore Joseph
Riney
John T. Palter Dallas, TX Theodore Joseph

Riney
Cheryl White Patterson Memphis, TN Leo M. Bearman
Paul K. Pearce Dallas, TX Robert Jacob
Davis
Marc D. Powers New York, NY Frederick W.
Chockley
Danny Razo El Paso, TX Selena Norah Solis
Joshua William Brown Philadelphia, PA Collin O’Connor
Richards Udell
Steven S. Richter San Diego, CA G. Dennis Sheehan
Jorge Luis Rivas, Jr. El Paso, TX William Robert
Maynard
Shelly Weatherly Rivas El Paso, TX Selena Norah Solis
Charles Julius Ruhmann, El Paso, TX Selena Norah Solis
IV
Angelica A. Saenz El Paso, TX Selena Norah Solis
Robert C. Scheinfeld New York, NY David M. Cohen
Keven Michael Schulz Three Rivers, TX Harry John
Schulz, Jr.
Adam A. Shulenburger Saint Louis, MO James Paul
Oetken
Kimberly M. J. Sims Dallas, TX Theodore Joseph
Riney
Joshua L. Solomon Boston, MA Barry Shawn
Pollack
Jae Won Song Saratoga, CA Narinder Singh
Banait
Joe A. Spencer, Jr. El Paso, TX Selena Norah Solis
Craig A. Stewart New York, NY Peter L. Zimroth
Mary Stillinger El Paso, TX Thomas A.
Spieczny
Thomas Joseph Sullivan Evergreen Park, Richard L.
IL Neumeier
Ronald E. Temple Norfolk, NE Robert Franklin
Bartle
Todd B. Vetter Norfolk, NE Robert Franklin
Bartle
Celia Azucena Villasenor El Paso, TX Thomas E.
Stanton

Sam Vinson Clinton, IL Claudette P. Miller

Theryn Lee Waggener El Paso, TX Selena Norah Solis
Gretchen Holt Wagner Atlanta, GA Roger Edward
Harris
Stephen Cochran Wallace Birmingham, AL William M.
Dawson, Jr.
Eliot D. Williams New York, NY David M. Cohen
T. Barrett Wood El Paso, TX Selena Norah Solis
Paula Lynn Zecchini Irvine, CA Kara Eve Foster
Cenar
Order in Pending Case

No. 09A356. John Doe #1, et al., Applicants v. Sam Reed, Washington
Secretary of State, et al. Application presented to Justice Kennedy and
by him referred to the Court granted. Order of the United States Court
of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, case Nos. 09–35818, 09–35826, and
09–35863, entered October 15, 2009, is hereby stayed. The September
10, 2009, order of the United States District Court for the Western
District of Washington, case No. C09–5456BHS, granting the motion
for preliminary injunction shall remain in effect pending the timely
filing and disposition of a petition for writ of certiorari. Should the
petition for writ of certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate auto
matically. In the event the petition for writ of certiorari is granted, the
stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this
Court. Justice Stevens would deny the application.
Rehearing Denied
No. 09–5004 (09A338). Mark Howard McClain, Petitioner v. Hilton
Hall, Warden. Application for stay of execution of sentence of death
presented to Justice Thomas and by him referred to the Court denied.
Petition for rehearing denied.
Certiorari Denied
No. 09–7104 (09A363). Mark Howard McClain, Petitioner v. Stephen
Upton, Warden. Application for stay of execution of sentence of death

Petition for writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of Georgia, Butts
County, denied.



No. 09–7210 (09A387). In Re Reginald Blanton, Petitioner. Applica
tion for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice
Scalia and by him referred to the Court denied. Petition for writ of
Certiorari Denied
No. 09–7211 (09A391). Reginald Blanton, Petitioner v. Texas. Appli
cation for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice
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Certiorari—Summary Disposition
No. 09–69. Robert Lewis Norwood, Petitioner v. United States. On

petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals
for the Ninth Circuit. Petition for writ of certiorari granted. Judgment
vacated, and case remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for
the Ninth Circuit for further consideration in light of Melendez-Diaz
v. Massachusetts, 557 U. S. __ (2009).
No. 09A265. Jonathan Giannone, Applicant v. United States. Applica

tion for bail addressed to Justice Sotomayor and referred to the
Court denied.
No. 09M36. Jerome L. Riser, Petitioner v. Department of the Treas
ury. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for writ of certiorari
out of time denied.
No. 09M37. Earnest Lee Burnes, Jr., Petitioner v. United States.
time denied.
No. 09M38. In Re Abdul Hamid Al-Ghizzawi, Petitioner. Motion for
leave to proceed in forma pauperis without an affidavit of indigency
executed by petitioner granted. Motion for leave to file a petition for
writ of habeas corpus under seal granted.
No. 09M39. Nitro Distributing, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Alticor, Inc.,
et al. Motion for leave to file a petition for writ of certiorari under seal
with redacted copies for the public record granted.
No. 09M40. James McCoy, Petitioner v. Robert Ercole, Superintend
ent, Green Haven Correctional Facility. Motion to direct the Clerk to
file a petition for writ of certiorari out of time denied.
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No. 09M41. Richie D. Barnes, Petitioner v. Cassandra Harrison-Belk,

out of time denied.
No. 09M42. Angela Manns, Petitioner v. University of Arkansas
Medical Center, et al. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for
No. 08–861. Free Enterprise Fund and Beckstead and Watts, LLP,
Petitioners v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, et al. Mo
tion of the Solicitor General for divided argument granted.
J. Espinosa. Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in
oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument granted.
No. 08–1322. Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security,
Petitioner v. Catherine G. Ratliff. Motion of the Solicitor General to
dispense with printing the joint appendix granted.
No. 08–1438. Harvey Leroy Sossamon, III, Petitioner v. Texas, et al.
The Solicitor General is invited to file a brief in this case expressing
the views of the United States.
No. 08–1498. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General, et al., Petition
ers v. Humanitarian Law Project, et al.; and
No. 09–89. Humanitarian Law Project, et al., Petitioners v. Eric H.
Holder, Jr., Attorney General, et al. Motion of the parties to amend the
briefing schedule granted. Petitioners in No. 09–89 will file an opening
brief, not to exceed 18,000 words, on or before November 16, 2009.
Petitioners in No. 08–1498 will file a response brief, not to exceed
18,000 words, on or before December 22, 2009. Petitioners in No. 09–89
will file a reply brief, not to exceed 12,000 words, on or before January
21, 2010. Petitioners in No. 08–1498 will file a reply brief, not to exceed
12,000 words, on or before February 12, 2010.
No. 09–34. Pfizer Inc., Petitioner v. Rabi Abdullahi, et al. The Solici
tor General is invited to file a brief in this case expressing the views
of the United States. The Chief Justice and Justice Sotomayor took no
No. 09–109. Gerald William Cardinal, Petitioner v. Linda Metrish,
Warden. The Solicitor General is invited to file a brief in this case
expressing the views of the United States.
No. 09–115. Chamber of Commerce of the United States, et al., Peti
tioners v. Criss Candelaria, et al. The Solicitor General is invited to file
a brief in this case expressing the views of the United States.
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No. 09–5371. Thomas M. McCarthy, Petitioner v. Thomas J. Vilsack,
Secretary of Agriculture, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to pro
ceed in forma pauperis denied. Petitioner allowed until November 23,
2009, within which to pay the docketing fee required by Rule 38(a)
and to submit a petition in compliance with Rule 33.1 of the Rules of
this Court.
No. 09–6083. Henderson R. Pryor, Petitioner v. Alan M. Wolfe, et al.
Petitioner allowed until November 23, 2009, within which to pay the
No. 09–6103. Pierre R. Augustin, Petitioner v. Chase Home Finance
LLC. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis de
nied. Petitioner allowed until November 23, 2009, within which to pay
No. 09–6241. Srinivas V. Vadde, Petitioner v. Georgia. Motion of
allowed until November 23, 2009, within which to pay the docketing
Certiorari Granted
No. 08–998. Jan Hamilton, Chapter 13 Trustee, Petitioner v. Steph

anie Kay Lanning. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit granted limited to the following
question: Whether, in calculating the debtor’s “projected disposable
income” during the plan period, the bankruptcy court may consider
evidence suggesting that the debtor’s income or expenses during that
period are likely to be different from her income or expenses during
the pre-filing period.
No. 08–1457. New Process Steel, L. P., Petitioner v. National Labor
Relations Board. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit granted.
No. 09–223. Richard A. Levin, Tax Commissioner of Ohio, Petitioner
v. Commerce Energy, Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit granted.
Certificate Dismissed
No. 09–166. United States v. James Ford Seale. On certified question

by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Question
certified by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
dismissed. Statement of Justice Stevens, with whom Justice Scalia
joins, respecting dismissal of the certified question.
Certiorari Denied
No. 08–1418. Camille Grosdidier, et al., Petitioners v. Chairman,

Broadcasting Board of Governors. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
denied.
No. 08–10337. Jerry Lynn Bisby, Petitioner v. Richard Crites, As
sistant Warden, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 08–10666. John Yost, Petitioner v. West Virginia. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of West Virginia, Raleigh
County, denied.
No. 08–10723. N. I., Petitioner v. Orange County Social Services
Agency, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of
California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three, denied.
No. 08–10827. Gary Musick, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 08–10845. Oludare Ogunde, Petitioner v. Virginia. Petition for
No. 08–11065. Alfred Anthony Gutierrez, Petitioner v. California.
denied.
No. 09–3. Daewoo Engineering & Construction Co, Ltd., Petitioner
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied.
No. 09–77. Sandra Leticia Martinez-Rodriguez, Petitioner v. Eric H.
No. 09–88. Biltmore Forest Broadcasting FM, Inc., Petitioner v.

No. 09–95. Grenada Stamping and Assembly Inc., Petitioner v. Na
tional Labor Relations Board. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–117. Apotex, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Sanofi-Synthelabo,
No. 09–202. Joseph M. Ward, Petitioner v. Trans Union, LLC. Peti
No. 09–212. Robert H. Lenham, Petitioner v. Disabled American
Veterans, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals
of New Mexico denied.
No. 09–215. Roy A. Raspanti, Petitioner v. Office of Disciplinary
Counsel. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Louisi
ana denied.
No. 09–218. James E. McCrory, Petitioner v. Can Do, Inc., et al.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of Louisiana,
Third Circuit, denied.
No. 09–228. Daniel Gabino Martinez, et ux., Petitioners v. Dordane
Masseri, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals
of New Mexico denied.
No. 09–230. Bacilio A. Amorrortu, Petitioner v. Republic of Peru.
No. 09–236. Vincent M. Ventimiglia, Petitioner v. St. Louis, C.O.G.,
No. 09–237. Isidoro Rodriguez, Petitioner v. United States Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Petition for writ of certio
Circuit denied.
No. 09–246. Bridgeport Roman Catholic Diocesan Corporation,
et al., Petitioners v. The New York Times Company, et al. Petition for
No. 09–248. Mohawk Industries, Inc., Petitioner v. Shirley Williams,
No. 09–251. Elliot S. Saffran, Petitioner v. Novastar Mortgage, Inc.

No. 09–254. American Insurance Company, et al., Petitioners v. As
tenJohnson, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–258. Edward H. Arnold, Petitioner v. KPMG LLP, et al. Peti
No. 09–260. Wayne-Dalton Corporation, Petitioner v. Amarr Com
pany. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
No. 09–262. USI MidAtlantic, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. William A.
Graham Company, dba The Graham Company. Petition for writ of cer
tiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
denied.
No. 09–267. Tawoos Bazargani, Petitioner v. Kenneth Snyder, et al.
No. 09–279. Tommy B. Robertson, Petitioner v. Michigan. Petition
No. 09–282. Grant L. Davis, et al., Petitioners v. Jerome S. Tilzer,
et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Kansas
denied.
No. 09–283. Roger Reeves, Petitioner v. DSI Security Services, et al.
No. 09–284. Independence News, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. City of
Charlotte, North Carolina. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–298. Kenneth L. Blum, Petitioner v. Federal Aviation Admin
istration, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–299. Michigan, Petitioner v. Harrold Emmett Shafier, III.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Michigan denied.
No. 09–320. Robert Chapman, et al., Petitioners v. Michael Law
rence Casner, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States

No. 09–334. Scott A. Heimermann, Petitioner v. Gary R. McCaugh
try, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of
Wisconsin, District IV, denied.
No. 09–336. Rx.com, Inc., Petitioner v. Medco Health Solutions, Inc.,
No. 09–354. Noel Villarreal, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for writ of
No. 09–366. Tristan Curry, Petitioner v. Alaska. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Supreme Court of Alaska denied.
No. 09–378. Vince Akins, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5016. Keith McKenzie Barrett, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5043. Kent E. Hovind, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5070. Rigoberto Avila, Jr., Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–5089. Kennard Gatewood, Petitioner v. T. C. Outlaw, Warden.
No. 09–5144. Billy Ray Risley, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–5164. David Cruz, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5242. Charles Jones, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–5285. Timothy H. Johnson, Petitioner v. Nevada Department
of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme
Court of Nevada denied.
No. 09–5321. Etta M. Collier, Petitioner v. Sears, Roebuck and Com

No. 09–5347. Robert Tharp, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5533. Francisco Castro-Coello, aka Ricardo Molinas, Peti
No. 09–5546. Marcelino Lerma-Velez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5550. Constantino Lopez-Leon, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5589. Edwin Mauricio Erazo-Villatoro, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–5619. Gerald Eldridge, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–5674. John Randall Futch, Petitioner v. Keith Dewey, et al.
No. 09–5714. Ashton R. O’Dwyer, Jr., Petitioner v. John Nelson, Lou
isiana State Trooper, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–5886. Michael W. Owens, Petitioner v. Virginia, et al. Petition
No. 09–5981. Mark Anthony Reed, Petitioner v. Jerry Hofbauer,
No. 09–6009. Damon B. Cook, Petitioner v. Darrel G. Adams, War
No. 09–6036. Louis Robenson, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre

cuit denied.
No. 09–6050. William Roper, Petitioner v. Craig Farwell, Warden,
No. 09–6055. John D. Justice, Petitioner v. Terry King. Petition for
No. 09–6068. Thomas Joseph Cutaia, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition
District, denied.
No. 09–6071. Dale Frank Maisano, Petitioner v. Charles L. Ryan,
cuit denied.
No. 09–6072. Stephen J. Langosh, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–6081. Marc Niceley, Petitioner v. Kentucky. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Kentucky denied.
No. 09–6084. Jeffrey Williams, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Sec
retary, Florida Department of Corrections. Petition for writ of certio
denied.
No. 09–6086. Neil Jason Williams, Petitioner v. Thomas L. McBride,
No. 09–6099. James L. Jones, Petitioner v. James A. Yates, Warden.
No. 09–6102. Sean Kendrick, Petitioner v. Matthew J. Frank, et al.
No. 09–6105. Jerome Borthwell, Petitioner v. Andrew Jackson, War
No. 09–6111. Kevin Smith, aka Royal Blackness, aka Bar None, Peti
tioner v. Jon Ozmint, Director, South Carolina Department of Correc
tions, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–6118. Jimmy Earl Rone, Sr., Petitioner v. Michigan. Petition

for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Michigan denied.
No. 09–6127. Rickey Hawthorne, Petitioner v. Patricia L. Caruso,
Director, Michigan Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Cir
cuit denied.
No. 09–6130. Perry N. Gumbs, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., At
torney General, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied.
No. 09–6132. Reno Fuentes Rios, Petitioner v. Matthew Cate, Secre
tary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al.
No. 09–6134. Elmer Leon Carroll, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6135. Stanford Cain, Petitioner v. Gene M. Johnson, Director,
Virginia Department of Corrections. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–6144. Angel Pedroso, Petitioner v. Louisiana. Petition for
No. 09–6146. Samuel Petro Abraham, Petitioner v. Moses Heine
mann. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied.
No. 09–6147. Allen Jay Amason, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–6148. James Scott, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District,
denied.
No. 09–6149. Adrian Lopez, Petitioner v. David R. McKune, Warden,
No. 09–6153. Gilbert Harris, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–6156. Juan Carlos Chavez, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for

No. 09–6160. Carlos Fleitas, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third Dis
trict, denied.
No. 09–6166. Keith Russell Judd, Petitioner v. New Mexico. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of New Mexico denied.
No. 09–6168. Rory M. Walsh, Petitioner v. United States, et al. Peti
No. 09–6169. Gabriel Theiss, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
trict, denied.
No. 09–6170. Lynne L. Weiser, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–6173. Kristin Himmelberger, Petitioner v. Robert Ayers, Jr.,
No. 09–6177. Jillian L. Brown, Petitioner v. American Institute for
Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–6184. Roderick Davie, Petitioner v. Betty Mitchell, Warden.
No. 09–6185. Annamarie Jones, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Appellate Division, Superior Court of Califor
nia, Modoc County, denied.
No. 09–6194. Michael Doyle, Petitioner v. Bill Ritter, Jr., Governor
of Colorado, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–6197. Terry L. Newman, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
No. 09–6201. Michael Edward Tilton, Petitioner v. Matthew Cate,
Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation,
No. 09–6202. Paris Thomas, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–6203. Lynne Meredith, Petitioner v. Andrew Erath, et al.

No. 09–6204. Dean Grayson, Petitioner v. Robert Stevenson, War
No. 09–6209. Patrick Charles Hannon, Petitioner v. Walter A. Mc-
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6215. Herminio Lopez, Petitioner v. Charlotte Reese Ken
nedy, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–6216. Larry Martin, Petitioner v. California. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate
District, Division Two, denied.
No. 09–6225. Roger M. Blakeney, Petitioner v. Gerald J. Branker,
No. 09–6226. Kendra Dawn Bernard, Petitioner v. California. Peti
No. 09–6227. Thomas Harley, Petitioner v. Doctor Beioh, et al. Peti
No. 09–6236. John W. Hearne, Petitioner v. Keith Davis, Warden.
No. 09–6237. S. B., et ux., Petitioners v. J. L. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Missouri, Southern District,
denied.
No. 09–6244. Jason Latrell Thomas, Petitioner v. Robert Horel, War
No. 09–6248. Norman Brown, Petitioner v. Samano. Petition for writ
cuit denied.
No. 09–6249. Matthew Ansel, Petitioner v. Superior Court of Cali
fornia, Sacramento County, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the

No. 09–6250. Oludayo Ashipa, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Hamilton County, denied.
No. 09–6256. Eric Jon Wick, Petitioner v. Kathleen Prosper, Warden.
No. 09–6257. Damone E. Flowers, Petitioner v. Perry Phelps, War
No. 09–6258. Charles C. Graham, Petitioner v. Missouri. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Missouri, Western
District, denied.
No. 09–6261. Richard Wayne Taylor, Petitioner v. Minnesota. Peti
No. 09–6265. Richard Blie, Petitioner v. Dale Artus, Superintendent,
Clinton Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–6266. Gregory Hardy, Petitioner v. Willie O. Smith, Warden.
No. 09–6267. Juarez Bibbs, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–6270. Bryan Davis, Sr., Petitioner v. M. Knowles, et al. Peti
No. 09–6272. Glenn Carter, Petitioner v. Donald Gaetz, Warden.
No. 09–6274. John Alan Miller, Petitioner v. South Carolina Depart
ment of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services. Petition for writ of
cuit denied.
No. 09–6276. David P. Perez, Petitioner v. Colorado. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Colorado denied.
No. 09–6281. Henry J. LaFavors, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,

Circuit denied.
No. 09–6282. Rodney Derrickson, Petitioner v. District Attorney of
Delaware County, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–6283. Michael Andre Artis, Petitioner v. Newport News
Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–6285. Alexander Brown, Petitioner v. City of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–6294. Cleveland Cox, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–6297. J. M. B., Petitioner v. New Jersey. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Supreme Court of New Jersey denied.
No. 09–6299. Mario Flavio Garcia, Petitioner v. California. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, Third Appel
No. 09–6304. Richard R. Snow, Petitioner v. Kansas. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Kansas denied.
No. 09–6311. Michael Mendez, Petitioner v. Mike Knowles, Warden.
No. 09–6339. Brian Jaffe Lewis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
Federal Circuit denied.
No. 09–6341. Cargyle S., Petitioner v. Prince George’s County Child
Protective Services. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Ap
peals of Maryland denied.
No. 09–6363. Gary Armstrong, Petitioner v. John Kerestes, Super
intendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6378. Michael Hutchinson, Petitioner v. Maine. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine denied.
No. 09–6396. Ryan Gabriel Garcell, Petitioner v. North Carolina.
lina denied.

No. 09–6417. Arthur Lee Smith, Jr., Petitioner v. Henry Richards.
No. 09–6420. Michael DeNictolis, et al., Petitioners v. Harold W.
Clarke, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Correction. Peti
No. 09–6436. Dwayne Almond, Petitioner v. William Pollard, War
No. 09–6437. Gary Yoder, Petitioner v. Janice K. Brewer, Governor
of Arizona, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–6440. Enrique Roberto Perez Gonzalez, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6449. Kevin Williams, aka Kirby Stewart, Petitioner v. Ger
ald L. Rozum, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Som
erset, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–6512. James E. Smith, Petitioner v. Douglas Weber, Warden.
No. 09–6527. Danny L. Ball, Petitioner v. Robert Houston, Warden.
No. 09–6535. Phillip Peterson, Petitioner v. Ernest C. Roe, Warden.
No. 09–6537. Tyron Taylor, Petitioner v. James D. Purkett, Super
intendent, Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center.
No. 09–6540. Johnny Lee Asbell, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6552. Jela D. Jones, Petitioner v. Terry Carlson, Warden.
No. 09–6558. Robert J. Ellis, Petitioner v. Bobby Shearin, Warden,

No. 09–6562. Calvin Elizares, Petitioner v. Todd Thomas, Warden,
No. 09–6572. Theresa Wheeler, Petitioner v. Courtney Miller. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Maryland denied.
No. 09–6574. Willie E. Boyd, Petitioner v. W. Audie Sherrod, War
No. 09–6576. Kimberly Albright-Lazzari, et vir, Petitioners v. Con
necticut. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Appellate Court of Con
necticut denied.
No. 09–6581. David Alberto Corral, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6584. Melvin Bowman, Petitioner v. Colorado. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Colorado denied.
No. 09–6601. Adam Trotter, Petitioner v. Robert M. Gates, Secre
tary of Defense. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–6604. Deonta Evans, aka Tay, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6607. Gerald Lynn Campbell, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6608. Ulises Cao, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–6626. William Currie, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6635. Dana P. Morse, Petitioner v. Maine. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Cir
cuit denied.

No. 09–6638. Ewan Bryce, Petitioner v. Ricardo Martinez, Warden.
No. 09–6640. Roderick Walker, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6643. Clyde McGhee, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6644. Luis Vazquez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6646. Felix Walls, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6652. Herdel Ricardo Daubon, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6653. Martin Leonard Dolamore, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6655. Julian Deleon Monroe, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6656. James Jeffrey Duncan, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6657. Larry W. Doublin, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6660. Guillermo Morales-Pitones, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6661. Paul Yates, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6663. Melvin Slinger, Petitioner v. Charles L. Ryan, Director,
Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–6667. Marcus Tarin Ellis, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–6668. Moises Valle Mercado, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6670. Jose Guadalupe Carrillo-Palacios, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6671. Sean Croto, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6678. Demond Jerrah Hardimon, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6680. Rosemary Huber, Petitioner v. United States Parole
Commission. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–6681. Derick Devun Haynes, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6685. Ramon Blanco, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–6687. Tony M. Carter, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6688. Lupe Martinez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6691. Wilder Arley Saldarriaga-Palacio, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6700. Jose Santana, Petitioner v. Travis Trani, Warden, et al.
No. 09–6702. Eric C. Burgie, Petitioner v. Arkansas. Petition for

No. 09–6704. John Lezell Balentine, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
No. 09–6705. Jimmy Wagoner, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6706. R. T., Petitioner v. N. G. S. C., et al. Petition for writ
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6710. Russell Robinson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6713. Gary Don Simek, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6714. Michael Suitt, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6717. Robert Earl Johnson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6719. William Delawrence Lewis, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6720. Wade Knight, Petitioner v. Jonathan Kaminski, et al.
No. 09–6722. Maria Ortiz, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–6725. Dale Willis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6727. Mark Scaife, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6728. Romelle Monte Surratt, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6731. Brian Dodds, aka Horace B. Wilson, Petitioner v.

of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit denied.
No. 09–6736. Jorge Aronja-Inda, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6737. Juan Arellano-Ochos, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6739. David Keen, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secretary,
Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–6743. Joseph Lee Holmes, Jr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6745. Fernando Gonzalez-Ramirez, aka Fernando, Petitioner
No. 09–6746. David Mayle, Petitioner v. Carolyn A. Sabol, Warden.
No. 09–6747. Benito Martinez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6749. Phillip Nash, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6753. Reginald Young, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6757. Crispin Jimenez-Alvarado, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6759. Timothy Dewayne Kinchion, Sr., Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6762. Darrell Burney, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–6763. Antonio Dontez Scott, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6766. Chinedu Leonard Momah, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6770. Nathaniel Hurt, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6778. Leonel Martin Gutierrez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6779. Armando Garcia, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6781. Jeff Jean-Charles, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6783. Calvin Maurice Boyd, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6787. Ramon Brito, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6799. Zachary P. Barian, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6800. Daniel W. Brewer, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
Armed Forces denied.
No. 09–6804. Wali Hamani, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6807. Kevin Chung, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–6808. Carlton Rama Coltrane, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6809. Refugio Javier De La Garza-Valles, Petitioner v.

No. 09–6810. Luis Celedon, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6813. Speck Aron Ross, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6814. William Rinick, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6815. Terry L. Brown, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6816. Preston Jones, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6819. Cosme Sanchez-Ramirez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6820. Eugene Warfield, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6824. Eric Humbert, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6827. Sundeep Dharni, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6831. Gustavo Lacen-Berrios, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6837. Sealed Petitioner, Petitioner v. United States; and
No. 09–6838. Sealed Petitioners, Petitioners v. United States. Peti

No. 09–6840. Ravel S. Carney, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6841. Gary Roberson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6844. Vernon Brooks, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6847. Moises Ramirez Reyna, aka Moi, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6856. Otis Lee Blanks, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6859. Demetrius Brown, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6860. Pedro Alejandre-Alcaraz, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6869. Maurice Morris, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6872. Felipe Raymond Vigil, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6873. Luis Fernando Montoya-Carmona, Petitioner v. United
No. 08–1415. Joseph J. Filebark, II, et al., Petitioners v. Department
of Transportation, et al. Motion of National Treasury Employees
Union, et al., for leave to file a brief as amici curiae out of time
No. 08–10169. Marcos Ortiz, aka Marcos Lopez Ortiz, Petitioner v.
Rick Thaler, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correc
tional Institutions Division, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to pro
ceed in forma pauperis denied, and petition for writ of certiorari to
the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dismissed.
See Rule 39.8.
No. 08–10844. Richard L. Norton, Petitioner v. Officer Norris, et al.
for the Sixth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 08–10942. James I. Tibbs, Petitioner v. William McWhorter,
No. 08–10982. Yasin Muhammed Basardh, Petitioner v. Robert M.
Gates, Secretary of Defense, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari before
judgment to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit denied.
No. 08–11023. Gary Lee Wheeler, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Motion of peti
enth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–28. Jack E. Easterday, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
Ninth Circuit denied. Justice Breyer took no part in the consideration
or decision of this petition.
No. 09–49. Pavel Ivanovich Lazarenko, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–74. Keith Smith, Warden, Petitioner v. Maurice A. Mason.
No. 09–104. Ad Hoc Committee of Kenton County Bondholders, Peti
tioner v. Delta Air Lines, Inc., et al. Motion of Professor George W.
Kuney for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted. Petition for
decision of this motion and this petition.
No. 09–141. Julie M. Bennett, Petitioner v. Verizon Wireless. Peti

No. 09–188. Joseph V. Fisher, Petitioner v. The Penn Traffic Com
pany, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–216. Walter A. McNeil, Secretary, Florida Department of
Corrections, et al., Petitioners v. Mark James Asay. Motion of respond
ent for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Petition for writ
Circuit denied.
No. 09–234. Walter A. McNeil, Secretary, Florida Department of
Corrections, Petitioner v. William Greg Thomas. Motion of respondent
cuit denied.
No. 09–261. Dessie Wubayeh, et al., Petitioners v. City of New York,
No. 09–321. Allen B. Gottlieb, Petitioner v. Securities and Exchange
No. 09–5377. Clyde Piggie, Petitioner v. Amanda Robertson, et al.
for the Seventh Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–5437. Byron Elroy Crutcher, Petitioner v. United States Dis
trict Court for the District of Nevada. Motion of petitioner for leave to
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit dismissed.
See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–5577. Bernard Ray Richardson, Petitioner v. Gene M. John
son, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections. Motion of petitioner
certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
No. 09–5591. James Ishmael Tibbs, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
Division. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis

denied, and petition for writ of certiorari to the Fifth Circuit dismissed.
See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–6075. Carlos Savinon, Petitioner v. Sibatu Khahaifa, Super
intendent, Orleans Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of certiorari
this petition.
No. 09–6192. David Harrell, Petitioner v. United States. Motion of
Eleventh Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner has repeatedly
No. 09–6224. Vincent Basciano, Petitioner v. Jerry Martinez, War
No. 09–6228. Joseph Macastle Jackson, Petitioner v. Greg Province,
No. 09–6234. Mary Leandra Cluck, Petitioner v. Washington. Motion
tion for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Washington dis
No. 09–6536. Toufic Badih Naddi, Petitioner v. Robert J. Hernandez,
Warden, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pau
No. 09–6647. Hasan Simmons, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6675. John Leon Noster, Petitioner v. United States. Motion
of petitioner to defer consideration of the petition for writ of certiorari

denied. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–6684. Gregory T. Howard, Petitioner v. United States Dis
trict Court for the Southern District of Ohio, et al. Motion of petitioner
certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–6817. Victor Martinez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6825. James Charles Kopp, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6858. Marvin Anderson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–6773. In Re Colleen Fullerblack, Petitioner;
No. 09–6802. In Re Paul Grinker, Petitioner;
No. 09–6899. In Re Leroy Singleton, Petitioner; and
No. 09–6980. In Re Gerald Lester, Petitioner. Petitions for writs of
Mandamus Denied
No. 09–6157. In Re Charles McCorvey, Petitioner;
No. 09–6268. In Re Roosevelt Carter, Petitioner;
No. 09–6434. In Re Tommie H. Telfair, Petitioner; and
No. 09–6776. In Re Daniel Garraud, Petitioner. Petitions for writs
of mandamus denied.
No. 08–10694. In Re Julian Rochester, Petitioner. Motion of peti
writ of mandamus dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–5102. In Re Gary Lee Wheeler, Petitioner. Motion of peti
writ of mandamus and/or prohibition dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–5226. In Re Rudi Rivas, Petitioner. Petition for writ of man

damus denied. Justice Sotomayor took no part in the consideration or
No. 09–6188. In Re Charles Willie Alpine, Petitioner. Motion of peti
Prohibition Denied
No. 09–6435. In Re Tommie H. Telfair, Petitioner. Petition for writ

of prohibition denied.

Gregg McLean Adam San Francisco, CA Ronald Yank

Marco E. Adelfio Washington, DC Christopher
Edward Palmer
Jonathan Franklin Andres St. Louis, MO Martin M. Green
Jamal A. Asafi Houston, TX Ralph Ramiro
Martinez
Kathryn Hope Padfield Austin, TX Earl Leroy
Baffes Yeakel, III
Erika Ellertson Barnes Fairfax, VA Karen Leslie
Morris
James R. Barney Washington, DC Michael A. Morin
Dorothy E. Bourassa Boston, MA Terrence Joseph
Cullen
Bradley S. Bridge Philadelphia, PA John W. Packel
Benjamin D. Brown Washington, DC Richard Adam
Koffman
J. Robert Brown, Jr. Denver, CO Daniel L. Goelzer
Joshua F. Brown Carmel, IN George Thomas
Patton, Jr.
Robert J. Butler Washington, DC H. Jason Gold
A. Keith Campbell Jupiter, FL Edward Fortune
McHale
Kelly W. Case Houston, TX William Troy
McKinney
Lisa L. Casey South Bend, IN Joseph P. Bauer
Luis Alberto Corchado Denver, CO Judge Kenneth L.
Salazar

Christopher James Cormier Washington, DC Richard Adam

Koffman
Tina Marie Cundari Columbia, SC Jean Hoefer Toal
Dieter C. Dammeier Upland, CA Michael Andrew
McGill
Damon J. Davis Grand Junction, J. Keith Killian
CO
Karin A. DeMasi New York, NY Robert H. Baron
Pamela Seider Dolgow New York, NY John Hogrogian
Thomas Walter Dymek Philadelphia, PA Jonathan F. Bloom
James Lewis Eggeman Washington, DC Karen Leslie
Morris
Nathan H. Elmore Jackson, MS William B.
Kirksey
Samuel Thomas Field Kalamazoo, MI James B. Ford
Habbo G. Fokkena Clarksville, IA Michael E.
Ridgway
Linda Debra Friedman Chicago, IL Thomas E.
Johnson
Thomas Peter Giuffra New York, NY Robert J. Giuffra
Melissa Goodman Brooklyn, NY Christopher A.
Hansen
Marc J. Gottridge New York, NY Pieter H. B. Van
Tol
Tiffany Lynn Grant Denver, CO Frederick W. Ganz
Robert M. Grass New York, NY Richard Arthur
DeSevo
Robert Brooks Hamilton Dallas, TX David C.
Frederick
Laurie J. Hepler San Francisco, CA Ronald Yank
Garrett J. Horn Yankton, SD David Dean Knoff
Samuel David Hough Rio Rancho, NM Randolph Henry
Barnhouse
Thomas J. Innes, III Philadelphia, PA Marsha Levick
Natalie Cara Jacobs Flagstaff, AZ Thomas Alvin
Jacobs
Joseph W. Jacquot Tallahassee, FL Robert Alexander
Hannah
Steven Alan Kanner Highland Park, IL Michael J. Freed
George Andreas Kimbrell Washington, DC Allison Michelle

LaPlante
Elaine Martin Kneebone Arkadelphia, AR Floyd Thomas
Curry
Alex Kreit San Diego, CA Steven Semeraro
Ira S. Lazarus Palm Beach Ellen Michelle
Gardens, FL Lazarus
Teresa Li-Sien Lee Potomac, MD Scott Block
Wilkens
Travis Dean Lenkner Arlington, VA Honorable
Anthony M.
Kennedy,
Associate
Justice of the
Supreme Court
Sara Hardner Leon Austin, TX Blake Glynn
Powell
Natalie Leonard San Francisco, CA Ronald Yank
Leonard G. Leverson Milwaukee, WI Michael Fischer
Steven I. Lewbel New York, NY Louis G. Adolfsen
Daniel Munro Lindsay Davis, CA Ronald Yank
Joshua Seth Lipshutz San Francisco, CA Honorable
Antonin Scalia,
Associate
Justice of the
Supreme Court
David Marlborough Lynch Wickliffe, OH Robert Troll
Lynch
Gonzalo C. Martinez, Jr. San Francisco, CA Ronald Yank
Nicole C. H. Massey Chicago, IL Brian Joseph
Murray
Paul J. Mattern Phoenix, AZ John J. Trebon
Jonathan McKey Milling Columbia, SC John McKey
Milling
Brady Warfield Mills Washington, DC Charles A.
Hunnicutt
Neil B. Mooney Tallahassee, FL Karen A. Gievers
Charles Christopher Moore Washington, DC Eric Grannon
Christopher F. Morales San Francisco, CA Kevin L. Von
Tungeln

Charles Morgan Boston, MA Marc Gary

Sean M. Murphy New York, NY James N. Benedict
Larry L. Murray Baton Rouge, LA J. Michael
Cutshaw
Douglas R. Nemec New York, NY Edward V. Filardi
Elizabeth Ann Niemeyer Washington, DC Edward Robert
Yoches
Michael V. O’Shaughnessy Washington, DC John Michael
Jakes
Mark Charles Palmer Champaign, IL Joseph Patrick
Chamley
Ellen Maria Papadakis San Francisco, CA Michael Christian
Hallerud
Christen C. Paquin Dallas, TX Robert Jacob
Davis
Eric S. Parnes Washington, DC William R. Stein
Sean F. Perrin Charlotte, NC Jimmy D. Cooley
David C. Raphael, Jr. Alexandria, LA David Peter Smith
Douglas L. Rappaport San Francisco, CA John A. Hinman
Gregory Evans Robinson Irvine, CA Milan Dale
Smith, Jr.
Jeffrey Adams Robinson Irvine, CA Milan Dale
Smith, Jr.
Lee M. Rogers, Jr. Roswell, NM Robert Earl Sabin
William J. F. Roll, III New York, NY Stephen James
Marzen
Ronald S. Safer Chicago, IL Patricia Brown
Holmes
Rebecca Lynn Saitta McLean, VA H. Jason Gold
Peter Schneider Houston, TX Ralph Denneth
McBride
Dveera Segal Philadelphia, PA Louis S. Rulli
Ross Edward Shacklette Bossier City, LA John Zachary
Blanchard, Jr.
Michael Anthony Slavin Palm Beach Edward Fortune
Gardens, FL McHale
Barbara M. Smith-Duer Roswell, NM Robert Earl Sabin
Carl J. Spagnuolo Palm Beach Edward Fortune
Gardens, FL McHale
Robert Lee Stone, II Chicago, IL Robert Harlan

Henry
Kelly Elizabeth Street Raleigh, NC Joseph W.
Williford
Brian Michael Taillon Palm Beach Edward Fortune
Gardens, FL McHale
Kathryn Elizabeth Tarbert Washington, DC Heath Price
Tarbert
Michelle Marie Thomson San Francisco, CA Philip James
Smith
Laurance Browning Lexington, KY Roy Burl
VanMeter McCoy, Jr.
Michael Anthony Waryasz Boston, MA Murray Allan
Kohn
Lacy Elaine Wilber Nashville, TN Rachel West
Harmon
Sandra Lynn Wright Shelby Township, Anthony Thomas
MI Sheehan
Steven A. Wright Shelby Township, Anthony Thomas
MI Sheehan
David Joel Zelner Chicago, IL Edward Fortune
McHale
Jon Bradford Felice New York, NY Cynthia June

Rapp
Michael Tze-Yee Yu San Diego, CA Steven R. Smith
Daniel G. Bird Washington, DC David C.
Frederick
Raymond Amoroso, III Stamford, CT Hilary B. Miller
Cortney Erin Lollar Atlanta, GA Richard McKewen
John Nicholas Vingelli Phoenix, AZ William M.
Fischbach, III
Linda E. Lu Glenview, IL Christopher
Landau
Florie Shertzer Perellis Lake Forest, IL Christopher
Landau
Colleen M. Reid Arlington Christopher
Heights, IL Landau

Nicholas C. De Santis, III Cleveland, OH Geoffrey

Simonson
Mearns
Ronald Lawrence Frey, II Cleveland, OH Geoffrey
Simonson
Mearns
Siegmund Fred Fuchs Cleveland, OH Geoffrey
Simonson
Mearns
Linda Lee Johnson Cleveland, OH Geoffrey
Simonson
Mearns
Robert A. Poklar Cleveland, OH Geoffrey
Simonson
Mearns
Rhonda Jeanne Porter Cleveland, OH Geoffrey
Simonson
Mearns
Weldon Hall Rice Cleveland, OH Geoffrey
Simonson
Mearns
Peter Alan Sackett Lakewood, OH Geoffrey
Simonson
Mearns
Nancy C. Schuster Cleveland, OH Geoffrey
Simonson
Mearns
Louis A. Vitantonio, Jr. Independence, OH Geoffrey
Simonson
Mearns
Deborah Weiqing Yue Cleveland, OH Geoffrey
Simonson
Mearns
Oral Arguments
L.P. Argued by Mr. David C. Frederick for the petitioners, by
Mr. Curtis E. Gannon for the United States as amicus curiae, by spe
cial leave of the Court, supporting the petitioners, and by Mr. John D.
Donovan, Jr. for the respondent.
No. 08–1008. Shady Grove Orthopedic Associates, P.A., Petitioner v.

Allstate Insurance Company. Argued by Mr. Scott L. Nelson for the
petitioner and by Mr. Christopher Landau for the respondent.
of Corrections, et al., Petitioners v. Joseph J. Kindler. Argued by
Mr. Ronald Eisenberg for the petitioners and by Mr. Matthew C.
Lawry for the respondent. Justice Alito recused.
Adjourned until Tuesday, November 3, 2009, at 10 o’clock.

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Sally-Anne M. Cleveland Fairfax Station, Raymond W.

VA Kaselonis, Jr.
Christopher Simon Elmore La Plata, MD Blake Charles
Barnes
Michael Bradley Ray Fairfax Station, Robert Greene
VA Sterne
Lauren S. Darty Birmingham, AL Victoria Davis
Lockard
Lea Richmond, IV Birmingham, AL Victoria Davis
Lockard
Gregory Scott Rich Denver, CO Victoria Davis
Lockard
Anna Aven Sumner Atlanta, GA Victoria Davis
Lockard
Cara Dyonne Edwards New York, NY Victoria Davis
Lockard
Joseph Maron Hanna Buffalo, NY Victoria Davis
Lockard
Andrew N. Cole Columbia, SC Victoria Davis
Lockard
Rebecca Sayrd Herbig Richmond, VA Victoria Davis
Lockard
Melissa Roberts Tannery Richmond, VA Victoria Davis
Lockard
Oral Arguments

Public Utilities Commission, et al. Argued by Mr. Jeffrey A. Lamken
for the petitioners, by Mr. Eric D. Miller for the respondent Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, supporting the petitioners, and by
Mr. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal for the respondents.
276 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2009
No. 08–538. William G. Schwab, Petitioner v. Nadejda Reilly. Argued

by Mr. Craig Goldblatt for the petitioner, by Mr. Jeffrey B. Wall for
the United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court,
supporting the petitioner, and by Mr. G. Eric Brunstad, Jr. for the
respondent.
of New York, New York. Argued by Mr. Randolph H. Barnhouse for the
petitioners and by Mr. Leonard J. Koerner for the respondent. Justice
Sotomayor recused.
Adjourned until Wednesday, November 4, 2009, at 10 o’clock.

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Pamela Lynn Casey Snead, AL Corey Landon

Maze
William H. Jones Chicago, IL Larissa A.
McCalla
Peter M. King Chicago, IL Larissa A.
McCalla
Rebecca Emily Day Washington, DC Calvin Marc
Lederer
Robert Matthew Pirone Norfolk, VA Calvin Marc
Lederer
Joseph Edward Kramek Washington, DC Calvin Marc
Lederer
Gedety N. Serralta Washington, DC Calvin Marc
Lederer
Amber Shell Ward Washington, DC Calvin Marc
Lederer
Lorna Jacqueline Jerome Washington, DC Calvin Marc
Lederer
Eric John Lobsinger Washington, DC Calvin Marc
Lederer
Jeffrey Robert Bray Washington, DC Calvin Marc
Lederer
Sanders Middleton Moody Annandale, VA Calvin Marc
Lederer
Hillard M. Abroms Columbus, OH Jack A.
Guttenberg
Stacy Abroms Bandler Columbus, OH Jack A.
Guttenberg
Brian William Benbow Zanesville, OH Jack A.
Guttenberg
Lewis J. Dolezal, Jr. Cleveland, OH Jack A.
Guttenberg
278 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2009
Marc Steven Helouin Mason, OH Jack A.

Guttenberg
Keith Wayne Hinze Columbus, OH Jack A.
Guttenberg
Mark George Kafantaris Columbus, OH Jack A.
Guttenberg
James Joseph Kohanek Chevy Chase, MD Jack A.
Guttenberg
Jessica Anne Mager Columbus, OH Jack A.
Guttenberg
Alise Meredith Price Westerville, OH Jack A.
Guttenberg
Nancy Ann Rickson Lancaster, OH Jack A.
Guttenberg
George Michael Wolfe Columbus, OH Jack A.
Guttenberg
Oral Arguments
No. 08–1065. Pottawattamie County, Iowa, et al., Petitioners v. Cur
tis W. McGhee, Jr., et al. Argued by Mr. Stephen Sanders, pro hac vice,
by special leave of the Court, for the petitioners, by Mr. Neil K. Katyal
supporting the petitioners, and by Mr. Paul D. Clement for the
respondents.
No. 08–9156. Holly Wood, Petitioner v. Richard F. Allen, Commis
sioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Argued by
Mr. Kerry A. Scanlon for the petitioner and by Mr. Solicitor General
Corey L. Maze for the respondents.

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No. 09–7379 (09A431). In Re Khristian Oliver, Petitioner. Applica


Opinion Per Curiam

No. 09–144. David Bobby, Warden, Petitioner v. Robert J. Van Hook.
On petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals
for the Sixth Circuit. Motion of respondent for leave to proceed
in forma pauperis and petition for writ of certiorari granted. Judg
ment reversed, and case remanded to the United States Court of Ap
peals for the Sixth Circuit for further proceedings consistent with the
opinion of this Court. Concurring opinion by Justice Alito.

No. 09M44. Audrey Randolph, Petitioner v. Ann Cole. Motion to di
rect the Clerk to file a petition for writ of certiorari out of time denied.
No. 09M45. Sylvester J. Hoffart, Petitioner v. Bob Herman, et al.
Motion for leave to proceed as a veteran denied.
North Carolina. Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate
in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument granted.
Motion of the parties for enlargement of time for oral argument
granted and the time is allocated as follows: 30 minutes for plaintiffs,
10 minutes for the Solicitor General, 40 minutes for defendant, and 10
minutes for plaintiffs.
No. 08–240. Mac’s Shell Service, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Shell Oil
Products Company LLC, et al.; and
No. 08–372. Shell Oil Products Company LLC, et al., Petitioners v.
Mac’s Shell Service, Inc., et al. Motion of the Solicitor General for leave
to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argu
ment granted.
No. 08–304. Graham County Soil and Water Conservation District,
et al., Petitioners v. United States, ex rel. Karen T. Wilson. Motion of
the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as ami

cus curiae and for divided argument granted.
No. 08–905. Merck & Co., Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Richard Rey
nolds, et al. Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in
No. 08–1175. Florida, Petitioner v. Kevin Dewayne Powell. Motion
of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as
amicus curiae and for divided argument granted.
No. 08–1214. Granite Rock Company, Petitioner v. International
Brotherhood of Teamsters, et al. Motion of respondents for divided
argument granted.
No. 09–400. Vincent E. Staub, Petitioner v. Proctor Hospital. The
Solicitor General is invited to file a brief in this case expressing the
views of the United States.
No. 09–5096. Gregory T. Howard, Petitioner v. Industrial Commis
sion of Ohio, et al. Motion of petitioner for reconsideration of order
denying leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied.
No. 09–5856. Theodore Wagner, Petitioner v. United States. Motion
No. 09–6154. In Re Kevin Millen, Petitioner. Motion of petitioner
for reconsideration of order denying leave to proceed in forma pau
peris denied.
Certiorari Denied
No. 08–1413. Dennis J. Laroche, Petitioner v. Eric K. Shinseki, Sec
No. 08–1500. Federal Express Corporation, Petitioner v. Equal Em
ployment Opportunity Commission. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 08–1507. Terry L. Meier, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–1595. Steven Manning, Petitioner v. United States, et al.
No. 08–10454. Judy Knox and Eliezer Cintron, Petitioners v. New
York. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of New
York denied.

No. 09–162. Michael James Perry, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–168. Milvertha Pinnick, et al., Petitioners v. Corboy & Deme
trio, P.C., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of
Illinois denied.
No. 09–201. Simplicity Manufacturing, Inc., Petitioner v. Wayne Ber
rier, et ux. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–235. Macerich Management Company, et al., Petitioners v.
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America Local 586,
No. 09–278. Jose A. Rivas, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for writ of
No. 09–292. Anthony Martini, Petitioner v. Godaddy.com Inc., et al.
No. 09–300. Robin L. Avery, Petitioner v. First Resolution Manage
ment Corporation, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–311. HCA Health Services of Oklahoma, Inc., dba OU Medi
cal Center, dba Children’s Hospital, et al., Petitioners v. Nathan Shinn,
a Minor, By and Through His Parents, Brittany Shinn, et vir. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Civil Appeals of Oklahoma, Second
Division, denied.
No. 09–361. Jay Pirincci, Petitioner v. United Parcel Service. Peti
No. 09–371. Michael S. Hutzler, Petitioner v. West Virginia. Petition
ginia denied.
No. 09–387. Anthony T. Davis, Petitioner v. Ben Curry, Warden.
No. 09–390. Stan Laber, Petitioner v. Pete Geren, Secretary of the
Army. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–408. Willie Pole, Petitioner v. Austin Randolph, Acting War

No. 09–413. Jimmy Richard Husband, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–414. Michael E. Hennessy, et ux., Petitioners v. Commis
sioner of Internal Revenue. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–422. Patrick Murtagh, Petitioner v. Commissioner of Internal
Revenue. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–425. Every Penny Counts, Inc., Petitioner v. American Ex
press Company, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–5168. Juan Delgado, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5267. Jerry Thomas Bunyard, Petitioner v. California. Peti
No. 09–5421. Shawn L. Hawkins, Petitioner v. Ralph Coyle, Warden.
No. 09–5598. Anderson Sheldon Hazelwood, Petitioner v. North Car
olina. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of North
Carolina denied.
No. 09–6307. Adam W. Sharpe, Petitioner v. David L. Runnels, War
No. 09–6308. James Henry Stone, Sr., Petitioner v. Texas. Petition
No. 09–6309. Alexander Spillman, Petitioner v. New York. Petition
No. 09–6318. Thomas J. Lowery, Petitioner v. Utah, et al. Petition

No. 09–6319. Richard Lopez, Petitioner v. Gail Lewis, Warden. Peti
No. 09–6328. F. Joe Yeager, Petitioner v. City of San Diego, Califor
nia, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–6334. Terry Michael Dalton, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
denied.
No. 09–6344. Darius Mark Kimbrough, Petitioner v. Walter A. Mc-
No. 09–6345. Ledell Lee, Petitioner v. Arkansas. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Supreme Court of Arkansas denied.
No. 09–6351. Christopher A. Byrd, Petitioner v. North Carolina.
lina denied.
No. 09–6352. Cleveland Bynum, Petitioner v. Mark Levenhagen,
Superintendent, Indiana State Prison. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit denied.
No. 09–6353. Craig L. Atkins, Petitioner v. Seetha Vadlamudi, et al.
No. 09–6362. Irvin Brooks, Petitioner v. Cornel Hubert, Warden.
No. 09–6365. Drake L. Stafford, Petitioner v. Michael J. Astrue,
Commissioner of Social Security. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–6366. Jeanette B. Seaman, Petitioner v. Michael J. Astrue,
No. 09–6391. Peter John Rodriguez, Petitioner v. Mike Evans, War
No. 09–6416. Morris Rodgers, Petitioner v. Anthony Hedgpeth,
No. 09–6461. Juan Rodriguez-Montelvo, Petitioner v. United States;

and Miguel Mendez-Monroy, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6470. Albert Lee Evans, Petitioner v. Leroy Cartledge, War
No. 09–6497. Cruz Alfredo-Cardenas, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6509. Yusef Latee Williams, Petitioner v. Michael Thurmer,
No. 09–6510. Arthur R. Robinson, Petitioner v. Burl Cain, Warden,
No. 09–6557. Randy Odean Daniels, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–6560. Robin W. Eisenhauer, Petitioner v. Texas Department
of Transportation, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of
Appeals of Texas, Second District, denied.
No. 09–6575. Gregory Dwight Bowman, Petitioner v. Tennessee.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Ten
nessee, Eastern Division, denied.
No. 09–6603. Otha Eric Townsend, Petitioner v. Minnesota. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Minnesota denied.
No. 09–6606. Peter Lavell Moore, Petitioner v. Virginia. Petition for
No. 09–6624. Marc Norfleet, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–6637. Bertha L. Cummings, Petitioner v. Eddie N. Moore, Jr.,
No. 09–6648. Arioste Moncion, Petitioner v. Mike Power, Adminis
trator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied.
No. 09–6694. Darnell Eugene Ross, Petitioner v. Virginia. Petition

No. 09–6730. Israel Cruz, aka Najeiza Cruz, aka Mananitas, Peti
tioner v. United States;
No. 09–6821. Armando Prudente, Petitioner v. United States; and
No. 09–6912. Jorge Flores, Petitioner v. United States. Petitions for
writs of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Elev
No. 09–6744. Joan Heffington, Individually and on Behalf of Mark
W. Heffington, Deceased, Petitioner v. George W. Bush, former Presi
dent of the United States, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–6767. Allison Lamont Norman, Petitioner v. Delaware. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Delaware denied.
No. 09–6777. Susan Herbert, Petitioner v. United States, et al. Peti
No. 09–6790. Gary William Holt, Petitioner v. Barack H. Obama,
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6801. Ricky Hernandez, Petitioner v. Donald Gaetz, Warden.
No. 09–6833. Craig L. Poindexter, Petitioner v. Aristedes W. Za
vares, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al.
No. 09–6849. John Doe and Jane Doe, Petitioners v. United States.
No. 09–6853. Maynard Michael Old Chief, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6863. Sherman Johnson, Petitioner v. Donald Gaetz, Warden.
No. 09–6866. Leopoldo Rocha, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6868. Ruby Lee Saunders, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–6874. Robert Curtis Covington, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6875. Gerald Salley, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6876. Robert F. Russo, Petitioner v. Donald Hulick, Warden.
No. 09–6879. Michael Guibilo, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6881. Frank John DeFeo, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6882. Antwan Elvago Coplen, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6885. Sabina Andrews, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6886. Kenneth Todd Burke, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6887. Troy Lamont Bibb, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6889. Jorge Eliecer Bueno-Sierra, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6891. Enrique Alvarez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6898. Jeffrey Allen Wallenfang, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–6900. Pablo Reza Landin, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6901. Raymond Serrano, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6903. Merlin Coleman, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6904. George Chambers, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6905. Hugh Epps, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6906. Manuel Carrizoza, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6909. Anthony W. Horne, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6910. Garrison Harris, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6911. Annemarie Guillory, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6913. Gebrian Rayshawn Gillespie, aka Gebrian Rayshawn
Millspin, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–6914. Gerardo Garcia-Sanchez, Petitioner v. United States;
and Ignacio Martinez-Quezada, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6917. Harry Quiah, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6918. Johnny Scott Warren, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–6920. Mitchell Scott Johnson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6921. Shane Dolan Knight, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6922. Michelle Johnson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6929. Timothy J. Meadows, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6930. Samgodson Essell, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6932. Leroy Ross, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6934. Felipe Barbosa-Torres, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6935. Dwight Knibbs, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6940. Patricio Gonzalez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6942. J. Timothy Halter, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6944. Anthony Terrell Harris, aka Buddy, Petitioner v.
No. 09–6945. Jose Antonio Garcia, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–6946. Johnny Lee Hansley, aka Johnnie Lee Hansely, Peti
No. 09–6955. Larry Toshio Osaki, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6960. Danny Lee Fleck, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6964. Daimon T. Porter, Chris Moore, Charles Murphy, Moni
que Horton, and Fabian Perkins, Petitioners v. United States. Petition
No. 08–1410. Handle with Care Behavior Management System, Inc.,
Petitioner v. New York State Division for Youth, et al. Petition for writ
No. 09–312. Cliff Greene, Petitioner v. Hanover Direct, Inc., et al.
No. 09–330. Jin Xin Ye, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney
General; and Yunxia Liu, et al., Petitioners v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attor
No. 09–424. Derrek Pannell, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–6400. Larry L. Daigneault, Petitioner v. Eaton Corporation,
No. 09–6692. James T. Struck, Petitioner v. Cook County Public
Guardian. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
denied, and petition for writ of certiorari to the Appellate Court of
Illinois, First District, dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner has re
No. 09–6715. Kirk Leaphart, Petitioner v. City of Detroit, Michigan,
nied, and petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of
Michigan dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner has repeatedly abused
No. 09–6892. Willie E. Boyd, Petitioner v. United States. Motion of
Eighth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–6927. Kevin Brown, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Mandamus Denied
No. 09–296. In Re Elizabeth A. Kalil, Petitioner. Petition for writ of

mandamus and/or prohibition denied. Justice Sotomayor took no part
Rehearings Denied
No. 08–9884. Maurice Donnell Cooper, Petitioner v. United States;

No. 08–10450. Nicholas Purpura, Petitioner v. Bushkin, Gaimes,
Gains, Jonas & Stream, et al.; and
No. 08–11025. Carl Wells, Petitioner v. Gregory Carro, Judge, Su
preme Court of New York, New York County. Petitions for rehearing
denied.
No. 08–608. Robert Flipping and Arthur Snellbaker, Petitioners v.
Robert Reilly. Motion for leave to file a petition for rehearing denied.

Adriane Malanos Belton Charleston, SC David Brian

McCormack
Daniel Biersdorf Minneapolis, MN Erick G. Kaardal
Phoebe Wheeler Brown Washington, DC Daniel L. Goelzer
Amanda B. Carpenter Oklahoma City, Richard C. Smith
OK
Raymond Chen Bethesda, MD Sydney O.
Johnson, Jr.
Charles W. Cookson, II Washington, DC Steven Barlow
Williams
Alayne R. Corcoran Metairie, LA Richard T.
Simmons, Jr.
Carolyn H. Cottrell San Francisco, CA Todd M. Schneider
Anastasia Danias New York, NY Gregg H. Levy
Samuel Bryant Davidoff Washington, DC Kannon Kumar
Shanmugam
Carl Folke Henschen Washington, DC John Nowell
Edman Estes, III
Randall D. Eliason Washington, DC Allen R. Snyder
Michael Clay Fellows Auburn, AL Richard Donald
Lane
Robert N. Feltoon

Philadelphia, PA Nancy J. Gellman
Guy Anthony Fidelie, Jr.

Wichita Falls, TX John Wesley
Brasher
David Louis Grant

Cleveland, OH Michael Chaim
Hennenberg
Kara Leslie Gross

Tallahassee, FL Thomas M. Beason
Laura Patterson Haley

Houston, TX Jeffrey Ross Bale
Berne C. Hart

Costa Mesa, CA Jeffrey R. Matsen
Robert Alford Hasty, Jr.

Fayetteville, NC Steven Craig
Lawrence
Ariel Hernandez-Santana

San Juan, PR Jesus M.
Hernandez
Sanchez
Linda Roberts Horsman

Louisville, KY Timothy G. Arnold
Ronald Alan Lathan, Jr.

Tallahassee, FL Scott Douglas
Makar
Barbara E. Lichman Costa Mesa, CA Jeffrey R. Matsen

Michael P. Mentz Metairie, LA Richard T.
Simmons, Jr.
Michael John Meyer Alameda, CA Katherine Ellen
Weathers
Douglas M. Muller Charleston, SC Randel Eugene
Phillips
Michael James Newman Pinehurst, NC Benjamin R.
Sullivan, Jr.
Mary Irvin Peters Washington, DC Caroline Judge
Mehta
Steven Michael Purdy New York, NY Jeffrey Alan
Stankunas
Justain P. Riley Sacramento, CA David Andrew
Eldridge
Samuel A. Rodabough Bellevue, WA John Maurice
Groen
James Edward Ryan Charlottesville, John Calvin
VA Jeffries, Jr.
Gordon D. Schreck

Charleston, SC Benjamin Allston
Moore, Jr.
Michael Y. Scudder, Jr.

Chicago, IL Wayne W. Whalen
Rae Shearn

Miami, FL Kieran P. Fallon
John Lee Shepherd, Jr.

Washington, DC Jeffrey Alan
Lamken
Elliott Zvi Stein

New York, NY Richard LaCava
Joshua J. Stevens

Stockton, CA Kathleen M.
Abdallah
Steven M. Taber

Costa Mesa, CA Jeffrey R. Matsen
Sara Christine Valentine

New Orleans, LA Carl David
Rosenblum
Gerhard Wegen

Stuttgart, Clemens J. M.
Germany Kochinke
Scott Charles Weidenfeller

Alexandria, VA Thomas W. Krause
Peter Joseph Wiedenbeck

St. Louis, MO Neil Michael
Richards
W. H. Willson, IV San Francisco, CA Todd M. Schneider
Stephan Wilske Stuttgart, Clemens J. M.
Germany Kochinke

Temple Holland Worth Centreville, MD Lawrence Roy

Herman
Gregory S. Young Wichita, KS Roger Marc Theis

Alexander Chizhik Baltimore, MD Judge Lynn

Kellene
Stewart
Bessie Sotirakos Demos Baltimore, MD Judge Lynn
Kellene
Stewart
Evan Matthew Goldman Baltimore, MD Judge Lynn
Kellene
Stewart
Tamara B. Goorevitz Baltimore, MD Judge Lynn
Kellene
Stewart
David L. Jacobson Baltimore, MD Judge Lynn
Kellene
Stewart
Grace Ammer Johnk Baltimore, MD Judge Lynn
Kellene
Stewart
Danielle Grilli Marcus Baltimore, MD Judge Lynn
Kellene
Stewart
Glenn Edward Mintzer Baltimore, MD Judge Lynn
Kellene
Stewart
Todd Michael Reinecker Baltimore, MD Judge Lynn
Kellene
Stewart
Richard Brian Stofberg Baltimore, MD Judge Lynn
Kellene
Stewart
Christopher Paul Baltimore, MD Judge Lynn
Wheatcroft Kellene
Stewart
Oral Arguments
No. 08–7412. Terrance Jamar Graham, Petitioner v. Florida. Argued
by Mr. Bryan S. Gowdy, appointed by this Court, for the petitioner and
by Mr. Solicitor General Scott D. Makar for the respondent.
No. 08–7621. Joe Harris Sullivan, Petitioner v. Florida. Argued by
Mr. Bryan Stevenson for the petitioner and by Mr. Solicitor General
Scott D. Makar for the respondent.
No. 08–964. Bernard L. Bilski and Rand A. Warsaw, Petitioners v.
David J. Kappos, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Prop
erty and Director, Patent and Trademark Office. Argued by Mr. J. Mi
chael Jakes for the petitioners and by Mr. Malcolm L. Stewart for the
respondent.
Adjourned until Tuesday, November 10, 2009, at 10 o’clock.
Certiorari Denied
No. 09–7328 (09A428). John Allen Muhammad, Petitioner v. Loretta
K. Kelly, Warden. Application for stay of execution of sentence of death
presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court de
nied. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
peals for the Fourth Circuit denied. Statement by Justice Stevens, with
whom Justice Ginsburg and Justice Sotomayor join, respecting the de
nial of the petition for writ of certiorari.
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Sonya Leigh Jones Pence Boston, MA Daniel Beck

Brian Joseph Sonfield Washington, DC Douglas Harry
Hallward-
Driemeier
Kenneth L. Isserlis Spokane, WA Mary Beth Socha
Nethercutt
Nancy L. Isserlis Spokane, WA Mary Beth Socha
Nethercutt
Elizabeth A. Tellessen Spokane, WA Mary Beth Socha
Nethercutt
Julie Anne Massie Arlington, VA Bruce Anthony

Kimble
Brian Roger Charville Arlington, VA Bruce Anthony
Kimble
J. Jeffrey Zimmerman Park Ridge, NJ Srikanth
Srinivasan
David B. Friedman Westfield, NJ Srikanth
Srinivasan
Louis R. Franzese Cedar Grove, NJ Srikanth
Srinivasan
Debi Frances Debiak Upper Montclair, Srikanth
NJ Srinivasan
Richard Patrick McEvily New Rochelle, NY Srikanth
Srinivasan
Jeffrey Paul Pegula Moosic, PA Srikanth
Srinivasan
William Earl Benner, Jr. Lancaster, PA Theresa Ann
Mongiovi
Brian S. Black Lititz, PA Theresa Ann
Mongiovi
Andrew Sullivan Cooper Lancaster, PA Theresa Ann
Mongiovi
298 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2009
Patricia L. Dunlevy Lancaster, PA Theresa Ann

Mongiovi
Nicholas Ermolovich Ephrata, PA Theresa Ann
Mongiovi
Caroline May Hoffer Lancaster, PA Theresa Ann
Mongiovi
Jonathan Ray Hofstetter Lancaster, PA Theresa Ann
Mongiovi
Randall M. Justice Lancaster, PA Theresa Ann
Mongiovi
Stephen M. Kraybill Lancaster, PA Theresa Ann
Mongiovi
Melissa Rae Montgomery Lancaster, PA Theresa Ann
Mongiovi
Timothy E. Shawaryn Lancaster, PA Theresa Ann
Mongiovi
Erin Michele Zimmerer Manheim, PA Theresa Ann
Mongiovi
Oral Arguments
ney General. Argued by Mr. Rick M. Schoenfield for the petitioner, by
Ms. Nicole A. Saharsky for the respondent supporting the petitioner,
and by Ms. Amanda C. Leiter, appointed by this Court as amicus cu
riae, supporting the judgment below.
No. 08–1107. The Hertz Corporation, Petitioner v. Melinda Friend,
et al. Argued by Mr. Sri Srinivasan for the petitioner and by Mr. Todd
M. Schneider for the respondents.


Present: Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Scalia, Justice Kennedy, Jus

tice Thomas, Justice Ginsburg, Justice Alito, and Justice Sotomayor.
“It is my sad duty to announce the death on November 11th of John
Jay O’Connor, III. John Jay O’Connor was the husband of Justice San
dra Day O’Connor. He was a member of the Bar of this Court.
“On behalf of the Court and Retired Justice Souter, I extend pro
found sympathy to Justice O’Connor and her family.
“It will be recorded on the Court’s minutes that the recess this Court
takes today will be in honor of John Jay O’Connor, III.”
Opinion Per Curiam

No. 08–1263. Robert Wong, Warden, Petitioner v. Fernando Bel
montes, Jr. On petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Motion of petitioner for leave to pro
ceed in forma pauperis and petition for writ of certiorari granted.
Judgment reversed, and case remanded to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for further proceedings consistent with
the opinion of this Court. Opinion per curiam. Concurring opinion by
Justice Stevens.
No. 09M46. Rochelle Daniel, Petitioner v. Trans Union Consumer
Reporting Agency. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for writ
of certiorari out of time denied.
No. 09M47. Rafat S. Ogedengbe, Petitioner v. United States. Motion
No. 09M48. Fayad Yahya Ahmed, Petitioner v. Robert M. Gates,
Secretary of Defense. Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
without an affidavit of indigency executed by petitioner granted.
No. 09M49. Mark C. Jackson, Petitioner v. Eric K. Shinseki, Secre
tary of Veterans Affairs. Motion for leave to proceed as a veteran
denied.
No. 09M50. Wole Emannuel Ogedengbe, Petitioner v. United States.

Motion for leave to file a petition for writ of certiorari under seal with
redacted copies for the public record granted.
No. 08–1569. United States, Petitioner v. Martin O’Brien and Arthur
Burgess. Motion of Arthur Burgess for appointment of counsel granted.
Leslie Feldman-Rumpler, Esq., of Boston, Massachusetts, is appointed
to serve as counsel for respondent Arthur Burgess in this case. Motion
of Martin O’Brien for appointment of counsel granted. Timothy P.
O’Connell, Esquire, of Charlestown, Massachusetts, is appointed to
serve as counsel for respondent Martin O’Brien in this case.
No. 08–10846. In Re Michael S. Michalski, Petitioner. Motion of peti
pauperis denied.
No. 08–10886. In Re Charles Willy Alpine, Petitioner. Motion of
No. 09–1. Holy See, Petitioner v. John V. Doe. The Solicitor General
is invited to file a brief in this case expressing the views of the
United States.
No. 09–5078. Bernard Jerry, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Motion of
No. 09–5398. Sol Jaffe, Petitioner v. US Air Airways, Inc., et al.
Motion of petitioner for reconsideration of order denying leave to pro
ceed in forma pauperis denied.
No. 09–6389. Roberto Beras, Petitioner v. Stephanie M. Carvlin,
nied. Petitioner allowed until December 7, 2009, within which to pay
compliance with Rule 33.1 of the Rules of this Court. Justice Sotomayor
took no part in the consideration or decision of this motion.
No. 09–6610. John C. Johnson, Petitioner v. Eric K. Shinseki, Secre
tary of Veterans Affairs. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed
in forma pauperis denied. Petitioner allowed until December 7, 2009,
Court.

Certiorari Granted
No. 09–158. Billy Joe Magwood, Petitioner v. Grantt Culliver, War
Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit granted limited to Question 1 pre
sented by the petition.
Certiorari Denied
No. 08–1378. CHF Industries, Inc., Petitioner v. Park B. Smith, Inc.
for the Federal Circuit denied.
No. 08–1564. American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, et al., Peti
tioners v. Miami-Dade County School Board, et al. Petition for writ
Circuit denied.
No. 08–1566. Brittany McComb, et al., Petitioners v. Gretchan
Crehan, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 08–10440. Stephanie Lynn Ford, Petitioner v. Christiana Care
Health Systems, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–47. United States Aviation Underwriters, Inc., et al., Peti
No. 09–55. Stacy Platone, Petitioner v. Department of Labor. Peti
No. 09–108. Lawrence Patrick Davis, Petitioner v. Tarrant County,
No. 09–187. Valinda Jo Elliott, Petitioner v. White Mountain Apache
Tribal Court, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–198. Medela AG and Medela, Inc., Petitioners v. Kinetic Con
cepts, Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–207. J. R. Y., Individually and as the Administrator of the
Estate of His Minor Son, B. M. Y., et al., Petitioners v. Woodmen of the
World Life Insurance Society. Petition for writ of certiorari to the

No. 09–208. Eugene Wrinn, Jr., Petitioner v. Daren Johnson, et al.
No. 09–220. Thomas Warren Whisenhant, Petitioner v. Richard F.
Allen, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections. Petition for
No. 09–265. Independence Institute, Petitioner v. Bernie Buescher,
Colorado Secretary of State. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court
of Appeals of Colorado denied.
No. 09–280. Raymond Obiajulu, Petitioner v. Professional, Clerical
and Miscellaneous Employees, Teamsters Local Union No. 995, et al.
No. 09–303. David Lee Smith, Petitioner v. United States Court of
Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–304. Line Rothman, et al., Petitioners v. Target Corp., et al.
No. 09–307. Ray C. Brown, et ux., Petitioners v. Philip A. Falcone,
ware denied.
No. 09–308. U-Haul Company of California, Petitioner v. City of
Berkeley, California, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court
of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, denied.
No. 09–317. City of Patterson, California, Petitioner v. Building In
dustry Association of Central California, et al. Petition for writ of cer
tiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, Fifth Appellate District,
denied.
No. 09–322. Crystal Gregory, et al., Petitioners v. Dillard’s Inc. Peti
No. 09–326. Suzan S. Harjo, et al., Petitioners v. Pro-Football, Inc.

No. 09–327. Francis J. Sampson, Jr., Petitioner v. Sun Life Assurance
Company of Canada. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–368. Wayne Lamar Jenkins, Petitioner v. Alabama. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Alabama denied.
No. 09–372. Eugene Forte, Petitioner v. Knight Ridder, et al. Peti
No. 09–382. Carmelo Correa-Ruiz, et al., Petitioners v. Luis Fortuno,
Governor of Puerto Rico, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit denied.
No. 09–407. Ana M. Abreu-Velez, Petitioner v. Board of Regents of
the University System of Georgia, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–421. Jason L. McClaren, Petitioner v. Wisconsin. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Wisconsin denied.
No. 09–433. Kenneth B. Wills, Petitioner v. John E. Potter, Postmas
ter General. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–437. Jay S. Spechler, Petitioner v. Victor Tobin. Petition for
No. 09–443. James A. Buck, Jr., Petitioner v. Internal Revenue Serv
ice. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals
No. 09–450. Bryan Roring Koloay, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
No. 09–454. Daniel S. Gahagan, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–455. Pamela Clarke, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–456. Robert Keith Adams, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–467. Terry Michael Miller, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–5330. Keith Victor Gosselin, Petitioner v. Colorado. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Colorado denied.
tems, Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal
of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Two, denied.
No. 09–5355. Nabintu Aurele Mongane, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder,
Jr., Attorney General. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–5374. Larry E. Lumsden, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5388. Reva Francis, Petitioner v. Jennifer Miller, Warden,
No. 09–5448. Jose F. Rodriguez, Petitioner v. Quality Engineering
Products, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the District Court of
Appeal of Florida, First District, denied.
No. 09–5474. Anthony Torell Carter, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6004. Raymond Oscar Butler, Petitioner v. California. Peti
No. 09–6367. Leroy Crowder Reed, Petitioner v. Florida, et al. Peti
No. 09–6369. Albert Edmond, Petitioner v. Dale Caskey, Warden.
No. 09–6371. Juan Enriquez, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–6372. Jocelyn Clervil, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh
Circuit denied.

No. 09–6375. Roman Sonny McCarthy, Petitioner v. Unknown. Peti
No. 09–6376. Thomas D’Angelo, Petitioner v. Charles L. Ryan, Di
denied.
No. 09–6382. Christopher A. Odom, Petitioner v. Jon Ozmint, Direc
tor, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6385. Jason James Petersen, Petitioner v. Michigan Depart
ment of Corrections. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme
Court of Michigan denied.
No. 09–6387. Harry A. Barkus, Petitioner v. David L. Runnels, War
No. 09–6397. Alfreda Christian, Petitioner v. California, et al. Peti
No. 09–6398. Victor Del Rio, Petitioner v. Texas, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6402. James Kevin Staten, Petitioner v. David Parker, War
No. 09–6410. Terry Eugene Bynes, Petitioner v. Oklahoma. Petition
denied.
No. 09–6411. John R. Whirty, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–6413. John William Roth, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, Harris
burg Office, denied.
No. 09–6419. Sarah Elizabeth Dutra, Petitioner v. California. Peti
No. 09–6421. David Derringer, Petitioner v. Jayme Moore, et al.

Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of New Mexico
denied.
No. 09–6424. Michael Derrick Simmons, Petitioner v. E. Richard
Bazzle, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–6426. Bruce L. Small, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
trict, denied.
No. 09–6428. Ahsan Mohiuddin, Petitioner v. Raytheon Company.
No. 09–6431. Marilyn Marie Bables, Petitioner v. Kansas City, Mis
souri School District. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–6439. Dwayne A. McGee, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
No. 09–6443. Donald Ray McCray, Petitioner v. Lee Glass. Petition
denied.
No. 09–6450. Bobby A. Lomax, Petitioner v. Brett A. Mize, Super
intendent, Reception Diagnostic Center. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–6451. James Edward Kitchen, Petitioner v. Michigan, et al.
No. 09–6458. Karen Torres, Petitioner v. Amerada Hess Corpora
tion. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of New Jer
sey, Appellate Division, denied.
No. 09–6463. Anthony Ladon Brown, Petitioner v. California. Peti
No. 09–6468. Tommie H. Telfair, Petitioner v. Karen P. Tandy, et al.
No. 09–6469. Charles Daniel, Jr., Petitioner v. Steven Scott, et al.

No. 09–6471. Paul Wesley Daly, Petitioner v. Charles L. Ryan, Direc
tor, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ of cer
denied.
No. 09–6473. Rakeish Cotton, Petitioner v. Brian Coleman, Super
intendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette. Petition for writ
cuit denied.
No. 09–6474. Richard Alan Davis, Petitioner v. Greg Harmon, War
No. 09–6475. Luther A. Collie, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Sec
cuit denied.
No. 09–6477. Thomas A. Darby, Petitioner v. Steve Moore, Warden.
No. 09–6479. Ted Dahl, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director, Texas
Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division.
No. 09–6480. Armando Chavarria, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–6481. David Paul Taylor, Petitioner v. Brian K. Murphy,
Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction, et al. Petition
No. 09–6483. Kala B. White, Petitioner v. Tim Luoma, Warden. Peti
No. 09–6486. Albert Adu Asante, Petitioner v. New York. Petition
No. 09–6493. Hollis John Larson, Petitioner v. Minnesota. Petition
No. 09–6500. Kevin Andrews, Petitioner v. City of Seattle, Washing

ton. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Washing
ton, Division 1, denied.
No. 09–6502. Eric Taylor, et ux., Petitioners v. National City Bank.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Indiana denied.
No. 09–6505. Dennis Meehan, Petitioner v. New York. Petition for
No. 09–6511. Carlos A. Sanchez, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6522. Jeffrey Alan Ede, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Middle
District, denied.
No. 09–6526. Rajan Rama Ayyar, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–6532. Aundra Marshall, Petitioner v. Alabama. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Alabama denied.
No. 09–6533. Andrea Birdsall LaForge, Petitioner v. Iowa. Petition
No. 09–6542. Kathalina Monacelli, Petitioner v. Lee County Educa
tion Association, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–6544. Clayborn Sidner Turner, Petitioner v. David L. Run
nels, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–6545. Preston E. Nunley, Petitioner v. Mississippi. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Mississippi denied.
No. 09–6546. Romie H. Miller, III, Petitioner v. Clint Friel, Warden.
No. 09–6550. Rayne Dee Wells, Jr., Petitioner v. Washington. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Washington, Divi
sion 1, denied.

No. 09–6553. Romell Broom, Petitioner v. Ted Strickland, Governor
of Ohio, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–6556. Theodore Neal Watkins, Petitioner v. Massachusetts.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massa
chusetts denied.
No. 09–6559. Noel Doorbal, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
No. 09–6564. Hung Nguyen, Petitioner v. Superior Court of Califor
nia, Orange County, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme
Court of California denied.
No. 09–6565. Jason Manuel Reeves, Petitioner v. Louisiana. Petition
No. 09–6569. Deloris Burroughs, By and Through Her Next Friend,
Richard Burroughs, Petitioner v. Broadspire, fka Kemper Insurance
No. 09–6570. Brian Adams, Petitioner v. Honda Engineering North
America, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of
Ohio denied.
No. 09–6571. Ulysses Bownes, Petitioner v. Christopher Epps, Com
missioner Mississippi Department of Corrections. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–6573. Robert Maxwell, Petitioner v. Ronald Talley, et al.
No. 09–6587. Derrick Scott, Petitioner v. Ray Hanson. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6619. Kim Anthony Polonczyk, Petitioner v. Arkansas, et al.
No. 09–6639. Daniel Yeboah-Sefah, Petitioner v. Lois A. Russo,
Superintendent, Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6642. Akeem Muhammad, Petitioner v. George Sapp, et al.
No. 09–6649. Germain Didier Ndongo, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder,
No. 09–6695. Thon N. Sang, Petitioner v. A. K. Scribner, Warden.
No. 09–6724. Jesus Valverde, Jr., Petitioner v. Arizona. Petition for
No. 09–6735. Michael Lamar Bramit, Petitioner v. California. Peti
No. 09–6756. Robert Wendell Tate, Petitioner v. Millicent Warren,
No. 09–6758. Roosevelt Jeanlouis, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
cuit denied.
No. 09–6761. Roscoe Melvin Owens, Petitioner v. Michigan. Petition
No. 09–6769. Rudy Stanko, Petitioner v. Blake Davis, Warden, et al.
No. 09–6772. Valerie M. Fobbs, Petitioner v. John E. Potter, Post
master General. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–6793. Henry W. Martin, Jr., Petitioner v. Cecilia Reynolds,
No. 09–6870. Clarence Jamison, Petitioner v. Delaware. Petition for
No. 09–6908. William Hyde, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.

No. 09–6923. Albert M. Mark, Petitioner v. Hope Bauer, et al. Peti
No. 09–6941. Anthony Ferrell Holstick, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6958. George Beckett, Petitioner v. Douglas F. Gansler, At
torney General of Maryland, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–6963. Raouf G. Haddad, Petitioner v. Hertz Corporation.
No. 09–6978. Jason Dejuan Leatch, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6979. Scott Kollar, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6981. Kendrick T. Morgan, aka Scoop, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6984. Jermal Daniels, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6989. Jamie Garcia, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–6990. Anthony G. White, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6996. Marc Anthony Jeffers, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6999. Marlin B. Jones, Petitioner v. Platteview Apartments,
et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ne
braska denied.
No. 09–7002. Jimmy Joe Watters, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7005. Gary Wise, Petitioner v. Henry F. Floyd, Judge, United

States District Court for the District of South Carolina, et al. Petition
No. 09–7008. Vincent Lavett Allen, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7010. LaAnthony Cletae Cain, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7011. Gustavo Cruz-Gramajo, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7015. Gustavo Sanches Montes, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7020. Wesley Wade Kindsfather, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7022. Roy Knight, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7024. Monroe Herring, aka Money, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7025. Katherine Marie Gable, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7026. Paul Hicks, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7027. Lisa Harris, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–7028. Kenneth Eugene Porter, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–7032. Aaron Larico Wylie, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7034. Constantino Rodriguez-Mendiola, aka Alexander Jua
ves Banuelos, aka Alberto Banales, aka Adam Herrera, Petitioner v.
No. 09–7036. Parviz Karim-Panahi, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
peals denied.
No. 09–7037. Derek Anthony Smith, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7038. Manuel Muniz, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7039. Michael Morgan, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7041. John Jairo Calle-Ochoa, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7042. Jose Martin Castro-Guevarra, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7044. Steven Allen Adams, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7045. Curtis Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–7046. Robert Mackay, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7049. Octavio Hernandez Suarez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7052. Alejandro Hernandez-Hernandez, Petitioner v. United

No. 09–7053. James Earl Gibson, Petitioner v. Douglas M. Vaughan,
No. 09–7055. Mack Garcia, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7059. James H. Gresham, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7061. Christopher Joe Cantu, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7065. Ray Longstreet, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7067. Troy Ponton, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7068. Norman Ray Nelson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7070. Joseph Pulliam, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7075. Taiwan Davidson Cameron, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7076. John Floyd Carey, Sr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7077. Jaime Lamon Esquivel, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7078. David S. Dahler, Petitioner v. Carol Holinka, Warden.

No. 09–7080. Eduardo Torres-Torres, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7081. Christopher Raphael Woodberry, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7084. Jose J. Loera, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7090. Jeffry Polak, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7091. Charles Edward Puckett, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7093. Steven D. Kiderlen, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7095. Kerry Dewayne Laury, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7100. Richard Turner, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7101. Marcus Robert Williams, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7105. Ernest W. Canipe, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7107. Eloy Osuna, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7110. Jerry Strahan, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7111. Jamey R. Scott, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7113. Montgomery Carl Akers, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–7115. Daniel Anderson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7118. Joe R. Blurton, Petitioner v. North Dakota. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of North Dakota denied.
No. 09–7122. Julius Obasohan, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7124. Junior Ray Montoya, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7126. Alejandro Martinez-Vasquez, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7128. Timi Wallace, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7133. Adelson Michel, aka Mike, aka Cowboy, Petitioner v.
No. 09–7137. Milton A. Nelson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7138. Macedonio Castillo-Hernandez, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–174. Andrew D. Glogower, Petitioner v. Sharon P. Clark, Liq
uidator of National Business Association Trust and National Benefit
Administrators. Motion of National Association of Insurance Commis
sioners for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–217. Kristan Peters, Petitioner v. Scivantage, et al. Petition

No. 09–360. Samuel M. Levine, Petitioner v. Edward McCabe, et al.
No. 09–427. Tone N. Grant, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–6447. L. C. Cohen, Petitioner v. James J. Syme, Jr., et al.
and petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Arizona,
Division One, dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–6459. Gilbert Spurlock, Petitioner v. Bank of America, N. A.
and petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of West Virginia,
Wayne County, dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner has repeatedly
No. 09–6554. William P. Plummer, Petitioner v. California. Motion
tion for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of California dismissed.
See Rule 39.8. As petitioner has repeatedly abused this Court’s proc
ess, the Clerk is directed not to accept any further petitions in noncrim
inal matters from petitioner unless the docketing fee required by Rule
38(a) is paid and petition submitted in compliance with Rule 33.1. See
Martin v. District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 506 U. S. 1 (1992)
(per curiam). Justice Stevens dissents. See id., at 4, and cases cited
therein.
No. 09–6586. Eric D. Smith, Petitioner v. Stanley Knight, Super
intendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility. Motion of petitioner for
leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied, and petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Indiana, Second District, dis
No. 09–6919. Raheem Dunlap, Petitioner v. Harold Graham, Super
intendent, Auburn Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of certiorari

this petition.
No. 09–6982. Richard Pitcher, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7003. Damion Townsend, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7064. Ulysses Tavares, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7072. Antonia Tyson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–7106. Claudio Parra, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

No. 09–7103. In Re Allen Fitzgerald Caldwell, Petitioner; and
No. 09–7202. In Re Frank Medel, Jr., Petitioner. Petitions for writs
Mandamus Denied
No. 09–6467. In Re Paul Minix, Petitioner; and
No. 09–7030. In Re Charles Phillip Maxwell, Petitioner. Petitions for
writs of mandamus denied.
No. 09–6412. In Re Charles Willy Alpine, Petitioner. Motion of peti
No. 09–6501. In Re Dorothy Woerth, Petitioner. Petition for writ of

No. 09–6538. In Re Henry Van Broughton, Petitioner; and
No. 09–7006. In Re Joseph C. Minneman, Petitioner. Petitions for
writs of mandamus and/or prohibition denied.
Rehearings Denied
No. 08–10148. Kim McMullen, Petitioner v. Franklin J. Tennis,

Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al.;
No. 08–10150. Martin Frankel, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 08–10268. Colleen F., Petitioner v. Riverside County Depart
ment of Public Social Services;
No. 08–10504. Thomas Hawkins, III, Petitioner v. California, et al.;
No. 08–10508. Abrar Haque, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 08–10512. Anthony Swift, Petitioner v. Mississippi;
No. 08–10576. Ernie Young, Petitioner v. Elvis A. Presley, et al.;
No. 08–10600. Michael D. Wright, Petitioner v. Greg Zoeller, Attor
ney General of Indiana;
No. 08–10738. Maurice Pierre Olivier, Petitioner v. California;
No. 08–10927. In Re LeSean Roberts, Petitioner;
No. 08–11003. In Re Albert Bruce Singletary, Petitioner;
No. 08–11127. Robert Cheeseman, Petitioner v. City of Reedsport,
Oregon, et al.;
No. 09–5034. Charles Elvis Raby, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
Division;
No. 09–5086. Zachary Smith, Petitioner v. Larry Denny, Warden;
No. 09–5237. Rodney Jerome Greene, Petitioner v. Walter A. Mc-
Neil, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections;
No. 09–5439. Ernest Cornes, Petitioner v. Illinois;
No. 09–5793. Derrick Brown, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–5847. Edward Ronwin, Petitioner v. Bayer Corporation;
No. 09–6060. Irene M. Moore, Petitioner v. Merit Systems Protec
tion Board. Petitions for rehearing denied.

Marc Daniel Alexander Santa Ana, CA Robert J. Stein,

III
David B. Boodt Indianapolis, IN Edward Robert
Schmidt
Esther G. Boynton San Diego, CA Donnie R. Cox
David Jonathon Canupp Huntsville, AL Devinti Martel

Williams

Michele S. Carino Wilmington, DE James Richard

Banko
Timothy G. Chovanec Fort Worth, TX David Fielding
Brian David Clark Huntsville, AL Robert B. Tuten
Brendan Daniel Cummins Minneapolis, MN Paul Curtis
Peterson
Justin David Cummins Minneapolis, MN Paul Curtis
Peterson
Micheal Leon Darrah Oklahoma City, Mark E. Bialick
OK
Karen T. Davis Indianapolis, IN Kenneth J. Falk
Jason Paul DeMont Phoenix, AZ Russell W.
Binns, Jr.
Sara Elizabeth Dill Chicago, IL John Daniel
Finerty
Jon Stuart Doyle Marion, OH S. Fredrick
Zeigler
Russell Lee England Pelham, AL Devinti Martel
Williams
Daniel Scott Fisher St. Paul, MN Scott M. Browning
Christine M. Fitzgerald New York, NY George Allan
Davidson
Geoffrey H. Gentile, Sr. Fort Myers, FL Mark A. Boyle
Gary M. Gertzog New York, NY Gregg H. Levy
Sarah Anne Gervase Fairfax, VA Robert Dowlut
John P. Gonzalez New Orleans, LA Virginia Weichert
Gundlach
Christopher Ryan Hart Washington, DC Richard Alan
Olderman
Carly Ann Hermanson Tallahassee, FL Robert R.
Wheeler
Barry Scott Herrin Columbia, SC Robert Michael
Karton
Joel Gwen Holley Lanett, AL Devinti Martel
Williams
Erin Lai Los Angeles, CA Johnny H.
Edwards

Christopher Love Hayward, CA William M.

Robinson
Adriana Suringa Luedke Minneapolis, MN Dirk James
Johannes
Suringa
Matthew J. Matern Torrance, CA Paul Jacob Weiner
Marshall Aron Mintz New York, NY Ronald Rubinstein
William Roberts Pace Dallas, TX Jonathan A. Pace
Bryan Joseph Perez Newark, NJ John Diego Perez
John James Perez Newark, NJ John Diego Perez
Kathryn Bennett Perkins Little Rock, AR Richard T.
Donovan
Maria K. Pulzetti Philadelphia, PA Matthew C.
Lawry
Amy Radon Washington, DC Leslie Agnes
Brueckner
Claudia Valenzuela Rivas Chicago, IL Leonard L. Cavise
Thomas John Roberts Washington, DC Kannon Kumar
Shanmugam
Samantha Evans Ross Washington, DC J. Gordon
Seymour
Sandra Rogers Dunlap Huntsville, AL Devinti Martel
Segal Williams
Margaret P. Simmons Huntsville, AL Devinti Martel
Williams
Paul M. Sod Lawrence, NY Jordan M. Lewis
Rex B. Stratton, III Vashon, WA Patrick J. Coyne
Eva A. Temkin Washington, DC David M. Lehn
Cynthia Marie Van Rassen Madison, AL Devinti Martel
Williams
Patricia E. Weeks New Orleans, LA Virginia Weichert
Gundlach
Anthony P. Zana Huntsville, AL David Vance
Lucas

W. Ron Adams Erlanger, KY Tonia Jones

Powell
Thomas H. Glocer New York, NY Thomas C.

Leighton
Anjuma K. Goswami Washington, DC Daryle A. Jordan
Emanuel Nikolaos Mpras Fairfax, VA Stevan Lieberman
James E. Padish Scottsdale, AZ Ralph Ruebner
Robert Dean Paskow Fairfax, VA Ralph Ruebner
John Christopher Gaydos Atlanta, GA Ralph Ruebner
Julie Anne Anderson Bourbonnais, IL Ralph Ruebner
Violeta I. Balan Chicago, IL Ralph Ruebner
James P. Balog Chicago, IL Ralph Ruebner
Beverly A. Berneman Chicago, IL Ralph Ruebner
Raymond M. Blacklidge Wesley Chapel, Ralph Ruebner
FL
Mark William Conrad Lake Bluff, IL Ralph Ruebner
John E. Corkery Chicago, IL Ralph Ruebner
Bruna Corso Schaumburg, IL Ralph Ruebner
Kimberly Dawn Stanfill Chicago, IL Ralph Ruebner
Cromer
Brendan Robert Cronin Chicago, IL Ralph Ruebner
Demitrus Thomas Evans Westchester, IL Ralph Ruebner
Margaret Pasowicz Howard Washington Navy Ralph Ruebner
Yard, DC
Eric T. Johnson Chicago, IL Ralph Ruebner
Katherine Michelle Johnson Nokomis, IL Ralph Ruebner
Jamie Ann Kleppetsch Chicago, IL Ralph Ruebner
Paul Thomas Kleppetsch Chicago, IL Ralph Ruebner
Joshua Patrick Lauby Chicago, IL Ralph Ruebner
John R. Lee Chicago, IL Ralph Ruebner
Samantha Anne Levinson Chicago, IL Ralph Ruebner
Jeffery Jay Makeever Rockford, IL Ralph Ruebner
Marena Lee McPherson Chicago, IL Ralph Ruebner
Ira T. Nevel Chicago, IL Ralph Ruebner
Leslie Ford Notaro Belleair Beach, Ralph Ruebner
FL
Arlette G. Porter Chicago, IL Ralph Ruebner
Jason Morgan Roberts Chicago, IL Ralph Ruebner
Rhonda Sallee Chicago, IL Ralph Ruebner
Rory Dean Smith Flossmoor, IL Ralph Ruebner
Joanne Snow Chicago, IL Ralph Ruebner
Marilyn V. Uzemack Park Ridge, IL Ralph Ruebner

Gordon Kenneth Walton Chicago, IL Ralph Ruebner

JoEllen Bursinger Zacks Charleston, WV Ralph Ruebner
Gary Arthur Peters Royal Oak, MI Ralph Ruebner
Stanely A. Boone Washington, DC Elizabeth
Roediger
Rindskopf
Ronald James Cassells Santa Rosa, CA Elizabeth
Roediger
Rindskopf
James McAdam Day, Jr. Sacramento, CA Elizabeth
Roediger
Rindskopf
Barry Fadem Lafayette, CA Elizabeth
Roediger
Rindskopf
Glenn A. Fait Folsom, CA Elizabeth
Roediger
Rindskopf
Kurt A. Franke Reno, NV Elizabeth
Roediger
Rindskopf
Peter Edward Glick Sacramento, CA Elizabeth
Roediger
Rindskopf
Pamela Denise Gourley Vacaville, CA Elizabeth
Roediger
Rindskopf
Shanti Renee Halter Sacramento, CA Elizabeth
Roediger
Rindskopf
Debra Jean Kazanjian Fresno, CA Elizabeth
Roediger
Rindskopf
Kathleen Cordova Lyon Aurburn, CA Elizabeth
Roediger
Rindskopf
John Richard Masterman Roseville, CA Elizabeth
Roediger
Rindskopf
Mary Constance McGuire Sacramento, CA Elizabeth

Roediger
Rindskopf
Rocco Robert Paternoster Sacramento, CA Elizabeth
Roediger
Rindskopf
Keith Elliott Pershall Sacramento, CA Elizabeth
Roediger
Rindskopf
Michael G. Polis Sacramento, CA Elizabeth
Roediger
Rindskopf
John R. Ramirez Los Angeles, CA Elizabeth
Roediger
Rindskopf
Lawrence E. Skidmore Auburn, CA Elizabeth
Roediger
Rindskopf
Colette Francine Stone Walnut Creek, CA Elizabeth
Roediger
Rindskopf
Thomas J. Tarkoff Orinda, CA Elizabeth
Roediger
Rindskopf
Vida L. Thomas Sacramento, CA Elizabeth
Roediger
Rindskopf
Yolanda Victoria Torres Costa Mesa, CA Elizabeth
Roediger
Rindskopf
Dennis Patrick O’Connor Steamboat Elizabeth
Springs, CO Roediger
Rindskopf
Robert Bernhard Michael Los Angeles, CA Elizabeth
Apon Roediger
Rindskopf
Gustavo E. I. Matheus Rockville, MD Elizabeth
Roediger
Rindskopf

Reinhard Von Hennigs Charlotte, NC Elizabeth

Roediger
Rindskopf
Larry K. Dunn Reno, NV Elizabeth
Roediger
Rindskopf
Jorg-Andre Harnisch New York, NY Elizabeth
Roediger
Rindskopf
Craig Robert Mausler Albany, NY Elizabeth
Roediger
Rindskopf
Anne M. Fulton-Cavett Tucson, AZ Veryl Victoria
Miles
James Edward Toomey, Jr. Oakland, CA Veryl Victoria
Miles
Brett Michael Szczesny Westport, CT Veryl Victoria
Miles
Catherine Drissel Bertram Washington, DC Veryl Victoria
Miles
Leigh Z. Callander Washington, DC Veryl Victoria
Miles
Julia Farr Connolly Washington, DC Veryl Victoria
Miles
Robert Coogan Dalton Washington, DC Veryl Victoria
Miles
Gretchen Elizabeth DeMar Washington, DC Veryl Victoria
Miles
Robert Louis Giarrusso Washington, DC Veryl Victoria
Miles
Edward Scott Hammerman Washington, DC Veryl Victoria
Miles
Claudia A. Hrvatin Washington, DC Veryl Victoria
Miles
Lars S. Hydle Washington, DC Veryl Victoria
Miles
Arthur Alexsander Washington, DC Veryl Victoria
Impastato Miles
Junko Katada Arlington, VA Veryl Victoria
Miles
Julie Maureen Kearney Falls Church, VA Veryl Victoria

Miles
Amy Sinko Mushahwar Washington, DC Veryl Victoria
Miles
Ryan C. Seiger Washington, DC Veryl Victoria
Miles
Jack Semrani Washingtn, DC Veryl Victoria
Miles
Tiffany Rae Winters Washington, DC Veryl Victoria
Miles
David William Bundy Orlando, FL Veryl Victoria
Miles
Nancy Carol Andrade Chicago, IL Veryl Victoria
Miles
Maureen Elizabeth Browne Chicago, IL Veryl Victoria
Miles
Lisa Marie Damiano Washington, DC Veryl Victoria
Miles
Paige Norian Gates Chicago, IL Veryl Victoria
Miles
Rise Haberman Ain Potomac, MD Veryl Victoria
Miles
Kush Arora Potomac, MD Veryl Victoria
Miles
Charles J. Carey Washington, DC Veryl Victoria
Miles
Tillena Gregory Clark Bethesda, MD Veryl Victoria
Miles
Amelia Owens Covington Stony Creek, VA Veryl Victoria
Miles
Wayne Richard Fleit Silver Spring, MD Veryl Victoria
Miles
Kristin Beth Meinhardt Washington, DC Veryl Victoria
Miles
Stacey Andrea Moye Washington, DC Veryl Victoria
Miles
Pilar Camus Nichols Rockville, MD Veryl Victoria
Miles
Theodore Philip Stein Rockville, MD Veryl Victoria
Miles

Genevievette Elvira Walker Washington, DC Veryl Victoria

Miles
Dere Falken Ames, IA Veryl Victoria
Miles
Michael E. Holzapfel Little Silver, NJ Veryl Victoria
Miles
Christopher John Olson West Simsbury, Veryl Victoria
CT Miles
Mark E. Ruddy Washington, DC Veryl Victoria
Miles
Jacob Royal Zissu New York, NY Veryl Victoria
Miles
James Clifford Higgins, Jr. Wayne, PA Veryl Victoria
Miles
Linda Susan Stewart Washington, DC Veryl Victoria
Miles
Shani Jamilla Puanani Butts Honolulu, HI Veryl Victoria
Miles
Sharon Guthrie Alexandria, VA Veryl Victoria
Miles
Ryika Hooshangi Arlington, VA Veryl Victoria
Miles
Jakki Lea Mathis-Hull Centreville, VA Veryl Victoria
Miles
Lauren Pacelli McLaughlin Washington, DC Veryl Victoria
Miles
Thomas Martin Mistele San Francisco, CA Veryl Victoria
Miles
Matthew D. Rak Wheeling, WV Veryl Victoria
Miles
Tonya Angelee Butler Reading, PA Howard M.
Lightman
Todd James Cook Spring Township, Howard M.
PA Lightman
Susan Nola Denaro Wyomissing, PA Howard M.
Lightman
Linda Faye Epes Reading, PA Howard M.
Lightman
Andrew Fredric Fick Reading, PA Howard M.
Lightman
Joseph Andres Guillama Reading, PA Howard M.

Lightman
Julie Elizabeth Ravis Reading, PA Howard M.
Lightman
Cheryl A. Rowe Reading, PA Howard M.
Lightman
Jill M. Scheidt Wyomissing, PA Howard M.
Lightman
Peter Francis Schuchman, Wyomissing, PA Howard M.
Jr. Lightman
E. Michael Zubey Wyomissing, PA Howard M.
Lightman
Certiorari Denied
No. 09–444 (09A452). Larry Bill Elliott, Petitioner v. Loretta K.
Kelly, Warden. Application for stay of execution of sentence of death
presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court
Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied. Justice Stevens, Justice Gins
burg, and Justice Sotomayor would grant the application for stay of
execution.
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Certiorari Denied
No. 09–7505 (09A472). Danielle Simpson, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler,
tions Division. Application for stay of execution of sentence of death
presented to Justice Scalia and by him referred to the Court denied.
for the Fifth Circuit denied. Justice Stevens, Justice Ginsburg, and
Justice Sotomayor would grant the application for stay of execution.
(JOURNAL) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2009 331


Certiorari Denied
No. 09–7567 (09A466). Robert Lee Thompson, Petitioner v. Texas.
Application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to
Justice Scalia and by him referred to the Court denied. Petition for


Opinion Per Curiam
No. 08–10537. George Porter, Jr., Petitioner v. Bill McCollum, Attor

ney General of Florida, et al. On petition for writ of certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Motion of
petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Petition for
writ of certiorari granted in part. Judgment reversed, and case re
manded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
for further proceedings consistent with the opinion of this Court. Opin
ion per curiam.
No. 08–10314. Winston Webster, Petitioner v. Lynn Cooper, Warden.

for the Fifth Circuit. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
and case remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth
Circuit for further consideration in light of Jimenez v. Quarterman,
555 U. S. ––– (2009). Dissenting opinion by Justice Scalia.
No. 09–160. Department of Defense, et al., Petitioners v. American
Civil Liberties Union, et al. On petition for writ of certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Petition for
the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for further
consideration in light of Section 565 of the Department of Homeland
Security Appropriations Act, 2010, and the certification by the Secre
tary of Defense pursuant to that provision. Justice Sotomayor took no
No. 09A208. Solomon Ben-Tov Cohen, Applicant v. Eric H. Holder,

Jr., Attorney General. Application for stay addressed to The Chief Jus
tice and referred to the Court denied.
No. 09A280 (09–6959). Kimberly Albright-Lazzari, et vir, Appli
cants v. Connecticut. Application for stay addressed to Justice Alito
and referred to the Court denied.
No. 09M51. Jennebah S. Ville, Petitioner v. United Airlines, Inc. Mo
time denied.
No. 09M52. Paul A. Gargano, et al., Petitioners v. Liberty Interna
tional Underwriters, Inc., et al. Motion of petitioner to direct the Clerk
to file a petition for writ of certiorari out of time denied.
No. 09M53. Jaime Alvarez-Ocanegra, Petitioner v. United States.
time denied.
No. 09M54. John Michael Rex, Petitioner v. Federal Aviation Admin
istration, et al. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for writ of
No. 09M55. Lisa R. Yancey, Petitioner v. Helen M. Ludwig, Trustee.
time denied.
No. 09M56. Scott Myers, Petitioner v. Jacqueline Silbermann, et al.;
and Scott Myers, Petitioner v. George Okada, Warden. Motion to direct
No. 07–11191. Mark A. Briscoe and Sheldon A. Cypress, Petitioners
v. Virginia. Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in
No. 08–1224. United States, Petitioner v. Graydon Earl Comstock,
Jr., et al. Motion of Kansas, et al. for leave to participate in oral argu
ment as amici curiae and for divided argument denied.
No. 08–10543. Delores M. Karnofel, Petitioner v. Girard Police De
partment, et al. Motion of petitioner for reconsideration of order deny
ing leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied.
No. 08–10578. Robert Steve Wells, Petitioner v. Daniel Vasquez,
Warden. Motion of petitioner for reconsideration of order denying leave

No. 08–10650. Mihretu Bulti Dasisa, Petitioner v. University of Mas
sachusetts Board of Trustees. Motion of petitioner for reconsideration
of order denying leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied.
No. 08–10732. In Re Charles Willy Alpine, Petitioner. Motion of
petitioner for reconsideration of order denying leave to proceed in
forma pauperis denied.
No. 08–10847. Melvin Joseph Simmons, Jr., Petitioner v. T. Flecker.
No. 08–10986. Jeff Strong, Petitioner v. Illinois Department of
Human Services. Motion of petitioner for reconsideration of order de
nying leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied.
No. 08–10997. Phill J. Williams, Petitioner v. Church’s Chicken, et al.
No. 09–5074. Franz A. Wakefield, Petitioner v. Cordis Corporation.
No. 09–5111. Melvin Joseph Simmons, Jr., Petitioner v. California,
No. 09–5356. Patricia J. Curto, Petitioner v. Donna M. Siwek. Motion
in forma pauperis denied. Justice Sotomayor took no part in the con
sideration or decision of this motion.
Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections. The respondent is
requested to file a response to the petition for rehearing within
30 days.
No. 09–5576. Eric D. Smith, Petitioner v. Jeff Wrigley, Superintend
ent, New Castle Correctional Facility. Motion of petitioner for reconsid
eration of order denying leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied.
No. 09–5814. In Re Charles A. Treece, Petitioner. Motion of peti
pauperis denied.
No. 09–5920. Harold J. Farris, Petitioner v. Nancy J. Whaley, et al.
No. 09–5945. In Re Gary B. Williams, Petitioner. Motion of peti

pauperis denied.
No. 09–6035. Kevin Millen, Petitioner v. Kansas City Star. Motion
No. 09–6139. In Re Johnny Traylor, Petitioner. Motion of petitioner
peris denied.
No. 09–6291. In Re James Davis Bennett, Petitioner. Motion of peti
pauperis denied.
No. 09–6636. Earl L. Cline, II, Petitioner v. Utah, et al. Motion of
allowed until December 21, 2009, within which to pay the docketing fee
No. 09–6764. John A. Royse, Petitioner v. Corning Glass Works, Inc.
Petitioner allowed until December 21, 2009, within which to pay the
No. 09–6985. Fred Rucker, Petitioner v. Illinois Department of Chil
dren and Family Services. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed
in forma pauperis denied. Petitioner allowed until December 21, 2009,
Court.
No. 09–7326. Tariq Isa, Petitioner v. United States. Motion of peti
lowed until December 21, 2009, within which to pay the docketing fee
Certiorari Granted
No. 08–1191. Robert Morrison, et al., Petitioners v. National Austra

lia Bank Ltd., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted. Justice Sotomayor

No. 09–338. Paul Renico, Warden, Petitioner v. Reginald Lett. Mo
for the Sixth Circuit granted.
No. 09–5201. Michael Gary Barber, et al., Petitioners v. J. E. Thomas,
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted.
Certiorari Denied
No. 08–1392. Nimatallah Shaffik Massis, Petitioner v. Eric H.
Holder, Jr., Attorney General, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 08–1494. Joel Arguelles-Olivares, Petitioner v. Eric H.
No. 08–1575. Jason Landis Linder, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10. Timothy Justin Joyner, Petitioner v. Arkansas. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Arkansas denied.
No. 09–26. Susan Hertz, Individually and as Personal Representa
tive of the Estate of Roger B. Hertz, Deceased, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–70. Modern, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. St. Johns River Water
Management District, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–86. Michael H. Boulware, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–98. Wilmer Lee Scurlark, aka Bonay, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–102. Virginia, Petitioner v. Demetres Jerrod Rudolph. Peti
No. 09–106. Isaac Pedernera, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attor
No. 09–113. Jim G. Price, Petitioner v. United States Trustee, et al.

No. 09–222. Becky Matheny, Individually and as Surviving Spouse
of Ronald Matheny, Deceased, et al., Petitioners v. Tennessee Valley
Authority. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–225. Winthrop P. Block, et al., Petitioners v. Eric K. Shinseki,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Cir
cuit denied.
No. 09–231. Charles Brown, et al., Petitioners v. David Hovatter,
No. 09–241. Lea Ann Wilkinson, Petitioner v. Palmetto State Trans
portation Company, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme
Court of South Carolina denied.
No. 09–242. Joseph H. Pyke, Individually and as Personal Repre
sentative of the Estate of Matthew Pyke, Deceased, et al., Petitioners
v. Mario Cuomo, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–257. Erica Corder, Petitioner v. Lewis Palmer School Dis
trict No. 38. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–297. Ford Motor Company, Petitioner v. Benetta Buell-
Wilson, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of
California, Fourth Appellate District, Division One, denied.
No. 09–331. Vera C. Harper, Individually and as Personal Repre
sentative of the Estate of Wilson Clark Harper, Deceased, and David
A. Harper, Petitioners v. United Services Automobile Association, et al.
No. 09–340. George Powell, et al., Petitioners v. Carey International,
No. 09–345. Geoving Joseph Gerard, Petitioner v. Board of Regents
of Georgia, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States

No. 09–352. Timothy B. Whitmore, Petitioner v. Pierce County De
partment of Community Corrections, et al. Petition for writ of certio
No. 09–362. Boston Scientific Corporation, et al., Petitioners v. Cor
dis Corporation; and
No. 09–365. Cordis Corporation, Petitioner v. Boston Scientific Cor
poration, et al. Petitions for writs of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–363. Kevin Cooper, Petitioner v. Robert L. Ayers, Jr., War
No. 09–369. Dawn Maggard, et vir, Petitioners v. Ford Motor Com
No. 09–373. Shawn Hallinan and Wayne Harej, Petitioners v. Frater
nal Order of Police Chicago Lodge 7, et al. Petition for writ of certio
denied.
No. 09–374. Peter Hoffman, Petitioner v. United Airlines, Inc. Peti
No. 09–380. Jose Maria Beltran Lozano, Petitioner v. Eric H.
No. 09–381. James Constant, Petitioner v. California Department of
Transportation. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal
of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Two, denied.
No. 09–391. David Allen White, Petitioner v. Department of De
fense, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–393. Elsebeth Baumgartner, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Cuyahoga County,
denied.
No. 09–398. Louisiana, Petitioner v. Donald W. Abshire, et al. Peti
No. 09–399. Garry Moore, Petitioner v. Adventist Health System/
Georgia Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–411. Oscar L. Thomas, Petitioner v. Eric K. Shinseki, Secre

tary of Veterans Affairs, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
denied.
No. 09–415. Anderson-Tully Company, Petitioner v. Dustin McDan
iel, Attorney General of Arkansas. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–428. Carolyn L. Washington, Petitioner v. Department of De
fense, Defense Logistics Agency. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–431. City of Albany Police Department, et al., Petitioners v.
Phillip Lewis. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–449. Lester E. Patrick, Petitioner v. Eric K. Shinseki, Secre
tary of Veterans Affairs. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–462. Samuel Thomas, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–463. Benoit Brookens, Petitioner v. Hilda L. Solis, Secretary
of Labor. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–464. William J. Benson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–478. Ramnik Trivedi, Petitioner v. United States, et al. Peti
No. 09–486. Richard J. Harley, et ux., Petitioners v. Securities and
Exchange Commission. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–496. James A. Brown, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5027. Michael McNeill, Petitioner v. Frank Stamper, et al.

No. 09–5035. Jerry Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–5305. Peter J. Corines, Petitioner v. Broward County Sher
iff ’s Department, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–5429. Kerry Dean Benally, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5434. Yewhala Eshet Abebe, Petitioner v. California. Peti
No. 09–5480. Jose Luis Barrios-Beltran, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5496. Charles Gary-Don Abbey, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5542. Kenneth G. Shelton, Jr., Petitioner v. Don Roper,
Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center. Petition for writ of certio
denied.
No. 09–5547. Timothy Tyrone Johnson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5583. Saifullah Paracha, Petitioner v. Robert M. Gates, Sec
retary of Defense. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied.
No. 09–5597. Marco Antonio Garcia-Echaverria, aka Marco Garcia-
Echaverria, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–5615. Jeffery Lee Oliver, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5715. David Miranda, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5728. Darren Hollis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5739. Rinaldo Del Gallo, III, Petitioner v. Roger Parent,

No. 09–5747. Michael Joseph Flick, Petitioner v. Kentucky. Petition
No. 09–5780. Gerhard Hojan, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
No. 09–6133. Michael David Carruth, Petitioner v. Alabama. Petition
No. 09–6302. Kenneth W. Smith, Petitioner v. Betty Mitchell, War
No. 09–6379. Carlton Michael Gary, Petitioner v. Hilton Hall, War
No. 09–6392. Leon R. Rouse, Petitioner v. Department of State,
No. 09–6518. Shonda Walter, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Petition for
trict, denied.
No. 09–6579. Frances Endencia, Petitioner v. ADT Security Serv
ices, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–6580. Gary Dean Ensey, Petitioner v. Oklahoma. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma denied.
No. 09–6583. Eric Ware, Petitioner v. Jason Garnett, et al. Petition
No. 09–6585. Kenneth Kilpatrick, Petitioner v. Sergeant Hernandez,
No. 09–6590. Keith P. Smith, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
trict, denied.
No. 09–6591. David Raines, Petitioner v. Oklahoma. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma denied.
No. 09–6592. Luciano Torres, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutional Divi

No. 09–6594. Gordon Todd Skinner, Petitioner v. Oklahoma. Petition
denied.
No. 09–6602. Tyrone White, Petitioner v. School District of Philadel
phia. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
No. 09–6617. Gary Nitschke, Petitioner v. Coastal Tank Cleaning,
No. 09–6621. Joseph M. Johnston, Petitioner v. Kristian N. Allen.
No. 09–6623. Harvey E. Larson, Petitioner v. Fernando Gonzalez,
No. 09–6631. Julius Edwards, Petitioner v. Gerald L. Rozum, Super
intendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Petition
No. 09–6641. Anthony LaMarca, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Sec
denied.
No. 09–6651. Jody Ford McCreary, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
No. 09–6654. Stuart Coleman, Petitioner v. Andrew K. Ott, Warden.
No. 09–6662. Russell William Cutts, Jr., Petitioner v. Gary Hetzel,
No. 09–6665. Anthony Cardenas, Petitioner v. Fred Figueroa, War
No. 09–6666. Rogelio Corona-Cuevas, Petitioner v. Guy Hall, War
No. 09–6669. Julius Jarreau Moore, Petitioner v. Arizona. Petition

for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Arizona denied.
No. 09–6672. Scott W. Veale, Petitioner v. New Hampshire. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of New Hampshire denied.
No. 09–6674. Kevin Millen, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Supreme Court of Florida denied.
No. 09–6676. Willie J. Mosley, Petitioner v. Stephen Upton, Warden.
No. 09–6683. Anthony Falso, Petitioner v. Ablest Staffing Services,
peals for the Second Circuit denied.
No. 09–6689. Kevin Johnson, Jr., Petitioner v. Missouri. Petition for
No. 09–6690. Scott Damien Holguin, Petitioner v. Arizona. Petition
Two, denied.
No. 09–6693. Ricky D. Starks, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–6696. Craig Bundrant, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–6698. Charles A. Rippy, Jr., Petitioner v. Thomas Burkett.
No. 09–6699. Reginald Ray Spivey, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–6701. Lorn Laverne Runge, Petitioner v. Minnesota. Petition
No. 09–6703. Willie Lee Berry, Petitioner v. M. Timothy Porterfield.

No. 09–6707. Terry T. Thomas, Petitioner v. Telegraph Publishing
Company, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of
New Hampshire denied.
No. 09–6709. Kerry L. Brown, Petitioner v. Jody Hathaway, Warden.
No. 09–6711. Theodore Streater, Petitioner v. Sue Ann Gregory,
No. 09–6712. William Scott Brower, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
cuit denied.
No. 09–6718. Stephen Craig Leonard, Petitioner v. Iowa. Petition
No. 09–6723. James Trimble, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for writ of
No. 09–6726. Jermaine Walker, Petitioner v. Terry McCann, et al.
No. 09–6729. James Edmond Daly, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–6734. Dawn Wilson, Petitioner v. William J. Hauck, Adminis
trator, Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6740. Timothy Mabe, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–6751. Lorenzo Culbero, Petitioner v. New York. Petition for
No. 09–6752. William F. Davis, III, Petitioner v. Correctional Medi
cal Systems, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–6754. Jonathan Jay Parker, Petitioner v. Board of Supervi
sors, University of Louisiana-Lafayette. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–6771. Gene S. Groves, Petitioner v. Eric K. Shinseki, Secre

No. 09–6788. Jesus Cardenas Negrete, Petitioner v. Eric H.
No. 09–6794. Innocent Oguagha, Petitioner v. Richard Cravener.
No. 09–6797. Kenneth Jennings Hartman, Petitioner v. Virginia De
partment of Corrections. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–6803. Robert Hrusovsky, Petitioner v. Nuria Sjolund. Peti
No. 09–6806. Harry L. McCall, Petitioner v. H. G. Crosthwait, et al.
No. 09–6830. Claiborne Merritt, Petitioner v. Eric K. Schinseki, Sec
No. 09–6877. Hector Leonard Jardine, Petitioner v. Nevada. Petition
No. 09–6883. Andre Ramon Craver, Petitioner v. Lisa Maria Franco.
No. 09–6890. Johnnie Burnes, Petitioner v. James Rogers, Warden.
No. 09–6924. Grady Krzywkowski, Petitioner v. David Bobby, War
No. 09–6948. Youry G. Gomez, Petitioner v. Ken Clark, Warden. Peti
No. 09–6968. Detlef F. Hartmann, Petitioner v. Delaware. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Delaware denied.

No. 09–6986. Kevin Alston, Petitioner v. Court of Appeals of Wiscon
sin, District I. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of
Wisconsin denied.
No. 09–6993. Jodon Antonio Slaughter, Petitioner v. Christopher B.
Epps, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al.
No. 09–7017. Anthony Wright, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Sec
cuit denied.
No. 09–7062. Hector de Jesus, Petitioner v. Gerardo Acevedo, War
No. 09–7069. James S. Garnett, Petitioner v. Jeffrey Uttecht, Super
intendent, Washington State Penitentiary. Petition for writ of certio
No. 09–7071. Allan Parmelee, Petitioner v. Rob McKenna, Attorney
General of Washington. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–7074. Melanie Prendergast, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7079. Michael Chavis, Petitioner v. Brian Fischer, Commis
sioner, New York Department of Correctional Services, et al. Petition
No. 09–7083. Robert Louis Powell, Petitioner v. Kentucky. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Kentucky denied.
No. 09–7094. Julian Lopez, Petitioner v. Michael Thurmer, Warden.
No. 09–7099. Letrenia L. Williams, Petitioner v. Timothy F.
Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–7145. Amador Rivera, Petitioner v. Hector Rios, Warden.
No. 09–7148. Larry Nailor, Petitioner v. Juan Castillo, Warden. Peti

No. 09–7154. John Doe, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ
cuit denied.
No. 09–7155. Jawan Maris Davis, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7157. Miles Murphy, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7159. Tomas Pablo-Gonzalez, aka Tomas Pablo Gonzales, aka
Juan Garcia-Gonzalez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–7162. Gabriel Sanchez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7163. Motaz Wasif Amreya, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7164. Everett Darnell Armstrong, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7166. Audon Juarez-Galvan, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7169. Richard Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7171. David C. Brock, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7176. Willie Frank King, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–7177. Everett Lowe, Petitioner v. Joseph Mathy, Warden.
No. 09–7178. Anthony Leon Warrick, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7179. Steven J. Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7180. Danilo Isidoro Suarez, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7181. Donyell D. Cox, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7182. Glen Thomas Dotson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7183. Derrick Cooper, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7184. Javier Contrera-Aguilar, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7185. Antwaun Gilden, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7187. Dewayne Boyd, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7189. Riley Briones, Sr., Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7190. Martin Jermaine Billue, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7192. Tyrone Terry Grant, aka Ty, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7193. Matt Frost, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

Circuit denied.
No. 09–7195. Michael Dean Galloway, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7198. Emanuel Herrera, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7200. Arthur L. Avery, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7204. Tracy Alan Barnett, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7207. Yahya A. Watson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7208. Jesse Johnson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7213. Kenneth Bush, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–7214. Miguel Pita, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–7215. Curtis McAffee, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7216. Dewey B. Powell, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7217. Lewis Brown, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7221. Alberto Allan-Selvin, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–7222. Karlton Spaulding, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7226. Mario Fitzgerald Pettiford, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7227. Johnathan Wayne Wade, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7230. Michaud Wright, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7231. Kevin Weatherspoon, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7234. Rosalio Sanchez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7235. Daniel Lugo Luna, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7237. Oscar Martinez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7238. Alan David Libman, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7240. Bakari D. Mackey, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7248. George Washington, Jr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7249. Donnell Francis Timley, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7251. Jose Jesus Madrigal-Diaz, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7253. Jerry Pirtle, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

Circuit denied.
No. 09–7254. Kurt D. Anderson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7256. David Wilson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7261. Derrick U. Stricklin, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7269. Deshaun Raffles Murphy, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7271. Libardo De Jesus Parra-Gonzalez, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7273. James Roosevelt Lee, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7274. Mohammed Ahmed Kattaria, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7285. Arturo Lnu, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7288. Thomas J. Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7289. Trayvonne Mitchell, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7295. Emmanuel Thad Ereme, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7296. Denise Donovan, Petitioner v. Government of the Vir
gin Islands. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court

No. 09–7298. Juan Carlos Peraza-Carrillo, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7299. Michael Reese Coffman, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7300. James Monroe Childress, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7301. Jerome Daniels, aka JD, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7303. Edgar Beltran-Garcia, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7304. Edward Lopez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–7310. Jonathan Jackson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7312. Richard Gonzalez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7314. Eric Holmes, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7315. Derrick Harris, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7316. Manuel Danny Guerrero, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7317. Trause Gladney, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7318. Gary Christopher Felan, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7321. Steven Allen Hall, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–7323. Thomas Sylvester Hayman, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7324. Robert D. Holycross, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7327. Tony Arismendy Peguero, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7331. Luis Fernando Ortiz-Ruiz, aka Ramiro Garcia-Salgado,
No. 09–7332. Luis Manuel Pereira, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7334. Leonel Alfredo Martinez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7335. William Albert Lewis, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7336. Eric L. Jackson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7337. Donnie Johnson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7340. Alvin Pierrie Boudreau, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7341. Robert Banks, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7342. Alberto Angulo-Hernandez, Eusebio Estupinan-
Estupinan, Gustavo Rafael Brito-Fernandez, and Jose Luis Casiano

Jimenez, Petitioners v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit denied.
No. 09–7343. Norris Benton, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–7344. Randall Earl Berkefelt, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7345. Edward Booker, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7346. Michael Andre Bryant, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7348. Kenneth D. Beverly, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7349. Johnny Ray Butler, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–348. Tradin Organics USA, Incorporated, Petitioner v. Mary
land Casualty Company. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–376. David Pitkins, Superintendent, State Correctional Insti
tution at Laurel Highlands, et al., Petitioners v. Edward V. Hummel.
No. 09–383. Park Mini Storage Center Company, Petitioner v. Sam’s
East, Inc., dba Sam’s Club. Petition for writ of certiorari to the District
Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District, denied. Justice Breyer
No. 09–5217. David M. Scott, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5553. Frank Brisco, Petitioner v. Robert Ercole, Super
of this petition.
No. 09–6600. Matthew Joseph Sikora, Jr., Petitioner v. Clandestine
Attackers/Assailants, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed
United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit dismissed. See
No. 09–6609. Echo W. Dixon, Petitioner v. Leroy Grant, et al. Peti
No. 09–6645. Percy Allen Williams, Jr., Petitioner v. Robert Jones,
Superintendent, Hyde Correctional Institution. Petition for writ of cer
tiorari before judgment to the United States Court of Appeals for the
No. 09–6686. William Baumer, Petitioner v. Matthew Cate, Secre
tary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Motion
the Ninth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–6697. Benny R. Smith, Petitioner v. David R. McKune. Mo
No. 09–6721. Franz A. Wakefield, Petitioner v. Walt Disney Com
pany, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8. Justice Alito
took no part in the consideration or decision of this motion and this
petition.
No. 09–6738. Larry Vernon Jones, Petitioner v. L. E. Scribner, War
den, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari before judgment to the United

No. 09–6741. Jerry A. Hurst, Petitioner v. State Farm Mutual Auto
mobile Insurance Company, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to pro
the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit dismissed.
therein.
No. 09–6750. Mayrdawna A. Davis, Petitioner v. Bay Area Rapid
Transit District. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
pauperis denied, and petition for writ of certiorari Court of Appeal of
California, First Appellate District, dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–7146. Maximo Reyes, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–6442. In Re James Edward Leaf, Petitioner; and
No. 09–7258. In Re Andrew Eugene Newman, Petitioner. Petitions
for writs of habeas corpus denied.
Mandamus Denied
No. 09–351. In Re Jeffrey S. Pesarik, Petitioner; and
No. 09–7229. In Re Barry J. Walshe, Petitioner. Petitions for writs
of mandamus denied.
No. 09–7050. In Re Oscar Dantzler, Petitioner. Petition for writ of
Rehearings Denied
No. 08–1172. Joseph P. Nacchio, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 08–1348. Donald Eugene Railsback, Petitioner v. Washington;
No. 08–1421. Richard A. Van Auken, Petitioner v. Catron, Catron &
Pottow, P.A., et al.;
No. 08–1485. Carolyn Brown, Deloise Fikes, and James Russell, Peti
tioners v. One Beacon Insurance Company, Inc.;
No. 08–1491. Carl R. Wagenknecht, Jr., Petitioner v. Richard A.

Levin, Ohio Tax Commissioner;
No. 08–1533. Dana Lynn Mehen, Petitioner v. Delta Air Lines, Inc.,
et al.;
No. 08–1576. Rosalina Linam, Petitioner v. Daniel Linam;
No. 08–9887. Krishnaswamy Sampath, Petitioner v. Concurrent
Technologies Corporation;
No. 08–10257. Joseph Hawkins, Petitioner v. Hamlet, Ltd., et al.;
No. 08–10358. Anthony Dwayne Swift, Petitioner v. Barry Stanford;
No. 08–10361. Kathalina Monacelli, Petitioner v. The UPS Store,
et al.;
No. 08–10431. Ronnie Jean Davis, Sr., Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
tions Division;
No. 08–10444. Jarvis A. Ware, Petitioner v. Lt. Laney, et al.;
No. 08–10451. Dorian Frank O’Kelley, Petitioner v. Hilton Hall,
Warden;
No. 08–10497. James Earl Dorsey, Petitioner v. Brian Coleman,
Superintendent, Fayette State Correctional Institution;
No. 08–10575. Wylene Dinkins, Petitioner v. Kathleen Sebelius, Sec
retary of Health and Human Services;
No. 08–10617. Samuel Ethelbert Ayres, II, Petitioner v. Virginia;
No. 08–10636. Gregory Wilson, Petitioner v. Thomas L. Simpson,
Warden;
No. 08–10824. Leonard Tyrone Jones, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 08–10829. Rebecca Murray, Petitioner v. J. La Ron Locke, State
Medical Examiner, et al.;
No. 08–10956. Jerome Blackshear, Petitioner v. T. Dowling, et al.;
No. 08–10978. Vincent White, Petitioner v. Michael B. Donley, Secre
tary of the Air Force, et al.;
No. 08–11007. In Re Stanley E. Brown, Petitioner;
No. 08–11036. Angel G. Diaz, Petitioner v. Florida;
No. 08–11066. Thom Shiraishi, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 08–11084. Ida Williams, Petitioner v. William Beaumont
Hospital;
No. 09–7. James Stevens, Petitioner v. Vons Companies, Inc.;
No. 09–19. Reginald Hill, Petitioner v. United States, et al.;
No. 09–44. Ramon Cano, Petitioner v. Industrial Commission of Ari
zona, et al.;
No. 09–46. United States, ex rel. Lokesh Vuyyuru, Petitioner v. Gop
inath Jadhav, et al.;

No. 09–72. Douglas K. Brocail, Petitioner v. Detroit Tigers, Inc.;
No. 09–99. Stacy Ann Patterson, Petitioner v. AFSCME #2456;
No. 09–116. Valer V. Secarea, Jr., Petitioner v. Regents of the Uni
versity of California, et al.;
No. 09–130. Gaile K. Owens, Petitioner v. Jewel Steele, Warden;
No. 09–133. Ronald W. Morters, Petitioner v. Charles H. Barr, et al.;
No. 09–5046. Cora Moss Haywood, Petitioner v. Tribeca Lending
Corporation, et al.;
No. 09–5047. Scott Darrel Hogues, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
Division;
No. 09–5058. Erwin B. Patterson, Jr., Petitioner v. City of Chesa
peake, Virginia, et al.;
No. 09–5072. Laura D. Zahn, Petitioner v. City of San Diego,
California;
No. 09–5082. Richard O. Weeks, Petitioner v. White’s Mill Colony,
Inc.;
No. 09–5087. Tina L. Greene, Petitioner v. FLDDSO, et al.;
No. 09–5145. Gerald Adrian Brown, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–5198. Michael Charles Gorman, Petitioner v. National Trans
portation Safety Board, et al.;
No. 09–5235. Roger Stewart Harris, Petitioner v. Florida;
No. 09–5238. Anthony G. Hunt, Petitioner v. Hugh Wolfenbarger,
Warden;
No. 09–5282. William Best, Petitioner v. Geico Casualty Company;
No. 09–5287. Ben J. Mullins, Petitioner v. United States;
tional Consortium, et al.;
No. 09–5328. Wells Holland, Petitioner v. Renee Holland;
No. 09–5359. Stuart Wayne Tompkins, Petitioner v. R. David Mitch
ell, Correctional Administrator IV, Mountain View Correctional
Institution;
No. 09–5406. Carmen Powell, Petitioner v. San Diego County Health
and Human Services Agency;
No. 09–5438. April Griffin, Petitioner v. Matthew Sebuliba;
No. 09–5518. Frederick M. Creusere, Petitioner v. Rosa L. Weaver,
et al.;
No. 09–5552. Wayne Tatum, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–5582. Murlin R. Phillips, Petitioner v. Missouri;
No. 09–5643. Jeffrey Dean Hanks, Petitioner v. Ed Wright, War
den, et al.;
No. 09–5707. Mary E. White, Petitioner v. Supreme Court of New

Jersey, et al.;
No. 09–5735. Jesus Maria Lopez, Petitioner v. Michael Wallace, et al.;
No. 09–5770. Anna Karin Antonsson, Petitioner v. John Kast;
No. 09–5921. Serajul Haque, Petitioner v. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, et al.; and
No. 09–5979. Jorge Ramirez-Ponce, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Petitions for re
hearing denied.
No. 08–1354. Ann M. DeSalvo, Petitioner v. Joachim J. Volhard, et al.
Petition for rehearing denied. Justice Sotomayor took no part in the
No. 08–1511. Wendell F. Gilley, Petitioner v. Monsanto Company,
Inc., et al. Motion to defer consideration of the petition for writ of
certiorari denied. Petition for rehearing denied.
No. 08–8135. Carlayne Sims, Petitioner v. City of New York, New
York, et al. Motion for leave to file a petition for rehearing denied.
this motion.
No. 09–5692. Remi Chide Njoku, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
Attorney General, et al. Motion for leave to file a petition for rehear
ing denied.
Attorney Discipline
No. D–2457. In the Matter of Discipline of Anthony J. Siciliano. An
thony J. Siciliano, of West Springfield, Massachusetts, is suspended
from the practice of law in this Court and a rule will issue, returnable
within 40 days, requiring him to show cause why he should not be
disbarred from the practice of law in this Court.
No. D–2458. In the Matter of Discipline of Leo P. DeMarco, II. Leo
P. DeMarco, II, of Malden, Massachusetts, is suspended from the prac
tice of law in this Court and a rule will issue, returnable within 40 days,
requiring him to show cause why he should not be disbarred from the
practice of law in this Court.
No. D–2459. In the Matter of Discipline of J. Lincoln Passmore. J.
Lincoln Passmore, of Dover, Massachusetts, is suspended from the
practice of law in this Court and a rule will issue, returnable within
40 days, requiring him to show cause why he should not be disbarred
from the practice of law in this Court.
No. D–2460. In the Matter of Discipline of Jeffrey Neil Berman.
Jeffrey Neil Berman, of Newton Center, Massachusetts, is suspended

No. D–2461. In the Matter of Discipline of Thomas E. Finnerty.
Thomas E. Finnerty, of South Boston, Massachusetts, is suspended
No. D–2462. In the Matter of Discipline of Stafford Sheehan. Staff
ord Sheehan, of Fall River, Massachusetts, is suspended from the prac
No. D–2463. In the Matter of Discipline of Bruce N. Sachar. Bruce
N. Sachar, of Lynn, Massachusetts, is suspended from the practice of
law in this Court and a rule will issue, returnable within 40 days,
Robert Alan Ader Miami, FL Benedict P.

Kuehne
Peter Alley Boston, MA John F.
Farraher, Jr.
Cory L. Andrews Alexandria, VA Steven D.
Merryday
John L. Badalamenti Tampa, FL Rosemary Cakmis
Valerie L. Bailey-Rihn Madison, WI Roy L. Prange, Jr.
Yohai Baisburd North Potomac, Jaime Manuel
MD Crowe
Louis M. Barbone Atlantic City, NJ Arthur J. Murray
Richard G. Bergeron Washington, DC Cabanne Howard
William L. Bernard Cedar City, UT Gary Wayne
Pendleton
Debra Bodian Bernstein New York, NY Steven Troup
Donald A. Corbett New York, NY Ira Lee Sorkin
James Samuel Ellis Cowan Houston, TX Jeffrey Alan
Lamken
Eric Barkley Estes Little Rock, AR Charles L.
Moulton
Lucas J. Foust Bozeman, MT Daniel J. Donovan

Patricia B. Gary Boston, MA Douglas Marc

Marrano

Covert J. Geary New Orleans, LA Edward Hart

Bergin
Mark William Gibbons Carson City, NV Douglas R. Shaw
D. Randall Gilmer Trenton, MI Edwina Clifton
Rogers
Christina Finzel Gomez Denver, CO Stephen
Masciocchi
William John Grant Inverness, FL Milan Bo
Samargya
Gay Gueringer San Antonio, TX Sheldon Edward
Richie
Jennifer Renee Haymes Alexandria, VA Paul W. Layer
Robert W. Helm Washington, DC Paul Howard
Friedman
James J. Helminski Grand Rapids, MI Donald L. Petrulis
Daniel G. Hempey Lihue, HI Paul Francois
DeMeester
Robert J. Herrington Los Angeles, CA Lance A.
Etcheverry
Sharon Anne Hicks Columbus, OH Melissa Jo Callais
Mark Andrew Hirsch Albuquerque, NM J. Brent Ricks
Elizabeth Brady Hitt Miami, FL Benedict P.
Kuehne
David Ryan Herring Tyler, TX Robert Scott
Iglesias Davis
Diana Nickerson Jacobs Pittsburgh, PA David Bennet
Rodes
Jeremy L. Johnson Minneapolis, MN Aaron F. Biber
John C. Kairis Wilmington, DE James Richard
Banko
Tracey Kitzman New York, NY Mark Reinhardt
Francis H. Koh Bethesda, MD Deane A. Shure
Andrew N. Krinsky New York, NY Steven Troup
Robin H. Kyle Detroit, MI Kenneth N.
Hylton, Sr.
Gregory Wayne Laird Oklahoma City, Robert Alan
OK Ravitz

Ronald S. Lederman Southfield, MI Gerard James

Andree
Robert C. Leventhal Los Angeles, CA William Joseph
Robinson
Todd H. Master Redwood City, CA Joseph C.
Howard, Jr.
Thomas J. Meloro New York, NY John M. DiMatteo
Gilbert G. Miller Somerville, NJ Mark Howard
Friedman
Nicole Mireille Moen Minneapolis, MN Thomas S. Fraser
Jason Bradley Moore Louisville, KY Michael Louis
Harned
William R. Morgan Syracuse, NY Paul Irwin
Newman
G. Gus Morris West Bloomfield, Kevin Kenneth
MI Kilby
John F. Morrow, Jr. Winston-Salem, Robert D.
NC Mason, Jr.
Michael J. Newman Philadelphia, PA George Eric
Brunstad, Jr.
T. Russell Nobile Natchez, MS H. Christopher
Coates
Ted W. Pelletier, Jr. San Anselmo, CA Daniel Upham
Smith
Ira Michael Press New York, NY Roger Winston
Kirby
Daniel B. Ravicher New York, NY Eben Moglen
Terence M. Ridley Denver, CO Michael J.
O’Donnell
Amanda Kay Roberts Sheridan, WY Robert G. Berger
David Michael Rodi Houston, TX Macey Reasoner
Stokes
Seema Saifee New York, NY Gary Philip
Naftalis
Douglas V. Sanchez Mahwah, NJ Joel J. Reinfeld
Henry William Sappenfield Durham, NC Reginald B.
Gillespie, Jr.
Antonia Lynne Sequeira Los Altos, CA Narinder Singh
Banait
Jason Timothy Shipp Pittsburgh, PA David Bennet

Rodes
Bryan William Shook Camp Hill, PA Richard Paul Sills
Donald Bartlett Smith Pittsburgh, PA Robert Louis
Allen, Jr.
Lisa L. Tharpe Chicago, IL Michael M.
Conway
Jacqueline Voronov-Curko Montvale, NJ Robert Francis
Gold
Steven Michael War North Potomac, Gary M. Hoffman
MD
Jonathan G. Weber Ypsilanti, MI Michael J.
Steinberg
Brian Kent Wunder Plainville, KS Finis Ewing
Cowan
Susan Fowler Maven Absecon, NJ Tonia Jones

Powell
Martin T. McCracken Raleigh, NC Christopher G.
Browning, Jr.
Deborah A. Garza Washington, DC Edwin M.
Zimmerman
Sara Azari Los Angeles, CA Mary Lou Soller
Erin Rebecca Chlopak Washington, DC Kevin Andrew
Deeley
David G. Sigale Lisle, IL Alan Gura
Marcia Kay Sowles Arlington, VA David Michael
Glass
Charles Juster Piven Stevenson, MD David C.
Frederick
Bruce David Bernstein New York, NY David C.
Frederick
William Curtis Fredericks New York, NY David C.
Frederick
Boaz A. Weinstein New York, NY David C.
Frederick
Adam Henry Wierzbowski New York, NY David C.
Frederick

Elliott J. Weiss Tucson, AZ David C.

Frederick
Michele Bouziane Washington, DC William D.
Baumgartner
Emily Michelle Gibbons Thousand Oaks, William D.
CA Baumgartner
Elisabeth Ann Pepper Washington, DC William D.
Baumgartner
Thomas H. Van Horn Arlington, VA William D.
Baumgartner
David Eric O’Connell Alexandria, VA William D.
Baumgartner
Lineka Nenita Quijano New York, NY William D.
Baumgartner
Angela Renee Watson Crofton, MD William D.
Baumgartner
Michelle C. Bas Alameda, CA William D.
Baumgartner
Patrick Murphy Flynn Wantagh, NY William D.
Baumgartner
Oral Arguments
et al., Petitioners v. United States, ex rel. Karen T. Wilson. Argued by
Mr. Solicitor General Christopher G. Browning, Jr. for the petitioners,
by Mr. Mark T. Hurt for the respondent, and by Mr. Douglas Hallward-
Driemeier for the United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of
the Court, supporting the respondent.
No. 08–905. Merck & Co., Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Richard Reyn
olds, et al. Argued by Mr. Kannon K. Shanmugam for the petitioners,
by Mr. David C. Frederick for the respondents, and by Mr. Malcolm L.
Stewart for the United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of
the Court, supporting the respondents.
Adjourned until Tuesday, December 1, 2009, at 10 o’clock.

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Ian Swart Fredericks Wilmington, DE Richard Morton

Lieb
Heath Douglas Rosenblat New York, NY Richard Morton
Lieb
Edward William Vopat Bellmore, NY Richard Morton
Lieb
Nafiz Cekirge Los Angeles, CA Adam S. Lurie
Lester J. Levy San Francisco, CA Adam S. Lurie
Stephen T. Raff Franklin Lakes, Adam S. Lurie
NJ
Barbara J. Brandes New York, NY Adam S. Lurie
Benjamin Jay Cooper Arlington, VA Adam S. Lurie
Zhen Huang New York, NY Adam S. Lurie
Christina Danette Porter Albany, NY Adam S. Lurie
Dovid Zechariah Schwartz Flushing, NY Adam S. Lurie
Sherry-Ann Natasha Smith Brooklyn, NY Adam S. Lurie
Thomas J. Abinanti White Plains, NY Judge Salvatore
Anthony

Lagonia

Salvatore Michael Di Harrison, NY Judge Salvatore

Costanzo Anthony
Lagonia
Michael Kevin Duffy White Plains, NY Judge Salvatore
Anthony
Lagonia
Mary Ellen Manley White Plains, NY Judge Salvatore
Anthony
Lagonia
Florence T. McCue Elmsford, NY Judge Salvatore
Anthony
Lagonia
368 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2009
Laurie E. Rosen Bronx, NY Judge Salvatore

Anthony
Lagonia
Nancy Jean Rudolph White Plains, NY Judge Salvatore
Anthony
Lagonia
Andrew P. Schriever Dobbs Ferry, NY Judge Salvatore
Anthony
Lagonia
Adam Seiden Mount Vernon, Judge Salvatore
NY Anthony
Lagonia
Robert S. Stone Mount Kisco, NY Judge Salvatore
Anthony
Lagonia
Peter P. Zeltner Scarsdale, NY Judge Salvatore
Anthony
Lagonia
Oral Arguments
No. 08–1119. Milavetz, Gallop & Milavetz, P.A., et al., Petitioners v.
United States; and
No. 08–1225. United States, Petitioner v. Milavetz, Gallop & Mila
vetz, P.A., et al. Argued by Mr. G. Eric Brunstad, Jr. for Milavetz,
Gallop & Milavetz, P.A., et al. and by Mr. William M. Jay for the
United States.
J. Espinosa. Argued by Ms. Madeleine C. Wanslee for the petitioner,
by Mr. Toby J. Heytens for the United States as amicus curiae, by
special leave of the Court, supporting the petitioner, and by
Mr. Michael J. Meehan for the respondent.
Adjourned until Wednesday, December 2, 2009, at 10 o’clock.

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tice Thomas, Justice Ginsburg, Justice Breyer, Justice Alito, and Jus
tice Sotomayor.

Jennifer Marie Erickson Chicago, IL Jeffrey Bryan

Baak Wall
Susanne Aberbach-Marolda White Plains, NY John Spencer
Marwell
John Thomas Brophy Rye, NY John Spencer
Marwell
Edgar P. Campbell Valhalla, NY John Spencer
Marwell
Frances A. DeThomas Larchmont, NY John Spencer
Marwell
Irene J. Goldsmith White Plains, NY John Spencer
Marwell
Eli M. Moore Scarsdale, NY John Spencer
Marwell
Donald Keith Sandford Rye, NY John Spencer
Marwell
Irene W. Sandford Somers, NY John Spencer
Marwell
Michele A. Silva Bronxville, NY John Spencer
Marwell
Margaret Harrington Tyre Rye, NY John Spencer
Marwell
Joanne C. Whalen Valhalla, NY John Spencer
Marwell
Oral Argument
ida Department of Environmental Protection, et al. Argued by Mr. D.
Kent Safriet for the petitioner, by Mr. Solicitor General Scott D. Makar
for the respondents, and by Mr. Edwin S. Kneedler for the United
States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting
the respondents.
370 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2009
Adjourned until Monday, December 7, 2009, at 10 o’clock.
Certiorari Denied
No. 09–7839 (09A521). Cecil C. Johnson, Petitioner v. Phil Brede
sen, Governor of Tennessee, et al. On application for stay and petition
Sixth Circuit. Application for stay of execution of sentence of death
presented to Justice Stevens and by him referred to the Court denied.
for the Sixth Circuit denied. Statement by Justice Stevens, with whom
Justice Breyer joins, respecting the denial of the petition for writ of
certiorari. Statement by Justice Thomas, concurring in the denial of
the petition for writ of certiorari.
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No. 09–7843 (09A524). In Re Bobby Woods, Petitioner. Application
for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Scalia
and by him referred to the Court denied. Petition for writ of habeas
corpus denied.
Certiorari Denied
No. 09–7879 (09A533). Bobby Wayne Woods, Petitioner v. Texas.
Justice Sotomayor would grant the application for stay of execution.
Certiorari Denied
No. 09–7880 (09A535). Bobby Wayne Woods, Petitioner v. Brad Liv
ingston, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Circuit denied.
(JOURNAL) MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2009 373


Opinion Per Curiam

No. 09–91. Michigan, Petitioner v. Jeremy Fisher. On petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Michigan. Petition for writ
of certiorari granted. Judgment reversed, and case remanded to the
Court of Appeals of Michigan for further proceedings not inconsistent
with the opinion of this Court. Opinion per curiam. Dissenting opinion
by Justice Stevens, with whom Justice Sotomayor joins.

No. 09M43. Norma Cristina Drummond de Johnson, Petitioner v.
Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General. Motion for leave to proceed
in forma pauperis without an affidavit of indigency executed by peti
tioner granted. Justice Sotomayor took no part in the consideration or
decision of this motion.
No. 08–1341. United States, Petitioner v. Glenn Marcus. Motion of
the Solicitor General to dispense with printing the joint appendix
granted. Justice Sotomayor took no part in the consideration or deci
sion of this motion.
No. 09–5327. Albert Holland, Petitioner v. Florida. Motion of peti
tioner for appointment of counsel granted. Todd G. Scher, Esquire, of
Miami Beach, Florida, is appointed to serve as counsel for the peti
tioner in this case.
No. 09–5768. In Re Gerald Hinrick Miller, Petitioner. Motion of peti
pauperis denied.
fornia, Los Angeles County, et al. Motion of petitioner for reconsidera
tion of order denying leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied.
No. 09–6684. Gregory T. Howard, Petitioner v. United States Dis
trict Court for the Southern District of Ohio, et al. Motion of petitioner
374 MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2009

peris denied.
No. 09–6732. Noris G. Rogers, Petitioner v. KBR Technical Services,
Inc. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis de
nied. Petitioner allowed until December 28, 2009, within which to pay
No. 09–6765. Darryl McGore, Petitioner v. Thomas Birkett, Warden.
Petitioner allowed until December 28, 2009, within which to pay the
Certiorari Granted
No. 08–1371. Christian Legal Society Chapter of the University of
California, Hastings College of the Law, aka Hastings Christian Fel
lowship, Petitioner v. Leo P. Martinez, et al. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
granted.
No. 09–6338. Percy Dillon, Petitioner v. United States. Motion of
Circuit granted.
Certiorari Denied
No. 08–10760. Willie J. Mouling, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
District of Columbia Circuit denied.
No. 09–270. Michael Burnell Marley, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–341. Anthony D’Aria, Petitioner v. Joseph Glass, et al.; and
No. 09–410. Marty Evans, Petitioner v. Joseph Glass, et al. Petitions
No. 09–396. Jalana Hudson, Petitioner v. Georgia. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Georgia denied.
No. 09–397. Andre S. Henley, Petitioner v. Georgia. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Georgia denied.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2009 375

No. 09–401. Geoffrey N. Fieger, Petitioner v. Supreme Court of
South Carolina. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of
South Carolina denied.
No. 09–403. Darryl Jones, Petitioner v. City of Franklin, Tennessee.
No. 09–404. YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago, et al., Petitioners v.
U. S. Bank, as Trustee of the Roe Ann Lockhart OBRA ’93 Trust, et al.
District, denied.
No. 09–405. United States, ex rel. Bruce Darian, Petitioner v. Accent
Builders, Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–406. United States, ex rel. Bruce Darian, Petitioner v. David
J. Pasternak, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–423. Ralph L. Stacey, Jr., Executor of the Estate of Marie
Stacey, Deceased, Petitioner v. Patricia M. Tierney. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate
District, denied.
No. 09–452. Robert S. Fastov, Petitioner v. Christie’s International
PLC, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–488. The Thomas Kinkade Company, LLC, et al., Petitioners
v. Karen Hazlewood, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–512. Jonathan K. Smith, Petitioner v. Commissioner of Inter
No. 09–514. Gregory Louis Clarke, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–526. Sitthiphone Phengsengkham, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–534. Irvin Hannis Catlett, Jr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–552. John Lawton Ledingham, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–5076. Mary Kincaid-Chauncey, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5515. Darlene R. Quinn, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5694. Robert L. Bolden, Sr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5708. Mustafa Al Uzayti, aka Abu Faraj Al Libbi, Petitioner
v. Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense. Petition for writ of certiorari
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5734. Darryl T. Luster, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
surance Company, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–6186. Michael Jerome Lewis, Petitioner v. Alabama. Petition
No. 09–6243. Kevin Scott Varga, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
Board of Education, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–6774. Palmira Galache, Petitioner v. Ron Kenan, Warden.
No. 09–6775. William James Gates, Petitioner v. Michigan. Petition
No. 09–6780. Robert Frost, Jr., Petitioner v. G. Toney. Petition for
Circuit denied.

No. 09–6784. Joseph A. Anderson, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6786. Alexander Brown, Petitioner v. City of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–6789. Sophear Om, Petitioner v. California. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, Third Appellate Dis
trict, denied.
No. 09–6791. Henry Tom Garland, Jr., Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
No. 09–6796. Robert Hrusovsky, Petitioner v. Michael Harlow,
Superintendent, State Regional Correctional Facility at Mercer, et al.
No. 09–6798. Ray Hagins, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secretary,
No. 09–6805. Sebren A. Pierce, Petitioner v. United States District
Court for the Central District of California. Petition for writ of certio
No. 09–6811. Linell Leonard Dumas, Jr., Petitioner v. R. K. Wong,
No. 09–6812. Matthew Johnson, Petitioner v. Alfred Garcia, et al.
No. 09–6829. Steven Pelletier, Petitioner v. Richard M. Gerry, War
No. 09–6836. Kevin Millen, Petitioner v. Management Cleaning Con
trols. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Tennessee,
Western Division, denied.
No. 09–6842. Jarvis Jay Shelton, Petitioner v. Ronald W. King,

Superintendent, South Mississippi Correctional Facility. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6848. Christian De La Vega, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–6850. Edgar Deleon-Puentes, Petitioner v. Jeri-Ann Sherry,
No. 09–6851. Jason M. Day, Petitioner v. Stanley F. Trybulski. Peti
No. 09–6852. Bobby Paradise, Petitioner v. Stephen Roberts, War
denied.
No. 09–6855. Ashton R. O’Dwyer, Jr., Petitioner v. Louisiana, et al.
No. 09–6861. DeWayne Allen Knowles, Petitioner v. Greg Province,
No. 09–6862. Albert R. Kuperman, Petitioner v. Richard M. Gerry,
No. 09–6864. Kenneth M. Lewis, Petitioner v. Stan Burtt, Warden.
No. 09–6867. Moises Ibarra Perez, Petitioner v. Oregon. Petition for
No. 09–6880. Anthony Jerome Cooper, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition
No. 09–6893. Wayne Ernest Barker, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
No. 09–6894. Jorge Arrellano, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Thirteenth District,
denied.
No. 09–6895. Marty Wayne Bell, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,

No. 09–6896. David M. Walker, Petitioner v. Carter County, Ken
tucky, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–6897. Willie Young, Petitioner v. McKither Bodison, Warden.
No. 09–6926. Jamie Kirnon, Petitioner v. Michael D. Klopotoski,
Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Petition
No. 09–6950. Anna Midi, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney
No. 09–6971. Tevis R. Ignacio, Petitioner v. United States, et al.
No. 09–6992. Stanley M. Ballenger, Petitioner v. Robert H. Mauney,
No. 09–6994. Chauncey Middleton, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
trict, denied.
No. 09–7021. Philip Marshner, Jr., Petitioner v. Maryland. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
denied.
No. 09–7029. Martin Allen Johnson, Petitioner v. Oregon. Petition
No. 09–7109. Jose Santos, Petitioner v. David DiGuglielmo, Super
intendent, State Correctional Institution at Graterford, et al. Petition
No. 09–7120. Willie Lambert, Petitioner v. Michigan. Petition for
No. 09–7129. German Cruz, Petitioner v. Ray Lawler, Superintend
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7135. Kevin Dyke, Petitioner v. Harold W. Clarke, Commis

sioner, Massachusetts Department of Correction. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–7139. William Duane Scriber, Petitioner v. Robert Koppel,
No. 09–7150. Allen David Rector, Petitioner v. Georgia. Petition for
No. 09–7151. George Swisher, Petitioner v. David Wakefield, et al.
No. 09–7152. Scott Slade, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Petition for
Office, denied.
No. 09–7194. John Fitzgerald Hanson, Petitioner v. Oklahoma. Peti
homa denied.
No. 09–7196. Thomas Griffith Fuller, Jr., Petitioner v. Kentucky.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Kentucky
denied.
No. 09–7205. Floyd Bledsoe, Petitioner v. Louis Bruce, Warden, et al.
No. 09–7209. Norval Patten, Petitioner v. William M. Fleming, Jr.,
Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of
Georgia, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–7212. Ryan C. Kirkpatrick, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District,
denied.
No. 09–7224. Willie Clark, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7241. Lazaro Macias, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre

No. 09–7242. Ronald Clark, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Petition for
trict, denied.
No. 09–7255. Mary E. White, Petitioner v. Stuart Rabner, Chief Jus
tice, Supreme Court of New Jersey. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–7329. Gustavo Solis-Martinez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7355. Thyron Cornell Richardson, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7356. Derrick Shareef, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7359. Norberto Barrera, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7364. Jose Pablo Romero, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7369. Shannon Lamont Mathis, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7371. Andrew Christopher Bryant, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7372. Larry Charles Welch, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7375. Jesse Christopher Cordova, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7376. David L. Deputy, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7378. Rodolfo Velasquez-Martinez, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7380. Tyrone Pratt, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

Circuit denied.
No. 09–7387. Dionysius Spencer Fox, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7389. Michael Ray Gamble, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7393. Pedro Osequera-Morales, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7396. Mamadou Diallo, aka Muhammed Diallo, aka Muham
mad Diallo, aka Mohammed Diallo, aka Amadou Diallo, Petitioner v.
No. 09–7401. Joseph Howard Ortkiese, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7403. Dale Baldwin, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–7404. Antonio Robertson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7406. Francisco Saldana, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7407. Sylvester Savage, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7409. Karen Hartstein, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7411. Cesar Gustavo Payan-Carrill, aka Jesus Manuel Mata-
Carillo, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to

No. 09–7416. Kelvin Sanders, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
denied.
No. 09–7417. Celestino Rivera-Castaneda, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7420. Aaron Tyrone Wilson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7421. John Odell Culverhouse, aka John Odel Culverhouse,
No. 09–7422. Dean R. Gatherum, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7427. Cecil Levon Grider, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7429. Javier Gacia-Villegas, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7430. Frankie L. Hilliard, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7431. Monclair Henderson-El, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7432. Samuel Rodney Holmes, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7434. Orestes A. Hernandez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7437. Jeffrey Paul Gruber, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7438. Oliver Higgins, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7439. Donald Griggs, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

Circuit denied.
No. 09–7440. Asika M. Nweke, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7447. Rolando Romero, Petitioner v. United States Parole
No. 09–7449. Richard Porter, aka Whop, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7459. Russell J. Frauendorfer, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7463. Alphonso Gainer, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7464. Ronald Hunter, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7465. Bulmaro Carapia-Garcia, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7473. Olbin Neftali Medina, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7474. Terry Bernard Michael, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7475. Sorenson O. Oruche, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7477. Ronald Mayberry, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7482. Marion Yarbrough, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–7491. Robertino Vasquez, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–1375. Cassens Transport Co., et al., Petitioners v. Paul
Brown, et al. Motion of MI Self-Insurers Association for leave to file a
brief as amicus curiae granted. Motion of American Trucking Associa
tions, Inc. for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted. Motion of
DRI—The Voice of the Defense Bar for leave to file a brief as amicus
curiae granted. Motion of National Council of Self-Insurers, et al. for
No. 09–536. Edward Burke, III, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6768. Edward Staley, Petitioner v. Hilton Hall, Warden. Mo
No. 09–6818. Eric D. Smith, Petitioner v. J. David Donahue, et al.
and petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Indiana,
Third District, dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–6828. Robert Franklin Caldwell, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler,
tions Division. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pau
No. 09–6843. Mihretu Dasisa, Petitioner v. Expert Care Nursing
Service, Inc. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pau
Court of Appeals for the First Circut dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–6871. Lincoln Lane Addleman, Jr., Petitioner v. Washington,
nied, and petition for writ of certiorari Ninth Circuit dismissed. See
Rule 39.8.
No. 09–6878. Hon Chung Lau, Petitioner v. George Giurbina, War
den, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
No. 09–6888. Steven Earl Beaver, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,

Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections. Motion of petitioner for
certiorari to the Supreme Court of Florida dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–6969. Benjamin Spencer Gossett, Petitioner v. Administra
tion of George W. Bush, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed
United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit dismissed. See
Rule 39.8.
No. 09–7362. Domingo Suriel, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7397. Josue Flores Carreto, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–7290. In Re Abdul Hamid Al-Ghizzawi, Petitioner;
No. 09–7454. In Re Lee Nichols Miller, Petitioner; and
No. 09–7511. In Re Terrence D. Bromell, Petitioner. Petitions for
writs of habeas corpus denied.
No. 09–7470. In Re Martin A. Armstrong, Petitioner. Motion of peti
writ of habeas corpus dismissed. See Rule 39.8. Justice Sotomayor took
Mandamus Denied
No. 09–6857. In Re Webster Bivens, Petitioner. Petition for writ of
mandamus denied.
No. 09–6854. In Re Ralph Oyague, Petitioner. Petition for writ of
mandamus denied. Justice Sotomayor took no part in the consideration
Rehearings Denied
No. 08–1389. John Prelesnik, Warden, Petitioner v. Chamar Avery;
No. 08–10085. William Roger McNeill, Petitioner v. Preston
Goff, Jr., Warden;

No. 08–10225. Al-Muhammad Aleek Shabazz, aka Roger L.
Dennis, Jr., Petitioner v. First Correctional Medical Services, et al.;
No. 08–10488. Darryl Bernard Watts, Petitioner v. D. L. Runnels,
Warden, et al.;
No. 08–10511. Michael Raihala, Petitioner v. William C. Whitbeck,
et al.;
No. 08–10643. Harland P. Kenyon, Petitioner v. Wyoming Depart
ment of Corrections, et al.;
No. 08–10728. Theodore Stevens, Petitioner v. Nevada;
No. 08–10743. Theodore W. Oswald, Petitioner v. Michael Thurmer,
Warden;
No. 08–10841. Darrell Samuel, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 08–10962. Adolfo Rojas-Barrera, Petitioner v. Timothy Wen
gler, Warden;
No. 08–10977. Laurie Marie Laskey, Petitioner v. Charles
Industries;
No. 08–11014. Laurie Marie Laskey, Petitioner v. United Online,
Inc.;
No. 09–101. Patricia Smith, et al., Petitioners v. Thomas Jefferson
University Hospital, et al.;
No. 09–171. Michael Halliwell and James Parker, Petitioners v.
Superior Court of California, Sonoma County, et al.;
No. 09–210. Robert E. Frazier, Petitioner v. Kathleen Sebelius,
Secretary of Health and Human Services;
No. 09–295. Colvin I. Bert, Petitioner v. Comptroller of the Treasury
of Maryland;
No. 09–324. Judy A. Wiley, Petitioner v. Timothy F. Geithner, Secre
tary of the Treasury, et al.;
No. 09–5097. Robert V. Hostetter, Petitioner v. Virginia;
No. 09–5109. Charlotte V. Woods, Petitioner v. Social Security
Administration;
No. 09–5228. Peter T. McCarthy, Petitioner v. Nicholas Jenkins,
et al.;
No. 09–5349. Willie S. Merriweather, Petitioner v. Cecilia Reynolds,
Warden, et al.;
No. 09–5458. Christopher Robinson, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–5605. Carlos Gonzalez, Petitioner v. Asset Acceptance,

LLC, et al.;
No. 09–5867. Bryan Davis, Sr., Petitioner v. D. E. Vanderville, et al.;
No. 09–5902. Henry Lee Griffin, Jr., Petitioner v. Joseph G. Ortiz,
et al.;
No. 09–6013. Edward Hill, Petitioner v. District of Columbia Depart
ment of Employment Services, et al.;
No. 09–6168. Rory M. Walsh, Petitioner v. United States, et al.;
No. 09–6211. Owen Britton Troxelle, Petitioner v. United States; and
No. 09–6773. In Re Colleen Fullerblack, Petitioner. Petitions for re
hearing denied.
No. 08–10348. Terry Lee Gialto, Petitioner v. George W. Bush, et al.
No. 08–10996. Joan Legeno, Petitioner v. Douglas Elliman, LLC.
No. 09–5610. Abdel Raheim, Petitioner v. New York City Board of
Education, et al. Petition for rehearing denied. Justice Sotomayor took

Sara Becker Allman Larkspur, CA Jon B. Eisenberg

Margaret Angelucci Chicago, IL Joel Abbott
D’Alba
Andrew Brady Banzhoff Asheville, NC Anthony Alan
Coxie
Hal A. Barrow Southampton, PA Alan B. Epstein
Mark Thomas Berhow St. Paul, MN Thomas Patrick
Kane
Eric Joseph Brignac Raleigh, NC Jane Ely Pearce
Francis V. Cook Princeton, NJ Jonathan Meyers
Michele N. Cotrupe Chicago, IL Marvin Gittler
Dayna Marie DePerro Cleveland, OH Thomas Michael
Wilson
Debra Jean Dial Indianapolis, IN Kenneth J. Falk
A. Donald C. Discepolo Baltimore, MD Deborah Kim
St. Lawrence
Terrel B. DoRemus Tulsa, OK Gerald J. Lovoi

Lauri R. Ellias Southfield, MI Elizabeth L.

Jacobs
Natalie Ruth Eness Ankeny, IA James M.
Rosenbaum
David M. Ermer Washington, DC Anthony F.
Shelley
Jeffrey L. Fox Parkville, MO Dean L. Whitford
Gary B. Friedman New York, NY Christopher W.
Hellmich
Ralph J. Gabric Chicago, IL Cynthia A. Homan
Kerri Anne Gildow Atlanta, GA Robert Steven
Remar
Raphael M. Goldman Berkeley, CA Ted W. Cassman
Judybeth Greene Washington, DC Honorable Ruth B.
Ginsburg,
Associate
Justice of the
Supreme Court
Thomas A. Hagemann Houston, TX Gregory
Lawrence Poe
Samuel C. Hall, Jr. Milwaukee, WI Gregg T.
Heidenreich
David Paul Harris Sacramento, CA Ronald Wayne
Beals
Oona A. Hathaway New Haven, CT Harold Hongju
Koh
Randolph Stevenson Hom Hayward, CA Richard Thomas
White
Patrick Thomas Igoe Philadelphia, PA Karen Ann Ulmer
Vanessa Greenwood Chicago, IL Nathan Philip
Jacobsen Eimer
Aimee Pirone Keane Birmingham, AL James P.
Alexander
James L. Kelly Brandon, MS James D. Bell
Rory King Aberdeen, SD John Patrick
Guhin
Matthew A. Kupillas New York, NY Richard H. Weiss
David Ching-Fong Lai Arcadia, CA Mark H.
Sydenham
Karen Stoutamyer Law Ashburn, VA Josephene B.

Marten
Josh Lee Little Rock, AR Jenniffer Morris
Horan
Julie L. Leichtman Chicago, IL Cynthia A. Homan
Erik Levin New York, NY Randy A. Hertz
John W. Liguori, Jr. Latham, NY Stephen J.
Rehfuss
R. Michael McCauley, Jr. Lubbock, TX Dale Thomas
Johnson
Thomas Peter McNamara Raleigh, NC Jane Ely Pearce
Rodric Anthony Pacheco Riverside, CA Grover C. Trask,
II
Patrick Thierry Perkins New York, NY Roger L. Zissu
Ethan M. Posner Washington, DC Jonathan L.
Marcus
Timothy Thomas Pridmore Lubbock, TX Dale Thomas
Johnson
Hilary Kathleen Ratway Washington, DC Brian A. Ratner
Larry Roberson San Antonio, TX Clarkson F. Brown
Richard M. Rothfuss Cincinnati, OH Jon Jay
Lieberman
Ted Sampsell-Jones Minneapolis, MN Dennis P. Riordan
Walter Sapronov Atlanta, GA Robert J. Butler
John Barret Scott Dallas, TX Roy I. Liebman
Andrew Raymond Seger Lubbock, TX Dale Thomas
Johnson
Christopher P. Silva Boston, MA Barbara Lee
Moore
Lila J. Silverstein Seattle, WA Gregory Charles
Link
Lester F. Smith Jackson, MS Thomas W.
Crockett, Jr.
Travis Michael Smith Austin, TX Verne D. J. Philips
James R. Sobieraj Chicago, IL Cynthia A. Homan
Tait Russell Swanson Houston, TX Manish B. Vyas
Dehai Tao Ann Arbor, MI Edwin Lee Pear

Creighton A. Thurman Yankton, SD David Michael

Hosmer
Kelley Leann Tiffany Washington, DC Katherine Ellen
Weathers
Terry L. Weber Tulsa, OK Brian E. Dittrich
J. Michael Weston Dallas, TX Mark E. Bennett
Adam Jeffrey White Washington, DC David Bryan
Sentelle
Norman A. Yatooma Birmingham, MI Mayer
Morganroth

Jason B. Hendren Little Rock, AR Honorable Jimm

Larry Hendren
Robert Michael Bell Hollywood, FL Judge Richard
William
Boylston
Benjamin Michael Boylston Tavares, FL Judge Richard
William
Boylston
Mark Vincent Purpura Wilmington, DE John Charles
Boger
John Daniel Shugrue Chicago, IL John Charles
Boger
John E. Titus Chicago, IL John Charles
Boger
Jonathan Adams Barrett Charlotte, NC John Charles
Boger
Locke T. Clifford Greensboro, NC John Charles
Boger
Lisa Frye Garrison Greensboro, NC John Charles
Boger
Charlotte Louise Offerdahl Charlotte, NC John Charles
Boger
Kieran Joseph Shanahan Raleigh, NC John Charles
Boger
Linda Stephens Raleigh, NC John Charles
Boger
Scott Padgett Vaughn Charlotte, NC John Charles

Boger
Frederick Lee Liebolt, Jr. New York, NY John Charles
Boger
Oral Arguments
Petitioners v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, et al. Ar
gued by Mr. Michael A. Carvin for the petitioners, by Ms. Solicitor
General Elena Kagan for respondent United States, and by Mr. Jeffrey
A. Lamken for respondents Public Company Accounting Oversight
Board, et al.
No. 08–1175. Florida, Petitioner v. Kevin Dewayne Powell. Argued
by Mr. Joseph W. Jacquot for the petitioner, by Mr. David O’Neil for
the United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court,
supporting the petitioner, and by Ms. Deborah K. Brueckheimer for
the respondent.
Adjourned until Tuesday, December 8, 2009, at 10 o’clock.
Certiorari Denied
No. 09–7908 (09A543). Kenneth Biros, Petitioner v. Ted Strickland,
Governor of Ohio, et al. Application for stay of execution of sentence
of death presented to Justice Stevens and by him referred to the Court
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Opinions
No. 08–678. Mohawk Industries, Inc., Petitioner v. Norman Carpen
ter. On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the
Eleventh Circuit. Judgment affirmed. Opinion by Justice Sotomayor.
Opinion by Justice Thomas, concurring in part and concurring in the
judgment.
No. 08–351. Anita Alvarez, Cook County State’s Attorney, Petitioner
v. Chermane Smith, et al. On writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Judgment vacated, and case
remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Cir
cuit with instructions to dismiss. Opinion by Justice Breyer. Opinion
by Justice Stevens, concurring in part and dissenting in part.
No. 08–604. Union Pacific Railroad Company, Petitioner v. Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen General Committee of
Adjustment, Central Region. On writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Judgment affirmed. Opinion
by Justice Ginsburg.
of Corrections, et al., Petitioners v. Joseph J. Kindler. On writ of certio
rari to United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Judgment
the Third Circuit for further proceedings consistent with the opinion
of this Court. Opinion by The Chief Justice. Concurring opinion by
Justice Kennedy, with whom Justice Thomas joins. Justice Alito took
no part in the consideration or decision of this case.

Philip Alberto Giordano Washington, DC Michael R.

Dreeben
Paul Bryan Oman Washington, DC Grant E. Lattin
Jeffrey R. Bellomo York, PA Andrea Rene
Marceca
394 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2009
Anthony Thomas Bowser York, PA Andrea Rene

Marceca
Sarah Elizabeth Buhite York, PA Andrea Rene
Marceca
Margaret Walsh Driscoll York, PA Andrea Rene
Marceca
Amanda Snoke Dubbs York, PA Andrea Rene
Marceca
Nicole Marie Ehrhart York, PA Andrea Rene
Marceca
Andrew Moore Paxton York, PA Andrea Rene
Marceca
Nathan C. Platt Cranberry Andrea Rene
Township, PA Marceca
Carolyn J. Pugh York, PA Andrea Rene
Marceca
Brooke E. D. Say York, PA Andrea Rene
Marceca
Glenn John Smith York, PA Andrea Rene
Marceca
Shaleeta R. Washington York, PA Andrea Rene
Marceca
Oral Arguments
No. 08–876. Conrad M. Black, John A. Boultbee, and Mark S. Kipnis,

Petitioners v. United States. Argued by Mr. Miguel A. Estrada for the
petitioners and by Mr. Michael R. Dreeben for the respondent.
No. 08–1196. Bruce Weyhrauch, Petitioner v. United States. Argued
by Mr. Donald B. Ayer for the petitioner and by Mr. Michael R.
Dreeben for the respondent.
Adjourned until Wednesday, December 9, 2009, at 10 o’clock.
Certiorari Denied
No. 09–7912 (09A551). Kenneth Biros, Petitioner v. Ted Strickland,

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2009 395

(JOURNAL) WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2009 397



Steven F. Cherry Washington, DC Seth P. Waxman

Thomas Mueller Washington, DC Seth P. Waxman
Christopher E. Babbitt Washington, DC Seth P. Waxman
William James Casazza Hartford, CT Michael I. Wolfson
Joel Martin Hartstone Bloomfield, CT Michael I. Wolfson
Paul W. Lee Boston, MA Michael I. Wolfson
Sheppard A. Guryan South Orange, NJ Michael I. Wolfson
John Joseph William Washington, DC Michael I. Wolfson
Inkeles
Kim Azzarelli New York, NY Michael I. Wolfson
Bernadette JoAnn Clor Buffalo, NY Michael I. Wolfson
Joseph M. Sharnoff Oakton, VA Michael I. Wolfson
Oral Argument
No. 08–1198. Stolt-Nielsen S.A., et al., Petitioners v. AnimalFeeds
International Corp. Argued by Mr. Seth P. Waxman for the petitioners
and by Ms. Cornelia T.L. Pillard for the respondent. Justice Soto
mayor recused.
Adjourned until Monday, December 14, 2009, at 10 o’clock.

(JOURNAL) MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2009 399


No. 09–285. Indiana State Police Pension Trust, et al., Petitioners v.
Chrysler LLC, et al. On petition for writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Motion of Washington
Legal Foundation, et al. for leave to file a brief as amici curiae
granted. Petition for writ of certiorari granted. Judgment vacated, and
case remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit with instructions to dismiss the appeal as moot. See United
States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U. S. 36 (1950).

No. 09M57. Lomax Salter, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secretary,
Florida Department of Corrections. Motion to direct the Clerk to file
a petition for writ of certiorari out of time denied.
No. 09M58. Paul Hupp, Petitioner v. Vicki Kurpinsky, et al. Motion
denied.
No. 08–645. Timothy Mark Cameron Abbott, Petitioner v. Jacquelyn
Vaye Abbott. Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in
Motion of S&W International ChildFind Program, et al. for leave to
participate in oral argument as amici curiae and for divided argu
ment denied.
No. 08–661. American Needle, Inc., Petitioner v. National Football
League, et al. Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate
in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument granted,
and the time is allocated as follows: 30 minutes for petitioner, 10 min
utes for the Solicitor General, and 30 minutes for respondents.
No. 08–810. Sally L. Conkright, et al., Petitioners v. Paul J. From
mert, et al. Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in

this motion.
Kramer & Ulrich LPA, et al. Motion of the Solicitor General for leave
ment granted.
No. 08–1521. Otis McDonald, et al., Petitioners v. City of Chicago,
Illinois, et al. Motion of American Legislative Exchange Council for
leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted.
No. 08–10457. Vincent Mark Castillo, Petitioner v. Fred M.
Guidry, Jr. Motion of petitioner for reconsideration of order denying
leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied.
No. 08–10783. Wesley Edward Smith, Petitioner v. Charleston
County School District, et al. Motion of petitioner for reconsideration
No. 09–291. Eric L. Thompson, Petitioner v. North American Stain
less, LP. The Solicitor General is invited to file a brief in this case
expressing the views of the United States.
No. 09–5577. Bernard Ray Richardson, Petitioner v. Gene M. John
son, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections. Motion of petitioner
peris denied.
No. 09–5713. Ashton R. O’Dwyer, Jr., Petitioner v. Daniel E. Bec
nel, Jr., et al. Motion of petitioner for reconsideration of order denying
No. 09–6188. In Re Charles Willie Alpine, Petitioner. Motion of peti
pauperis denied.
No. 09–6595. Charlene Schmitz, Petitioner v. United States. Motion
No. 09–7899. Etelvina Quintanilla, aka Telvi Quintanilla, Petitioner
v. United States. Motion of petitioner to expedite consideration of the
petition for writ of certiorari denied.
Certiorari Granted
No. 08–1332. City of Ontario, California, et al., Petitioners v. Jeff
Quon, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted.

No. 08–6261. John Robertson, Petitioner v. United States, ex rel.
Wykenna Watson. Petition for writ of certiorari to the District of Co
lumbia Court of Appeals granted limited to the following question:
Whether an action for criminal contempt in a congressionally created
court may constitutionally be brought in the name and pursuant to the
power of a private person, rather than in the name and pursuant to the
power of the United States.
No. 09–60. Jose Angel Carachuri-Rosendo, Petitioner v. Eric H.
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted.
Certiorari Denied
No. 08–1472. USA Mobility Wireless, Inc., Petitioner v. Jerilyn
Quon, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 08–10252. Dustin Lee Honken, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–157. Jinghai Li, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney
No. 09–227. Shafiq Rasul, et al., Petitioners v. Richard Myers, et al.
No. 09–244. United States, Petitioner v. Mikola Bowden. Petition for
No. 09–259. Metro Lights, L.L.C., Petitioner v. City of Los Angeles,
California. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
rections, Petitioner v. Roger Mark Scott. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–301. Common Cause of Pennsylvania, et al., Petitioners v.
No. 09–309. Time Warner Telecom of Oregon, LLC, Petitioner v.
City of Portland, Oregon, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–353. Hal Merritt, Petitioner v. United Parcel Service, Inc.

No. 09–429. Sarah Ellenberg, Petitioner v. New Mexico Military In
stitute, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–434. Costa T. Vathis, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District,
denied.
No. 09–436. Joel Anthony Roy, Petitioner v. Minnesota. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Minnesota denied.
No. 09–441. Vincent Ventimiglia, et ux., Petitioners v. St. Louis,
C.O.G., Inc., dba Twin Rivers Worship Center, et al. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Missouri, Eastern District, denied.
No. 09–465. Jonathan Bowers, Petitioner v. City of Eugene, Oregon,
et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Oregon
denied.
No. 09–492. Michael Lewis, et al., Petitioners v. Citgo Petroleum
Corporation. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–508. Novelty, Inc., Petitioner v. Drug Enforcement Adminis
tration, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–521. Jay Phillip Grund, Petitioner v. Tracey Ann Sprinkle.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Georgia denied.
No. 09–557. Royal Oak Entertainment, L.L.C., et al., Petitioners v.
City of Royal Oak, Michigan, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–582. Dexter Wayne Betts, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–584. Kevin V. Burton, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5124. Armando Marmolejo-Campos, aka Campos Ramos Ar
mando, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General. Petition for
Circuit denied.

No. 09–5171. Santos Hernandez-Carrera and Pablo Santiago
Hernandez-Arenado, Petitioners v. United States. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–5466. Jorge Lopez-Garcia, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5767. Neldon Neal, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5812. Abd Al-Rahim Hussain Mohammed Al-Nashiri, Peti
tioner v. Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of
No. 09–5830. Arlen Dean Kaufman, et ux., Petitioners v. United
No. 09–5924. Eduardo Martinez-Valdez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5973. Billy J. Torain, Petitioner v. Ameritech Advanced Data
Services. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–6038. David Russell Brigham, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6101. Sammy Edward Simpson, Petitioner v. Alabama De
partment of Human Resources, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–6395. Richard Ray Harrimon, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6399. Tommy Lee Clayborn, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6406. Christopher Anthony Young, Petitioner v. Texas. Peti
denied.
No. 09–6630. Jesus Terrazas Loya, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–6826. William Joseph Estep, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6884. Eugenio Duquesne, Petitioner v. Donnie Harrison,
No. 09–6902. William David Davis, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
No. 09–6931. Howard Gregory Cordell, Petitioner v. Pacific Indem
nity Company, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–6933. Lonzie Wayne McQuirter, Petitioner v. Michigan. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Michigan, Jackson
County, denied.
No. 09–6936. Richard Daron Kennedy, Petitioner v. Eugene Reese.
No. 09–6939. John Thomas Entler, Petitioner v. Washington. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Washington denied.
No. 09–6947. Warren Hall, Petitioner v. New Jersey. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Divi
sion, denied.
No. 09–6949. Raul A. Garibay, Petitioner v. Gail Lewis, Warden.
No. 09–6951. Alfred J. Garcia, Petitioner v. Matthew Cate, Secretary,
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6952. Joseph William Finfrock, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition
District, denied.
No. 09–6953. Joseph W. Finfrock, Petitioner v. Charlie Crist, Gover
nor of Florida, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States

No. 09–6954. Anthony Glenn Virgle, Petitioner v. Matthew Cate,
No. 09–6956. Patrick Neil Kinney, Petitioner v. Gregg McQuiggin,
No. 09–6957. Bert Hickox, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District,
denied.
necticut. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Con
necticut denied.
No. 09–6961. Anthony Devere Hardison, Petitioner v. Barry Davis,
No. 09–6962. Freddie Ivy, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Supreme Court of Illinois denied.
No. 09–6965. Levis Flores, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director, Texas
No. 09–6966. Aaron Israel, Petitioner v. Evelyn Ridley-Turner, et al.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Indiana, Sec
ond District, denied.
No. 09–6967. Quinton Jamond Haynes, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
No. 09–6970. Jose I. Garcia, Petitioner v. Tom Felker, Warden. Peti
No. 09–6972. Ellis Clay Hollis, Petitioner v. David L. Runnels, War
No. 09–6973. Ronald L. Hutchins, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–6974. Stephen Harris, Petitioner v. City of Culver City, Cali

fornia, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of
California, Second Appellate District, denied.
No. 09–6975. Terry Gene Freeman, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–6976. Arthur L. Debose, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Sec
cuit denied.
No. 09–6991. Ricardo Ernesto Mejia, Petitioner v. Derral G. Adams,
No. 09–6995. Richard Paul Riggins, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
No. 09–6997. Jerry Lee Mays, Petitioner v. Walter N. Dinwiddie,
No. 09–6998. Jesus Machado, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
No. 09–7000. Harvey Eugene Larson, Petitioner v. M. Williams, et al.
No. 09–7001. Tomeko Malone, Petitioner v. Roseann Campbell, War
No. 09–7004. Kelda Price, et vir, Petitioners v. Louisiana Depart
ment of Education, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United

No. 09–7009. Si Van Dang, Petitioner v. Mike Evans, Warden. Peti
No. 09–7014. Richard Henry Morgan, Petitioner v. Larry D. Chan
dler, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–7016. Christopher Henry Young, Petitioner v. Transportation
Deputy Sheriff I, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–7040. James Carson Effler, Petitioner v. Iowa. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Iowa denied.
No. 09–7085. Fredrick L. Knight, Petitioner v. Brian Belleque,
No. 09–7170. Nelson Carmona, Petitioner v. Michael J. Astrue, Com
missioner of Social Security. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–7223. Marvin Sumner, Petitioner v. Keith W. Davis, Warden.
No. 09–7243. Phillip L. Elmore, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Ohio denied.
No. 09–7281. Robert Anton, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7339. Donald Bosse, Petitioner v. Janet Napolitano, Secre
tary of Homeland Security, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–7386. Lisa Haberman, Petitioner v. Century 21 Chamber
lain & Associates, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of
Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three,
denied.
No. 09–7425. Jonathan McGriggs, Petitioner v. Mississippi. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Mississippi denied.
No. 09–7462. David W. Fiore, Petitioner v. Cameron Lindsay, War
den. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–7467. Ronald Eugene Charles, Jr., Petitioner v. United

No. 09–7480. Sean Reed, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7494. James Deshawn Hutchins, aka James Hutchins, Peti
No. 09–7500. Jorge J. Solano-Moreta, Petitioner v. H. A. Rios, Jr.,
No. 09–7502. Antoine Noble Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7509. David Burgess, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7514. LeShane A. McKnight, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7515. Antwaen D. Reliford, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7518. Ronnie Anthony Thomas, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7521. Francisco Becerra-Fuentes, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7522. Walter C. Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7529. Sherwin Jennings, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7530. Michael David Lynch, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–7531. Niles Miller, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–7532. Samuel Donell Murphy, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7533. Raymundo Rosales, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7536. Roy L. Brown, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7541. Tony Eugene Goodson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7543. Alejandro Hernandez-Curiel, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7544. Willie James Hull, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7545. Rafat S. Ogedengbe, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7546. Wole Emannuel Ogedengbe, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7549. Jeffery Carter, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–7551. Raymond Lewis Andrews, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7552. Jeremy Major, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–7555. Pedro Pons-Martinez, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7559. Darryl McCormick Southern, Petitioner v. United

No. 09–7562. Everardo Valenzuela-Ruiz, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7572. James Edward Dove, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7573. Ehrick F. Delgado-Hernandez, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7574. Shervin Emmanuel, aka Black Boy, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7578. Anthony Pritchett, aka Amp, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7580. Damian James, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7581. Levi Akai Livingstone, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7584. Maximus Prophet, aka Mark L. Ferrari, Petitioner v.
No. 09–7585. Peter Santos Murillo, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7588. Eglan Younge, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7589. Hector Josue Vazquez-Padilla, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7590. Joe Barros, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.

No. 09–7595. Sergio Marquez-Mendoza, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7598. Ali Riley, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ
cuit denied.
No. 09–7602. Yaw Amponsah, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7607. Juan Perez-Oliveros, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7608. Luis Perez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7614. David Noe, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7615. Travis Allen Phillips, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7618. Johnnie Sims, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7620. Ernest Leo Valdez, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7623. Eric Wayne Barron, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–253. Hector Adames, Jr., et al., Petitioners v. Beretta U. S. A.
Corporation. Motion of Children’s Defense Fund for leave to file a brief
as amicus curiae granted. Motion of Legal Community Against Vio
lence, et al. for leave to file a brief as amici curiae granted. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Illinois denied.
No. 09–432. Global Network Communications, Inc., Petitioner v. City
of New York, New York, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–442. Oneida Ltd., Petitioner v. Pension Benefit Guaranty

Corporation. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–5221. Peter McCourty, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5243. Gregory Warren, Petitioner v. Brian Fischer, Commis
sioner, New York Department of Correctional Services, et al. Petition
No. 09–5490. Terry Middleton, Petitioner v. Deborah Schult, War
No. 09–6916. Gregory T. Howard, Petitioner v. Supreme Court of
Ohio, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–6938. Michael S. Michalski, Petitioner v. John Lempke,
Superintendent, Five Points Correctional Facility. Motion of petitioner
dismissed. See Rule 39.8. Justice Sotomayor took no part in the consid
eration or decision of this motion and this petition.
No. 09–6943. John Jay Humphrey, Petitioner v. Onondaga County
Sheriff ’s Department, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit dismissed. See
No. 09–7123. David Pannell, Petitioner v. Charles A. Penfold, et al.

and petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Indiana,
First District, dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–7149. Kevin Millen, Petitioner v. National Collegiate Athletic
Association, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–7160. Kevin Millen, Petitioner v. The Commercial Appeal.
for the Sixth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner has repeat
edly abused this Court’s process, the Clerk is directed not to accept
No. 09–7260. Ignacio Reynoso, Petitioner v. David Rock, Super
intendent, Great Meadow Correctional Facility. Motion of petitioner for
No. 09–7398. Alan Swendra, Petitioner v. Colorado. Motion of peti
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Colorado dismissed. See
Rule 39.8.
No. 09–7527. Victor Wright, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–7594. Levon Bazemore, Petitioner v. United States District
Court for the Southern District of Georgia. Motion of petitioner for
cuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–7603. Waliek Betts, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–7621. Steven Jude Hoffenberg, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–7634. In Re Stanford Cain, Petitioner; and
No. 09–7688. In Re Donald Joseph Truax, Petitioner. Petitions for
Rehearings Denied
No. 08–10439. Adegbenga Tito Ijadimini, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler,
tions Division;
No. 08–10552. Donald Jones, Petitioner v. Google, Inc., et al.;
No. 08–10588. James Samuel Kor, Jr., Petitioner v. Tom Felker,
Warden;
No. 08–10629. Lee Roy Brown, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions
Division;
No. 08–10739. Mondric Bradley, Petitioner v. Mississippi;
No. 08–10752. Carlos Salazar Lopez, aka Carlos Salazar, Petitioner
v. United States;
No. 08–10759. In Re James Renwick Manship, Petitioner;
No. 08–10780. John Jay Dittrich, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al.;
No. 08–10839. Joe Richard Randle, Jr., Petitioner v. D. Woods;
No. 08–10922. Marilyn Fischer Lynch, Petitioner v. John Hertzig,
et al.;
No. 08–11033. Richard L. Johnson, Petitioner v. Florida;
No. 08–11070. In Re Pierre-Richard Augustin, Petitioner;
No. 08–11112. Blondell F. Mitchell, Petitioner v. KDJM-FM, et al.;
No. 08–11141. Yvonne Thomas, Petitioner v. St. Louis Board of Po
lice Commissioners, et al.;
No. 09–112. Angel Ruiz Rivera, et al., Petitioners v. Department of
Education, et al.;
No. 09–121. Gene Hoy, Petitioner v. Mentor Township, Michigan;
No. 09–318. Terrance Morris, et al., Petitioners v. Jarrett Lanpher,
et al.;
No. 09–5039. Robert Dillard, Petitioner v. E. Richard Bazzle,
Warden;
No. 09–5061. Said Abdullah Hakim, Petitioner v. Sandra F. Thomas,
Superintendent, Lumberton Correctional Institution;

No. 09–5064. Rosemary Toriola, Petitioner v. Appellate Division, Su
preme Court of New York, Second Judicial Department, et al.;
No. 09–5180. Franklin Delano Floyd, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–5229. Bobby Ray Hailey, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
Division;
No. 09–5353. Eve Del Castello, Petitioner v. Superior Court of Cali
fornia, Alameda County;
No. 09–5405. Roberto Velazquez, Petitioner v. William Lape, Super
intendent, Coxsackie Correctional Facility, et al.;
No. 09–5443. Carol Tucker, Petitioner v. Chipla College;
No. 09–5507. Robert J. Meizlik, Petitioner v. Florida;
No. 09–5520. Adam Trobee, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–5549. Corey E. Johnson, Petitioner v. Loretta K. Kelly,
Warden;
No. 09–5620. Wallace C. Jones, Jr., Petitioner v. Florida;
No. 09–5787. Tony L. Ford, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–5835. Gary S. Dean, Petitioner v. Larry Blaisdell, Warden;
No. 09–5907. In Re Malachi York, Petitioner;
No. 09–5926. Steven L. Reed, Petitioner v. Brenda Cirtin;
No. 09–6104. Dexter Anderson, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–6129. Jeffrey Greenwood, aka Reginald Grimes, Petitioner v.
United States;
No. 09–6181. Kevin R. Balko, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
tary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al.;
No. 09–6258. Charles C. Graham, Petitioner v. Missouri;
No. 09–6434. In Re Tommie H. Telfair, Petitioner;
No. 09–6435. In Re Tommie H. Telfair, Petitioner;
No. 09–6468. Tommie H. Telfair, Petitioner v. Karen P. Tandy, et al.;
No. 09–6524. Vincent C. White, Petitioner v. Robert M. Gates, Secre
tary of Defense;
No. 09–6529. In Re Akube Wuromoni Ndoromo, Petitioner; and
No. 09–6581. David Alberto Corral, Petitioner v. United States. Pe
titions for rehearing denied.
No. 09–5183. Kevin Howard, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
for rehearing denied. Justice Sotomayor took no part in the consider
No. 09–5322. Caroline Mason, Petitioner v. Jeffrey Guzdek, et al.
No. 09–6077. Shahab Saqib, Petitioner v. Federal Bureau of Investi

gation, et al. Petition for rehearing denied. Justice Sotomayor took no

Harold Michael Bagley Atlanta, GA Joseph Charles

Chancey
Christopher P. Beesley San Diego, CA Gary W. Schons
Brook A. Bennigson Sacramento, CA Robert Kenneth
Gezi
Michael David Bredenberg Raleigh, NC Paul W. Layer
William Henry Burgess, IV Washington, DC Jeffrey Bossert
Clark
Corie Jeanette Caraway Chico, CA Leo Alan Battle
Joseph Collins Cavender Washington, DC Christopher J.
Wright
Anita T. Channapati Butler, PA Kenneth S.
Glasser
Suzzanne White Decker Baltimore, MD James Petty
Garland
James Edward Dorman Avon Lake, OH Lisa A. Locke
Graves
Gene J. Esshaki Detroit, MI Steven A. Wright
Kevin S. Golden San Francisco, CA George Andreas
Kimbrell

Blake Alexander Hewitt Columbia, SC Costa Michael

Pleicones

John E. Jacobs Southfield, MI Elizabeth L.

Jacobs
Karen K. Karabinos Atlanta, GA Joseph Charles
Chancey
Justin Patrick Keating Washington, DC Hugh Joseph
Beins
Justin Falk Keith Boston, MA Daniel Benjamin
Pasternak
Chimene I. Keitner San Francisco, CA Rory Knox Little
Stephen L. Klincewicz Lower Gwynedd, Richard Alan
PA Dean
Matthew T. Kline Los Angeles, CA Jonathan D.
Hacker

Allyson E. Kurker Boston, MA Louis A.

Rodriques
Ann Meredith Lipton New York, NY Max W. Berger
Erin K. Loeb Miami, FL Scott A. Cole
Alexander M. R. Lyon San Mateo, CA Peter Marshal
Stone
Kenneth J. Mansfield Honolulu, HI Randall K.
Schmitt
Stefan Jan Marculewicz Baltimore, MD James Petty
Garland
David Marroso Los Angeles, CA Jonathan D.
Hacker
Sandra J. McLelland Baltimore, MD James Petty
Garland
Brendan John Nelligan Oak Park, IL Matthew James
Egan
Amy Lynn Neuhardt Washington, DC Michael A. Brille
Bradley John Olson Washington, DC Jon D. Grossman
Nicholas A. Paleveda Tampa, FL Jeffrey B. Teichert
Brian A. Perez-Daple Washington, DC Mark Thomas
Stancil
Julie Unangst Quinn Metairie, LA John F. Young, Jr.
Ward B. Rasmussen Phoenix, AZ Bernard Van
O’Steen, Jr.
Catherine G. Ratliff Hot Springs, SD James David
Leach
James Edward Reisinger Omaha, NE J. Michael Coffey
Wesley G. Russell, Jr. Richmond, VA Patrick Michael
McSweeney
Andrew David Smith Greensville, SC Thomas
Christopher
Smith
Matthew Christopher Smith Covington, KY Thomas
Christopher
Smith
Mark D. Suben Cortland, NY Robert Michael
Shafer
Paige Michele Tomaselli San Francisco, CA Patrick A.
Parenteau
Kelly Dawn Trautner Westerville, OH Michael J. Frantz
Jennifer Trucano Rapid City, SD James David

Leach
Amanda Buck Varella North Easton, MA Elizabeth Ann
Ritvo
David Lee Williford, II Greensville, SC Ashby Winton
Davis
Dorwin J. Wolfe Elkins, WV Stephen Godfrey
Jory

Linda S. Woolf Baltimore, MD Kristen Nichole

Nesbitt
Lydia Barbara Bashwiner Cedar Grove, NJ Jane Susan Kelsey
Kenneth M. Brown Newark, NJ Jane Susan Kelsey
Arla Dawn Cahill West Orange, NJ Jane Susan Kelsey
Frank Joseph DeAngelis Towaco, NJ Jane Susan Kelsey
William Gerard Neafsey Oakland, NJ Jane Susan Kelsey
Toby Solomon Roseland, NJ Jane Susan Kelsey
Dixie W. Cooper Nashville, TN Gail Vaughn
Ashworth
Jacqueline B. Dixon Nashville, TN Gail Vaughn
Ashworth
Sam Davis Elliott Chattanooga, TN Gail Vaughn
Ashworth
Tildon Wayne Hood Franklin, TN Gail Vaughn
Ashworth
William Doak Patton Nashville, TN Gail Vaughn
Ashworth
Thomas Thorp Pennington McLean, VA Gail Vaughn
Ashworth
S. Joanne Sheldon Newport, TN Gail Vaughn
Ashworth
Warren Maxey Smith Nashville, TN Gail Vaughn
Ashworth
James Randolph Tomkins Gallatin, TN Gail Vaughn
Ashworth
Adjourned until Monday, January 11, 2010, at 10 o’clock.

(JOURNAL) FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2010 419


Certiorari Granted
No. 09–367. Brian Russell Dolan, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
the Tenth Circuit granted.
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Opinion Per Curiam

No. 08–559. E. K. McDaniel, Warden, et al., Petitioners v. Troy
Brown. On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for
the Ninth Circuit. Judgment reversed, and case remanded to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for further pro
ceedings consistent with the opinion of this Court. Opinion per curiam.
Concurring opinion by Justice Thomas, with whom Justice Scalia joins.

No. 09M59. Jervon R. Clark, Petitioner v. Stan Burtt, Warden. Mo
time denied.
No. 09M60. Kimberlee Filbrandt, Petitioner v. Michigan Department
of Human Services. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for writ
No. 09M61. Manfred Polk, Petitioner v. Tim Dunckle, et al. Motion
denied.
No. 09M62. P. S., et al., Petitioners v. Franklin County Children
Services. Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis without an
affidavit of indigency executed by petitioner granted.
No. 08–1301. Thomas Carr, Petitioner v. United States. Motion of
petitioner to dispense with printing the joint appendix granted.
Relations Board. Motion of petitioner to dispense with printing the
joint appendix granted.
No. 09–158. Billy Joe Magwood, Petitioner v. Grantt Culliver, War
den, et al. Motion of petitioner to dispense with printing the joint ap
pendix granted. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
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pauperis granted. Motion of petitioner for appointment of counsel

granted. Jeffrey L. Fisher, Esquire, of Stanford, California, is ap
pointed to serve as counsel for the petitioner in this case.
No. 09–233. Triple-S Management Corporation, et al., Petitioners v.
Municipal Revenue Collection Center. The Solicitor General is invited
to file a brief in this case expressing the views of the United States.
No. 09–525. Janus Capital Group, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. First
Derivative Traders. The Solicitor General is invited to file a brief in
this case expressing the views of the United States.
No. 09–6233. In Re Mary Leandra Cluck, Petitioner. Motion of peti
pauperis denied.
No. 09–6234. Mary Leandra Cluck, Petitioner v. Washington. Motion
No. 09–6389. Roberto Beras, Petitioner v. Stephanie M. Carvlin,
to proceed in forma pauperis denied. Justice Sotomayor took no part
in the consideration or decision of this motion.
pauperis denied.
No. 09–6610. John C. Johnson, Petitioner v. Eric K. Shinseki, Secre
tary of Veterans Affairs. Motion of petitioner for reconsideration of
order denying leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied.
No. 09–6682. Richard Allen Hill, Petitioner v. United States. Motion
allowed until February 1, 2010, within which to pay the docketing fee
No. 09–6692. James T. Struck, Petitioner v. Cook County Public
Guardian. Motion of petitioner for reconsideration of order denying
No. 09–7108. Carlos M. Muino, Petitioner v. Florida Power & Light
Company, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
pauperis denied. Petitioner allowed until February 1, 2010, within
No. 09–7275. Donald G. Jones, Petitioner v. The Shaw Group, et al.
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Petitioner allowed until February 1, 2010, within which to pay the
No. 09–7294. Donna Thurgood Solomon, Petitioner v. Pioneer Adult
Rehabilitation Center. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed
in forma pauperis denied. Petitioner allowed until February 1, 2010,
Court.
No. 09–7306. Georgette R. Asbury, Petitioner v. City of Roanoke,
Virginia. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
denied. Petitioner allowed until February 1, 2010, within which to pay
Certiorari Denied
No. 08–1462. Margaret York, William Nash, and Victor Turner, Peti
tioners v. Richard Robinson. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 08–1571. Steve Cooley, et al., Petitioners v. David Eng. Petition
No. 08–10679. Daniel Johnson, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–142. Geoffrey Nels Fieger, Petitioner v. Supreme Court of
No. 09–194. Francoise Anate Gomis, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
No. 09–229. Abdul H. Khan, et al., Petitioners v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
No. 09–239. Josh A. Allen, Petitioner v. Montana. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Montana denied.
No. 09–252. John Gerard Quinn, Petitioner v. John Roach, et al. Peti
No. 09–275. Rodel E. Rodis, Petitioner v. City and County of San

Francisco, California, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–277. Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control, et al.,
Petitioners v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Petition for
No. 09–306. Christopher Allen, Petitioner v. Virginia. Petition for
No. 09–346. Juan Jose Martinez-Madera, Petitioner v. Eric H.
No. 09–355. Mark Treesh, in His official capacity as Commissioner
of the Kentucky Department of Revenue, et al., Petitioners v. Di
rectTV, Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court
of Kentucky denied.
No. 09–356. Thomas A. Paulsen, et al., Petitioners v. CNF, Inc., et al.
No. 09–358. Ming Wei Liu, Petitioner v. Board of Trustees of the
University of Alabama, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–364. Dralves Gene Edwards, Petitioner v. Blue Cross Blue
Shield of Texas, a Division of Health Care Service Corporation. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Fifth Dis
trict, denied.
No. 09–370. Wayne G. Lovely, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–384. Office of Alaska Governor, Petitioner v. Equal Employ
ment Opportunity Commission, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–386. Ambraco, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. M/V Clipper Faith,
No. 09–388. S & D Trading Academy, LLC, et al., Petitioners v.
AAFIS, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court

No. 09–409. Paul T. Palmer, By and Through His Parents and Legal
Guardians, Paul D. Palmer, et ux., Petitioner v. Waxahachie Independ
ent School District. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–417. Carol Manigault, et al., Petitioners v. Christopher King,
No. 09–453. John E. Carter, Petitioner v. Leon C. Burns, Jr., Judge,
Criminal Court of Tennessee, 13th Judicial District, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–457. Catherine O’Boyle, et al., Petitioners v. David L. Brav
erman, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–459. Joseph Melfi, Petitioner v. WMC Mortgage Corporation,
No. 09–460. Milwaukee Deputy Sheriff ’s Association, et al., Petition
ers v. David A. Clarke, Jr., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–468. Philip C. Bodenstab, Petitioner v. Cook County, Illinois,
No. 09–469. Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Co., Petitioner v.
Malcolm S. Medley, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–470. David E. Danner, Petitioner v. Board of Professional
Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–472. Wanda Spann, et vir, Petitioners v. Cobb County Supe
rior Court Judges, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of
Appeals of Georgia denied.
No. 09–473. Lioudmila Lunkevich Dyer, Petitioner v. Wal-Mart
Stores, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–474. Jay Doroshow, Petitioner v. Hartford Life and Accident
Insurance Company. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–477. Elaine Spencer Marr and Elliott Paul Moore, Petition
ers v. Larry H. Hughes, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–482. Jason Hollady, Petitioner v. Michigan, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–483. Koninklijke Boskalis Westminster NV, et al., Petitioners
v. Compania Naviera Joanna SA, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–485. George Grisham, Petitioner v. Marilyn S. Brooks, Super
intendent, Albion State Correctional Institution, et al. Petition for writ
cuit denied.
No. 09–487. Arkansas Dairy Cooperative Association, et al., Peti
tioners v. Department of Agriculture, et al. Petition for writ of certio
Circuit denied.
No. 09–501. David E. Danner, Petitioner v. Commission on Continu
ing Legal Education and Specialization of the Tennessee Supreme
Court, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–502. Victoria Giampa, Petitioner v. Charles Giampa. Petition
No. 09–503. Michael A. Hense, Petitioner v. Yoko Hense. Petition for
No. 09–505. 480.00 Acres of Land, et al., Petitioners v. United States.
No. 09–506. The Children’s Fund, et al., Petitioners v. Springfield
Holding Company Ltd. LLC, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–507. Hargis Industries, Inc., dba Sealtite Building Fasteners
and dba East Texas Fasteners, Petitioner v. B&B Hardware, Inc. Peti
No. 09–509. Judy Jones, Petitioner v. Virginia Andrews Burdette.

No. 09–511. Harold S. Shepherd, Petitioner v. Susan H. F. Shepherd.
No. 09–515. Michael A. Weiss, Petitioner v. Steven Speer, et al. Peti
Appellate District, Division Three, denied.
No. 09–516. Northwest Louisiana Fish & Game Preserve Commis
sion, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–522. Richard Novak, et ux., Petitioners v. Tara J. Jablonski,
Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Michael L. Jablon
ski, Deceased. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of
Pennsylvania, Harrisburg Office, denied.
No. 09–524. Nitro Distributing, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Alticor,
No. 09–528. Bridgeport Port Authority, Petitioner v. Bridgeport &
Port Jefferson Steamboat Company, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–535. Gregory J. Papierz, Petitioner v. Scott Jackson, et al.
No. 09–537. Cynthia Smith, Petitioner v. Kentucky. Petition for writ
No. 09–540. Mohamed F. El-Hewie, Petitioner v. Bergen County,
New Jersey, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–541. Robert B. Jafari, et al., Petitioners v. Wynn Las Vegas,
LLC, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–544. Velma Lock, Petitioner v. General Services Administra
tion. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
No. 09–545. James Keenan, et ux., Petitioners v. Ross Pyle, et al.
No. 09–546. Julian James, et al., Petitioners v. Harris County, Texas.
No. 09–551. Robert M. Friedland, Petitioner v. TIC-The Industrial

No. 09–554. Nancy Mathias Adair, Petitioner v. McGuireWoods LLP,
No. 09–562. David L. Smith, Petitioner v. United States, et al. Peti
No. 09–566. Gerald L. Brown, Petitioner v. Khelleh Konteh, Warden.
No. 09–572. Alan DeOcampo, Petitioner v. Superior Court of Califor
nia, Alameda County, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court
of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, denied.
No. 09–573. Ralph W. Cutter, Petitioner v. Northwest Administra
tors, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–576. Tom Cartledge, Petitioner v. Office of Personnel Man
agement. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–578. Stephanie Stark, Petitioner v. Maine. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine denied.
No. 09–591. Dominick Pizzonia, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–593. Paul C. Nordberg, Petitioner v. Ocean Meadows Condo
minium Association. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Judi
cial Court of Maine denied.
No. 09–596. Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. St. Jude
Medical, Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–599. Re’Licka Dajuan Allen, Petitioner v. Tennessee. Petition
Eastern Division, denied.
No. 09–605. Joint Administrative Committee of the Plumbing and
Pipefitting Industry in the Detroit Area, et al., Petitioners v. Washing
ton Group Int’l, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States

No. 09–614. Clayton L. Babcock, et al., Petitioners v. Arthur J. Gal
lagher & Co. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–616. Wayne Ritchie, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–622. Terrance Willaman, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–624. Matt O’Dea, Petitioner v. BNSF Railway Company.
No. 09–634. Christian Schneider, Petitioner v. Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–645. Deborah Ellis, et al., Petitioners v. Mississippi Depart
ment of Health, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–648. James Mincoff, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5024. Charles A. Stewart, Petitioner v. New York. Petition
No. 09–5123. Sami Koshaba Latchin, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–5195. Peter Jacquemain, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5371. Thomas M. McCarthy, Petitioner v. Thomas J. Vilsack,
Secretary of Agriculture, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–5426. Michael Lee Snellenberger, aka Michael Lee Cutter,
aka Michael Lee Davidson, aka Robert Eugene Frehly, aka Cutter
Snellenberger, aka “Cutter", Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5556. Barry Wion, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director, Texas

No. 09–5659. Stevie Arthur Mills, Petitioner v. Major Connors, Indi
vidually and in Her Official Capacity as a Denver Deputy Sheriff, et al.
No. 09–5994. Brandon Allen Lyons, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6043. Kelvin Levoid Smith, aka Frog, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6083. Henderson R. Pryor, Petitioner v. Alan M. Wolfe, et al.
No. 09–6085. Andera Thompson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6213. Kenneth L. Kirkland, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6239. Phillip Earl Patterson, Petitioner v. Georgia. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Georgia denied.
No. 09–6241. Srinivas V. Vadde, Petitioner v. Georgia. Petition for
No. 09–6394. Alonzo Hale, Petitioner v. California. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, Sixth Appellate Dis
trict, denied.
No. 09–6465. Marcus Blalock, Petitioner v. Julius Wilson, Warden.
No. 09–6491. Devin C. Wilson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6521. Dwight Edwin Whorley, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–6549. Henry Lamar Thomas, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6659. Eric Sanchez, aka “E", Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6673. Ronnie Lee Bowling, Petitioner v. Kentucky. Petition
No. 09–6755. James Skrzypek, et ux., Petitioners v. United States.
No. 09–6834. Kenneth Wayne Thomas, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler,
No. 09–6925. Timothy Pope, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7013. Robert Hunt, Jr., Petitioner v. Robert P. Houston, Di
rector, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7031. Ian D. Lemons, Petitioner v. Atlantic City Police De
partment, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–7033. Zachary Tyler Smith, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–7047. Terrell Strong, Petitioner v. Martin L. Dragovich,
Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Chester, et al. Peti
No. 09–7048. Michael Scott Rush, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–7051. Donald D. Giberson, Petitioner v. Charles L. Ryan, Di
denied.
No. 09–7054. Ernest Howard, Sr., Petitioner v. Steve Upton, War
denied.
No. 09–7056. Michael Shane Good, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
trict, denied.
No. 09–7057. Jimmie T. Taylor, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Sec
denied.
No. 09–7058. Mary Marie Tuley, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–7063. Richmond B. Taylor, Petitioner v. Barbara Sampson,
No. 09–7082. Calvin Dwight Ware, Petitioner v. Shirlee Harry, War
No. 09–7086. Ricardo J. Calderon-Lopez, Petitioner v. Puerto Rico
Court of First Instance, San Juan Part, et al. Petition for writ of certio
No. 09–7088. Dennis Michael Salerno, Petitioner v. Michigan. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Michigan denied.
No. 09–7092. Samuel L. Pinkston, Petitioner v. Indiana. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Indiana, Second District,
denied.
No. 09–7096. Shane Demarcus Lemons, Petitioner v. Burl Cain, War

No. 09–7097. Chauncey Williams, Petitioner v. John M. Jabe, et al.
No. 09–7098. Danielle Thomas, Petitioner v. Mike Knowles, Warden.
No. 09–7102. Jamiasen Earl Drake, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–7114. James C. Bottomley, Petitioner v. Matthew Cate, Secre
tary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Petition
No. 09–7116. Kenyawii J. Byrd, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–7119. Kevin Bussey, Petitioner v. Luis Marshall, Super
rari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
denied.
No. 09–7121. Paul Orsello, Petitioner v. Steven Gaffney, et al. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Minnesota denied.
No. 09–7125. William M. Jackson, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–7130. Daniel Eric Cobble, Petitioner v. Brian Owens, Com
missioner, Georgia Department of Corrections. Petition for writ of cer
cuit denied.
No. 09–7134. Kenneth Dean Miller, Petitioner v. Charles L. Ryan,
cuit denied.
No. 09–7136. Jeffrie Anteries Daniel, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
No. 09–7141. Redell Redd, Petitioner v. James M. LeBlanc, Secre

tary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al.
No. 09–7142. Sinclair Robinson, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth
District, denied.
No. 09–7144. Jihad Abdullah Sharrieff, Petitioner v. Michelle R.
Ricci, Associate Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Petition
No. 09–7161. Gregory Jones, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–7165. Richard Norman Rojem, Jr., Petitioner v. Oklahoma.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Okla
homa denied.
No. 09–7167. William Walls, Petitioner v. Diane G. Cannon, Judge,
Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–7173. Kathalina Monacelli, Petitioner v. Target Stores, et al.
No. 09–7174. Kathalina Monacelli, Petitioner v. Enterprise Leasing
Co., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–7175. Kathalina Monacelli, Petitioner v. Edison State College,
No. 09–7191. David Higgins, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–7197. Pat L. Mulvey, Petitioner v. Ralph Kaleo Naito. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Intermediate Court of Appeals of
Hawaii denied.
No. 09–7199. Rosevelt Beal, Petitioner v. Virginia Levine, et al. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Appellate Division, Supreme Court of
New York, Third Judicial Department, denied.
No. 09–7203. Ernest Miller, Petitioner v. California. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of California denied.

No. 09–7206. Ruben Vizcarra, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
No. 09–7218. Allan Austin, Petitioner v. Terry McCann, Warden.
No. 09–7219. Mark William Miller, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Peti
No. 09–7225. Carlton Crutchfield, Petitioner v. Florida Department
of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–7228. Dimetrious L. Woods, Petitioner v. Missouri. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Missouri, Western
District, denied.
No. 09–7232. Roman Tiffer, Petitioner v. Worker’s Compensation,
No. 09–7233. Lowell N. Payne, Jr., Petitioner v. Debbie Tinsley, et al.
No. 09–7239. Dwight W. Jeffers, Petitioner v. Brett Mize, Super
intendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of certio
denied.
No. 09–7244. Jamil Watkins, Petitioner v. Georgia. Petition for writ
No. 09–7245. Kerper Yenglee, Petitioner v. David DiGuglielmo,
Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Graterford, et al.
No. 09–7247. Gregory Williams, Petitioner v. Robert Horel, Warden.
No. 09–7259. Deborah Redman, Petitioner v. Potomac Place Associ
ates, LLC. Petition for writ of certiorari to the District of Columbia
No. 09–7262. Anthony L. Roberts, Petitioner v. Larry L. Jenkins,

No. 09–7263. Willie J. Sanders, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
District, denied.
No. 09–7264. Troy David Stephens, Petitioner v. Burl Cain, Warden.
No. 09–7265. Dempsey Sutton, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Fourth District, denied.
No. 09–7267. Gerald Teagle, Petitioner v. David DiGuglielmo, Super
No. 09–7268. John Forrest Parker, Petitioner v. Richard F. Allen,
Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections. Petition for writ
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7270. Frank Rust, Petitioner v. Gary Sandor, Warden. Peti
No. 09–7272. Davy Gene Stephens, Petitioner v. Gerald Branker,
No. 09–7277. Hugh Royal Epps, Petitioner v. Robert Wagner, et al.
No. 09–7278. Edward Z. Camillo, Petitioner v. Eric K. Shinseki, Sec
No. 09–7279. Derek Brandon Christensen, Petitioner v. Nevada.
No. 09–7280. Paul Farnsworth, Petitioner v. Larry McNeil, et al.
No. 09–7283. Eric Martin, Petitioner v. Tim Luoma, Warden. Peti

No. 09–7284. Jessie St. Amant, Petitioner v. Louisiana. Petition for
No. 09–7286. Larry Rosser, Petitioner v. L. E. Scribner, Warden.
No. 09–7287. Deante Dekhoura Stewart, Petitioner v. California.
No. 09–7291. Chauncey Williams, Petitioner v. Virginia, et al. Peti
No. 09–7292. Fernando Valenzuela, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–7293. Thomas J. Crews, Jr., Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
District, denied.
No. 09–7297. Thomas Antonio Preciado, Petitioner v. David Runnels,
No. 09–7302. Walter J. Brzowski, Petitioner v. Michael T. Tristano,
No. 09–7305. Ronnie Johns, Petitioner v. Michigan Department of
Corrections, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–7308. Bing Yu, Petitioner v. Washington. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 1, denied.
No. 09–7309. Kayla Ragan Wright, Petitioner v. Georgia. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Georgia denied.
No. 09–7311. Eve Del Castello, Petitioner v. Alameda County Transit
Parking Enforcement Center. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–7313. Stanley Grontkowski, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
cuit denied.
No. 09–7320. Johnny Haygood, et ux., Petitioners v. Phil Tilley. Peti
No. 09–7325. Gebront Mazaunti Gaddy, aka T, etc., Petitioner v.

No. 09–7330. Lamont Ellington Wells, Petitioner v. Michigan. Peti
No. 09–7333. George I. Johnson, Petitioner v. Dennis K. Sisto, War
No. 09–7338. Milton Clifton Williams, Petitioner v. Gene M. Johnson,
denied.
No. 09–7347. Joel Terrence Abbott, Petitioner v. Jacques A. DeKalb,
et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Oregon
denied.
No. 09–7350. Bruce Mayo Ennis, Petitioner v. E. K. McDaniel, War
No. 09–7352. Richard Allen Davis, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–7353. Christiana M. Powell, Petitioner v. City of Chicago
Human Rights Commission, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, denied.
No. 09–7354. Tyrone Alexander, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for
No. 09–7357. Janice L. Schrader, Petitioner v. Robert F. Turner,
No. 09–7360. Gary Eugene Bunche, Petitioner v. North Carolina.
Wake County, denied.
No. 09–7363. Bernard Steppe, Petitioner v. California Insurance
Commissioner. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–7365. Adrian Smith, Petitioner v. Bridgestone Firestone Tire
No. 09–7366. Lawrence Rupert Smith, Petitioner v. Ronald
Strength, Sheriff, Richmond County, Georgia, et al. Petition for writ

Circuit denied.
No. 09–7367. Donald C. Richardson, Petitioner v. Michigan State
Treasurer. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–7377. Pedro Crisostomos, Petitioner v. Ray Lawler, Super
intendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Petition
No. 09–7381. John Alan Miller, Petitioner v. Rock Hill City Police
Department. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–7383. Larry Chatman, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–7388. Terrell C. Gaw, Petitioner v. Missouri. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Missouri denied.
No. 09–7390. Don Collis Houston, Jr., Petitioner v. Texas. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Ninth Dis
trict, denied.
No. 09–7391. Fitzroy George Gutzmore, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7392. Connie Whigum Hamilton, Petitioner v. Florida, et al.
No. 09–7394. Brian Diggs, Petitioner v. Robert M. Stevenson, War
No. 09–7399. Joseph Suggs, Petitioner v. Cherry Lindamood, War
No. 09–7400. Javan Moore, Petitioner v. John Doe, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7402. Jamil Kazoun, Petitioner v. Christine Kazoun. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Summit
County, denied.
No. 09–7410. Daniel P. Hynes, Petitioner v. New Hampshire. Petition
No. 09–7412. Alva Zane McGrath, Jr., Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
No. 09–7413. Nancy Lewis, Petitioner v. Burger King. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7415. James Lincoln Strong, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Peti
No. 09–7426. Bryan Davis, Sr., Petitioner v. California Western
School of Law, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–7448. Fernando Pena, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7456. James Walton Hammond, Jr., Petitioner v. Alvin W.
Keller, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Correction, et al.
No. 09–7458. Terry L. Garnto, Petitioner v. Patricia Mekusker, et al.
No. 09–7468. Anthony J. DeNoma, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Hamilton County,
denied.
No. 09–7469. Robert L. Cook, Jr., Petitioner v. Jeffrey A. Beard,
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7483. Darnell Nowlin, Petitioner v. H. Dwight Hamrick, War
No. 09–7484. Daniel Vasquez, Petitioner v. R. J. Kirkland, Warden.
No. 09–7487. Carlos Mendoza, Petitioner v. Troy Steele, Warden.

No. 09–7488. Joseph Avila, Petitioner v. California. Petition for writ
No. 09–7490. Andrew W. Warfield, Petitioner v. Greg Grams, War
No. 09–7504. H. R., Petitioner v. Alameda County Social Services
Agency. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of Califor
No. 09–7507. Robert Cody Allison, Petitioner v. Charles L. Ryan,
cuit denied.
No. 09–7508. Michael Backus, Petitioner v. Steven Hartley, Warden,
No. 09–7513. James Earl Brown, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
District, denied.
No. 09–7520. Ricky D. Barber, Petitioner v. Victor Walker, Warden.
No. 09–7523. Douglas B. Watson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7539. Andy Boctor, Petitioner v. Department of Veterans
Affairs. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–7548. Carlton Embry, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7556. Eric L. Myrieckes, Sr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7563. Ernest Edward Dykes, Jr., Petitioner v. California.
denied.
No. 09–7582. Shawn P. Karr, Petitioner v. Arizona. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division One, denied.
No. 09–7583. Joel Gilbert Lindsey, Petitioner v. Georgia. Petition for

No. 09–7586. Jerry Watson, Petitioner v. Kevin Milyard, Warden,
No. 09–7601. John Saybolt, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7605. Gerald Robbins, Petitioner v. Hugh Smith, Warden.
No. 09–7613. Joseph Quenga, Petitioner v. James L. Lanier, Warden,
No. 09–7622. Gregory Spears, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
tiorari to the District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District,
denied.
No. 09–7626. Gione Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7627. Jermaine Kevin Ross, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7630. Juan Cedeno-Perez, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7632. Damon Clinton, Petitioner v. David DiGuglielmo,
Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Graterford. Petition
No. 09–7635. David Pena-Hernandez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7641. Jose Antonio Villafranca-Mendez, Petitioner v. United

No. 09–7642. Karen Denise Witherspoon, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7645. Rogelio Lopez-Frausto, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7648. Javier Sosa-Garcia, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7650. Corey Johnson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7652. Michael John Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7656. Leon Carmichael, Sr., aka Beaver Leon Carmichael,
No. 09–7662. Barry J. Works, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7663. Alfred W. Trenkler, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7664. Frederick Tillery, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7668. Duala Chappell, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7669. Demond Levail Osley, aka D-Lo, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7671. Hector Manuel Ponce-Aldona, aka Hector Manuel
Ponce-Aldana, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certio
denied.
No. 09–7675. Frederick Smalls, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–7676. Gerald H. Sternberg, Petitioner v. Michigan State Uni
versity, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of
Michigan denied.
No. 09–7679. Barry Lee Armbrister, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7680. Quentin L. Brown, Petitioner v. United States District
Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Petition for writ of certio
denied.
No. 09–7681. Jason F. Bridges, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7682. James E. Aldridge, Jr., et ux., Petitioners v. United
No. 09–7684. Anthony L. Davis, Petitioner v. United States, et al.;
and Anthony L. Davis, Petitioner v. Kansas State Board of Indigent
Defense Services, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–7687. Kenneth P. Wilk, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7689. Brian Nelson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7691. Billy Floyd Leasure, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7695. Issac Joaquin Banda, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7700. Efrain Gomez-Garcia, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–7703. Donald M. Gatling, Petitioner v. United States; and
Donald Gatling, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals denied.
No. 09–7704. Max Menriquez Flores, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7705. Bruce Heald, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7708. Juan Jose Jimenez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7709. Richard George Mathews, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7710. Lamont E. Keith, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7712. Theresa Lou Martin, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7713. Charles Phillip Maxwell, Petitioner v. Internal Reve
nue Service, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–7715. Jonathan Platte, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7716. Herbert Isaac Perkins, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7717. Carl W. Pursley, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7718. Eric Paige, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7719. Adam Troy Baker, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7720. John Breault, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

Circuit denied.
No. 09–7721. Hardill Bowie, Petitioner v. Michael Thurmer, Warden.
No. 09–7723. Tony L. Puryear, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7726. Gregory Truette, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7727. Clark Truly, Petitioner v. Bradley J. Robert, Warden.
No. 09–7738. Saeed Abdul Muhammad, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7739. Cordell Lester Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7743. Robert D. Harrell, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7744. Jose Colin Mondragon, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7745. Trinidad Flores-Sotelo, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7746. Guillermo Garcia-Aguilar, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7747. Luis Enrique Garibay, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7748. Willie Hill, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

No. 09–7750. Joseph Bradley Murphy, Jr., Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7751. Martin Padilla, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7752. Daniel Lugo, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7755. Marvin Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–7756. Jose Mendoza Alcala, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7762. Hector R. Martinez-Torres, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7765. Clarence K. James, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
peals denied.
No. 09–7766. Ronnie Lauderdale, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7771. Clayton Upshaw, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7772. Steven E. Warman, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7775. Jermaine Lamont Chatman, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7776. Ernesto Cirilo-Munoz, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7779. Benjamin Lopez-Lopez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7781. Eric Lopez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

Circuit denied.
No. 09–7782. Anthony Maurice Wilkins, Jr., Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7783. George Ira Randle, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7787. Benjamin Burley, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7788. Leeander Jerome Blake, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7792. Leonardo Rivera Torres, Petitioner v. United States;
and
No. 09–7834. Jose Rivera Calderon, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7799. Sean Swain, Petitioner v. Bill Bartleson. Petition for
No. 09–7803. Darren Frank, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7805. John Pakala, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7806. Robyn Miles, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7807. Richard A. Orr, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7810. Donald Wilson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.

No. 09–7812. Sharnel Plummer and Darryl Griffin, Petitioners v.
No. 09–7814. Robert Lee McClellon, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7827. David Brown, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7828. Mark Brantley, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7831. Jesse Caron, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7832. Derrick Evans, Petitioner v. Betty Mitchell, Warden.
No. 09–7841. Kenneth Welch, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7847. Francisco Saldana, aka Frank, aka Frank Rivera, aka
Warren G, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–7848. Luis Rodriguez-Laguna, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7849. Roberto Sandoval, aka Charrita, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7850. Lorenzo Sanchez Salcido, aka Lorenzo Salcido, Peti
No. 09–7851. Ronald L. Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7852. Rene E., a Juvenile, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7854. Paul R. Thielemann, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–7857. Refugio Gadea Pliego, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7859. James Cullison, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
denied.
No. 09–7861. Charles R. Robinson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7864. Ronald Pirtle, aka Primo, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7869. Lavelle Fountain, aka Jerome D. Matthews, Petitioner
No. 09–7871. Phillip Angel Garcia, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7872. Brice Huttinger, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7875. Tanya Renee Flucker, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7876. Maurice Holman, Petitioner v. Eric K. Shinseki, Secre
No. 09–7881. Andre McRae, aka Dre, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7886. Levi A. Wilson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7888. Thuy A. Le, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.

No. 09–7889. Juvenile Female, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7898. Donald Lee Stevens, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7899. Etelvina Quintanilla, aka Telvi Quintanilla, Petitioner
No. 09–7901. Harvey R. Johnson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7904. Jarvis Antonio Davis, aka Shorty, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7906. Juan Manuel Ojeda-Estrada, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7907. James Edward Estes, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7911. Jay Clark Christensen, Jr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7913. Marlon L. Watford, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7919. Hector Baca-Quiroz, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7926. Derrick Isom, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7930. David Lee Olander, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7936. Tracey Lea, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7942. Barry A. Boyce, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–7943. Jamal Saadallah Berro, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7944. Antonio Augustine-Neri, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7954. Alfredo Meza, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–7957. Barry L. Matthews, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7958. Luis Alberto Gonzalez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7962. Audie Wheeler, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7965. Duricco R. Johnson, Petitioner v. United States; and
Pridion Ward, Tony M. Scott, and Willie Liggins, Petitioners v. United
No. 09–7971. Jobard Shaw, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7972. Adam Stone, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7973. Levon Bell, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–7974. Demorris Tyrese Allen, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–7975. Richard M. Rosenbaum, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7980. Lee Taylor, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7983. Charles Trogdon, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–264. Centauri Shipping Ltd., Petitioner v. Western Bulk Car
riers KS, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–272. Athens Disposal Company, Inc, dba Athens Services,
Petitioner v. Edixon Franco. Motion of Pacific Legal Foundation, et al.
for leave to file a brief as amici curiae granted. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate Dis
trict, denied.
No. 09–288. Puget Sound Energy, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Califor
nia, et al. Motion of Law Professors for leave to file a brief as amici
curiae granted. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied. The Chief Justice took
No. 09–335. Astellas Pharma, Inc., Petitioner v. Lupin Limited, et al.
for the Federal Circuit denied. Justice Breyer took no part in the con
No. 09–458. Audrey Weinstock, Petitioner v. Jack Walker. Petition
No. 09–471. Marsha Falchenberg, Petitioner v. New York State De
partment of Education, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–481. Martin Patrick Sheehan, Petitioner v. Scott Lemoyne
Jackson, et al. Motion of Roger Schlossberg, et al. for leave to file a
brief as amici curiae granted. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–494. Jerry Crawford, et al., Petitioners v. TRW Automotive

U. S. LLC. Motion of Maurice & Jane Sugar Law Center for Eco
nomic & Social Justice, et al. for leave to file a brief as amici curiae
No. 09–500. Yanet Dishmey Rosario De George, Petitioner v. Ameri
can Airlines, Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–519. Edward Alameida, Warden, Petitioner v. Kevin Phelps.
No. 09–560. Terry Carlson, Warden, Petitioner v. Orlando Manuel
Bobadilla. Motion of respondent for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
No. 09–589. Hoa T. Nghiem, Petitioner v. Department of Veterans
Affairs, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–609. Douglas Pitcher, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–5852. Kirt Nicholas, Petitioner v. Luis Marshall, Super
of this petition.
No. 09–6231. Wadih El-Hage, aka Abdus Sabbur, Petitioner v.
No. 09–7023. Rolly O. Kinnell, Petitioner v. David R. McKune, War
den, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner

No. 09–7035. Launeil Sanders, Petitioner v. Henry McMaster, et al.
No. 09–7043. Rafael Almeyda, Petitioner v. Brion D. Travis. Petition
No. 09–7060. Richard Eline, Petitioner v. T. Lara, et al. Motion of
Ninth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–7089. Tony Mabry, Petitioner v. Larry Scribner, Warden,
et al. Petition for writ of certiorari before judgment to the United
No. 09–7112. Tony Dejuan Jackson, Petitioner v. Minnesota. Motion
tion for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Minnesota dis
No. 09–7143. James Lee Sweed, Petitioner v. Randell Lnu, et al.
for the Fifth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner has repeat
No. 09–7147. Frank M. Muniz, Petitioner v. Lupe Marshall, Warden.
and petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of New Mexico
dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner has repeatedly abused this
Court’s process, the Clerk is directed not to accept any further peti
tions in noncriminal matters from petitioner unless the docketing fee
required by Rule 38(a) is paid and petition submitted in compliance

No. 09–7153. Jeff Smith, Petitioner v. Justin A. Taylor, et al. Petition
No. 09–7186. Hon Chung Lau, Petitioner v. Richard Shumsky. Mo
No. 09–7188. Batyah L. Agron, Petitioner v. Columbia University.
No. 09–7220. William Pierce Plummer, Petitioner v. W. J. Sullivan,
No. 09–7266. Charles H. Parker, Petitioner v. Louisiana. Motion of
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Louisiana dismissed. See
No. 09–7282. Delores Karnofel, Petitioner v. Marshall D. Beck, et al.
and petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio,
Trumbull County, dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner has repeat
No. 09–7307. Robert J. Zani, Petitioner v. Social Security Adminis
tration. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis

of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–7384. Raymond Clark, Petitioner v. California. Motion of
No. 09–7418. Hon Lau, Petitioner v. Robert Hernandez, Warden,
No. 09–7419. Hon Lau, Petitioner v. Mike Evans, Warden. Motion of
Ninth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–7423. Rickey White, Petitioner v. Randall Workman, Warden.
No. 09–7436. Robert P. Smith, Petitioner v. California Department
of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Motion of petitioner for leave to pro
the Court of Appeal of California, Fifth Appellate District, dismissed.
See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–7535. Everts Oniel Chanaka Silva, Petitioner v. Eric H.
No. 09–7591. Barbara Blake, Petitioner v. John E. Potter, Postmaster
No. 09–7667. Eduardo Mantilla, Petitioner v. United States. Motion
the Third Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–7673. Matthew T. Millhouse, Jr., Petitioner v. Jeff Grondolsky,

of Appeals for the Third Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–7702. Philip A. Giordano, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7732. Adeyinka G. Okupe, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7804. Antonio Mejia-Zapata, aka Leon Zapata, aka Anthony
Megia, aka Anthony Mejia, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–7816. Christopher Main, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–644. In Re C. Lynn Moses, Petitioner;
No. 09–7836. In Re Ronald N. Totaro, Petitioner;
No. 09–7960. In Re Derrick Williams, Petitioner; and
No. 09–8019. In Re Vincent M. Singleton, Petitioner. Petitions for
No. 09–7659. In Re Younus Chekkouri, Petitioner. Motion of peti
tioner to unseal pleadings before this Court denied. Petition for writ
No. 09–7961. In Re Theodore Wagner, Petitioner. Motion of peti
writ of habeas corpus dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner has re

Mandamus Denied
No. 09–7561. In Re Saint Torrance, Petitioner; and
No. 09–7884. In Re Jacob Washington, Petitioner. Petitions for writs
of mandamus and/or prohibition denied.
Rehearings Denied
No. 08–1263. Robert Wong, Warden, Petitioner v. Fernando
Belmontes, Jr.;
No. 08–10337. Jerry Lynn Bisby, Petitioner v. Richard Crites, As
sistant Warden, et al.;
No. 08–10438. Angelo Gonzalez, Petitioner v. Blandon Smith, et al.;
No. 08–10487. James Widner, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
tary, Florida Department of Corrections;
No. 08–10510. Darrell J. Harper, Petitioner v. Southern Star
Concrete;
et al.;
No. 08–10693. Delio Jesus Candia, aka Big Mike, aka Delia Jesus
Candia, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 08–10833. Daniel D. Benham, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 08–11142. Robert Burke, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–120. T. G., Mother, Petitioner v. Kentucky Cabinet for Health
and Family Services;
No. 09–202. Joseph M. Ward, Petitioner v. Trans Union, LLC;
No. 09–283. Roger Reeves, Petitioner v. DSI Security Services,
et al.;
No. 09–334. Scott A. Heimermann, Petitioner v. Gary R. McCaugh
try, et al.;
No. 09–407. Ana M. Abreu-Velez, Petitioner v. Board of Regents of
the University System of Georgia, et al.;
No. 09–413. Jimmy Richard Husband, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–433. Kenneth B. Wills, Petitioner v. John E. Potter, Postmas
ter General;
No. 09–5023. Robert Thomas Maxwell, Petitioner v. Arkansas;
No. 09–5043. Kent E. Hovind, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–5053. John Anthony Gruff, Petitioner v. Harry E. Wilson,
Warden, et al.;
No. 09–5068. Gary Hallford, Petitioner v. California;
No. 09–5089. Kennard Gatewood, Petitioner v. T. C. Outlaw, Warden;
No. 09–5187. Heather Hoffman, Petitioner v. Lincoln General Insur
ance, et al.;
No. 09–5293. Salvatore Letizia, Petitioner v. New York;

No. 09–5306. Minerva Lachira, Petitioner v. Stanford Sutton;
No. 09–5308. In Re Stevie Wayne Johnson, Petitioner;
tems, Inc., et al.;
No. 09–5368. Curtis Scott, Petitioner v. R. Q. Hickman, Warden;
No. 09–5475. Roger Dean Cordell, Petitioner v. Carolyn A. Sabol,
Warden, et al.;
No. 09–5493. Darrick Capal Rogers, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
Division;
No. 09–5545. Samy Gharb, Petitioner v. Unitronics (1989) (R"G)
Ltd., et al.;
No. 09–5594. Jesse Van Myers, Petitioner v. Ennis Independent
School District;
No. 09–5647. John Eric Hughes, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–5693. Carlos Moore, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
No. 09–5701. Kelley A. McFarland, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
Division;
No. 09–5719. In Re Florentino C. Bojonquez, Petitioner;
No. 09–5746. Otto Barbour, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–5756. Jacqueline A. M. Phillips, Petitioner v. District of Co
lumbia, et al.;
No. 09–5825. Thomas J. Torrence, Petitioner v. Jon Ozmint, Director,
South Carolina Department of Corrections;
No. 09–5831. Michael Baird Jordan, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–5843. Ronnie M. Lyles, Petitioner v. Mary Ann Vial Lem
mon, et al.;
No. 09–5872. Timothy Peoples, Petitioner v. Barbara Jene Wil
liams, et al.;
No. 09–5880. In Re Walter Hayward Coppage, Petitioner;
No. 09–5925. Ivan Eric Linton, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
Attorney General;
No. 09–5960. George A. Long, Jr., and Rose Mary Long, Petitioners
v. Wood Mizer Products Inc.;
No. 09–5988. Steven E. Warman, Petitioner v. H. J. Marberry, War
den, et al.;
No. 09–6010. Joseph Lee Gurnsey, Petitioner v. California, et al.;
No. 09–6064. Angela Fan, Petitioner v. Charles R. Roe;

No. 09–6068. Thomas Joseph Cutaia, Petitioner v. Florida;
No. 09–6124. Jesse Hoffman, III, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–6135. Stanford Cain, Petitioner v. Gene M. Johnson, Director,
Virginia Department of Corrections;
No. 09–6166. Keith Russell Judd, Petitioner v. New Mexico;
No. 09–6270. Bryan Davis, Sr., Petitioner v. M. Knowles, et al.;
No. 09–6282. Rodney Derrickson, Petitioner v. District Attorney of
Delaware County, et al.;
No. 09–6328. F. Joe Yeager, Petitioner v. City of San Diego, Califor
nia, et al.;
No. 09–6414. In Re Armando Ramirez, Petitioner;
No. 09–6437. Gary Yoder, Petitioner v. Janice K. Brewer, Governor
of Arizona, et al.;
No. 09–6469. Charles Daniel, Jr., Petitioner v. Steven Scott, et al.;
No. 09–6487. Willie H. Jones, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–6512. James E. Smith, Petitioner v. Douglas Weber, Warden;
No. 09–6542. Kathalina Monacelli, Petitioner v. Lee County Educa
tion Association, et al.;
No. 09–6562. Calvin Elizares, Petitioner v. Todd Thomas, Warden,
et al.;
No. 09–6572. Theresa Wheeler, Petitioner v. Courtney Miller;
No. 09–6584. Melvin Bowman, Petitioner v. Colorado;
No. 09–6601. Adam Trotter, Petitioner v. Robert M. Gates, Secre
tary of Defense;
No. 09–6677. In Re John Frank Warren, Jr., Petitioner;
No. 09–6804. Wali Hamani, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–7005. Gary Wise, Petitioner v. Henry F. Floyd, Judge, United
States District Court for the District of South Carolina, et al.;
No. 09–7036. Parviz Karim-Panahi, Petitioner v. United States; and
No. 09–7137. Milton A. Nelson, Petitioner v. United States. Petitions
for rehearing denied.
No. 08–11058. Rocky Samas, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–312. Cliff Greene, Petitioner v. Hanover Direct, Inc., et al.;
No. 09–424. Derrek Pannell, Petitioner v. United States; and
No. 09–5726. James Peace, Petitioner v. Michael J. Astrue, Commis

sioner of Social Security. Petitions for rehearing denied. Justice Soto
mayor took no part in the consideration or decision of these petitions.
No. 08–10112. Robert Curtis, Petitioner v. Oregon; and
No. 09–5922. Robert Curtis, Petitioner v. United States. Motions for
leave to file petitions for rehearing denied.
Attorney Discipline
No. D–2458. In the Matter of Leo P. DeMarco, II. Leo P. DeMarco, II,
of Malden, Massachusetts, having requested to resign as a member of
the Bar of this Court, it is ordered that his name be stricken from the
roll of attorneys permitted to the practice of law before this Court.
The Rule to Show Cause, issued on November 30, 2009, is discharged.

Kurt Edward Alexander North Adams, MA Jani J. Maselli

Paul Joseph Alvarado Valdosta, GA George Thomas
Reeves
Joseph W. Ambash Boston, MA Donald R.
Frederico
Sofija Anderson San Francisco, CA Garry George
Mathiason
Laurie Ann Babinski Washington, DC Bruce W. Sanford
Alec J. Beck Minneapolis, MN Thomas R.
Revnew
Neal S. Berinhout Atlanta, GA Evan Mark Tager
James L. Bernard New York, NY Joel Cohen
William Bevan, III Pittsburgh, PA David James Bird
Joseph W. Borchelt Cincinnati, OH Vincent Paul
Antaki
Malia Nicole Brink Washington, DC Seth F. Kreimer
Maryam T. Brotine Chicago, IL Caroline A.
Roselli
Bruce David Brown Washington, DC Bruce W. Sanford
Thomas Warren Brown South Boston, MA Thomas George
Field, Jr.
Kevin E. Bry Chicago, IL Thomas J. Reed
Jennifer DeButts Cantrell Cerritos, CA Matt Julian
Steiner

Jan M. Carroll Indianapolis, IN John Daniel

Tinder
Matthew Pollick Cavitch Memphis, TN William V.
Hearnburg, Jr.
Yee Wah Chin New York, NY Ronald Herbert
Alenstein
Ronald Shreve Connelly Washington, DC Robert Mason
Portman
Michael Cosculluela Miami, FL Victor Moises
Gonzalez
Ana M. Davide Miami, FL Harry Martin
Solomon
John W. Dietrich Riverside, CA Thomas A. Lenz
William S. Dodge Oakland, CA Rory Knox Little
Thomas A. Dubbs New York, NY Mark S. Arisohn
Mark E. Ellis Sacramento, CA Ronald A.
Zumbrun
Vaughan Finn Hartford, CT Paul DeWitt
Sanson
David G. Fisher Lake Wales, FL Jack P. Brandon
Walter Briggs Fisher, Jr. Detroit, MI John Haxley
Fildew, II
Michael Richard Fleming Alexandria, VA James Thomas
Moore
Bradley W. Fox Cincinnati, OH Christopher A.
Griffiths
Gina Lynne Fraternali Cleveland, OH Joyce Goldstein
J. Patrick Gaffney New Orleans, LA M. Hampton
Carver
David J. Gehr Boulder, CO Jerry P. Gordon
Matthew Bruce George Sacramento, CA Ronald Wayne
Beals
Jason Jose Goitia Tampa, FL Jamil Nazim
Jaffer
Whitley Robert Graves Bossier City, LA Henry N.
Brown, Jr.
Leslie A. Greathouse Kansas City, MO M. Courtney
Koger
Paul S. Grewal East Palo Alto, Katherine M.
CA Basile
William G. Hagans Houston, TX William Fred

Hagans
Palmer Clarkson Hamilton Mobile, AL Herschel Lee
Abbott, Jr.
Kristen Quan Hammill Houston, TX Brian K. Bates
Robert L. Hargett Austin, TX David M. Davis
Don Neeley High Dallas, TX Richard D.
Faulkner
Philip D. Hixon Tulsa, OK Archer Scott
McDaniel
Andrew Stephen Holland New York, NY Nancy Darragh
Killian
Thomas M. Huff Leesburg, VA Alan Gura
Deena R. Hurwitz Charlottesville, Deirdre M.
VA Enright
Omar Cassim Jadwat New York, NY Judy Rabinovitz
Scott Radley Jamison Baltimore, MD David Mercer
Funk
Richard L. Jarashow New York, NY Marshall Beil
Frederick D. Jones Marietta, GA Bert Kris
Robinson
Matthew John Jowanna Tampa, FL Douglass W.
Cassel
Charles S. Kennedy, III Detroit, MI John Haxley
Fildew, II
Michael Louis Kiklis Washington, DC Thomas C.
Goldstein
Duke J. Kim Los Angeles, CA Brian C. Burgtorf
Joseph Douglas King Alexandria, VA David Benjamin
Smith
Michael James King Tulsa, OK Stanley D. Monroe
Allen Louis Lanstra, Jr. Los Angeles, CA Thomas Jerome
Nolan
Paul V. Lettow Washington, DC Michael A. Carvin
Michael T. Liburdi Phoenix, AZ Paul Franklin
Eckstein
Robert William Loftin Richmond, VA Lewis F. Powell,
III
David N. Loria New Orleans, LA Jason P.
Waguespack

Mark Allen Loyd, Jr. Louisville, KY Mark F. Sommer

Ray F. Lucas, III Lafayette, LA John Fayne
Wilkes, III
Jeffrey Alan Lustick Bellingham, WA Steven J. Mura
Charles B. Lustig Norfolk, VA Thomas Brady
Shuttleworth,
II
Sarah Spierling Mack Seattle, WA Duncan K. Fobes
Andrew George MacKenzie Augusta, GA Chiquita T.
Johnson
S. Peter Manning Lansing, MI Robert P. Reichel
Daniel J. Marzano Ft. Lauderdale, Victor Moises
FL Gonzalez
Peggy Ann Matzen Chesterfield, VA Thomas Scott
Winston, III
Michael L. McCain Minneapolis, MN Thomas R.
Revnew
Anne Mary McCormick Washington, DC Lisa A. Tracy
Joel D. McGormley East Lansing, MI B. Eric Restuccia
Robert James McNamara Arlington, VA Robert Peller
Frommer
Glenn S. McRoberts San Diego, CA C. D. Michel
Christian Campbell Little Rock, AR Mark Allen
Michaels Stodola
Ronald Joseph Miciotto Shreveport, LA Ansel Martin
Stroud, III
Jennifer Milici Washington, DC Christopher L.
Hayes
Susan G. Morrison Austin, TX John Judge
Michael Howard Morse Washington, DC Marvin Henry
Morse
Joseph J. Mueller Boston, MA William F. Lee
Joseph B. Muller Omaha, NE Dana C. Bradford,
III
Daniel Christian Munce Drexel Hill, PA Marlene G. Brown
Pamela Susan Nagy Philadelphia, PA Glenn W. Falk
Ahmad E. Nassar Washington, DC Andrew S.
Tulumello
Daniel Edward O’ Neill Buchanan, NY Jordan Willard
Grossman
Daniel Katz Orlow Philadelphia, PA James Joseph

Orlow
Steven B. Pollack Highland Park, IL Deborah Gail
Matthews
Casey A. Quillen Denver, CO Rebecca
Love-Kourlis
Joy Cantrelle Rabalais Lafayette, LA John Fayne
Wilkes, III
Francine Terhune Radford San Francisco, CA Thomas Victor
Loran, III
Noelle M. Reed Houston, TX Charles Walter
Schwartz
Ezra W. Reese Washington, DC Robert F. Bauer
Carrie Marie Reilly New York, NY George Thomas
Conway, III
Louis B. Reinwasser Lansing, MI Eric B. Restuccia
Michael Steven Rosenberg Atlantic City, NJ Michael Plotnick
Susan M. Sabers Sioux Falls, SD James David
Leach
Robert Gerald Schaffer Phoenix, AZ Lawrence Arthur
Kasten
John Erik Schreiber Los Angeles, CA John K. Van
de Kamp
Sara Lynn Seibert Angola, IN Allen Robert
Stout
Paul Michael Sherman Arlington, VA Clark M. Neily, III
Brian Y. Silber Fort Lauderdale, Charles H.
FL Lichtman
Laura Manzi Sinars Chicago, IL Caroline A.
Roselli
Barton William Smith Key West, FL William L.
Smith, Jr.
John S. Snelling Atlanta, GA Robert L. Byer
Robert J. Spragg New York, NY Francis G.
Fleming
Karen Therese Staib Hartford, CT Sheila A.
Huddleston
Michael David Suders Mifflinburg, PA Beth Ann
Muhlhauser

Lisa Diane Summers Mentor, OH Ronald Lee

Rosenfield
Karin Bornstein Swope Seattle, WA Teresa S. Renaker
K. Daria Szwajkun Warren, MI George Laska
Will Robert Tansey Minneapolis, MN Norman J. Baer
Thomas W. Thagard, III Birmingham, AL Lee E. Bains
Mark W. Thompson Riverside, CA Thomas A. Lenz
Peder John Vikan Thoreen San Francisco, CA Stephen P. Berzon
Robert J. Tolchin Brooklyn, NY David Jaroslawicz
Richard S. Toon, Jr. Tulsa, OK Kenneth Edward
Wagner
Thomas Edward Greenville, SC W. Howard
Vanderbloemen Boyd, Jr.
Gilbert B. Weisman Malvern, PA Alane A. Becket
Van Henri White Rochester, NY Tina M. Drake
Zimmerman
Andrew Colby Whitney Philadelphia, PA Marc Jay
Sonnenfeld
Helen E. Witt Chicago, IL Robert J. Kopecky
Samantha D. Wolff San Francisco, CA Jonathan L. Wolff
Gail D. Zirkelbach Denver, CO Herbert Lawrence
Fenster
Douglas Ian Wood Alexandria, VA Christina Teresa

Tartera
Michael W. Grant Washington, DC Edward S. White
Jeffrey D. Groharing Washington, DC Edward S. White
Joseph Fredrick Pera Kensington, CT Edward S. White
Nicole Ann Tate Alexandria, VA Edward S. White
Darlene S. Simmons Tampa, FL Edward S. White
Kenneth W. Sachs Portsmouth, NH Edward S. White
Dirk Barron Padgett Roanoke, VA Edward S. White
Scott Charles Jansen Spokane, WA Edward S. White
Todd Lawrence Lindquist Washington, DC Mark Tellitocci
Barbara A. Snow-Martone Pawcatuck, CT Mark Tellitocci
Alan Jason Nef Fort Meyers, FL Mark Tellitocci
Brent A. Goodwin Elkton, MD Mark Tellitocci
Jess B. Roberts Crawford, NE Mark Tellitocci
Neera Ahuja Bahl Atlanta, GA Richardson R.

Lynn
Robert M. Bembridge Waterloo, IA Richardson R.
Lynn
B. Dave Driggers Macon, GA Richardson R.
Lynn
Burl Michael Finkelstein Newnan, GA Richardson R.
Lynn
Emilie Rachel Freeman Cumming, GA Richardson R.
Lynn
Gretchen Michele Howard Atlanta, GA Richardson R.
Lynn
Nicole Yolanda Jones Atlanta, GA Richardson R.
Lynn
R. Edwin Joyner Jonesboro, GA Richardson R.
Lynn
Sean Hansel Joyner Jonesboro, GA Richardson R.
Lynn
Roger Craig Montgomery Talbotton, GA Richardson R.
Lynn
Richard Robert Rafter Springfield, GA Richardson R.
Lynn
Otis L. Weldon Conyers, GA Richardson R.
Lynn
Oral Arguments

North Carolina. Argued by Mr. Carter G. Phillips for the plaintiffs, by
Mr. Edwin S. Kneedler for the United States as amicus curiae, by
special leave of the Court, supporting neither party, and by Mr. Walter
Dellinger for the defendant.
v. Virginia. Argued by Mr. Richard D. Friedman for the petitioners, by
Mr. Solicitor General Stephen R. McCullough for the respondent, and
by Ms. Leondra R. Kruger for the United States as amicus curiae, by
special leave of the Court, supporting the respondent.
Adjourned until Tuesday, January 12, 2010, at 10 o’clock.


No. 09A648. Dennis Hollingsworth, et al., Applicants v. Kristin M.
Perry, et al. Upon consideration of the application for stay presented
to Justice Kennedy and by him referred to the Court, it is ordered that
the order of the United States District Court for the Northern District
of California, case No. 3:09–cv-02292, permitting real-time streaming
is stayed except as it permits streaming to other rooms within the
confines of the courthouse in which the trial is to be held. Any addi
tional order permitting broadcast of the proceedings is also stayed
pending further order of this Court. To permit further consideration
in this Court, this order will remain in effect until Wednesday, January
13, 2010, at 4 p.m. eastern time. Dissent by Justice Breyer. I agree with
the Court that further consideration is warranted, and I am pleased
that the stay is time limited. However, I would undertake that consid
eration without a temporary stay in place. This stay prohibits the
transmission of proceedings to other federal courthouses. In my view,
the Court’s standard for granting a stay is not met. See Conkright v.
Frommert, 556 U. S. –––, ––– (2009) (slip op., at 1–2) (Ginsburg, J., in
chambers). In particular, the papers filed, in my view, do not show a
likelihood of “irreparable harm.” With respect, I dissent.
(JOURNAL) TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2010 471


Opinion
No. 08–724. Keith Smith, Warden, Petitioner v. Frank G. Spisak, Jr.
On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the
Sixth Circuit. Judgment reversed. Opinion by Justice Breyer. Opinion
by Justice Stevens, concurring in part and concurring in the judgment.

Jung W. Kim Trenton, NJ Dan Schweitzer

Soye Kim Washington, DC Robert A. Battey
Brett Alan Barfield Miami, FL Stephen J. Cullen
Robert Thomas Watson Miami, FL Stephen J. Cullen
Kelly Ann Powers Baltimore, MD Stephen J. Cullen
Oral Arguments
No. 08–1224. United States, Petitioner v. Graydon Earl Comstock,
Jr., et al. Argued by Ms. Solicitor General Elena Kagan for the peti
tioner and by Mr. G. Alan Dubois for the respondents.
Vaye Abbott. Argued by Ms. Amy Howe for the petitioner, by
Ms. Ginger Anders for the United States as amicus curiae, by special
leave of the Court, supporting the petitioner, and by Mr. Karl E. Hays
for the respondent.
Adjourned until Wednesday, January 13, 2010, at 10 o’clock.
Order
IT IS ORDERED that the revised Rules of this Court, approved by
the Court and lodged with the Clerk, shall be effective February 16,
2010, and be printed as an appendix to the United States Reports.
472 TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2010
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Rules promulgated October 1,

2007, see 551 U. S. 1195, shall be rescinded as of February 15, 2010, and
that the revised Rules shall govern all proceedings in cases commenced
after that date and, to the extent feasible and just, cases then pending.
Certiorari Denied
No. 09–8394 (09A628). Gary Johnson, Petitioner v. Texas. Applica
(JOURNAL) WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2010 473


Opinion

Public Utilities Commission, et al. On writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Judgment
reversed to the extent that it rejects the application of Mobile-Sierra
to noncontracting parties, and case remanded to the United States
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for further pro
ceedings consistent with the opinion of this Court. Opinion by Justice
Ginsburg. Dissenting opinion by Justice Stevens.

Douglas James Kramer Leawood, KS Christine A.

Varney
Wendy Huang Waszmer Washington, DC Christine A.
Varney
Philip J. Weiser Denver, CO Christine A.
Varney
William F. Cavanaugh, Jr. Washington, DC Christine A.
Varney
Tacey Nusbaum Himelfarb Baltimore, MD E. Barrett
Prettyman, Jr.
Porter Heath Morgan, IV Longmont, CO Roy T. Englert, Jr.
Jeffrey Michael Alfano Staten Island, NY Joseph James
Maltese
Ronald Castorina, Jr. Staten Island, NY Joseph James
Maltese
John P. Connors, Jr. Staten Island, NY Joseph James
Maltese
Peter Fuller DeLizzo Staten Island, NY Joseph James
Maltese
Sheila T. McGinn Staten Island, NY Joseph James
Maltese
474 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2010
Joseph A. Romagnolo Staten Island, NY Joseph James

Maltese
Michael J. Ryan Staten Island, NY Joseph James
Maltese
Christopher Sargente Ridgewood, NJ Joseph James
Maltese
Orin Joel Cohen Staten Island, NY Jonathan B.
Behrins
Allyn James Crawford Staten Island, NY Jonathan B.
Behrins
Michael Vincent Gervasi Staten Island, NY Jonathan B.
Behrins
Denise Marangos Staten Island, NY Jonathan B.
Behrins
John Z. Marangos Staten Island, NY Jonathan B.
Behrins
Judith N. McMahon Staten Island, NY Jonathan B.
Behrins
Michael E. McMahon Staten Island, NY Jonathan B.
Behrins
Carol Ann Wojtowicz Brooklyn, NY Jonathan B.
Behrins
Oral Arguments

League, et al. Argued by Mr. Glen D. Nager for the petitioner, by
Mr. Malcolm L. Stewart for the United States as amicus curiae, by
special leave of the Court, supporting neither party, and by Mr. Gregg
H. Levy for the respondents.
Kramer & Ulrich LPA, et al. Argued by Mr. Kevin K. Russell for the
petitioner, by Mr. William M. Jay for the United States as amicus
curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting the petitioner, and by
Mr. George S. Coakley for the respondents.
Adjourned until Tuesday, January 19, 2010, at 10 o’clock.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2010 475

No. 09A648. Dennis Hollingsworth, et al. v. Kristin M. Perry, et al.
The Court grants the application for a stay of the District Court’s order
of January 7, 2010, pending the timely filing and disposition of a peti
tion for a writ of certiorari or the filing and disposition of a petition
for a writ of mandamus. Opinion per curiam. Dissenting opinion by
Justice Breyer, with whom Justice Stevens, Justice Ginsburg, and Jus
tice Sotomayor join.
(JOURNAL) FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 2010 477


Certiorari Granted
No. 09–337. Wanda Krupski, Petitioner v. Costa Crociere S.p.A.
for the Eleventh Circuit granted. Brief of petitioner to be filed on or
before Thursday, February 25, 2010. Brief of respondent to be filed on
or before Thursday, March 25, 2010. Reply brief, if any, to be filed in
accordance with Rule 25.3 of the Rules of this Court.
No. 09–448. Bridget Hardt, Petitioner v. Reliance Standard Life In
surance Company. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit granted. Brief of petitioner to
be filed on or before Thursday, February 25, 2010. Brief of respondent
to be filed on or before Thursday, March 25, 2010. Reply brief, if any,
to be filed in accordance with Rule 25.3 of the Rules of this Court.
No. 09–497. Rent-A-Center, West, Inc., Petitioner v. Antonio Jack
son. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
peals for the Ninth Circuit granted. Brief of petitioner to be filed on
or before Thursday, February 25, 2010. Brief of respondent to be filed
on or before Thursday, March 25, 2010. Reply brief, if any, to be filed
in accordance with Rule 25.3 of the Rules of this Court.
No. 09–559. John Doe #1, et al., Petitioners v. Sam Reed, Washington
Secretary of State, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted. Brief of peti
tioners to be filed on or before Thursday, February 25, 2010. Brief of
respondents to be filed on or before Thursday, March 25, 2010. Reply
brief, if any, to be filed in accordance with Rule 25.3 of the Rules of
this Court.
No. 09–475. Monsanto Company, et al., Petitioners v. Geertson Seed
Farms, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted. Brief of petitioners to be filed
on or before Thursday, February 25, 2010. Brief of respondents to be
filed on or before Thursday, March 25, 2010. Reply brief, if any, to be
filed in accordance with Rule 25.3 of the Rules of this Court. Justice
Breyer took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
(JOURNAL) TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2010 479


Opinions Per Curiam
No. 09–5270. Eric Presley, Petitioner v. Georgia. On petition for writ

of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Georgia. Motion of petitioner for
leave to proceed in forma pauperis and petition for writ of certiorari
granted. Judgment reversed, and case remanded to the Supreme Court
of Georgia for further proceedings not inconsistent with the opinion of
this Court. Opinion per curiam. Dissenting opinion by Justice Thomas,
with whom Justice Scalia joins.
No. 09–5731. Marcus A. Wellons, Petitioner v. Hilton Hall, Warden.
for the Eleventh Circuit. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed
ment vacated, and case remanded to the United States Court of Ap
peals for the Eleventh Circuit for further consideration in light of Cone
v. Bell, 556 U. S., at ––– (slip op., at 17–18). Opinion per curiam. Dis
senting opinion by Justice Scalia, with whom Justice Thomas joins.
Dissenting opinion by Justice Alito, with whom The Chief Justice joins.
Appeals—Summary Disposition
No. 09–416. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, et al.,

Appellants v. Marciano Plata, et al.; and
No. 09–553. California State Republican Legislator Intervenors,
et al., Appellants v. Marciano Plata, et al. Appeals from the United
States District Courts for the Eastern District and the Northern Dis
trict of California. Appeals dismissed for want of jurisdiction. The
Court takes note that a further order has been entered in this case,
but that order is not the subject of these appeals. It is also noted that
the district court has stayed its further order pending review by this
Court.
No. 07–1483. Deborah L. Patrick, Warden, Petitioner v. Shirley Ree

Smith. On petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Motion of respondent for leave to pro
ceed in forma pauperis granted. Petition for writ of certiorari granted.
Judgment vacated, and case remanded to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for further consideration in light of Mc-
Daniel v. Brown, 558 U. S. ––– (2010).
of Corrections, et al., Petitioners v. Mumia Abu-Jamal. On petition for
Circuit. Motion of respondent for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
granted. Petition for writ of certiorari granted. Judgment vacated, and
case remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third
Circuit for further consideration in light of Smith v. Spisak, 558 U. S.
––– (2010).
No. 08–7757. Darian Antwan Watts, Petitioner v. United States. On
petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for
the Eleventh Circuit. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
and case remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Elev
enth Circuit for further consideration in light of the position asserted
by the Solicitor General in her brief for the United States filed on May
8, 2009.
No. 09–122. Demarick Hunter, Petitioner v. United States. On peti
the Eleventh Circuit. Petition for writ of certiorari granted. Judgment
the Eleventh Circuit for further consideration in light of the position
asserted by the Solicitor General in her brief for the United States
filed on November 25, 2009.
No. 09–5370. Carlos Vazquez, Petitioner v. United States. On peti
enth Circuit for further consideration in light of the position asserted
by the Solicitor General in her brief for the United States filed Novem
ber 16, 2009.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2010 481

No. 09–5995. Bruce Allen Johnson, Petitioner v. United States. On
the Eighth Circuit. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
and case remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the
Eighth Circuit for further consideration in light of Abuelhawa v.
United States, 556 U. S. ––– (2009).
No. 09–7408. Prince Linton, Petitioner v. United States. On petition
Fourth Circuit. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pau
peris and petition for writ of certiorari granted. Judgment vacated,
Fourth Circuit for further consideration in light of United States v.
Booker, 543 U. S. 220 (2005).
No. 09A541. Sally Norton, Applicant v. Fannie Mae. Application for

stay addressed to Justice Sotomayor and referred to the Court denied.
No. 09M63. Kristofer Thomas Kastner, Petitioner v. Martin &
Drought, Inc., fka Martin, Drought & Torres, Inc., et al. Motion to
direct the Clerk to file a petition for writ of certiorari out of time
denied.
No. 09M64. Kim J. Cooley, Petitioner v. St. Bernard Parish Bureau
of Prisons, et al. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for writ
No. 1, Original. State of Wisconsin, et al., Plaintiffs v. State of Illi
nois and Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, et al.;
No. 2, Original. State of Michigan, Plaintiff v. State of Illinois and
Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, et al.; and
No. 3, Original. State of New York, Plaintiff v. State of Illinois and
Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, et al. Motion of
Michigan for preliminary injunction denied.
President of the United States, et al. Motion of petitioners for leave to
proceed in forma pauperis granted.
No. 09–338. Paul Renico, Warden, Petitioner v. Reginald Lett.
Motion of respondent for appointment of counsel granted. Marla R.
McCowan, of Detroit, Michigan, is appointed to serve as counsel for the
respondent in this case.
No. 09–529. Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy, Petitioner

v. James S. Reinhard, Commissioner, Virginia Department of Behav
ioral Health and Developmental Services, et al. The Solicitor General
is invited to file a brief in this case expressing the views of the
United States.
No. 09–6554. William P. Plummer, Petitioner v. California. Motion
No. 09–6764. John A. Royse, Petitioner v. Corning Glass Works, Inc.
No. 09–6888. Steven Earl Beaver, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
denied.
No. 09–6916. Gregory T. Howard, Petitioner v. Supreme Court of
Ohio, et al. Motion of petitioner for reconsideration of order denying
No. 09–7550. Donald G. Jones, Petitioner v. Liberty Bank and Trust
Company, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
pauperis denied. Petitioner allowed until February 9, 2010, within
No. 09–7565. Peter J. Corines, Petitioner v. J. M. Killian, Warden.
ance with Rule 33.1 of the Rules of this Court. Justice Sotomayor took
no part in the consideration or decision of this motion.
Certiorari Denied
No. 08–11060. Frank L. Ferguson, Petitioner v. West Virginia. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of West Virginia, Ka
nawha County, denied.
No. 09–197. Kimco of Evansville, Inc., nka KCH Acquisition, Inc.,
et al., Petitioners v. Indiana. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Su
preme Court of Indiana denied.
No. 09–224. Stanley R. Nickels, Petitioner v. Grand Trunk Western
Railroad, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court

No. 09–294. Aysha Nudrat Unus and Hanaa Unus, Petitioners v.
David Kane, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–302. Daniel Masarik, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–310. Larry A. Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–314. City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, Petitioner v. Bradley
Tanner, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of
Virginia denied.
No. 09–325. Alexandre Aronov, Petitioner v. Janet Napolitano, Sec
retary of Homeland Security, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–343. Edison Electric Institute, et al., Petitioners v. Piedmont
Environmental Council, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–379. Wilbur Allmond, Petitioner v. Akal Security, Inc., et al.
No. 09–385. Bakery Machinery & Fabrications, Inc., Petitioner v.
Traditional Baking, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–395. Michelle R. Ricci, Associate Administrator, New Jersey
State Prison, et al., Petitioners v. Paul Kamienski. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–412. SMC Corporation, et al., Petitioners v. Norgren, Inc.,
No. 09–439. QSI Holdings, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Dennis E. Al
ford, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–447. Dennis Hecker, et al., Petitioners v. Deere & Company.
No. 09–518. Andrew J. Bullock, IV, Petitioner v. Arthur S. Klein,

No. 09–549. United States, et al., Petitioners v. Byron Smith. Peti
No. 09–550. Joseph Fessler, et ux., Petitioners v. Kirk Sauer Commu
nity Development of Wilkes-Barre, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied.
No. 09–555. Terry Ashabranner, Petitioner v. Jeanette Goodman, In
dividually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Michael W. Goodman,
Deceased; and
No. 09–574. Jeanette Goodman, Individually and as Administratrix
of the Estate of Michael Goodman, Deceased, Petitioner v. Harris
County, Texas, et al. Petitions for writs of certiorari to the United
No. 09–556. Brian Schreiner, Petitioner v. Kristi Ewing, et al. Peti
sion 1, denied.
No. 09–558. Elijah W. Ratcliff, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Ninth District, denied.
No. 09–561. Ross Parkhurst, et ux., Individually and as Guardians
and Next Friends of H. P., Petitioners v. Stephen Tabor, et al. Petition
No. 09–565. Lanise Bason, Petitioner v. Joan N. Yukins, Warden.
No. 09–568. Maremont Corporation, Petitioner v. Florence Diane
St. John, Individually and as Administratrix ad Prosequendum of the
Estate of Harold St. John. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–575. English-Speaking Union, Petitioner v. James Johnson,
No. 09–577. Mary Hale, et al., Petitioners v. Bexar County, Texas.

No. 09–585. Harvest Institute Freedman Federation, et al., Petition
ers v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–586. Alison E. Clapp O’Callaghan, et al., Petitioners v. Tem
porary Guardianship of Thora M. Moulton. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the Court of Appeals of Indiana, Fourth District, denied.
No. 09–588. Roberta A. Golden, Petitioner v. Charles H. Housman,
Trustee, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Judicial
Court of Maine denied.
No. 09–595. Chayadipurnama Ciptanagara, Petitioner v. Eric H.
No. 09–598. Donald H. MacDermid, Individually and as Administra
tor of the Estate of Nina Kay MacDermid, Petitioner v. Discover Fi
nancial Services, dba Discover Charge Card. Petition for writ of certio
No. 09–603. County of Delaware, Pennsylvania, et al., Petitioners v.
Federal Aviation Administration, et al.; and
No. 09–607. County of Rockland, New York, et al., Petitioners v.
Federal Aviation Administration, et al. Petitions for writs of certiorari
Circuit denied.
No. 09–618. Miguel Jiminez, Petitioner v. Douglas M. Vaughan, War
No. 09–633. Mark Cimini, Petitioner v. Marilyn Ray Smith, et al.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Appeals Court of Massachusetts
denied.
No. 09–635. Shinnecock Smoke Shop, Petitioner v. David J. Kappos,
Director, Patent and Trademark Office. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied.
No. 09–646. Carnival Corporation, dba Carnival Cruise Lines, Inc.,
Petitioner v. Puliyurumpil Mathew Thomas. Petition for writ of certio
denied.
No. 09–649. Robert C. Konop, Petitioner v. Hawaiian Airlines, Inc.
No. 09–651. Claudia Constance Hirmer and Mark Steven Hirmer,

Petitioners v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–653. Thomas J. Gearing, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
nia, County of Los Angeles, denied.
No. 09–655. Stanley L. Wade, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–691. Bryan James Epis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–692. Jamie Olis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Cir
cuit denied.
No. 09–5202. Anthony Terrell Booker, Petitioner v. Mississippi. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Mississippi denied.
No. 09–5455. Dale Giles, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6167. Cleo Patterson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6179. Eusebio Aguilera-Meza, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–6245. Aaron Hargrove, Petitioner v. James Walker, Warden.
No. 09–6441. Robert Glover, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–6457. Alejandro Molina-Gazca, aka Alejandro Martinez, Peti
No. 09–6504. Brenton Dwayne Thompson, Petitioner v. Daniel Wil
liams, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court

No. 09–6577. Barbara Leigh Mitchell, Petitioner v. Kelly O’Brien.
No. 09–6605. Hassan S. Berry, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6650. Ricky Vincent Pendleton, Petitioner v. David Ballard,
Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of West
Virginia, Berkeley County, denied.
No. 09–6792. Adam Lee Kern, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6835. Daniel Stanley Van Hoosen, Petitioner v. Matt Kramer,
No. 09–6846. Demontrell Williams White, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–6983. Duane E. Owen, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6985. Fred Rucker, Petitioner v. Illinois Department of Chil
dren and Family Services. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–7156. Sidney Cornwell, Petitioner v. David Bobby, Warden.
No. 09–7168. Kelly Wadford, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7326. Tariq Isa, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7424. George E. Ray, Petitioner v. Federal Insurance Com
No. 09–7435. Reginald Haywood, Petitioner v. Jeff Bedatsky, et al.
No. 09–7442. Michael James Jackson, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition

No. 09–7443. Timothy A. Hale, Petitioner v. Franklin J. Tennis,
Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Peti
No. 09–7444. B. J. Thomas, Petitioner v. Michigan. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Michigan denied.
No. 09–7453. Giovanni Sairras, Petitioner v. Jonathan Schleffer, et al.
No. 09–7457. Curtis Fuller, Petitioner v. David Bergh, Warden. Peti
No. 09–7460. James Allen Hooks, Petitioner v. Archie Bruton, et al.
No. 09–7466. Tracey Cordova, et al., Petitioners v. Derek Aragon,
et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–7471. David Israel Chavez, Petitioner v. Gary Swarthout,
No. 09–7476. Mary Jane Murray, Petitioner v. Milwaukee County,
Wisconsin, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–7478. Roger Johnson, Petitioner v. Lawrence Kelly, Super
No. 09–7479. Melvin Ketchum, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
sion. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–7481. David W. Wilson, Petitioner v. F. B. Haws, Warden.
No. 09–7496. William Loggins, Petitioner v. Sam Cline, Warden,

No. 09–7497. Stephen J. Kares, Petitioner v. Jeffrey Eniex, et al.
No. 09–7501. Arthur Doyle Rutledge, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
No. 09–7503. Aaron J. Straw, Petitioner v. Michael D. Klopotoski,
No. 09–7506. Howard Brown, Petitioner v. Curtiss James Kelley, Jr.,
denied.
No. 09–7510. David K. Jenner and Michael O. Backus, Petitioners
v. Aristedes W. Zavares, Executive Director, Colorado Department of
No. 09–7512. Kenneth James Bedford, Petitioner v. Patti Webb,
No. 09–7517. Steven Perez, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Thirteenth District,
denied.
No. 09–7524. Kevin Joseph Reese, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Tenth District,
denied.
No. 09–7525. Wayne Waldie, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
late District, Division Two, denied.
No. 09–7526. Kimela Venise Trump, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–7528. Lionel Villarreal, Petitioner v. Willie O. Smith, Warden.
No. 09–7534. Alfredo Victoria, Petitioner v. James Conway, Super
intendent, Attica Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–7538. Purcell Bronson, Petitioner v. Donald L. Kelchner,

Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, et al.
No. 09–7540. Marina N. Ivanova, aka Marina Ivanova-Warner, Peti
tioner v. Michigan. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court
of Michigan, Kent County, denied.
No. 09–7542. Mark Gruber, Petitioner v. Bernie Buescher, Colorado
Secretary of State, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme
Court of Colorado denied.
No. 09–7557. Calvin Lorinzo Perry, Petitioner v. Virginia. Petition
No. 09–7566. Heidi K. Erickson, Petitioner v. Massachusetts. Peti
denied.
No. 09–7569. Smith Felix, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney
No. 09–7570. Samuel John Major-Davis, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler,
Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Criminal Institutions
No. 09–7571. George Cleveland, Petitioner v. Larry W. Abernathy,
Mayor of the City of Clemson, South Carolina, et al. Petition for writ
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7575. Jerry Lynn Davis, Petitioner v. Thomas Eitel, et al.
No. 09–7587. Raymond P. Vinnie, Petitioner v. Massachusetts. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachu
setts denied.
No. 09–7593. Mark Tyler Anthony, Petitioner v. Third Circuit Court
of Michigan, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–7597. Antoine Mason, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–7600. Hardis L. Barnes, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,

sion. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–7606. Scott John Travaline, Petitioner v. Robin Travaline.
Philadelphia Office, denied.
No. 09–7609. Herbert Willard Moore, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
No. 09–7610. Nicie Dillehay, Petitioner v. Department of Housing
and Urban Development, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–7611. Michael Anthony Diaz, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Seventh District,
denied.
No. 09–7612. Timothy Dupont, Petitioner v. Richard M. Gerry, War
den. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–7616. Lamin Johnson, Petitioner v. Matthew Cate, Secretary,
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Peti
No. 09–7617. Frank Joseph Matylinsky, Petitioner v. Michael Budge,
No. 09–7619. Arthur Van Swait, Petitioner v. Mike Evans, Warden;
Arthur Van Swait, Petitioner v. Mike Evans, Warden; Arthur Van
Swait, Petitioner v. Mike Evans, Warden; and Arthur Van Swait, Peti
tioner v. Mike Evans, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–7625. Benjamin R. Singleton, Petitioner v. Jeffrey Johnson,
No. 09–7651. Emmett Ray Nall, Petitioner v. David McCall, Warden.
No. 09–7655. Jamar James Evans, Petitioner v. Mercy Medical Cen
ter. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California,
Fifth Appellate District, denied.
No. 09–7694. Gerell Charles, Petitioner v. Michigan. Petition for writ

of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Michigan denied.
No. 09–7696. Diego Saquic-Sacche, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
No. 09–7701. Andreda Golden, Petitioner v. Hubbell Incorporated,
No. 09–7761. Laurie Marie Laskey, Petitioner v. Vision Infosoft.
No. 09–7790. Caesar White, Jr., Petitioner v. Florida Department of
Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–7830. Tracy Watts, Petitioner v. Harry Wilson, et al. Petition
No. 09–7866. Restituto Embuscado, Petitioner v. DC Comics, et al.
for the Second Circuit denied.
No. 09–7873. Willverto Lemerro Foster, Petitioner v. Alabama. Peti
bama denied.
No. 09–7893. Robert Johnson, Petitioner v. Cook Incorporated. Peti
No. 09–7921. Donald Allison Blount, Jr., Petitioner v. James Hardy,
Correctional Administrator, Nash Correctional Institution. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7985. Dorian Cresswell, aka Goo, aka Big Goo, aka Big G,
aka Fat Boy, aka Biggie, aka Big Boy, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7987. Terance Fischer, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–7988. Larry Demon Goodman, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7989. Osman Garba, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7994. Warren Lavell Jackson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7996. Richard Tyrone McMillan, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7997. Mohamed Bahaa El Din Hamdy, Petitioner v. United
Appeals for the Second Circuit denied.
No. 09–7999. Wayne Vinson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8004. Michael Ched Reed, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8008. Karl Wingo, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8009. Albert Bruce Singletary, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8010. Manuel A. Roach, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8013. Titus Bride, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8016. Kerwin L. Summage, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8017. Eugene Roberson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
denied.
No. 09–8025. Nora H. Cardona, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–8027. Trent Brewer, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8028. Loren Jay Adams, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8030. Antonio Akel, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–8032. Ivan Eberhardt, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8033. Dexter E. Fowler, aka D, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8035. Lamont Gentry Falls, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8036. Richard Ben Glawson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8038. Arindus Humphrey, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8040. Khnum Haim Hayes, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8045. Dwaune Gravely, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8047. Stanley Hobereck, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8051. Carlos Colin-Lujan, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–8054. Alejandro Mejia-Rios, aka Alejandro Mejio-Rios, Peti
No. 09–8056. William Ortega, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8058. Marlon Xavier Register, aka Sweet Pea, Petitioner v.
No. 09–8060. Brandon L. Walters, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8062. Enil Josue Cruz, aka Josue Galindo-Cruz, Petitioner v.
No. 09–8063. Arturo Cardoza-Puente, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8064. Art Garcia, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8071. Trory Quante Herrod, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8073. James Simpkins, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
denied.
No. 09–8075. Steven J. Hecke, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 08–1401. Linda Metrish, Warden, Petitioner v. Daniel Albert
Newman. Motion of respondent for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
No. 09–315. Donna Kay Busch, Petitioner v. Marple Newton School
District, et al. Motion of Indian River School District for leave to file
a brief as amicus curiae granted. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–333. Guadalupe L. Garcia, et al., Petitioners v. Thomas J.

Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
denied. The Chief Justice took no part in the consideration or decision
of this petition.
No. 09–359. Nano Maldonado, Petitioner v. Randell Iwasaki, Direc
tor, California Department of Transportation. Petition for writ of cer
denied. Justice Breyer took no part in the consideration or decision of
this petition.
No. 09–430. Rakesh Wahi, Petitioner v. Charleston Area Medical
Center, et al. Motion of Association of American Physicians and
Surgeons, Inc. for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted. Peti
No. 09–484. Steven O’Brien, Superintendent, Old Colony Correc
tional Center, Petitioner v. Michael O’Laughlin. Motion of respondent
denied.
No. 09–567. Stephen Michael Van De Berg, Petitioner v. Social Secu
rity Administration, et al. Motion of petitioner to defer consideration
of the petition for writ of certiorari denied. Petition for writ of certio
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7452. Gary Slezak, Petitioner v. Samuel Glover, et al. Motion
No. 09–7461. Dedra Ghee, Petitioner v. Target National Bank. Mo
petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Georgia dis
No. 09–7498. Hon Lau, Petitioner v. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney
General of California. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit dismissed. See
Rule 39.8.
No. 09–7499. Hon Lau, Petitioner v. Derral G. Adams, Warden. Mo

No. 09–7516. Kenneth Leight, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7537. R. Casper Adamson, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
No. 09–7599. Demetrius Bailey, Petitioner v. David Wakefield, et al.
for the Third Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner has re

No. 09–8096. In Re James Edward Walls, Petitioner;
No. 09–8190. In Re Saul A. Gutierrez, Petitioner;
No. 09–8237. In Re Henry Earl Miller, Petitioner; and
No. 09–8285. In Re Edward B. Bartoli, Petitioner. Petitions for writs
Mandamus Denied
No. 09–7455. In Re Darrel Lee Wilber, Petitioner. Petition for writ
of mandamus denied.
No. 09–7492. In Re Rayshon Thomas, Petitioner. Petition for writ of
Rehearings Denied
No. 08–10000. Rose Huff, Petitioner v. Kentucky Retirement
Systems;
No. 08–10781. Antonio Andrade Calles, Petitioner v. Domingo
Uribe, Jr., Warden;
No. 09–5031. Steve Langon, Petitioner v. Florida;

No. 09–5176. Ronald X. Gordon, Petitioner v. Supreme Court of
Texas, et al.;
No. 09–6411. John R. Whirty, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
Division;
No. 09–6413. John William Roth, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania;

No. 09–6546. Romie H. Miller, III, Petitioner v. Clint Friel, Warden;

No. 09–6569. Deloris Burroughs, By and Through Her Next Friend,

Richard Burroughs, Petitioner v. Broadspire, fka Kemper Insurance

Company;
No. 09–6637. Bertha L. Cummings, Petitioner v. Eddie N. Moore,
Jr., et al.;
No. 09–6777. Susan Herbert, Petitioner v. United States, et al.;
No. 09–6980. In Re Gerald Lester, Petitioner;
No. 09–6999. Marlin B. Jones, Petitioner v. Platteview Apartments,
et al.;
No. 09–7006. In Re Joseph C. Minneman, Petitioner;
No. 09–7015. Gustavo Sanches Montes, Petitioner v. United States;
and
No. 09–7348. Kenneth D. Beverly, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
tions for rehearing denied.

Thomas Paul Anzelmo, Jr. New Orleans, LA Thomas P.

Anzelmo, Sr.
Johnathan M. Bailey San Antonio, TX Ellen B. Mitchell
James A. Batson New York, NY Ethan A. Brecher
Thomas M. Benjamin New Orleans, LA Timothy Scott
Mehok
John J. Burke Boise, ID Donald Jay Farley
Megan Ward Cascio Wilmington, DE William Michael
Lafferty
Michael William Casey, III Miami, FL Arnold R. Gellman
Donna M. Cuipylo Boston, MA J. Martin Richey
Brian R. Dorn Minneapolis, MN Christopher J.
Schulte
Daniel Dunson New York, NY John E. Merow
Regina Johnson Elbert Richmond, VA James Patrick
McElligott, Jr.

Neal John Favret New Orleans, LA Marshall J. Favret

Tyson Fleming Bexley, OH Randall L. Porter
Glenn D. Furth Chicago, IL David Curtis
Burtker
Alan H. Goodman New Orleans, LA Timothy Scott
Mehok
Thomas Groendyke Sunrise, FL Robert DeWitt
McIntosh
James Addison Harris, Jr. Birmingham, AL Wayne Morse
M. Jean Holmes Tulsa, OK Mary Constance
T. Matthies
Philip Adam Hostak Washington, DC Michael D.
Simpson
Kelly M. Kammer Shelby Township, Sandra Lynn
MI Wright
John Kappos Newport Beach, Mark Simon
CA Davies
Aaron Joel Kozloski Leesville, SC Robert T.
Bockman
Mykolas Jonas Kumeta La Mesa, CA William Gerard
Gillespie
Jaynie R. Lilley Washington, DC Honorable Samuel
Anthony Alito,
Jr., Associate
Justice of the
Supreme Court
Wayne Loo New York, NY Christine Loo
John F. Lynch New York, NY John F. Lynch, Jr.
Samuel Joseph Mamola Irvine, CA John C. Eastman
John Samuel Michela Reno, NV C. Wayne Howle
Jo Miller Conroe, TX Richard Ray
Burroughs
Garth Alfred Molander Bohemia, NY Robyn Maria
Gnudi
Kenneth J. Nachbar Wilmington, DE William Michael
Lafferty
Matthew Paul Nickson Houston, TX Barbara Hines
Walter Hartvig Olsen, Jr. Puyallup, WA Paul R. Cressman,
Jr.
Andrew B. Peterson Oklahoma City, John A. Kenney

OK
Jason Stiles Pinney Boston, MA Sabin Willett

Christian James Pistilli Washington, DC Robert Allen

Long, Jr.

Gregory Gerber Rapawy Washington, DC Honorable David

Hackett Souter,
Associate
Justice of the
Supreme
Court, Retired
Gary Wayne Ricks Indianapolis, IN Kenneth J. Falk
Francie C. Riedmann Omaha, NE Thomas A.
Grennan
Nina R. Ringgold Los Angeles, CA Maria Blanco
Margaret Amer Robey Cleveland, OH Gregory Scott
Robey
Tyler B. Robinson New York, NY Barry R. Ostrager
Ronald W. Ryan Kalamazoo, MI Christopher
David Morris
Brett L. Tolman Salt Lake City, Mark W. Pugsley
UT
Richard David Tuschman Miami, FL Arnold R. Gellman
Rebecca Lee van Doren Phoenix, AZ Robert Donald
Bartels
Kevin Eugene Vance Miami, FL Arnold R. Gellman
Susan Wood Waesco Wilmington, DE William Michael
Lafferty

Donald Grey Walton, Jr. Jacksonville, NC Hiram Creagh

Bell, Jr.

Dara K. Wanzer Oklahoma City, John A. Kenney

OK
Timothy G. Watkins Boston, MA J. Martin Richey
Kelli Lynn Weaver Austin, TX Gena Bunn
Michael R. Webber Chicago, IL David Curtis
Burtker
Clyde O’Neal Westbrook, Birmingham, AL Wayne Morse
III
Alexandra G. White Houston, TX Erica Worth
Harris

Jason W. Williams Detroit, MI Timothy A.

Baughman
Rachelle Wills San Francisco, CA Alan S. Levins
Alan J. Yacoubian New Orleans, LA Bettye A. Barrios
Michael P. Zwiebel Denver, CO Jeffrey A.
Springer

James Tobia Gibson Butler, AL K. Hollyn Hollman

James Lee Renne Seneca, KS Thomas William
Forrest
Scott McFadyen Anderson Greenville, SC Rahemoon Husain
Halfmann
Britta J. Bolin Chicago, IL Terri-Lynn
Mascherin
Barbara A. Burns Chicago, IL Terri-Lynn
Mascherin
Thomas Joseph Canna Mokena, IL Terri-Lynn
Mascherin
Edward Jerome Copeland Chicago, IL Terri-Lynn
Mascherin
Raymond Christopher Chicago, IL Terri-Lynn
Cyrus Mascherin
Philip Joel Greenblatt Northbrook, IL Terri-Lynn
Mascherin
Steven Merrill Medvin Chicago, IL Terri-Lynn
Mascherin
Farah Christina Muscadin Chicago, IL Terri-Lynn
Mascherin
Joanne Marie Rogers Chicago, IL Terri-Lynn
Mascherin
Eleanor K. Roemer Chicago, IL Terri-Lynn
Mascherin
Rachel Nicole Sostrin Chicago, IL Terri-Lynn
Mascherin
Oral Arguments
No. 08–372. Shell Oil Products Company, LLC, et al., Petitioners v.

Mac’s Shell Service, Inc., et al. Argued by Mr. Jeffrey A. Lamken for
the petitioners in No. 08–372, by Mr. David O’Neil for the United
States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting
Shell Oil Products Company, LLC, et al., and by Mr. John F. Farraher,
Jr. for the petitioners in No. 08–240.
Brotherhood of Teamsters, et al. Argued by Mr. Garry G. Mathiason
for the petitioner, by Mr. Robert Bonsall for the respondent Teamsters
Local 287, and by Mr. Peter D. Nussbaum for the respondent Interna
tional Brotherhood of Teamsters.
Adjourned until Wednesday, January 20, 2010, at 10 o’clock.

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Opinions

sioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. On writ of certiorari
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Judg
ment affirmed. Opinion by Justice Sotomayor. Dissenting opinion by
Justice Stevens, with whom Justice Kennedy joins.
No. 138, Original. State of South Carolina, Plaintiff v. State of
North Carolina. On Exceptions to the Report of the Special Master.
South Carolina’s exceptions to the Special Master’s First Interim Re
port with respect to the Catawba River Water Supply Project and
Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC overruled, and South Carolina’s excep
tion with respect to Charlotte sustained. Opinion by Justice Alito.
Opinion by The Chief Justice, with whom Justice Thomas, Justice Gins
burg, and Justice Sotomayor join, concurring in the judgment in part
and dissenting in part.
ney General. On writ of certiorari to United States Court of Appeals
for the Seventh Circuit. Judgment reversed, and case remanded to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit for further
proceedings consistent with the opinion of this Court. Opinion by Jus
tice Ginsburg. Opinion by Justice Alito, concurring in the judgment.

Jean Seibert Stucky Potomac, MD Judge Scott

Wallace Stucky
Gregory Monroe Jones Washington, DC Erika Ziebarth
Jones
Jason Alan Hill Washington, DC Edward J.
Passarelli
Megan Kinsey-Smith Washington, DC Ray Manuel
Aragon
504 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2010
Gary Ronald Thompson Nashville, TN Andrew J.

Entwistle
Bamidele Opeyemi Adelayo University Park, Terri-Lynn
IL Mascherin
Matthew Clifford Arnoux Chicago, IL Terri-Lynn
Mascherin
Bruce Jay Baker Chicago, IL Terri-Lynn
Mascherin
Dawn Marie Best Chicago, IL Terri-Lynn
Mascherin
Marcia Louise Blumenthal Chicago, IL Terri-Lynn
Mascherin
Eric Scott Freibrun Highland Park, IL Terri-Lynn
Mascherin
Danielle Alicia Pedderson Chicago, IL Terri-Lynn
Mascherin
William Harold Rosen Chicago, IL Terri-Lynn
Mascherin
Frances J. Skinner-Lewis Chicago, IL Terri-Lynn
Mascherin
Daniel John Spilotro Chicago, IL Terri-Lynn
Mascherin
Rosemary Simota Des Plaines, IL Terri-Lynn
Thompson Mascherin
Kimberly Powers Brookfield, WI Terri-Lynn
Mascherin
Oral Arguments
No. 08–1402. Mary Berghuis, Warden, Petitioner v. Diapolis Smith.
Argued by Mr. Solicitor General B. Eric Restuccia for the petitioner
and by Mr. James Sterling Lawrence for the respondent.
mert, et al. Argued by Mr. Robert A. Long, Jr. for the petitioners, by
Mr. Peter K. Stris for the respondents, and by Mr. Matthew D. Roberts
supporting the respondents.
Adjourned until Thursday, January 21, 2010, at 10 o’clock.

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Opinion
No. 08–205. Citizens United, Appellant v. Federal Election Commis
sion. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
Columbia. Judgment reversed with respect to the constitutionality of
2 U. S. C. § 441b’s restrictions on corporate independent expenditures.
Judgment affirmed with respect to BCRA’s disclaimer and disclosure
requirements. Case remanded to the United States District Court for
the District of Columbia for further proceedings consistent with the
opinion of this Court. Opinion by Justice Kennedy. Concurring opinion
by The Chief Justice, with whom Justice Alito joins. Concurring opin
ion by Justice Scalia, with whom Justice Alito joins, and with whom
Justice Thomas joins in part. Opinion announced by Justice Stevens,
with whom Justice Ginsburg, Justice Breyer, and Justice Sotomayor
join, concurring in part and dissenting in part. Opinion by Justice
Thomas, concurring in part and dissenting in part.
Adjourned until Monday, January 25, 2010, at 10 o’clock.

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tice Kennedy, Justice Thomas, Justice Ginsburg, Justice Alito, and Jus
tice Sotomayor.
No. 08–1484. Jose Anaya-Aguilar, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,

Attorney General. On petition for writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Petition for writ of
certiorari granted. Judgment vacated, and case remanded to the
consideration in light of Kucana v. Holder, 558 U. S. ––– (2010).
No. 09–6785. Miguel Angel Aguilar, Petitioner v. Virginia. On peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Virginia. Motion of
petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and petition for
the Supreme Court of Virginia for further consideration in light of
Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, 557 U. S. ––– (2009).
No. 09M65. Francisco Noriega-Quijano, Petitioner v. John E. Potter,

Postmaster General. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for
No. 09M66. John Lee Morris, Sr., Petitioner v. Supreme Court of the
United States, et al. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for
writ of certiorari out of time under Rule 14.5 denied.
No. 139, Original. State of Mississippi, Plaintiff v. City of Memphis
Tennessee, Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division, and Tennessee. Mo
tion for leave to file a bill of complaint denied without prejudice. See
Virginia v. Maryland, 540 U. S. 56, 74, n. 9 (2003); Colorado v. New
Mexico, 459 U. S. 176, 187, n. 13 (1982).
Illinois, et al. Motion of Texas, et al. for leave to participate in oral
argument as amici curiae and for divided argument denied. Motion of

respondents National Rifle Association, Inc., et al. for divided argu
ment granted. Motion of Law Professor and Students for leave to file
a brief as amici curiae granted.
Burgess. Motion of respondents for divided argument denied.
No. 08–9972. In Re Marcos Lopez Ortiz, Petitioner. Motion of peti
pauperis denied.
No. 08–10169. Marcos Ortiz, aka Marcos Lopez Ortiz, Petitioner v.
tional Institutions Division, et al. Motion of petitioner for reconsidera
tion of order denying leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied.
No. 09–329. Chase Bank USA, N. A., Petitioner v. James A. McCoy,
Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated. The Solici
tor General is invited to file a brief in this case expressing the views
of the United States.
No. 09–438. Providence Hospital, et al., Petitioners v. Johnella Rich
mond Moses, Personal Representative of the Estate of Marie Moses-
Irons, Deceased. The Solicitor General is invited to file a brief in this
case expressing the views of the United States.
No. 09–5630. Inyang Peter Oduok, Petitioner v. John Ferro, Individ
ually and in His Official Capacity as Police Officer, et al. Motion of
No. 09–6750. Mayrdawna A. Davis, Petitioner v. Bay Area Rapid
Transit District. Motion of petitioner for reconsideration of order deny
No. 09–6768. Edward Staley, Petitioner v. Hilton Hall, Warden. Mo
tion of petitioner for reconsideration of order denying leave to proceed
No. 09–6938. Michael S. Michalski, Petitioner v. John Lempke,
Superintendent, Five Points Correctional Facility. Motion of petitioner
peris denied. Justice Sotomayor took no part in the consideration or
decision of this motion.
No. 09–6969. Benjamin Spencer Gossett, Petitioner v. Administra
tion of George W. Bush, et al. Motion of petitioner for reconsideration

No. 09–7699. Bruce W. Hoffman, Petitioner v. Frances J. Hoffman.
No. 09–7741. Jiri Pik, Petitioner v. The Institute of International
Education, Inc., et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed
in forma pauperis denied. Petitioner allowed until February 16, 2010,
Court.
Certiorari Granted
No. 09–479. Kevin Abbott, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit granted; and
No. 09–7073. Carlos Rashad Gould, Petitioner v. United States. Mo
tion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Peti
the Fifth Circuit granted. The cases are consolidated and a total of one
hour is allotted for oral argument.
Certiorari Denied
No. 08–1596. Tracy Rhine, Petitioner v. Carl Deaton, et ux. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Second Dis
trict, denied.
No. 08–10584. Jamaul McKay, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–21. Paul Warner Powell, Petitioner v. Loretta K. Kelly, War
No. 09–271. Richman Em, Petitioner v. California. Petition for writ
District, Division Three, denied.
No. 09–289. Mississippi, Petitioner v. City of Memphis, Tennessee,
No. 09–418. Jeff R. Wiechmann, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–476. Patent Enforcement Team, L.L.C., Petitioner v. Dickson

Industries, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–480. Matthew Hensley, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–493. Frank C. Minvielle, LLC, Petitioner v. Atlantic Refining
Co., fka Atlantic Richfield Co., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–510. Jared L. Dillon, Petitioner v. Mountain Coal Company,
L.L.C., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–610. Henri-Duval Winery, L.L.C., Petitioner v. Alabama Al
coholic Beverage Control Board, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the Supreme Court of Alabama denied.
No. 09–611. Kiki Ikossi-Anastasiou, Petitioner v. Board of Supervi
sors of the Louisiana State University. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–613. Jefferson A. McGee, Petitioner v. Superior Court of Cal
ifornia, Sacramento County, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
Court of Appeal of California, Third Appellate District, denied.
No. 09–615. Eliazar Perez-Espinosa, et al., Petitioners v. Eric H.
No. 09–620. Jonathan Rose, Individually and as Personal Repre
sentative of the Estate of Dora Brown Rose, Petitioner v. Mount Sinai
Medical Center, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme
Court of Florida denied.
No. 09–629. Brandon Threet, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas denied.
No. 09–656. Senke Zadrima, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attor
No. 09–667. Yiqing Feng, Petitioner v. Sabic Americas, Inc. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Fourteenth
District, denied.
No. 09–668. Philip W. Green, Petitioner v. Service Corporation In
ternational. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court

No. 09–672. Marco Rodriguez, Petitioner v. David McCauley, War
No. 09–684. Jimmy Doug Shelton, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–694. Eddie S. Rodriguez-Berrios, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–699. Arts4All, Ltd., Petitioner v. Judith L. Hancock. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of New York denied.
No. 09–703. Anthony D. Edwards, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–704. Michael D. Cornwell, et al., Petitioners v. Commissioner
No. 09–711. Mahendra Pratap Gupta, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–714. Jacqueline C. Du Bois, Individually and on Behalf of Her
Minor Son, A. E. W., Petitioner v. Judy L. Warne, Individually and in
Her Official Capacity as Judge, District Court of Texas, 257th District,
No. 09–721. Kay L. Rogerson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–741. Manuel Felipe Salazar-Espinosa, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–744. Richard P. Mettke, Petitioner v. David J. Kappos, Direc
tor, Patent and Trademark Office. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–5120. Pablo Rivera, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5401. Askari Abdullah Muhammad, fka Thomas Knight, Peti
tioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secretary, Florida Department of Correc
tions, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–5407. Melbert Ray Ford, Petitioner v. Hilton Hall, Warden.
No. 09–6034. Joseph Messer, Petitioner v. David L. Runnels, War
No. 09–6125. John Harrell, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6429. Will Moses Palmer, Petitioner v. M. Valdez, et al. Peti
No. 09–6795. N. L. W., Petitioner v. Colorado. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Colorado denied.
No. 09–6907. Maurice Taft Gibson, aka Mo, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7012. Larry Hatten, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–7158. James L. Patterson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7172. Kathalina Monacelli, Petitioner v. Fifth Third Bank,
No. 09–7276. Raymond Sneed, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7428. Richard Wade Farley, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–7624. Pamela J. Smith, Petitioner v. Tennessee. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, East

No. 09–7628. Jason Eric Sonntag, Petitioner v. United States Dis
trict Court for the District of Nevada, et al. Petition for writ of certio
No. 09–7629. James Riva, Petitioner v. Edward Ficco. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7633. Kenyatta Curtis, Petitioner v. Burl Cain, Warden. Peti
No. 09–7637. Peter Thomas McCarthy, Petitioner v. Amy Goldman,
No. 09–7638. Robert Mills, Petitioner v. David Wilson, et al. Petition
No. 09–7640. Walter Duane White, Petitioner v. Joyce Francis, War
No. 09–7646. Dennis Kincade, Petitioner v. Hugh Wolfenbarger, War
No. 09–7647. Garrison Johnson, Petitioner v. G. Zavala, et al. Petition
No. 09–7649. Timothy Ray Jones, Petitioner v. Tom Felker, Warden,
No. 09–7653. Jonathan Simmons, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
trict, denied.
No. 09–7654. Jeremy Lee Conlin, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–7657. Darrell Castleberry, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–7658. Ricardo J. Calderon-Lopez, Petitioner v. Rene Pinto-

Lugo, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–7660. Stephen Ulrich, Petitioner v. David W. Butler, Individ
ually and in His Official Capacity as Associate Circuit Judge of the
Eleventh Circuit of Illinois, Woodford County. Petition for writ of cer
denied.
No. 09–7661. Daunte Wright, Petitioner v. Paul Decker, Warden,
No. 09–7665. Dalonno C. Johnson, Petitioner v. CSX Transportation,
No. 09–7666. Nancy Lewis, Petitioner v. Rio Grande Sun. Petition
No. 09–7670. Russell Dale Mortland, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
denied.
No. 09–7672. Gregory Monroe, Petitioner v. Florida Department of
Corrections. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–7677. Jeffrey Dennis Roe, Petitioner v. James A. Yates, War
No. 09–7678. Richard Castillo Olguin, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
No. 09–7683. Coy D. Treat, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7685. Tyrrall Farrow Cannon, Petitioner v. Judicial Council
of California, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–7686. Mark Lee Cummings, Petitioner v. California. Petition

No. 09–7692. William May, Petitioner v. Aarsand Management. Peti
No. 09–7693. Patrick Aaron Lennon, Petitioner v. Mark Shepherd,
No. 09–7706. Alvin Fulton, Jr., Petitioner v. William Lape, Super
intendent, Coxsackie Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the Appellate Division, Supreme Court of New York, Third
Judicial Department, denied.
No. 09–7707. Maurice Hastings, Petitioner v. Superior Court of Cali
fornia, Los Angeles County, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
Supreme Court of California denied.
No. 09–7711. Tommy L. Lingefelt, Sr., Petitioner v. Tim Wilkinson,
No. 09–7714. Fred L. Murray, Jr., Petitioner v. Hyacinth Walker-
Murray. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Geor
gia denied.
No. 09–7722. Maurice M. Price, Petitioner v. Michael D. Klopotoski,
No. 09–7724. Farid Popal, aka John Popal, Petitioner v. New York.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Appellate Division, Supreme Court
of New York, Second Judicial Department, denied.
No. 09–7725. Demarcus Wright, Petitioner v. Troy Steele, Warden.
No. 09–7728. Michael Ward, Petitioner v. Hugh Wolfenbarger, War
No. 09–7729. Laurie Marie Laskey, Petitioner v. AT&T. Petition for
District, denied.
No. 09–7730. Laurie Marie Laskey, Petitioner v. Fidelity Invest
ments. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of Califor
No. 09–7731. Laurie Marie Laskey, Petitioner v. AT&T. Petition for

District, denied.
No. 09–7733. Mark C. Jackson, Petitioner v. Eric K. Shinseki, Secre
No. 09–7734. Jerome Oates, Petitioner v. Lydia C. Hense, Warden.
No. 09–7735. Kirk D. Murphy, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
No. 09–7736. Diane Bankes, Petitioner v. Perry County C.Y.S. Peti
No. 09–7737. Lynn T. Pasley, Petitioner v. John Does, Mail Room
Personnel Employed by the Michigan Department of Corrections. Peti
No. 09–7740. Lester Jackson Rooks, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–7742. Dale L. Waterloo, Petitioner v. Mike Evans, Warden.
No. 09–7749. Kenneth Wayne Parker, Petitioner v. Kentucky. Peti
No. 09–7753. Laurie Marie Laskey, Petitioner v. Corning Cable Sys
tems. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of Califor
No. 09–7759. Laurie Marie Laskey, Petitioner v. Shiloh Group, LLC.
No. 09–7760. Laurie Marie Laskey, Petitioner v. Sun Microsystems,
Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California,

No. 09–7764. Beverly Jo Jones, Petitioner v. Alabama. Petition for
No. 09–7769. Wayne Ernest Barker, Petitioner v. Ann Sweeten,
No. 09–7770. Scott M. Boger, Petitioner v. Ben-Hur Abat Soloria.
No. 09–7773. Charles Earl Dunkle, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Franklin County,
denied.
No. 09–7774. George Melendez Estrada, Petitioner v. Charles L.
Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7786. Albert Bell, Petitioner v. Larry B. Norris, Director,
Arkansas Department of Correction. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–7797. Michael Sheridan, Petitioner v. Jeff Conway, Warden.
No. 09–7808. James Fredrick Menefield, Petitioner v. Matthew Cate,
No. 09–7811. Frederick Williams, Petitioner v. Donald Barrow, War
No. 09–7818. John Willie Jenkins, Petitioner v. Anthony A. Lamar
que, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–7838. Reynaldo Arroyo, Petitioner v. Connecticut. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Connecticut denied.
No. 09–7846. James Albert Rankins, Petitioner v. Derral G. Adams,
No. 09–7865. Paul Blackmer, Petitioner v. New Hampshire. Petition
No. 09–7868. Kazeem Ishola, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attor

ney General, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–7877. Janet Francis, Petitioner v. Joint Force Headquarters
National Guard, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–7891. Wanda Renae Scott, aka Wanda Renae Scott Thomas,
Petitioner v. South Carolina. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–7903. Marie W. Daniel, Petitioner v. Long Island Housing
Partnership, Inc., of Hauppauge, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied.
No. 09–7910. Ryan M. Crainshaw, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–7914. Keva Tyree O’Neal, Petitioner v. Michael Kenny, War
No. 09–7929. Jermaine Page, Petitioner v. Mark Bradt, Superintend
ent, Elmira Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–7932. Uykheng Ngy, Petitioner v. You Song Seck. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, Philadel
phia Office, denied.
necticut denied.
necticut denied.
necticut denied.
No. 09–7946. Curtis Brinson, Petitioner v. David DiGuglielmo,

No. 09–7948. Beverly L. Burgett, Petitioner v. Timothy F. Geithner,
Secretary of the Treasury, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–7949. Victor Perryman, Petitioner v. Mississippi. Petition for
No. 09–7959. Shawn Marta Herron, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–7976. David L. Hildebrand, Petitioner v. Steck Manufactur
ing Company, Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–7981. Sherman Wright, Petitioner v. Kansas. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Kansas denied.
No. 09–7992. Anatoly Rozenblat, Petitioner v. David J. Kappos, Di
rector, Patent and Trademark Office. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–8002. Osvaldo Javier Torres, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
cuit denied.
No. 09–8007. Noldon Wadley, Petitioner v. Donald Gaetz, Warden.
No. 09–8011. Normand Bedford, Petitioner v. Ashbel T. Wall, II,
Director, Rhode Island Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8018. Melvin Scott, Petitioner v. Derryl Herman, et al. Peti
No. 09–8020. Steven A. DeLoge, Petitioner v. Scott Abbott, Warden,
No. 09–8026. Abelee Brunson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8029. Donald Bindus, Petitioner v. Stuart Hudson, Warden.
No. 09–8055. Marcus Perez, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Petition for

Office, denied.
No. 09–8057. Ronald Owen Bilbrey, Jr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8067. Dennis Scott McCullough, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8070. Richard Erick Hansen, Jr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8076. Jose Hernandez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8077. Lou Marra Hogg’s, Petitioner v. New Jersey. Petition
No. 09–8082. Damond Mosley, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8083. Wendell Strong, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8084. Stephen Francis Rhett, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8086. Albert Lee Riggins, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8092. Jason Brent Matson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8097. Darnell Walker, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8098. Margaret Thomas, Petitioner v. Office of Personnel
Management. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court

No. 09–8101. Celso Viramontes-Galavis, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8102. Bernard Miguel Kalilikane, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8105. Adrian Rangel, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8106. Sofonias Riascos-Riascos, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8109. James Cornell Clark, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8111. Wilbert Arroyo-Rosario, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8112. Bakari Deontre Brown, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8113. Wayne D. Thompson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8115. DeMarco D. Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8116. Donald Battiste, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8117. Michael Lamar Anthony, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8118. Sturlee Brown, III, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8120. Jevan Anderson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8121. Isaul Rodriguez-Banuelos, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–8127. Ramon Rubio-Marchan, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8130. Derrick Franklin, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8131. Milton Hernandez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8141. James Lavern Gordon, Jr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8142. Kevin Huff, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8148. Subhash Chadha, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8153. Harold Stults, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8160. Ernest Garcia, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8161. Bobby Dean Hardnett, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8163. Ulice Askew, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8167. Ramona Hernandez, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8171. Maurice Gregory, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–8183. Stephan L. Hudson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8196. Ray Bennett, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–8201. Arthur Lee Hairston, Sr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8204. Daniel Lee LaCasse, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8205. Shane Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8209. Aaron Rees, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8211. Jesus Wences-Adame, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8215. Juan Alviar, Rodolfo Madrigal, Jose Melero, Apolinar
Delgado-Rios, and Saul Tejeda, Petitioners v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8216. David Bach, Petitioner v. Commissioner of Internal
No. 09–8217. Javier Armas-Calvillo, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8219. Marlon McNealy, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8220. Manuel Ordonez-Mendoza, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8223. Israel Denova Lopez, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–8224. John Orozco, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8226. Ricardo Ocampo-Garcia, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8227. Christopher J. Phillips, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8231. Donald Sylvester, aka Big, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8233. Lamont Gentry Falls, Petitioner v. Dwight L. Fondren,
No. 09–8236. Lonnie D. Morris, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8243. Jermaine Alonzo Mitchell, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8246. Ricky Edward Davis, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8247. Derek Potocki, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8252. Ricardo Villa, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8254. Jamain Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8256. Alex Enamorado-Lopez, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–8257. Terry Lamell Ezell, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8261. Jeffrey Wickersham, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8264. Gregory C. Kapordelis, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8281. Thomas Wesley Boren, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8321. Latacha Renee Thompson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8324. Altarik Alston, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8326. April Dawn Carver, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–35. Manuel Antonio Noriega, Petitioner v. George Pastrana,
Warden. On petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Petition for writ of certiorari denied.
Opinion by Justice Thomas, with whom Justice Scalia joins, dissenting
from the denial of the petition for writ of certiorari.
No. 09–548. Judy Wood, Petitioner v. Applied Research Associates,
No. 09–612. Ariel King, Petitioner v. Michael Pfeiffer. Motion of Stop
Family Violence, et al. for leave to file a brief as amici curiae granted.
No. 09–619. Arista Records, LLC, et al., Petitioners v. Launch
Media, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–663. Best Payphones, Inc., Petitioner v. Verizon New York
No. 09–7754. Laurie Marie Laskey, Petitioner v. Intel Corporation.
First Appellate District, denied. The Chief Justice took no part in the
No. 09–7767. H. Patrick Barclay, Petitioner v. New York, et al. Peti
No. 09–8021. James White, Petitioner v. James McGrady, Super
intendent, State Correctional Institution at Retreat, et al. Motion of
petitioner to defer consideration of the petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–8085. Jaime Enrique Romero-Padilla, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–8094. Richard Vieux, Petitioner v. United States. Motion of
No. 09–8125. Sharief Russell, aka Lucky, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8186. Mark Nicholas Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–8352. In Re Randy Jackson, Petitioner; and
No. 09–8361. In Re Joe Nathan Tubbs, Petitioner. Petitions for writs
Mandamus Denied
No. 09–8031. In Re Jennifer Norton, Petitioner; and

No. 09–8188. In Re Jennifer Norton, Petitioner. Motions of peti
tioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied, and the petitions
for writs of mandamus dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
Rehearings Denied
No. 09–331. Vera C. Harper, Individually and as Personal Repre
sentative of the Estate of Wilson Clark Harper, Deceased, and David
A. Harper, Petitioners v. United Services Automobile Association,
et al.;
No. 09–496. James A. Brown, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–5144. Billy Ray Risley, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
Division;
No. 09–5515. Darlene R. Quinn, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–6397. Alfreda Christian, Petitioner v. California, et al.;
No. 09–6593. Tyrone Smith, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–6594. Gordon Todd Skinner, Petitioner v. Oklahoma;
No. 09–6617. Gary Nitschke, Petitioner v. Coastal Tank Cleaning,
et al.;
No. 09–6674. Kevin Millen, Petitioner v. Florida;
No. 09–6694. Darnell Eugene Ross, Petitioner v. Virginia;
No. 09–6772. Valerie M. Fobbs, Petitioner v. John E. Potter, Post
master General;
No. 09–6806. Harry L. McCall, Petitioner v. H. G. Crosthwait, et al.;
No. 09–6862. Albert R. Kuperman, Petitioner v. Richard M. Gerry,
Warden;
No. 09–6893. Wayne Ernest Barker, Petitioner v. Texas;
No. 09–7050. In Re Oscar Dantzler, Petitioner;
No. 09–7229. In Re Barry J. Walshe, Petitioner;
No. 09–7337. Donnie Johnson, Petitioner v. United States; and
No. 09–7346. Michael Andre Bryant, Petitioner v. United States. Pe

Shawn K. Aiken Phoenix, AZ Joseph A. Schenk

Karin Scherner Aldama Phoenix, AZ Paul Franklin
Eckstein
Paul A. Alsdorf San Francisco, CA Roderick M.
Thompson
Michael J. Andrews Everett, WA Todd Charles

Nichols
Andre Robert Barry Lincoln, NE Alan E. Peterson
Marissa Anne Bejarano San Diego, CA Gary W. Schons
Lori V. Berke Phoenix, AZ Brian Michael
Goodwin
Jeremy David Blank San Francisco, CA Joseph David
Elford
Craig J. Bolton Phoenix, AZ Curtis Arthur
Jennings
Jason Gerald Buhi Frederick, MD John Michael
Quinn
Ruth E. Burdick Washington, DC John H. Ferguson
Geoffrey T. Cheshire Tucson, AZ Victoria A.
Brambl
W. Mitchell Cogdill Everett, WA Todd Charles
Nichols
Jose Antonio Colon Phoenix, AZ Paul Joseph
McMurdie
Susan Dawson Tallahassee, FL David John Busch
Sharon Dolovich Los Angeles, CA Stephen B. Bright
Garrett Scott Elsinger Fort Lauderdale, Bruce W. Jolly
FL
Susan Hannah Farbstein Cambridge, MA Paul Lindsey
Hoffman
Margaret C. Finster New York, NY Andrew J.
Schaffran
Alan Mark Flake Metairie, LA Andrew A.
Lemmon
Rebekah Williams Francis Phoenix, AZ Thomas K. Irvine
Tyler Richard Giannini Cambridge, MA Paul Lindsey
Hoffman
Dan W. Goldfine Phoenix, AZ Daniel J.
McAuliffe
Frances Jean Gray Phoenix, AZ Thomas John
Dennis
Ellery Russell Grey Rapid City, SD Timothy J. Rensch
Gevin Paul Grisbaum Gretna, LA Daniel A. Ranson
Roger W. Hall Phoenix, AZ James W.
Barnhouse

Daryl A. Higgins Gretna, LA Daniel A. Ranson

Geoffrey A. Hoffman Houston, TX Michael Robert
Krinsky
Kevin L. Kenworthy Washington, DC Alan Ira Horowitz
Ellen Sue Levy Phoenix, AZ William Maurice
Demlong
Scott Arthur Lieske Phoenix, AZ Russell A. Brown
Carol Jean LoCicero Tampa, FL Gregg Darrow
Thomas
Glenn C. McGovern Metairie, LA Dwan Singleton
Hilferty
Dennis M. McGrane Prescott Valley, Sheila Sullivan
AZ Polk
James J. McGuire Tampa, FL Gregg Darrow
Thomas
Laura L. Moody Williamston, MI B. Eric Restuccia
J. Myers Morton Knoxville, TN Ronald C. Koksal
Aaron Jay Moskowitz Phoenix, AZ Kent E. Cattani
Joshua Neil Perlman Phoenix, AZ Susan M. Seitz
Michael Rachlis Chicago, IL Marion B. Adler
Laura Kathleen Roberts San Francisco, CA William Joseph
Aceves
Terri A. Roberts Tucson, AZ Leslie Kathleen
Smith Lynch
David Bruce Rosenbaum Phoenix, AZ William Joseph
Maledon
Sharmila Roy Phoenix, AZ Christopher Johns
Dale C. Schian Phoenix, AZ Jerome K. Elwell
Brian J. Schmidt Phoenix, AZ Charles J.
Surrano, III
Jeffrey R. Simmons Phoenix, AZ Robert J. Pohlman
Edward Joseph Swan Cambridge, MA Hodges Brown, Jr.
Shane R. Swindle Phoenix, AZ Joel W. Nomkin
Robert Kinsey Taylor, Jr. Baltimore, MD Douglas Friend
Gansler
Eley O. Thompson Chicago, IL Heinz Michael
Hartmann
Holly L. Tomchey Chicago, IL Joseph M.
Gagliardo
Stanley Jon Trachta Tucson, AZ Thomas Jefferson

Davis
Alexander Dushan Tripp New York, NY Martin Garbus
Cameron J. Williams Phoenix, AZ Russell Alan
Kolsrud
Allen Winsor Tallahassee, FL George N.
Meros, Jr.
Danna Lambert Wolfe Marietta, GA Michael L. Marsh
Taylor Clarke Young Phoenix, AZ Kimberly Anne
Demarchi
Opinions
of New York, New York. On writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Judgment reversed, and case
remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
for further proceedings consistent with the opinion of this Court. The
Chief Justice delivered the opinion of the Court in part. Opinion by
Justice Ginsburg, concurring in part and concurring in the judgment.
Dissenting opinion by Justice Breyer, with whom Justice Stevens and
Justice Kennedy join. Justice Sotomayor took no part in the consider
ation or decision of this case.
v. Virginia. On writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Virginia.
Judgment vacated, and case remanded to the Supreme Court of Vir
ginia for further proceedings not inconsistent with the opinion in
Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, 557 U. S. ––– (2009). Opinion per
curiam.
Harry Oliver Channon, Jr. Chicago, IL Maryse-Noelle

Mills Apenteng
James A. Haynes Washington, DC John Joseph
Flynn, III
Oswald C. Sparks Little Rock, AR Carey Dalton
Ebert
Richard Robert Schwabe Vista, CA Carey Dalton
Ebert
Martha J. Simon Washington, DC Carey Dalton
Ebert

Timothy Cecil Springer Fresno, CA Carey Dalton

Ebert
John Rodney Tenery Mission Viejo, CA Carey Dalton
Ebert
Robert Anthony Fremont, CA Carey Dalton
Wieckowski Ebert
Eugene S. Melchionne Waterbury, CT Carey Dalton
Ebert
Amy Pugh Boohaker Sarasota, FL Carey Dalton
Ebert
Lynn Harnik Gelman Miami, FL Carey Dalton
Ebert
Jeffrey Howard Tromberg Fort Lauderdale, Carey Dalton
FL Ebert
Tara Twomey Carmel, CA Carey Dalton
Ebert
James F. Molleur Biddeford, ME Carey Dalton
Ebert
Edward Charles Boltz Durham, NC Carey Dalton
Ebert
William Earl Brewer, Jr. Raleigh, NC Carey Dalton
Ebert
Christopher J. Somma Farmington, NH Carey Dalton
Ebert
David J. Babel Bronx, NY Carey Dalton
Ebert
Richard Halsey Nemeth Cleveland, OH Carey Dalton
Ebert
Noemi Landrau-Rivera San Juan, PR Carey Dalton
Ebert
Mary Elizabeth Maney Nashville, TN Carey Dalton
Ausbrooks Ebert
Weldon Reed Allmand Hurst, TX Carey Dalton
Ebert
David Bruce Ebert Hurst, TX Carey Dalton
Ebert
Vicky Marie Fealy Houston, TX Carey Dalton
Ebert
Christopher Marvin Lee Hurst, TX Carey Dalton
Ebert
Dale Ray Montgomery Abilene, TX Carey Dalton

Ebert
Pamela L. Stewart Houston, TX Carey Dalton
Ebert
Michael D. Chechanover Long Island, NY Kenneth H.
Larkin
Altagracia A. Davis Hicksville, NY Kenneth H.
Larkin
Amy M. Funk New York, NY Kenneth H.
Larkin
Matthew Allen Funk Great Neck, NY Kenneth H.
Larkin
David Jeffrey Goldsmith Roslyn, NY Kenneth H.
Larkin
Michael Kenneth Gruber Brookyln, NY Kenneth H.
Larkin
Giovanne Carmelo Merlino Brooklyn, NY Kenneth H.
Larkin
Victor Pasternack New York, NY Kenneth H.
Larkin
Edgar N. Romano New York, NY Kenneth H.
Larkin
Panagiotis Sacoulas New York, NY Kenneth H.
Larkin
Catherine M. Stanton New York, NY Kenneth H.
Larkin
Barbara Doblin Tilker New York, NY Kenneth H.
Larkin
Jean Marie Venturini Hicksville, NY Kenneth H.
Larkin
Jordan A. Ziegler New York, NY Kenneth H.
Larkin
Hugh A. Spires, Jr. Dumas, AR Jack L. Rives
E. Shane Springs Wahington, DC Jack L. Rives
Kathy D. Malowney San Diego, CA Jack L. Rives
Tracy Ann Park Mililani, HI Jack L. Rives
Todd Eugene McDowell Oil City, PA Jack L. Rives
Brian Young Arlington, VA Jack L. Rives
Michael Eric Gilbertson Washington, DC Jack L. Rives
Peter R. Masciola Washington, DC Jack L. Rives

Timothy Patrick Redmond Arlington, VA Jack L. Rives

Velma Cheri Gay Washington, DC Burton Allen
Andrews
Katherine Ellsworth Oler Washington, DC Jack L. Rives
Michael Gary Thieme Washington, DC Jack L. Rives
Elizabeth M. D. Pullin Washington, DC Jack L. Rives
Reshawna Latrice Banks New Orleans, LA Jack L. Rives
Jason Spencer Osbourne Arlington, VA Jack L. Rives
Michael Noyes Washinton, DC Jack L. Rives
Patrice Annett Olson Washington, DC Jack L. Rives
Justin Joseph Swick Annapolis, MD Jack L. Rives
Region David Yager Central Square, Jack L. Rives
NY
Perry Joseph Peloquin Henning, MN Jack L. Rives
Heidi L. Osterhout Burke, VA Jack L. Rives
Gary Duane Brown Omaha, NE Jack L. Rives
Daniel Jason Watson Mentor, OH Jack L. Rives
Nicholas W. McCue Columbia, PA Jack L. Rives
Debra Ann Luker Destin, FL Jack L. Rives
Shawn Charles Tabor Springfield, VA Jack L. Rives
Mary Martin Spangler Arlington, VA Jack L. Rives
Adjourned until Monday, February 22, 2010, at 10 o’clock.

(JOURNAL) THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2010 535


Certiorari Denied
No. 09–8937 (09A728). Mark Brown, Petitioner v. Ted Strickland,
Certiorari Denied
No. 09–8938 (09A729). Mark Brown, Petitioner v. Ohio. Application
for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Stevens
and by him referred to the Court denied. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the Supreme Court of Ohio denied.
(JOURNAL) FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2010 537



President of the United States, et al. Parties are directed to file letter
briefs addressing the following question: What should be the effect, if
any, of the developments discussed in the letters submitted by the par
ties on February 3 and 5 on the Court’s grant of certiorari in this case?
Briefs, limited to 8 pages, are to be filed simultaneously with the Clerk
and served upon opposing counsel on or before 2 p.m., Friday, February
19, 2010.
(JOURNAL) TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2010 539


Certiorari Denied
No. 09–8975 (09A739). Martin Edward Grossman, Petitioner v.
Florida. Application for stay of execution of sentence of death pre
sented to Justice Thomas and by him referred to the Court denied.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Florida denied.

No. 09A736. John McCormish, et al., Applicants v. Ken Bennett, in
his official capacity as Secretary of State of the State of Arizona, et al.
Application to vacate the stay presented to Justice Kennedy and by
him referred to the Court denied. Denial is without prejudice to a
renewal application on June 1, 2010, or when the Court of Appeals has
issued its decision on the merits of the case, whichever date is earlier.
(JOURNAL) FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2010 541



No. 08–974. Arthur L. Lewis, Jr., et al., Petitioners v. City of Chi
cago, Illinois;
No. 08–1470. Mary Berghuis, Warden, Petitioner v. Van Chester
Thompkins;
No. 08–1529. Esther Hui, et al., Petitioners v. Yanira Castaneda, as
Personal Representative of the Estate of Francisco Castaneda, et al.;
No. 08–1555. Mohamed Ali Samantar, Petitioner v. Bashe Abdi You
suf, et al. and
No. 09–38. Health Care Service Corporation, Petitioner v. Juli A.
Pollitt, et al. Motions of the Solicitor General for leave to participate
in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument granted.
(JOURNAL) MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2010 543


Opinions Per Curiam

No. 08–10914. Jamey L. Wilkins, Petitioner v. Officer Gaddy. On pe
tition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for
the Fourth Circuit. Petition for writ of certiorari and motion for leave
to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Judgment reversed, and case
remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
ion per curiam. Opinion by Justice Thomas, with whom Justice Scalia
joins, concurring in the judgment.
No. 09–273. Rick Thaler, Director, Texas Department of Criminal
Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, Petitioner v. Anthony Car
dell Haynes. On petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Motion of respondent for leave
granted. Judgment reversed, and case remanded to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for further proceedings consist
ent with the opinion of this Court. Opinion per curiam.

No. 09M67. Robert Neely, Petitioner v. Luis Marshall, Superintend
ent, Sing Sing Correctional Facility. Motion to direct the Clerk to file
a petition for writ of certiorari out of time denied.
No. 09M68. Rogers Murrell, Petitioner v. Eric K. Shinseki, Secretary
of Veterans Affairs. Motion for leave to proceed as a veteran denied.
No. 09M69. James B. Thompson, Petitioner v. Erik K. Shinseki, Sec
retary of Veterans Affairs. Motion for leave to proceed as a veteran
denied.
No. 09M70. Terry Williams, Petitioner v. United States District
Court for the Central District of California, et al. Motion for leave to
544 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2010
proceed in forma pauperis with the declaration of indigency under

seal denied.
anie Kay Lanning. Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to partici
pate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument
granted.
No. 08–1394. Jeffrey K. Skilling, Petitioner v. United States. Motion
of petitioner for leave to file a supplemental volume of the joint appen
dix under seal granted.
No. 09–338. Paul Renico, Warden, Petitioner v. Reginald Lett. Mo
tion of petitioner to dispense with printing the joint appendix granted.
No. 09–520. CSX Transportation, Inc., Petitioner v. Alabama De
partment of Revenue, et al. The Solicitor General is invited to file a
brief in this case expressing the views of the United States.
No. 09–654. Ortho Biotech Products, L. P., Petitioner v. United
States, ex rel. Chinyelu Duxbury. The Solicitor General is invited to
file a brief in this case expressing the views of the United States.
No. 09–7260. Ignacio Reynoso, Petitioner v. David Rock, Super
intendent, Great Meadow Correctional Facility. Motion of petitioner for
denied.
No. 09–8074. Jonathan Jay Parker, Petitioner v. ASRC Omega Nat
chiq. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis de
nied. Petitioner allowed until March 15, 2010, within which to pay the
No. 09–8472. Lloyd T. Stephens, Petitioner v. Fourth Judicial Dis
trict Court, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
pauperis denied. Petitioner allowed until March 15, 2010, within which
to pay the docketing fee required by Rule 38(a) and to submit a petition
No. 09–8583. Darcy Walker, Petitioner v. John E. Potter, Postmaster
General. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
denied. Petitioner allowed until March 15, 2010, within which to pay
Certiorari Granted
No. 09–350. Los Angeles County, California, Petitioner v. Craig Ar
thur Humphries, et ux. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2010 545

States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted limited to Ques
tion 1 presented by the petition.
No. 09–587. Kelly Harrington, Warden, Petitioner v. Joshua Richter.
for the Ninth Circuit granted. In addition to the question presented,
parties are directed to brief and argue the following question: Does
AEDPA deference apply to a state court’s summary disposition of a
claim, including a claim under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U. S.
668 (1984)?
Certiorari Denied
No. 08–1520. City of Dallas, Texas, Petitioner v. Rowan W. Gould,

Director, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, et al.; and
No. 08–1524. Texas Water Development Board, Petitioner v. Depart
ment of the Interior, et al. Petitions for writs of certiorari to the United
No. 08–10932. Fidele Birahagaze Batekreze, Petitioner v. Arizona.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Arizona, Divi
sion Two, denied.
No. 09–287. Darrel A. Weston, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–342. Rose Acre Farms, Inc., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
the Federal Circuit denied.
No. 09–357. Brent Smith, Petitioner v. Kurt Jones, Warden. Petition
No. 09–394. Saudi American Bank, Petitioner v. SWE&C Liquidat
ing Trust, Successor in Interest to Stone & Webster Engineering Cor
poration. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–420. Linda Lewis, as Mother and Personal Representative
of the Estate of Her Son, Donald George Lewis, Deceased, Petitioner
v. City of West Palm Beach, Florida, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–426. Donald S. Eklund, Petitioner v. Wheatland County, Mon
tana, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of
Montana denied.
No. 09–435. New West, L. P., et al., Petitioners v. City of Joliet,

Illinois, et al.; and
No. 09–445. Teresa Davis, et al., Petitioners v. City of Joliet, Illinois,
et al. Petitions for writs of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–491. City of Long Beach, California, Petitioner v. Long Beach
Area Peace Network, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–532. Thomas Fry, Petitioner v. Exelon Corporation Cash Bal
ance Pension Plan. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–533. CropLife America, et al., Petitioners v. Baykeeper,
et al.; and
No. 09–547. American Farm Bureau Federation, et al., Petitioners
v. Baykeeper, et al. Petitions for writs of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–542. Mitchell N. Kay, et al., Petitioner v. Jose Gonzalez. Peti
No. 09–564. City Council of the City of Albuquerque, Petitioner v.
Albuquerque Commons Partnership. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the Court of Appeals of New Mexico denied.
No. 09–569. Robert Bylin, et ux., Petitioners v. John R. Billings,
No. 09–621. Minneapolis Taxi Owners Coalition, Inc., Petitioner v.
City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–623. Sally L. Moody, et al., Petitioners v. Allegheny Valley
Land Trust, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania, Western District, denied.
No. 09–630. Royal Benson, et al., Petitioners v. St. Joseph Regional
Health Center, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–632. Erlinda Dominguez, Petitioner v. Price Okamoto Hi
meno & Lum. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Intermediate Court
of Appeals of Hawaii denied.
No. 09–637. School Board of Beauregard Parish, Petitioner v. Honey
well International, Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the

No. 09–639. David Eilender, Petitioner v. Michigan Department of
Human Services. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals
of Michigan denied.
No. 09–641. Fred Douglas Vining, Petitioner v. Applied Power Tech
nology, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–642. Randall S. Young, et ux., Individually and as Next
Friends of Ashton Young, Petitioners v. Memorial Hermann Hospital
System, dba Memorial Hermann Hospital, et al. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–643. Carl H. Brown, Petitioner v. Marriott International, In
corporated. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–657. Birmingham Board of Education, Petitioner v. Cathy
McCord-Baugh. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of
Alabama denied.
No. 09–659. Matthew Speights, Petitioner v. City of Oceanside, Cali
fornia, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of
California, Fourth Appellate District, Division One, denied.
No. 09–660. Jayraj Nair, Petitioner v. Superior Court of California,
Placer County, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of
Appeal of California, Third Appellate District, denied.
No. 09–661. John C. Kasharian, Petitioner v. New Jersey Depart
ment of Environmental Protection. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, denied.
No. 09–662. Chhun Eng, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney
No. 09–670. Local #46 Metallic Lathers Union and Reinforcing Iron
Workers and Its Associated Benefit and Other Funds, Petitioner v.
United States, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied.
No. 09–673. Sea Hawk Seafoods, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Gary F.
Locke, Secretary of Commerce, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–675. Butte County, California, et al., Petitioners v. Superior
Court of California, Butte County, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the Court of Appeal of California, Third Appellate District, denied.
No. 09–677. Kristina S., Petitioner v. Charisma R. Petition for writ

trict, denied.
No. 09–679. Gail Parkerson, Petitioner v. Richard McMurtrey, et ux.,
et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Arkan
sas denied.
No. 09–680. Arkansas, Petitioner v. Kenneth Ray Osburn. Petition
No. 09–682. Leonard Bosack, et al., Petitioners v. David C. Soward,
No. 09–688. Timothy D. Pope, Petitioner v. Alabama, et al. Petition
No. 09–689. Mark J. Hunsberger, et ux., Petitioners v. J. A. Wood,
Deputy Sheriff, Botetourt County, Virginia. Petition for writ of certio
denied.
No. 09–690. Belal Ahmed Chaudhary, Petitioner v. Eric H. Hol
der, Jr., Attorney General. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–693. William Kyle, et al., Petitioners v. Hon. Gerald Lebovits,
et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Appellate Division, Supreme
Court of New York, First Judicial Department, denied.
No. 09–695. U. S. Motors, et al., Petitioners v. General Motors Eu
rope. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
No. 09–696. John J. Kane Regional Centers-Glen Hazel, Petitioner v.
Sarah Grammer, as Administratrix of the Estate of Melvinteen Daniels,
Deceased. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–698. Gary McKinney, Petitioner v. Board of Medical Examin
ers of Colorado. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals
of Colorado denied.
No. 09–701. Allrite Sheetmetal, Inc., Petitioner v. Bank of Com
merce, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Appellate Court of

No. 09–702. Acushnet Company, Petitioner v. Callaway Golf Com
No. 09–706. Thomas Tusini, Petitioner v. John E. Potter, Postmaster
General, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–710. Michael Preston Hall, Petitioner v. Carina Nicole Ten
nison. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of Georgia,
Cobb County, denied.
No. 09–716. Teruya Brothers, Ltd. & Subsidiaries, Petitioner v. Com
missioner of Internal Revenue. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–718. Lawrence Mattison, Petitioner v. Virginia. Petition for
No. 09–719. Daniel Konar, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ of
cuit denied.
No. 09–730. Kevin C. Holtzer, Petitioner v. Barry Davis, Warden.
No. 09–731. Jeanne Mount, Petitioner v. United States, et al. Petition
No. 09–732. Bruce A. Pelkey, Petitioner v. Supreme Court of Ari
zona. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Arizona
denied.
No. 09–734. Geoffrey S. Ames, Petitioner v. Washington State
Health Department Medical Quality Health Assurance Commission.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Washington
denied.
No. 09–743. Vernon Jones, et al., Petitioners v. Michael Bryant, et al.
No. 09–748. James Radmore, Petitioner v. Aegis Communications
Group, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–752. Terry Eugene Penney, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–757. Richard J. Ashby, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–762. Vernon Claville, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–764. Leslie D. Mower, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–773. Steven Lerman, et al., Petitioners v. City of Fort Lau
derdale, Florida. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–780. Kenneth M. Pedeleose, Petitioner v. Department of De
fense. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
No. 09–789. Unisys Corporation, Petitioner v. Harley J. Adair, et al.
No. 09–801. David L. Wescott, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–802. Martin Nitschke, Petitioner v. Commissioner of Internal
No. 09–811. Kenneth Ray Hyatt, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–832. Oscar L. Thomas, Petitioner v. Eric K. Shinseki, Secre
tary of Veterans Affairs, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
denied.
No. 09–844. Brent E. Wood, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–5887. William G. Scott, Petitioner v. Mississippi. Petition for
No. 09–6097. Saharris Rollins, Petitioner v. Jeffrey A. Beard, Secre
tary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ

cuit denied.
No. 09–6103. Pierre R. Augustin, Petitioner v. Chase Home Finance
LLC. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
No. 09–6255. Wreh Tiewloh, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–6384. Noel Marte, Petitioner v. New York. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of New York denied.
No. 09–6492. Christopher Jackson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6598. Alex Joe Hernandez, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6627. Pamelia J. Conroy, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6664. Liliam Amparo Restrepo-Mejia, Petitioner v. Eric H.
No. 09–6732. Noris G. Rogers, Petitioner v. KBR Technical Services,
No. 09–6832. Larry Jongewaard, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6915. Dupre Falls, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–6928. Barry Lane Anderson, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–7019. Janice Grant, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7066. Ramiro F. Gonzales, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
No. 09–7257. Billy R. Irick, Petitioner v. Ricky Bell, Warden. Peti

No. 09–7370. Clemente Javier Aguire-Jarquin, Petitioner v. Florida.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Florida denied.
No. 09–7446. Nathaniel Woods, Petitioner v. Alabama. Petition for
No. 09–7450. Terrell Devon Stewart, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7486. Michael Adam Sigala, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–7547. Fayad Yahya Ahmed, Petitioner v. Robert M. Gates,
Secretary of Defense. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–7564. Antoine Chaus Eggleston, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7780. Richard Daron Kennedy, Petitioner v. John R. Lockett,
No. 09–7789. Owen James Yarborough, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler,
No. 09–7791. Kess Tani, Petitioner v. Brian Cedar, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7794. Lonnie Ramey, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
denied.
No. 09–7795. Terry Self, Petitioner v. Devon Energy Production
Company, LP. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of
Texas, Second District, denied.
No. 09–7796. Frederick W. Smith, Jr., Petitioner v. Delaware, et al.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Delaware
denied.

No. 09–7798. Keith Keion Russell, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–7801. Chris Rattis, Petitioner v. Herb Jackson, Superintend
ent, Brown Creek Correctional Institution. Petition for writ of certio
denied.
No. 09–7802. Geir Hansen, Petitioner v. Industrial Claim Appeals
Office of Colorado, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of
Appeals of Colorado denied.
No. 09–7809. Gregg Moore, Petitioner v. Currie Motors of Forest
Park, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Appellate Court of
No. 09–7813. Cherie Phillips, Petitioner v. Mike Murdock Evangelis
tic Association, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–7815. Miguel F. Palmer, Petitioner v. City of Tallahassee,
Florida, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of
Florida denied.
No. 09–7817. Calvin Lewis, Petitioner v. Gail Lewis, Warden. Peti
No. 09–7820. Rafael A. Jones, Petitioner v. Erin Milligan, et al. Peti
No. 09–7821. Pierre Leake, Petitioner v. Minnesota. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Minnesota denied.
No. 09–7822. Ben Jordan, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–7823. Yefim Tarshik, Petitioner v. Kansas, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7824. Gary Lawrence Ozenne, Petitioner v. Chase Manhattan
Bank, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–7835. Devon R. James, Petitioner v. Millicent Warren, War
No. 09–7837. Dave Beck, Petitioner v. Victor Walker, Warden. Peti

No. 09–7840. Isaiah Washington, Petitioner v. Michael Bowersox,
Superintendent, South Central Correctional Facility, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7842. Terrence Williams, Petitioner v. Greg McQuiggin, War
No. 09–7844. Eddie J. Lee, Petitioner v. Carol Woughter, Super
intendent, Mohawk Correctional Facility, et al. Petition for writ of cer
denied.
No. 09–7856. Terry Anderson, et ux., Petitioners v. Indian Springs
Land Investment, LLC, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Su
preme Court of Idaho denied.
No. 09–7858. Coleen L. Powers, Petitioner v. Mesaba Aviation, Inc.,
dba Mesaba Airlines, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–7860. Charles R. Andrus, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–7862. Martin Christian Sorlien, Petitioner v. Michigan. Peti
No. 09–7863. James Anthony Warren, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
No. 09–7867. Anthony M. Garraway, Petitioner v. Brian Fischer,
Commissioner, New York Department of Correctional Services, et al.
No. 09–7874. Joseph Bishop Goff, Petitioner v. Mississippi. Petition
No. 09–7878. Sheila Dennis, Petitioner v. Keller Meyer Building
Services. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of

No. 09–7883. Michael Blackshear, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7887. Tavares Antonio McDuffie, Petitioner v. Florida. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the District Court of Appeal of Florida,
First District, denied.
No. 09–7890. Bruno Rocha, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District,
denied.
No. 09–7892. Sammie D. Kinnard, Petitioner v. Metropolitan Police
Department, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–7894. Elizabeth Liggon-Redding, Petitioner v. Willingboro
Township, New Jersey, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–7896. Michael Weatherspoon, Petitioner v. John Fayram,
No. 09–7897. David G. Schoor, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Seventh District, denied.
No. 09–7900. Dock McNeely, Petitioner v. County of Sacramento,
California, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–7902. Charles D’Ary, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7905. John Cooper, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director, Texas
No. 09–7915. Marlo U. Morales, Petitioner v. Ana Boatwright, War
No. 09–7916. A. H., Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Office,
denied.
No. 09–7917. C. G., Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Petition for writ of

certiorari to the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Office,
denied.
No. 09–7918. Michael Bernard Lewis, Petitioner v. California. Peti
No. 09–7920. Frank Bowman, Petitioner v. Matthew Cate, Secretary,
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7922. Dexter Ramone Palmer, Petitioner v. Hugh Smith,
No. 09–7924. K. E. H., Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Of
fice, denied.
No. 09–7928. Shannon A. Hensley, Petitioner v. Colville School Dis
trict. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Washing
No. 09–7931. Douglas Kelly Pye, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Tenth District,
denied.
No. 09–7933. Michael Eugene James, Petitioner v. California. Peti
No. 09–7934. Raul Rodriguez Linarez, Petitioner v. California. Peti
No. 09–7935. Charlton Jennings, Petitioner v. Gerald I. Rozum,
Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Peti
No. 09–7937. James P. Mayer, Petitioner v. Social Security Adminis
tration. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–7938. Corey L. Manning, Petitioner v. Carmen Palmer, War

No. 09–7945. Marcia E. Wimberly, Petitioner v. Elbert Royal, et al.
No. 09–7947. Gerald C. Bakarich, Petitioner v. New Jersey. Petition
Division, denied.
No. 09–7951. Lisa J. Henry, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Lake County, denied.
No. 09–7953. Javier Castillo Villasana, Petitioner v. Eric H.
No. 09–7955. Shaka Senegal Muhammad, Petitioner v. Superior
Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–7956. Christopher Paul Bradford, Petitioner v. Robert J.
Subia, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–7966. Henry James, Petitioner v. Sergeant Richardson, et al.
No. 09–7967. Percy L. Jones, Petitioner v. Louisiana. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit,
denied.
No. 09–7968. William King, Petitioner v. Stephen Mayberg, et al.
No. 09–7969. Uzell McFarland, Petitioner v. Larry D. Chandler, War
No. 09–7970. Bernard Murphy, Petitioner v. George T. Hagan, War
No. 09–7977. Paul Bradley Speer, Petitioner v. Arizona. Petition for
No. 09–7978. Otis Blaxton, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secretary,
Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–7979. Tony E. Brantley, Petitioner v. Marty Sirmons, War

No. 09–7986. John R. Griffin, Jr., Petitioner v. Town of Whitefield,
New Hampshire, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–7991. Hy Thi Nguyen, Petitioner v. Britta W. Christianson.
No. 09–7993. Gregory Paul Lance, Petitioner v. Jim Morrow, War
No. 09–7995. Steven Jackson, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–7998. Raul Garza Tamez, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–8000. Travis Ray Thompson, Petitioner v. Fernando Gonza
lez, Acting Warden, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–8001. Eric Taylor, et ux., Petitioners v. Samuel L. Jacobs,
et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Indiana,
First District, denied.
No. 09–8005. Kenneth E. Ridener, Petitioner v. Wisconsin. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, Dis
trict III, denied.
No. 09–8006. Manuel Santos, Petitioner v. Massachusetts. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
denied.
No. 09–8012. Allen Dewayne Bates, Petitioner v. Jeff Davis, et al.
No. 09–8015. Leopoldo Aguado-Guel, Petitioner v. Deputy Larkin,
No. 09–8023. Roberto Baez, Petitioner v. Robert J. James, Judge,
Superior Court of Georgia, Douglas County. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the Supreme Court of Georgia denied.

No. 09–8024. Herby Caillot, Petitioner v. Massachusetts. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
denied.
No. 09–8034. Arthur Lee Griggs, Petitioner v. Grantt Culliver, War
No. 09–8037. Caswell Fenton, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
No. 09–8039. Kim June Galvan, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
District, denied.
No. 09–8041. John Gonzales, Petitioner v. Charles L. Ryan, Director,
Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–8042. Loren James Hoelscher, Petitioner v. California. Peti
No. 09–8043. Alexis Devon Smith, aka Alexis Devon Wesley-Smith,
Petitioner v. Blaine C. Lafler, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–8044. Loyd Landon Sorrow, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–8046. H. Paul Hett, Petitioner v. Jerry C. Wade, et al. Peti
No. 09–8049. Robert J. Davis, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
denied.
No. 09–8050. Jerry Lewis Dedrick, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Eleventh District,
denied.
No. 09–8053. Mark Bowersock, Petitioner v. Superior Court of Cali
fornia, Los Angeles County, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–8061. Randy Lee Soderstrom, Petitioner v. Henry T. Nicho

las, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–8065. Eddie Wayne Davis, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
cuit denied.
No. 09–8068. Tony L. Gary, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
denied.
No. 09–8069. Claudell Green, Petitioner v. W. J. Sullivan, Warden,
No. 09–8072. Dung Ngoc Huynh, Petitioner v. Jeremy Baze, et al.
No. 09–8078. John E. Felgar, Petitioner v. Jeffrey D. Burkett, et al.
No. 09–8079. Krystle Yvette Grant, Petitioner v. Barbara Wheeler,
Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Vir
ginia denied.
No. 09–8080. Bruce McDowell, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8089. Susan V. Klat, Petitioner v. Mitchell Repair Informa
tion Company, LLC, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–8091. Jack R. Koch, Petitioner v. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., At
torney General of California, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–8093. William Albert Lee, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8095. Montrell D. Ventry, Petitioner v. Arkansas. Petition for
No. 09–8099. Joshua Todd Woolridge, Petitioner v. Parwana Anwar.

No. 09–8100. Ra’Zulu Ukawabutu, Petitioner v. Michelle R. Ricci,
Associate Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8103. Ronnie Lee, Petitioner v. California. Petition for writ
No. 09–8104. Laurie Marie Laskey, Petitioner v. Platt Electric Sup
ply, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of Califor
No. 09–8107. Micah Austin Patterson, Petitioner v. California. Peti
No. 09–8108. James Parmer, Petitioner v. Idaho Correctional Corpo
ration, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–8110. Herman Shaw, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
cuit denied.
No. 09–8114. Frank Williams, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–8119. Sherwood Brown, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8122. Gary A. Parmelee, Petitioner v. Bill McCollum, Attor
ney General of Florida, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–8123. James Phillips, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8133. Donald E. Hannah, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
District, denied.
No. 09–8134. Ross A. Gray, Jr., Petitioner v. West Virginia. Petition
ginia denied.
No. 09–8137. Timothy Leggett, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8144. Josue Figueroa, Petitioner v. David DiGuglielmo,

No. 09–8157. Arthur Coleman, Petitioner v. E. Richard Bazzle, War
No. 09–8165. Alonza Hall, aka Bubba, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8166. Darryl Gray, Petitioner v. William Lee, Superintend
ent, Green Haven Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–8175. Albert Kieth Smith, Petitioner v. Larry B. Norris, Di
rector, Arkansas Department of Correction. Petition for writ of certio
denied.
No. 09–8187. Andrew Rhett, Petitioner v. T. Michael Power. Petition
No. 09–8191. Warren Hester, II, Petitioner v. West Virginia. Petition
ginia denied.
No. 09–8197. Sherrod Tillis, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–8199. Jonathan Bolls, Petitioner v. W. Scott Street, III, Sec
retary, Virginia Board of Bar Examiners. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the Supreme Court of Virginia denied.
No. 09–8208. Lynn A. Padgett, Petitioner v. Karen Reid Bramblett,
Prothonotary, Superior Court of Pennsylvania. Petition for writ of cer
tiorari to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Middle District, denied.
No. 09–8212. Barry Reese, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8218. Ivory Dean Perdue, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–8222. Pierre Genevier, Petitioner v. Brian DeMore. Petition
No. 09–8228. Chauncey Lamont Montague, Petitioner v. Virginia.
No. 09–8248. Brian Lee Nestor, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8251. Jonas E. Gillespie, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8255. Frank Drummond, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8258. Dorian W. Richardson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8260. Roberto Sotolongo, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8265. Glenn Dell Cook, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8269. Pyotr Valeryevich Shmelev, Petitioner v. Minnesota.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Minnesota
denied.
No. 09–8272. Laureano Chirino Rivera, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8273. Joseph Earl Robinson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8274. Frederick Lynn Sellers, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8279. Hernaldo Beltran, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8280. James Brown, Petitioner v. Perry Phelps, Warden,

No. 09–8282. James Acker, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
No. 09–8286. Franklin Leon Blige, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8287. Gilman Argueta-Fernandez, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–8288. Philip L. Dale, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8289. Roberto De Leon-Martinez, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–8290. Frankie Cornell Ellis, aka Nitty, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–8292. Corey T. Credell, Petitioner v. South Carolina. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Common Pleas of South Carolina,
Orangeburg County, denied.
No. 09–8295. Coyt Bryant, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8298. Emmanuel Pope, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8299. Karl David Kretser, Jr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8300. Richard Orlando McCray, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8302. Gary William West, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–8309. Jose A. Vega-Figueroa, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8310. Freddie M. Wren, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8313. Cornell Lorenzo Sanders, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8314. Johnny L. Ruffin, Petitioner v. David DiGuglielmo,
No. 09–8315. Robert George Shafer, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8319. Derrick White, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8322. Derrick Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8323. William Elmo Gaines, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8325. Michael Dewayne Bell, Petitioner v. Douglas Samuels,
No. 09–8328. Charles Davis, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Petition for
Office, denied.
No. 09–8332. Gary Ivan Terry, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8336. Oscar Rodriguez-Parra, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8337. Rogelio Salazar-Basaldua, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–8339. Donnell Mann, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8340. Todd Richard Ladoucer, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8341. Larry Mack, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8343. Jorge Jaramillo-Avelino, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8344. Maurice Oparaji, Petitioner v. The New York Mortgage
Company, LLC. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Appellate Divi
sion, Supreme Court of New York, First Judicial Department, denied.
No. 09–8346. Miguel Orlando-Mena, aka Miguel Mena, aka Noel
Mena, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–8347. Cosme Medina-Villa, aka Cosme Medina-Maella, Peti
No. 09–8348. Rodney Royce Miller, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8359. James Terrell Johnson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8365. Jose Antonio Verdugo-Munoz, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–8369. Keith Russell Judd, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8370. Finis Leonard, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Appellate Court of Illinois, Third District, denied.

No. 09–8371. Josephine Ledezma, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8372. Marjorie Ventruella and Victoria Biks, Petitioners v.
No. 09–8374. Jose Martin Saavedra-Velazquez, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–8376. James Franklin Perry, Sr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8380. Mario Nathaniel Baker, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8382. Manuel Cabrera-Alejandre, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–8383. Amr Mohsen, Petitioner v. United States Trustee. Peti
No. 09–8384. Jeremy Vaughn Pinson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8386. Paul Pennant, aka Lexus, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8387. Marshall Ray Miller, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
No. 09–8392. Tyree Teko Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8395. Ivander James, Jr., Petitioner v. Patricia R. Stansberry,
No. 09–8397. Kendrick Latham, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8398. Reymundo Rivero Lazo, Petitioner v. Arizona. Petition

One, denied.
No. 09–8399. Boris Mennard Edwards, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8401. Adonnis Atchison, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
denied.
No. 09–8405. Adam Puchalski, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–8406. Jon Patton, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–8407. Rodney Miller, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8408. Foster J. Price, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8409. William Reed Jenkins, III, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8411. Donald Terrell Banks, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8413. Josue Rogel-Torres, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8425. Wayne Moore, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8431. David A. Passaro, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8433. Eric J. Banks, Petitioner v. T. C. Outlaw, Warden, et al.

No. 09–8435. Rafael Venegas-Zamora, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8436. Michael Walker, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8438. Juan Vasquez-Rosales, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8439. John Richard Proctor, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8440. Michael Charles Jones, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8446. Terry L. Dawkins, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8447. Timothy Wayne Carver, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8449. Chester McCoy, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8450. Robert Mills, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–8452. Tony Edward Powell, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8456. Issa Sanad Beiruti, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8457. Octavio Delvillar, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8458. Allan Elias, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8459. Dustin Decker, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

Circuit denied.
No. 09–8460. Andre Cooper, aka Dre, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8467. Connie Jermaine Young, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8468. Guillermo Orduno, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8469. Nathaniel Ray Stotts, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8471. Artis Eugene Slade, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8477. Qian Chen, Petitioner v. Ricardo S. Martinez, Judge,
United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.
No. 09–8480. Mack Arthur Davis, Jr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8483. Everett Michael Byers, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8484. James Floyd Cleaver, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8485. Michael Joseph Derrow, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8490. Rex T. Harrison, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–8491. Roberto Flores-Meraz, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8492. Maurice J. Fagan, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8494. Shannon Ray Fulbright, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8495. Hector Hernandez-Ortiz, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8498. Jorge Reyes, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8499. Rodrigo Figueroa-Trejo, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8500. Adrian Garcia-Alcantar, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8501. Sergio Garcia-Aparicio, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8503. Marco Todd, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8505. Charles Jerome Adams, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8508. Vincent Chaney, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8509. Sandry Garcia-Garcia, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8516. Leonel Londono-Cardona, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8518. Quincy Fontal Jackson, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–8519. Olivar Martinez-Blanco, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8520. Richard Auston, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8523. Esmerelda Villa, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8524. Edward Myers, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8531. Alphonso Marvin Tindal, Jr., Petitioner v. United
No. 09–8532. Calvin Stovall, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8534. Edward Jackson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8535. David Winters, Petitioner v. United States Parole
Commissioner, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–8537. Pennina Ramirez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8538. Diuvel Rodriguez, Petitioner v. United States; and
No. 09–8612. Geormani Hernandez Gari, Petitioner v. United States.
Petitions for writs of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals
No. 09–8539. Oratin Pertil, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

No. 09–8540. Alejandro Diaz-Gutierrez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8542. Tobias Archuleta, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8544. Marjil Lee Bergara, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8545. Lazzerick Alexander, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8547. David Bochicchio, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8549. John J. Miller, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8553. Robert Paladino, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8554. John Michael Yoder, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8556. Stanley Kim, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–8559. Christopher W. Dallum, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8562. Roland Adams, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8565. Joshua Lorenzo Drake, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8611. Angel Garcia-Bercovich, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8614. Willie Andrew Hampton, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–8615. Edwin Leron Hammond, aka Edwin Leon Hammond,
No. 09–8617. Barry E. Gitarts, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8618. Russell Floyd Freshour, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8620. Scott Goodwin-Bey, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8621. Shawn J. Gieswein, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8627. Santos Zamora-Laines, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8629. Hui Chen, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8631. Veronica M. Allen, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8633. Ellis Eric Evans, Petitioner v. Mildred L. Rivera, War
No. 09–8635. Mark E. Phillips, aka Mark L. Aaron, Petitioner v.
No. 09–8636. Natividad Medina-Martinez, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–8639. Ramone Stephon Jones, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–8647. William Washington, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8649. Barron Wimbley, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8652. Dana Scott Richardson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8654. Andre Ricks, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8655. Leonard V. Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8658. Saladean Walker Salean, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8661. Clarence Edgar Alexander, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8666. Richard Eric Hunn, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8668. Thomas Jonathan Harris, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8670. Wayne Alexander Gopie, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8672. Stephanie Acierno, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8684. Guillermo Torres-Menchaca, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–8688. Mario Alberto Garcia Holguin, aka Mario A. Garcia
Olguin, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–375. Baldassare Amato, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–517. Pacific Investment Management Company LLC, et al.,
Petitioners v. Richard Hershey, et al. Motion of DRI-The Voice of the
Defense Bar for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted. Petition
No. 09–570. Delaware, Petitioner v. James Cooke. Motion of respond
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Delaware denied.
No. 09–652. Michael Wesley Frierson-Harris, aka Michael Wesley
Harris, Petitioner v. Joseph C. Hough, Jr., et al. Petition for writ of
of this petition.
No. 09–726. Ames Department Stores, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. ASM
Capital, L. P. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–6937. Crystal Lamay, Petitioner v. Michael J. Astrue, Com
missioner of Social Security. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–7785. Ikechi Kallys Albert, Petitioner v. Dakota Communi
ties, Inc., et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–7800. Augustine Rizzo, Petitioner v. David Rock, Super
intendent, Great Meadow Correctional Facility. Motion of petitioner to
defer consideration of the petition for writ of certiorari denied. Petition
No. 09–7853. Dennis H. Wendell, Petitioner v. United States District
Court for the Northern District of New York. Petition for writ of cer
of this petition.

No. 09–7925. Thomas W. Hill, Petitioner v. David Richard Hillier.
for the Fourth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner has re
No. 09–7990. Anthony Forte, Petitioner v. David Rock, Superintend
ent, Great Meadow Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of certiorari
this petition.
No. 09–8048. Richard C. Eline, Petitioner v. Hawaii Department of
Public Safety. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pau
No. 09–8124. Shane Peek, Petitioner v. Judith Cummings, Adminis
trative Law Judge, New York State Department of Parole, et al. Peti
No. 09–8294. Adrian Agostini, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8335. Vance Jackson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–8453. John J. McCarthy, Petitioner v. United States. Motion
the Second Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–8476. Daniel B. Karron, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8482. Daniel Perez Alonso, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–8646. Edward Dane Jeffus, Petitioner v. D. B. Drew, Warden.

No. 09–8455. In Re Willie Ray Bush, Petitioner;
No. 09–8464. In Re Mitchell Lee Walck, Petitioner; and
No. 09–8632. In Re Freddie Eugene Casey, Petitioner. Petitions for
Mandamus Denied
No. 09–7885. In Re Barry N. Waddell, Petitioner;
No. 09–7982. In Re Lorenzo Townsend, Petitioner; and
No. 09–8198. In Re Alfredo Masis Sancho, Petitioner. Petitions for
writ of mandamus and/or prohibition dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As peti
tioner has repeatedly abused this Court’s process, the Clerk is directed
not to accept any further petitions in noncriminal matters from peti
tioner unless the docketing fee required by Rule 38(a) is paid and peti
tion submitted in compliance with Rule 33.1. See Martin v. District of
Columbia Court of Appeals, 506 U. S. 1 (1992) (per curiam). Justice
Rehearings Denied
No. 08–1472. USA Mobility Wireless, Inc., Petitioner v. Jerilyn
Quon, et al.;
No. 08–10404. James R. Fultz, Petitioner v. State Farm Mutual Au
tomobile Insurance Company;
No. 08–10506. Regina Darlene Garrett, Petitioner v. Mississippi;
No. 09–325. Alexandre Aronov, Petitioner v. Janet Napolitano, Sec
retary of Homeland Security, et al.;
No. 09–405. United States, ex rel. Bruce Darian, Petitioner v. Accent
Builders, Inc., et al.;

No. 09–406. United States, ex rel. Bruce Darian, Petitioner v. David
J. Pasternak, et al.;
No. 09–5027. Michael McNeill, Petitioner v. Frank Stamper, et al.;
No. 09–5694. Robert L. Bolden, Sr., Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–5728. Darren Hollis, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–5973. Billy J. Torain, Petitioner v. Ameritech Advanced
Data Services;
surance Company, et al.;
No. 09–6127. Rickey Hawthorne, Petitioner v. Patricia L. Caruso,
Director, Michigan Department of Corrections, et al.;
No. 09–6136. Raymond Nesbitt, Petitioner v. Circuit Court of Illi
nois, Cook County;
No. 09–6203. Lynne Meredith, Petitioner v. Andrew Erath, et al.;
No. 09–6382. Christopher A. Odom, Petitioner v. Jon Ozmint, Direc
tor, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al.;
Board of Education, et al.;
No. 09–6570. Brian Adams, Petitioner v. Honda Engineering North
America, Inc.;
No. 09–6864. Kenneth M. Lewis, Petitioner v. Stan Burtt, Warden;
No. 09–6946. Johnny Lee Hansley, aka Johnnie Lee Hansely, Peti
tioner v. United States;
No. 09–6998. Jesus Machado, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
No. 09–7173. Kathalina Monacelli, Petitioner v. Target Stores, et al.;
No. 09–7174. Kathalina Monacelli, Petitioner v. Enterprise Leasing
Co., et al.;
No. 09–7175. Kathalina Monacelli, Petitioner v. Edison State Col
lege, et al.;
No. 09–7176. Willie Frank King, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–7372. Larry Charles Welch, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–7425. Jonathan McGriggs, Petitioner v. Mississippi; and
No. 09–7688. In Re Donald Joseph Truax, Petitioner. Petitions for
rehearing denied.

Nancy Gbana Abudu Atlanta, GA Laughlin

McDonald
Diego F. Acevedo San Francisco, CA John L. Cooper
Cynthia C. Albracht-Crogan Phoenix, AZ Brian Michael

Goodwin
Gregory Joel Alexander Houston, TX Dawn Morrison
Saifi
Scott Charles Allan Versailles, KY Lawrence S.
Greenwald
Jonathan William Anderson Washington, DC Samia Fam
Naomi Ann Avendano Chicago, IL Benna Ruth
Solomon
John Henderson Ayres, III Baton Rouge, LA Annette Rhodes
Seng
Caryn Lynn Bellus Miami, FL G. William Bissett
Clay Calvert Gainesville, FL Gregg Darrow
Thomas
William L. Carr Philadelphia, PA Lawrence J. Fox
Jessica L. Caruthers Cherokee, OK David C. Henneke
Sandra Ferguson Chance Gainesville, FL Gregg Darrow
Thomas
Patryk J. Chudy New York, NY Richard A. Martin
Andrew E. Clark Washington, DC Elaine Metlin
Maydad D. Cohen Boston, MA Sally M. Tedrow
Ronald Jay Cohen Phoenix, AZ John Alan Doran
Moses Alva Cook Washington, DC Vincent Michael
Southerland
Mark Edward Cottrell Washington, DC Gary Dexter Gray
Christopher J. Cox Redwood Shores, Edward R. Reines
CA
Joseph C. Crawford Philadelphia, PA Francis P. Devine
Faye L. Cuevas Alexandria, VA McArthur Allen
Maurice Donald Dacey Colonial Heights, Daniel Knowlton
VA Read, Jr.
Benjamin Damstedt Palo Alto, CA Lori R. E. Ploeger
Blake R. David Lafayette, LA Paul Benedict
David
Kathleen Joyce Devlin Lyndhurst, NJ Thomas J.
Cafferty
Timothy Micah Dortch Dallas, TX R. Brent Cooper
Brandon Hall Elledge McLean, VA Thomas Mel
Brownell

Mark Emery Washington, DC Tillman J.

Breckenridge
Andrea Carla Evans San Francisco, CA William Joseph
Aceves

Peter K. Fagen Oceanside, CA Douglas Neil

Freifeld

Natasha Elisa Fain San Francisco, CA William Joseph

Aceves
Laura M. Ferguson Louisville, KY Douglas M.
Dowell, Sr.
Robert Dennis Fetter Detroit, MI Bruce A. Miller
Meghan K. Finnerty Philadelphia, PA Sayde Joy
Markowitz
Joni M. Fixel Okemos, MI Lawrence P.
Schneider
Brian G. Flanagan Trenton, NJ Larry R.
Etzweiler
Guy Anthony Fortney Tulsa, OK Jennifer L. De
Angelis
Timothy Jon Freiberg Rockford, IL Scott David
Spooner
Martin F. Gaynor, III Boston, MA Paul F. Beckwith
Martin William Gitlin Westport, CT Carmen D. Legato
Thomas P. Godar Madison, WI Richard J.
Lewandowski
David B. Golden San Francisco, CA Alan Chenoweth
Davis
Spencer Gollahon West Palm Beach, Tina M. Talarchyk
FL
Gregory S. Gordon Grand Forks, ND Karen Marie
Quesnel
Colin N. Gotham Shawnee, KS Scott Morehouse
Mann
Mark E. Gottlieb Philadelphia, PA Sayde Joy
Markowitz
Nicholas Paul Granath Minneapolis, MN Lee Seham
Jessica L. Grant San Francisco, CA Bruce Lee Simon
Edward K. Grasse Schaumburg, IL William Glenn
Beatty
Hillary Jane Green Long Beach, CA C. D. Michel

Bruce D. Greenberg Newark, NJ Allyn Zissel Lite
Denise Rainwater Griffin Lawrenceville, GA Richard Alan
Carothers
Richard L. Grossman San Francisco, CA Nancy L.
Tompkins
K. Scott Hamilton Detroit, MI Dennis Wayne
Archer
Bertrand M. Harding, Jr. Alexandria, VA Edward E. Dyson
Del Hardy Reno, NV Ian Edward
Silverberg
Thomas Bryan Hart Fort Myers, FL Mark A. Ebelini
Christen L. Hayes Montgomery, AL Walter Ryland
Byars
Michael M. Hethmon Washington, DC John Michael
Miano
Joyce Christine Hicks Columbia, SC Tina Nicole
Herbert
Dale E. Ho New York, NY Ryan P. Haygood
Rebecca L. Hobbs Frankfort, KY Mary Gail
Robinson
Brian Trevor Hodges Bellevue, WA Meriem Lee
Hubbard
Sydney Jean Hoffmann Washington, DC David S. Krakoff
Cristal M. Holmes-Bowie Willingboro, NJ Nancy E. Whatley
Griffin
Timothy James Hoover Fostoria, OH Michael Paul
Kelbley
Adnan Horan Phoenix, AZ Christopher John
Stender
Erica L. Horn Frankfort, KY Bruce F. Clark
B. Paul Husband Los Angeles, CA John Anthony
Lawrence
Philip M. Jay Fresno, CA Mark Alan Wasser
M. James Jenkins Pensacola, FL John Christopher
Klotz
Ronald E. Kaplovitz Sylvan Lake, MI Joan Ellerbusch
Morgan

Laura Susanne Kelly Irvine, CA Jonathan B.

Steiner


Laura H. Kennedy Phoenix, AZ John Alan Doran

John Derek King Lexington, VA David Isaac Bruck
David Vance Kirby Burlington, VT Barbara Elizabeth
O’Connor
Scott P. Klosterman Casper, WY Frank D. Neville
Matthew Christopher Downingtown, PA Marina Kats
Konchel
Joseph A. La Flamme Reading, PA Paul A. Logan
Sarah Weber Langlois Houston, TX Murphy Scott
Klasing
David B. Larsen Lincoln City, OR Guy Benjamin
Greco
Sabatino Fioravante Leo Boston, MA Veronica
Seungwon Jung
Jack J. Lipari Egg Harbor Thomas Michael
Township, NJ Cannavo
Douglas Ethan Lumish Redwood Shores, Edward R. Reines
CA
Clarence E. Lutz Nashville, TN Jennifer L. Smith
Jennifer Marie Corey Mann Sacramento, CA Joseph
Schlesinger
Colbe Corcoran Mazzarella East Boston, MA Philip D. Moran
Mary E. McAnally Trenton, NJ Robert E.
Bonpietro
Rebecca Good McBride Pittsburgh, PA Karen T. Edwards
Pamela Marie Merchant San Francisco, CA William Joseph
Aceves
Francesca Lucia Miceli Boston, MA Joseph L.
Kociubes
Vassil Rumenov Mitzev San Diego, CA A. Daniel
Bacalski, Jr.
Sarah Maser Mooney Omaha, NE Mark Alan Weber
Kevin H. Moriarty Washington, DC Alan Stephen
Hut, Jr.
L. Daniel Morris, Jr. Montgomery, AL Troy R. King
Evelyn Ruth Nackman Alexandria, VA Jack L. Rives
Michael J. Nader Palo Alto, CA Fred William
Alvarez
Nicole Alisa Neckles Brooklyn, NY Herald Price
Fahringer, Jr.
Christopher Len Nichols Houston, TX J. Grady Randle

Charolette F. Noel Dallas, TX David John
Schenck
Robert Thomas Numbers, Winston-Salem, James Redfern
II NC Morgan, Jr.
Andrea Toy Ohta Philadelphia, PA M. Duncan Grant
Jason A. Ostendorf Owings Mills, MD Robert K. Jenner
Katharine H. Parker New York, NY Mark David
Harris
William Daniel Pegg Chicago, IL R. Mark Halligan
Duane C. Pozza Washington, DC Paul March Smith
Mark Frederick Pratt Hillsboro, TX Frank Bobbitt
McGregor, Jr.
John Rao Providence, RI Stuart Todd
Rossman
James R. Rasband Provo, UT Thomas R. Lee
Michelle S. Rhyu Palo Alto, CA Lori R. E. Ploeger
Douglas Ivan Richards Del Rio, TX Kent Alan
Schaffer
Katresa J. Riffel Enid, OK David C. Henneke
Anne W. Robinson Washington, DC James
Christopher
Knapp, Jr.
Ricardo Rodriguez Palo Alto, CA Lori R. E. Ploeger
Russel William Rowe, II Greenwood Russell Paul Rowe
Village, CO
Dana L. Salazar Albany, NY Phineas E. Leahey
Peter J. Scranton Fremont, OH Mark George
Kafantaris
Anna M. Seidman Washington, DC M. Carol Bambery
Paige Nicole Shelton Tulsa, OK P. Scott Hathaway
Scott L. Shuchart New Haven, CT Charles Rothfeld
Alison Marlowe Siegler Chicago, IL Robert N.
Hochman
Howard Alvin Stark Rochester, NY James Louis
Gelormini
David S. Stein Stamford, CT Benjamin
Heyward Green

Nicholas D. Stellakis Boston, MA

Paul F. Beckwith
Andrew M. Stewart Arlington, VA

L. Barrett Boss
Denise Hsu Sze Los Angeles, CA

Joseph S. Fogel
Gerald John Szymanski Chicago, IL

Robert Louis
Agusto
Jeremy David Tedesco Scottsdale, AZ

Glen E. Lavy
Jorge G. Tenreiro New York, NY

Lewis Jeffrey
Liman
Cheryl Huff Thompson San Antonio, TX

Jack L. Rives
John Jacob Tollefsen Lynnwood, WA

John Warwick
Montgomery
Ethan Edward Trull Chicago, IL

Roger Stein
Barbara Evangeline Fort Lauderdale,

Phillip J. Brutus
Vendrell FL
Ashley Brooke Vinson San Francisco, CA Steven Kaufhold
Keith H. Wadsworth Lake Wales, FL David G. Fisher
Julie Freund Wall Chicago, IL Elizabeth G.
Doolin
Scott F. Waterman Media, PA Patricia M. Mayer
Brett Austin Watson Lawrence, KS Timothy George
Madden
Markus B. Willoughby Oakland, CA Arthur H. Bryant
Joshua Pratt Wilson Washington, DC Michael
Alexander
Johnson
Marcia A. Wood Wichita, KS Terry Long Mann
Nicole Wynn Springfield, VA Margareth
Etienne
Troy Masami Yoshino San Francisco, CA David M. Rice

Renee M. Gabbard Costa Mesa, CA John C. Eastman

Amy Louise Gearin Bethesda, MD Leigh Anna
Lowry
William Thomas Gaither Eufaula, AL Arthur James
Carson, III
Gulam Rafiqueuddin Birmingham, AL Cynthia Eva
Mahmood Hujar Orr
Daniel L. Barton Palo Alto, CA Cynthia Eva

Hujar Orr
Mark Alan Skipper Orlando, FL Cynthia Eva
Hujar Orr
Shana-Tara Regon Washington, DC Cynthia Eva
Hujar Orr
Patrick Joseph Boylan Papillion, NE Cynthia Eva
Hujar Orr
John Rocco Grasso Providence, RI Cynthia Eva
Hujar Orr
John William Stickels Arlington, TX Cynthia Eva
Hujar Orr
John Louis Caviale Kenosha, WI Cynthia Eva
Hujar Orr
David Mark Brandwein Fort Lauderdale, James D. Robb
FL
Benjamin Jeffrey Gielow Washington, DC James D. Robb
Kristine Marie Gielow Washington, DC James D. Robb
Lisa L. Fadler Auburn Hills, MI James D. Robb
Cindy E. Faulkner Lansing, MI James D. Robb
Lisa K. Halushka Rochester Hills, James D. Robb
MI
James S. Miner, II Bay City, MI James D. Robb
Jan Allison Miner Bay City, MI James D. Robb
Ernest A. Phillips Lansing, MI James D. Robb
B. Paul Wood Lansing, MI James D. Robb
Oral Arguments
Petitioner v. Catherine G. Ratliff. Argued by Mr. Anthony Yang for the
petitioner and by Mr. James D. Leach for the respondent.
cago, Illinois. Argued by Mr. John A. Payton for the petitioners, by
Mr. Neal K. Katyal for the United States as amicus curiae, by special
leave of the Court, supporting the petitioners, and by Ms. Benna Ruth
Solomon for the respondent.
Adjourned until Tuesday, February 23, 2010, at 10 o’clock.

(JOURNAL) TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2010 587


Opinions
No. 08–1107. The Hertz Corporation, Petitioner v. Melinda Friend,
et al. On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for
the Ninth Circuit. Judgment vacated, and case remanded to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for further proceedings
consistent with the opinion of this Court. Opinion by Justice Breyer.
No. 08–1175. Florida, Petitioner v. Kevin Dewayne Powell. On writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Florida. Judgment reversed, and
case remanded to the Supreme Court of Florida for further proceed
ings not inconsistent with the opinion of this Court. Opinion by Justice
Ginsburg. Dissenting opinion by Justice Stevens, with whom Justice
Breyer joins as to Part II.
Heidi Elizabeth Boghosian New York, NY David D. Cole

Sheila D. Conway Providence, RI Jared Aram
Goldstein
Martin J. Cosgrove, Jr. Georgetown, DE Jared Aram
Goldstein
Ann Marie Corriveau Swansea, MA Jared Aram
Goldstein
Kerri Marie Morey Boston, MA Jared Aram
Goldstein
Erik Brian Wallin South Kingstown, Jared Aram
RI Goldstein
James Dillon Donegan Belvidere, NJ Jared Aram
Goldstein
Karissa Lynne Wallin South Kingstown, Jared Aram
RI Goldstein
Raymond J. Angell, III Coventry, RI Jared Aram
Goldstein
John Brian Garry Bristol, RI Jared Aram
Goldstein
588 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2010
Stephen Patrick Maguire Cranston, RI Jared Aram

Goldstein
Walter J. Manning Warwick, RI Jared Aram
Goldstein
Matthew D. Slepkow East Providence, Jared Aram
RI Goldstein
Heidi Rib Brent Tucson, AZ Beth H. Saltzman
Renee Mayerson Cannella Stamford, CT Beth H. Saltzman
Barry Richard Goldsmith Washington, DC Beth H. Saltzman
Fara Tracy Gold Washington, DC Beth H. Saltzman
Beth Lori Zilbert Lake Charles, LA Beth H. Saltzman
Pamela L. Glazier Boston, MA Beth H. Saltzman
Ina Resnikoff Swampscott, MA Beth H. Saltzman
Robbi-Lynn Watnik Burke, VA Beth H. Saltzman
Marcy Lynn Harris Hopkins, MN Beth H. Saltzman
Susan Shapiro Belkin Scarsdale, NY Beth H. Saltzman
Heather Anne Benderson Philadelphia, PA Beth H. Saltzman
Stella J. Guarna Brooklyn, NY Beth H. Saltzman
Jessica Elyse Polansky New York, NY Beth H. Saltzman
Janine Howard Gorell Katy, TX Beth H. Saltzman
Sherri Lynn Zack Houston, TX Beth H. Saltzman
Oral Arguments
Holder, Jr., Attorney General, et al. Argued by Mr. David D. Cole for
the petitioners in 09–89, and by Ms. Solicitor General Elena Kagan for
the petitioners in 08–1498.
Burgess. Argued by Mr. Benjamin Horwich for the petitioner and by
Mr. Jeffrey L. Fisher for the respondents.
Adjourned until Wednesday, February 24, 2010, at 10 o’clock.

(JOURNAL) WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2010 589


Opinion
No. 08–680. Maryland, Petitioner v. Michael Blaine Shatzer, Sr. On
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Maryland. Judgment re
versed, and case remanded to the Court of Appeals of Maryland for
further proceedings not inconsistent with the opinion of this Court.
Opinion by Justice Scalia. Opinion by Justice Thomas, concurring in
part and concurring in the judgment. Opinion by Justice Stevens, con
curring in the judgment.

Edgardo Barreto Ponce, PR Barry Scott

Herrin
Paul Maraian Detroit, MI Barry Scott
Herrin
Timothy C. Verrett Anchorage, AK Robert Michael
Karton
Elisabeth L. Gilman Arlington, VA Mark Tellitocci
Michael Edward Korte Arlington, VA Mark Tellitocci
E. Patrick Gilman Arlington, VA Mark Tellitocci
Tiffany Kay Dewell Santa Ana, CA Mark Tellitocci
Bridget Erin Keenan Arlington, VA Mark Tellitocci
Patricia L. Levy Washington, DC Shaun K. Stuart
Baskett
Amanda Lannon Anderson Washington, DC Shaun K. Stuart
Baskett
Daniel Alan Hawtof Baltimore, MD Shaun K. Stuart
Baskett
Stephen Scott Myers Baltimore, MD Shaun K. Stuart
Baskett
James Henry Wannamaker, Baltimore, MD Shaun K. Stuart
III Baskett
Dennis Aaron Chamberlain Grand Rapids, MI Shaun K. Stuart
Baskett
590 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2010
Vanessa Alexandra Lantin Memphis, TN Shaun K. Stuart

Baskett
Richard Joseph Goodier, Sr. Washington, DC Shaun K. Stuart
Baskett
Oral Arguments
No. 08–1301. Thomas Carr, Petitioner v. United States. Argued by
Mr. Charles A. Rothfeld for the petitioner and by Mr. Curtis E. Gannon
for the respondent.
No. 08–1341. United States, Petitioner v. Glenn Marcus. Argued by
Mr. Eric D. Miller for the petitioner and by Mr. Herald Price Fahringer
for the respondent. Justice Sotomayor recused.
Adjourned until Monday, March 1, 2010, at 10 o’clock.

(JOURNAL) MONDAY, MARCH 1, 2010 591


Opinions Per Curiam

President of the United States, et al. On writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Judgment
the District of Columbia Circuit. Opinion per curiam.
No. 08–1229. Florida, Petitioner v. Thomas William Rigterink. On

petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Florida. Motion
of respondent for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Petition
for writ of certiorari granted. Judgment vacated, and case remanded
to the Supreme Court of Florida for further consideration in light of
Florida v. Powell, 559 U. S. ––– (2010). Dissenting opinion by Justice
Stevens.
No. 08–7721. Wilson John Machado and Jorema Cabrera Arellano,
Petitioners v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General. On petition for
Circuit. Motion of petitioners for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
and petition for writ of certiorari granted. Judgment vacated, and case
remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
for further consideration in light of the position asserted by the Solici
tor General in her brief for the respondent filed August 26, 2009. Dis
senting opinion by The Chief Justice, with whom Justice Scalia, Justice
Thomas and Justice Alito join.
No. 08–9723. Terrance Moore, Petitioner v. Ohio. On petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Cuyahoga County. Motion
592 MONDAY, MARCH 1, 2010
the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Cuyahoga County, for further consider

No. 09–906. Montgomery Blair Sibley, Petitioner v. Samuel A.
Alito, Jr., Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, et al.
for the District of Columbia Circuit. Because the Court lacks a quorum,
28 U. S. C. § 1, and since the only qualified Justice is of the opinion that
the case cannot be heard and determined at the next Term of Court,
the judgment is affirmed under 28 U. S. C. § 2109, which provides that
under these circumstances “the court shall enter its order affirming
the judgment of the court from which the case was brought for review
with the same effect as upon affirmance by an equally divided court.”
The Chief Justice, Justice Stevens, Justice Scalia, Justice Kennedy, Jus
tice Thomas, Justice Ginsburg, Justice Breyer and Justice Alito took
No. 09–6208. D. G., Petitioner v. Louisiana. On petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit. Motion
the Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit, for further consider
No. 09A389 (09–8568). Pocahontas Cooley, Applicant v. Paul J.

Kelly, et ux. Application for stay addressed to Justice Thomas and re
ferred to the Court denied.
No. 09M71. Angel Pablo Cruzata, Petitioner v. Victor Almager, War
out of time denied.
No. 09–6338. Percy Dillon, Petitioner v. United States. Motion of
petitioner for leave to file Volume II of the joint appendix under seal
granted.
No. 09–7060. Richard Eline, Petitioner v. T. Lara, et al. Motion of
MONDAY, MARCH 1, 2010 593

No. 09–7307. Robert J. Zani, Petitioner v. Social Security Adminis
tration. Motion of petitioner for reconsideration of order denying leave
No. 09–7384. Raymond Clark, Petitioner v. California. Motion of
No. 09–7550. Donald G. Jones, Petitioner v. Liberty Bank and Trust
Company, et al. Motion of petitioner for reconsideration of order deny
No. 09–7961. In Re Theodore Wagner, Petitioner. Motion of peti
pauperis denied.
No. 09–8206. Gregory Shawn Mercer, Petitioner v. Virginia. Motion
allowed until March 22, 2010, within which to pay the docketing fee
No. 09–8342. Danny M. Kelly, Petitioner v. Richard J. Day, et al.
Petitioner allowed until March 22, 2010, within which to pay the dock
No. 09–8512. Dwane Ingalls, Petitioner v. The AES Corporation.
Certiorari Granted
No. 09–150. Michigan, Petitioner v. Richard Perry Bryant. Motion of
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Michigan granted.
Certiorari Denied
Woods County, Oklahoma Assessor. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the Supreme Court of Oklahoma denied.
No. 09–293. Modesto Ozuna, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–305. Scott Kerns, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

Circuit denied.
No. 09–347. Nora Dutka, as Guardian for the Estate of T. M., a
Minor, et al., Petitioner v. AIG Life Insurance Company. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–389. Fusheng Liu, Petitioner v. Koninklijke Philips Electron
ics, N.V. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–402. Markice Lavert McCane, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–461. Stephen Michael West, Petitioner v. Ricky Bell, Warden.
No. 09–531. Haskell County Board of Commissioners, et al., Petition
ers v. James W. Green, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–601. Volvo Construction Equipment North America, Inc.,
Petitioner v. Isaac Rose, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–602. David Boyd, Petitioner v. Guidant Sales Corp. Petition
No. 09–606. Javitch, Block & Rathbone, LLP, et al., Petitioners v.
Delores Hartman, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–608. Sincerely Yours, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Bertram
Cooper, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–687. UNC Lear Services, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia, et al.; and
No. 09–845. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, et al., Petitioners v. UNC
Lear Services, Inc., et al. Petitions for writs of certiorari to the United
No. 09–705. Francisco Molina, Jr., Petitioner v. Superior Court of
California, Contra Costa County, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, denied.

No. 09–707. Beulah Johnson, Petitioner v. Kmart Corporation, et al.
No. 09–708. St. Luke’s of the Mountains Anglican Church in La Cres
centa, et al., Petitioners v. Episcopal Church, et al. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate Dis
trict, Division One, denied.
No. 09–712. Ingrid Felderhof, Petitioner v. Jenkins & Gilchrist, P.C.,
No. 09–713. Joseph Alan Woodring, Petitioner v. Michigan. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Michigan, Muskegon
County, denied.
No. 09–715. William Smith, Petitioner v. Alvin Friedman, et al. Peti
land denied.
No. 09–720. Ora Myrtle Ransford, et al., Petitioners v. Griffin Wheel
Company, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of
California, First Appellate District, denied.
No. 09–722. Harold Green, Petitioner v. Cleary Water, Sewer and
Fire District. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of
Mississippi denied.
No. 09–735. Jon D. Alexander, Petitioner v. Charles E. Smith, Jr.,
et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Virginia
denied.
No. 09–738. John Philipps, Petitioner v. City of Oakland, California,
No. 09–739. Pennmont Securities, Petitioner v. Meyer Frucher, et al.
No. 09–746. Beverly Enterprises-Illinois, Inc., dba VIP Manor, Peti
tioner v. Virginia Mitchell, Executor of the Estate of Charles A. Mitch
ell, Deceased. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Appellate Court of
No. 09–747. Beverly Enterprises-Illinois, Inc., dba VIP Manor, Peti
tioner v. Martha Blazier, Special Administrator of the Estate of Rachel
Reedy, Deceased. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Appellate Court
of Illinois, Fifth District, denied.
No. 09–749. Elijah W. Ratcliff, Petitioner v. LHR, Inc. Petition for

writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Ninth District,
denied.
No. 09–754. Midwest Pipe Insulation, Incorporated, Petitioner v.
Minneapolis Pipefitters Union, Local 539. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the Supreme Court of Minnesota denied.
No. 09–756. Jeffrey C. Bourgeois, Individually and on Behalf of Dale
Bourgeois, et al., Petitioners v. Boomtown, L.L.C. of Delaware, et al.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth
Circuit, denied.
No. 09–759. Exelon Corporation, Petitioner v. Illinois Department of
Revenue, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of
Illinois denied.
No. 09–760. Keefe Alsobrook, et al., Petitioners v. UPS Ground
Freight, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–761. Sylvester J. Hoffart, Petitioner v. Bob Herman, et al.
No. 09–765. Polar Equipment, Inc., dba Cook Inlet Processing, Inc.,
et al., Petitioners v. Grant Baker, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–769. Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc., Petitioner v. Jimmy
Lewis. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of Louisi
ana, Fourth Circuit, denied.
No. 09–777. City of San Clemente, California, Petitioner v. Steve
Klein, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–782. Marvin Clyde Magee, Jr., Petitioner v. United States,
Acting Through the Farm Service Agency. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied.
No. 09–791. Mark Anthony Lewis, Petitioner v. Bell Atlantic/Veri
zon, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–792. Thomas Rempfer, Petitioner v. Margaret Hamburg,
Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, et al. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of

No. 09–794. Arnold Dewalt Beverly, Petitioner v. Federal Election
No. 09–796. Michael Neuman, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
No. 09–829. Loren David, Petitioner v. Monsanto Company, et al.
No. 09–831. Joni Mihelich, Petitioner v. Active Plumbing Supply Co.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Cuya
hoga County, denied.
No. 09–833. Thomas P. Lewis, Petitioner v. United States, et al. Peti
No. 09–853. Ariel Friedlander, Petitioner v. Port Jewish Center.
No. 09–855. Freddie L. Fulson, Petitioner v. Larry J. McClatchey,
Trustee. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–860. Mona Pradier, Petitioner v. United States Postal Serv
ice. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals
No. 09–867. Donald L. Morrison, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–869. Don Benny Anderson, Petitioner v. Federal Bureau of
Investigation. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–874. Kenneth L. Woodworth, Petitioner v. Ray Mabus, Secre
tary of the Navy. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–878. Nicandro Ucciferri, Petitioner v. Rodney Chandler, War
No. 09–881. RTM Media, L.L.C., Petitioner v. City of Houston,
Texas. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–883. Valery V. Ceasar, Petitioner v. Nancy A. Nord, Commis

sioner, Consumer Product Safety Commission, et al. Petition for writ
Circuit denied.
No. 09–891. Nucor Corporation, et al., Petitioners v. Quinton Brown,
No. 09–896. Brenda Mills, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–898. Dom Wadhwa and Sharon A. Finizie, Petitioners v. Eric
K. Shinseki, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–899. Abdelhaleem Hasan Abdelraziq Ashqar, Petitioner v.
No. 09–902. Robert L. Grimm, Petitioner v. Beverly Grimm, nka
Beverly Lampp. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals
of Ohio, Cuyahoga County, denied.
No. 09–905. Theresa M. Squillacote, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–5220. Arlene B. Whitney, Petitioner v. California, et al. Peti
No. 09–6742. Brian Lee Gould, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–6839. Levi W. Smith, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–7132. Jane Doe, a Female Juvenile, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7294. Donna Thurgood Solomon, Petitioner v. Pioneer Adult
Rehabilitation Center. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United

No. 09–7306. Georgette R. Asbury, Petitioner v. City of Roanoke,
Virginia. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–7385. Shannon Keith Harris, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7414. Jeremiah King, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7568. Hopeton Gooden, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7577. Jesus Puga-Ochoa, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7674. Demetrius Dewayne Smith, Petitioner v. Texas. Peti
denied.
No. 09–7777. Edward Jerome Harbison, Petitioner v. George Little,
Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7784. Henry W. Skinner, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–8052. Tony Howard, Petitioner v. Melody L. Flores, Warden.
ida, First District, denied.
No. 09–8129. Ovidio Garcia, Jr., Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for writ
No. 09–8132. Gerald Wayne Graves, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, First District,
denied.
No. 09–8135. Curtis Fuller, Petitioner v. Dave J. Burnett, et al. Peti
No. 09–8136. Thurman Lee Henderson, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler,
No. 09–8138. Reginald Johnson, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Petition
District, denied.
No. 09–8139. Bruce Monroe Greer, Petitioner v. Cynthia Nelson,
No. 09–8140. Mark Rene Flores, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–8143. Manuel Joseph Hernandez, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler,
No. 09–8145. Kenneth B. Malpass, Petitioner v. Judith C. Powelson.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Colorado
denied.
No. 09–8146. George P. Minter, Petitioner v. Indiana. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Indiana, First District,
denied.
No. 09–8149. Toney Cole, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ of
No. 09–8150. Bobby Joe Davis, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–8152. Allen Fitzgerald Calton, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
No. 09–8155. Broderick White, Petitioner v. State Farm Insurance
No. 09–8156. Kenneth Lee Weinberg, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition
District, denied.

No. 09–8164. William Justin Brewster, Petitioner v. David Mills,
No. 09–8168. Lyndon Hale, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–8169. Bruce Glass, Petitioner v. Rose Williams, Warden. Peti
No. 09–8170. Roger Lee Horton, Petitioner v. Virginia. Petition for
No. 09–8172. Sean Scott, Petitioner v. Maryland. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland denied.
No. 09–8173. James R. Smith, Petitioner v. New Jersey. Petition for
sion, denied.
No. 09–8174. Frederick Jerome Smith, Petitioner v. Kim Worthy,
No. 09–8176. Romeo Ezike, Petitioner v. Lakshmi Mittal, et al. Peti
No. 09–8177. Steven Crain, Petitioner v. Ronald N. Tutor, et al. Peti
No. 09–8178. Robert Lee Fryburger, Petitioner v. Ben Curry, War
No. 09–8179. Jasper Harris, Jr., Petitioner v. Virginia Employment
Commission. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of
Virginia denied.
No. 09–8180. Dewey N. Griner, aka Dewey N. Howard, Petitioner v.
Walter A. McNeil, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al.
No. 09–8181. Wayne Elwyn Root, Petitioner v. Pearley Chua. Peti
sion 3, denied.
No. 09–8182. Diego Nunez, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Sec

cuit denied.
No. 09–8184. Aaron D. Younker, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Highland County, denied.
No. 09–8189. Eddie Murrell Rollen, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–8192. Antonio Hinton, Petitioner v. M. McQuillan, et al. Peti
No. 09–8193. Tyrone Denard Grayson, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
No. 09–8194. Michael R. Haynes, Petitioner v. Oregon, et al. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Oregon denied.
No. 09–8200. Paul Blackmer, Petitioner v. Lawrence Blaisdell, War
No. 09–8203. Joshua Maxwell, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–8210. Richard J. Simpson, Petitioner v. Correctional Medical
Services, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–8213. Stephen D. Thibeau, Petitioner v. Massachusetts. Peti
No. 09–8221. Tracy Semple, Petitioner v. Massachusetts. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Appeals Court of Massachusetts denied.
No. 09–8229. Tony A. Wilson, Petitioner v. Sahbra S. Jacobs. Petition
No. 09–8230. Willie Watson, Petitioner v. Neighbors Credit Union,

No. 09–8232. David Gene Skipper, Petitioner v. Jim Worthington,
No. 09–8234. Jasper Harris, Jr., Petitioner v. Paul Whinney, et al.
No. 09–8238. Lawrence W. Price, Jr., Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for
No. 09–8239. Donald Ray McCray, Petitioner v. Harris County,
Texas, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of
Texas, Third District, denied.
No. 09–8240. Roger Dean Upchurch, Jr., Petitioner v. Texas. Petition
No. 09–8241. Henry F. Weber, Petitioner v. Burl Cain, Warden. Peti
No. 09–8244. Shaun Kareem Burney, Petitioner v. California. Peti
No. 09–8250. Paul Keith Reyes, Petitioner v. Maggie Toulouse Oli
ver. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
No. 09–8263. Martin Walters, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
trict, denied.
No. 09–8267. Amos Ragan, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
No. 09–8268. Roy Neal Shelling, Jr., Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–8270. Charles Jerall Smith, Petitioner v. Gene M. Johnson,
denied.
No. 09–8271. Dennis Michael Salerno, Petitioner v. Michigan. Peti
No. 09–8275. Daniel Anthony Lucas, Petitioner v. Stephen Upton,

Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Geor
gia denied.
No. 09–8276. Peter Roy Alfred, Jr., Petitioner v. Fortch-Wade Cor
rectional Center, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–8277. Ieshia Brown, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–8278. Mervyn Lopez Albada, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition
District, denied.
No. 09–8283. Uuno Mattias Baum, Petitioner v. Collie Rushton, War
No. 09–8284. Jesse Alejo, Petitioner v. California. Petition for writ
District, denied.
No. 09–8291. David Kenneth Christian, Petitioner v. Lynn Dingle,
No. 09–8293. Ramon Jay Rogers, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–8296. Ronald Christopher Bingham, Petitioner v. Texas.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of
Texas denied.
No. 09–8301. John W. Tate, Petitioner v. New Jersey. Petition for
sion, denied.
No. 09–8303. Carlos L. Woodson, aka Carlo L. Woodson, Petitioner
v. Katherine Rundle-Fernandez, State Attorney. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Supreme Court of Florida denied.
No. 09–8304. Judith Tompson, Petitioner v. Town of Salem, New
Hampshire. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of New
Hampshire denied.
No. 09–8305. Anthony Wooten, Petitioner v. Michigan. Petition for
No. 09–8306. David Thrasher, Petitioner v. Prison Official. Petition

No. 09–8307. Learonardo Truss, Petitioner v. Willie Thomas, War
No. 09–8308. Richard Morris, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–8311. David Tinkham, Petitioner v. Wendy Knight, Super
intendent, Plainfield Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of certio
denied.
No. 09–8312. Robert Lee Williams, Jr., Petitioner v. Arkansas. Peti
No. 09–8316. Kendrick Stafford, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth
District, denied.
No. 09–8317. Charles F. Tucker, Petitioner v. Georgia. Petition for
No. 09–8338. Stanley E. Jalowiec, Petitioner v. Margaret Bradshaw,
No. 09–8354. Addolfo Davis, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–8357. Steven Leath, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8362. Abram L. Payan, Petitioner v. Nebraska. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Nebraska denied.
No. 09–8373. Kareem Smith, Petitioner v. David Napoli, Super
intendent, Southport Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of certio
denied.
No. 09–8417. Wayne Anthony Beckford, Petitioner v. Eric H.
No. 09–8418. Sparkey Darnez Watson, Petitioner v. Mississippi. Peti
No. 09–8421. Fariba Parniani, Petitioner v. Cardinal Health, Inc.,
No. 09–8426. Keith Russell Judd, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–8428. Randell Orange, Petitioner v. Emanuel Ellis, et al.
No. 09–8432. Michael Nikiforakis, Petitioner v. Richard W. Stanek.
denied.
No. 09–8437. Robert Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8442. James Knowles, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Sec
cuit denied.
No. 09–8443. Curtis Jerome Lemon, Petitioner v. South Carolina,
No. 09–8444. Rodrick Clayton, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8451. Calvin Wilson, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
No. 09–8462. Barry Young, Petitioner v. Tom Corbett, Attorney
General of Pennsylvania, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–8466. Ralph Jaffe, Petitioner v. Baltimore County Library
Board. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–8478. Frederick L. Pitchford, Petitioner v. Southland Gaming
and Racing, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–8486. Robert Foxworth, Petitioner v. Peter St. Amand,
Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Cedar Junc
tion. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
No. 09–8487. Wells Holland, Petitioner v. Renee Holland. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of South Carolina denied.

No. 09–8488. Victor Scroggins, Petitioner v. Matthew Davis, et al.
No. 09–8493. Michael Wayne Goldston, Jr., Petitioner v. North Caro
lina. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of North
Carolina denied.
No. 09–8496. Edward Jerome Hopkins, aka Buddy, Petitioner v.
No. 09–8504. Thresa Lynn Williams, Petitioner v. University of Ala
bama Hospital at Burlington. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–8510. Larod Franklin, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–8514. John Wesley Lee, Jr., Petitioner v. Douglas F. Gansler,
Attorney General of Maryland, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–8522. Billy Ray Tatum, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8541. James Chavis-Tucker, Petitioner v. Stuart Hudson,
No. 09–8543. Ralph Howard Blakely, Petitioner v. Ken Quinn, Super
intendent, Monroe Correctional Complex. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–8552. Clarence Pete, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–8557. Mark Kirk, Petitioner v. Perry Phelps, Warden. Peti
No. 09–8596. Charles Lee Webb, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8602. Michael Glasper, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Illinois denied.
No. 09–8609. Clarence Paul Dorosan, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–8619. Jerome Grant, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8622. Curtis A. Peacock, Petitioner v. Committee of Bar Ex
aminers of the State Bar of California, et al. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the Supreme Court of California denied.
No. 09–8624. Laura A. Jennings, Petitioner v. Sallie Mae, Inc. Peti
No. 09–8641. William L. Mayfield, Petitioner v. West Virginia. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of West Virginia, Ohio
County, denied.
No. 09–8645. Bernard Johnson, Petitioner v. Joseph T. Smith, Super
denied.
No. 09–8651. Dwayne Underwood, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8656. Bret F. Maness, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8659. Phillip York, Petitioner v. Alvil Chapman, Warden.
No. 09–8660. Quinton Wheeler, Petitioner v. Harley G. Lappin, Di
rector, Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–8675. Samuel E. Baker, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8683. Terry Brown, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.

No. 09–8687. Elias Sandoval-Rojas, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8689. Baldemar Solis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8692. Darren Eugene Hankerson, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–8693. Jose Hernandez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8694. Richard Joseph Finley, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8696. Donald G. English, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8702. Steven Landers, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8703. Gabriele Lopez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8704. Rachel Kaplan, Petitioner v. Mark Mulligan, et al. Peti
denied.
No. 09–8705. James L. Rudzavice, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8707. Othniel McKinney, Sr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8710. Charles Pyne, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8716. Christopher Barfield, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8724. LaAnthony Cletae Cain, aka Tae, Petitioner v. United

No. 09–8727. Rex A. Deitz, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8728. Martin Orosco-Ibarra, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8731. Faustino Sanchez-Lugo, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8732. Jose Juan Serrano-Meza, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8738. Daniel Prewett, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8740. Derrick Bush, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8743. Miguel Vega-Cosme, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8748. David Anthony Mosca, Petitioner v. Dale Artus, Super
intendent, Clinton Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–8749. Marlon A. White, Sr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8750. Francisco Medina Castaneda, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–8753. Mieko Choniece Jackson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8761. Abrar Haque, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.

No. 09–8763. Fabian Fuentes-Valdiva, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8764. Sheila Margaret Hayford, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8767. Michael Danotus Young, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8768. Jesse Robinson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8774. Cuatemoc Peribian-Gonzalez, aka Juan, aka Gordo,
No. 09–8778. Kevin Wayne McDaniels, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8780. Oscar Castillo-Ramirez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8783. Robert M. Joost, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8785. Deron E. Jackson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8789. Jorge L. Urbina-Acevedo, Jesus Caraballo-Ortiz, and
Luis Andino-Delbrey, Petitioners v. United States. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–8790. Samnang Am, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8795. Issac Jermaine Brown, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8797. Elmer Martin Sorrell, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–8801. Alberto Quiroz-Mendez, aka Mario Garcia-Moreno,
No. 09–8803. Justin Matthew Fletcher, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8804. Eugene Fredrick, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8805. Ira Wayne Howard, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8806. Anthony Thomas, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8807. Derek A. Waithe, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8808. Sammy Welch, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8809. Troy Warren, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8811. Carlos David Martinez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8813. James T. King, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8814. Jessie Monghan, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8816. Jonathan Jimenez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–8818. Joaquin Mario Valencia-Trujillo, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–8819. Shannon Andre Peters, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8820. Gokgok Puok, aka Go Go, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8821. Arthur Ishkhanian, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8828. Steven Orville Cupp, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8836. Laura Walker Bernard, Petitioner v. W. Elaine Chap
man, Warden, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–8839. Roderick Vickers, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8840. Angel Reyes, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8843. Rodrick Cardale Reed, aka Boulevard, aka Li’l Rod,
No. 09–8846. Carl Dwayne Crawford, Petitioner v. Edward M. Fri
mel, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–8849. Frederick Lee Revels, Petitioner v. James Reynolds,
No. 09–8851. David L. White, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8853. Richard Darnell Johnson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–625. LFP Publishing Group, LLC, dba Hustler Magazine,

Petitioner v. Maureen Toffoloni, as Administrator and Personal Repre
sentative of the Estate of Nancy E. Benoit. Motion of The Reporters
Committee for Freedom of the Press, et al. for leave to file a brief as
amici curiae granted. Motion of First Amendment Lawyers Associa
tion for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted. Petition for writ
Circuit denied.
No. 09–723. Aurelius Capital Partners, LP, et al., Petitioners v. The
Republic of Argentina, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–8128. Shaaban Shaaban Hafed, Petitioner v. State of Israel,
Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
As petitioner has repeatedly abused this Court’s process, the Clerk is
directed not to accept any further petitions in noncriminal matters
from petitioner unless the docketing fee required by Rule 38(a) is paid
and petition submitted in compliance with Rule 33.1. See Martin v.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 506 U. S. 1 (1992) (per curiam).
Justice Stevens dissents. See id., at 4, and cases cited therein.
No. 09–8158. Ronald G. Dandar, Petitioner v. Mark Krysevig, et al.
for the Third Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–8242. Thomas A. Vivone, Petitioner v. Thomas F. Simon,
Clerk, Supreme Court of Missouri. Motion of petitioner for leave to
to the Supreme Court of Missouri dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–8259. Mike Redford, Petitioner v. Gwinnett County Judicial
Circuit, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pau
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.

No. 09–8430. Raymond Payne, Petitioner v. Joseph B. Scarnati,
Lieutenant Governor and Chairperson, Pennsylvania Board of Pardons,
et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Pennsylva
nia, Western District, denied. Justice Alito took no part in the consider
No. 09–8517. Laurie Marie Laskey, Petitioner v. Cisco Technology,
Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California,
First Appellate District, denied. Justice Breyer took no part in the
No. 09–8604. Donald W. Doerr, Petitioner v. Dan Walker, et al. Mo
petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California,
Fourth Appellate District, dismissed. See Rule 39.8.

No. 09–8824. In Re Charles Sweeney, Petitioner. Petition for writ
Mandamus Denied
No. 09–8154. In Re James Dean Taylor, Petitioner; and
No. 09–8793. In Re Raymond Bruce Belton, Petitioner. Petitions for
Rehearings Denied
No. 09–472. Wanda Spann, et vir, Petitioners v. Cobb County Supe
rior Court Judges, et al.;
No. 09–6043. Kelvin Levoid Smith, aka Frog, Petitioner v. United
States;
No. 09–6811. Linell Leonard Dumas, Jr., Petitioner v. R. K. Wong,
Warden;
No. 09–6995. Richard Paul Riggins, Petitioner v. Texas;
No. 09–7170. Nelson Carmona, Petitioner v. Michael J. Astrue, Com
missioner of Social Security;
No. 09–7258. In Re Andrew Eugene Newman, Petitioner;
No. 09–7357. Janice L. Schrader, Petitioner v. Robert F. Turner,
et al.;
No. 09–7426. Bryan Davis, Sr., Petitioner v. California Western
School of Law, et al.; and
No. 09–7523. Douglas B. Watson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
Attorney Discipline
No. D–2464. In the Matter of Discipline of Manny M. Aragon. Manny

M. Aragon, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, is suspended from the prac
No. D–2465. In the Matter of Discipline of Eddie Michael Pope.
Eddie Michael Pope, of Austin, Texas, is suspended from the practice
of law in this Court and a rule will issue, returnable within 40 days,

Christopher Alan Allery Bemidji, MN Frank Warren

Bibeau
Cyrus C. Barger, III Hattiesburg, MS Rebecca Kathryn
Jude
Edward Fouad Berbarie Dallas, TX Robert Francois
Friedman
Stephen Clark Bullock Helena, MT Clay Riggs Smith
Christopher Patrick Burke Las Vegas, NV Daniel Lucid
Eric Gray Carter, Jr. Houston, TX Michael Arthur
Moriarty
Lewis R. Clayton New York, NY Leslie Gordon
Fagen
Russell P. Cohen San Francisco, CA Robert Allan
Rosenfeld
Frank J. Coughlin Orange, CA John D. Early
Sona De New York, NY William J. McCabe
Robert E. DeRose, II Columbus, OH Edgar N. Romano
Joseph A. DiRuzzo, III St. Thomas, VI Bruce Middleton
Bounds
Alex J. Dolhancyk Atlanta, GA William
Rhymer, Jr.
Nora Beth Dorsey Richmond, VA Sean P. Byrne
Alan D. Ezkovich New Orleans, LA James Ryan, III
Joshua D. Farley Louisville, KY Michael Louis
Harned

Christopher Lynn Hamb Charleston, WV William E. Hamb

Jonathan Hangartner La Jolla, CA Edward Dean
Vogel
Cristina Yadira Hernandez Houston, TX Michael Arthur
Moriarty
Renee Roxanne Hollander Austin, TX Sejin Curtis
Brooks
Mark B. Houts Oklahoma City, Brad L. Roberson
OK
Melanie Rieger Hughes Sacramento, CA Dianne M. Fetzer
Kristina Kantar Dyer, IN C. Jerome Smith
Ramesh Khurana Rockville, MD Onkar N. Sharma
Terry J. Kilpatrick San Luis Obispo, John J. Bursch
CA
John C. La Liberte Boston, MA Peter Friedenberg
Chung-Han Lee Chicago, IL Cal Richard
Burnton
Richard E. Lerner New York, NY Melissa Aniela
Murphy-Petros
John Coffman Lindley, III Charlotte, NC Ray Simpson
Farris
Fernando Mack Cleveland, OH James R. Willis
Jonathan A. Michaels Newport Beach, John Mark
CA Jennings
James Vernon Murphy Belton, TX Edward S.
Johnson
Sanjay Krishna Murthy Chicago, IL Michael J.
Abernathy
Robert Wayne Nagby Riverside, CA Robert Michael
Karton
Larry Allen Nathans Baltimore, MD Booth Marcos
Ripke
Elisabeth Jill Neubauer Los Angeles, CA Mark Alan
Neubauer
David Austin Robert Forth Worth, TX Timothy J. Tracey
Nimocks
Erik A. Olson Salt Lake City, Richard Stephen
UT Marshall
Vincent A. Parisi Dublin, OH Stephen Charles

Fitch
Lauren L. Peacock New York, NY Martha Chapman
Young
Jennifer Mary Poe Sacramento, CA Eric Lynn
Christoffersen
William P. Rector Moline, IL Robert J. Noe
Mark A. Redmiles Washington, DC Lisa A. Tracy
Robert G. Riegel, Jr. Jacksonville, FL Jeffrey P. Watson
Terrence M. Rubino Dyer, IN Saul I. Ruman
Robert Leonard Sachs, Jr. Philadelphia, PA Teresa Ficken
Sachs
Linnwood D. Sampson Spokane, WA Donald C.
Brockett
Steven Jacob Sersic Dyer, IN Saul I. Ruman
John Bradford Setterberg Dallas, TX Richard Earl
Glaser
Timothy L. Shonk Linton, IN Ronald J. Bretz
Ilyce Shugall San Francisco, CA Stacy Eva Tolchin
Anthony J. Sievert Madison, WI Richard J.
Lewandowski
Jodi Beth Simopoulos Richmond, VA Sean P. Byrne
Kevin Chandler Smith Hammond, IN Saul I. Ruman
Pamela Emiko Tamashiro Honolulu, HI Arthur Erwin
Ross
Paul Fava Theiss Dallas, TX Weston C.
Loegering
Leigh Hansom Thomas Memphis, TN Thomas E.
Hansom
Kira Dellinger Vol Washington, DC Meredith L. Jason
Myron P. Watson Cleveland, OH James R. Willis
Aaron James Weidenhaft New Orleans, LA James Ryan, III
Vic Wiegand Cumming, GA Rafe Banks, III
James E. Wilcox, Jr. Fairfax, VA David Paul
Bobzien
Stephan Joseph Willms Rancho Gerard Shannon
Cucamonga, Brown
CA
Jeffrey D. Wilson Troy, MI Dennis Martin
Devaney

Christopher Joseph Zachar Phoenix, AZ Jason D. Lamm

Guy Thomas Conti Ypsilanti, MI John J. Vesey
Marian Smith Glenn Washington, DC Sean Saenae Park
Ryan K. Miltner New Knoxville, Benjamin F. Yale
OH
Albert Anthony Starkus, Washington, DC Philip A. Pucillo
III
Phillip John Menke Manassas, VA Philip A. Pucillo
Anne C. Manalili Los Angeles, CA William Eric Pilsk
Deana K. Chuang Los Angeles, CA William Eric Pilsk
Barbara J. Auerbach Evanston, IL Anita Alvarez
Bennett David Cin Chicago, IL Anita Alvarez
Richard Isaac Feingold Chicago, IL Anita Alvarez
Richard J. Firfer Chicago, IL Anita Alvarez
Richard M. Hoffman Chicago, IL Anita Alvarez
Janine Marie Klich-Jensen Chicago, IL Anita Alvarez
Suzanne Marie de Rath Chicago, IL Anita Alvarez
Saulius V. Modestas Chicago, IL Anita Alvarez
James Stephen Meyer Oak Park, IL Anita Alvarez
Steven Mihajlovic Westchester, IL Anita Alvarez
Howard Steven Suskin Chicago, IL Anita Alvarez
Christopher Colon Bensenville, IL Anita Alvarez
Oral Arguments
Thompkins. Argued by Mr. Solicitor General B. Eric Restuccia for the
petitioner, by Ms. Nicole A. Saharsky for the United States as amicus
curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting the petitioner, and by
Ms. Elizabeth L. Jacobs for the respondent.
No. 09–5327. Albert Holland, Petitioner v. Florida. Argued by
Mr. Todd G. Scher, appointed by this Court, for the petitioner, and by
Mr. Solicitor General Scott D. Makar for the respondent.
No. 08–1394. Jeffrey K. Skilling, Petitioner v. United States. Argued
by Mr. Sri Srinivasan for the petitioner and by Mr. Michael R. Dreeben
for the respondent.
Adjourned until Tuesday, March 2, 2010, at 10 o’clock.

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Opinions
No. 08–372. Shell Oil Products Company LLC, et al., Petitioners v.
Mac’s Shell Service, Inc., et al. On writs of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Judgment reversed in
part and affirmed in part. The cases are remanded to the United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for further proceedings consist
ent with the opinion of this Court. Opinion by Justice Alito.
No. 08–103. Reed Elsevier, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Irvin Muchnick,
et al. On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for
the Second Circuit. Judgment reversed, and case remanded to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for further pro
Thomas. Opinion by Justice Ginsburg, with whom Justice Stevens and
Justice Breyer join, concurring in part and concurring in the judgment.
this case.
No. 08–6925. Curtis Darnell Johnson, Petitioner v. United States.
Eleventh Circuit. Judgment reversed, Johnson’s sentence set aside, and
case remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh
Circuit for further proceedings consistent with the opinion of this
Court. Opinion by Justice Scalia. Dissenting opinion by Justice Alito,
with whom Justice Thomas joins.

Andrew Wilford Worseck Chicago, IL Benna Ruth

Solomon
622 TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2010
Heather Weiss Brown Bourbonnais, IL Anita Alvarez

Alan J. Cook Chicago, IL Anita Alvarez
Thomas H. Freitag Chicago, IL Anita Alvarez
Terry R. Gawryk Chicago, IL Anita Alvarez
Vincent Bernard Johnson Chicago, IL Anita Alvarez
Cynthia Ann Matre Wheaton, IL Anita Alvarez
Dorothy Lupton Moran Chicago, IL Anita Alvarez
Jesus Ricardo Rivera Chicago, IL Anita Alvarez
Lonna Saunders Chicago, IL Anita Alvarez
Julie Page Shelton Chicago, IL Anita Alvarez
George Louis Tamvakis Chicago, IL Anita Alvarez
Patricia Ann Wrona Chicago, IL Anita Alvarez
Oral Arguments
Illinois, et al. Argued by Mr. Alan Gura for the petitioners, by Mr. Paul
D. Clement for the respondents National Rifle Association, Inc., et al.
in support of the petitioners, and by Mr. James A. Feldman for the
respondents City of Chicago, Illinois, et al.
Personal Representative of the Estate of Francisco Castaneda, et al.
Argued by Ms. Elaine J. Goldenberg for the petitioners, by Mr. Pratik
A. Shah for the United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the
Court, supporting the petitioners, and by Mr. Conal Doyle for the
respondents.
Adjourned until Wednesday, March 3, 2010, at 10 o’clock.

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The Chief Justice:
“We are very pleased to have visiting with us this morning, Lord
Nicholas Phillips, the first president of the New Supreme Court of the
United Kingdom. Lord Phillips, welcome.”

David A. Harrington Falls Church, VA Todd Michael

Hughes
Angela Marie Olsen Washington, DC Gregory G. Katsas
Dean Anthony Siedlecki Ellicott City, MD Brooke Schumm,
III
Sarah Katherine Lessie Philadelphia, PA Jennifer Anne
Ermilio
Valerie Lynn Kramer Tustin, CA Thomas L.
Hemingway
Russell D. Garrett Vancouver, WA Thomas L.
Hemingway
Kristie Lyne Gibson Eugene, OR Thomas L.
Hemingway
Dennis Eugene Koho Keizer, OR Thomas L.
Hemingway
Elizabeth J. Nevue Keizer, OR Thomas L.
Hemingway
Michael W. Peterkin Bend, OR Thomas L.
Hemingway
Deanna Lee Portland, OR Thomas L.
Richardson-Franco Hemingway
Eric Phillips Thornburgh Valencia, CA Thomas L.
Hemingway
Ralph M. Yenne Salem, OR Thomas L.
Hemingway
Joseph A. Barbknecht Plano, TX Thomas L.
Hemingway
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Robert E. Yakima, WA Thomas L.

Lawrence-Berrey, Jr. Hemingway
Clifford Lee Peterson Giq Harbor, WA Thomas L.
Hemingway
Oral Argument
suf, et al. Argued by Mr. Shay Dvoretzky for the petitioner, by
Ms. Patricia A. Millett for the respondents, and by Mr. Edwin S.
Kneedler for the United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of
the Court, supporting the respondents.



tice Ginsburg, Justice Alito, and Justice Sotomayor.
No. 08–9538. Donald Ray Harris, Petitioner v. United States. On
enth Circuit for further consideration in light of Johnson v. United
States, 559 U. S. ––– (2010).
No. 09–5135. Patrick Frederick Williams, Petitioner v. United
States. On petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Motion of petitioner for leave to pro
ceed in forma pauperis and petition for writ of certiorari granted.
Judgment vacated, and case remanded to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit for further consideration in light of
Johnson v. United States, 559 U. S. ––– (2010).

No. 09M72. Larry Patterson, Petitioner v. Brion D. Travis, et al.
time denied.
No. 09M73. Maurice Jones, Petitioner v. United States. Motion for
leave to file a petition for writ of certiorari under seal with redacted
No. 137, Original. State of Montana, Plaintiff v. State of Wyoming
and State of North Dakota. Report of the Special Master received and
ordered filed. Exceptions to the Report, with supporting briefs, may
be filed within 45 days. Replies, if any, with supporting briefs, may be
filed within 30 days. Sur-replies, if any, with supporting briefs, may be
filed within 30 days.

Beloit Corporation, et al. Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to
participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argu
ment granted.
No. 09–683. Annette Carmichael, Individually and as Guardian for
Keith Carmichael, Petitioner v. Kellogg, Brown & Root Service, Inc.,
et al. The Solicitor General is invited to file a brief in this case express
ing the views of the United States.
No. 09–784. Janice C. Amara, et al., Individually and on Behalf of
All Others Similarly Situated, Petitioners v. CIGNA Corporation,
et al.; and
No. 09–804. CIGNA Corporation, et al., Petitioners v. Janice C.
Amara, et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situ
ated. The Solicitor General is invited to file a brief in these cases ex
pressing the views of the United States. Justice Sotomayor took no
part in the consideration or decision of these petitions.
No. 09–8355. In Re Edward J. Mierzwa, Petitioner. Motion of peti
lowed until March 29, 2010, within which to pay the docketing fee re
quired by Rule 38(a) and to submit a petition in compliance with Rule
33.1 of the Rules of this Court.
No. 09–8375. Peter J. Schultz, Petitioner v. Francis Halpin, et al.
No. 09–8701. In Re Lindsey Kent Springer, Petitioner. Motion of
allowed until March 29, 2010, within which to pay the docketing fee
No. 09–8909. Christopher L. Temple, Petitioner v. Wendy Warmer,
denied. Petitioner allowed until March 29, 2010, within which to pay
Certiorari Granted
No. 09–530. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, et al.,
Petitioners v. Robert M. Nelson, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted.

No. 09–751. Albert Snyder, Petitioner v. Fred W. Phelps, Sr., et al.
for the Fourth Circuit granted.
No. 09–152. Russell Bruesewitz, et al., Petitioners v. Wyeth, Inc.,
fka Wyeth Laboratories, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit granted. The
Chief Justice took no part in the consideration or decision of this
petition.
Certiorari Denied
No. 09–263. Sandra Ferguson, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., At
No. 09–451. Travis Saulsberry, et al., Petitioners v. Lorri Myers.
No. 09–495. American Chemistry Council, et al., Petitioners v. Sierra
Club, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–504. David Paul Hammer, Petitioner v. John D. Ashcroft,
No. 09–513. Jim Henry Perkins, et al., Petitioners v. Department of
Veterans Affairs, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–523. Michael Malloy, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–543. Anthony W. Lisanti, Petitioner v. Office of Personnel
Management. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–626. Thomas Loch, et al., Petitioners v. Edwardsville Com
munity Schools District No. 7. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–638. Leory Hill, Jr., Petitioner v. Emory University, et al.
No. 09–647. Robert W. Shimer, et al., Petitioners v. Commodity Fu
tures Trading Commission. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–768. Robert D. Straley, Petitioner v. Utah Board of Pardons,

No. 09–770. The Boston Teachers Union, Local 66, et al., Petitioners
v. Commonwealth Employment Relations Board, et al. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Appeals Court of Massachusetts denied.
No. 09–775. Kentucky, Petitioner v. Michael Baker. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Kentucky denied.
No. 09–776. Jim O’Neal Distributing, Inc., Petitioner v. One Indus
tries, LLC. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–778. Saint-Gobain Corporation, Petitioner v. Gemtron Corpo
ration. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–783. Alonzo R. Brinkley, II, Petitioner v. Jon Ozmint, Direc
tor, South Carolina Department of Corrections. Petition for writ of
cuit denied.
No. 09–785. Christopher F. Corey, Petitioner v. Melnor, Inc. Petition
No. 09–786. Edwin E. Naythons, Petitioner v. Stradley, Ronon, Ste
vens & Young, LLP, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–793. Cheryl Janky, Petitioner v. Lake County Convention and
Visitors Bureau. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–795. Larry Monroe, Petitioner v. City of Charlottesville, Vir
ginia, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–798. Niranjan Lal, Petitioner v. United States Life Insurance
No. 09–824. Craig Smallwood, Petitioner v. Haseko (Ewa) Inc., et al.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Intermediate Court of Appeals of
Hawaii denied.
No. 09–890. William Havens, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–5661. Thomas M. Lehan, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7007. Vincent Barnett, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7246. Calvin Tucker, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7368. Tommy Edward Letourneau, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–7870. Ronnie Lee Gardner, Petitioner v. Hank Galetka, War
No. 09–8207. Donald L. Palmer, Petitioner v. Margaret A. Bagley,
No. 09–8329. Joshua B. Shapiro, Petitioner v. Nolan L. Agner. Peti
No. 09–8330. Timothy Dean Stone, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–8331. Martha Ritter, Petitioner v. E. Kerfoot Ritter, Jr. Peti
land denied.
No. 09–8333. Evelyn Bowman-Goone, Petitioner v. Joseph Gordon,
Justice, Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, et al. Petition for
No. 09–8334. Michael Matthew Martinez, Petitioner v. California.
denied.
No. 09–8345. Willie Lee Nobles, Petitioner v. Maggie Miller-Stout,
Superintendent, Airway Heights Correctional Center. Petition for writ
cuit denied.
No. 09–8349. Lucille R. Kelley, Petitioner v. Texas Workforce Com

mission, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–8350. Robert Martinez, Petitioner v. Bus Driver, et al. Peti
No. 09–8351. Lawrence M. Jiron, Petitioner v. Pattie P. Swift, Dis
trict Court of Colorado, Alamosa County, et al. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–8356. Dartagnan Little, Petitioner v. Unknown McDonald,
No. 09–8360. Phillip Dewayne Jones, Petitioner v. M. Pollard, et al.
No. 09–8363. Dwayne Meredith, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, Third Appellate
District, denied.
No. 09–8364. Anthony C. Pryor, Petitioner v. Michael Sheets, War
No. 09–8366. Wendy Wagener, Petitioner v. Ron Kenan, Warden.
No. 09–8368. Milton Lee Martin, Petitioner v. Lepher Jenkins, War
No. 09–8377. Subodhchandra T. Patel, Petitioner v. Brian Owens,
Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for
No. 09–8378. James H. Shortz, Petitioner v. City of Tuskegee, Ala
bama, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–8379. Patricia A. Aldridge, Petitioner v. Lori Nohe, Warden.

No. 09–8381. Michael Lynn Bradden, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
No. 09–8385. Miguel Mijarez, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
No. 09–8389. Delfino Sabedra, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–8390. Derick Lashawn Reed, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth
District, denied.
No. 09–8391. Jacob Sampson, Petitioner v. Andrea France, et al.
District, denied.
No. 09–8393. Clarence Randle, Jr., Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–8396. Jimmy Edward May, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–8400. Joe Mack Breed, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–8403. Jimmy Murrell Owen, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–8404. Johnnie Ross, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ of
No. 09–8410. Reginald T. Johnson, Petitioner v. Burl Cain, Warden.
No. 09–8412. Ray Anthony Bailey, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–8414. Richard Lynn Bible, Petitioner v. Charles L. Ryan,

denied.
No. 09–8415. Frank Anthony Baldizan, Petitioner v. Edward S.
Alameida, Jr. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–8419. Earl Tinsley, Petitioner v. Florida, et al. Petition for
No. 09–8420. Kupenda Young, Petitioner v. Gene M. Johnson, Direc
No. 09–8423. George Prentiss, III, Petitioner v. John Ault, II, War
No. 09–8424. Robert K. McCartney, Aubrey McCartney, and Elaine
McCartney, Petitioners v. George McCormick, et al. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit, denied.
No. 09–8573. Rene Martinez-Arellano, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8577. German Orlando Lopez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8581. Joshua Joseph Tyler, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8587. Barron Wimbley, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8592. Oscar Alvarez Puente, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8594. LaCharles Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–8595. Daniel Isaac Cu-Yanes, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8598. Paul Anthony Cass, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8601. Wainsworth Marcellus Hall, aka Unique, Petitioner v.
No. 09–8606. Michael Burnett, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8608. Celerino Castillo, III, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8630. Napoleon Brown, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
District, denied.
No. 09–8662. Louie Bracamonte, Petitioner v. William Sullivan, War
No. 09–8679. Douglas Dempsey, Petitioner v. Leroy Cartledge, War
No. 09–8726. Michael Anthony Corbin, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8735. Brandon Darnell Reynolds, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8757. David Edward Giles, Petitioner v. Ron Van Boening,
Superintendent, McNeil Island Corrections Center. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–8856. Rafael Gonzalez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8866. William Oscar Harris, aka Oscar El Hari, Bey, Peti
No. 09–8867. Archie R. Kenerson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8872. Devon Groves, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8875. Jacques Terrell Hayes, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8876. Kali A. Hill, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8878. Eric Genaro Pakas-Cardenas, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–8880. Marcus Corson and Oscar Alvarez, Petitioners v.
No. 09–8881. Joe Castilleja, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8889. Oscar Villicana-Ibarra, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8890. Charles Robert Barefoot, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8897. Juan M. Perez Cardenas, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8899. Chris Coleman, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8912. John Tibbs, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.

No. 09–8916. Roberto Aguilera-Soto, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8921. Eric T. Franklin, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
denied.
Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, Petitioner v. Eric Lynn
Moore. Motion of respondent for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
No. 09–916. Prenka Ivezaj, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–917. Nardino Colotti, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–918. Alex Rudaj, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–919. Nikola Dedaj, Petitioner v. United States; and
No. 09–8885. Ljusa Nuculovic, Petitioner v. United States. Petitions
No. 09–8353. Frank C. Johnson, Petitioner v. Toby S. Monaco, et al.
No. 09–8358. Laurie Marie Laskey, Petitioner v. Adobe Systems Inc.
and petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California,
First Appellate District, dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–8873. Chimdi Ibiam, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–8877. Esteban Geronimo, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8917. Thomas L. Bates, Petitioner v. United States District
Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Motion of petitioner for
Mandamus Denied
No. 09–8479. In Re Carmon Warren, Petitioner. Petition for writ of
mandamus denied.
Rehearings Denied
No. 09–509. Judy Jones, Petitioner v. Virginia Andrews Burdette;
No. 09–550. Joseph Fessler, et ux., Petitioners v. Kirk Sauer Commu
nity Development of Wilkes-Barre, et al.;
No. 09–667. Yiqing Feng, Petitioner v. Sabic Americas, Inc.;
No. 09–6241. Srinivas V. Vadde, Petitioner v. Georgia; and
No. 09–7761. Laurie Marie Laskey, Petitioner v. Vision Infosoft. Pe

Alexandre I. Afanassiev Houston, TX Raed Gonzalez

Mary-Felicia Smith Apanius Chatsworth, CA Francis E. Smith
Matthew Thomas Ballenger Washington, DC Catherine Emily
Stetson
Rhonda Lorraine Barnes Phoenix, AZ Paul Franklin
Eckstein
Amanda J. Beane Seattle, WA David J. Burman
Joseph Aaron Buckles, II Oklahoma City, R. Brown Wallace
OK
Tracy Marie Clements San Francisco, CA Kristin Linsley
Myles
David Edward Cowling Dallas, TX Gregory Andrew
Castanias
Byron Lynn Faermark Elmhurst, IL Douglas Drenk
Richard C. Freeman, III Atlanta, GA Julian P. Guinn
William David Frumkin White Plains, NY Donald L. Sapir
Bruce James Godzina Houston, TX Raed Gonzalez
Robert E. Hillman Boston, MA Charles Hieken
Thomas S. Hixson San Francisco, CA Stephen Ara
Zovickian
Andrew Richard Jarvis Detroit, MI Linda Denise
Fegins

Steven W. Jennings Billings, MT Steven R. Milch

Michael N. Khalil Washington, DC Timothy Patrick
O’Toole
James Edward Krause Jacksonville, FL Edward Jay
Kinberg
Stephen F. Mackie Atlanta, GA Julian P. Guinn
David Scott Mann Seattle, WA David A. Bricklin
Jeffrey Lawrence Menkin Arlington, VA Michael Peter
Lindemann
Joseph Quinto Mirarchi Philadelphia, PA Robert B.
Mozenter
Michael Lawrence Detroit, MI Susan M.
Mittlestat Meinberg
Marshal A. Oldman Encino, CA Ronald Gold
Cindy Reeds Ormsby Saint Louis, MO Stephen Kirk
Lambright
Nicholas Gerard Dallas, TX Steven Paul Amis
Palmarozzi, III
Robert Penchina New York, NY David A. Schulz
Peter Cyrus Pfaffenroth Washington, DC Carter G. Phillips
Stephen W. Pidgeon Everett, WA James Bopp, Jr.
Stephanie E. Reiland Montgomery, AL Jasper Beroujon
Roberts, Jr.
Kevin Miguel San Juan, PR Madelin
Rivera-Medina Colon-Perez
Stanley Gracey Roman San Francisco, CA Kristin Linsley
Myles
Adrian W. Rosehill Honolulu, HI Jonathan S.
Durrett
Suzanne M. Senecal-Hill St. Paul, MN Michael F.
Cromett
Andrew Todd Solomon New York, NY Michael T.
Sullivan
Sarah E. Troupis Terre Haute, IN James Roberts
Troupis
Thomas C. Valkenet Baltimore, MD Peter S. Saucier
Matthew W. H. Wessler Washington, DC F. Paul Bland, Jr.
Dudley A. Williams Milwaukee, WI Jerome F. Buting
Peter Konrad Williams Philadelphia, PA David Lee
Zuckerman
Kenneth R. Young Sumter, SC David Westbrook

Goldman
Opinions
No. 08–1119. Milavetz, Gallop & Milavetz, P.A., et al., Petitioners
v. United States; and
No. 08–1225. United States, Petitioner v. Milavetz, Gallop & Mila
vetz, P.A., et al. On writs of certiorari to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Judgment affirmed as to §§ 101(12A)
and 528; and reversed as to § 526(a)(4), and the cases are remanded to
the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit for further
tice Sotomayor. Opinion by Justice Scalia, concurring in part and con
curring in the judgment. Opinion by Justice Thomas, concurring in part
and concurring in the judgment.
No. 08–728. Taylor James Bloate, Petitioner v. United States. On
Circuit. Judgment reversed, and case remanded to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit for further proceedings con
sistent with the opinion of this Court. Opinion by Justice Thomas, an
nounced by The Chief Justice. Concurring opinion by Justice Ginsburg.
Dissenting opinion by Justice Alito, with whom Justice Breyer joins.

Roger M. Beverage Oklahoma City, Jordan Scott

OK Bickell
Curtis M. Jensen St. George, UT Tonia Jones
Powell
Mayer Gattegno Coral Springs, FL Kevin J. Lipson
Antonia Ramos Soares Washington, DC Christine M.
Hauswirth
Kristine M. Autorino Destin, FL Clyde J. Tate, II
Matthew Henry Seeger San Bernadino, Clyde J. Tate, II
CA
David William Smith Charlottesville, Clyde J. Tate, II
VA
Earl G. Mitchell Charlottesville, Clyde J. Tate, II
VA

Christian Sayre Ruwe Vienna, VA Clyde J. Tate, II

Lakeysia R. Harvin Gainesville, FL Clyde J. Tate, II
C. Jack Marks New York, NY Clyde J. Tate, II
J. H. Stephenson, II Boise, ID Clyde J. Tate, II
Justin A. Evison Gladstone, MI Clyde J. Tate, II
Edward Charles Charlottesville, Clyde J. Tate, II
Linneweber VA
Sherilyn Ann Bunn El Paso, TX Clyde J. Tate, II
Michael Paul Baileys Pittsburgh, PA Clyde J. Tate, II
Njeri S. Hanes Columbia, MD Clyde J. Tate, II
John C. Dohn, II Harper Woods, MI Clyde J. Tate, II
Christopher Ted Curry Cleveland, TN Clyde J. Tate, II
Lyndsey Margaret Davis Minneapolis, MN Clyde J. Tate, II
Olson
Jerome P. Duggan Charlottesville, Clyde J. Tate, II
VA
John Wesley Brooker Durham, NC Clyde J. Tate, II
Winston Gabriel McMillan Laurinburg, NC Clyde J. Tate, II
Sunny May Montas Chapel Hill, NC Clyde J. Tate, II
Mary Ann Leavitt Dickinson, ND Clyde J. Tate, II
Cindiemarie Blair Las Vegas, NV Clyde J. Tate, II
Seth David Cohen New York, NY Clyde J. Tate, II
Thomas Andrew Gabriele Glen Cove, NY Clyde J. Tate, II
Todd Jason Hanks Buffalo, NY Clyde J. Tate, II
Laura Roxane Kesler Fairbanks, AK Clyde J. Tate, II
Joshua Franklin Berry Grove City, OH Clyde J. Tate, II
Elizabeth Frances Allen Wappinger Falls, Clyde J. Tate, II
NY
Heidi E. Weaver Charlottesville, Clyde J. Tate, II
VA
LaShanda Fyderia Charlottesville, Clyde J. Tate, II
Ellis-Ramsey VA
John Barclay Reese Houston, TX Clyde J. Tate, II
Eric W. Widmar Fremont, CA Clyde J. Tate, II
Matthew H. Adams University Place, Clyde J. Tate, II
WA
Irene De Anda Hanks Portland, OR Clyde J. Tate, II
William Joseph Schrantz Washington, DC Clyde J. Tate, II
Gregory Robert Wall Washington, DC Blake Dominic
Morant
Stephen Andrew Oberg Annapolis, MD Blake Dominic

Morant
Christopher William Thomasville, NC Blake Dominic
Bosken Morant
James Wiley Narron Smithfield, NC Blake Dominic
Morant
Joyce Riddle Neely Winston Salem, Blake Dominic
NC Morant
Thomas LaFontaine Odom, Charlotte, NC Blake Dominic
Jr. Morant
James R. Parish Fayetteville, NC Blake Dominic
Morant
Matthew T. Phillips Winston-Salem, Blake Dominic
NC Morant
Christin J. Reische Charlotte, NC Blake Dominic
Morant
Jonathan Caleb Rogers Clyde, NC Blake Dominic
Morant
John C. Wessell, III Wilmington, NC Blake Dominic
Morant
Scott R. Williamson Frederick, MD Blake Dominic
Morant
Wykesha L. Tripp Upper Marlboro, Blake Dominic
MD Morant
Brett A. Shumate Arlington, VA Blake Dominic
Morant
Kelly Havilland Armstrong San Francisco, CA Robert S. Peck
Christopher D. Banys Palo Alto, CA Robert S. Peck
Debra Lynn Bishop Elk Grove, CA Robert S. Peck
Justin Benjamin Farar Los Angeles, CA Robert S. Peck
Christopher D. Bryan Aspen, CO Robert S. Peck
Daniel Crawling Bear Andover, MA Robert S. Peck
Harayda
Francisco Javier Gonzalez Winter Park, FL Robert S. Peck
Barry E. Newman Jacksonville, FL Robert S. Peck
Michael Cody Favilla East Alton, IL Robert S. Peck
Annie Beth Hirsch Washington, DC Robert S. Peck
A. Patrick Roberts Raleigh, NC Robert S. Peck
Eric S. Medina New York, NY Robert S. Peck

David Mitchell Garrett, Jr. Tulsa, OK Robert S. Peck

Trae Gray Coalgate, OK Robert S. Peck
Jason Edward Luckasevic Pittsburgh, PA Robert S. Peck
James Randall Krenis Jackson, TN Robert S. Peck
William Craft Hughes Houston, TX Robert S. Peck
Andrea Jefferson Geiger Richmond, VA Robert S. Peck
Robert Paul Stenzhorn Newport News, Robert S. Peck
VA
Eric M. Wilson Charleston, WV Robert S. Peck
George Louis Acosta Wheaton, IL Kent A. Gaertner
Francis Joseph Bongiovanni Roselle, IL Kent A. Gaertner
John Anthony Cerveny Lisle, IL Kent A. Gaertner
Philip W. Collins, III Chicago, IL Kent A. Gaertner
Robert L. Dawidiuk Naperville, IL Kent A. Gaertner
Edward Rogers Duncan, Jr. Glen Ellyn, IL Kent A. Gaertner
Joseph F. Emmerth, IV Wheaton, IL Kent A. Gaertner
Douglas Lee Frazier Hinsdale, IL Kent A. Gaertner
Frank C. Gradishar Westmont, IL Kent A. Gaertner
Scott Andrew Kent Wheaton, IL Kent A. Gaertner
Steven Knight Wheaton, IL Kent A. Gaertner
Richard W. Kuhn Naperville, IL Kent A. Gaertner
Rebecca A. Laho Lombard, IL Kent A. Gaertner
James H. Lawlor, III Chicago, IL Kent A. Gaertner
Joseph J. Loss Lisle, IL Kent A. Gaertner
Maria Tolva Mack Westmont, IL Kent A. Gaertner
Timothy P. Martin Wheaton, IL Kent A. Gaertner
Arleesia L. McDonald Naperville, IL Kent A. Gaertner
William V. McGrath Wheaton, IL Kent A. Gaertner
Louis V. Pavone Bloomingdale, IL Kent A. Gaertner
Jay Morton Reese Addison, IL Kent A. Gaertner
Robyn R. Ross Chicago, IL Kent A. Gaertner
Steven Michael Ruffalo Wheaton, IL Kent A. Gaertner
Patricia Kiper Rummer Lisle, IL Kent A. Gaertner
Gloria Santona Hinsdale, IL Kent A. Gaertner
Michael John Scalzo Wheaton, IL Kent A. Gaertner
Todd Daniel Scalzo Wheaton, IL Kent A. Gaertner
Mark Antonio Scarlato Chicago, IL Kent A. Gaertner
Anne Marie Shaw Naperville, IL Kent A. Gaertner
Thomas Edward Springer Wheaton, IL Kent A. Gaertner
Joel M. Weiner Palatine, IL Kent A. Gaertner
Mark A. Wirtz Chicago, IL Kent A. Gaertner



Certiorari Denied
No. 09–9456 (09A821). Lawrence Reynolds, Petitioner v. Ted
Strickland, Governor of Ohio, et al. Application for stay of execution
of sentence of death presented to Justice Stevens and by him referred
to the Court denied. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
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lia Bank Ltd., et al. Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to partici
granted. Justice Sotomayor took no part in the consideration or deci
Wykenna Watson. Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to partici
granted, and the time is to be divided as follows: 30 minutes for the
petitioner, 10 minutes for the Solicitor General, and 30 minutes for
the respondent.


No. 08–1264. Tejbir S. Oberoi, Petitioner v. United States. On peti
the Second Circuit. Petition for writ of certiorari granted. Judgment
the Second Circuit for further consideration in light of Bloate v. United
States, 559 U. S. ––– (2010). Justice Sotomayor took no part in the con

No. 09M74. Thomas Yarcheski, et ux., Petitioners v. Town of Naples,
Maine. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09M75. Ernest Miller, Petitioner v. California. Motion to direct
No. 09M78. Winford Kent Bishop, Petitioner v. Departmental Disci
plinary Committee for the First Judicial Department. Motion for leave
to proceed in forma pauperis with the declaration of indigency under
seal denied.
No. 09M79. Dale Stephen Rodabaugh, Petitioner v. Patricia L. Vaz
quez, Warden. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for writ of
No. 09M80. Joseph Kalman, Petitioner v. Fox Rothschild, L.L.P.,
out of time denied.

Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, et al. Renewed mo
tion of Michigan for preliminary injunction denied.
No. 09–350. Los Angeles County, California, Petitioner v. Craig Ar
thur Humphries, et ux. Motion of petitioner to dispense with printing
the joint appendix granted.
No. 09–367. Brian Russell Dolan, Petitioner v. United States. Motion
of petitioner for leave to proceed further herein in forma pauperis and
for appointment of counsel granted. Pamela S. Karlan, Esq., of Stan
ford, California, is appointed to serve as counsel for the petitioner in
this case.
No. 09–7147. Frank M. Muniz, Petitioner v. Lupe Marshall, Warden.
No. 09–7266. Charles H. Parker, Petitioner v. Louisiana. Motion of
No. 09–7282. Delores Karnofel, Petitioner v. Marshall D. Beck, et al.
No. 09–7461. Dedra Ghee, Petitioner v. Target National Bank. Mo
No. 09–7560. Mustafa Redzic, Petitioner v. United States. Motion of
allowed until April 12, 2010, within which to pay the docketing fee
No. 09–8579. William Calderon Jauregui, Petitioner v. Kevin Kutina.
Petitioner allowed until April 12, 2010, within which to pay the docket
ing fee required by Rule 38(a) and to submit a petition in compliance
No. 09–8745. Shirley Levingston Thomas, Petitioner v. Harmon
Family Trust. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pau
peris denied. Petitioner allowed until April 12, 2010, within which to

No. 09–8925. Richard Paul Zuckerman, Petitioner v. United States.
Petitioner allowed until April 12, 2010, within which to pay the docket
with Rule 33.1 of the Rules of this Court. Justice Alito took no part in
the consideration or decision of this motion.
No. 09–8972. Thomas Alexander Dallal, Petitioner v. New York
Times Company, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed
in forma pauperis denied. Petitioner allowed until April 12, 2010,
Court.
No. 09–9137. Keith Robert Caldwell, Sr., Petitioner v. United States
Tax Court, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
pauperis denied. Petitioner allowed until April 12, 2010, within which
Certiorari Granted
No. 09–571. Harry F. Connick, District Attorney, et al., Petitioners

v. John Thompson. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted limited to Question 1
presented by the petition.
No. 09–658. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Peniten
tiary, Petitioner v. Randy Joseph Moore. Motion of respondent for leave
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted.
No. 09–834. Kevin Kasten, Petitioner v. Saint-Gobain Performance
Plastics Corporation. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit granted.
No. 09–5801. Ruben Flores-Villar, Petitioner v. United States. Mo
tion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Peti
the Ninth Circuit granted.
Certiorari Denied
No. 08–1174. Susan B. Hersh, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–392. Virgil Moran, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–446. Anthony Calabrese, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
Circuit denied.
No. 09–592. Eleanor McCullen, et al., Petitioners v. Martha Coakley,
Attorney General of Massachusetts. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit denied.
No. 09–640. Victor William Molina-De La Villa, Petitioner v. Eric H.
No. 09–665. Saul Gregorio Martinez, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
No. 09–674. Alliance Shippers, Inc., Petitioner v. Penobscot Frozen
Foods, Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Superior Court
of New Jersey, Appellate Division, denied.
No. 09–729. Carl Melvin Townes, Petitioner v. Larry W. Jarvis, War
No. 09–736. Steven A. Hudson, et al., Petitioners v. United States.
No. 09–807. James Henry Deneal, Petitioner v. Ronny Shaver. Peti
Appellate District, Division Three, denied.
No. 09–808. Fred Beck, et al., Petitioners v. Koppers Inc., fka Kop
pers Industries Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United

No. 09–809. Thomas Eames, et al., Petitioners v. Nationwide Mutual
No. 09–814. Gortho, Limited, Petitioner v. Auto-Owners Insurance
No. 09–816. J. Doe, Petitioner v. Richard L. Duncan, et al. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Tennessee, Eastern
Division, denied.
No. 09–818. Irene Romaniuk, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–822. CenTra, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Central States, South
east and Southwest Areas Pension Fund. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–823. Dale Michele Stingley, Petitioner v. Den-Mar Inc., et al.
No. 09–825. George E. Burdick, Petitioner v. Pritchett & Birch,
PLLC, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–827. James Davey, et ux., Petitioners v. Robert L. Pratt,
et ux. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Wash
ington, Division 3, denied.
No. 09–828. Ivan Kuhar, Petitioner v. Marc Glassman, Inc. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Cuyahoga
County, denied.
No. 09–835. Gail Wilson, Petitioner v. San Luis Obispo County Dem
ocratic Central Committee, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–836. Steven B. Pollack, et al., Petitioners v. Department of
Justice, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–838. Lucy Fothergill, et al., Petitioners v. United States.
No. 09–839. Syble Hood and Tom H. Whiteside, Petitioners v. Ed
ward D. Jones & Co., L. P., et al.; and Syble Hood, Petitioner v. Edward
D. Jones, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals
of Texas, Eighth District, denied.
No. 09–841. Houston Independent School District, Petitioner v. V. P.,

By Next Friends Juan P., et ux. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–842. Barbara Huss, et vir, Petitioners v. John Overton
Gayden, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–843. Thanh Vong Hoai, et al., Petitioners v. Superior Court
of the District of Columbia, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
denied.
No. 09–847. Terrence Loose, as Trustee of the William Loose Family
Trust, Petitioner v. Emil Cadkin, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–848. Alvin L. Williams, Petitioner v. Charles A. Thorsen, III.
District, denied.
No. 09–850. Wrench Transportation Systems, Inc., et al., Petitioners
v. John F. Kennedy, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–851. Bexar County, Texas, et al., Petitioners v. Earnest Lytle,
Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Heather Lytle,
No. 09–854. Fortis Insurance Company, Petitioner v. Jerome
Mitchell, Jr. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of
No. 09–858. John Stephen Woodward, Petitioner v. Minnesota. Peti
No. 09–863. Michael Russo, et al., Petitioners v. Roderick O’Neal,
denied.
No. 09–886. Alan Stein, et ux., Petitioners v. Paradigm Mirasol,
LLC. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
No. 09–895. V. R. DeAngelis, et al., Petitioners v. Commissioner of

No. 09–897. Armando Narciso-Cabrera, Petitioner v. Eric H.
No. 09–903. Michael Shreffler, Petitioner v. Darryl L. Lewis. Petition
No. 09–904. South West Sand & Gravel, Inc., Petitioner v. Central
Arizona Water Conservation District. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division One, denied.
No. 09–909. Kevin Davis, et al., Petitioners v. United States. Petition
No. 09–921. Elmo Greer & Sons Construction Company, Inc., Peti
tioner v. David Goff, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme
Court of Tennessee, Eastern Division, denied.
No. 09–926. Robert Harper, Petitioner v. Tom Dart, Sheriff, Cook
County, Illinois, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–927. Kevin L. Hinson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–932. Marlene Betz, Petitioner v. Janet Napolitano, Secretary
of Homeland Security. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–933. Janeen Miller, et al., Petitioners v. Kristen Nichols, et al.
No. 09–934. Clayton L. Proctor, Jr., Individually and on Behalf of All
Others Similarly Situated, Petitioner v. Local Government Employees’
Retirement System, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme
Court of North Carolina denied.
No. 09–936. Rodrequis Armani Council, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–941. David H. Disraeli, Petitioner v. Securities and Exchange
No. 09–954. Isidoro Rodriguez, Petitioner v. Virginia Employment

Commission. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of
Virginia denied.
No. 09–967. US Infrastructure, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. United
No. 09–6682. Richard Allen Hill, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–6823. Brian Thomas, Petitioner v. Jeffrey A. Beard, Secre
cuit denied.
No. 09–6977. Daryl Lawrence, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7018. Pedro Godinez-Ortiz, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7250. Antoine Tucker, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7252. Gregory May, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7322. Michael T. Grubert, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7519. Audel Acosta-Larios, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7553. Robert Zane Curl, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
No. 09–7576. David W. Svete, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7631. Andre Lamar Collier, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–7699. Bruce W. Hoffman, Petitioner v. Frances J. Hoffman.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of New Jersey,
Appellate Division, denied.
No. 09–7741. Jiri Pik, Petitioner v. The Institute of International
Education, Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–7757. Anthony Bartee, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–7964. Gerald Wright, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–8066. Lenard Philmore, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Sec
denied.
No. 09–8422. Jimmy Dean Meinhard, Petitioner v. Steven Turley,
Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of
Utah denied.
No. 09–8434. Detwonne Monshay Alexander, Petitioner v. Texas.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Sixth
District, denied.
No. 09–8441. Fernando Jackson, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
No. 09–8448. Homer Allen Millen, Petitioner v. Steve Upton, War
denied.
No. 09–8454. Edmond David Belcher, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition
District, denied.
No. 09–8463. Jesse White, et ux., Petitioners v. Mortgage Electronic
Registration Systems, Incorporated. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–8465. William King, Petitioner v. California. Petition for writ
No. 09–8470. Candelario Sanchez, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Peti

No. 09–8473. Michael Shavers, Petitioner v. David Bergh, Warden,
No. 09–8481. Terry Glen Bland, Petitioner v. Alabama. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama denied.
No. 09–8489. Wilbert Smith, Petitioner v. Virginia. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Virginia denied.
No. 09–8497. Jorge Galindo, Petitioner v. Nebraska. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Nebraska denied.
No. 09–8502. P. S., et al., Petitioners v. Franklin County Children
Services. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio,
Franklin County, denied.
No. 09–8507. Byron Floyd, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8513. Hugh Hunter, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for writ of
No. 09–8525. Robert T. Pritchard, Sr., Petitioner v. Fayette County
Election Bureau, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Common
wealth Court of Pennsylvania denied.
No. 09–8526. Albert A. Young, Petitioner v. David DiGuglielmo,
Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Graterford. Petition
No. 09–8527. Michael H. Miller, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
District, denied.
No. 09–8528. Coy Wayne Wesbrook, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–8529. William Walls, Petitioner v. Larry J. Philips. Petition

No. 09–8530. Derrick Winston, Petitioner v. Derral G. Adams, War
No. 09–8533. Henry J. LaFavors, Petitioner v. Florida Department
of Corrections. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–8546. Dayne Racquim Boothe, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition
District, denied.
No. 09–8550. Michelle R. Walker, Petitioner v. Michigan. Petition for
No. 09–8551. Lee Holden Parker, Petitioner v. Michael Randle, Di
rector, Illinois Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ of
cuit denied.
No. 09–8555. Philip Bradford Thomas, Petitioner v. Walter A. Mc-
No. 09–8558. George Miller, Petitioner v. James R. McDonough, Sec
denied.
No. 09–8560. Derrick McKinney, Petitioner v. John A. Palakovich,
Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, et al.
No. 09–8564. James Newton Beede, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–8568. Pocahontas Cooley, Petitioner v. Paul J. Kelly, et ux.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Rhode Island
denied.
No. 09–8570. Richard Eugene Dunson, Petitioner v. Minnesota. Peti
No. 09–8571. Donnie Don Beverley, Petitioner v. Gene M. Johnson,
denied.
No. 09–8572. Richard Ernest Anaya, Petitioner v. California. Peti

No. 09–8574. Girish Chandra Sahu, Petitioner v. Michael J. Astrue,
No. 09–8575. Charles Edward Scott, Petitioner v. Alabama. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
denied.
No. 09–8576. Lamarr Rowell, Petitioner v. Nevada. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Nevada denied.
No. 09–8578. Cekoven Johnson, Petitioner v. Robert A. Horel, War
No. 09–8580. Ben H. Kincaid, Petitioner v. Texas; Ben Henry Kin
caid, Petitioner v. Texas; and Ben Henry Kincaid, Petitioner v. Texas.
Texas denied.
No. 09–8582. Joe E. Teague, Jr., Petitioner v. North Carolina Depart
ment of Transportation. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–8584. Armando Molina, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
No. 09–8586. Richard Ernest Anaya, Petitioner v. California. Peti
No. 09–8588. Jerome Wallace, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
cuit denied.
No. 09–8593. Fatima Parker, Petitioner v. Albemarle County Public
Schools, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–8597. Yolanda Carlile, Petitioner v. Kansas. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Kansas denied.
No. 09–8599. Lee Dell Nation, Jr., aka Pop, aka Doom, Petitioner v.

No. 09–8600. Ronald Sutton, Petitioner v. Warden, West Carrol De
tention Center. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–8605. Audrone Batavitchene, Petitioner v. Eric H.
No. 09–8607. Douglas R. Brown, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
trict, denied.
No. 09–8623. Jose C. Lopez, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–8625. Gary T. Pierce, Petitioner v. Illinois Department of
Human Services. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–8628. Trinidad Reynoso, Petitioner v. L. E. Scribner, War
No. 09–8637. James T. O’Daniel, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Highland County, denied.
No. 09–8648. Stevie Earl Worley, Petitioner v. Kentucky. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Kentucky denied.
No. 09–8650. Ardra Young, Petitioner v. Paul Renico, Warden. Peti
No. 09–8657. Robert Washington, Petitioner v. Louisiana. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Cir
cuit, denied.
No. 09–8663. Atsede Michael Oqubaegzi, Petitioner v. Eric H.
No. 09–8664. Christopher Prince, Petitioner v. William Lee, Super
denied.
No. 09–8665. Loi N. Nghiem, Petitioner v. John Kerestes, District
Attorney, County of Delaware, Pennsylvania, et al. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–8667. Dale D. Godown, Petitioner v. John C. Marshall, War
No. 09–8669. Thomas Hill, Petitioner v. Michigan. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Michigan denied.
No. 09–8676. Dejuma Campbell, Petitioner v. New York. Petition for
No. 09–8677. Gary Ervin, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Cuyahoga County, denied.
No. 09–8678. Bobby Glenn Canida, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–8680. Thomas Terrill Foster, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8681. Jeffrey Matthews, Petitioner v. Randall G. Workman,
No. 09–8682. John L. Lotter, Petitioner v. Nebraska. Petition for
No. 09–8685. John Barnes, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8686. Ronald Ranker, Petitioner v. Corrections Corporation
of America, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–8695. Shannon P. Coryell, Petitioner v. California Depart
ment of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–8698. Ricardo J. Calderon-Lopez, Petitioner v. Amarilys
Budet-Rodriguez, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–8699. Steven W. Doane, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Sec

cuit denied.
No. 09–8711. Derek Anthony Damiano, Petitioner v. California. Peti
Appellate District, Division Two, denied.
No. 09–8712. Duane A. Crockett, Petitioner v. Carol Woughter,
Superintendent, Mohawk Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of cer
denied.
No. 09–8720. Brian Keith Smith, Petitioner v. Thomas Simpson,
No. 09–8736. Clarence Scott, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8737. Sudesh Mehta, Petitioner v. Federal Home Loan Mort
gage Corporation, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–8756. Luis I. Hernandez, Sr., Petitioner v. Timothy Schuetzle,
No. 09–8759. Albert Hallmon, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
trict, denied.
No. 09–8765. Richard Marsden, Petitioner v. James McGrady, Super
intendent, State Correctional Institution at Retreat, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8769. John Tarkowski, Petitioner v. Eric K. Shinseki, Secre
No. 09–8770. Watson Dixon, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8775. John Anthony Western, Petitioner v. California. Peti
No. 09–8782. Jerry Knighten, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Appellate Court of Illinois, Third District, denied.
No. 09–8784. David Lefevre, Petitioner v. Burl Cain, Warden. Peti

No. 09–8792. Robert W. Warrington, Petitioner v. Robert W. Phelps,
No. 09–8794. Daniel Lee Boss, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Second District, denied.
No. 09–8796. Charles Rathbun, Petitioner v. Mark Johnson, et al.
No. 09–8800. Verry Saputra, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attor
No. 09–8810. David White, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District,
denied.
No. 09–8817. Terrance Lamont James, Petitioner v. North Carolina.
lina denied.
No. 09–8831. Robert T. Preston, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
District, denied.
No. 09–8832. William E. Morehead, Petitioner v. Arizona. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa
County, denied.
No. 09–8834. Chad Beach, Petitioner v. Ernie L. Moore, Warden.
No. 09–8835. Carlos Alejo, Petitioner v. A. J. Malfi, Warden. Petition
No. 09–8838. Michael McNeill, Petitioner v. Mike Ruffin. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8841. Ronald Dee O’Neal, Petitioner v. Ray Hobbs, Interim
denied.

No. 09–8842. Robert Lindsey, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
No. 09–8844. Richard A. DeVane, Petitioner v. Billy O. Brown, War
No. 09–8850. Steve Rosado, Petitioner v. New York. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Appellate Division, Supreme Court of New York,
Second Judicial Department, denied.
No. 09–8858. Lindsey Kent Springer, Petitioner v. Commissioner of
No. 09–8863. Donna Coleman, Petitioner v. Mary Lattimore, War
No. 09–8891. James Vernell Bryant, Petitioner v. Colorado. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Colorado denied.
No. 09–8896. Carlos Contreras, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8903. Edward MacKenzie, Petitioner v. New York. Petition
No. 09–8905. Michelle D. Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8906. Claudio Millan, Petitioner v. Southern California Edi
son Company. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of
California, Second Appellate District, denied.
No. 09–8907. Tommy Alexander, Sr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8910. Eddie L. Varnado, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Sec
denied.
No. 09–8913. Vouty Thol, Petitioner v. Dan Pacholke, Superintend
ent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–8923. Joseph K. Bickett, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–8924. Emilio Correa-Alicea, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8927. Gary Ivan Terry, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8929. Tyshan Wheeler, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8931. Billy Joe King, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–8933. Salvador Solorio-Muniz, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8934. Theodorus Roussos, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8936. James Bassil, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–8940. Gerald Noble, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8941. James Niemi, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8944. George Hopkins, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8945. Apolinar Garcia-Munoz, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8946. Murray Hooper, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–8950. Kwadene Livingston, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–8959. Robert A. Crump, Petitioner v. John Evans, Warden.
No. 09–8962. Ronell Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8963. Bradley Winters, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8964. Jannice McLain Schmidt, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8966. Elijah Givens, Petitioner v. Washington. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 2,
denied.
No. 09–8969. Michael J. Piskanin, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8970. Robert C. Cervantez, Petitioner v. C. K., Pliler, War
No. 09–8973. Raleigh Duane Leftwich, Petitioner v. Georgia. Peti
No. 09–8976. Elizabeth McCray, Petitioner v. Francis Howell School
District, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–8978. Bryan Mendoza, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8979. Willie L. Jamerson, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8982. Norbelio Campos-Lagunas, aka Oscar Campos-Laguna,
No. 09–8984. Nicole Sebro, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8985. Cedric Rose, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

Circuit denied.
No. 09–8989. Rusty Eugene McCoy, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8991. Chandra Jenkins-Watts, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8993. Jose Ramirez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8994. Luis Rebolla-Sanchez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8995. Ignacio Solis-Garcia, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8999. Emmanuel James Brunson, Sr., Petitioner v. United
No. 09–9003. Calvin L. Owens, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9004. Gregory Jones, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9008. Michael Jerome Thompson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9010. Julio C. Valle, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9012. Jose Juan Miranda-Ruiz, aka Moises Peralta-Morales,
aka Jorge Torres-Gutierrez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.

No. 09–9013. Victor Manuel Olivas-Porras, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–9015. Mark Edward Brown, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9017. Edwin Torres-Oliveras, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9018. Jose H. Velazquez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9019. Demetrius Lydell Bryant, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9024. Arthur Longoria, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9025. Emanuel T. Newman, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9027. Buwlus A. Muhammad, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9030. Victor Espinosa, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9034. John McCartney, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9037. Gregory Wright, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9038. Gary Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9039. Cynthia V. Shank, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9043. Ronald Pena, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

Circuit denied.
No. 09–9044. Alber to Sa lvador Ponce-Ponce, aka Jav ier
Dominguez-Aguilar, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–9048. Raul Medrano Betancourt, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9052. Bernard Blake Allen, et ux., Petitioners v. United
No. 09–9057. Norman Evans McElroy, Jr., Petitioner v. United
No. 09–9059. Wendall Keith Robinson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9060. Justin Sparks, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9061. Julio Cesar Lopez-Pena, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9065. Gabriel Schaffer, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9070. Antonio L. Davis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9072. John H. Dillard, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9076. Billy Terrell Adams, Petitioner v. Arkansas. Petition
No. 09–9091. Tyrand James, Petitioner v. United States District
Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Petition for writ of certiorari

No. 09–9094. Randy Alan Melton, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9097. Zantwan Worthy, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9098. Jaime Torres, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9099. Shawn Tull, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9103. Charles Harrison, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9104. Jimmie Vance Grubbs, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9105. Isidro Ibarra-Raya, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9107. Courtney D. Hurt, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9111. Jesus Frias-Cisneros, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9113. Christopher Toby Hayes, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9116. David Wayne Hull, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9120. April Dawn Carver, Petitioner v. W. Elaine Chapman,
No. 09–9121. Lena Celedon, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–9123. Auburn Calloway, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–9130. Adam J. Torres-Ojeda, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9131. John M. Wyatt, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9133. Larry Dwayne Leonard, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9142. Victor Berrios, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9153. Harold Roberts, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
denied.
No. 09–9156. Daniel E. Salley, Petitioner v. United States Court of
Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–9158. Carlos Demond Robinson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9159. Michael F. Schulze, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9160. Miguel Angel Sanchez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9162. Derwlyn Rosborough, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9168. Leslie Redmond, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9171. Henry D. Johnson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–9172. Michael Anthony Jones, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9177. Johnson Thelisma, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9178. Darrell Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9180. Dion Eric Savage, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9182. Michael Sanders, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9183. Harvey R. Johnson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9185. Adnan Alisic, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9188. Terry Lee Flenory, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9189. Donald Turner, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9190. Gary Robinson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9198. Gerald D. Naha, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9199. William Howard O’Neil, Jr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9200. Jose Pilar Perez-Lopez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9201. Eric Charles Jordan, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–9203. Ruben Loya-Romero, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9204. Paul Makos, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–9205. Serafin Lopez-Tovar, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9212. Dheadry Loyd Powell, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9214. Michael Shane Carey, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9216. Vernon Cooks, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9249. Rick Roy Schlotzhauer, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9250. Julio Cesar Alvarado-Garcia, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–9251. Erik Donaire Constanza Bran, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–9252. Juan Holguin De La Cruz, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9256. Jose Israel Hernandez-Morales, aka David Hernandez-
Morales, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–9257. Daniel Carl Hicks, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–9259. Sergio Garcia-Velazco, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9261. Christopher Grisel, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9262. Sammy Edward French, Jr., aka Samuel Edward
French, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–9269. Derrick Mosley, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9276. Jorge Breton-Rodriguez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–419. Kentucky, Petitioner v. Eddie Cardine and Michael
Curry. Motion of respondents for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
granted. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Ken
tucky denied.
of Corrections, et al., Petitioners v. Brian Thomas. Motion of respond
cuit denied.
No. 09–669. Anthony DiPlacido, Petitioner v. Commodity Futures
Trading Commission. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–671. Kathryn Nurre, Petitioner v. Carol Whitehead, Individ
ually and in Her Official Capacity as the Superintendent of Everett
School District No. 2. On petition for writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Petition for writ of cer
tiorari denied. Opinion by Justice Alito, dissenting from the denial of
the petition for writ of certiorari.
No. 09–806. Kenneth Wright, et al., Petitioners v. Eastman Kodak
No. 09–849. The Shipping Corporation of India, Ltd., Petitioner v.
Jaldhi Overseas Pte Ltd. Motion of Maritime Law Association for leave
to file a brief as amicus curiae granted. Petition for writ of certiorari

Justice Sotomayor took no part in the consideration or decision of this
motion and this petition.
No. 09–856. Angela Montgomery, Petitioner v. Wyeth, fka American
Home Products Corporation, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit denied. The Chief
Justice took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
No. 09–937. Martin Droz, Petitioner v. P. J. McCadden. Petition for
No. 09–972. Claude E. Salazar, et ux., Petitioners v. Commissioner
No. 09–6531. Damon Lucky, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–7319. Donald Fell, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–7554. Dwayne Brown, Petitioner v. David Rock, Super
intendent, Great Meadow Correctional Facility, et al. Petition for writ
No. 09–7565. Peter J. Corines, Petitioner v. J. M. Killian, Warden.
No. 09–8429. Gerald H. Miller, Petitioner v. Georgia. Motion of peti
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Georgia dismissed. See

No. 09–8475. Christopher A. Odom, Petitioner v. Veronica Smalls,
Appeals for the Fourth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–8548. Darryl L. Brown, Petitioner v. United States. Motion
of petitioner to seal the petition for writ of certiorari denied. Petition
sion. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis de
No. 09–8590. Page Penk, Petitioner v. Edward Nichols, President,
Colorado Historical Society. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed
Supreme Court of Colorado dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner has
No. 09–8634. Gene Coggins, Petitioner v. Tallapoosa County Depart
ment of Revenue. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
No. 09–8638. Page Penk, Petitioner v. Edward Tauer, Mayor of the
City of Aurora, Colorado, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed
Supreme Court of Colorado dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–8690. Ronald Miles, Petitioner v. Gene M. Johnson, Director,

Virginia Department of Corrections. Motion of petitioner for leave to
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit dismissed.
therein.
No. 09–8697. Elena Chitoiu, Petitioner v. UNUM Provident Corp.,
No. 09–8713. Tomas D. Cuesta, Sr., Petitioner v. Laura Lynn Fenton.
and petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Wisconsin
dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner has repeatedly abused this
Court’s process, the Clerk is directed not to accept any further peti
tions in noncriminal matters from petitioner unless the docketing fee
required by Rule 38(a) is paid and petition submitted in compliance
No. 09–8714. Tomas D. Cuesta, Sr., Petitioner v. Wisconsin. Motion
tion for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin dis
cited therein.
No. 09–8815. Gregory Lawrence Moore, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler,
tions Division, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma

No. 09–9033. Michael Prescott, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9067. Israel Santiago-Lugo, Petitioner v. United States. Mo
the First Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner has repeatedly
No. 09–9125. Ahmed Abdel Sattar, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9135. Jose Mercede, aka Daddy-O, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–9267. Rod M. Sharpley, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–9056. In Re Roderick Troy Prudhomme, Petitioner;
No. 09–9096. In Re Gerald C. Watkins, Petitioner;
No. 09–9164. In Re Gene Scott, Petitioner;
No. 09–9240. In Re Larry Don Maynard, Petitioner; and
No. 09–9273. In Re David R. Alexander, Petitioner. Petitions for
Mandamus Denied
No. 09–8892. In Re Salvatore M. Bombardiere, Sr., Petitioner; and
No. 09–9161. In Re Joseph L. Rainey, Petitioner. Petitions for writs
of mandamus denied.
No. 09–8626. In Re Earnest C. Woods, II, Petitioner; and
No. 09–8715. In Re Fontella Dorsey, Petitioner. Petitions for writs

Rehearings Denied

sioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al.;
No. 09–35. Manuel Antonio Noriega, Petitioner v. George Pastrana,
Warden;
No. 09–506. The Children’s Fund, et al., Petitioners v. Springfield
Holding Company Ltd. LLC, et al.;
No. 09–585. Harvest Institute Freedman Federation, et al., Petition
ers v. United States;
No. 09–655. Stanley L. Wade, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–6577. Barbara Leigh Mitchell, Petitioner v. Kelly O’Brien;
No. 09–6673. Ronnie Lee Bowling, Petitioner v. Kentucky;
No. 09–6701. Lorn Laverne Runge, Petitioner v. Minnesota;
No. 09–6755. James Skrzypek, et ux., Petitioners v. United States;
No. 09–6986. Kevin Alston, Petitioner v. Court of Appeals of Wiscon
sin, District I;
No. 09–7033. Zachary Tyler Smith, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
Division;
No. 09–7134. Kenneth Dean Miller, Petitioner v. Charles L. Ryan,
Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al.;
No. 09–7172. Kathalina Monacelli, Petitioner v. Fifth Third Bank,
et al.;
No. 09–7218. Allan Austin, Petitioner v. Terry McCann, Warden;
No. 09–7302. Walter J. Brzowski, Petitioner v. Michael T. Tristano,
et al.;
No. 09–7347. Joel Terrence Abbott, Petitioner v. Jacques A.
DeKalb, et al.;
No. 09–7490. Andrew W. Warfield, Petitioner v. Greg Grams,
Warden;
No. 09–7557. Calvin Lorinzo Perry, Petitioner v. Virginia;
No. 09–7566. Heidi K. Erickson, Petitioner v. Massachusetts;
No. 09–7571. George Cleveland, Petitioner v. Larry W. Abernathy,
Mayor of the City of Clemson, South Carolina, et al.;
No. 09–7610. Nicie Dillehay, Petitioner v. Department of Housing
and Urban Development, et al.;

No. 09–7684. Anthony L. Davis, Petitioner v. United States, et al.;
and Anthony L. Davis, Petitioner v. Kansas State Board of Indigent
Defense Services, et al.;
No. 09–7729. Laurie Marie Laskey, Petitioner v. AT&T;
No. 09–7730. Laurie Marie Laskey, Petitioner v. Fidelity
Investments;
No. 09–7731. Laurie Marie Laskey, Petitioner v. AT&T;
No. 09–7753. Laurie Marie Laskey, Petitioner v. Corning Cable
Systems;
No. 09–7759. Laurie Marie Laskey, Petitioner v. Shiloh Group, LLC;
No. 09–7760. Laurie Marie Laskey, Petitioner v. Sun Microsystems,
Inc.;
No. 09–7876. Maurice Holman, Petitioner v. Eric K. Shinseki, Secre
tary of Veterans Affairs;
No. 09–7886. Levi A. Wilson, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–7932. Uykheng Ngy, Petitioner v. You Song Seck;
No. 09–8002. Osvaldo Javier Torres, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections;
No. 09–8019. In Re Vincent M. Singleton, Petitioner;
No. 09–8163. Ulice Askew, Petitioner v. United States; and
No. 09–8264. Gregory C. Kapordelis, Petitioner v. United States.
Petitions for rehearing denied.
No. 09–5490. Terry Middleton, Petitioner v. Deborah Schult, War
den. Petition for rehearing denied. Justice Sotomayor took no part in
No. 09–7188. Batyah L. Agron, Petitioner v. Columbia University.
No. 09–7754. Laurie Marie Laskey, Petitioner v. Intel Corporation.
Petition for rehearing denied. The Chief Justice took no part in the
Attorney Discipline
No. D–2466. In the Matter of Discipline of Isidoro Rodriguez. Isidoro
Rodriguez, of Annandale, Virginia, is suspended from the practice of
No. D–2467. In the Matter of Discipline of Montgomery Blair Sibley.
Montgomery Blair Sibley, of Washington, District of Columbia, is sus
pended from the practice of law in this Court and a rule will issue,
returnable within 40 days, requiring him to show cause why he should
not be disbarred from the practice of law in this Court.
No. D–2468. In the Matter of Discipline of Peter Paul Mitrano. Peter
Paul Mitrano, of Merrifield, Virginia, is suspended from the practice of

Bernard Mitchell Alter Brooklyn, NY Meryl Lisa Wenig

Amy E. Askew Baltimore, MD James Patrick
Ulwick
William Delaney Bayliss Richmond, VA Paul S. Bliley, Jr.
G. Karl Bernard New Orleans, LA Deana D.
Palmisano
Roger G. Brooks New York, NY Richard Wayland
Clary
Benjamin Andrew Brown Minneapolis, MN Michael James
Wahoske
Jeffrey August Calabrese Louisville, KY John T. Ballantine
Robert F. Carangelo, Jr. New York, NY Joseph S.
Allerhand
Jeff J. Connor Chattanooga, TN Joseph M.
Hochadel
Arthur Campbell Cooke Tulsa, OK Delilah Christine
Zarate-Gentges
Michael D. Day Meriden, CT Raymond John
Rigat
Trey Christian Dellinger Madison, MS Kelly D. Simpkins
Ronald D. DeMoss Plano, TX Robert Francois
Friedman
Richard Donald Dietz Winston-Salem, Adam Howard
NC Charnes
Shawn E. Draney Salt Lake City, Max D. Wheeler
UT
Daniel Patrick Farroll St. Louis, MO Ellen H. Ribaudo
Kelly Patrice Finley San Francisco, CA Sonya Diane
Winner
Jorge Luis Flores Miami, FL Jerome A. Pivnik

Michael William Flynn San Francisco, CA Christopher F.

Stoll
Craig S. Fochler Evanston, IL Charles Robert
Mandly, Jr.
S. Rafe Foreman Grapevine, TX Susan E.
Hutchison
Ronald M. Fraley Tulsa, OK Michael James
King
Bruce Glendening McLean, VA James A. Dueholm
Jonathan A. Goldstein Beverly Hills, CA Charles H.
Goldstein
Joseph A. Goldstein Beverly Hills, CA Charles H.
Goldstein
Steven Francis Gooby Madison, NJ Robert John
Amaro
Assuncao
Eileen M. Haynes Glens Falls, NY Joel Lawrence
Paltrowitz
Martin Gregory Hilliard Savannah, GA Ralph Krannert
Riddle
Martin D. Holmes Nashville, TN Darrell L. West
Alexander M. Ivakhnenko Chicago, IL Edward M.
Genson
Craig Miller Jaquith Columbus, OH Kenneth R. Spiert
Brian Frederick Johnson Peoria, IL James Fletchic
Kane
Robert Keith Johnston Kansas City, MO J. Michael
Vaughan
Charles Everett Kutner New York, NY Malcolm S. Taub
Adam John Langino Palm Beach Diana L. Martin
Gardens, FL
Earle David Lees, III Toppenish, WA Thomas Andrew
Zeilman
Roy H. Liddell Jackson, MS Clifford
Kavanaugh
Bailey, III
Marvin Lee Longabaugh Las Vegas, NV Daniel Francis
Polsenberg
Greg Lukianoff New York, NY Harvey Allen
Silverglate
Maryann H. Luongo Washington, DC Kendall Lee

Houghton
Vanessa Merton New York, NY Stephen Loffredo
Laura L. Mills Canton, OH Douglas Neil
Godshall
Katie L. Monroe Charleston, WV Jill Cranston
Bentz
Jamie Lee Moore Larkspur, CA John Eliot Mallard
William Jeffrey Moore, Jr. Troy, AL Joe C. Cassady
Matthew C. Moschella Boston, MA Robert J.
Muldoon, Jr.
Mark W. Mosier Washington, DC Honorable John
Glover
Roberts, Jr.,
Chief Justice of
the Supreme
Court
Dennis M. Moskal Pittsburgh, PA Matthew F.
Marshall
Jerry L. Mowery, Jr. Beverly Hills, CA William Joseph
Bridge
Peter Rowe Moyers Pittsburgh, PA Lisa B. Freeland
James Edward Murphy Las Vegas, NV Madelyn B.
Shipman
Michael Allen Nash Beach Park, IL David C.
Frederick
Brendan David O’Toole Richmond, VA Earle Duncan
Getchell, Jr.
Timothy Austin Perkins Memphis, TN Gordon E. Jackson
Kevin Scott Ranlett Washington, DC Evan Mark Tager
Sonja Kathleen Redmond Soldotna, AK Timothy Mark
Smith
Joseph J. Reilly Washington, DC Bruce William
Hickey
John F. Renzulli White Plains, NY Lawrence S.
Greenwald
Kip Dudley Richards Kansas City, MO J. Michael
Vaughan
Paul Anthony Rossi Mountville, PA Eric B. Schnurer

Tina K. Salem Houston, TX John V.

Singleton, Jr.
Jonathan Rea Secrest Columbus, OH James Michael
Petro
John O. Sheller Louisville, KY Walter L. Sales
Jean Ann Schmidt Sieler Toledo, OH David Wenrich
Stuckey
David Milton Skeens Kansas City, MO J. Michael
Vaughan
Robert Takashi Takamatsu Honolulu, HI Melvyn Ming
Miyagi
Nancy L. Talner Seattle, WA David Zuckerman
Urszula Tempska Milwaukee, WI James M. Shellow
William Lewis Thompson, Washington, DC Adam Jeffrey
III White
Stephen J. T’Kach Hudson, WI Michael A. Brave
Ilona M. Turner San Francisco, CA Catherine E.
Bocskor
Michelle M. Umberger Madison, WI Christopher G.
Hanewicz
Derly J. Uribe Laredo, TX David Almaraz
Ginger Elizabeth Wald Fort Lauderdale, Harry A. Stewart
FL
Paul T. Walkinshaw Leesburg, VA Anisa Patrice
Kelley
Joseph Walters Oklahoma City, Drew D. Webb
OK
Roy Frederick Walters Kansas City, MO J. Michael
Vaughan
Mark William Zeno New York, NY Robert S. Dean
Jonathan Robert Zitt Hollywood, FL Barry James
Cooper, Jr.

Louis W. Tompros Boston, MA Judge Richard

Linn
David Milton Krinsky Rockville, MD Judge Richard
Linn
Stanley Edward Fisher Washington, DC Judge Richard

Linn
Joseph Charles Pickens Columbus, OH James D. Abrams
Matthew Joseph Ricciardi Arlington, VA Charles Daniel
Ossola
Emily Susan Schlesinger Columbus, OH Benjamin Charles
Mizer
Robert Stewart Royer Washington, DC James J. Butera
Thomas Command Detroit, MI James J. Butera
Shumaker
Lynnette Gray Franklin, IN George Thomas
Patton, Jr.
Matthew John Hagenow LaPorte, IN George Thomas
Patton, Jr.
R. Scott Hayes New Castle, IN George Thomas
Patton, Jr.
Tracy David Knox South Bend, IN George Thomas
Patton, Jr.
Cynthia E. Lasher Indianapolis, IN George Thomas
Patton, Jr.
Matthew W. Melton Indianapolis, IN George Thomas
Patton, Jr.
Oral Arguments
No. 08–998. Jan Hamilton Chapter 13 Trustee, Petitioner v. Steph
anie Kay Lanning. Argued by Mr. Jan Hamilton for the petitioner, by
Mr. Thomas C, Goldstein for the respondent, and by Ms. Sarah Har
rington for the United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the
Court, supporting the respondent.
v. Commerce Energy, Inc., et al. Argued by Mr. Solicitor General Ben
jamin C. Mizer for the petitioner and by Mr. Stephen C. Fitch for the
respondents.



Opinion
J. Espinosa. On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals
for the Ninth Circuit. Judgment affirmed. Opinion by Justice Thomas.

Wilma B. Liebman Washington, DC Lafe E. Solomon

John Boyle Renehan Washington, DC Jennifer Ann

Gorman

Kenneth Wayne Woodard Conway, NC Jennifer Ann

Gorman

Jennifer Dawn Bokankowitz West Palm Beach, Justice Peggy

FL Ann Quince
Mary Ellen Clark Tallahassee, FL Justice Peggy
Ann Quince
Ward Patrick Griffin Washington, DC Justice Peggy
Ann Quince
Alison L. Kelly West Palm Beach, Justice Peggy
FL Ann Quince
Jenny S. Kim Tallahassee, FL Justice Peggy
Ann Quince
Jennifer Lynn Fessler Manchester, NH Robert V.
Ward, Jr.
Charles Edward Green, Jr. Plantsville, CT Robert V.
Ward, Jr.
Minhtram T. Tran New Bedford, MA Robert V.
Ward, Jr.
Michael Paul Wilson Philadelphia, PA Robert V.
Ward, Jr.
Christine H. Barrington West Haven, CT Robert V.
Ward, Jr.
Felix S. Betro Foxboro, MA Robert V.
Ward, Jr.
Francis J. Lynch, III Boston, MA Robert V.

Ward, Jr.
Julie A. Lynch Fall River, MA Robert V.
Ward, Jr.
Lori J. O’Brien-Foeri Rehoboth, MA Robert V.
(Rossi) Ward, Jr.
Cathryn A. O’Neill S. Dartmouth, MA Robert V.
Ward, Jr.
Rosa A. Previdi Boston, MA Robert V.
Ward, Jr.
Oral Argument
No. 08–1457. New Process Steel. L.P., Petitioner v. National Labor
Relations Board. Argued by Mr. Sheldon E. Richie for the petitioner
and by Mr. Neal K. Katyal for the respondent.
Adjourned until Wednesday, March 24, at 10 o’clock.




Kevin Wayne Blackburn Montgomery, AL Corey Landon

Maze
Jeffrey L. Solomon Jericho, NY Honorable H. F.
Gierke, III
Sara A. Lima Philadelphia, PA Donald Mitchell
Griswold
Vanessa Kay Burrows Washington, DC Terry Jason
Halstead
Heather Sidwell Morris Washington, DC Thomas John
Josefiak
Jon Christian Eskelsen Washington, DC Amar D. Sarwal
Adam W. Brill Arlington, VA Hanorah Elise
Tyer-Witek
Brandon Wilson Barnett Arlington, TX Hanorah Elise
Tyer-Witek
Virginia Flowers Birmingham, AL Lea Richmond, IV
Gambacurta
Todd David Engelhardt Tallahassee, FL Lea Richmond, IV
Michael Nicholas Loebl Augusta, GA Lea Richmond, IV
Sonja Renee Tate Augusta, GA Lea Richmond, IV
Jessica Ann Moland Indianapolis, IN Lea Richmond, IV
Christopher Combs Land New York, NY Lea Richmond, IV
Edward Ryan Kennedy Clarksburg, WV Lea Richmond, IV
Ryan Anthony Zeli Pittsburgh, PA Lea Richmond, IV
Allen Mattison Bogan Columbia, SC Lea Richmond, IV
Eric L. Silkwood Charleston, WV Lea Richmond, IV
Oral Arguments
Regal-Benoit Corporation, et al.; and
Benoit Corporation, et al. Argued by Mr. J. Scott Ballenger for the
petitioners, by Mr. Anthony Yang for the United States as amicus

curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting the petitioners, and
by Mr. David C. Frederick for the respondents.
No. 09–158. Billy Joe Magwood, Petitioner v. Tony Patterson, War
den, et al. Argued by Mr. Jeffrey L. Fisher, appointed by this Court,
for the petitioner and by Mr. Solicitor General Corey L. Maze for the
respondents.

No. 09–9000 (09A743). Henry W. Skinner, Applicant v. Lynn
Switzer, District Attorney for the 31st Judicial District of Texas. Appli
Scalia and by him referred to the Court granted pending disposition of
the petition for writ of certiorari. Should the petition for writ of certio
rari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event the
petition for writ of certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon
the sending down of the judgment of this Court.


“We are very pleased to have visiting with us this morning, the Chief
Justice of Canada, Beverly McLachlin, and other members of the Su
preme Court of Canada who are here for the Canada and United States
Legal Exchange. Welcome.”
No. 09–8367. Marcus L. Welton, Petitioner v. United States. On peti

the Seventh Circuit. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
and case remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sev
enth Circuit for further consideration in light of that court’s en banc
opinion in United States v. Corner, No. 08–1033 (Mar. 17, 2010).
No. 09M81. J. Doe, Petitioner v. Richard L. Duncan, et al. Motion for

leave to proceed in forma pauperis with declaration of indigency under
seal denied.
No. 09M82. Gerard D. Grandoit, Petitioner v. Susan Murray, et al.
time denied.
No. 09–8048. Richard C. Eline, Petitioner v. Hawaii Department of
Public Safety. Motion of petitioner for reconsideration of order denying
No. 09–8700. Eugenia B. White, Petitioner v. Fairfax County, Vir
ginia, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
denied. Petitioner allowed until April 19, 2010, within which to pay the
Certiorari Denied
No. 09–742. Steven Rosenberg, Petitioner v. Hualapai Indian Nation.

sion One, denied.
No. 09–815. Frequent Flyer Depot, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Ameri
can Airlines, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals
of Texas, Second District, denied.
No. 09–857. Anne Doyle, Petitioner v. Leland Graske;
No. 09–888. Leland Graske, Petitioner v. Daniel Doyle, et ux.; and
No. 09–990. Leland Graske, Petitioner v. Anne Doyle. Petitions for
writs of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth
Circuit denied.
No. 09–859. William M. Windsor, Petitioner v. Maid of the Mist Cor
No. 09–865. Monumental Life Insurance Company, Successor in In
terest to Commonwealth Life Insurance Company, Petitioner v. Ken
tucky Department of Revenue, fka Revenue Cabinet, Finance and Ad
ministration Cabinet, Commonwealth of Kentucky, et al. Petition for
No. 09–872. Michael Casey, et al., Petitioners v. North American
Savings, F. S. B., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–879. Karen Waeschle, Petitioner v. Ljubisa J. Dragovic, Indi
vidually and in His Official Capacity as Medical Examiner of Oakland
County, Michigan, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–880. Charles W. Birks, Petitioner v. Keith F. Park, et al.
No. 09–884. J. B. L., Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Eleventh District, denied.
No. 09–887. E. H. and K. H., on Their Own Behalf and as Parents
and Next Friends of C. H., a Minor, Petitioners v. Board of Education
of the Shenendehowa Central School District, et al. Petition for writ
Circuit denied.

No. 09–892. Paul J. Southwick, Petitioner v. Marguerite A. Crow
nover, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of
California, First Appellate District, denied.
No. 09–924. Yun Kyu Yook, Sun Ju Yook, and Ju Hyung Yook, Peti
tioners v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–928. Sang Kyu Han, et ux., Petitioners v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
No. 09–966. Dom Wadwha, Petitioner v. Department of Veterans Af
fairs; and Dom Wadhwa, Petitioner v. Department of Veterans Affairs.
No. 09–969. Bryan J. Brown, Petitioner v. Indiana Board of Law
Examiners. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of
Indiana denied.
No. 09–973. Kenzi Noris Elizabeth Snider, Petitioner v. Seung Lee,
No. 09–1019. Alan Mikell, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–1026. Herbert S. Moncier, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–1040. James W. Sandlin, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–1044. Ricardo Briones and Riley Briones, Jr., Petitioners v.
No. 09–7351. Floyd Deberry, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7358. James W. Van Divner, Jr., Petitioner v. Pennsylvania.
No. 09–7485. Tarin Nigel Waters, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–7793. Roy Lee Ward, Petitioner v. Indiana. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Indiana denied.
No. 09–7882. Syeed Briggs, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8262. Jerome Williams, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8717. Elmore Sheriff, Petitioner v. Accelerated Receivables
Solutions, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–8718. Alfred Swain, Petitioner v. Burl Cain, Warden. Petition
No. 09–8719. Annette Ross, Petitioner v. Mr. Young, et al. Petition
No. 09–8721. Irvin Rockett, Petitioner v. Minnesota. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Minnesota denied.
No. 09–8723. Rochelle Driessen, Petitioner v. Florida Department
of Children and Families, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–8725. Marvin Cotton, Petitioner v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden.
No. 09–8739. Peter James Atherton, Petitioner v. District of Colum
bia Office of the Mayor, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
denied.
No. 09–8746. Kesiena Tani, Petitioner v. The Washington Post, et al.
No. 09–8747. Patrick Michael O’Brien, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Eleventh Dis
trict, denied.

No. 09–8760. Frankie Lee Hogg, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–8771. Matthew Joseph Collazo, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition
District, denied.
No. 09–8772. Nina Ringgold and Justin Ringgold-Lockhart, Petition
ers v. Myer Sankary, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court
of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, denied.
No. 09–8773. Vernon R. Owens, Petitioner v. Robert G. Jones, Super
intendent, Hyde Correctional Institution. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–8777. Jimmy Lee Nelson, Petitioner v. Catherine Cortez
Masto, Attorney General of Nevada. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–8779. Robert E. Collier, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8786. Morgan Brittany Ashford, Petitioner v. Arizona. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division
One, denied.
No. 09–8787. Janel Hyeshia Buycks, Petitioner v. California Unem
ployment Insurance Appeals Board, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–8788. Everett Leon Black, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8798. Freddy Lee Slack, Petitioner v. Jackie Jones, et al.
No. 09–8812. Patricio Linares, Petitioner v. Albrith, Registered
Nurse, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–8823. Michael McNeill, Petitioner v. Officer 1st Mr. Germany,
No. 09–8825. Charles E. Daniels, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–8826. Johnny Copeland, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Sec
cuit denied.
No. 09–8827. Minh Phouc Chung, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–8829. Gregory L. Donald, Petitioner v. Todd Schultz, et al.
No. 09–8830. Lee Michael Sterhan, Petitioner v. Michigan. Petition
No. 09–8837. Ronald Anderson, Petitioner v. Barry McClemore,
No. 09–8845. Buddy Lee Criner, Petitioner v. Todd Bouton, et al.
No. 09–8847. Robert Raymond Robinson, Jr., Petitioner v. George
Hinkle, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–8848. Victor Scroggins, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Sec
cuit denied.
No. 09–8857. Jerome Julius Brown, Sr., Petitioner v. Barack H.
Obama, President of the United States, et al. Petition for writ of certio
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8860. Jesse Raymond Rutledge, Petitioner v. Walter A. Mc-
No. 09–8865. Eugene Horton, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–8874. Fontelle Ricardo Groves, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8908. Kenneth Edward Barbour, Petitioner v. Western Re
gional Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8926. Willie Dee Wesson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8932. Earl Jefferson, Petitioner v. Howard Carlton, Warden.
No. 09–8943. Manuel Fajardo-Jimenez, Petitioner v. Eric H.
No. 09–8951. Catherine Wanjiku Kabui, Petitioner v. Eric H.
No. 09–8967. Trinidad Marquez Hamilton, aka Jeanne Dozier, Peti
No. 09–8977. Tyrone Owens, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8987. Charles Lee Armstrong, Petitioner v. L. E. Scribner,
No. 09–9016. Haywood Thomas, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9053. Brian Lee Deneui, Petitioner v. South Dakota. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of South Dakota denied.
No. 09–9078. Bill Marquardt, Petitioner v. Wisconsin. Petition for
denied.
No. 09–9101. Timmie Ford, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9102. Jeriehmie J. Franetich, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–9108. Clarence Allen Holt, Petitioner v. Minnesota. Petition
No. 09–9114. Craig Allan Williams, Petitioner v. Ricardo Martinez,
No. 09–9122. Daryl Dennison, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9126. Bryan Keith Shelton, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9141. Charles Franklin Bogues, Petitioner v. Duane J. Mac-
Eachern, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at
Shirley. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–9154. Preston Tyrone Smith, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9191. Winston Stidham, Petitioner v. David Varano, et al.
No. 09–9209. William Whitefield, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9210. Linda F. Wright, Petitioner v. John E. Potter, Postmas
ter General. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–9211. Ella B. Vinson, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Franklin County, denied.
No. 09–9213. Juan Carlos Elso, aka J. C. Elso, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–9217. Darnell Branch, Petitioner v. Franklin J. Tennis, Super
intendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Petition

No. 09–9218. Tony Lamar Burris, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9219. Edgar B. Branch, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9223. Curtiss Breeding, Petitioner v. J. David Donahue, War
den. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ken
tucky denied.
No. 09–9228. Stanley Phillips, aka Samuel Phillips, Petitioner v.
David DiGuglielmo, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at
Graterford, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–9232. Nasser D. Ghelichkhani, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9234. Gary Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9236. Kevin Lashun Jones, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9238. Johnny William Lane, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9241. Devon Mitchell, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9242. Timothy Mark Parmer, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9244. George Webber, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9253. Kenneth R. Dowthard, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9254. Terry Alvin Hyatt, Petitioner v. Gerald Branker, War

No. 09–9258. Kendrick Omar Hammond, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9260. Larry Eugene Hodge, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9263. Martin Gonzalez-Ambriz, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9270. Kyle Kimoto, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9272. Clark Pauyo, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9282. Clay Roselle, Petitioner v. United States, et al. Petition
No. 09–9284. Sandra Kay Cabell, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9291. Mark B. Nordyke, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9292. Leon King, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–9295. Stanaus McCoy, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9304. Israel Carmenate, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9305. Harrington Campbell, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–9306. Willie Hugh Morris, aka Bootnose, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–9308. Ramendra Basu, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9314. Victor Jesus Rodriguez, aka Canana, Petitioner v.
No. 09–9322. Anthony Tyrone Mills, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9328. Jerome H. Jones, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9330. Lamar Edison, Petitioner v. Arcola Washington-
Adduci, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–9334. Gilberto Placencia-Medina, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9335. Gene Polk, Petitioner v. Fred Menifee, Warden. Peti
No. 09–9338. Farren James Mason, Sr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9352. Antonio Vasquez-Hernandez, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–9355. Roderick Brown, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9356. James Albert Bronnenberg, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–725. Thomas M. Beaver, et al., Petitioners v. Patricia Dan
nemann. Motion of Florida Defense Lawyers Association for leave to
file a brief as amicus curiae granted. Petition for writ of certiorari to

the District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District, denied.
No. 09–876. Isidoro Rodriguez, Petitioner v. United States Court of
Appeals for the Second Circuit. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–894. Matthew Cate, Secretary, California Department of Cor
rections and Rehabilitation, Petitioner v. Mohammed Haroon Ali. Mo
No. 09–915. Leonel Lemus-Lemus, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
necticut; and Kimberly Albright-Lazzari, et vir, Petitioners v. Connect
icut. Motion of petitioners for leave to proceed in forma pauperis de
nied, and petition for writ of certiorari to the Appellate Court of
Connecticut dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–8776. Zachary Bouvier Taylor, Petitioner v. Charlotte Bras
hears, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pau
No. 09–8781. Steven Kalski, Petitioner v. Michael D. Antonovich,
nied, and petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of Cali
fornia, Second Appellate District, dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–8799. Rickey Sabedra, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–8802. Daniel L. Spuck, Petitioner v. Catherine C. McVey,
Chairwoman, Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, et al. Mo
for the Third Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–8871. Shaaban Shaaban Hafed, Petitioner v. Supreme Court
of the United States, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed

dismissed. See Rule 39.8. The Chief Justice took no part in the consid
tion for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Minnesota dis
cited therein.
No. 09–9275. Gregory Charles Krug, Petitioner v. John Paul Stevens,
Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. Petition
District of Columbia Circuit denied. Justice Stevens took no part in the
No. 09–9297. William Tisdol, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–9394. In Re Anthony Gaston, Petitioner;

No. 09–9460. In Re Dwight York, aka Malachi York, Petitioner; and
No. 09–9523. In Re Stanley Parker, Petitioner. Petitions for writs of
No. 09–9534. In Re Michael Anthony Miller, Petitioner. Motion of
for writ of habeas corpus dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner has
Mandamus Denied
No. 09–9021. In Re Srikanth Tangirala, Petitioner. Petition for writ

of mandamus denied.
No. 09–8744. In Re Rayshon Thomas, Petitioner. Petition for writ
No. 09–9300. In Re Gregory Taylor, Petitioner. Motion of petitioner
Prohibition Denied
No. 09–8862. In Re Thomas Joseph Cutaia, Petitioner. Petition for

writ of prohibition denied.
Rehearings Denied

No. 09–7199. Rosevelt Beal, Petitioner v. Virginia Levine, et al.;
No. 09–7233. Lowell N. Payne, Jr., Petitioner v. Debbie Tinsley,
et al.;
No. 09–7435. Reginald Haywood, Petitioner v. Jeff Bedatsky, et al.;
No. 09–7479. Melvin Ketchum, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
Division;
Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Criminal Institu
tions Division;
No. 09–7606. Scott John Travaline, Petitioner v. Robin Travaline;
No. 09–7611. Michael Anthony Diaz, Petitioner v. Texas;
No. 09–7682. James E. Aldridge, Jr., et ux., Petitioners v. United
States;
No. 09–7692. William May, Petitioner v. Aarsand Management;
No. 09–7724. Farid Popal, aka John Popal, Petitioner v. New York;
No. 09–7893. Robert Johnson, Petitioner v. Cook Incorporated;
No. 09–7947. Gerald C. Bakarich, Petitioner v. New Jersey;
No. 09–8098. Margaret Thomas, Petitioner v. Office of Personnel
Management; and
No. 09–8176. Romeo Ezike, Petitioner v. Lakshmi Mittal, et al. Peti

Attorney Discipline
No. D–2457. In the Matter of Disbarment of Anthony J. Siciliano.

No. D–2459. In the Matter of Disbarment of J. Lincoln Passmore.
No. D–2460. In the Matter of Disbarment of Jeffrey Neil Berman.
No. D–2461. In the Matter of Disbarment of Thomas E. Finnerty.
No. D–2462. In the Matter of Disbarment of Stafford Sheehan. Dis
barment order entered.
No. D–2463. In the Matter of Disbarment of Bruce N. Sachar. Dis

Ann M. Alexander Reno, NV Thomas P. Beko

Andrew Peter Bakaj Washington, DC Daniel Patrick
Meyer
Joseph Raymond Baker Washington, DC Ginger D. Anders
Rebecca Bruch Reno, NV Thomas P. Beko
Joseph M. Busher, Jr. Hartford, CT Peter Kirby
O’Keefe
Richard Drury Alameda, CA Paige Michele
Tomaselli
Indrani M. Franchini New York, NY Diana Sagorika
Sen
Christopher Anthony Hamilton Noel Christian
Huling Township, NJ Devlin
John F. Hussell, IV Charleston, WV Jill Cranston
Bentz
Nicholas Constantine Chicago, IL Saulius V.
Kefalos Modestas
Bradley A. Klein Washington, DC Clifford M. Sloan
Jonathan M. Krauss Helena, MT Brian Matthew
Morris
Laurence Charles Kress Harrisburg, PA Marc A. Scaringi
Andrea Gayle Lisenbee Phoenix, AZ Michael Dean
Moberly
Michael R. Lozeau Alameda, CA Paige Michele

Tomaselli
David Neil McCarty Jackson, MS Robert Bruce
McDuff
John Joseph Meadows Charleston, WV Keith Joseph
George
Karoline Mehalchick Scranton, PA Dorrance
Reynolds Belin
Cyrus Siavash Niakan West Palm Beach, Nancy
FL Schmiemann
La Vista
Thornton Dudley Perry, Jr. Montgomery, AL Danielle J. Lipow
Kateryna L. Rakowsky San Francisco, CA Paige Michele
Tomaselli
Dimitrios C. Rinos Tustin, CA Kent L. Richland
Elisa Smith Rives Guntersville, AL Charles Dubose
Cole
Richard L. Roberts Washington, DC Jane I. Ryan
Jeffrey I. Shulman Frederick, MD Tina M. Drake
Zimmerman
Diann Sokoloff Oakland, CA Paul Donald
Gifford
Andrew Monroe Trusevich Plano, TX Robert Francois
Friedman
Randall L. Wenger Lititz, PA Dennis Edward
Boyle
Barbara Zolot New York, NY Robert S. Dean

Robert E. Eckert, Jr. Philadelphia, PA Michael E. Maffei

Deborah Elizabeth Greaves Los Angeles, CA Gary Bruce
Solomon
Laura Marie Ledford Washington, DC Richard E.
Schneider
Howard Alan Newman Washington, DC Roger Schlossberg
Miriam Alisa Benor New York, NY David E. Benor
Edd Vasquez New York, NY Minh-Duc Thi Le
Lynda Carney Crum Atlanta, GA Dennis C. O’Brien

Timothy Winfred Bailey Marietta, GA Dennis C. O’Brien

Charles Lee Davis, Jr. Marietta, GA Dennis C. O’Brien
Vic Brown Hill Marietta, GA Dennis C. O’Brien
Philip Andrew Holloway Marietta, GA Dennis C. O’Brien
David Savage Lipscomb Lawrenceville, GA Dennis C. O’Brien
Maziar Mazloom Marietta, GA Dennis C. O’Brien
Hugh J. Stedman Marietta, GA Dennis C. O’Brien
Juanita Pierson Stedman Marietta, GA Dennis C. O’Brien
Darrell L. Sutton Marietta, GA Dennis C. O’Brien
Larry Joe White Powder Springs, Dennis C. O’Brien
GA
William F. Woods, Jr. Marietta, GA Dennis C. O’Brien
Oral Arguments
No. 09–338. Paul Renico, Warden, Petitioner v. Reginald Lett. Ar
gued by Mr. Joel D. McGormley for the petitioner and by Ms. Marla R.
McCowan, appointed by this Court, for the respondent.
lia Bank Ltd., et al. Argued by Mr. Thomas A. Dubbs for the petition
ers, by Mr. George T. Conway, III, for the respondents, and by
Mr. Matthew D. Roberts for the United States as amicus curiae, by
special leave of the Court, supporting the respondents. Justice Soto
mayor recused.



Opinions

L.P. On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for
the Seventh Circuit. Judgment vacated, and case remanded to the
tice Alito. Concurring opinion by Justice Thomas.
No. 08–1402. Mary Berghuis, Warden, Petitioner v. Diapolis Smith.
Sixth Circuit. Judgment reversed, and case remanded to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit for further proceedings
consistent with the opinion of this Court. Opinion by Justice Ginsburg.
Concurring opinion by Justice Thomas.
et al., Petitioners v. United States, ex rel. Karen T. Wilson. On writ of
certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for further proceedings consistent with
the opinion of this Court. Opinion by Justice Stevens. Opinion by Jus
tice Scalia, concurring in part and concurring in the judgment. Dissent
ing opinion by Justice Sotomayor, with whom Justice Breyer joins.

Frank Bernard Arenas Tampa, FL Adrian Patrick

John Mollo
Donna Kolakowski-Hollen Baltimore, MD Jessica DiCicco
Ferrill
Jean J. Barnett West Palm Beach, Jani E. Maurer
FL
Amy Leigh Fischer West Palm Beach, Jani E. Maurer
FL
Janis Brustares Keyser West Palm Beach, Jani E. Maurer

FL
Tara Dionne McIntosh West Palm Beach, Jani E. Maurer
FL
Margaret Elizabeth Wood West Palm Beach, Jani E. Maurer
FL
Margaret Susan Arneson Plantation, FL Bruce S. Rogow
Genny Bernstein Palm Beach Bruce S. Rogow
Gardens, FL
Lorne Sean Cabinsky Fort Lauderdale, Bruce S. Rogow
FL
Daniel T. Camejo Miami, FL Bruce S. Rogow
Joshua Wesley Deckard Stuart, FL Bruce S. Rogow
Rachel Diaz Miami, FL Bruce S. Rogow
Paul G. Finizio Ft. Lauderdale, Bruce S. Rogow
FL
Roland C. Galdos Cutler Bay, FL Bruce S. Rogow
Alicia R. Johnson Jackson Fort Lauderdale, Bruce S. Rogow
FL
Orfelia Maria Mayor Davie, FL Bruce S. Rogow
Denise M. Mitchell Boca Raton, FL Bruce S. Rogow
Nicole C. Morris West Palm Beach, Bruce S. Rogow
FL
Robin Sobo Moselle Plantation, FL Bruce S. Rogow
Sabarish P. Neelakanta West Palm Beach, Bruce S. Rogow
FL
Marc Aaron Schechter Parkland, FL Bruce S. Rogow
Sorraya M. Solages Miami, FL Bruce S. Rogow
Jason Lee Steinman Hollywood, FL Bruce S. Rogow
Davina S. Tala Plantation, FL Bruce S. Rogow
Erin M. Tieso Fort Lauderdale, Bruce S. Rogow
FL
Helen Victoria Warner Miami, FL Bruce S. Rogow
David Mark Wiegand Washington, DC Bruce S. Rogow
Oral Arguments
No. 09–6338. Percy Dillon, Petitioner v. United States. Argued by

Ms. Lisa B. Freeland for the petitioner and by Ms. Leondra R. Kruger
for the respondent. Justice Alito recused.
TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 2010 709

Warden. Argued by Mr. Stephen R. Sady for the petitioners and by
Mr. Jeffrey B. Wall for the respondent.
Adjourned until Wednesday, March 31, 2010, at 10 o’clock.



Opinions
No. 08–1008. Shady Grove Orthopedic Associates, P.A., Petitioner v.
Allstate Insurance Company. On writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Judgment reversed, and case
for further proceedings. Justice Scalia announced the judgment of the
Court and delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I
and II–A, an opinion with respect to Parts II–B and II–D, in which
The Chief Justice, Justice Thomas, and Justice Sotomayor join, and an
opinion with respect to Part II–C, in which The Chief Justice and Jus
tice Thomas join. Opinion by Justice Stevens, concurring in part and
concurring in the judgment. Dissenting opinion by Justice Ginsburg,
with whom Justice Kennedy, Justice Breyer, and Justice Alito join.
No. 08–651. Jose Padilla, Petitioner v. Kentucky. On writ of certio
rari to the Supreme Court of Kentucky. Judgment reversed, and case
remanded to the Supreme Court of Kentucky for further proceedings
not inconsistent with the opinion of this Court. Opinion by Justice Ste
vens. Opinion by Justice Alito, with whom The Chief Justice joins, con
curring in the judgment. Dissenting opinion by Scalia, with whom Jus
tice Thomas joins.

Theodore William Washington, DC Srikanth

Kassinger Srinivasan
Holly Michelle Parker Los Angeles, CA Aristotle E. Evia
Kelly A. Woodruff San Francisco, CA Thomas Lucian
Woodruff
Douglas James Hughes Arlington, VA Thomas Mark
Bondy
Robina Ali Buena Park, CA Judge Karen
Ackerson-
Brazille
Michele B. Anderson Los Angeles, CA Judge Karen

Ackerson-
Brazille
Sonja Richele Dawson Los Angeles, CA Judge Karen
Ackerson-
Brazille
Lisa Trinh Flint Anaheim, CA Judge Karen
Ackerson-
Brazille
Jana Logan San Diego, CA Judge Karen
Ackerson-
Brazille
Tara Lynn Newman Los Angeles, CA Judge Karen
Ackerson-
Brazille
Euketa LaShawn Oliver San Diego, CA Judge Karen
Ackerson-
Brazille
Cristina Valadez San Jose, CA Judge Karen
Ackerson-
Brazille
Kenneth Kai-Chun Wang Los Angeles, CA Judge Karen
Ackerson-
Brazille
Carolyn Starks Upper Marlboro, Judge Karen
MD Ackerson-
Brazille
Jamie J. Finizio Bascombe Ft. Lauderdale, Bruce S. Rogow
FL
Jason B. Blank Fort Lauderdale, Bruce S. Rogow
FL
Elizabeth E. Clark Short Hills, NJ Bruce S. Rogow
Alfredo Enrique Cordoba Lighthouse Point, Bruce S. Rogow
FL
Amy Linda Cosentino West Palm Beach, Bruce S. Rogow
FL
Allison J. Davis West Palm Beach, Bruce S. Rogow
FL
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 2010 713

Theresa Joan Fontana Port St. Lucie, FL Bruce S. Rogow

Robert E. Gregg Miramar, FL Bruce S. Rogow
Cynthia Elizabeth Gunther Fort Lauderdale, Bruce S. Rogow
FL
Jason Klaus Gunther Fort Lauderdale, Bruce S. Rogow
FL
Joseph Peter Jones Tallahassee, FL Bruce S. Rogow
Cecilia Carolina Maluje Miami Lakes, FL Bruce S. Rogow
Andres Montejo Miami, FL Bruce S. Rogow
Brian oh-Eachtuigheirn El Jobean, FL Bruce S. Rogow
Gary Michael Sheres Fort Lauderdale, Bruce S. Rogow
FL
Phillip Randall Semenick Fort Lauderdale, Bruce S. Rogow
FL
Mara Beth Sommers Miami, FL Bruce S. Rogow
Angela Sharon Spencer Washington, DC Bruce S. Rogow
Elaine Danae Papas New York, NY Bruce S. Rogow
Aaron Felton Allison Austin, TX Bruce S. Rogow
Andrew M. Cargill Pembroke Pines, Bruce S. Rogow
FL
Oral Arguments
Holder, Jr., Attorney General. Argued by Mr. Sri Srinivasan for the
petitioner and by Ms. Nicole A. Saharsky for the respondent.
Wykenna Watson. Argued by Ms. Jaclyn S. Frankfurt for the peti
tioner, by Mr. Robert A. Long, Jr. for the respondent, and by
Ms. Solicitor General Elena Kagan for the United States as amicus
curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting the respondent.
Adjourned until Monday, April 5, 2010, at 10 o’clock.

(JOURNAL) MONDAY, APRIL 5, 2010 715


tice Thomas, Justice Ginsburg, and Justice Alito.
No. 08–9888. Jesus Natividad Santos-Sanchez, Petitioner v. United
Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed
peals for the Fifth Circuit for further consideration in light of Padilla
v. Kentucky, 559 U. S. ––– (2010).
No. 09–163. Ameriprise Financial, Inc., fka American Express Fi
nancial Corporation, et al., Petitioners v. John E. Gallus, et al. On peti
the Eighth Circuit. Petition for writ of certiorari granted. Judgment
the Eighth Circuit for further consideration in light of Jones v. Harris
Associates L.P., 559 U. S. ––– (2010).

No. 09M83. Juan Wiggins, Petitioner v. William F. Logan, et al. Mo
time denied.
No. 09M84. Norman B. Calvert, Petitioner v. United States. Motion
for leave to proceed as a veteran denied.
Quon, et al. Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in
Motion of The Rutherford Institute for leave to file a brief as amicus
curiae granted.
No. 09–8259. Mike Redford, Petitioner v. Gwinnett County Judicial
Circuit, et al. Motion of petitioner for reconsideration of order denying
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Certiorari Denied
No. 09–489. Theresa D’Jamoos, as Executrix of the Estate of Dawn
Elizabeth Weingeroff, et al., Petitioners v. Pilatus Aircraft Ltd., et al.
No. 09–498. Ismael John, et al., Petitioners v. United States; and
No. 09–499. People of Bikini, Petitioner v. United States. Petitions
No. 09–681. Armand Bonvicino, et al., Petitioners v. Bruce Hopkins.
No. 09–709. Jeffrey J. Reed, Petitioner v. International Union,
United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of
America. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–755. Louis Dale Marcantel, Individually and in His Official
Capacity as Chief of Police of the Village of Turkey Creek, Louisiana,
Petitioner v. Michell B. Deville, et vir; and
No. 09–817. Dewayne Tarver, Individually and in His Official Capac
ity as Duly Commissioned Officer by the Village of Turkey Creek, Peti
tioner v. Michell B. Deville, et vir. Petitions for writs of certiorari to
No. 09–779. Elmon Walters, et al., Petitioners v. American Coach
Lines of Miami, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–819. SAP AG, et al., Petitioners v. Sky Technologies LLC.
No. 09–922. Dave Jordan, Petitioner v. Apache Corp., et al. Petition
No. 09–952. John H. Bradbury, Petitioner v. Idaho Judicial Council.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Idaho denied.
No. 09–957. Charles Patton, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–959. Thomas W. Heath, III, Petitioner v. Securities and Ex
change Commission. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
MONDAY, APRIL 5, 2010 717

No. 09–1000. Charles M. Krutsinger, Petitioner v. Colorado. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Colorado denied.
No. 09–1001. H. Richard Austin, Petitioner v. Douglas G. Peterson &
Associates, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–1004. Illinois Dunesland Preservation Society, Petitioner v.
Illinois Department of Natural Resources, et al. Petition for writ of
cuit denied.
No. 09–1015. Yuri J. Stoyanov, Petitioner v. Department of the Navy.
No. 09–1017. Superior Highwall Miners, Inc., et al., Petitioners v.
Danny L. Frye. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of
West Virginia, Boone County, denied.
No. 09–1018. Superior Highwall Miners, Inc., et al., Petitioners v.
Danny L. Frye. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of
Appeals of West Virginia denied.
No. 09–1024. William Dawson Nursing Center, Inc., Petitioner v.
Eduard Adam Glavinskas. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Appel
late Court of Illinois, First District, denied.
No. 09–1034. Charles M. Frye, Petitioner v. Excelsior College. Peti
No. 09–1055. Luis Rivera-Newton, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–1058. Luis Felix Viera, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–1072. Fortino Cobain Bueno, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7361. Henry Zelaya, Jose H. Cruz Diaz, and Omar Vazquez,
Petitioners v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–7373. Angel Perez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7558. Larry Robinson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–7592. Mateen Abdul-Aziz, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7819. Nicholas Lugo, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7826. Angel Balbuena, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7833. John Andrew Docampo, Jr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7952. Billy John Galloway, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–8472. Lloyd T. Stephens, Petitioner v. Fourth Judicial Dis
trict Court, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–8583. Darcy Walker, Petitioner v. John E. Potter, Postmaster
No. 09–8864. Robert L. Henry, Petitioner v. Florida Department of
No. 09–8868. Sheila Mannix, Petitioner v. Sharon L. Prather, et al.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Illinois denied.
No. 09–8870. LeSaundra Jenkins, Petitioner v. Tina Hornbeak, War
No. 09–8882. Troy W. Dalton, Petitioner v. Gene M. Johnson, Direc
No. 09–8883. A. Waheed Chaudry, Petitioner v. Whispering Ridge
Homeowners Association. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of
Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division One, denied.

No. 09–8884. Winfred Forkner, Petitioner v. Clifton Kaho, Warden.
No. 09–8886. Bernard R. Van Pelz, Petitioner v. John C. Marshall,
No. 09–8893. Bryan Sean Galvin, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Mid
dle District, denied.
No. 09–8895. Ealise Crumb, Petitioner v. Kmart Corporation, et al.
No. 09–8898. Virginia Susan Caudill, Petitioner v. Kentucky. Petition
No. 09–8904. Wardell Moore, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–8911. Cary A. Wilke, Petitioner v. Barbara Meyer, et al. Peti
No. 09–8914. Bruce Earl Ward, Petitioner v. Ray Hobbs, Interim
denied.
No. 09–8918. Anthony Benjamin, Petitioner v. Lorettan Wallace,
No. 09–8920. Stephanie Bonds, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–8922. Kerry L. Brown, Petitioner v. Jody Hathaway, Warden.
No. 09–8928. Donniel Woods, Petitioner v. South Carolina Judicial.
No. 09–8930. Curtis Windom, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
cuit denied.
No. 09–8942. Anthony Pompey, Petitioner v. New York. Petition for
No. 09–8947. Alice Richards-Johnson, Petitioner v. American Ex
press. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
No. 09–8952. Emilio Jesus Nunez, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8953. Oscar Alberto Parada, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–8955. Dickie Crawley, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Hamilton County, denied.
No. 09–8956. Joseph Barragan Campa, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition
denied.
No. 09–8960. Geraldo C. Bascomb, II, Petitioner v. Larry A. Small,
No. 09–8961. Thomas James Roberts, Petitioner v. Billy Mitchem,
No. 09–8965. Joseph D. Thornblad, Petitioner v. Robin Christopher
Vue-Benson, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–8968. William R. Harding, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Montgomery
County, denied.
No. 09–8971. Daniel Jon Peterka, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
cuit denied.
No. 09–8974. Darrell Wayne Maness, Petitioner v. North Carolina.
lina denied.

No. 09–8990. Darren Ray Pratcher, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–8996. Memphis Ford Ware, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
District, denied.
No. 09–9006. Bryan Lefey-Rivera, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9014. Akeem Muhammad, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
cuit denied.
No. 09–9066. Thomas Simone, Petitioner v. Louis S. Folino, Super
intendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9082. Marek A. Kwasnik, Petitioner v. Maine. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine denied.
No. 09–9089. Barry Wayne Adams, Petitioner v. Michigan. Petition
No. 09–9092. Juan Esber Manzur, Petitioner v. Stephen K. Montoya,
No. 09–9110. Willie Taylor, Petitioner v. P. L. Vasquez, Warden. Peti
No. 09–9112. Clyde Meikle, Petitioner v. James Dzurenda, Warden.
No. 09–9127. William Alfred Prescod, Jr., Petitioner v. United
No. 09–9148. Arthur Cal, Petitioner v. Thomas Bell, Warden. Peti
No. 09–9155. Raymond Semler, Petitioner v. Cal Ludeman, et al.
denied.
No. 09–9157. William Riley Sutherland, Petitioner v. Donald Gaetz,

No. 09–9166. Freddy Lee Slack, Petitioner v. Susan Jones, Warden,
No. 09–9175. Mary P. Thomas, Petitioner v. Tom Marola, et al. Peti
No. 09–9202. Anthony Lipscomb, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9246. Kristofer Thomas Kastner, Petitioner v. Martin,
Drought & Torres, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of
Appeals of Texas, Fourth District, denied.
No. 09–9268. Fernando Real, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Petition for
Office, denied.
No. 09–9271. Derek Martinez, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
District, denied.
No. 09–9288. Jason G. Van Norman, Petitioner v. Charles L. Ryan,
cuit denied.
No. 09–9301. Eddie G. Cargile, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Sec
cuit denied.
No. 09–9333. Guadalupe Cisneros-Mora, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9337. Joseph Martin, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9348. Cory Devon Steward, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–9349. Shane Watkins, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9354. John-Pierre Baney, Petitioner v. Department of Justice.
No. 09–9358. Charmar Brown, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9360. Sheldon Thomas Cain, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9364. Cazzie L. Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9368. Anibal Ulloa, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–9372. J. Lamont Lindsey, Petitioner v. DaimlerChrysler Cor
poration. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Mich
igan denied.
No. 09–9374. Chris Jackson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9385. Steve Dias, aka Troy, aka O’Neil Guthrie, Petitioner v.
No. 09–9388. Howard Edward McCall, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9389. Travon Gardner, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9393. Kevin Patrick Flood, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9395. Rafael Gonzalez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9401. Nathan Messick, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–9402. Terry Earl Neidlinger, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9406. Anthony Jackson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9409. Jose A. Robles-Rodriguez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9410. Yayah Talib, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9413. Maurice Wellons, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9417. Byron Javonne Deloatch, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9419. Anthony Stanley, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9420. Matthew David Stymiest, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9421. Richard A. Smith, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9428. Jose Ruvalcaba, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9430. Tyrone Santos, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9431. Richard Booth, Petitioner v. West Virginia. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
denied.

No. 09–9433. Walter Brown, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9436. Lawrence Ringer, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9438. Curley Ray Morrison, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9440. Jeremy Mouzon, aka Ferris Earl Scott Green, Peti
No. 09–9443. Carlos Cruz Toro, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9448. Brenden Glinton, aka Bobby, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–9449. Rodricka Jermaine Gambrell, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–9450. Kenneth Wayne Gragg, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9451. Mark Raymond Ford, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9452. Nathaniel Gaither, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9454. Altemio Gonzales, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9455. Marco Green, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–9457. Maurice Jones, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9461. Rickey Lee Scott, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–9462. Andre De Leon-Quinones, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9463. Jerome Payton, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9477. Bobby Weston, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9479. Dominic A. Davis, aka Dominic Anthony Davis, Peti
No. 09–9486. Mario Alberto Simbaqueba Bonilla, Petitioner v.
No. 09–9489. Raul Lopez-Reyes, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9492. David Samuel Martinez-Velez, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–9496. John Leon Noster, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9497. Christopher Ray Parrish, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9510. William Henry Barnwell, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9511. Walter Sanders, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9519. Brian Keith Watts, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–9521. Jose G. Vargas-Victoria, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–631. Elisa Encarnacion, on Behalf of Arlene George, et al.,
Petitioners v. Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security. Peti
No. 09–700. Homaidan Al-Turki, Petitioner v. Colorado. Motion of
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, et al. for leave to
file a brief as amici curiae granted. Motion of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Colorado denied.
No. 09–728. Jon A. Jensen, et ux., Petitioners v. Paul A. Stoot, Sr.,
et al. Motion of National Association of Police Organizations, Inc. for
leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted. Motion of City of Escon
dido for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–925. Martha Dean, Petitioner v. Richard Blumenthal, Attor
ney General of Connecticut. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–8671. Daniel Bedford, Petitioner v. Terry Collins, Warden.
Motion of petitioner for remand denied. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–8902. Isiah James, Jr., Petitioner v. C. Kelly Jackson, et al.
No. 09–8957. Wei Chen, Petitioner v. William Lape, Superintendent,
Coxsackie Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–8958. Stephen Crump, Petitioner v. Superior Court of Cali

fornia, Alameda County. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied. Justice Breyer
No. 09–9165. Mike Redford, Petitioner v. Collier Heights Apart
ments, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pau
peris denied, and petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals
of Georgia dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–9225. Rodney Branham, Petitioner v. David Bergh, et al.;
and Rodney Branham, Petitioner v. Terry Malloy, et al. Motion of peti
Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–9347. Andre Robinson, aka Dre Dre, aka Team, Petitioner v.
No. 09–9375. Emmanuel Obi Maduka, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9432. Laval Farmer, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–9447. Antonio Feliciano, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9459. Carolyn E. O’Connor, Petitioner v. United States. Mo
tion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari before judgment to the United States Court
of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–9495. Christine Owad, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

Mandamus Denied
No. 09–8954. In Re Herbert Morton, Petitioner. Petition for writ of
mandamus denied.
Rehearings Denied
No. 09–7280. Paul Farnsworth, Petitioner v. Larry McNeil, et al.;
No. 09–7367. Donald C. Richardson, Petitioner v. Michigan State
Treasurer;
No. 09–7439. Donald Griggs, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–7457. Curtis Fuller, Petitioner v. David Bergh, Warden;
No. 09–7587. Raymond P. Vinnie, Petitioner v. Massachusetts;
No. 09–7676. Gerald H. Sternberg, Petitioner v. Michigan State Uni
versity, et al.;
No. 09–7714. Fred L. Murray, Jr., Petitioner v. Hyacinth Walker-
Murray;
No. 09–7877. Janet Francis, Petitioner v. Joint Force Headquarters
National Guard, et al.;
No. 09–7878. Sheila Dennis, Petitioner v. Keller Meyer Building
Services;
No. 09–8096. In Re James Edward Walls, Petitioner;
No. 09–8100. Ra’Zulu Ukawabutu, Petitioner v. Michelle R. Ricci,
Associate Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al.;
ply, Inc.;
No. 09–8155. Broderick White, Petitioner v. State Farm Insurance
Company;
No. 09–8177. Steven Crain, Petitioner v. Ronald N. Tutor, et al.;
No. 09–8352. In Re Randy Jackson, Petitioner;
No. 09–8458. Allan Elias, Petitioner v. United States; and
No. 09–8535. David Winters, Petitioner v. United States Parole
Commissioner, et al. Petitions for rehearing denied.

Perry Luther Adams Clinton, OK James Martin

Tisdal
Steven A. Allen Baltimore, MD Patricia McHugh
Lambert
Kathleen Hopkins Alsina Houston, TX Thomas R. Nork
James Fredrick Barger, Jr. Birmingham, AL Henry I. Frohsin
Robert Judah Baror

Washington, DC Abbey Gail
Hairston
Robert M. Bauer

Erie, PA Roger H. Taft
John Henry Bedard, Jr.

Atlanta, GA Tomio Buck
Narita
J. Timothy Bobo Knoxville, TN Donald Ray
Elledge
James Livingston Bruner Columbia, SC Warren C.
Powell, Jr.
Patrick C. Burt Salt Lake City, Gregory J.
UT Sanders
J. Thomas Carrato St. Louis, MO Gregory George
Garre
Katrina Jackson Dennis Baltimore, MD John Augustine

Bourgeois

Dustin Phillip Elias Annapolis, MD Edward Vincent

Cassidy, Jr.
Debora Fajer-Smith Greenbelt, MD Timothy Patrick
O’Brien
Eric Vaughn Flam New York, NY Randall S. D.
Jacobs
Denzil Horace Forrester Charlotte, NC Randolph
Marshall Lee
Marcia Vestylena Forsett Bartow, FL James Marion
Moorman
Amanda Jill Futch Monroe, LA Johnny R.
Huckabay, II
Stephanie Agli Gallagher Baltimore, MD Steven Hale Levin
Geoffrey H. Genth Baltimore, MD Andrew Jay
Graham
Grant D. Gerber Baltimore, MD Charles Frederick
Ryland
Tamara M. Gerrard Honolulu, HI Robert S. Katz
Bonnie S. Greenberg Baltimore, MD Andrew Clayton
White
Michael John Halaiko Baltimore, MD Joseph William
Hovermill
Thomas J. Hamilton Washington, DC Stephen H. Myers
Mary L. Harokopus McKinney, TX Robert Francois
Friedman

Richard Clark Harrist Pipe Creek, TX Diana L. Faust

Leianne S. Helfrich Baltimore, MD Joseph William
Hovermill
Katherine Bauer Burrows Baltimore, MD Robert Scott
Hill Brennen
Jonathan Michael Holda Baltimore, MD James Brooks
Wieland
David J. Horr Miami, FL Robert S. Glazier
Gary Mano Hyman Baltimore, MD Jerald J. Oppel
Janice Sue Jude Milaca, MN Randy V.
Thompson
Kendra K. Kawai Honolulu, HI Robert S. Katz
Andrew Kimbrell Washington, DC Paige Michele
Tomaselli
Donna M. Burdyck King Towson, MD Andrew Clayton
White
David Gerard Kinzer Baltimore, MD Kelly J. Davidson
Lance A. Lawson Charlotte, NC Michael Shields
Connor
Richard G. Lubin West Palm Beach, Bradford D.
FL Kaufman
M. David Maloney Baltimore, MD Lee H. Ogburn
Melissa Pierce Selman Jackson, MS Patrick Ryan
Martin Beckett
Jeffery Kyle McClain St. Louis, MO Gregory George
Garre
M. Natalie McSherry Baltimore, MD Andrew Jay
Graham
Frederick William Phoenix, AZ Jason Mark Silver
Meissner, Jr.
Richard Allen Monahan Charleston, WV Marvin W.
Masters
Carla Napier Murphy Baltimore, MD Jerald J. Oppel
Matthew W. Nayden Baltimore, MD George A. Nilson
Anna-Liisa Nixon Fort Lauderdale, Paul Edward Kalil
FL
Edmund J. O’Meally Westminster, MD Leslie Robert
Stellman
Sylvia Ontaneda-Bernales Baltimore, MD Geoffrey Samuel
Tobias
Clayton O. Oswald Richmond, KY John Warren

Keller
Daniel Benjamin Rapport New York, NY Andrew W.
Goldwater
John Francis Xavier Reilly Media, PA Judge Stephen
McEwen, Jr.
Dawn M. B. Resh Baltimore, MD Hilary Baldwin
Ruley
Magda Mariela San Juan, PR Carl
Rexach-Rexach Schuster-Brac
Alicia Natasha Ritchie Baltimore, MD Joseph William
Hovermill
Pedro Santiago Rivera San Juan, PR Rafael E.
Rodriguez
Rivera
Brandon Carter Robinson Pine Bluff, AR Stephen A.
Matthews
Gregory Smith Robison Memphis, TN Johnny R.
Huckabay, II
William B. Rostov Oakland, CA Trent William Orr
Michael A. Schollaert Baltimore, MD John F. Morkan,
III
Alan R. Seher San Francisco, CA Peter Charles
Califano
Vaughn T. Sizemore Charleston, WV Charles R. Bailey
Sharon A. Snyder Baltimore, MD Carel Theilgard
Hedlund
David Gerald Sommer Baltimore, MD Thomas C. Dame
Carmen Victoria St. George New York, NY Steven Joseph
Phillips
Peter Frederick Stine Baltimore, MD Anthony Francis
Vittoria
Kevin P. Sullivan Baltimore, MD Peter Edward
Keith
Alan J. Tauber Philadelphia, PA James J.
McHugh, Jr.
Linda Hitt Thatcher Greenbelt, MD Paul William

Grimm

Martin V. Totaro Arlington, VA Jeffrey Alan

Lamken


Sonja H. Trainor Alexandria, VA Francisco Maria

Negron, Jr.
Pamela Ann Turgeau New Orleans, LA Remy Voisin
Starns
Matthew Thomas Vocci Baltimore, MD M. Hamilton
Whitman, Jr.
Angela Nicole Baltimore, MD Joseph William
Whittaker-Pion Hovermill
Steven Francis Wrobel Baltimore, MD Gerard Patrick
Martin
Stephanie H. Wylie Miami, FL Robert S. Glazier
Wayne S. Yoshigai Honolulu, HI Robert S. Katz

Ian Thomas Ramsey Louisville, KY Jeffrey P. Minear

Kelly Erin McMurdo Louisville, KY Jeffrey P. Minear
Ramsey
Meaghan Elizabeth Washington, DC Jonathan D.
McLaine VerGow Hacker
Jeff Joseph Wurzburg Washington, DC Seth Oppenheim
Heath E. Wells Alexandria, VA Seth Oppenheim
Charlotte Ann Bolton Winnsboro, LA James Huff
McIntyre Rosenblatt
James M. Anderson Jackson, MS James Huff
Rosenblatt
Michele D. Biegel Jackson, MS James Huff
Rosenblatt
Bettie Ruth Johnson Jackson, MS James Huff
Rosenblatt
Michael Scott Jones Jackson, MS James Huff
Rosenblatt
L. Michele McCain Jackson, MS James Huff
Rosenblatt
James Joseph McNamara, Jackson, MS James Huff
IV Rosenblatt
Susan Durham McNamara Jackson, MS James Huff
Rosenblatt
David L. Morrow, Jr. Brandon, MS James Huff
Rosenblatt
Samac Steve Richardson Brandon, MS James Huff

Rosenblatt
Brendan Clark Sartin Brandon, MS James Huff
Rosenblatt
Anas A. Akel San Diego, CA Michael P. Walls
Houman Esmailpour Los Angeles, CA Michael P. Walls
Jiri F. Smetana Washington, DC Michael P. Walls
Patricia Lynn Stasco Arlington, VA Michael P. Walls
Joanna Sochia Markman Syracuse, NY Michael P. Walls
Wojciech F. Jung New York, NY Michael P. Walls
Ritu Kaur Singh Washington, DC Michael P. Walls
Patricia C. Foster Pittsford, NY Michael P. Walls
Ashley Duvall Hayes Syracuse, NY Michael P. Walls
Zaven Taylor Saroyan Los Angeles, CA Michael P. Walls
Donald Schupak New York, NY Michael P. Walls
Frederick W. Turner Tarrytown, NY Michael P. Walls
Michael D. Vozzo Washington, DC Michael P. Walls
Ruth Melanie Amos Folsom, CA Rosemary Conlon
McCarthy
Susan L. Angell Lake Forest, CA Rosemary Conlon
McCarthy
Nancy A. Hoffman Brentwood, CA Rosemary Conlon
McCarthy
Kathleen Ann Murphy San Diego, CA Rosemary Conlon
Jones McCarthy
W. Paulette Francois Philadelphia, PA Rosemary Conlon
McCarthy
Melinda Mitchell Jones Lubbock, TX Rosemary Conlon
McCarthy
Kathleen Marie Kearney Dallas, TX Rosemary Conlon
McCarthy

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surance Company. Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to partici
granted.
Farms, et al. Motion of the Solicitor General for divided argument
granted. Justice Breyer took no part in the consideration or decision of
this motion.
Secretary of State, et al. Motion of respondent Washington Coalition
for Open Government for divided argument denied. Motion of respond
ent Washington Families Standing Together for divided argument
denied.

Relations Board. Parties are directed to file supplemental briefs ad
dressing the following question: What should be the effect, if any, of
the developments discussed in the letter submitted by the Solicitor
General on March 29, 2010, on the proper disposition of this case?
Briefs, if any, in letter format, limited to 8 pages, to be filed simultane
ously with the Clerk and served upon opposing counsel on or before
2 p.m., Monday, April 26, 2010.


No. 08–1307. Charles E. Holster, III, Petitioner v. Gatco, Inc., dba
Folio Associates. On petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Petition for writ of certiorari
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for further consideration in
light of Shady Grove Orthopedic Associates, P. A. v. Allstate Ins. Co.,
559 U. S. ––– (2010). Concurring opinion by Justice Scalia. Dissenting
opinion by Justice Ginsburg, with whom Justice Breyer joins. Justice

No. 09A839. New York, Applicant v. Darrell Williams, et al. Applica
tion for stay addressed to Justice Alito and referred to the Court
denied.
No. 09M85. Howard L. Thompson, Petitioner v. Florida; and Howard
L. Thompson, Petitioner v. Florida. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a
respondent for appointment of counsel granted. Peter Jon Van Hoek,
Esquire, of Detroit, Michigan, is appointed to serve as counsel for the
respondent in this case.
Secretary of State, et al. Motion of American Business Media, et al. for
leave to file a brief as amici curiae out of time granted.
No. 09–944. Placer Dome, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Provincial Gov
ernment of Marinduque, Republic of the Philippines. The Solicitor Gen
eral is invited to file a brief in this case expressing the views of the
United States.

tion of petitioner for appointment of counsel granted. David L. Horan,
Esquire, of Dallas, Texas, is appointed to serve as counsel for the peti
tioner in this case.
pauperis denied.
No. 09–8375. Peter J. Schultz, Petitioner v. Francis Halpin, et al.
No. 09–8604. Donald W. Doerr, Petitioner v. Dan Walker, et al. Mo
No. 09–8917. Thomas L. Bates, Petitioner v. United States District
Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Motion of petitioner for
denied.
No. 09–9536. Edward J. Mierzwa, Petitioner v. Hackensack Univer
sity Medical Center. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
pauperis denied. Petitioner allowed until May 10, 2010, within which
No. 09–9686. Francisco Robles, Petitioner v. United States. Motion
allowed until May 10, 2010, within which to pay the docketing fee re
Certiorari Granted
No. 08–1423. Costco Wholesale Corporation, Petitioner v. Omega,

S. A. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
peals for the Ninth Circuit granted.
No. 09–400. Vincent E. Staub, Petitioner v. Proctor Hospital. Peti
the Seventh Circuit granted.
No. 09–846. United States, Petitioner v. Tohono O’odham Nation.
for the Federal Circuit granted.

No. 09–907. Jason M. Ransom, Petitioner v. FIA Card Services,
N. A., fka MBNA America Bank, N. A. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted.
Certiorari Denied
No. 08–11105. Byron Mario Barriteau, et al., Petitioners v. Eric H.
No. 09–79. Beauvais Bellevue, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., At
No. 09–176. Lea Lakeside-Scott, Petitioner v. Multnomah County,
Oregon, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–440. William H. Schramm, Petitioner v. Raymond L. LaHood,
Secretary of Transportation. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–538. Consumers’ Checkbook, Center for the Study of Serv
ices, Petitioner v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al.
No. 09–580. Harley D. Zephier, Sr., et al., Petitioners v. United
States, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–583. Henrietta Browning, Petitioner v. United States, et al.
No. 09–590. The Programmers Guild, et al., Petitioners v. Janet Na
politano, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–604. Vince Vinhtuong Nguyen, Petitioner v. California. Peti
No. 09–628. Richard Vezina, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
No. 09–664. Luis Enrique Arambula-Medina, Petitioner v. Eric H.
No. 09–666. Lithium Power Technologies, Inc., et al., Petitioners v.
United States, ex rel. Alfred J. Longhi, Jr., et al. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–678. Patricia Simon, et al., Petitioners v. United States. Peti
No. 09–717. Delma Banks, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director, Texas
No. 09–727. Rodrique Bradley, Petitioner v. Louisiana. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit,
denied.
No. 09–763. Darniece Turnipseed, et al., Petitioners v. Dorothy
Brown, Clerk, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County, et al. Petition for
denied.
No. 09–788. Norfolk Southern Railway Company, Petitioner v.
Thomas David Jordan, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court
of Appeals of Tennessee, Western Division, denied.
No. 09–790. Edmund Zagorski, Petitioner v. Ricky Bell, Warden.
No. 09–799. Eric L. Davies, et ux., Petitioners v. David T. Moysa,
et ux.; and Eric L. Davies, et ux., Petitioners v. Philip Doi, Judge,
District Court of Hawaii, First Circuit, et al. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the Supreme Court of Hawaii denied.
No. 09–800. North County Community Alliance, Inc., Petitioner v.
Ken L. Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–810. Grand River Enterprises Six Nations, Ltd., Petitioner
v. Dustin McDaniel, Attorney General of Arkansas. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth
Circuit denied.
No. 09–826. David K. Stone, et al., Petitioners v. Devon Energy Pro
duction Company, L. P., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Su
preme Court of Wyoming denied.
No. 09–946. Joseph Jaskolski, et al., Petitioners v. Rick Daniels, et al.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Indiana, First
District, denied.

No. 09–947. Cyrus Yoo Kim, Petitioner v. Targa Real Estate Service,
No. 09–950. Marci J. Bittner, Petitioner v. Snyder County, Pennsyl
vania, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–961. Roy Den Hollander, et al., Petitioners v. United States,
No. 09–964. William A. McGowan, Petitioner v. Deere & Company.
No. 09–970. Richard Boyle, Petitioner v. Michael J. Astrue, Commis
sioner of Social Security. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–971. James Marshall, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
trict, denied.
No. 09–974. Anthony Armando Rios, Petitioner v. California. Peti
No. 09–975. Maria L. Peterson, Petitioner v. PDQ Food Stores Inc.,
No. 09–984. Timothy J. Owen, Petitioner v. Stephen P. Sands. Peti
No. 09–995. David Tolle, Petitioner v. Kentucky. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Supreme Court of Kentucky denied.
No. 09–1002. David Michael Davis, Petitioner v. Minnesota. Petition
No. 09–1003. Sergey Fisenko, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attor
No. 09–1013. Felipe Soriano-Arellano, Petitioner v. Eric H.
No. 09–1020. Joe Newton, Petitioner v. Ray Hobbs, Interim Director,

Arkansas Department of Correction. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–1043. Emil D. Anghel, Petitioner v. Saint Francis Hospital
and Medical Center. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Appellate
Court of Connecticut denied.
No. 09–1045. David Paland, Petitioner v. Brooktrails Township Com
munity Services District Board of Directors. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District,
denied.
No. 09–1049. Douglas J. Raymond, Petitioner v. Supreme Court of
Ohio. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Ohio
denied.
No. 09–1068. John Marshall Cogswell, Petitioner v. United States
Senate. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–1084. Fred Kratt, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–1093. John A. Hickey, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–1094. Charles Melvin Campbell, Jr., Petitioner v. United
No. 09–1096. Fresenius USA, Inc. et al., Petitioners v. Baxter Inter
national, Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–1099. Sholom Rubashkin, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–1102. Joyce E. Rowley, Petitioner v. City of North Myrtle
Beach, South Carolina, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–1107. Ernest Turner, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–1120. Vinnie Bilotto, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–1129. Timothy Conrad Rehak and Mark Paul Naylon, Peti
No. 09–1133. Eugene Davis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–1139. Kenneth Thompson, Petitioner v. United States and
No. 09–1141. Romel Bolger, Petitioner v. United States. Petitions
No. 09–1153. Donn Carswell, et al., Petitioners v. Hawaii Depart
ment of Land and Natural Resources, et al. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the Intermediate Court of Appeals of Hawaii denied.
No. 09–6845. Aminata Bubu Kamara, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder,
No. 09–7382. Albert Randolph, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7579. Mario Lou Meza, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
No. 09–7697. Freddy Lee Foots, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7845. Mikal David Adams, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–7927. Freddie J. Grayson, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–7950. Jesse Leon Christian, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8022. Vincent Tu, Petitioner v. California. Petition for writ

trict, denied.
No. 09–8087. Albert Quezada, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
No. 09–8126. Omari Sharifa Coley, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8147. Joseph T. Nurek, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8185. James Joseph Brown, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8195. Paul E. Woodward, Petitioner v. Christopher B. Epps,
Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections. Petition for writ
cuit denied.
No. 09–8206. Gregory Shawn Mercer, Petitioner v. Virginia. Petition
No. 09–8266. Ruben Ramirez Cardenas, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition
No. 09–8416. Luis Daniel Baltazar, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–8511. Edward Gutierrez, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
District, denied.
No. 09–8512. Dwane Ingalls, Petitioner v. The AES Corporation.
No. 09–8589. Duane Edward Buck, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–8591. Alex Yalda, Petitioner v. California. Petition for writ
District, Division One, denied.

No. 09–8610. Charles Dean Hood, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
No. 09–8613. Juan Heron-Salinas, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8766. Michael Jeffrey Land, Petitioner v. Richard F. Allen,
Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for
No. 09–8980. Rafeal Johnson, Petitioner v. Terry Goddard, Attorney
General of Arizona, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–8981. Antony J. Dick, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Petition
District, denied.
No. 09–8983. Deandre Lewis, Petitioner v. Derral G. Adams, War
No. 09–8986. Joan Ochei, Petitioner v. All Care/Onward Healthcare,
No. 09–8992. Ellis Harley Barber, Petitioner v. Federal Bureau of
Investigation, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–8997. Eric Thomas, Petitioner v. Derral G. Adams, Warden,
No. 09–9001. Eliberto Vega Noriega, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
No. 09–9002. Gerald James Holland, Petitioner v. James V. Ander
son, Superintendent, Mississippi State Penitentiary. Petition for writ
cuit denied.
No. 09–9005. Yuki LaValley, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
late District, Division One, denied.
No. 09–9009. John E. Winfield, Petitioner v. Don Roper, Super

intendent, Potosi Correctional Center. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the Supreme Court of Missouri denied.
No. 09–9020. Domingo Vega, Petitioner v. Catherine C. McVey, et al.
No. 09–9022. Chad Everett Johnston, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
No. 09–9023. Darnell Lloyd, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Petition for
Office, denied.
No. 09–9026. David Miller, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director, Texas
No. 09–9028. James Lee Crummel, Petitioner v. Matthew Cate, Sec
retary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al.
No. 09–9031. Peter Anthony Cantu, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–9040. James D. Lyons, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9045. Reuben Nieves, Petitioner v. World Savings Bank,
FSB, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–9046. Todd Darrell Ballard, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, Pitts
burgh Office, denied.
No. 09–9047. Eddie J. Armant, Petitioner v. Richard L. Stalder, for
mer Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections,

No. 09–9050. Timothy Byrd, Petitioner v. Gail Lewis, Warden, et al.
No. 09–9051. Patricia Susan Boyer, Petitioner v. Stan Lee Boyer.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Missouri,
No. 09–9055. Abdul Muhammad, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for
denied.
No. 09–9058. Georgia A. Green, Petitioner v. Christopher Maroules,
No. 09–9062. Darryl Jennings, Petitioner v. New Jersey. Petition for
sion, denied.
No. 09–9063. James Edward Lang, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
No. 09–9068. Scott R. Zabriskie, Petitioner v. Orlando Police, et al.
ida, Fifth District, denied.
No. 09–9069. George Thomas Wilkerson, Petitioner v. North Caro
lina. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of North
Carolina denied.
No. 09–9073. Fard Muhammed, Petitioner v. Wisconsin Insurance
Security Fund, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of
Appeals of Wisconsin, District IV, denied.
No. 09–9075. Dennis A. Ball, Petitioner v. Carol L. Ball, et al.; and
Dennis Andrew Ball, Petitioner v. Arthur Paul Blunt, et al. Petition
No. 09–9077. Alexander Bell, Petitioner v. Major Myers, et al. Peti
No. 09–9081. Delbert McNeil, Jr., Petitioner v. Bruce Howard, War
No. 09–9083. Eric John King, Petitioner v. Charles L. Ryan, Direc

tor, Arizona Department of Corrections. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–9084. Bernell Jones, Petitioner v. Brian Fischer, Commis
sioner, New York Department of Correctional Services. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9086. April Rose Wilkens, Petitioner v. Oklahoma. Petition
denied.
No. 09–9087. Charles Jason Benedict, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition
denied.
No. 09–9088. Otis Blaxton, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–9090. Charles Liston, Petitioner v. Michael Bowersox, Super
intendent, South Central Correctional Center. Petition for writ of cer
denied.
No. 09–9100. Daniel Trevino, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
cuit denied.
No. 09–9109. Benny Lee Hodge, Petitioner v. Philip Parker, Warden.
No. 09–9117. Rashan Williams, Petitioner v. Burl Cain, Warden.
No. 09–9119. John Witherow, Petitioner v. Jackie Crawford, et al.
No. 09–9124. Carson D. Combs, Petitioner v. Laurie Voigt, et al.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin,
District IV, denied.
No. 09–9128. Kelvin Parker, Petitioner v. Gene M. Johnson, Director,
the Supreme Court of Virginia denied.

No. 09–9129. Shongo Collier, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–9132. Tarone D. Johnson, Petitioner v. South Carolina, et al.
No. 09–9134. John B. Mardesich, Petitioner v. Washington. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Washington, Division
1, denied.
No. 09–9138. Carson Darnell Combs, Petitioner v. Dennis Pedersen,
Sheriff, Monroe County, Wisconsin. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–9139. Roy Dixon, Petitioner v. Palm Beach County Parks
and Recreation Department. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–9140. Steven Crain, Petitioner v. Clark County Public De
fender, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–9147. Michael R. Casey, Petitioner v. Peter Harvey. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of New Jersey denied.
No. 09–9150. Gloria D. Smith, Petitioner v. Estes Express. Petition
No. 09–9151. Michael A. Smith, Petitioner v. Missouri. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Missouri, Southern Dis
trict, denied.
No. 09–9167. Raymond L. Semler, Petitioner v. Donna Finch. Peti
No. 09–9169. Jared Daniel Johnston, Petitioner v. Derrick L. Ollison,
No. 09–9170. Timothy Hugh Lindsey, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9207. Michael D. Webb, Petitioner v. David Bobby, Warden.
No. 09–9221. Kenneth Edward Barbour, Petitioner v. Virginia De
partment of Corrections, et al.; Kenneth Edward Barbour, Petitioner
v. Legislation Upon Virginia Department of Corrections; Kenneth Ed

ward Barbour, Petitioner v. Keeffee Commissaries at Virginia Depart
ment of Corrections; Kenneth Edward Barbour, Petitioner v. Virginia
Department of Corrections; Kenneth Edward Barbour, Petitioner v.
Virginia Department of Corrections; Kenneth Edward Barbour, Peti
tioner v. Virginia Department of Corrections; Kenneth Edward Bar
bour, Petitioner v. Virginia Department of Corrections, et al.; Kenneth
Edward Barbour, Petitioner v. Virginia Department of Corrections,
et al.; Kenneth Edward Barbour, Petitioner v. Virginia Department of
Corrections; and Kenneth Edward Barbour, Petitioner v. Representa
tive of the Persons Assistant Warden Harvey. Petition for writ of cer
denied.
No. 09–9224. Pedro Arana, Petitioner v. California. Petition for writ
District, denied.
No. 09–9231. Gerard D. Grandoit, Petitioner v. Cooperative for
Human Services, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–9237. Tyheem Keesh and Jesus Jova, Petitioners v. Joseph T.
Smith, Superintendent, Shawangunk Correctional Facility, et al. Peti
No. 09–9278. Oscar Rhodes, Petitioner v. William Lee, Superintend
No. 09–9279. Fred Ray, Jr., Petitioner v. Missouri. Petition for writ
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9286. Thomas P. Richard, Sr., Petitioner v. Pennsylvania.
Pittsburgh Office, denied.
No. 09–9289. Olasebikan Akinmulero, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder,
Jr., Attorney General, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–9303. Raymond DeLeon, Jr., Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc

No. 09–9310. Curtis Al’Shahid, Petitioner v. Stuart Hudson, Warden.
No. 09–9312. Grace Miles, Petitioner v. Royce Lee Makishima, et al.
No. 09–9315. Charles Crenshaw, Petitioner v. Michael D. Klopotoski,
No. 09–9327. Leroy Parham, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9339. Jose Antonio Martinez, Petitioner v. California. Peti
No. 09–9340. Dwight David Lewis, Petitioner v. Keith W. Davis,
No. 09–9343. Ronald A. Thurmond, Petitioner v. Ken McKee, War
No. 09–9382. Stanford T. Allen, Jr., Petitioner v. David Ballard, War
No. 09–9386. Floyd E. Cross, Petitioner v. Des Moines Police De
partment, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–9390. Doris Ann Hall, Petitioner v. Merit Systems Protection
Board. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–9391. David Lynn Hall, Jr., Petitioner v. Virginia. Petition
No. 09–9424. Henry J. DuLaurence, III, Petitioner v. Liberty Mutual
Insurance Company, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Appeals
Court of Massachusetts denied.
No. 09–9444. West Virginia, ex rel. Alex Farmer, Petitioner v.
Thomas McBride, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Su
preme Court of Appeals of West Virginia denied.
No. 09–9467. Joshua Howard, Petitioner v. Nevin Webster, et al.

No. 09–9473. David Wayne Gaddy, Petitioner v. Mississippi. Petition
No. 09–9475. Dmitry Gorbaty, Petitioner v. Portfolio Recovery Asso
ciates, LLC. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–9478. Halvor Carl, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9481. Curtis Simmons, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9482. Mark Jordan, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9503. Sherman Bobb, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9504. Marty Dale Williams, Petitioner v. Robert E. Cooper,
Jr., Attorney General of Tennessee. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–9512. Larry Spykes, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9516. Antonio Hudson, Petitioner v. Robert Kapture, War
No. 09–9518. Trevor Miller, aka Tony, aka Dread, aka Derrick, Peti
No. 09–9525. Darnell Nesbit, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9526. Tyrone Morton, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–9527. Buony Roum, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–9537. Jovito Matas Binoya, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9540. Andrew E. Warrington, Petitioner v. Perry Phelps,
No. 09–9543. Shawndale D. Saunders, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9544. James Clinton McCorvey, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9546. Anthony Moreland, aka Tony, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–9549. Jorge W. Cortes-Morales, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9550. Akil Dorsey, aka Thomas Michael Reed, aka Kil Dor
sey, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–9552. Carlos Andres Monsalve, aka Toty, aka Toti, aka Sebas
tian, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–9554. Germon Montrel Winston, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9556. Rashawn Bias, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9558. Rodney Audie Belvado, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9560. Michael Christopher Davis, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9561. Tremayne Scoggins, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–9562. Thomas Martin Sukup, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9566. Leticia Galeote, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9567. Marcus Lynn Foster, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9568. Ben Hickman, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9569. P. W. Ferguson, aka P. W., aka Patrick William Fergu
son, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–9570. Jesus Cervantes-Guzman, Petitioner v. United States;
and
No. 09–9590. Fabian Bernal-Benitez, Petitioner v. United States. Pe
titions for writs of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for
No. 09–9571. Toijuana Gene Collins, aka Toijuana Collins, aka G-
Red, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–9576. Roosevelt Cornell Sanders, Petitioner v. Terry O’
Brien, Warden, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–9577. Alan L. Simmons, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9578. Tommy Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9581. Edres Montgomery, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–9582. Corey Mims, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–9583. Richard Allen Allen, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9586. Christopher L. Jeburk, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9588. Dwight Jerome Latham, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9589. Paul Richard Butts, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9591. Marcelino Ramos-Lopez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9592. Clinton Lee Rumley, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9593. Gayot Dorval, aka Bobby, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9595. David Carroll, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9596. Earl L. Diehl, Petitioner v. Deirdre A. Morgan, War
No. 09–9597. Debra Ceniceros, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9598. Selvin Aguilar Discua, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9601. Christiane M. Schliefsteiner, Petitioner v. Melinda
O’Brien. Petition for writ of certiorari to the District of Columbia
No. 09–9608. Luis Ceballos, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

Circuit denied.
No. 09–9610. Corey Roane, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9613. Jose Luis Murillo-Rodriguez, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–9615. Michael Breon, Petitioner v. United States; and
No. 09–9679. Cornelius Robinson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9621. Anthony Lamonte Pace, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9623. James Bernis Midkiff, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9624. Gary L. Adams, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9627. John Lee Boyd, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9628. Donalt Yovani Martinez-Martinez, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–9633. Gregory Jens, Petitioner v. Larry Jenkins, Warden.
No. 09–9641. Anthony Jackson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9644. Carol Peirce, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.

No. 09–9645. Uzoma Okechukwu Osuagwu, aka Nnana Okereke, aka
Bret Stanley, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–9646. Alejandro Silva, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9648. John A. Martin, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9650. Samuel K. Willis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9656. Earlfonzo Love, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
denied.
No. 09–9657. Dean Lawther, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–9663. Miguel Vega-Colon, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9666. Emerson O. Davis, aka Mercy, aka John Calvin, aka
Dred, aka Stanford Robinson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–9670. Romaldo Acuna Gomez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9671. Trevin Nunnally, aka Rick, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9672. Kevin Harris, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9674. Eleno Colin Feliciano, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9681. Robert Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

Circuit denied.
No. 09–9682. Guy Salom, aka Roberto Falcon, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–9684. Johnnie L. Reed, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9692. Johnny Bradberry, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9693. Iran Dwayne Ketchup, Petitioner v. Joe D. Driver,
No. 09–9694. Ruben Reyes-Echevarria, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9696. Alif Bass, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ
cuit denied.
No. 09–9698. Eric Nelson Bertram, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9700. Eddy Oliver Lopez-Lopez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9710. Adrick E. Ruckes, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9713. Maurice Dorvilus, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9716. Juan Antonio Lubo, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9717. Juan Lahera, Petitioner v. The Walt Disney Company,

No. 09–9718. Jose Ulises Ayala-Ramos, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9719. Santos Ortiz-Arriaga, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9722. Octavio Rojas-Rodriguez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9727. Sergio Covarrubias-Garcia, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9728. Gustavo Calderon-Garcia, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9732. Moises Valverde-Garcia, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9733. John Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9734. Jose Luis Zuniga-Mendez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9737. Terrence S. Owden, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9739. Jesus Silvero Jaquez-Diaz, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9742. Manuel Hernandez-Hernandez, aka Manuel Ernesto
Hernandez-Hernandez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–9748. Michael J. Murphy, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9753. Darryl Dewayne Edwards, aka David Devon Wilson,

No. 09–9755. Donald Barton Deshotels, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9759. Charles Lawson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9760. Jerome John Loew, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9763. Lawrence Jackson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9765. Mitchell Swain, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9766. Marshall Richmond, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9777. Jennifer D. Guerra, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9781. Adan Guerrero-Flores, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9783. John Eric Gilliam, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9785. Gerardo Gonzalez-Gutierrez, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–9788. Cesar Quintero-Calle, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9791. Tiberino Mena-Hidlago, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–9792. Frank Phillips, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–579. Sheldon Peters Wolfchild, et al., Petitioners v. United
States, et al. Motion of Historic Shingle Springs Miwok for leave to
No. 09–781. Minnesota, Petitioner v. Danon Jason Russell. Motion of
No. 09–805. D. D., Petitioner v. New Jersey Division of Youth and
Family Services, ex rel. M. D. and K. D., Minors. Motion of respondents
M. D. and K. D. for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appel
late Division, denied.
No. 09–813. Wendy Gennimi, Petitioner v. Town of Lewisboro, New
York, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–861. Citizens for Police Accountability Political Committee,
et al. Petitioners v. Kurt S. Browning, Florida Secretary of State, et al.
Motion of Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project, et al. for
denied.
No. 09–931. Kenneth L. Smith, Petitioner v. Michael L. Bender, As
sociate Justice, Supreme Court of Colorado, et al. Motion of petitioner
to defer consideration of the petition for writ of certiorari denied. Peti
No. 09–939. Kenneth Derek Anthony Pillay, Petitioner v. Cisco Sys
tems, Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied. Justice Breyer took no
No. 09–943. Steven Salsberg, et al., Petitioners v. Trico Marine Serv
ices, Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–956. Robert Doyle, Petitioner v. American Home Products
No. 09–1080. Liders Porras, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attor
No. 09–9042. Laurie Marie Laskey, Petitioner v. RCN Corporation.
No. 09–9074. Steven Kent Bloom, Petitioner v. Elizabeth L. Rice,
nied, and petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of
Kansas dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–9093. Gregory Lawrence Moore, Petitioner v. Rissie L.
Owens, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pau
No. 09–9638. Charles Bruce Thomas, Petitioner v. United States.
for the Seventh Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner has
No. 09–9655. Marian Jass, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–9715. William Darby, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–9745. Edward Tucker, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–9784. Travis S. Hester, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9664. In Re Wesley Allan Herring, Petitioner;

No. 09–9750. In Re Windell McClain, Petitioner; and
No. 09–9867. In Re Jeffrey Lynn Chronister, Petitioner. Petitions
for writs of habeas corpus denied.
Mandamus Denied
No. 09–985. In Re Stacy Ann Patterson, Petitioner. Petition for writ

of mandamus denied.
No. 09–8998. In Re Samuel L. Biers, Petitioner. Petition for writ of
Rehearings Denied

Woods County, Oklahoma Assessor;
Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, Petitioner v. Anthony Car
dell Haynes;
No. 09–347. Nora Dutka, as Guardian for the Estate of T. M., a
Minor, et al., Petitioners v. AIG Life Insurance Company;
No. 09–402. Markice Lavert McCane, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–461. Stephen Michael West, Petitioner v. Ricky Bell, Warden;
No. 09–661. John C. Kasharian, Petitioner v. New Jersey Depart
ment of Environmental Protection;
No. 09–689. Mark J. Hunsberger, et ux., Petitioners v. J. A. Wood,
Deputy Sheriff, Botetourt County, Virginia;
No. 09–715. William Smith, Petitioner v. Alvin Friedman, et al.;
No. 09–735. Jon D. Alexander, Petitioner v. Charles E. Smith, Jr.,
et al.;
No. 09–7257. Billy R. Irick, Petitioner v. Ricky Bell, Warden;
No. 09–7259. Deborah Redman, Petitioner v. Potomac Place
Associates, LLC;
No. 09–7278. Edward Z. Camillo, Petitioner v. Eric K. Shinseki, Sec
retary of Veterans Affairs;
No. 09–7365. Adrian Smith, Petitioner v. Bridgestone Firestone Tire

Company, et al.;
No. 09–7453. Giovanni Sairras, Petitioner v. Jonathan Schleffer,
et al.;
No. 09–7506. Howard Brown, Petitioner v. Curtiss James
Kelley, Jr., et al.;
No. 09–7542. Mark Gruber, Petitioner v. Bernie Buescher, Colorado
Secretary of State, et al.;
No. 09–7628. Jason Eric Sonntag, Petitioner v. United States Dis
trict Court for the District of Nevada, et al.;
No. 09–7670. Russell Dale Mortland, Petitioner v. Texas;
No. 09–7733. Mark C. Jackson, Petitioner v. Eric K. Shinseki, Secre
tary of Veterans Affairs;
No. 09–7777. Edward Jerome Harbison, Petitioner v. George Little,
Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction, et al.;
No. 09–7795. Terry Self, Petitioner v. Devon Energy Production
Company, LP;
No. 09–7802. Geir Hansen, Petitioner v. Industrial Claim Appeals
Office of Colorado, et al.;
No. 09–7858. Coleen L. Powers, Petitioner v. Mesaba Aviation, Inc.,
dba Mesaba Airlines, et al.;
No. 09–7922. Dexter Ramone Palmer, Petitioner v. Hugh Smith,
Warden;
No. 09–7945. Marcia E. Wimberly, Petitioner v. Elbert Royal, et al.;
No. 09–8089. Susan V. Klat, Petitioner v. Mitchell Repair Informa
tion Company, LLC, et al.;
No. 09–8119. Sherwood Brown, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–8135. Curtis Fuller, Petitioner v. Dave J. Burnett, et al.;
No. 09–8198. In Re Alfredo Masis Sancho, Petitioner;
No. 09–8200. Paul Blackmer, Petitioner v. Lawrence Blaisdell,
Warden;
No. 09–8222. Pierre Genevier, Petitioner v. Brian DeMore;
No. 09–8263. Martin Walters, Petitioner v. Florida;
No. 09–8309. Jose A. Vega-Figueroa, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–8322. Derrick Williams, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–8369. Keith Russell Judd, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–8393. Clarence Randle, Jr., Petitioner v. California;
No. 09–8417. Wayne Anthony Beckford, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder,
Jr., Attorney General;
No. 09–8426. Keith Russell Judd, Petitioner v. United States;

No. 09–8432. Michael Nikiforakis, Petitioner v. Richard W. Stanek;
No. 09–8451. Calvin Wilson, Petitioner v. Florida;
No. 09–8477. Qian Chen, Petitioner v. Ricardo S. Martinez, Judge,
United States District Court for the Western District of Washington;

and
No. 09–8849. Frederick Lee Revels, Petitioner v. James Reynolds,
et al. Petitions for rehearing denied.
No. 09–8517. Laurie Marie Laskey, Petitioner v. Cisco Technology,
Inc. Petition for rehearing denied. Justice Breyer took no part in the

Paula Elaine Adams Cincinnati, OH William E. Breyer

Daniel Spivey Adkins Minneapolis, MN John Garrett
Westrick
Robert H. Alexander, III Marietta, GA Anthony
Lawrence
Giuliani
Scott D. Alexander Fort Lauderdale, Tamara
FL McNierney
Scrudders
Dylan C. Alge Baton Rouge, LA Monica L.
Thompson
Heather L. Bendure Detroit, MI Mark Roy
Bendure
Chad N. Boudreaux Corpus Christi, Frances Fragos

TX Townsend

Brian D. Boydston Los Angeles, CA Robyn Carrico

Crowther

John James Bryant, Jr. McLouth, KS Suzanne Carey

McAllister

Robert B. Calihan Rochester, NY Robert Charles

Bernius
Ronald Kurt Christensen Highland, UT David H. Moore
Alexa B. D’Amato Linwood, NJ Paul R. D’Amato
Carey Buckland Daste New Orleans, LA E. John Litchfield
Eric Richard Deitz San Diego, CA Alan Kenneth
Brubaker
Susan B. Dunham Washington, DC Daniel M.
Schember
Nita A. Farahany Charlotte, NC Nicholas Quinn

Rosenkranz
Robert M. Frankhouser, Jr. Lancaster, PA Christopher S.
Underhill
Gonzalo Alberto Gayoso Miami, FL Raphael Goldstein
Donn Ginoza San Francisco, CA Dale Minami
Osvaldo Luis Gratacos Fairfax, VA Louis Edward
Emery
Peter G. Hallam Flossmoor, IL Phillip A.
Luetkehans
Lee Harwell, Jr. Torrance, CA Brian David
Lerner
Michael Antonio Hernandez Palm Beach, FL Richard Jeffrey
Goldman
Christopher A. Hoffman St. Louis, MO Steven A. Katz
Elaine Inman Hogan Norfolk, VA Ann K. Sullivan
Ronald G. Hole McAllen, TX Lionel Aron Pena
James David Jenkins Kansas City, MO James M. Smith
Christopher P. Jeter Fishers, IN Thomas Joseph
Welsh
Todd M. Johnson Edina, MN Scott A. Johnson
Samuel Charles Kauffman Portland, OR Richard Baroway
Gilbert S. Keteltas Washington, DC John Foster Bruce
Christopher H. Marraro Washington, DC Jerrold Joseph
Ganzfried
Thomas Aloysius McKinney New York, NY Paul Salvatore
Joseph Patrick Melaragno Los Angeles, CA Thomas Joseph
Welsh
Adam Eric Miller Kansas City, MO Anne Mary
McCormick
Steven G. Mintz New York, NY Lawrence A.
Jacobs
Margaret A. Murphy Hamburg, NY Michael A. Nelson
Raphael J. Musicus Wilmette, IL Roy I. Liebman
Mark Shawn Ouweleen Chicago, IL Chris Lind
Archis Ashok Parasharami Washington, DC Evan Mark Tager
Mark Warfield Peters Nashville, TN Waverly D.
Crenshaw, Jr.
Samuel Clifford Peterson Columbus, OH Judith Ann
Lanzinger

David Michael Pointer, II Tampa, FL Richard C.

McCrea, Jr.
Dianne Post Phoenix, AZ Roy L. Morris
James Raymond Pranger Chicago, IL Phil Caldwell Neal
Annette T. Raczkowski Southfield, MI Cheryl Ann
Matthews
Jay W. Ramos Saint Cloud, MN Jason C.
Kohlmeyer
Mark S. Redden Albany, GA Walter Wightman
Kelley
Daniel Steven Rosenberg San Diego, CA Richard Robert
Schwabe
Jeanne G. Rougeau Baton Rouge, LA Monica L.
Thompson
Melanie S. Rowen San Francisco, CA Shannon P. Minter
Sarah J. Rumph Tallahassee, FL Kim Michelle
Fluharty
Allison Miller Rutzen Baton Rouge, LA Monica L.
Thompson
John Benjamin Kerr Seattle, WA Peter S. Holmes
Schochet
Stephen Hopkins Shaw Florham Park, NJ Joseph J. Bell
Travis Calvin Smith Oklahoma City, Richard Alan
OK Resetaritz
Stanley Carlylle Chicago, IL Arthur M.
Sneeringer, III Holtzman
Alex E. Snyder York, PA Sean E. Summers
Rolf D. Snyder Kansas City, KS Willard
Breidenthal
Snyder
Brian S. Spitler Atlanta, GA Gregory Russell
Hanthorn
Peter Su Palo Alto, CA Stuart Philip
Meyer
William Joseph Sussman Augusta, GA Gary Scott
Edinger
Mark Ryan Thiessen Houston, TX Marshall Douglas
Murphy
Timothy Warren Thomas Alexandria, VA Jess B. Roberts
Edward W. Trapolin New Orleans, LA Gustave A.

Fritchie, III
Lee I. Turner Southfield, MI Matthew L.
Turner
Bruce Karl Tyler Afton, VA Francis H.
Chester
Denise Pauline Wiginton Birmingham, AL Donald F.
Wiginton, Sr.
Matthew Davidson Wright Austin, TX John Homer
Wright
Stacy L. Wright Baton Rouge, LA Monica L.
Thompson
John Marwan Zaiter Allentown, PA Joseph J. Bell

Jesse Michael Panuccio Arlington, VA Michael W.

McConnell
Travis Christopher Barham Columbia, TN Jordan Woodard
Lorence
Heather Gebelin Hacker Folsom, CA Jordan Woodard
Lorence
David Jonathan Hacker Folsom, CA Jordan Woodard
Lorence
Joseph James Martins Columbia, TN Jordan Woodard
Lorence
Michael Paul Carbone New York, NY Robert Craig
Land
Brian Keith Friedman New York, NY Robert Craig
Land
James Gabriel Hnat New York, NY Robert Craig
Land
Joanna Lynn Geraghty New York, NY Robert Craig
Land
Eileen Patricia McCarthy Jackson Heights, Robert Craig
NY Land
Brandon Wayne Nelson Brooklyn, NY Robert Craig
Land
Adam Louis Schless New York, NY Robert Craig
Land

Eric George Bjotvedt Phoenix, AZ Steven R. Smith

Bryce Clark Besser San Diego, CA Steven R. Smith
Cheryl K. Daily San Diego, CA Steven R. Smith
Ryan Dewey Griffin San Jose, CA Steven R. Smith
Lilia S. Velasquez San Diego, CA Steven R. Smith
Michelle D. Volk San Diego, CA Steven R. Smith
Lenden F. Webb San Diego, CA Steven R. Smith
Peter S. Will San Diego, CA Steven R. Smith
Jon M. DeVore Washington, DC Steven R. Smith
Douglas Robert Kay Fairfax, VA Steven R. Smith
Sarah Elspeth Martucci Fayetteville, AR Ilene Knable
Green Gotts
Andrea Agathoklis Washington, DC Ilene Knable
Gotts
Karine R. Faden Washington, DC Ilene Knable
Gotts
Thomas John Lang Alexandria, VA Ilene Knable
Gotts
Gregory Patrick Luib Chevy Chase, MD Ilene Knable
Gotts
Paula Cathleen Martucci Fayetteville, AR Ilene Knable
Gotts
Kimberly L. Scott Ann Arbor, MI Ilene Knable
Gotts
Gary P. Weinstein Holliswood, NY Ilene Knable
Gotts
Lisl Joanne Dunlop New York, NY Ilene Knable
Gotts
Bilal Sayyed New York, NY Ilene Knable
Gotts
Katherine P. Andrews Atlanta, GA Ilene Knable
Gotts
Robert Dale Grimes Nashville, TN Ilene Knable
Gotts
Oral Arguments

lowship, Petitioner v. Leo P. Martinez, et al. Argued by Mr. Michael W.
McConnell for the petitioner and by Mr. Gregory G. Garre for the
respondents.
Quon, et al. Argued by Mr. Kent L. Richland for the petitioners, by
Mr. Neal K. Katyal for the United States as amicus curiae, by special
leave of the Court, supporting the petitioners, and by Mr. Dieter Dam
meier for the respondents.
Adjourned until Tuesday, April 20, 2010, at 10 o’clock.
Certiorari Denied
No. 09–10250 (09A972). Darryl Durr, Petitioner v. Ted Strickland,
Certiorari Denied
No. 09–10280 (09A979). Darryl Durr, Petitioner v. Ted Strickland,
Certiorari Denied
No. 09–10281 (09A980). Darryl Durr, Petitioner v. Richard Cordray,
Attorney General of Ohio, et al. Application for stay of execution of
sentence of death presented to Justice Stevens and by him referred to
the Court denied. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
(JOURNAL) TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 2010 771


Opinion
No. 08–769. United States, Petitioner v. Robert J. Stevens. On writ

cuit. Judgment affirmed. Opinion by The Chief Justice. Dissenting opin
ion by Justice Alito.

Virginia Carter Carlton Jackson, MS Kenneth J. Tozzi

Megan Elizabeth Callan Dallas, TX Chantel L. Febus
Barak Romanek Arlington, VA Terry Alan Berger
Sara Nathanson Sanchez Albuquerque, NM Pamela Susan
Karlan
Rick S. Cowle Carmel, NY Richard Thomas
Romero-Ostolaza
Deborah Marie Vasquez Santa Ana, CA Mark Stuart
Rosen
Margarita Solano Bernal Tucson, AZ Laurel G. Bellows
Robert A. Glaves Chicago, IL Laurel G. Bellows
Danielle Elyce Hirsch Chicago, IL Laurel G. Bellows
Sally J. McDonald Chicago, IL Laurel G. Bellows
Leo Ignatius Brisbois Eagan, MN Laurel G. Bellows
Vincent Campbell Las Vegas, NV Laurel G. Bellows
Ferenbach
Nancy C. Loeb Chicago, IL Laurel G. Bellows
M. Joe Crosthwait, Jr. Midwest City, OK Laurel G. Bellows
Stephen W. Owens Salt Lake City, Laurel G. Bellows
UT
Joseph Bryce Bluemel Kemmerer, WY Laurel G. Bellows
Paul Benedict Salvaty Los Angeles, CA Ilene Knable
Gotts
William T. Sellay Hartford, CT Ilene Knable
Gotts
772 TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 2010
Christi J. Braun Alexandria, VA Ilene Knable

Gotts
Catharine M. Moscatelli Washington, DC Ilene Knable
Gotts
James Franklin Herbison Chicago, IL Ilene Knable
Gotts
Anne Y. Lee Washington, DC Ilene Knable
Gotts
Craig Gilbert Moore St. Louis, MO Ilene Knable
Gotts
Eric Shaun Hochstadt New York, NY Ilene Knable
Gotts
Henry L. Thaggert, III Washington, DC Ilene Knable
Gotts
Oral Argument
No. 09–367. Brian Russell Dolan, Petitioner v. United States. Ar
gued by Ms. Pamela S. Karlan, appointed by this Court, for the peti
tioner and by Mr. Toby J. Heytens for the respondent.
Adjourned until Wednesday, April 21, 2010, at 10 o’clock.

(JOURNAL) WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2010 773


Opinions
Kramer & Ulrich LPA, et al. On writ of certiorari to United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Judgment reversed, and case
remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
ion by Justice Sotomayor. Concurring opinion by Justice Breyer. Opin
ion by Justice Scalia, concurring in part and concurring in the judg
ment. Dissenting opinion by Justice Kennedy, with whom Justice
Alito joins.
No. 08–970. Sonny Perdue, Governor of Georgia, et al., Petitioners
v. Kenny A., By His Next Friend Linda Winn, et al. On writ of certio
rari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit for further proceedings consistent
with the opinion of this Court. Opinion by Justice Alito. Concurring
opinion by Justice Kennedy. Concurring opinion by Justice Thomas.
Opinion by Justice Breyer, with whom Justice Stevens, Justice Gins
burg, and Justice Sotomayor join, concurring in part and dissenting
in part.
mert, et al. On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals
for the Second Circuit. Judgment reversed, and case remanded to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for further pro
ceedings consistent with the opinion of this Court. Opinion by The
Chief Justice. Dissenting opinion by Justice Breyer, with whom Justice
Stevens and Justice Ginsburg join. Justice Sotomayor took no part in
the consideration or decision of this case.

Marc Andrew Hearron Washington, DC Drew Saunders

Days, III
774 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2010
Michele Ann Lo Presti Miami, FL Jonathan Errol

Lopez
David Joseph Hebb Waldorf, MD David Michael
Gormley
Kenneth Allen Myers Stafford, VA Richard G. Schott
Michael Thomas Pettry Fredericksburg, Richard G. Schott
VA
Joyce Lewis San Francisco, CA Stephen Thomas
Redmon
Tamika Jones Springs Washington, DC Stephen Thomas
Redmon
Will A. Gunn Washington, DC Stephen Thomas
Redmon
Keturah Denise Harley Washington, DC Stephen Thomas
Redmon
Karen Elaine Hartridge Memphis, TN Stephen Thomas
Redmon
Shayla Noelle McGee Washington, DC Stephen Thomas
Redmon
Timothy Martin O’Boyle Hampton, VA Stephen Thomas
Redmon
John Wesley Howard, III Greenville, SC Ruth Williams
Cupp
John Dwight Hudson Myrtle Beach, SC Ruth Williams
Cupp
Philip Lader Charleston, SC Ruth Williams
Cupp
Wilmer Dean Lanier, Jr. Augusta, GA Ruth Williams
Cupp
Charles Rouse Pusser, Jr. Chesterfield, SC Ruth Williams
Cupp
Kenneth A. Richstad Columbia, SC Ruth Williams
Cupp
William F. Robertson, III Greenville, SC Ruth Williams
Cupp
Ronald Charles Scott Columbia, SC Ruth Williams
Cupp
Julian W. Walker, Jr. Columbia, SC Ruth Williams
Cupp
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2010 775

Oral Argument
No. 09–337. Wanda Krupski, Petitioner v. Costa Crociere S.p.A. Ar
gued by Mr. Mark B. Bendure for the petitioner and by Mr. Robert S.
Glazier for the respondent.

(JOURNAL) THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2010 777



No. 09–A995. William Berkley, Applicant v. Texas. Application for
stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Scalia and
by him referred to the Court denied.


No. 09–724. The Real Truth About Obama, Inc., Petitioner v. Federal
Election Commission, et al. On petition for writ of certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Petition for
the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for further
consideration in light of Citizens United v. Federal Election Comm’n,
558 U. S. ––– (2010) and the Solicitor General’s suggestion of mootness.

No. 09A827 (09–1250). Richard I. Fine, Applicant v. Leroy D. Baca,
Sheriff, Los Angeles County, California, et al. Application for stay ad
dressed to Justice Ginsburg and referred to the Court denied.
No. 09M86. Oscar Roy Doster, Petitioner v. Texas. Motion for leave
to proceed in forma pauperis without an affidavit of indigency exe
cuted by petitioner granted.
No. 09M87. Rosalinda Tull, Petitioner v. City of New York, New
York, et al. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for writ of
No. 09M88. Robert T. Doby, Petitioner v. Stan Burtt, Warden. Mo
time denied.
Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, et al. Motion of
Michigan to reopen and for a supplemental decree denied. The alterna
tive motion for leave to file a bill of complaint denied.
No. 09–960. William H. Hogan, in His Official Capacity as Commis

sioner of Alaska Department of Health and Human Services, et al.,
Petitioners v. Kaltag Tribal Council, et al. The Solicitor General is in
vited to file a brief in this case expressing the views of the United
States.
Tax Court, et al. Motion of petitioner for reconsideration of order deny
No. 09–9281. Nina Shahin, Petitioner v. Delaware, et al. Motion of
allowed until May 17, 2010, within which to pay the docketing fee re
No. 09–9283. Eran Rubinstein, et ux., Petitioners v. Hagens Berman
Sobol Shapiro LLP. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
Certiorari Granted
No. 09–737. Michelle Ortiz, Petitioner v. Paula Jordan, et al. Petition
Sixth Circuit granted.
Petitioners v. Entertainment Merchants Association, et al. Motion of
California State Senator Leland Y. Yee, et al. for leave to file a brief
as amici curiae out of time denied. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted.
Certiorari Denied
No. 08–10994. Keith R. Jeffers, Petitioner v. West Virginia. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of West Virginia, Kanawha
County, denied.
No. 09–753. Robert McGowan, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–938. D. Clark Ogle, Liquidating Trustee of the Agway Liqui
dating Trust, Petitioner v. Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland.

No. 09–968. Sherryl Snodgrass Caffey, Petitioner v. Alabama State
Bar. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Alabama
denied.
No. 09–997. Al Dickson, et al., Petitioners v. San Juan County, Utah,
No. 09–1005. Linda Puglisi, et al., Petitioners v. Robert L. Pavone,
No. 09–1010. Bobby Louis Collard, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Fifth District,
denied.
No. 09–1032. TeleCheck Services, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Cheryl
Beaudry. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–1037. Patricia A. Wilson, Petitioner v. Roberts J. Adams &
Associates. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Appellate Court of
No. 09–1041. Arben Skendaj, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attor
No. 09–1046. Corey Hoover, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for writ of
No. 09–1060. Chandrashekhar B. Thanedar, Petitioner v. Time
Warner, Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–1083. Elmer A. Hawkins, Petitioner v. Eric K. Shinseki, Sec
No. 09–1087. Willis W. David, Jr., Petitioner v. Jacqueline M. David.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Montana denied.
No. 09–1089. Allied Home Mortgage Capital Corp., et al., Petitioners
v. Larry Corrales. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court
of Texas denied.
No. 09–1135. Harold Brian Krieg, Petitioner v. Kent J. Dawson,
Judge, United States District Court for the District of Nevada, et al.
No. 09–1136. William Magdalin, Petitioner v. Commissioner of Inter

No. 09–1152. William Brandt, as Chapter 7 Trustee of the Estates
of Plassein International Corp., et al., Petitioner v. B. A. Capital Co.
LP, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–5901. William Henry Harrison, Petitioner v. Cameron Lind
say, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–7636. Emilio Arnoldo Ortiz-Coca, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7639. Benito Aguilar-Mendez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7643. Oscar Garcia-Quiroz, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7644. Cirilo Mancilla-Lopez, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7698. Mark Fowler, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–7829. Vance Bradshaw, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7923. Steven Allen Schwartz, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8090. James T. Kincannon, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8653. Ronnie Sylvia, Petitioner v. Tommy Maddox, et al.
No. 09–8673. Patrick Wade Bearup, Petitioner v. Arizona. Petition

No. 09–8754. David Earl Kates, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8887. Paul Will, Petitioner v. Burl Cain, Warden. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8900. Celeste Simone Carrington, Petitioner v. California.
denied.
No. 09–8909. Christopher L. Temple, Petitioner v. Wendy Warmer,
No. 09–9136. David I. Shirley, Petitioner v. Indiana. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Indiana, First District, denied.
No. 09–9145. Theodore Shove, Petitioner v. Robert K. Wong, War
No. 09–9149. Keith Reid, Petitioner v. Flint Civil Service Commis
sion. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Michi
gan denied.
No. 09–9152. Young Bok Song, Petitioner v. Steve Dozier. Petition
No. 09–9163. Ryan Bradley Shield, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–9173. Francisco Landeros, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–9176. Johnny O. Usher, Petitioner v. Georgia. Petition for
No. 09–9179. Daniel L. Spuck, Petitioner v. Thomas Ridge, former
Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–9184. Donald Stankowski, Petitioner v. Jerry E. Abramson,
No. 09–9192. Michael Lenoir Smith, Petitioner v. James Yates, War

No. 09–9193. Sean Swain, Petitioner v. Robert Welch, Warden. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Ohio denied.
No. 09–9194. Lamarr Rowell, Petitioner v. Nevada. Petition for writ
No. 09–9195. Alex Rodriguez, Petitioner v. James Walker, Warden.
No. 09–9206. Troy Atera Brown, Petitioner v. Gene M. Johnson, Di
rector, Virginia Department of Corrections. Petition for writ of certio
denied.
No. 09–9215. Manuel Angel Collado, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–9220. Kenneth Edward Barbour, Petitioner v. Lt. Schlobohm,
No. 09–9222. Joe Alexander Browder, Jr., Petitioner v. Daryle Vin
gleman, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–9226. Thomas Powers, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–9227. Socrates Ostoposides, Petitioner v. Superior Court of
California, Los Angeles County, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, denied.
No. 09–9229. Michael L. Wood, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Eleventh District
denied.
No. 09–9230. Gerard D. Grandoit, Petitioner v. Liberty Mutual In
surance Company. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–9233. Luis Gonzalez and Maria Gonzalez, Petitioners v.
Lynne Riddle, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–9235. Roy L. Woodson, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,

No. 09–9239. James A. Mays, Petitioner v. Perry Phelps, Warden,
No. 09–9245. Darryl McGore, Petitioner v. Officer Lutz, et al. Peti
No. 09–9265. Kristopher Thomas Kastner, Petitioner v. Texas, et al.
No. 09–9274. Eiad Barghout, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–9285. Anthony Dean Slama, Petitioner v. California. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, Fifth Appel
No. 09–9287. Tyrone Lorenzo Robinson, Petitioner v. LeVern Cohen,
Warden, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of
No. 09–9290. Leroy Webber, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
No. 09–9293. Sheila A. Mannix, Petitioner v. Lisa Madigan, et al.
No. 09–9294. Kent Anthony Krueger, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
No. 09–9296. Garry Turner, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–9298. Alton Waddell-El, Petitioner v. Virginia. Petition for
No. 09–9299. Nathan Willingham, Petitioner v. District of Columbia
Board on Professional Responsibility. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the District of Columbia Court of Appeals denied.
No. 09–9307. Andrew Bevins, Jr., Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for writ
No. 09–9309. Jerome Julius Brown, Petitioner v. State Capitol Office

of the Governor, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–9313. Isaac Dewayne Russell, Petitioner v. Teri Kennedy,
No. 09–9316. James DiMaria, Petitioner v. Dale Artus, Superintend
ent, Clinton Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–9326. Liysa Northon, Petitioner v. Ann Rule, et al. Petition
No. 09–9331. Carlvosier Smith, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for
denied.
No. 09–9353. Anthony Threatt, Petitioner v. Thomas Birkett, War
No. 09–9383. Linwood Brant, Petitioner v. David Varano, et al. Peti
No. 09–9397. Marquise Leon Flewellen, Petitioner v. Dolan Waller,
No. 09–9404. Sandra Mangum, Petitioner v. Cato Corporation. Peti
No. 09–9412. Lamaris Wescott, Petitioner v. Delaware. Petition for
No. 09–9416. Steven Douglas Hayward, Petitioner v. Florida. Peti
No. 09–9437. Samuel Quinn, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–9445. Ronald Cooper, Petitioner v. Michigan Department of
No. 09–9471. David Foster, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Hamilton County, denied.

No. 09–9484. Jerome Julius Brown, Petitioner v. Brennan C. McCar
thy. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
No. 09–9517. Paul Payne, Petitioner v. Tim LeMaster, Warden, et al.
No. 09–9530. Gregory Chambers, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for writ
No. 09–9535. Wayman Patterson, Petitioner v. Gregg McQuiggin,
No. 09–9542. Robert Joseph King, Petitioner v. John Colmers, et al.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Special Appeals of Mary
land denied.
No. 09–9555. Raymond Mentor, Petitioner v. New York State Divi
sion of Parole, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Appellate
Division, Supreme Court of New York, Third Judicial Department,
denied.
No. 09–9575. Antonio Simmons, Petitioner v. Michael Thurmer, War
No. 09–9587. Ronald D. Johnson, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
District, denied.
No. 09–9594. Ismael Castro, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
cuit denied.
No. 09–9600. Mickey Lee Davis, Petitioner v. Michigan. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Michigan, Berrien County,
denied.
No. 09–9616. Teresa Aguilar, Petitioner v. Selman Breitzman, LLP,
No. 09–9620. Salame M. Amr, Petitioner v. Virginia State Univer
sity, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–9622. Jennifer Leigh Miller, Petitioner v. Anheuser Busch,

No. 09–9636. Ahmad Waller, Petitioner v. Bruce Hauck, Warden,
No. 09–9639. Edward Eugene Young, Petitioner v. Rhode Island,
No. 09–9653. Johnnie Wardlow, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9660. Curtis Smiley, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–9691. Adam Michael Bauer, Petitioner v. Michigan. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Michigan, Kent County,
denied.
No. 09–9723. Jose Luis Rodriguez-Mena, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9726. Clarence Small, Petitioner v. McKither Bodison, War
No. 09–9741. Kevin Raphael Lee, Petitioner v. Wisconsin. Petition
denied.
No. 09–9771. Oran Tillman Davis, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9789. Kevin Smith, Petitioner v. Department of Justice, et al.
No. 09–9796. David Connolly, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9799. Frederick Lee Irons, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–9801. Yuri Garcia, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9805. Broderick D. Hardeman, Petitioner v. United States.
for the Armed Forces denied.
No. 09–9806. Alvis Guzman, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9807. David W. Harris, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9809. Adan Gonzales, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9810. James Huber, aka James Hubert, aka James Jay Huber,
No. 09–9811. Henry Hordge, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9812. Willie James Griffin, Jr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9814. Michael Paul Carlton, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9815. Ray Hunter Sutton, Jr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9816. Juan David Segura-Lopez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9817. Alejandro Jimenez-Perez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9818. Armando Henao-Melo, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9823. Anthony A. Thomas, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–9824. Astolfo Torres, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–9825. Jorge Hernandez Lopez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9826. Shawntrail J. Lee, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9833. Salvador Avila-Rivera, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9836. Juan Manuel Ortiz-Alvear, Petitioner v. United States
Attorney’s Office, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–9840. Frank J. Dumont, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9843. Lydia Tsosie, Petitioner v. Arizona, et al. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division One,
denied.
No. 09–9844. Robert Upshaw, aka Robert Epps, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–9847. Bill Watson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9848. Ransom Nyamaharo, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9851. Keith Jennings, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9857. Joshua Mojica, aka Ramiro Josh Salazar, Petitioner v.

No. 09–9858. Elvis Rivera, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9866. Miguel Cabrera, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9872. Jermaine King, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9879. Timothy Truong, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9886. Juan Soto-Munoz, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9895. Virgil Rivers, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–999. Clifton Mallery, et al., Petitioners v. NBC Universal,
No. 09–1007. Mountain America, LLC, et al., Petitioners v. Donna
Huffman, Assessor of Monroe County, West Virginia, et al. Motion of
West Virginia Manufacturers Association for leave to file a brief as
amicus curiae granted. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme
Court of Appeals of West Virginia denied.
No. 09–1016. Antonio C. Simonelli, Petitioner v. University of Cali
fornia at Berkeley, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied. Justice Breyer
No. 09–1054. Howard Brett Berger, Petitioner v. Securities and Ex
change Commission. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–9196. Rickey Sabedra, Petitioner v. United States Court of
Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dismissed. See
Rule 39.8.
No. 09–9266. Christopher A. Odom, Petitioner v. Mt. Pleasant Mu

nicipal Court, South Carolina. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit dismissed. See
Rule 39.8.
No. 09–9280. Rickey Sabedra, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–9342. Craig Caldwell, Petitioner v. Florida Parole Commis
nied, and petition for writ of certiorari to the District Court of Appeal
of Florida, First District, dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–9429. Maureen McNamara, Petitioner v. Judith S. Kaye,
Chief Judge, Court of Appeals of New York, et al. Petition for writ of
of this petition.
No. 09–9712. Conrad Cooper, aka Dervin, Petitioner v. United
States; and
No. 09–9880. Enrico Thomas, Petitioner v. United States. Petitions
fornia, Los Angeles County, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to
to the Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, dis
cited therein.
No. 09–9856. Daniel Deandrade, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–9873. Phelix Henry Frazier, Petitioner v. United States. Mo
for the Eighth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.

No. 09–1078. In Re Susan Rose, Petitioner;
No. 09–9255. In Re Jerome Henderson, Petitioner;
No. 09–10019. In Re Kim McMullen, Petitioner; and
No. 09–10039. In Re Jimmie Odell Bruner, Petitioner. Petitions for
No. 09–10031. In Re Ellyn J. Burnes, Petitioner. Motion of petitioner
habeas corpus dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
Mandamus Denied
No. 09–8701. In Re Lindsey Kent Springer, Petitioner; and
No. 09–9277. In Re Jeffrey Sanders, Petitioner. Petitions for writs
of mandamus denied.
No. 09–9174. In Re Hubert Warren, Petitioner. Motion of petitioner
Rehearings Denied
No. 09–722. Harold Green, Petitioner v. Cleary Water, Sewer and
Fire District;
No. 09–768. Robert D. Straley, Petitioner v. Utah Board of Par
dons, et al.;
No. 09–7887. Tavares Antonio McDuffie, Petitioner v. Florida;
No. 09–7891. Wanda Renae Scott, aka Wanda Renae Scott Thomas,
Petitioner v. South Carolina;
No. 09–8139. Bruce Monroe Greer, Petitioner v. Cynthia Nelson,
Warden;
No. 09–8303. Carlos L. Woodson, aka Carlo L. Woodson, Petitioner
v. Katherine Rundle-Fernandez, State Attorney;
No. 09–8304. Judith Tompson, Petitioner v. Town of Salem, New
Hampshire;
No. 09–8391. Jacob Sampson, Petitioner v. Andrea France, et al.;
No. 09–8463. Jesse White, et ux., Petitioners v. Mortgage Electronic
Registration Systems, Incorporated;
No. 09–8464. In Re Mitchell Lee Walck, Petitioner;

No. 09–8487. Wells Holland, Petitioner v. Renee Holland; and
No. 09–8969. Michael J. Piskanin, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

William Cory Abbott Houston, TX William G.

Ogletree
Rachael Abramson Washington, DC Lenore M.
Fitzgerald
David J. Arroyo New York, NY Diana Sagorika
Sen
Allison D. Balus Omaha, NE Christopher
Robert Hedican
Brian Jackson Beck Abingdon, VA Larry W. Shelton
Christopher Dennis Bell Bend, OR David B.
Thompson
Fernando A. Bohorquez, Jr. New York, NY Diana Sagorika
Sen
Patrick Anthony Campagna Omaha, NE Christine
Penelope
Costantakos
Jaclyn Kay Casey Denver, CO Kris John
Kostolansky
Allison Hewon Chung Los Angeles, CA Lawrence
Maurice
Daniels
Katharine Elizabeth Clark Washington, DC Jennifer Parker
Levings
Ivelisse Clausell New York, NY Richard F.
Bellman
Fyodor D. Clay Houston, TX William G.
Ogletree
Mark J. Crandley Indianapolis, IN Peter James
Rusthoven
Stephen H. Cristal Philadelphia, PA Stephanos Bibas
Yolanda Alvarez Cruz San Juan, PR Katherine
Gonzalez-Valentin
Bernard Ardavan Los Angeles, CA David Eduard
Eskandari Mills

Maria E. Fernandez Briarcliff, NY Diana Sagorika

Sen
Roderick Ozell Ford Tampa, FL Marilyn Joyce
Holifield
Gary J. Gambel New Orleans, LA Robert H. Murphy
Charles Frederick Goria San Diego, CA John H.
L’Estrange, Jr.
Steven Edward Griffin Bend, OR Jennifer Scott
Lloyd
Rebecca M. Hamburg San Francisco, CA Terisa Eileen
Chaw
John Kenneth Hoffmeister Knoxville, TN Robert E. Pitts
James L. Holt, Jr. Memphis, TN Timothy Austin
Perkins
Marisa Cruz Hurd Houston, TX Maryanne Lyons
David S. Johnson Tampa, FL James B.
Murphy, Jr.
Pamela Jo Harrell Liston Dallas, TX Wilson Eugene
Hodge
William Malpica Stamford, CT Diana Sagorika
Sen
Samuel Scott Marcum Paducah, KY Jonathan Duncan
Pitchford
Bianca Martinez Houston, TX William G.
Ogletree
Scott Parrish Moore Omaha, NE Christopher
Robert Hedican
Nancy Y. Morgan Newburgh, NY Andrew Glen
Finkelstein
Joshua Bryant Nix Houston, TX Aaron Michael
Streett
Harry A. Olivar Los Angeles, CA Daniel H.
Bromberg
Eugenio Javier Torres San Juan, PR Katherine
Oyola Gonzalez-Valentin
Cesar A. Perales New York, NY Nina Perales
Dorothy-Jane Colleen Albany, NY John Wood
Goldsack Porpeglia Goldsack
John Quinones New York, NY Diana Sagorika
Sen
Celina M. Recalde Houston, TX William G.

Ogletree
Efren Rivera-Ramos San Juan, PR Rafael
Escalera-Rodriguez
Christina Guerola Sarchio Washington, DC Richard F.
Bellman
Victor A. Segovia Irvine, CA Roy I. Liebman
John Kenneth Smith Montgomery, AL Robert
McCollough
Spence
Juan Manuel Trujillo New York, NY Richard Alan
Levine
D. Hiep Truong San Francisco, CA Patrick L. Hurley
Jason Everett Voyles Gainesville, GA Abbott S.
Hayes, Jr.
Donald R. Wing New Orleans, LA Peter B. Sloss
Mauro M. Wolfe New York, NY Diana Sagorika
Sen
William Yung Chicago, IL Don Ray Sampen

Debra Glazer Staples Philadelphia, PA Rafael Edward

Cruz
Brent Allen Davis Peru, IN George Thomas
Patton, Jr.
Dwight D. Dumler Wichita, KS Robert Stewart
Royer
Courtney Gates-Graceson East Lyme, CT Michael Joseph
Proto
Ann M. Campbell Buffalo, NY Dennis James
Bischof, Jr.
Mary C. Chan Buffalo, NY Dennis James
Bischof, Jr.
Elsa Johanna Schmidt Buffalo, NY Dennis James
Bischof, Jr.
Theresa M. Walsh Buffalo, NY Dennis James
Bischof, Jr.
Kevin P. Wicka Buffalo, NY Dennis James
Bischof, Jr.

Helen Z. Galette Brooklyn, NY Thomas P. Tafuri

Lawrence Peter Giardina Brooklyn, NY Thomas P. Tafuri
Laura Messiana Brooklyn, NY Thomas P. Tafuri
Craig Lee Newman Brooklyn, NY Thomas P. Tafuri
Rosa A. Pannitto New York, NY Thomas P. Tafuri
Margaret Mary Stanton New York, NY Thomas P. Tafuri
Boris Zivotov Brooklyn, NY Thomas P. Tafuri
Oral Arguments
son. Argued by Mr. Robert F. Friedman for the petitioner and by
Mr. Ian E. Silverberg for the respondent.
surance Company. Argued by Mr. John R. Ates for the petitioner, by
Mr. Pratik A. Shah for the United States as amicus curiae, by special
leave of the Court, supporting the petitioner, and by Mr. Nicholas Q.
Rosenkranz for the respondent.
Adjourned until Tuesday, April 27, 2010, at 10 o’clock.

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Opinions
No. 08–1198. Stolt-Nielsen S.A., et al., Petitioners v. AnimalFeeds
International Corp. On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Second Circuit. Judgment reversed, and case remanded
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for fur
ther proceedings consistent with the opinion of this Court. Opinion by
Justice Alito. Dissenting opinion by Justice Ginsburg, with whom Jus
tice Stevens and Justice Breyer join. Justice Sotomayor took no part
in the consideration or decision of this case.
No. 08–905. Merck & Co., Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Richard Reyn
olds, et al. On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals
for the Third Circuit. Judgment affirmed. Opinion by Justice Breyer.
Opinion by Justice Stevens, concurring in part and concurring in the
judgment. Opinion by Justice Scalia, with whom Justice Thomas joins,
concurring in part and concurring in the judgment.
Jason Randall Burt Washington, DC Gregory George

Garre
Kenneth F. Murrah Winter Park, FL John Maguire
Dowd
Han C. Choi Atlanta, GA John Maguire
Dowd
Halli D. Cohn Atlanta, GA John Maguire
Dowd
Alison Marie Elko Atlanta, GA John Maguire
Dowd
Gary Randall Smith Atlanta, GA John Maguire
Dowd
Michael Weiss Atlanta, GA John Maguire
Dowd
Neal Arthur Weinstein New York, NY John Maguire
Dowd
800 TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 2010
Rebecca Lynn Weinstein Scarsdale, NY John Maguire

Dowd
Nathan Clay Belzer Savannah, GA John Maguire
Dowd
Lori A. Blankenship Lansing, MI Joan Whipple
Howarth
Christopher M. Brown Grand Rapids, MI Joan Whipple
Howarth
Brian Wilson Coyer Lansing, MI Joan Whipple
Howarth
Stephanie L. Crino East Lansing, MI Joan Whipple
Howarth
Frederick Dow Dilley Grand Rapids, MI Joan Whipple
Howarth
Janet Ann Hedin Ferndale, MI Joan Whipple
Howarth
Sean Carlisle Maltbie Grand Rapids, MI Joan Whipple
Howarth
Lynn Ann Ruhlman Franklin, MI Joan Whipple
Howarth
Robert F. Samoray Plymouth, MI Joan Whipple
Howarth
Ann Maurine Sherman East Lansing, MI Joan Whipple
Howarth
Thomas Linn Stroble Bloomfield Hills, Joan Whipple
MI Howarth
Carol J. Surma Royal Oak, MI Joan Whipple
Howarth
Paul J. Tafelski Bloomfield Hills, Joan Whipple
MI Howarth
Oral Argument
Farms, et al. Argued by Mr. Gregory G. Garre for the petitioners, by
Mr. Malcolm L. Stewart for the federal respondents, supporting the
petitioners, and by Mr. Lawrence S. Robbins for the respondents. Jus
tice Breyer recused.
Adjourned until Wednesday, April 28, 2010, at 10 o’clock.

TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 2010 801

Certiorari Denied
No. 09–10396 (09A1009). Samuel Bustamante, Petitioner v. Texas.
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Opinion
tioners v. Frank Buono. On writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Judgment reversed, and case
remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
for further proceedings. Justice Kennedy announced the judgment of
the Court and delivered an opinion, in which The Chief Justice joins
and Justice Alito joins in part. Concurring opinion by The Chief Justice.
Opinion by Justice Alito, concurring in part and concurring in the judg
ment. Opinion by Justice Scalia, with whom Justice Thomas joins, con
curring in the judgment. Dissenting opinion by Justice Stevens, with
whom Justice Ginsburg and Justice Sotomayor join. Dissenting opinion
by Justice Breyer.

Frederick Steven Hartwell New York, NY Katherine Shelton

Broderick
Kristin Heim Mowry Chevy Chase, MD Thomas C.
Goldstein
Dace Annette Caldwell Washington, DC Theodore B. Olson
Vanessa Ann Countryman Washington, DC Theodore B. Olson
Kathryn Elizabeth Witwer Alexandria, VA Norman Francis
Joseph Allen,
III
Benjamin M. Owens-Filice Santa Cruz, CA Norman Francis
Joseph Allen,
III
Madeline Felise Yanford Southwick, MA Norman Francis
Joseph Allen,
III
Sara Marie Root Annapolis, MD Norman Francis
Joseph Allen,
III
Christopher Burns Witwer Alexandria, VA Norman Francis

Joseph Allen,
III
Chad M. Fisher Smithtown, NY Norman Francis
Joseph Allen,
III
Kevin F. Sweeney Arlington, VA Norman Francis
Joseph Allen,
III
Joshua William Johnson Arlington, VA Norman Francis
Joseph Allen,
III
Ritesh Kumar Srivastava Laguna Hills, CA Daniel E. O’Toole
Daniel William Napier Orange, CT Daniel E. O’Toole
Jentso James Hwang Washington Navy Daniel E. O’Toole
Yard, DC
Michael Robert Torrisi Washington, DC Daniel E. O’Toole
Ryan Santicola Hunter, NY Daniel E. O’Toole
Michael B. Hanzel Richmond, VA Daniel E. O’Toole
Oral Argument
Secretary of State, et al. Argued by Mr. James Bopp, Jr. for the peti
tioners and by Mr. Attorney General Robert M. McKenna for the
respondents.
Adjourned until Monday, May 3, 2010, at 10 o’clock.
Orders
Ordered:
1. That the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure be, and they
hereby are, amended by including therein amendments to Appellate
Rules 1, 4, and 29, and Form 4.
2. That the foregoing amendments to the Federal Rules of Appellate
Procedure shall take effect on December 1, 2010, and shall govern in
all proceedings in appellate cases thereafter commenced and, insofar
as just and practicable, all proceedings then pending.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 2010 805

3. That The Chief Justice be, and hereby is, authorized to transmit
to the Congress the foregoing amendments to the Federal Rules of
Appellate Procedure in accordance with the provisions of Section 2072
of Title 28, United States Code.
Ordered:
1. That the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure be, and they
hereby are, amended by including therein amendments to Bankruptcy
Rules 1007, 1014, 1015, 1018, 1019, 4001, 4004, 5009, 7001, and 9001, and
new Rule 5012.
2. That the foregoing amendments to the Federal Rules of Bank
ruptcy Procedure shall take effect on December 1, 2010, and shall gov
ern in all proceedings in bankruptcy cases thereafter commenced and,
insofar as just and practicable, all proceedings then pending.
Bankruptcy Procedure in accordance with the provisions of Section
2075 of Title 28, United States Code.
Ordered:
1. That the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure be, and they hereby
are, amended by including therein amendments to Civil Rules 8, 26,
and 56, and Illustrative Civil Form 52.
2. That the foregoing amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Pro
cedure shall take effect on December 1, 2010, and shall govern in all
proceedings thereafter commenced and, insofar as just and practicable,
all proceedings then pending.
Civil Procedure in accordance with the provisions of Section 2072 of
Title 28, United States Code.
Ordered:
1. That the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure be, and they
hereby are, amended by including therein amendments to Criminal
Rules 12.3, 21, and 32.1.
2. That the foregoing amendments to the Federal Rules of Criminal
Procedure shall take effect on December 1, 2010, and shall govern in
all proceedings thereafter commenced and, insofar as just and practica
ble, all proceedings then pending.
Criminal Procedure in accordance with the provisions of Section 2072

of Title 28, United States Code.
Ordered:
1. That the Federal Rules of Evidence be, and they hereby are,
amended by including therein an amendment to Evidence Rule 804.
2. That the foregoing amendment to the Federal Rules of Evidence
shall take effect on December 1, 2010, and shall govern in all proceed
ings thereafter commenced and, insofar as just and practicable, all pro
ceedings then pending.
to the Congress the foregoing amendment to the Federal Rules of Evi
dence in accordance with the provisions of Section 2072 of Title 28,
United States Code.
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Present: Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Kennedy, Justice Thomas,

Justice Ginsburg, and Justice Sotomayor.
No. 07–1489. Trainer Wortham & Company, Inc., et al., Petitioners

v. Heide Betz. On petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Petition for writ of certiorari
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for further consideration in
light of Merck & Co. v. Reynolds, 559 U. S. ––– (2010).
No. 08–1473. American Express Company, et al., Petitioners v. Ital
ian Colors Restaurant, et al. On petition for writ of certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Petition for
the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for further
consideration in light of Stolt-Nielsen S.A. v. AnimalFeeds Int’l Corp.,
559 U. S. ––– (2010). Justice Sotomayor took no part in the consider
No. 09A886. J. Doe, Applicant v. Richard L. Duncan, et al. Applica

tion for stay addressed to Justice Stevens and referred to the Court
denied.
No. 09M89. Dionne R. Jones, Petitioner v. Virginia Department of
Social Services. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for writ of
No. 09M90. Bryceson William Brown, Petitioner v. Bank of America,
No. 09M91. In Re Jane Doe, Petitioner. Motion for leave to file a
petition for writ of habeas corpus under seal with redacted copies for
the public record denied.
808 MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010
No. 09M92. Gerard D. Grandoit, Petitioner v. Michael J. Bane, et al.

time denied.
Relations Board. Motion of Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters
for leave to file a supplemental brief after argument denied.
No. 09–920. Paul Simmons, et al., Petitioners v. William Francis Gal
vin, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Solicitor
General is invited to file a brief in this case expressing the views of
the United States.
No. 09–5801. Ruben Flores-Villar, Petitioner v. United States. Mo
tion of petitioner for appointment of counsel granted. Steven F. Huba
chek, Esquire, of San Diego, California, is appointed to serve as counsel
for the petitioner in this case.
No. 09–9464. Julia L. Musall, Petitioner v. Stella Owens, et al. Mo
tioner allowed until May 24, 2010, within which to pay the docketing
No. 09–9669. Shawn Gaines, Petitioner v. New York City Transit
Authority, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
in compliance with Rule 33.1 of the Rules of this Court. Justice Soto
Certiorari Denied
No. 08–1222. Boy Scouts of America, et al., Petitioners v. Lori

Barnes-Wallace, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–740. Antoine Hill, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–766. Palmyra Pacific Seafoods, L.L.C., et al., Petitioners v.
No. 09–771. Acceptance Insurance Companies, Inc., Petitioner v.
MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010 809

No. 09–772. Western Radio Services Company, et al., Petitioners v.
United States Forest Service, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–900. Linda Anita Carty, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–910. Elias H. Attea, Jr., Petitioner v. Department of Taxation
and Finance of New York, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
Appellate Division, Supreme Court of New York, Third Judicial De
partment, denied.
No. 09–912. Issam Mohamad Ghazali, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder,
No. 09–914. Jack A. Markell, Governor of Delaware, et al., Petition
ers v. The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–1008. Michael Scott, et ux., Petitioners v. Samuel I. White,
P.C. et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Vir
ginia denied.
No. 09–1022. Bayer Schering Pharma AG, et al., Petitioners v. Barr
Laboratories, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–1025. Herbert S. Moncier, Petitioner v. United States Dis
trict Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
denied.
No. 09–1029. Guy Massi, Petitioner v. Edward Flynn, et al. Petition
No. 09–1030. Sherri Koehnke, Petitioner v. City of McKeesport,
No. 09–1033. Monica Hujazi, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
nia, County of Los Angeles, denied.
No. 09–1038. Arthur C. Wagner, Jr., et al., Petitioners v. Live Nation
Motor Sports, Inc., fka SFX Motor Sports, Inc., dba Clear Channel
810 MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010
Entertainment-Motor Sports, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to

No. 09–1047. Tekila Films, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. New Form Inc.,
dba Laguna Films. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–1048. Kenneth D. Liggins, Petitioner v. William A. Hazel,
No. 09–1050. Marine Express, Inc., Petitioner v. Jerrod Karmin.
No. 09–1053. Timothy D. Walker, et al., Petitioners v. City of Water
bury, Connecticut. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–1070. Gary Van Hardy, et ux., Petitioners v. Michigan De
partment of Treasury. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–1075. Mersen Georgievich Maryanyan, et al., Petitioners v.
Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–1160. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N. A., Petitioner v. Andrew
Whalen. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–7778. Sheena Deloache Ray, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8059. Timothy Rosencrantz, Petitioner v. Blaine Lafler, War
No. 09–8327. Paul Runge, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Supreme Court of Illinois denied.
No. 09–8833. William Eric Brown, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8855. Victor Cornell Miller, Petitioner v. Stanley Glanz. Peti
MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010 811

No. 09–8972. Thomas Alexander Dallal, Petitioner v. New York
Times Company, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
Tax Court, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–9317. Demetrius Devell Dobbins, Petitioner v. Terry Carlson,
No. 09–9318. Troy Dewyon Drew, Petitioner v. Larry Mullins, et al.
No. 09–9319. Troy Dewyon Drew, Petitioner v. John M. Jabe, et al.
No. 09–9320. Thomas F. Cox, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District, denied.
No. 09–9321. Bryan Dennie, Petitioner v. Nevada. Petition for writ
No. 09–9323. Jerome Julius Brown, Petitioner v. Howard County
Police Department, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–9324. Jerome Julius Brown, Petitioner v. Council, Baradel,
Kosmerl & Nolan, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–9325. Jerome Julius Brown, Petitioner v. Upper Marlboro
Town Police, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–9329. Wiley Curry, Petitioner v. Gables Residential Services,
Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Georgia
denied.
No. 09–9341. Ruben T. Davila, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
No. 09–9344. Jason Wentz, Petitioner v. Mark Sevier, Superintend
ent, Miami Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–9346. Injah E. Tafari, Petitioner v. Sheldon Stein, et al. Peti
812 MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010
No. 09–9359. Charles J. Eato, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ

trict, denied.
No. 09–9361. Ronald Wayne Edmond, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
No. 09–9363. Lonnie Weaver, Petitioner v. Mississippi. Petition for
No. 09–9367. Edward Lopez De La Cruz, Petitioner v. Barry Larson,
No. 09–9370. Tremaine D. Williams, Petitioner v. Oklahoma. Petition
denied.
No. 09–9373. Albert F. Lankster, Petitioner v. City of Linden, Ala
bama. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
No. 09–9377. Andre Banks, aka Michael Banks, Petitioner v. Illinois.
District, denied.
No. 09–9378. Lester Alford, Petitioner v. Mike Power, Administra
tor, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–9379. Jimmie Odell Bruner, Petitioner v. Oklahoma. Petition
denied.
No. 09–9380. Christopher Arbuckle, Petitioner v. Wendy Knight,
Superintendent, Plainfield Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of
cuit denied.
No. 09–9381. Kenneth Edward Barbour, Petitioner v. M. Stanford,
No. 09–9384. Gabriel Mendez, Petitioner v. Dwight Neven, Warden.
MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010 813

No. 09–9387. Kris Durschmidt, Petitioner v. City of Chandler, Ari
zona. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Arizona,
Division One, denied.
No. 09–9392. Leandro Roger Hernandez, Petitioner v. David L. Run
No. 09–9398. Joseph Lee Gurnsey, Petitioner v. California, et al.
No. 09–9399. Alfred T. Fraser, Petitioner v. High Liner Foods
(USA), Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–9403. James Lynn Nichols, Petitioner v. Georgia. Petition for
No. 09–9407. Bernard J. Mantzke, Petitioner v. Greg Province, War
No. 09–9408. David Render, Petitioner v. Corey Hall, et al. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Hamilton
County, denied.
No. 09–9414. Lavell Thornton, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–9418. James Montell Chappell, Petitioner v. Nevada. Petition
No. 09–9422. Charles McKinley, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
Texas Department of Criminal Justice Correctional Institutions Divi
No. 09–9423. Patrick Duray Portley-El, Petitioner v. Robert Stein
beck, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–9425. Terry Joe Ormond, Petitioner v. Nevada. Petition for
No. 09–9426. Darryl McGore, Petitioner v. Nick Ludwick, Warden,
No. 09–9427. Lawrence L. Mayes, Petitioner v. Greg Province, War
814 MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010
No. 09–9435. Manuel T. Ruffin, Petitioner v. North Carolina Depart

ment of Corrections. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–9439. Elmina Callender, Petitioner v. Ross Stores, Inc. Peti
Appellate District, Division Two, denied.
No. 09–9442. Christopher Ysais, Petitioner v. Matthew Reynolds,
et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of New Mex
ico denied.
No. 09–9465. Samuel Cann, Petitioner v. George W. Hayman, Com
missioner, New Jersey Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9520. Anthony Ray Thompson, Petitioner v. Raymond J.
Sobina, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion. Peti
No. 09–9529. Cesar de la Garza, Petitioner v. Joan Fabian, Commis
sioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections. Petition for writ of cer
denied.
No. 09–9532. Fred Erby, Petitioner v. C. Bennett, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9533. Mohamed Alphe Sow, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
No. 09–9538. Rodolfo Mendoza-Mendoza, Petitioner v. Eric H.
No. 09–9557. William Barfield Bowie, Petitioner v. North Carolina.
Catawba County, denied.
No. 09–9563. Nancy Rosario, Petitioner v. Dawn Chamberlain,
Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Muncy, et al. Petition
No. 09–9604. Anthony Waldrip, Petitioner v. James E. Hall, Warden.
MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010 815

No. 09–9612. Brentt Michael Sherwood, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania.
No. 09–9632. Anarian Chad Jackson, Petitioner v. Ray Hobbs, In
terim Director, Arkansas Department of Correction. Petition for writ
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9659. Johnnie K. Murrell, Petitioner v. Eric K. Shinseki, Sec
No. 09–9662. Wilmer Giovany Olmedo, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9689. Robert Francis Berry, Petitioner v. South Carolina,
No. 09–9782. Arturo Gallo-Moreno, aka Fernando Carrion, Peti
No. 09–9802. Louis A. Hyman, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9803. Daniel Timothy Flynn, Petitioner v. Virginia. Petition
No. 09–9822. John Wilkerson, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9850. Allan Parmalee, Petitioner v. Jeffrey Uttecht, Super
intendent, Washington State Penitentiary. Petition for writ of certio
No. 09–9862. Montgomery Carl Akers, Petitioner v. United States
District Court for the District of Colorado. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit denied.
No. 09–9878. Paul Scinto, Sr., Petitioner v. Federal Bureau of Pris
ons, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–9882. Winston Douglas Syndab, aka Winston Nelson, aka
Juvie, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
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No. 09–9883. DeCarlos Smith, Petitioner v. Helen J. Marberry, War

No. 09–9892. Marshell Cooper, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9893. Michael Glenn Denmark, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9894. Edwin Disla, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–9899. Thomas Lee Miller, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9902. Cliffina Johnson and Frederick L. Shirley, Petitioners
No. 09–9904. Bryant Lockett, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9905. Gary Alexander Matthews, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9909. Kristian D. Nelson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9912. Kevin Mertens, Petitioner v. United States Postal
No. 09–9914. Juan Garcia-Sandoval, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9915. Michael Baird Jordan, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9916. Jose Roberto Garcia-Limones, Petitioner v. United
MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010 817

No. 09–9922. Moshoodi Emiola Ajijola, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9924. Kenneth Coleman, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9926. Tyrone Wallace, Petitioner v. B. A. Bledsoe, Warden,
No. 09–9927. Keith Parker, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9928. Antonio Maurice Craig, aka Cup, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–9929. McGhee Charles, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9932. Daniel Lee Dove, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9933. Mark David Dyer, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9934. Thomas Govan, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9935. Theron Jermaine Thompson, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–9936. Quantrelle Green, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9937. Christopher J. Hilton, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9946. Stevenson Charles, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
818 MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010
No. 09–9948. Walter Henry, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

No. 09–9949. Jermaine Bell, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9951. Moshe Dayan Aitch, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9960. Eusebio Escobar de Jesus, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9961. George Richard Chapman, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9963. Lennell Dyches, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9964. Danny Daniels, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9971. Jose Trejo Mireles, aka Jose Luis Trejo, aka Jose Luis
Trejo Mireles, aka Jose Trejo, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9975. Tiah LeRose Bracken, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9976. Jason E. Branch, Sr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9977. Carl A. Parker, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9978. Arturo Villasenor, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010 819

No. 09–9981. LaToyin Davis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9984. Damon Emanuel Elliott, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9985. Michael G. Ryan, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9987. Eric Lee Jones, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9989. Carlos Javier Medina-Castellanos, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–9990. Richard Hamblen, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9992. Derrick Massey, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9997. Riviera Marshall, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9998. Juvenile Male, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10001. Derrick D. Blackmon, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10002. Jesse Boyd, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10005. Terrence Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10006. Corey Evans, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
820 MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010
No. 09–10007. Nyron Joel Nichols, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–10011. Theresa Hall, aka Girl Blue, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10014. Marcus Jermaine Pinkney, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10022. Joshua A. McKnight, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–1315. Pharmacia Corporation, et al., Petitioners v. Alaska
Electrical Pension Fund, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied. The Chief
Justice took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
No. 09–1042. Bhupendra K. Shah, Petitioner v. New York State De
partment of Civil Service, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–9332. Louis Robenson, Petitioner v. Stephen Haszinger. Mo
petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Florida dis
No. 09–9336. Ofidio Bonilla, Petitioner v. John Jaronczyk, et al. Peti
tary, Florida Department of Corrections. Motion of petitioner for leave
to the Supreme Court of Florida dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–9376. Richard Kearney, Petitioner v. Harold Graham, Super
intendent, Auburn Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of certiorari
this petition.
No. 09–9400. Felton L. Matthews, Jr., Petitioner v. A. Endel, et al.
MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010 821

No. 09–9531. Heidi K. Erickson, Petitioner v. Jean Lau, Trustee of
the Lau Family Trust. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed
Appeals Court of Massachusetts dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As peti
No. 09–9626. Isidro Abascal, Petitioner v. Steve Jarkos, et al. Peti
No. 09–9954. Jose Hernando Rodriguez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9968. Durrell Liggins, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–10090. In Re Timothy Franklin Frazier, Petitioner; and
No. 09–10165. In Re Jermaine A. Young, Petitioner. Petitions for
Mandamus Denied
No. 09–9366. In Re Hubert Warren, Petitioner; and
No. 09–9369. In Re Hubert Warren, Petitioner. Motions of petition
ers for leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied, and petitions for
writs of mandamus dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
Rehearings Denied
No. 08–10932. Fidele Birahagaze Batekreze, Petitioner v. Arizona;
No. 09–807. James Henry Deneal, Petitioner v. Ronny Shaver;
822 MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010
No. 09–7699. Bruce W. Hoffman, Petitioner v. Frances J. Hoffman;

No. 09–7780. Richard Daron Kennedy, Petitioner v. John R. Lock
ett, et al.;
No. 09–7892. Sammie D. Kinnard, Petitioner v. Metropolitan Police
Department, et al.;
No. 09–7894. Elizabeth Liggon-Redding, Petitioner v. Willingboro
Township, New Jersey, et al.;
No. 09–8023. Roberto Baez, Petitioner v. Robert J. James, Judge,
Superior Court of Georgia, Douglas County;
No. 09–8230. Willie Watson, Petitioner v. Neighbors Credit Union,
et al.;
No. 09–8305. Anthony Wooten, Petitioner v. Michigan;
No. 09–8307. Learonardo Truss, Petitioner v. Willie Thomas, War
den, et al.;
No. 09–8333. Evelyn Bowman-Goone, Petitioner v. Joseph Gordon,
Justice, Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, et al.;
No. 09–8368. Milton Lee Martin, Petitioner v. Lepher Jenkins,
Warden;
No. 09–8381. Michael Lynn Bradden, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
tions Division;
No. 09–8683. Terry Brown, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–8838. Michael McNeill, Petitioner v. Mike Ruffin;
No. 09–8906. Claudio Millan, Petitioner v. Southern California Edi
son Company;
No. 09–8976. Elizabeth McCray, Petitioner v. Francis Howell School
District, et al.; and
No. 09–9131. John M. Wyatt, Petitioner v. United States. Petitions
No. 09–7853. Dennis H. Wendell, Petitioner v. United States District
Court for the Northern District of New York. Petition for rehearing
of this petition.
No. 09–8331. Martha Ritter, Petitioner v. E. Kerfoot Ritter, Jr. Mo
tion of petitioner to defer consideration of the petition for rehearing
denied. Petition for rehearing denied.
Attorney Discipline
No. D–2465. In the Matter of Disbarment of Eddie Michael Pope.
MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010 823

Donald A. Alessi Buffalo, NY Dennis James

Bischof, Jr.
Sadi R. Antonmattei Goitia Guaynabo, PR Ana Rosa
Biascoechea-
Rodriquez
Sandra T. Ayres Plainsboro, NJ Thomas Hoff Prol
Pedro F. Bajo, Jr. Tampa, FL C. Lawrence
Stagg
Philip Ross Baker Johnson City, TN Howard H.
Baker, Jr.
Thomas William Banner Santa Fe, NM Brian Edward
Banner
Alan Gabriel Bass Oklahoma City, Steven L.
OK Barghols
Cristina S. Belaval-Burger San Juan, PR Radames A.
Torruella
Nannette Berrios-Haddock San Juan, PR Richard Graffam-
Rodriguez
Diego Ramirez Bigott San Juan, PR John Roy Tarpley
Jorge F. Blasini-Gonzalez San Juan, PR John Roy Tarpley
Kristine K. Campbell Phoenix, AZ Peter A.
Antonucci
Dorothea M. Capone New York, NY James P.
Kreindler
Gregory M. Cesarano Miami, FL John Roy Tarpley
Kevin Douglas Chaffin Ventura, CA Mark Stephen
Scarberry
Maritere Colon-Dominguez San Juan, PR Jorge E. Perez
Xiomara Colon-Rodriguez San Juan, PR John Roy Tarpley
Carlos Concepcion-Castro San Juan, PR Agustin
Collazo-Mojica
Michael W. Cotter Helena, MT James E. Seykora
Joshua David Curry Atlanta, GA John L. North
Yolanda M. Da San Juan, PR Marta D.
Silveira-Neves Masferrer
Alvarez
824 MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010
Doris M. Del Castillo Garcia San Juan, PR John Roy Tarpley

Juan Carlos Deliz-Morales San Juan, PR John Roy Tarpley
Denise Marie Di Mascio Fresno, CA John Roy Tarpley
Raquel M. Dulzaides San Juan, PR John Roy Tarpley
Jonathan James Dunn Irvine, CA John Roy Tarpley
Don A. Ernst San Luis Obispo, Terry J. Kilpatrick
CA
Jose Juan Torres Escalera San Juan, PR John Roy Tarpley
Maria R. Fernandez-Ginorio San Juan, PR John Roy Tarpley
Luis M. Ferrer Medina San Juan, PR John Roy Tarpley
Ivan Aponte Figueroa San Juan, PR Richard Graffam-
Rodriguez
Juan Carlos Garay-Massey San Juan, PR John Roy Tarpley
Jorge C. Pizarro Garcia San Juan, PR John Roy Tarpley
Jose R. Gonzalez-Nogueras San Juan, PR John Roy Tarpley
Mayra Milagros San Juan, PR John Roy Tarpley
Gonzalez-Reyes
W. Keith Goody Cougar, WA Andy Simrin
Diana M. Goyco-Blechman San Juan, PR John Roy Tarpley
Tracey Lee Haley Dallas, TX Gilbert Manuel
Swift
Noah D. Hall Ann Arbor, MI Peter J. Henning
Johnny R. Hayes Hickory, NC Clifton Howard
Smith
Kara L. Heikkila Boise, ID Donald Jay Farley
Kent Y. Hirozawa New York, NY James Reif
Vivianne Jeruchim Boston, MA Rosemary Curran
Scapicchio
Jeaneen J. Johnson Baltimore, MD John Snowden
Stanley, Jr.
Daniel Adam Kaplan San Diego, CA Steven T.
Coopersmith
Allon Kedem Washington, DC Honorable
Anthony M.
Kennedy,
Associate
Justice of the
Supreme Court
H. Grant Law San Francisco, CA John Roy Tarpley
Nicole Lentini Baltimore, MD John Snowden
Stanley, Jr.
MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010 825

Joseph Dominic Lipchitz Boston, MA A.W. Phinney, III

Derek William Loeser Seattle, WA Lynn Lincoln
Sarko
Reagan Leigh Madison Tulsa, OK Michael Lee Carr
Jennifer Anne Gore Maglio Sarasota, FL William Garth
Christopher
Maria Judith San Juan, PR John Roy Tarpley
Marchand-Sanchez
Hector A. Marmol-Lantigua San Juan, PR John Roy Tarpley
Vanessa Marzan-Hernandez San Juan, PR Agustin
Collazo-Mojica
Miguel A. Maza Perez San Juan, PR Marta D.
Masferrer
Alvarez
Jason Mazzone New York, NY Laurence Henry
Tribe
Nelson Roman Mendez San Juan, PR John Roy Tarpley
Carol Ann Mihalik Indianapolis, IN John Roy Tarpley
Richard L. Miller Columbia, MD Kevin F. Arthur
James C. Mitchell San Diego, CA David Albert
Niddrie
Holly Toye Moore Arlington, VA Harold Hongju
Koh
Michael Morris Mullins Los Angeles, CA Nowland Chin
Hong
Grace E. Muniz-Diez San Juan, PR John Roy Tarpley
Miguel A. Nieves-Mojica San Juan, PR John Roy Tarpley
James R. Nowlin Memphis, TN W. Mark Ward
Holly M. Olarczuk-Smith Cleveland, OH Timothy John
Fitzgerald
Pamela M. Overton Phoenix, AZ Peter A.
Antonucci
Ada Nurie Pagan-Isona San Juan, PR Agustin
Collazo-Mojica
Elizabeth Petrela Papez Washington, DC Honorable
Clarence
Thomas,
Associate
Justice of the
Supreme Court
826 MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010
Anne Marie Pignatiello Boulder, CO Robert LeRoy

Bernhardt
Juan R. Rivera Font San Juan, PR John Roy Tarpley
Heidi L. Rodriguez-Benitez San Juan, PR Jorge I. Peirats
Manolo T. Rodriguez-Bird San Juan, PR John Roy Tarpley
John Michael Rogers Mentor-on-the-Lake, Steven C.
OH LaTourette
Jose Arturo Ruiz-Garcia San Juan, PR John Roy Tarpley
Jose Juan Sanchez-Velez San Juan, PR John Roy Tarpley
Julie Anne Savarino Ann Arbor, MI Katherine
Elizabeth
White
Kenneth Eric Sharperson Newark, NJ John Roy Tarpley
Daniel Joseph Sherry, Jr. Philadelphia, PA W. Paulette
Francois
Janine L. Smith Birmingham, AL John Roy Tarpley
Marah Carter Stith Washington, DC Honorable
Clarence
Thomas,
Associate
Justice of the
Supreme Court
Lisa Michelle Taylor Washington, DC John R. Moore
J. Michael Traher, Jr. Phoenix, AZ Edith M. Lucero
Maria D. Trelles-Hernandez San Juan, PR Jorge E. Perez
Alison M. Tulud Charlottesville, Jonathan Howard
VA
Marilyn Valdes-Ortega San Juan, PR Sigrid Lopez
Gonzalez
Luzgarda Vazquez-Rivera San Juan, PR John Roy Tarpley
Edgardo A. Vega-Lopez San Juan, PR John Roy Tarpley
Sara Lydia Velez-Santiago San Juan, PR Jorge E. Perez
Jessica Lauren Weltman Missoula, MT Anthony R.
Gallagher
Opinions
Personal Representative of the Estate of Francisco Castaneda, et al.
Ninth Circuit. Judgment reversed, and case remanded to the United
MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010 827

consistent with the opinion of this Court. Opinion by Justice
Sotomayor.
No. 09–338. Paul Renico, Warden, Petitioner v. Reginald Lett. On
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit for further proceedings consist
ent with the opinion of this Court. Opinion by The Chief Justice. Dis
senting opinion by Justice Stevens, with whom Justice Sotomayor
joins, and with whom Justice Breyer joins as to Parts I and II.

Elizabeth Garland Wright McLean, VA Edwin Jason

Dryer
Janet Stouder-Brandon Redlands, CA Ronni S. Jillions
Mark Raafat Malek Melbourne, FL John Joseph
Flynn, III
Daniel Thomas O’Connor Washington, DC David Alan
Zetoony
David William Foster Washington, DC William Milligan
Foster
Nicole Marie Albert New Brunswick, Dennis Alan
NJ Auciello
Craig Mitchell Aronow New Brunswick, Dennis Alan
NJ Auciello
Kimberly Yonta Aronow East Brunswick, Dennis Alan
NJ Auciello
Niki Athanasopoulos New Brunswick, Dennis Alan
NJ Auciello
Tara Nicole Auciello New Brunswick, Dennis Alan
NJ Auciello
Jason Michael Boudwin New Brunswick, Dennis Alan
NJ Auciello
Anira Clericuzio Cranford, NJ Dennis Alan
Auciello
Bina K. Desai New Brunswick, Dennis Alan
NJ Auciello
Jef Henninger Toms River, NJ Dennis Alan
Auciello
828 MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010
Luke John Kealy Woodbridge, NJ Dennis Alan

Auciello
Philip A. Lundell, Jr. Bridgewater, NJ Dennis Alan
Auciello
A. Todd Mayo North Brunswick, Dennis Alan
NJ Auciello
Dana Wilt Mayo East Brunswick, Dennis Alan
NJ Auciello
Isabel McGinty Hightstown, NJ Dennis Alan
Auciello
Edward J. Rebenack New Brunswick, Dennis Alan
NJ Auciello
Adrienne C. Rogove Princeton, NJ Dennis Alan
Auciello
Ellen F. Schwartz Kendall Park, NJ Dennis Alan
Auciello
Philip Anthony Tortoreti West Orange, NJ Dennis Alan
Auciello
Brenda Vallecilla South Plainfield, Dennis Alan
NJ Auciello
John S. Wisniewski Sayreville, NJ Dennis Alan
Auciello
Andrew R. Wolf North Brunswick, Dennis Alan
NJ Auciello
Blair R. Zwillman Woodbridge, NJ Dennis Alan
Auciello
Daniel R. Lapinski Medford, NJ Dennis Alan
Auciello
Jennifer Dunn Batson Columbus, GA Honorable Jean
Cooley Hoefer Toal
Shira Adler Atlanta, GA Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Eleanor Mixon Attwood Atlanta, GA Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Emily Renee Bramer Louisville, KY Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Heather D. Brown Atlanta, GA Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Cynthia G. Burnside Atlanta, GA Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010 829

Lisa Ritchey Craig Atlanta, GA Honorable Jean

Hoefer Toal
Margaret G. Geer Atlanta, GA Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Dana R. Grantham Atlanta, GA Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Jessica J. Harper Atlanta, GA Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Mary Beth Hebert Atlanta, GA Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Jacqueline Michelle Hutter Decatur, GA Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Paige Norwood Jennings Atlanta, GA Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Amy J. Kolczak Atlanta, GA Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Rhonda Bender Kreuziger Fayetteville, GA Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Cindy Spindler Manning Tyrone, GA Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Leigh Martin May Atlanta, GA Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Andraya Arlita Mimms Savannah, GA Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Tiana S. Mykkeltvedt Atlanta, GA Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Mary Aunita Prebula Duluth, GA Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Katrina M. Quicker Atlanta, GA Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Sheila Louise Rambeck Peachtree, GA Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Elizabeth Robertson Atlanta, GA Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
M. Regina Thomas Atlanta, GA Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Lindsay C. Verity Atlanta, GA Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Nancy John Whaley Atlanta, GA Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
830 MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010
Jennifer Wild Wolak Atlanta, GA Honorable Jean

Hoefer Toal
Katie Wood Atlanta, GA Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Valencia Lachelle Bowers Washington, DC Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Kelli M. Cochran-Seabrook Charleston, SC Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Robin Sloan Cromer Anderson, SC Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Kimberly Dawn Grande Greenville, SC Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Ashley Anne McMahan Columbia, SC Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Tiffany Nichole Richardson Columbia, SC Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Ericka McCants Williams Columbia, SC Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Rebecca Gibson Godbey Atlanta, GA Honorable Jean
Hoefer Toal
Steven J. Miller Miami, FL Steven B. Shapiro
Nicole Kacor Chicago, IL Steven B. Shapiro
John P. Scordo Caldwell, NJ Steven B. Shapiro
Demetrios Konstantine Franklin Lakes, Steven B. Shapiro
Stratis NJ
Jana Lorin Adelman New York, NY Steven B. Shapiro
Eli Babaev New York, NY Steven B. Shapiro
Cesar de Castro Brooklyn, NY Steven B. Shapiro
Pei Pei Cheng Brooklyn, NY Steven B. Shapiro
Blanche Lark Christerson New York, NY Steven B. Shapiro
Robert J. Epstein New York, NY Steven B. Shapiro
Donald Michael Manasse New York, NY Steven B. Shapiro
John C. Meringolo Brooklyn, NY Steven B. Shapiro
Deena Maron Novick New York, NY Steven B. Shapiro
Sheryl A. Orwel Brooklyn, NY Steven B. Shapiro
Amy Nicole Roth Washington, DC Steven B. Shapiro
John Matthew Wong New York, NY Steven B. Shapiro

MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010 831

Statement Concerning the Supreme Court’s Front Entrance
Memorandum of Justice Breyer, with whom Justice Ginsburg

joins.
I write with regret to note the closing of the Court’s front entrance.
The Supreme Court building is currently undergoing extensive con
struction, and the Court has decided that, after this construction is
completed, visitors to the Court—including the parties whose cases we
decide, the attorneys who argue those cases, and the members of the
public who come to listen and to observe their government in action—
will have to enter through a side door. While I recognize the reasons
for this change, on balance I do not believe they justify it. I think the
change is unfortunate, and I write in the hope that the public will one
day in the future be able to enter the Court’s Great Hall after passing
under the famous words “Equal Justice Under Law.”
Cass Gilbert faced a difficult problem when he was commissioned to
design the Court’s present home. The Court was to be built on a
small, irregularly-shaped plot of land adjacent to both the Capitol and
the Library of Congress, two powerful and prominent architectural
competitors. How was Gilbert to create a distinctive, yet fitting, home
for the Court in these circumstances?
Gilbert’s solution was to design an entrance that, in the words of
architect and lawyer Paul Byard, “emphasiz[ed] the processional prog
ress toward justice reenacted daily in [the Court’s] premises.” Start
ing at the Court’s western plaza, Gilbert’s plan leads visitors along
a carefully choreographed, climbing path that ultimately ends at the
courtroom itself. The Court’s forty-four marble steps, the James
Earle Fraser sculptures Contemplation of Justice and Authority of
Law, the Western portico with its eight pairs of columns standing high
above the removed wings of the building, the Great Hall—each of these
elements does its part to encourage contemplation of the Court’s cen
tral purpose, the administration of justice to all who seek it.
But the significance of the Court’s front entrance extends beyond its
design and function. Writers and artists regularly use the steps to
represent the ideal that anyone in this country may obtain meaningful
justice through application to this Court. And the steps appear in
countless photographs commemorating famous arguments or other mo
ments of historical importance. In short, time has proven the success
of Gilbert’s vision: To many members of the public, this Court’s main
entrance and front steps are not only a means to, but also a metaphor
for, access to the Court itself.
832 MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010
This is why, even though visitors will remain able to leave via the
front entrance, I find dispiriting the Court’s decision to refuse to permit
the public to enter. I certainly recognize the concerns identified in the
two security studies that led to this recent decision (which reaffirmed a
decision made several years ago). But potential security threats will
exist regardless of which entrance we use. And, in making this deci
sion, it is important not to undervalue the symbolic and historic impor
tance of allowing visitors to enter the Court after walking up Gilbert’s
famed front steps.
To my knowledge, and I have spoken to numerous jurists and archi
tects worldwide, no other Supreme Court in the world—including
those, such as Israel’s, that face security concerns equal to or greater
than ours—has closed its main entrance to the public. And the main
entrances to numerous other prominent public buildings in America
remain open. I thus remain hopeful that, sometime in the future, tech
nological advances, a Congressional appropriation, or the dissipation of
the current security risks will enable us to restore the Supreme Court’s
main entrance as a symbol of dignified openness and meaningful access
to equal justice under law.
(JOURNAL) WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 2010 833



No. 09–10701 (09A1087). In Re Michael F. Beuke, Petitioner. Appli
Stevens and by him referred to the Court denied. Petition for writ of
habeas corpus denied. Justice Stevens and Justice Breyer would grant
the application for stay of execution.

No. 09A1088. Michael Francis Beuke, Petitioner v. Ted Strickland,
Governor of Ohio, et al. Application for an injunction presented to Jus
tice Stevens and by him referred to the Court denied.
Certiorari Denied
No. 09–10719 (09A1089). Michael Francis Beuke, Petitioner v. Ted
Strickland, Governor of Ohio, et al. Application for stay of execution
of sentence of death presented to Justice Stevens and by him referred
to the Court denied. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States


tice Kennedy, Justice Thomas, Justice Breyer, and Justice Sotomayor.
No. 09–650. Kelmer Da Silva Neves, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,

States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Petition for writ of cer
tiorari granted. Judgment vacated, and case remanded to the United
States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for further consideration
in light of Kucana v. Holder, 558 U. S. ––– (2010).
No. 09M93. Lorenzo Wilson, Petitioner v. Illinois. Motion to direct

No. 09M94. Justin Endicott, Petitioner v. Icicle Seafoods, Inc. Motion
for leave to proceed as a seaman granted.
No. 09M95. William Orlando Smith, Petitioner v. Gene M. Johnson,
Director, Virginia Department of Corrections. Motion to direct the
No. 09M96. Bahig F. Bishay, Petitioner v. Mechanics Cooperative
Bank. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for writ of certiorari
out of time denied.
No. 09–945. Louisiana Safety Association of Timbermen-Self Insur
ers Fund, Petitioner v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s, London, et al.
The Solicitor General is invited to file a brief in this case expressing
No. 09–8429. Gerald H. Miller, Petitioner v. Georgia. Motion of peti
pauperis denied.
836 MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010
No. 09–9459. Carolyn E. O’Connor, Petitioner v. United States. Mo

No. 09–9605. Ron E. Medley, Petitioner v. First Horizon Home Loan
Corporation, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
pauperis denied. Petitioner allowed until June 7, 2010, within which to
No. 09–10082. Charles Grier, Petitioner v. United States. Motion of
allowed until June 7, 2010, within which to pay the docketing fee re
33.1 of the Rules of this Court. Justice Sotomayor took no part in the
No. 09–10116. Rachel Ruiz, Petitioner v. Sun Life Assurance Com
pany of Canada. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
pauperis denied. Petitioner allowed until June 7, 2010, within which to
No. 09–10213. In Re Charles D. Minor, Petitioner. Motion of peti
lowed until June 7, 2010, within which to pay the docketing fee re
No. 09–10216. Deepak Jahagirdar, Petitioner v. United States. Mo
tioner allowed until June 7, 2010, within which to pay the docketing
Certiorari Granted
No. 09–868. Ashbel T. Wall, II, Director, Rhode Island Department
of Corrections, Petitioner v. Khalil Kholi. Motion of respondent for
leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
granted.
Certiorari Denied
No. 09–594. Jose Erasmo De la Rosa, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder,
MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010 837

No. 09–600. Yewhalashet Abebe, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
No. 09–767. SKF USA, Inc., Petitioner v. Customs and Border Pro
tection, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–830. Balmoris Alexander Contreras-Martinez, Petitioner v.
No. 09–862. John Anthony Magyar, Petitioner v. Mississippi. Petition
No. 09–877. John J. Pudelski, Petitioner v. Julius Wilson, Warden.
No. 09–885. Standard Insurance Company, Petitioner v. Monica Lin
deen, State Auditor, ex officio Commissioner of Insurance. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–982. Brian Moore, Petitioner v. Delbert Hosemann, Missis
sippi Secretary of State. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–1056. Bobby Lee Cutts, Jr., Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Stark County,
denied.
No. 09–1057. Lars P. E. Bildman, Petitioner v. Astra USA, Inc., et al.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massa
chusetts denied.
No. 09–1062. Sarah Greaves, Petitioner v. Lisa Massad. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Appellate Court of Connecticut denied.
No. 09–1064. Agwu Nwoke, Petitioner v. Village of Bolingbrook, Illi
nois, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–1066. T. Y. and K. Y., on Behalf of T. Y., Petitioners v. New
York City Department of Education, Region 4. Petition for writ of cer
denied.
No. 09–1073. Tammy J. Shaw, Petitioner v. Lynchburg Department
of Social Services, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
838 MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010
No. 09–1076. Suraiya Mateen, Petitioner v. James R. Marshall, as

Trustee, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–1081. Victor Muresan, et ux., Petitioners v. Brian Fish, et ux.,
et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Washing
No. 09–1082. Phillip R. Neely, Petitioner v. City of Riverdale, Geor
gia, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–1085. Louisiana, Petitioner v. Jerry Goza, et ux. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit,
denied.
No. 09–1086. MR Crescent City, LLC, et al., Petitioners v. Douglas
S. Draper, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–1090. Ricky Dale Rawlins, Jr., Petitioner v. David C. Miller,
No. 09–1091. Oceanic Exploration Company, et al., Petitioners v.
Phillips Petroleum Company ZOC, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–1092. Shedran Williams, Petitioner v. Louisiana. Petition for
No. 09–1095. John Daily, et ux., Petitioners v. Oklahoma, ex rel.
Oklahoma Department of Human Services, et al. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Civil Appeals of Oklahoma, Third Division,
denied.
No. 09–1103. Ute Distribution Corporation, Petitioner v. Ken L.
Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–1104. Marlene Whittier, as Personal Representative of the
Estate of Anthony Diotaiuto deceased and individually, Andrew Dio
taiuto, Petitioners v. Daniel Kobayashi, individually; Marlene Whittier,
as Personal Representative of the Estate of Anthony Diotaiuto de
ceased and individually, Andrew Diotaiuto, Petitioners v. Eric Gold
stein, individually, and Eirk Palacio, individually; and Marlene Whit
tier, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Anthony Diotaiuto
deceased and individually, Andrew Diotaiuto, Petitioners v. Andre
Bruna, individually and Sean Visners, individually. Petition for writ
MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010 839

Circuit denied.
No. 09–1105. AIG Baker Sterling Heights, LLC, et al., Petitioners
v. American Multi-Cinema, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–1106. Bernard Dolenz, Petitioner v. Nancy Vail, Executrix of
the Estate of Dmitri Vail, Deceased. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the Court of Appeals of Texas, Fifth District, denied.
No. 09–1109. Deborah J. Thomas, Petitioner v. The Walt Disney
No. 09–1112. Betty Madrid, et al., Petitioners v. April Kaiser, et al.
sion Two, denied.
No. 09–1113. Jeffrey W. Bader, Petitioner v. Lloyd Blankfein, et al.
No. 09–1114. Alberto-Culver Company, Petitioner v. Sunstar, Inc.,
No. 09–1117. Melanie Hughes, Petitioner v. Clayeo C. Arnold, et al.
No. 09–1118. Curious Theatre Company, et al., Petitioners v. Colo
rado Department of Public Health and Environment, et al. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Colorado denied.
No. 09–1122. Lance Evans, Petitioner v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden.
No. 09–1170. Domingo J. Sepulveda, Petitioner v. Nebraska. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Nebraska denied.
No. 09–1171. Leslie Smith, Petitioner v. Psychiatric Solutions, Inc.,
No. 09–1173. Richard John Florance, Jr., Petitioner v. Texas. Petition
denied.
840 MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010
No. 09–1174. Joseph Lake, Petitioner v. Langdon D. Neal, et al. Peti

No. 09–1182. Jayshree Patel, Petitioner v. United States; and
No. 09–10049. Charles Frank Skripka, Jr., Petitioner v. United
States. Petitions for writs of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–1190. Brian Wallace, Administrator of the Estate of Norman
E. Wallace, Petitioner v. Case Western Reserve University. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Cuyahoga County,
denied.
No. 09–1193. Robert A. Levy, et ux., Petitioners v. William A. Eng
lund. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Arizona,
No. 09–1197. Fred VanNatta, et al., Petitioners v. Oregon Govern
ment Ethics Commission, fka Oregon Government Standards and Prac
tices Commission, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme
Court of Oregon denied.
No. 09–1200. Thomas Lamont Dyno, Petitioner v. SUNY Bingham
ton, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–1207. Joseph P. Carson, Petitioner v. Merit Systems Protec
No. 09–1224. Henry Ekperigin, Petitioner v. Department of Health
and Human Services. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–1230. Barry J. Jewell, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7472. Johnnie Propes, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–7758. Michael J. Alexander, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8515. Alvie Copeland Kiles, Petitioner v. Arizona. Petition
MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010 841

No. 09–8521. John Avalos Alba, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–9079. Don Jones, Petitioner v. Minnesota. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Minnesota denied.
No. 09–9405. Derwin Dale Livingston, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
No. 09–9446. Tsegai Haile, Petitioner v. Zula, LLC. Petition for writ
trict, denied.
No. 09–9458. Sally Norton, Petitioner v. Fannie Mae. Petition for
No. 09–9466. Thomas Joseph Cutaia, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9468. David Kershaw Fickes, Petitioner v. California. Peti
No. 09–9469. Gregory Lawrence Henderson, Petitioner v. Rick Tha
ler, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Insti
tutions Division. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–9470. Robert L. Hillman, Petitioner v. Brian Simms, et al.
No. 09–9472. Michael Hardy, Petitioner v. J. Walter Wood, Jr. Peti
No. 09–9474. Michael David Garrison, Petitioner v. Jan Trombley,
842 MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010
No. 09–9483. Jerome Julius Brown, Petitioner v. Industrial Bank,

No. 09–9485. Jerome Julius Brown, Petitioner v. Jerry D. Miller.
No. 09–9490. Myracle Martynowicz, Petitioner v. Kansas Depart
ment of Social and Rehabilitation Services. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the Court of Appeals of Kansas denied.
No. 09–9491. Larry Jamerson, Petitioner v. Greyhound. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9493. Karl Justin Paige, Petitioner v. Andrew Cuomo, Attor
ney General of New York, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–9498. Jeffrey M. Murdent, Petitioner v. Minnesota. Petition
No. 09–9499. Jesus Berrios and Christopher W. Rivera, Petitioners
v. New York, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–9500. Randy Brown, Petitioner v. Georgia. Petition for writ
No. 09–9501. Hugo Quental Barros, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9502. Boaz Pleasant-Bey, Petitioner v. Tennessee. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Tennessee, Western
Division, denied.
No. 09–9505. Daniel Villa, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Seventh District, denied.
No. 09–9506. Hymon A. Walker, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–9508. Walter S. Wilson, Petitioner v. Gene M. Johnson, Direc
MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010 843

No. 09–9513. Cletus Rivera, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Petition for
trict, denied.
No. 09–9514. Jerome Julius Brown, Petitioner v. Suburban Propane,
LP. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
No. 09–9522. William Wilson, Petitioner v. Mississippi. Petition for
No. 09–9524. Richard L. Musser, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–9528. Wayne Evans, aka Richard Wilson, Petitioner v. Texas.
Texas denied.
No. 09–9545. Sylvia Jenkins, Petitioner v. Michael Murphy. Petition
No. 09–9547. Edwin D. Calligan, Petitioner v. Bill K. Wilson, Super
intendent, Indiana State Prison. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–9548. Edwin D. Calligan, Petitioner v. Bill K. Wilson, Super
intendent, Indiana State Prison. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–9551. Jeffrey Michael Charley, Petitioner v. Charles L. Ryan,
denied.
No. 09–9559. John L. Allen, Petitioner v. Glen Heinzl, et al. Petition
No. 09–9564. Adam W. Sharpe, Petitioner v. Tom Felker, Warden.
No. 09–9565. Terence Bruce Richards, Petitioner v. Eli Lilly and
No. 09–9572. Jackie Lyn Coulombe, Petitioner v. Superior Court of
California, Ventura County, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
844 MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010
No. 09–9573. Marsha Chambers, Petitioner v. Texas, et al. Petition

No. 09–9574. Anne F. Edwards, Petitioner v. Astoria Federal Sav
ings. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
No. 09–9579. Michael Izell Seals, Petitioner v. John Russell, et al.
No. 09–9580. Alonzo Richardson, Petitioner v. Charles E. Counts.
No. 09–9584. Christopher William Manikowski, Petitioner v. Florida.
ida, First District, denied.
No. 09–9585. Matthew James King, Petitioner v. E. K. McDaniel,
No. 09–9602. Douglas A. Williams, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9603. Kethon Laveron Triggs, Petitioner v. Lee Ann
Chrones, Acting Warden, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–9606. Adrian Lagunas, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–9607. Jason Phillips, aka Darrell Phillips, Petitioner v. Blaine
C. Lafler, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–9614. Eric Bechler, Petitioner v. Al Scribner, Warden. Peti
No. 09–9618. Christopher Leon Baker, Petitioner v. James A. Yates,
MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010 845

No. 09–9619. Michael McNeill, Petitioner v. Lanesboro Correctional
Administration Staff. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–9630. Charles Christopher Lancaster, Petitioner v. Texas.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Third
District, denied.
No. 09–9631. Mark Marvin, Petitioner v. Supervisor of the Orange
County Support Collection, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–9640. Manuel Banos, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
No. 09–9643. Otha James, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director, Texas
No. 09–9649. Michael McNeill, Petitioner v. Officer Ashley, et al.
No. 09–9651. Michael Terry, Petitioner v. Roger Walker, et al. Peti
No. 09–9652. Eleazar Totten, Petitioner v. P. Johnson, et al. Petition
No. 09–9661. Sean Mattis, Petitioner v. William Lee, Superintend
No. 09–9667. Cedrick L. Crawford, Petitioner v. Alabama. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
denied.
No. 09–9668. C. E. L., Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ of cer
No. 09–9676. David Roy Griffey, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9677. Jeffery Daniel Hughen, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
846 MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010
No. 09–9680. Furnell Severin, Petitioner v. Jefferson Parish, Louisi

ana, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–9695. Lynn E. Scott, Petitioner v. Kevin Milyard, Warden.
No. 09–9707. Sherman Lynell Thomas, Petitioner v. Boyd W. Howze,
Jr., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–9709. Giovanni Weems, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–9731. Yvett Smith, Petitioner v. Atlanta Postal Credit Union.
No. 09–9735. Terry Lee Papenfus, Petitioner v. Jean Hill, Super
intendent, Powder River Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of cer
denied.
No. 09–9736. Appleton Pickett, Jr., Petitioner v. Guy Hall, Super
denied.
No. 09–9752. Anthony Thomas Chernetsky, Petitioner v. Catherine
Cortez Masto, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–9761. Laurence Dean Jackson, Jr., Petitioner v. Montana.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Montana denied.
No. 09–9764. Miguel Cruz Sarinana, Petitioner v. Craig Farwell,
No. 09–9768. Justin Reata Stanton, Petitioner v. E. K. McDaniel,
No. 09–9769. ShanelAnn Stasz, Petitioner v. Michael Eisenberg,
Trustee and Executor for the Trust and Estate of Hugo Quackenbush,
MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010 847

No. 09–9778. Byron Lawrence, Petitioner v. Joseph J. Piazza, et al.
No. 09–9787. Amr Mohsen, Petitioner v. Carol Wu, Chapter 7
Trustee, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–9797. Juan Figueroa, Petitioner v. Washington. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 1,
denied.
No. 09–9800. Damon Hudson, Petitioner v. Doug Vasbinder, Warden.
No. 09–9827. Steven Clay Jackson, Petitioner v. Derral G. Adams,
No. 09–9829. Louis David Johnson, Jr., Petitioner v. Rick Wertanen.
No. 09–9832. Flynard Miller, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–9835. Kenneth Hairston, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Petition
District, denied.
No. 09–9841. Todd L. Cook, Petitioner v. Nebraska. Petition for writ
No. 09–9842. Richard Schmidt, Petitioner v. Cornell Hubert, War
No. 09–9846. Theophalis Wilson, Petitioner v. David DiGuglielmo,
No. 09–9854. James Logan, Petitioner v. M. Hicks, Warden. Petition
No. 09–9864. Mervin Titus, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
cuit denied.
848 MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010
No. 09–9875. Ralph Miguel Gonzales, Petitioner v. E. K. McDaniel,

No. 09–9877. Gholamali Roshandell, Petitioner v. Sears, Roebuck
and Company, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Ap
peal of California, First Appellate District, denied.
No. 09–9900. Anthony Leon McClain, Petitioner v. Charles L. Ryan,
cuit denied.
No. 09–9906. Mitchell Lavern Ludy, Petitioner v. William Terry,
No. 09–9907. Ryland Doyle Schuster, Petitioner v. Randy Blades,
No. 09–9908. Ronald Eugene Reeve, Petitioner v. Roseann Camp
bell, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–9918. Stephen Alan Alberts, II, Petitioner v. Wheeling Jesuit
University, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–9966. Gary S. Hann, Petitioner v. Michigan. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Michigan denied.
No. 09–9967. Thomas R. Lord, Petitioner v. E. K. McDaniel, Warden,
No. 09–9983. Phillip Thomas Cason, Petitioner v. District of Colum
bia Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10004. Dave A. Richards, Petitioner v. Kathleen MacDonald,
Judge, Circuit Court of Michigan, Wayne County, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10008. Tommy Carver, Petitioner v. Boyd Bennett, et al.
MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010 849

No. 09–10013. Timothy Alan Fortenberry, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10016. Trenell J. Coleman, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10020. Bryan Mills, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10027. Jeffrey A. Madeira, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Peti
No. 09–10033. Tanya Marie Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10038. Joseph Alexander, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
peals denied.
No. 09–10050. Joshuaron Antwionne Standifer, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10054. Laura Walker Bernard, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10056. Timmy Benitez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10057. Luis Alberto Cardinas Garcia, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10058. Alejandro Herrera-Gonzalez, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10060. John D. Horton, Petitioner v. Michael B. Donley, Sec
retary of the Air Force. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–10062. J. C. Chatman, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
850 MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010
No. 09–10063. Juan Duque, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

No. 09–10064. Clinton Mitchell, III, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10066. Aedan McCarthy, Petitioner v. Darlene Drew, War
No. 09–10072. Gregorio Cruz-Alonzo, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10073. Joe S. Coffman, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10074. James Francis, Petitioner v. Kentucky River Coal
Corporation. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of
Kentucky denied.
No. 09–10088. Kelo King, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–10092. Joseph Eugene Howard, Petitioner v. David Ballard,
No. 09–10103. Michael Reilly, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10106. Demarc Burton, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10108. Montgomery Carl Akers, Petitioner v. Sam A. Crow,
Judge, United States District Court for the District of Kansas, et al.
No. 09–10109. Diamond Craft, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010 851

No. 09–10110. Luis M. Candelario, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10113. Samson Aldaco, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10129. John P. Frees, Petitioner v. United States District
Court for the District of Nebraska. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–10130. Avery West, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10137. Shannon Dwayne Hollie, Petitioner v. Minnesota.
denied.
No. 09–10140. Rodney L. Garrott, Petitioner v. Maggie Miller-Stout,
Superintendent, Airway Heights Correctional Center. Petition for writ
cuit denied.
No. 09–10144. Richard C. Anamanya, Petitioner v. United States.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the District of Columbia Court of Ap
peals denied.
No. 09–10147. Hector Napoleon Santos, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10148. Juan Roldan-Vega, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10150. Anthony Wilkins, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10158. Rafael Yeje-Cabrera, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10159. Cecil Wampler, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
852 MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010
No. 09–10162. Andres Ernesto Hernandez, Petitioner v. Miguel Villi

cana. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
No. 09–10164. John J. Wesley, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10166. Russell Wayne McNeill, III, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10169. Miguel Angel Negron, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10170. Aaron Jay Montgomery Lemon, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10179. Jerome Sawyers, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10180. Ross S. Shade, Petitioner v. Ronald M. George, Chief
Justice, Supreme Court of California, et al. Petition for writ of certio
No. 09–10186. Kirk L. Loney, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10187. Andrew B. Wright, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10190. Louis K. Davis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10191. Tunde Adeyi, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10193. Rayvon Gregory Brown, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10196. Carl A. Knight, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010 853

No. 09–10199. Jeffrey Lynn Myers, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10200. Donaveon Lightbourn, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10207. James Singleton, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10211. Martin Purnell, aka Martin Timothy Spencer, Jr.,
No. 09–10212. Marco Aurelio DeLeon, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10218. Jorge Medina-Montes, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10223. Woady Audrey Lopez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10225. Anterryo Jermaine Todd, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10226. Sean Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10227. Howard Calvin Harris, Jr., Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10228. Filiberto Hinojosa, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10229. Dorothy Dawkins Raines, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10233. Matthew Troy Evans, Petitioner v. United States.
854 MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010
No. 09–10235. Jerome M. Carter, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–10239. Timothy Frazier, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10241. Hector Hernandez-Luna, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10244. Michael L. Gore, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10248. Ronald Dawson, aka Tree, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–820. Mary D. Sharp, Petitioner v. United States, et al. Motion
of Bay Planning Coalition, et al. for leave to file a brief as amici curiae
No. 09–889. Daniel M. Zachem, Petitioner v. Peter James Atherton.
for the District of Columbia Circuit denied. The Chief Justice took no
No. 09–901. Cablevision Systems Corporation, Petitioner v. Federal
Communications Commission, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–1059. Electronic Trading Group, LLC, Petitioner v. Banc of
America Securities LLC, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–7909. Norma Cristina Drummond de Johnson, Petitioner v.
petition.
No. 09–9637. Roderick Washington, Petitioner v. Arnold Schwarzen
egger, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pau
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ply. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied,
and petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California,
First Appellate District, dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–9773. Steven Kent Bloom, Petitioner v. Kathleen Selzer-
Lippert, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pau
peris denied, and petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals
of Kansas dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–9943. Rohan Myers, Petitioner v. William Lee, Superintend
this petition.
No. 09–10037. Stanley R. Siler, Petitioner v. United States. Motion
tion for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the
Federal Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner has repeatedly
No. 09–10234. Joachim Chibuzor Ekeagwu, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–9665. In Re Rogelio Reyes Cannady, Petitioner; and

No. 09–10298. In Re Bill Marquardt, Petitioner. Petitions for writs
Mandamus Denied
No. 09–1101. In Re Jason F. McGee, Petitioner; and

No. 09–10209. In Re Douglas Shaw, Petitioner. Petitions for writs
of mandamus denied.
No. 09–9507. In Re Hubert Warren, Petitioner; and
856 MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010
No. 09–9541. In Re Hubert Warren, Petitioner. Motions of petitioner

for leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied, and petitions for writs
of mandamus dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
Rehearings Denied
No. 09–823. Dale Michele Stingley, Petitioner v. Den-Mar Inc., et al.;

No. 09–843. Thanh Vong Hoai, et al., Petitioners v. Superior Court
of the District of Columbia, et al.;
No. 09–848. Alvin L. Williams, Petitioner v. Charles A. Thorsen, III;
No. 09–7938. Corey L. Manning, Petitioner v. Carmen Palmer,
Warden;
No. 09–8044. Loyd Landon Sorrow, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
Division;
No. 09–8122. Gary A. Parmelee, Petitioner v. Bill McCollum, Attor
ney General of Florida, et al.;
No. 09–8168. Lyndon Hale, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
Division;
No. 09–8212. Barry Reese, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–8213. Stephen D. Thibeau, Petitioner v. Massachusetts;
No. 09–8317. Charles F. Tucker, Petitioner v. Georgia;
No. 09–8329. Joshua B. Shapiro, Petitioner v. Nolan L. Agner;
No. 09–8357. Steven Leath, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–8377. Subodhchandra T. Patel, Petitioner v. Brian Owens,
Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al.;
No. 09–8389. Delfino Sabedra, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
Division;
No. 09–8424. Robert K. McCartney, Aubrey McCartney, and Elaine
McCartney, Petitioners v. George McCormick, et al.;
No. 09–8507. Byron Floyd, Petitioner v. Florida;
No. 09–8568. Pocahontas Cooley, Petitioner v. Paul J. Kelly, et ux.;
No. 09–8665. Loi N. Nghiem, Petitioner v. John Kerestes, District
Attorney, County of Delaware, Pennsylvania, et al.;
No. 09–8797. Elmer Martin Sorrell, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–8817. Terrance Lamont James, Petitioner v. North Carolina;
No. 09–8835. Carlos Alejo, Petitioner v. A. J. Malfi, Warden;
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No. 09–8904. Wardell Moore, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
sion; and
No. 09–9395. Rafael Gonzalez, Petitioner v. United States. Petitions
No. 09–895. V. R. DeAngelis, et al., Petitioners v. Commissioner of
Internal Revenue. Petition for rehearing denied. Justice Sotomayor
Attorney Discipline
No. D–2467. In the Matter of Disbarment of Montgomery Blair

Sibley. Disbarment order entered.

Lilia G. Alcaraz Tucson, AZ D. B. Udall

Todd Greggory Amdor Washington, DC Joshua Carleton
Zive
Melissa Jane Armstrong New York, NY David M. Cohen
Earl Bowen Austin, III New York, NY David M. Cohen
Gary G. Becker New York, NY George Robert
Goltzer
Adesh Bhargava Washington, DC Eric Gordon
Wright
Stephanie F. Bradley Palo Alto, CA Janet M. Cooper
Antonette Benita Cordero Santa Barbara, Angela Sierra
CA
Roberta Miller Cross Guns Helena, MT James G. Hunt
Kenneth L. Doroshow Washington, DC Gary A. Orseck
Jamesa J. Drake Frankfort, KY Timothy G. Arnold
Dylan O. Drummond Austin, TX Douglas Wharton
Alexander
Barry S. Edwards Minneapolis, MN Jenneane Louise
Jansen
Ellen Jane Eggers Sacramento, CA Alison Maude
Pease
Jonathan David Elliot Bridgeport, CT Jacob D. Zeldes
Jack Fernandez Tampa, FL Elizabeth Gordon
Taylor
David FitzPatrick Honolulu, HI Dorothy Sellers
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Frederick W. Fleming Durham, NC Kerstin Walker

Sutton
Margaret Grace Foley Las Vegas, NV Kathleen Jane
England
Stanton Joseph Fountain, Biloxi, MS Doyle L. Coats
Jr.
Elena Martinez Gallegos Albuquerque, NM Bridget R.
Robinson
Heather L. Gardner Anchorage, AK Fred Richard
Curtner, III
Merrill C. Godfrey Washington, DC James Patrick
Tuite
Stuart Warren Goering Anchorage, AK Clyde Edward
Sniffen, Jr.
Margaret M. Grignon Los Angeles, CA James
Christopher
Martin
R. Stewart Guernsey Water Valley, MS David G. Hill
Judith W. Gweon Riverside, CA Eric Vincent Isaac
Judy Simmons Henry Little Rock, AR Charles T.
Coleman
Lisa Bowlin Hobbs Austin, TX Thomas S.
Leatherbury
Bonnie Holcomb Los Angeles, CA William Dean
Freeman
Carey J. Huff Fair Haven, NJ Mary R. Juliano
Joslyn Hunt Helena, MT John P. Connor, Jr.
Robin Lilley Jackson Charleston, SC Sandra J. Senn
Susan Allison Kidwell Austin, TX Sarah B. Duncan
Linda R. Larson Seattle, WA Jeff B. Kray
Coby Warren Logan Fort Smith, AR Robert T. Dawson
Paul Anthony Lynch Honolulu, HI L. Richard
Fried, Jr.
Nicole Nicolette Mace Myrtle Beach, SC Russell Warren
Mace, III
James William McCarthy Oswego, NY James P. McGrath
Charles Anthony Washington, DC Ruth-Arlene W.
McCullough, II Howe
Ronald H. McLean Fargo, ND John Philip
Borger
MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010 859

Amanda Allen Miller Columbia, MO Colly J. Durley

Kimberly Slay Morgan Baton Rouge, LA David Glen
Sanders
Samuel Joseph Muir South Pasadena, Brian K. Stewart
CA
Daniel L. Nash Washington, DC Patricia Ann
Millett
Cullin A. O’Brien Boca Raton, FL Stuart Andrew
Davidson
Susan Lynn Oliver San Diego, CA Robert Emmett
Gallagher, Jr.
Romero Tali Perro Pearson Lawrenceville, GA Daniel J. Porter
Rebecca Louise Pennell Yakima, WA Thomas Andrew
Zeilman
Ann Bach Petersen Chapel Hill, NC Staples Stilwell
Hughes
Stephen A. Pitre Gulf Breeze, FL Dennis Ketler
Larry
LeAnn Pedersen Pope Chicago, IL Stephen R.
Meinertzhagen
Jaya Ramji-Nogales Philadelphia, PA Craig Green
Laurie Ratliff Austin, TX Lynne Liberato
Jonathan Keith Renner Sacramento, CA Zackery P.
Morazzini
Owen M. Robinson Williston Park, Brian S. Goldman
NY
Gavin M. Rose Indianapolis, IN Kenneth J. Falk
Richard Barrett Rost Wailuku, HI Moana Monique
Lutey Ramaya
Brian M. Rothschild Los Angeles, CA Peter J. Gurfein
Mary Grace Ruden Houston, TX George H.
Tyson, Jr.
John Bruce Schelkopf Zionsville, IN Jonathan R.
Spivey
Chad A. Schiefelbein Chicago, IL David E. Bennett
Matthew Gregg Shaw Edgemont, NY Michael Thomas
Cone
Daniel C. Simons Philadelphia, PA H. Laddie
Montague, Jr.
860 MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010
Kirk G. Simpkins Princess Anne, Wm. Anthony

MD Clarke, III
David Todd Smith Austin, TX William Wendell
Hall
Jason Willis Snell Austin, TX David Michael
Taylor
David F. Sorensen Philadelphia, PA H. Laddie
Montague, Jr.
Jonathan M. Stein Boca Raton, FL Stuart Andrew
Davidson
Theodore Joseph Stepovich Anchorage, AK Darryl Lee
Thompson
W. Craig Stokley Dallas, TX Theodore Joseph
Riney
Edward Terrell Swaine Washington, DC Malcolm L.
Stewart
Danielle Jean Szukala Chicago, IL Stephen R.
Meinertzhagen
Michael David Tempkins Winter Park, FL Charles Raymond
Stepter, Jr.
Jacob Douglas Thomas Dallas, TX Donald Ray Gray
Jarred Ashley Turner Wallace, NC Todd William
Kunz
Diane Hill Vann Washington, DC Thomas Fortune
Fay
Mary J. Walk Paoli, PA Richard David
Walk, Jr.
Robert G. Weddle Indianapolis, IN Don Alan Tabbert
Jeffrey A. Wells Fort Morgan, CO Thomas Joseph
Romig
Charles Glenn Wentworth Glen Ellyn, IL Steven Jack
McCardell
Thomas H. Wintner Boston, MA David Giles Conlin
John C. Wroblewski Chicago, IL William S. Wigoda
Michael Yanoff Lansdale, PA Frank R. Bartle
Evan Andrew Young Austin, TX Honorable
Antonin Scalia,
Associate
Justice of the
Supreme Court
MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010 861

Opinions
No. 08–1224. United States, Petitioner v. Graydon Earl Com

stock, Jr., et al. On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Judgment with respect to Congress’
power to enact 18 U. S. C. § 4248 reversed, and case remanded to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for further pro
Breyer. Opinion by Justice Kennedy, concurring in the judgment. Opin
ion by Justice Alito, concurring in the judgment. Dissenting opinion by
Justice Thomas, with whom Justice Scalia joins in all but Part
III–A–1–b.
Vaye Abbott. On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
peals for the Fifth Circuit. Judgment reversed, and case remanded to
the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for further
tice Kennedy. Dissenting opinion by Justice Stevens, with whom Jus
tice Thomas and Justice Breyer join.
No. 08–7412. Terrance Jamar Graham, Petitioner v. Florida. On writ
of certiorari to the District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
Judgment reversed, and case remanded to the District Court of Appeal
of Florida, First District, for further proceedings not inconsistent with
the opinion of this Court. Opinion by Justice Kennedy. Concurring
opinion by Justice Stevens, with whom Justice Ginsburg and Justice
Sotomayor join. Opinion by The Chief Justice, concurring in the judg
ment. Dissenting opinion by Justice Thomas, with whom Justice Scalia
joins, and with whom Justice Alito joins as to Parts I and III. Dissent
ing opinion by Justice Alito.
No. 08–7621. Joe Harris Sullivan, Petitioner v. Florida. On writ of
certiorari to District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District. Writ
of certiorari dismissed as improvidently granted. Opinion per curiam,
announced by Justice Kennedy.
Admissions to the Bar on Oral Admissions

Brent M. McBurney Alexandria, VA Samuel Brown

Casey
Daniel K. Gebhardt Washington, DC Joseph D.
Gebhardt
862 MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010
Sharon Beth Kristal Alexandria, VA Douglas Bartram

Rathbun
J. Lance Noggle Alexandria, VA Constantine N.
Katsoris
Lynda M. Noggle Washington, DC Constantine N.
Katsoris
Howard P. Davis Englewood Cliffs, Constantine N.
NJ Katsoris
Adonaid Casado Medina New York, NY Constantine N.
Katsoris
Anne M. Ronan Alpine, NJ Constantine N.
Katsoris
Deborah Jill Allton New York City, Constantine N.
NY Katsoris
James Stephen Burbage New York, NY Constantine N.
Katsoris
Lymari Casta New York, NY Constantine N.
Katsoris
Michelle Lisa Dobrawsky New York, NY Constantine N.
Katsoris
Stacey Anne Mahoney New York, NY Constantine N.
Katsoris
Michael W. Martin New York, NY Constantine N.
Katsoris
Merril Aline Springer Washington, DC Constantine N.
Katsoris
Patti H. Bass Tucson, AZ Robert G. Markoff
James R. Vaughan Phoenix, AZ Robert G. Markoff
Rory William Clark Westlake Village, Robert G. Markoff
CA
Harvey M. Moore Santa Ana, CA Robert G. Markoff
Flynn LaVrar Plantation, FL Robert G. Markoff
Stacie E. Barhorst Chicago, IL Robert G. Markoff
Fred N. Blitt Northbrook, IL Robert G. Markoff
Angel Zimmerman Topeka, KS Robert G. Markoff
Larry Neal Zimmerman Topeka, KS Robert G. Markoff
Christopher John Couch Metairie, LA Robert G. Markoff
Timothy Edward Baxter Farmington Hills, Robert G. Markoff
MI
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Ronald C. Miller Saint Louis, MO Robert G. Markoff

Mark Quandahl Omaha, NE Robert G. Markoff
John Albert Youderian, Jr. West Caldwell, NJ Robert G. Markoff
Francesco Fabiano Syracuse, NY Robert G. Markoff
Scott William Paris Cleveland, OH Robert G. Markoff
Randy T. Slovin Cincinnati, OH Robert G. Markoff
Keith Douglas Weiner Cleveland, OH Robert G. Markoff
Joann Needleman Philadelphia, PA Robert G. Markoff
Kimberly F. Scian Mount Laurel, NJ Robert G. Markoff
Jody D. Jenkins Lubbock, TX Robert G. Markoff
Terry C. Legum Fairfax, VA Robert G. Markoff
Christopher Jason Mercado Seattle, WA Robert G. Markoff
Joseph S. Binder Philadelphia, PA Scott F. Cooper
Angelo L. Cameron Philadelphia, PA Scott F. Cooper
Karen Foytlin Cooper Moorestown, PA Scott F. Cooper
Douglas B. Fox Philadelphia, PA Scott F. Cooper
Michael I. Frankel Philadelphia, PA Scott F. Cooper
Gerald Thomas Kenney Philadelphia, PA Scott F. Cooper
Gene M. Linkmeyer Philadelphia, PA Scott F. Cooper
Andrew Kevin Mitnick Philadelphia, PA Scott F. Cooper
Benjamin Venancio Sanchez Philadelphia, PA Scott F. Cooper
Karen Meredith Sanchez Philadelphia, PA Scott F. Cooper
Suzanne Ilene Schiller Philadelphia, PA Scott F. Cooper
John J. Agliano Tampa, FL Michael Joseph
Napoleone
Brian Lee Michael Fort Lauderdale, Michael Joseph
Balaguera FL Napoleone
Charles Wade Bowden West Palm Beach, Michael Joseph
FL Napoleone
Lorie Michelle Gleim West Palm Beach, Michael Joseph
FL Napoleone
Janet M. Greene Tampa, FL Michael Joseph
Napoleone
Phillip Hollis Hutchinson West Palm Beach, Michael Joseph
FL Napoleone
Patricia Anne Leonard West Palm Beach, Michael Joseph
FL Napoleone
John Francis McGuire Clearwater, FL Michael Joseph
Napoleone
864 MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010
Kara Ann Skorupa North Palm Michael Joseph

Beach, FL Napoleone
Michelle Renee Suskauer West Palm Beach, Michael Joseph
FL Napoleone

(JOURNAL) WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2010 865



No. 09–10822 (09A1097). In Re Rogelio R. Cannady, Petitioner. Ap
plication for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice
(JOURNAL) THURSDAY, MAY 20, 2010 867


Certiorari Denied
No. 09–10888 (09A1115). Gerald James Holland, Petitioner v. Mis
sissippi. Application for stay of execution of sentence of death pre
sented to Justice Scalia and by him referred to the Court denied. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Mississippi denied.
Certiorari Denied
No. 09–1345 (09A1061). Darick Demorris Walker, Petitioner v. Lo
retta K. Kelly, Warden. Application for stay of execution of sentence
of death presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the
Court denied. Motion of Arc of the United States for leave to file a brief
as amicus curiae granted. Motion of Constitution Project for leave to
the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied. Jus
tice Stevens, Justice Ginsburg, and Justice Sotomayor would grant the
application for stay of execution.
Certiorari Denied
No. 09–1346 (09A1062). Darick Demorris Walker, Petitioner v. Lo
retta K. Kelly, Warden. Application for stay of execution of sentence
of death presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the
Court denied. Motion of Arc of the United States for leave to file a
brief as amicus curiae granted. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied. Justice
Stevens, Justice Ginsburg, and Justice Sotomayor would grant the ap
plication for stay of execution.


tice Kennedy, Justice Ginsburg, Justice Breyer, Justice Alito, and Jus
tice Sotomayor.
Opinion Per Curiam
No. 09–8852. Lawrence Joseph Jefferson, Petitioner v. Stephen

Upton, Warden. On petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Motion of petitioner for
leave to proceed in forma pauperis and petition for writ of certiorari
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit for further proceedings con
sistent with the opinion of this Court. Opinion per curiam. Dissenting
opinion by Justice Scalia, with whom Justice Thomas joins.
No. 08–775. Hugo Alejandro Villegas Duran, Petitioner v. Johana

Ivette Arribada Beaumont. Motion of National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted.
for the Second Circuit. Petition for writ of certiorari granted. Judg
peals for the Second Circuit for further consideration in light of Abbott
v. Abbott, 560 U. S. ––– (2010). Justice Sotomayor took no part in the
consideration or decision of this motion and this petition.
No. 09A816 (09–10152). Qian Zhao, Applicant v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,

Attorney General. Application for stay addressed to Justice Sotomayor
No. 09A885. Richard Fleming, Applicant v. United States. Applica
tion for a certificate of appealability addressed to Justice Kennedy and
referred to the Court denied.
870 MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010
No. 09M97. Victor A. Segovia, Petitioner v. Bach Construction, Inc.

time denied.
Secretary of State, et al. Motion of Center for Constitutional Jurispru
dence for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted.
No. 09–846. United States, Petitioner v. Tohono O’odham Nation.
Motion of the Solicitor General to dispense with printing the joint ap
pendix granted.
No. 09–958. David Maxwell-Jolly, Director, California Department
of Health Care Services, Petitioner v. Independent Living Center of
Southern California, Inc., et al.; and David Maxwell-Jolly, Director,
California Department of Health Care Services, Petitioner v. Inde
pendent Living Center of Southern California, Inc., et al. The Solicitor
the United States.
No. 09–993. PLIVA, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Gladys Mensing; and
No. 09–1039. Actavis Elizabeth, LLC, Petitioner v. Gladys Mensing.
The Solicitor General is invited to file briefs in these cases expressing
No. 09–8342. Danny M. Kelly, Petitioner v. Richard J. Day, et al.
No. 09–9042. Laurie Marie Laskey, Petitioner v. RCN Corporation.
No. 09–10157. Timothy Trimble, Petitioner v. Florida. Motion of
allowed until June 14, 2010, within which to pay the docketing fee
Certiorari Granted
No. 08–1314. Delbert Williamson, et al., Petitioners v. Mazda Motor

of America, Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of
Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three,
granted limited to Question 1 presented by the petition.
MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010 871

for the Fifth Circuit granted limited to the following question:
“Whether an individual may sue a State or state official in his official
capacity for damages for violations of the Religious Land Use and In
stitutionalized Persons Act, 42 U. S. C. § 2000cc et seq. (2000 ed.).”
No. 09–893. AT&T Mobility LLC, Petitioner v. Vincent Concepcion,
et ux. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–987. Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization, Peti
tioner v. Kathleen M. Winn, et al.; and
No. 09–991. Gale Garriott, Director, Arizona Department of Reve
nue, Petitioner v. Kathleen M. Winn, et al. Petitions for writs of certio
rari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
granted. The cases are consolidated and a total of one hour is allotted
for oral argument.
No. 09–9000. Henry W. Skinner, Petitioner v. Lynn Switzer, District
Attorney for the 31st Judicial District of Texas. Motion of petitioner
granted.
Certiorari Denied
No. 08–1131. Sophal Phon, Petitioner v. Kentucky. Petition for writ

No. 08–10940. Mariano Diaz, Jr., Petitioner v. California. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, Fifth Appellate
District, denied.
No. 09–697. Tom Robinson, et al., Petitioners v. Candace Lehman,
Administrator of the Estate of Joshua Lehman. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–745. Dennis Andrews, et al., Petitioners v. Roger Fairley,
No. 09–750. Textron Inc. and Subsidiaries, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–774. Dejan Kostic, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney
872 MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010
No. 09–812. Lilian Ileto, Petitioner v. Glock, Inc., et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–871. Curr-Spec Partners, L. P., Petitioner v. Commissioner
No. 09–882. John David Ruelas, Petitioner v. Hugh Wolfenbarger,
No. 09–908. Deborah Orlando Cooney, Petitioner v. Lyle Rossiter, Jr.,
No. 09–953. Tim Reisch, et al., Petitioners v. Charles E. Sisney, et al.
No. 09–962. LaSalle Group, Inc., Petitioner v. Trustees of the Detroit
Carpenters Fringe Benefit Funds. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–965. Rupert M. Pollard, Petitioner v. Estate of Marie A. Mer
kel, Deceased, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–998. Shawn Drake, Petitioner v. Louisiana. Petition for writ
No. 09–1108. Aimee Zmysly, Petitioner v. United States, et al. Peti
No. 09–1119. Carlos Fitzgerald Smith, Petitioner v. North Carolina.
lina denied.
No. 09–1125. Glenn Allen Adair, dba Super D 229, et al., Petitioners
v. Lease Partners, Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–1128. Daniel J. Segal, Petitioner v. Fifth Third Bank, N. A.,
No. 09–1130. Dorothy Scholwin, Petitioner v. Department of Chil
dren and Families. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Appeals Court
of Massachusetts denied.
MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010 873

No. 09–1134. Clifton S. Davis, Sr., Petitioner v. Lonnie L. Davis, Jr.,
denied.
No. 09–1137. Louise Victoria Jeffredo, et al., Petitioners v. Mark A.
Macarro, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–1144. Bernard Dolenz, Petitioner v. WTG Gas Processing,
L. P., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–1145. Millie Max, Petitioner v. Republican Committee of Lan
caster County, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–1147. Nicholas Lohman, Petitioner v. Duryea Borough, et al.
No. 09–1148. Jerry Dillon, Petitioner v. Indiana, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–1151. Jerry Lee Baldwin, Petitioner v. Board of Supervisors
for the University of Louisiana System, et al. Petition for writ of certio
rari to the Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit, denied.
No. 09–1154. Howard A. Fox, Petitioner v. Florida Unemployment
Appeals Commission, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the District
Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District, denied.
No. 09–1155. Douglas Shukert, Petitioner v. Massachusetts. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Appeals Court of Massachusetts denied.
No. 09–1157. Montanans For Multiple Use, et al., Petitioners v.
Cathy Barbouletos, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–1165. Wendell Marumoto, Petitioner v. Haunani Apoliona,
No. 09–1180. James Dickey, Petitioner v. James Warren. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Appeals Court of Massachusetts denied.
No. 09–1181. Richard John Florance, Jr., Petitioner v. United States.
874 MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010
No. 09–1189. Satya Wati, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney

No. 09–1203. Raymond Frantz, Petitioner v. William J. Gress, et al.
No. 09–1236. Michael Frederick Siegel, Petitioner v. Securities and
Exchange Commission. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–1239. Gerald E. Juels, Petitioner v. United States Postal
No. 09–1241. Solomon and Solomon, P.C., et al., Petitioners v. Janet
Ellis. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
No. 09–1244. Carlene Graham, Petitioner v. Metropolitan Life Insur
ance Company. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–1247. Certain Real Property, Located at 317 Nick Fitchard
Road, N.W., Huntsville, Alabama, et al., Petitioners v. United States.
No. 09–1250. Richard I. Fine, Petitioner v. Leroy D. Baca, Sheriff,
Los Angeles County, California, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–1266. George DeLalio, Petitioner v. Wyoming. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–1267. Patrick Grant Davis, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–1294. Brian Sean McClendon, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–1296. Anthony Hampton, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010 875

No. 09–5818. Roger Dean Tom, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8202. Thomas Robert McGill, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition
District, denied.
No. 09–8320. Joe Eugene Vincent, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8388. Norman A. Parada, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8445. Donovan Thomas Culps, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8461. Scott Edgar Dyleski, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–8603. Everardo Guzman, Petitioner v. Oregon. Petition for
No. 09–8643. Juan Jose Madrid, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8674. Curtis J. Benford, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8861. Edward Curtis Bobb, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8949. Shannon Johnson, Petitioner v. Delaware. Petition for
No. 09–9036. Leonard S. Taylor, Petitioner v. Missouri. Petition for
No. 09–9054. Jerry Chambers, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Petition
District, denied.
No. 09–9673. David Hartley, Petitioner v. James Hall, Warden. Peti
876 MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010
No. 09–9675. Glen Dale Hammon, Petitioner v. David Miller, War

No. 09–9678. Nathan D. Speaks, Petitioner v. Missouri. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Missouri, Eastern Dis
trict, denied.
No. 09–9683. Frank Reaves, Petitioner v. Gene M. Johnson, Director,
the Supreme Court of Virginia denied.
No. 09–9688. Christopher Steven Butler, Petitioner v. L. E. Scribner,
No. 09–9690. Allah Quddoos Allah, Petitioner v. Hilton Hall, Warden.
No. 09–9697. Samuel Abraham, Petitioner v. United States, et al.
No. 09–9699. Denise Ann Barbee, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–9703. William D. Jones, Petitioner v. Walter N. Dinwiddie,
No. 09–9704. Clarence Daniels, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
District, denied.
No. 09–9708. Joshua Todd Woolridge, Petitioner v. James A. Yates,
No. 09–9720. Grace Miles, Petitioner v. United States Court of Ap
peals for the Ninth Circuit. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–9721. Allen Dewayne Bates, Petitioner v. Beverly Barnice
Pratt, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–9724. Braulio Espinoza, Petitioner v. J’al Erin Mattoon.
MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010 877

No. 09–9725. Juan Serrano, Petitioner v. Joseph T. Smith, Super
denied.
No. 09–9730. Christine Chang, Petitioner v. Rockridge Manor Con
dominium, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–9740. Aaron K. Marsh, Petitioner v. Florida Department of
Children and Families, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–9743. Alejandro Ruvalcaba, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for
No. 09–9744. Soloman David Roberts, Petitioner v. Walter A. Mc-
No. 09–9746. Jerome Julius Brown, Petitioner v. United States Dis
trict Court for the District of Columbia. Petition for writ of certiorari
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9747. Nazario Burgos, Petitioner v. Superior Court of Penn
sylvania. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–9756. Quincy Jovan Allen, Petitioner v. South Carolina. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of South Carolina
denied.
No. 09–9757. Linda Bays, Petitioner v. Esther Holmes, et al. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Washington denied.
No. 09–9762. Otis H. Lacy, Petitioner v. David Parker, Warden. Peti
No. 09–9767. Freddie Monroe Pickett, Petitioner v. Texas, et al. Peti
No. 09–9770. Steven R. Schmidt, Petitioner v. Froedtert Memorial
Lutheran, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals
of Wisconsin, District I, denied.
No. 09–9772. Lolita Arango, Petitioner v. Rhoda A. Winstead, Super
intendent, State Correctional Institution at Cambridge Springs. Peti
878 MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010
No. 09–9774. Christopher Lamont Benjamin, Petitioner v. Darlene
White. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–9775. LaKeith Raqib Amir-Sharif, Petitioner v. Texas. Peti
denied.
No. 09–9776. Patrick Williams, Petitioner v. California Department
of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–9779. Herman L. Nitz, Jr., Petitioner v. Jean Harvey, et al.
No. 09–9790. Lorenzo Rivera, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for writ
No. 09–9793. Ansis C. Davis, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
denied.
No. 09–9794. Michael Anthony Dixon, Petitioner v. Maddox Kilgore,
No. 09–9795. Dennis O’Brien Edwards, Petitioner v. The Boeing
No. 09–9885. Onofre Tommy Serrano, Petitioner v. California. Peti
No. 09–9945. Carmen P., Petitioner v. San Diego County Health &
Human Services Agency. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of
Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division One, denied.
No. 09–10048. Montavius A. Johnson-El, Petitioner v. Roy Cooper,
Attorney General of North Carolina, et al. Petition for writ of certio
denied.
No. 09–10093. Jesse Wade Glover, Petitioner v. Tennessee. Petition
Western Division, denied.
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No. 09–10099. Manuel Pardo, Jr., Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
cuit denied.
No. 09–10104. Edward Bonilla, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
No. 09–10111. Stephano Colosi, Jr., Petitioner v. Gene M. Johnson,
denied.
No. 09–10122. Thurman Harrison, Jr., Petitioner v. Steve Hartley,
No. 09–10135. James Andrew Gray, Petitioner v. John Kerestes,
Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10139. Mario Gause, Petitioner v. David DiGuglielmo, Super
No. 09–10145. Loren L. Leiser, Petitioner v. Jeffrey Pugh, Warden.
No. 09–10160. Victoriano Garcia-Lopez, Petitioner v. Nevada. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Nevada denied.
No. 09–10197. John Kurrie Peterson, Petitioner v. Mississippi. Peti
No. 09–10206. Martin Arturo Quezada-Meza, Petitioner v. Arizona.
sion One, denied.
No. 09–10215. Eugene Long, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
cuit denied.
No. 09–10249. Geovani Davila, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
880 MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010
No. 09–10252. Thaddeus Lorenzo Patterson, Petitioner v. United

No. 09–10258. David Marland Leonard, Jr., Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10259. Exdonovan Peak, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10262. Ira Bland, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10263. Eddie Barber, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10264. Andrew Aames, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
No. 09–10265. Fernando Salazar-Gallardo, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10266. Ralph Veasey, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10268. Eric Williams, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–10375. Alvin Dorsey, aka Pee Wee, Petitioner v. United
States; and
No. 09–10428. Miguel Ortiz, aka Mexican Mike, Petitioner v. United
States. Petitions for writs of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–10269. Billy Slaydon, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10270. Andre Corbett, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10272. Abraham Delgado, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010 881

No. 09–10274. Alfred Lewis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10275. Andrew M. Kosack, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10277. Carlos Soto-Lopez, aka Carlos Soto, aka Manuel
Urias-Castro, aka Carlos Mendoza-Camacho, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10278. Larry Collier Taylor, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10289. Jimmy Steele, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10296. Bobbie Lane Kendle, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10297. Duane D. Mays, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10301. David Fitzgerald Lightner, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10303. James D. Parker, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
denied.
No. 09–10307. Vicente Torres, Petitioner v. Terry McCann, Warden.
No. 09–10308. Jose Santiago Vera, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10309. Darcy Ira Thigpen, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
882 MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010
No. 09–10310. Kevin Wilson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–10317. Fernando Arias-Gonzales, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10325. Torrey Evans, aka Bose, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10326. Jacob Benjamin Estey, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10330. Samuel Manning, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10331. Jorge J. Solano-Moreta, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10333. Wilberto Ramos-Morales, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10339. James E. Rollins, Sr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10341. Michael Carl Vassar, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10349. Oddell Quarn Cannon, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10354. Mark J. Thornton, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10356. Salvador Avina-Billa, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10357. Ben Eduardo Alba-Flores, Petitioner v. United
MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010 883

No. 09–10358. Arnold D. Ball, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10359. Stephanie Jones, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10360. Kevin Mayfield, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10361. Dennis Suesue, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10364. Raymond Cartwright, Jr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10374. Toriana Marcellus Cave, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10379. William Elias Khami, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10384. Travis Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10385. Robert Mills, aka Robo, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10386. Duane Reed Moore, Jr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10389. John E. Dade, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10391. Ronald Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10392. George Espinal, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
884 MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010
No. 09–10399. Roger Benson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–10401. Anthony Johnson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10404. Jose Larios, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10408. Ricardo Palmera Pineda, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10409. Gina Morrison, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10410. Leigh-Davis Glass, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10412. Carlos Orrego-Martinez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10420. Donald Craig McCaney, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–981. Johnson Controls, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Jonathan
Miller, Secretary, Kentucky Finance and Administration Cabinet, et al.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Kentucky de
nied. Justice Breyer took no part in the consideration or decision of
this petition.
No. 09–1006. Microsoft Corporation, Petitioner v. Lucent Technolo
gies, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied. The Chief Justice took no part
No. 09–9687. Raymond Rochon, Petitioner v. Burl Cain, Warden,
nied, and petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of Louisi
ana, First Circuit, dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner has repeat
MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010 885

No. 09–9830. R. Wayne Johnson, Petitioner v. Department of Veter
ans Affairs. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
No. 09–10219. James Ray Phipps, Petitioner v. United States. Mo
tion of petitioner to defer consideration of the petition for writ of cer
tiorari denied. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–10283. Junior Rojas, aka Ron John, aka Ron Joe, aka Pelon,
No. 09–10323. Norman B. Calvert, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
Mandamus Denied
No. 09–8355. In Re Edward J. Mierzwa, Petitioner. Petition for writ

of mandamus denied.
No. 09–9758. In Re Linda Bays, Petitioner. Petition for writ of man
damus and/or prohibition denied.
Rehearings Denied

et al., Petitioners v. United States, ex rel. Karen T. Wilson;
No. 09–880. Charles W. Birks, Petitioner v. Keith F. Park, et al.;
No. 09–8280. James Brown, Petitioner v. Perry Phelps, Warden,
et al.;
No. 09–8660. Quinton Wheeler, Petitioner v. Harley G. Lappin, Di
rector, Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al.;
No. 09–8712. Duane A. Crockett, Petitioner v. Carol Woughter,
Superintendent, Mohawk Correctional Facility;
No. 09–9140. Steven Crain, Petitioner v. Clark County Public De
fender, et al.;
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No. 09–9210. Linda F. Wright, Petitioner v. John E. Potter, Postmas

ter General;
No. 09–9231. Gerard D. Grandoit, Petitioner v. Cooperative for
Human Services, Inc.; and
No. 09–9433. Walter Brown, Petitioner v. United States. Petitions
Attorney Discipline
No. D–2466. In the Matter of Disbarment of Isidoro Rodriguez. Dis

Michael S. Adler Los Angeles, CA Scott A. Edelman

Christine Grace Albano McKinney, TX James Melbourne
Durant, III
William Edward Berlin Washington, DC John Jeffries Miles
Gregg R. Brennan Ocala, FL Robert N. Sechen
Lawrence Peter Buck Palm Beach Robert William
Gardens, FL Tribuiani
Mary C. Burdette Dallas, TX Scott David
Weber
Jessica Alane Caird Houston, TX Alan Keith Curry
Kelly-Ann F. Clarke Galveston, TX James Melbourne
Durant, III
Kristin Ann Collins Boston, MA Michael Kevin
Outterson
Travis A. Cushman Great Falls, MT James Melbourne
Durant, III
Noah Christian Davis Seattle, WA James Melbourne
Durant, III
Jason D. Demastus Chattanooga, TN James Melbourne
Durant, III
Megan England Demastus Chattanooga, TN James Melbourne
Durant, III
James Dimos Indianapolis, IN Hugh E.

Reynolds, Jr.
John R. Eastburg Washington, DC Robert Lawrence
Corn-Revere
Vicki Levy Eskin Longwood, FL James Melbourne
Durant, III
MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010 887

Ross Andrew Feldmann Burlington, VT James Melbourne

Durant, III
George J. Fowler, III New Orleans, LA Norman C.
Sullivan, Jr.
Brian C. Freeman Jersey City, NJ Alan Dexter
Bowman
Rolando Garza Edinburg, TX Richard B.
Gould, Jr.
Kenneth A. Gordon Fort Lauderdale, Roberta G.
FL Stanley
Linda Dale Hoffa Philadelphia, PA H. Geoffrey
Moulton, Jr.
Robert Joel Krakow New York City, Edward K.
NY Blodnick
Chris Kuczynski San Diego, CA Patricia A.
Shackelford
Tara M. Lee Reston, VA Barry M. Heller
Kwame Jangha Manley Baltimore, MD Bonnie S.
Greenberg
Vladimir Matsiborchuk New York, NY Marilyn J. Flood
Michael L. McMillan Hattiesburg, MI R. Paul
Randall, Jr.
Jeffrey Alker Meyer Branford, CT Mary Ferrari
Amy Lin Meyerson Washington, DC James Melbourne
Durant, III
Ernest E. Morris, Jr. St. Croix, VI James Melbourne
Durant, III
Thaddeus J. O’Sullivan Seattle, WA Michael A. Barcott
Paul W. Painter, Jr. Savannah, GA Robert S.
Glenn, Jr.
Lynlee Wells Palmer Birmingham, AL H. Thomas
Wells, Jr.
Dominic Francis Perella Washington, DC Gardner Fordyce
Gillespie, III
Kari Marie Petrasek Everett, WA James Melbourne
Durant, III
Frances M. Phares Covington, LA Michael Lin Baum
Andre Courtney Poissant Las Cruces, NM Robert Elmonte
Kinney
888 MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010
Garrick Brandon Pursley Austin, TX David C.

Frederick
Paul A. Ramos Scottsdale, AZ Craig Cameron
Gillespie
Paul Sae Yong Rhee Washington, DC Henry Sanghuen
Shyn
Christine Gregorski Rolph Washington, DC Mark Andrew
Miller
Gordon Schnell New York, NY Lloyd Edward
Constantine
Marco Benjamin Simons Rockville, MD Agnieszka M.
Fryszman
James Richard Stump Northern Mariana Joe Hill
Islands, MP
Dawn Whalen Theiss Dallas, TX Jay Joseph Madrid
Emily Joy Tidmore Birmingham, AL Robert K.
Spotswood
Ethan Tyler Tidmore Birmingham, AL Kevin
Christopher
Newsom
Teresa Ann Trucchi San Diego, CA Jerry Michael
Suppa
Leia Gail Ursery Denver, CO James Melbourne
Durant, III
Kye Walker St. Croix, VI James Melbourne
Durant, III
Jon Wesley Wise New Orleans, LA Norman C.

Sullivan, Jr.
Kristen Luise Zaehringer Hamden, CT Jacob D. Zeldes
Gregg R. Zegarelli Pittsburgh, PA Leland P.
Schermer
Opinions
No. 08–1341. United States, Petitioner v. Glenn Marcus. On writ of
certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Appeals for the Second Circuit for further proceedings consistent with
the opinion of this Court. Opinion by Justice Breyer. Dissenting opinion
by Justice Stevens. Justice Sotomayor took no part in the consideration
or decision of this case.
MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010 889

surance Company. On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Judgment reversed, and case remanded
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for fur
Justice Thomas, announced by The Chief Justice. Opinion by Justice
Stevens, concurring in part and concurring in the judgment.
Burgess. On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals
for the First Circuit. Judgment affirmed. Opinion by Justice Kennedy.
Concurring opinion by Justice Stevens. Opinion by Justice Thomas,
concurring in the judgment.
cago, Illinois. On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
peals for the Seventh Circuit. Judgment reversed, and case remanded
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit for fur
Justice Scalia.
League, et al. On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit for fur
Justice Stevens.
Wykenna Watson. On writ of certiorari to the District of Columbia
Court of Appeals. Writ of certiorari dismissed as improvidently
granted. Opinion per curiam announced by Justice Stevens. Dissenting
opinion by The Chief Justice, with whom Justice Scalia, Justice Ken
nedy, and Justice Sotomayor join. Dissenting opinion by Justice Soto
mayor, with whom Justice Kennedy joins.

Carrie Lynn Sarver Fort Lauderdale, Ginger Elizabeth

FL Wald
Keith D. Stewart Knoxville, TN Wesley M. Oliver
Joan Marie Stewart Knoxville, TN Wesley M. Oliver
Patricia Ann Kearney Warren, OH Randil John
Rudloff
890 MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010
Deborah Elaine Marik Warren, OH Randil John

Rudloff
Kelly Kevin Cline Los Angeles, CA John Christopher
Hanrahan
Tina L. Izen Beaverton, OR John Christopher
Hanrahan
Michele Lucille Devlin Grand Junction, John Christopher
CO Hanrahan
Lance Phillip Timbreza Delta, CO John Christopher
Hanrahan
John Joseph Lerma Boise, ID John Christopher
Hanrahan
Greg C. Anderson DeKalb, IL Catherine
Geralyn
McCabe
Preeti Chaudhari Washington, DC Catherine
Geralyn
McCabe
David Elmhurst Do Buffalo Grove, IL Catherine
Geralyn
McCabe
Jason Anthony Doran South Elgin, IL Catherine
Geralyn
McCabe
Diane E. Elliott DeKalb, IL Catherine
Geralyn
McCabe
Christian H. Gramm Bloomington, IL Catherine
Geralyn
McCabe
K. O. Johnson DeKalb, IL Catherine
Geralyn
McCabe
David Wayne Neal Coal City, IL Catherine
Geralyn
McCabe
Mark A. Harper Troy, MI Catherine
Geralyn
McCabe
MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010 891

Marilyn Patricia Hays Ormond Beach, Thomas Joseph

FL Romig
Daryl V. Craft Topeka, KS Thomas Joseph
Romig
Michael H. Haas Hoxie, KS Thomas Joseph
Romig
Gary Leo Jordan Ottawa, KS Thomas Joseph
Romig
Joe Allen Lang Wichita, KS Thomas Joseph
Romig
Mary E. Mattivi Topeka, KS Thomas Joseph
Romig
Frederick L. Meier, II Ottawa, KS Thomas Joseph
Romig
David H. Moses Wichita, KS Thomas Joseph
Romig
Hoa Alec Nguyen Wichita, KS Thomas Joseph
Romig
Karl Kirkwood Nystrom Topeka, KS Thomas Joseph
Romig
Daniel L. Parker Kansas City, KS Thomas Joseph
Romig
Richard D. Ross Topeka, KS Thomas Joseph
Romig
David M. Schauner Topeka, KS Thomas Joseph
Romig
L. Michael Schwartz Overland Park, Thomas Joseph
KS Romig
Todd Garrard Thompson Leavenworth, KS Thomas Joseph
Romig
Adjourned until Tuesday, June 1, 2010, at 10:00 o’clock.

(JOURNAL) TUESDAY, MAY 25, 2010 893


Certiorari Denied
No. 09–11000 (09A1128). John Avalos Alba, Petitioner v. Texas. Ap
(JOURNAL) TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 2010 895


tice Kennedy, Justice Thomas, Justice Breyer, Justice Alito, and Jus
tice Sotomayor.
No. 09A981. Ravinder Chawla, Applicant v. United States. Applica
tion for bail addressed to Justice Scalia and referred to the Court
denied.
No. 09M98. D. S., Petitioner v. Los Angeles County Department of
Children and Family Services. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a peti
tion for writ of certiorari out of time denied.
Petitioner allowed until June 22, 2010, within which to pay the docket
No. 09–9986. Ganiyu Jaiyeola, Petitioner v. Carrier Corporation. Mo
tioner allowed until June 22, 2010, within which to pay the docketing
No. 09–10192. Anthony P. Bell, Petitioner v. United Parcel Service,
Inc. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis de
nied. Petitioner allowed until June 22, 2010, within which to pay the
No. 09–10453. Charles A. Gravenhorst, Petitioner v. United States.
Certiorari Granted
No. 09–837. Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research,
et al., Petitioners v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari
896 TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 2010
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

granted.
Certiorari Denied
No. 09–597. United States, Petitioner v. Martin O’Brien. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–617. Brandon Leon Basham, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–911. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al., Petitioners v.
Montana, ex rel. Steve Bullock. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
Supreme Court of Montana denied.
No. 09–1011. Michele F. Trull, Petitioner v. Michael B. Feinberg,
et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Illinois
denied.
No. 09–1021. Greg John, Petitioner v. Douglas County School Dis
trict, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of
Nevada denied.
No. 09–1028. Robert A. Clifford, Petitioner v. David N. Missner.
District, denied.
No. 09–1052. Kevin Keith, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Crawford County, denied.
No. 09–1111. City of Los Angeles, California, et al., Petitioners v.
Kern County, California, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–1162. Evan Carolyn, Petitioner v. Orange Park Community
Association. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of
California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three, denied.
No. 09–1166. Reza H. Ahmadi, Petitioner v. Static Control Compo
nents, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–1167. Clifton Clark, Petitioner v. Christopher B. Epps, Com
missioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–1168. Mali Chagby, Petitioner v. Target Corporation, et al.
TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 2010 897

No. 09–1169. Shirley A. Graham, Petitioner v. Hartford Life and
Accident Insurance Company. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–1179. Richard Bolte, Petitioner v. Supreme Court of Wiscon
sin, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–1185. Forrest J. Saffo, et ux., Petitioners v. Foxworthy, Inc.,
et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Georgia
denied.
No. 09–1194. Jeanne Biggs, et vir, Petitioners v. Eaglewood Mort
gage, LLC, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–1201. Jack L. Jordan, Petitioner v. Department of Labor.
No. 09–1216. Latia M. Jones, Petitioner v. Superior Protection Serv
ices, Inc., aka Superior Security Services. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–1220. Allied Electrical Contractors, Inc., Petitioner v. Line
Construction Benefit Fund. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–1252. Roy H. Lubit, Petitioner v. Elana B. Lubit. Petition for
No. 09–1263. Shaheed Taalib’din Madyun, Petitioner v. Kirby Linjer.
No. 09–1304. Padma Rao, Petitioner v. City of Evanston, Illinois.
District, denied.
No. 09–1306. Michael L. Montalvo, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–1311. Marvel Thompson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–1323. Peter Gotti, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8318. Jorge Tellez, Petitioner v. Florida Department of Cor

rections. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–8569. Vertis Clay, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8758. Shaaban Shaaban Hafed, Petitioner v. Department of
State, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–8791. Craig Williams, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania. Petition
District, denied.
No. 09–8894. Lacy Davis, III, Petitioner v. Federal Bureau of Pris
ons, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–8901. Akikiwe Kambule, Petitioner v. Mississippi. Petition
No. 09–9143. Jay Beane, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9186. Melvin Bonnell, Petitioner v. David Bobby, Warden.
No. 09–9302. Michael Wayne Eggers, Petitioner v. Gary Hetzel, War
No. 09–9798. Hoi Huynh, Petitioner v. Board of Education of the
City of Chicago, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–9808. Mark L. Guman, Petitioner v. Andrew P. Bissonnette,
Judge, Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Dodge County. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, District IV, denied.
No. 09–9813. Leon L. Crawley, Petitioner v. Walter N. Dinwiddie,
No. 09–9819. Isaak Goltsman, Petitioner v. Almquist & Gilbert, P.C.,
et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Arizona,

No. 09–9820. Grams B. Osborne, Petitioner v. American Multi Cin
ema, Inc., dba AMC Theaters Parkway Point 15, et al. Petition for writ
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9821. John Tuy Pham, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–9831. Allen P. Golden, Petitioner v. Georgia. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Georgia denied.
No. 09–9837. Tresie Ann Crawford, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–9845. Eleazar D. Totten, Petitioner v. Virginia. Petition for
No. 09–9849. Joaquin Leon Padin, Petitioner v. Anthony A. Lamar
que, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–9852. Anthony Kelly, Petitioner v. Bobby Shearin, Warden,
No. 09–9853. Keith Leslie Jamerson, Petitioner v. California. Peti
No. 09–9855. Allen R. King, Petitioner v. Alan Pacaro. Petition for
No. 09–9859. Hutson Burks, Petitioner v. Arkansas. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Arkansas denied.
No. 09–9860. Roy Lee Alex, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–9865. Lorenzo C. Townsend, Petitioner v. Michigan. Petition
No. 09–9874. Bennie Ray Rhodes, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc

No. 09–9876. Christopher Daniel Benjamin, Petitioner v. California.
No. 09–9887. David Lee Salinas, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–9889. Joseph E. Dorsey, Petitioner v. Maryland. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland denied.
No. 09–9890. Patrick J. Ducre, Petitioner v. Louisiana. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit,
denied.
No. 09–9891. Irene Engle, Petitioner v. Ismael Ahmed, et al. Petition
No. 09–9896. Robert E. Stallings, Petitioner v. Bill Ritter, Jr., Gover
nor of Colorado, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–9897. Charles Anthony Willis, Petitioner v. Clay Tatum, War
No. 09–9898. Dan Temple, Jr., Petitioner v. Timothy Riley, Warden.
No. 09–9910. Larry Darnell Pinson, et ux., Petitioners v. Equifax
Credit Information Services, Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–9911. Jonathan Wayne Goforth, Petitioner v. Kentucky. Peti
No. 09–9913. Lye Huat Ong, Petitioner v. Roderick R. Sowers, War
No. 09–9917. Tommy Lee, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secretary,

No. 09–9920. Joshua K. Brink, Petitioner v. Lawrence Kelly, Super
No. 09–9921. Michael Banks, Petitioner v. City of Chicago, Illinois,
No. 09–9923. Nelson C. Burns, Petitioner v. A. K. Scribner, Warden.
No. 09–9925. Joseph R. Thames, Petitioner v. Deborah Miller. Peti
No. 09–9930. Anthony B. Cook, Petitioner v. Chuck Dwyer, et al.
No. 09–9931. Victor L. Durden, Petitioner v. Burl Cain, Warden.
No. 09–9939. David R. Litaker, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District,
denied.
No. 09–9941. Harvey Eugene Larson, Petitioner v. David L. Run
No. 09–9942. A. C. Jones, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director, Texas
No. 09–9947. Donald C. Richardson, Petitioner v. Michigan. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Michigan denied.
No. 09–9950. James Earl Brewster, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–9952. Allen Dean Burnett, Petitioner v. Thomas J. Borris,
Judge, Superior Court of California, Orange County, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9953. Derrick D. Brown, Petitioner v. California. Petition for

No. 09–9958. Shelton R. Thomas, Petitioner v. John Nichols. Petition
No. 09–9993. Yoon Kyung Kim, Petitioner v. Northwest Airlines,
No. 09–10034. Ezeadigo Chinedu Oduche-Nwakaihe, Petitioner v.
No. 09–10055. George Williams, Jr., Petitioner v. North Carolina.
Onslow County, denied.
No. 09–10078. James Golden, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
No. 09–10089. Sherwood L. Hard, Petitioner v. Wisconsin. Petition
denied.
No. 09–10094. Rodney Holly, Petitioner v. Ray Hobbs, Interim Di
rector, Arkansas Department of Correction. Petition for writ of certio
denied.
No. 09–10115. Henry J. Palmer, Petitioner v. Eric K. Shinseki, Sec
No. 09–10126. Robert Hendricks, Petitioner v. Mark Bradt, Super
intendent, Elmira Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–10127. Anthony Clifford Gates, aka Deion Burke, Petitioner
v. Michigan. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of
Michigan denied.
No. 09–10131. Archie L. Thomas, Jr., Petitioner v. Jeff White, War
No. 09–10161. David L. Hering, Petitioner v. Iowa State Patrol,

No. 09–10177. Walter Duane White, Petitioner v. Harrel Watts. Peti
No. 09–10181. Alphonso Scott, Petitioner v. Eric K. Shinseki, Secre
No. 09–10188. Erick F. Vela, Petitioner v. Nebraska. Petition for
No. 09–10204. Jose Nieves, Petitioner v. California. Petition for writ
trict, denied.
No. 09–10221. Steven W. Mitchell, Petitioner v. Michael J. Murphy,
No. 09–10257. Arthur Lyle, Petitioner v. Nebraska. Petition for writ
No. 09–10279. William A. Armstrong, Petitioner v. Mike Kemna,
Superintendent, Crossroads Correctional Center. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Cir
cuit denied.
No. 09–10291. Dana Lydell Smith, Petitioner v. United States, et al.
No. 09–10302. Reuben Nieves, Petitioner v. World Savings Bank,
FSB, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–10306. Thomas White, Petitioner v. Carol R. Howes, Warden.
No. 09–10315. Maurice Bryant, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for
denied.
No. 09–10350. Wayne Chapman, Petitioner v. Massachusetts. Peti
denied.
No. 09–10407. Lyle Nance, Petitioner v. Donald Mee, Administrator,
East Jersey State Prison, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–10419. Earl Wolfe, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

No. 09–10423. Elverto Davila, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10424. Joseph D. Clements, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10425. Frederick D. Deberry, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10430. Gabriel Martinez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10431. Travis Dell Jones, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10433. Darrel Lee Ferguson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10435. James Edward Gowdy, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10436. Eric L. Frazier, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10440. Jason Ryan Holden, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10442. David Podlog, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10443. Edwin Molina, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10446. Robert Edward Phillips, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–10448. Gregory Phillips, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10449. Ali Mitchell, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10455. Vance Hicks, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10457. Manuel Isaac Marquez, Sr., Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10459. Reginald Bernard Mooney, Petitioner v. United
States, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–10461. Carlos Willis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10462. James Abdul Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10463. Lindsay Wilhelm, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10464. Luis Andino-Valenzulea, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10472. David Kelly, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10473. Derrick Cook, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10474. Mario Alberto Pena-Sandoval, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10476. Tareke Lewis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10478. Anthony A. Blagrove, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–10479. Everett Jerome Tripodis, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10482. Ulysses Robinson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10483. Rodney Ray, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10486. Abraham Ferrel Gutierrez, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10487. John Fitzgerald Harris, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10489. Frederick Bradley Nowell, Sr., Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10490. Ibrahim A. Yousef, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10493. Gradis L. Jones, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10498. Hernardo Medina-Villegas, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10499. Antonio Mauricio Avelar, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10501. Jose Guadalupe Aguilar, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10502. Gerald Miner, Petitioner v. Lisa J. W. Hollingsworth,

No. 09–10507. Abdullah Mansur, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10508. Jose Martinez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10510. Johnny Angel Soliz, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10512. Julius Womack, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10513. Trelliny T. Turner, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10515. Evrol S. Dean, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10518. Willie Edward Barnes, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10521. Adrian Cawthon, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10523. Johnny P. Crockett, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–1186. John Errol Ferguson, et al., Petitioners v. Walter A.
McNeil, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections. Petition for
enth Circuit denied. The Chief Justice took no part in the consideration
No. 09–1196. Eleanor Capogrosso, Petitioner v. New York State
Commission on Judicial Conduct, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
this petition.
No. 09–9828. Laurie Marie Laskey, Petitioner v. Proctor & Gamble
Company. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
denied, and petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of

California, First Appellate District, dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As peti
No. 09–9869. Jerome Julius Brown, Petitioner v. Prince George’s
County Police Department, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to pro
the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
No. 09–9870. Jerome Julius Brown, Petitioner v. United States Dis
trict Court for the District of Columbia. Motion of petitioner for leave
Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–9888. Ralph O. Douglas, Petitioner v. Theodore Haynes, Jr.,
No. 09–9940. Melvin Jones, Petitioner v. John Armstrong. Petition
No. 09–10028. Winford Kent Bishop, Petitioner v. Departmental Dis
ciplinary Committee for the First Judicial Department. Motion of peti
York, First Judicial Department, dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–10434. Edward Gardner, aka Alex, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10613. In Re Sephora K. Davis, Petitioner. Petition for writ


Mandamus Denied
No. 09–10500. In Re Emmanuel Uko Akpan, Petitioner. Petition for
writ of mandamus denied.
Rehearings Denied
No. 09–975. Maria L. Peterson, Petitioner v. PDQ Food Stores Inc.,
et al.;
No. 09–8136. Thurman Lee Henderson, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler,
tions Division;
No. 09–8192. Antonio Hinton, Petitioner v. M. McQuillan, et al.;
No. 09–8314. Johnny L. Ruffin, Petitioner v. David DiGuglielmo,
Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Graterford, et al.;
No. 09–8349. Lucille R. Kelley, Petitioner v. Texas Workforce Com
mission, et al.;
No. 09–8533. Henry J. LaFavors, Petitioner v. Florida Department
of Corrections;
No. 09–8868. Sheila Mannix, Petitioner v. Sharon L. Prather, et al.;
No. 09–9089. Barry Wayne Adams, Petitioner v. Michigan;
No. 09–9286. Thomas P. Richard, Sr., Petitioner v. Pennsylvania;
No. 09–9354. John-Pierre Baney, Petitioner v. Department of Justice;
No. 09–9372. J. Lamont Lindsey, Petitioner v. DaimlerChrysler Cor
poration; and
No. 09–9454. Altemio Gonzales, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 08–10586. Timothy Thorne, Petitioner v. Steve Larkins, War
den. Motion for leave to file a petition for rehearing denied.
No. 09–8283. Uuno Mattias Baum, Petitioner v. Collie Rushton, War
den. Motion for leave to file a petition for rehearing denied.

Andre Robert Belanger Baton Rouge, LA James P.

Manasseh
Ryan C. Berry Reston, VA Barry M. Heller
Morris Alexander Bowie, II New York, NY Edgardo Ramos
Charles Mead Britt, III Bradenton, FL Mark Richard
Lipinski
Richard Lewis Brittain Athens, GA Wendell Raleigh
Bird
Laetitia Coleman Brown Fort Worth, TX Gerald Pruitt

Robert James Butcher Camden, SC Cornelius James
Riley
Randall K. Calvert Oklahoma City, Dennis Wayne
OK Arrow
Brian Cannon Palo Alto, CA Daniel H.
Bromberg
Victor W. Carmody, Jr. Flowood, MS Thomas Scott
Stewart
Christopher Patrick Corbitt Little Rock, AR Dustin Daniel
Dyer
David S. Daly New Orleans, LA John Hatch
Hughes
Sarah Despres Washington, DC Howard Richard
Sklamberg
Joseph Gary Dicks San Diego, CA James R. Lance
Glenn Richard Funk Nashville, TN John Gabriel Oliva
Julie L. Galassi Peoria, IL Michael D. Gifford
Matthew James Ginsburg Washington, DC Lynn K.
Rhinehart
Jeff Goldstein Seattle, WA John D.
Knodell, III
G. Nicole Hininger Kansas City, MO Chris R. Pace
Mary Holland New York, NY Richard Burleson
Stewart
William Charles Hughes Gainesville, FL Larry Edward
Ciesla
Jeanne M. Kempthorne Salem, MA Robert L.
Sheketoff
John J. Koresko, V Bridgeport, PA Sean Patrick
Flynn
Jeffrey R. Liebenguth Washington, DC Ryan Santicola
W. Leighton Lord, III Columbia, SC Rose Duggan
Manos
Douglas S. Martland Boston, MA John Charles
Martland
Jonathan T. McCants Atlanta, GA Wendell Raleigh
Bird
Robert C. McCorquodale Lake Charles, LA Jack W. Caskey

Lance O’neal Mixon Jackson, MS Thomas Scott

Stewart
Andrea Maureen Flynn Sarasota, FL Christopher E.
Mogensen Cosden
Jill A. Morris Kansas City, MO Chris R. Pace
Catherine F. Munson Washington, DC G. William
Austin, III
Eamon O’Kelly New York, NY John F. Collins
Tricia Thor Olson Memphis, TN Brian S. Faughnan
Daniel Joseph O’Phelan Seldovia, AK Kenneth P.
Jacobus
Chong C. Park Leesburg, VA Phillip B. Leiser
John D. Parker, II Phoenix, AZ Roy I. Liebman
John J. Parnofiello West Palm Beach, Michael F.
FL McAuliffe
Lisa A. Peebles Syracuse, NY Alexander Bunin
Kathryn S. Piscitelli Orlando, FL Suzanne Harris
Joseph Michael Preis Irvine, CA Kevin Barry
McDermott
Carrie A. Richter Portland, OR Richard Baroway
Jeffrey Blair Rock Peoria, IL David B. Mueller
Jack M. Ross Gainesville, FL Larry Edward
Ciesla
Andrew B. Russell Dallas, TX Christopher D.
Kratovil
Kevin Wall Saunders Okemos, MI Joan Whipple
Howarth
Theodore Frederick Shiells Dallas, TX Robert Loyd
Tobey
Marci Minnette Shoff Peoria, IL Matthew Bernard
Smith
Jeffrey C. Smith Memphis, TN Emily Brooke
Campbell
Taube
Kevin Thomas Stewart Flowood, MS Thomas Gary
Stewart
Tammy L. Stinson Ozark, AL William C.
White, II
Nicholle Floyd Sullivan Round Rock, TX Will A. Gunn

Ronald Donel Sullivan Round Rock, TX Will A. Gunn
Susannah P. Torpey New York, NY John F. Collins
Michael Anthony Vercher Birmingham, AL Richard F. Ogle
John R. Walker Covington, LA John Hatch
Hughes
Graham P. Wiemer Milwaukee, WI Linda S.
VandenHeuvel
Chandra Joan Williams Wilmington, DE William J.
Rhodunda, Jr.
R. Corey Worcester New York, NY Carmine R.
Zarlenga
Linda Gloria Workman San Diego, CA James R. Lance
Opinions
No. 08–1301. Thomas Carr, Petitioner v. United States. On writ of
cuit. Judgment reversed, and case remanded to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit for further proceedings con
sistent with the opinion of this Court. Opinion by Justice Sotomayor.
Opinion by Justice Scalia, concurring in part and concurring in the
judgment. Dissenting opinion by Justice Alito, with whom Justice
Thomas and Justice Ginsburg join.
v. Commerce Energy, Inc., et al. On writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Judgment reversed, and
case remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth
Circuit for further proceedings consistent with the opinion of this
Court. Opinion by Justice Ginsburg announced by The Chief Justice.
Concurring opinion by Justice Kennedy. Opinion by Justice Thomas,
with whom Justice Scalia joins, concurring in the judgment. Opinion
by Justice Alito, concurring in the judgment.
Thompkins. On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals
for the Sixth Circuit. Judgment reversed, and case remanded to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit with instructions
to deny the petition. Opinion by Justice Kennedy. Dissenting opinion
by Justice Sotomayor, with whom Justice Stevens, Justice Ginsburg,
and Justice Breyer join.

No. 132, Original. State of Alabama, State of Florida, State of Ten
nessee, Commonwealth of Virginia, and Southeast Interstate Low-
Level Radioactive Waste Management Commission, Plaintiffs v. State
of North Carolina. On Exceptions to the Preliminary and Second Re
ports of the Special Master. Exceptions of Plaintiffs and North Carolina
to the Special Master’s Reports overruled, and recommendations of the
Special Master adopted. Motion of North Carolina to dismiss Count I
granted. Motion of North Carolina for summary judgment on Count II
granted. Motions of Plaintiffs for judgment on Counts I and II denied.
Motion of North Carolina to dismiss the Commission’s claims on the
grounds of sovereign immunity and its motion for summary judgment
on Counts III–V denied without prejudice. Opinion by Justice Scalia.
Opinion by Justice Kennedy, with whom Justice Sotomayor joins, con
curring in part and concurring in the judgment. Opinion by The Chief
Justice, with whom Justice Thomas joins, concurring in part and dis
senting in part. Opinion by Justice Breyer, with whom The Chief Jus
tice joins, concurring in part and dissenting in part.
suf, et al. On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals
for the Fourth Circuit. Judgment affirmed, and case remanded to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for further pro
Stevens. Concurring opinion by Justice Alito. Opinion by Justice
Thomas, concurring in part and concurring in the judgment. Opinion
by Justice Scalia concurring in the judgment.

Jeremy S. Abrams Manalapan, NJ Judge Juan F.

Vasquez, Jr.
Troy Edwin Grabow Washington, DC Patrick J. Coyne
Laura Marie Olson Washington, DC Philip Lawrence
Sundel
Jennifer Sawyer Norvell Arlington, VA James Mackey
Ives
Cecil Howard Stump Erie, CO James Stanley
Richardson, Sr.
Michael Louis Whitlock Arlington, VA James Stanley
Richardson, Sr.
Regina Marie Brzozowski Washington, DC James Stanley
Richardson, Sr.
Nicholas Adam Merlin Miami, FL James Stanley

Richardson, Sr.
Lawrence K. Nodine Atlanta, GA James Stanley
Richardson, Sr.
Christian Keola Adams Kailua, HI James Stanley
Richardson, Sr.
Clarke Patrick Devereux Chicago, IL James Stanley
Richardson, Sr.
Elizabeth Kenly Ames Bowling Green, James Stanley
KY Richardson, Sr.
Sandra Ema Gutierrez New Orleans, LA James Stanley
Richardson, Sr.
Daniel Jonathan Poolson, Jr. New Orleans, LA James Stanley
Richardson, Sr.
Ellen Bryant Flynn Ellicott City, MD James Stanley
Richardson, Sr.
Joyce E. Smithey Annapolis, MD James Stanley
Richardson, Sr.
Amy L. Kullenberg Kalamazoo, MI James Stanley
Richardson, Sr.
Kevin S. Toll Detroit, MI James Stanley
Richardson, Sr.
Bryan Hobson San Diego, CA James Stanley
Wildenthal, II Richardson, Sr.
Robert Randall Hopper Minneapolis, MN James Stanley
Richardson, Sr.
Peter C. Wetherall Las Vegas, NV James Stanley
Richardson, Sr.
Michael Matthew Smith Alexandria, VA James Stanley
Richardson, Sr.
Virginia Trice Vance Washington, DC James Stanley
Richardson, Sr.
Robert Latane Wise Charlottesville, James Stanley
VA Richardson, Sr.
Rebecca M. Webster Oneida, WI James Stanley
Richardson, Sr.
Jason A. Skinder Washington, DC Erin Leigh
Sylvester
Jody Helen Schwartz Chicago, IL Erin Leigh
Sylvester

Anuj Vohra Washington, DC Erin Leigh

Sylvester
Benedict L. Beyers, II Edwardsville, IL Erin Leigh
Sylvester
Manuel A. Boigues Oakland, CA Erin Leigh
Sylvester
Era Ruby Laudermilk Chicago, IL Erin Leigh
Sylvester
Steven Paul Siegel Sedona, AZ Erin Leigh
Sylvester
James William Swanson Alexandria, VA Erin Leigh
Sylvester
Bruce N. Moss Detroit, MI Erin Leigh
Sylvester
Bridgid Ellen Dowdal St. Paul, MN Erin Leigh
Sylvester
Rabea Jamal Zayed Minneapolis, MN Erin Leigh
Sylvester
Steven M. Berezney St. Louis, MO Erin Leigh
Sylvester
Lisa Diane Kiser Phoenix, AZ Hugo M. Pfaltz, Jr.
Carolyn Pierce Bell Los Angeles, CA Hugo M. Pfaltz, Jr.
Jane Anne Conners San Diego, CA Hugo M. Pfaltz, Jr.
Tatiana Doran San Diego, CA Hugo M. Pfaltz, Jr.
Thomas Beem Denver, CO Hugo M. Pfaltz, Jr.
Theresa I. Madonna Griswold, CT Hugo M. Pfaltz, Jr.
Jeffrey S. Bailey Coral Gables, FL Hugo M. Pfaltz, Jr.
Denis James Owens Park Ridge, IL Hugo M. Pfaltz, Jr.
Swadesh S. Kalsi Indianapolis, IN Hugo M. Pfaltz, Jr.
Corey Smith Bott Baltimore, MD Hugo M. Pfaltz, Jr.
Kimberly Lynn Bradley Baltimore, MD Hugo M. Pfaltz, Jr.
Bridget Elizabeth Brown Petoskey, MI Hugo M. Pfaltz, Jr.
Powers
Jennifer Leigh Heintz Jefferson City, MO Hugo M. Pfaltz, Jr.
Rosalyn Bennette Akalonu New City, NY Hugo M. Pfaltz, Jr.
Paul Joseph Sutton New York, NY Hugo M. Pfaltz, Jr.
Krishna Prasad Arlington, VA Hugo M. Pfaltz, Jr.
Vallabhaneni
Kenny Robert Goza Oklahoma, OK Hugo M. Pfaltz, Jr.
Timothy L. Williams Bend, OR Hugo M. Pfaltz, Jr.
Otis Hammond Stephens Knoxville, TN Hugo M. Pfaltz, Jr.

Lynn A. Wise Washington, DC Hugo M. Pfaltz, Jr.
Althea Ross Baker Los Angeles, CA Elaine Ruth Jones
Sherri L. Cunningham Culver City, CA Elaine Ruth Jones
Michelle Eugenia Hill Los Angeles, CA Elaine Ruth Jones
Yvette D. Roland Los Angeles, CA Elaine Ruth Jones
Tangela Denise Terry Los Angeles, LA Elaine Ruth Jones
Keith Avery Anderson Washington, DC Elaine Ruth Jones
Tonya G. Gaskins-Saunders Washington, DC Elaine Ruth Jones
Dorothy Greer Washington, DC Elaine Ruth Jones
Toni Michelle Jackson Washington, DC Elaine Ruth Jones
Sharon James Elkridge, MD Elaine Ruth Jones
Linda Renee Rosborough Los Angeles, CA Elaine Ruth Jones
Sonia Williams Murphy Washington, DC Elaine Ruth Jones
Crystal Maria Patterson Baltimore, MD Elaine Ruth Jones
Mavis Theassa Thompson St. Louis, MO Elaine Ruth Jones
Stephanie Marie Brown Woolwich Elaine Ruth Jones
Pompey Township, NJ
Herbert Moreira-Brown New York, NY Elaine Ruth Jones
John E. Page Brooklyn, NY Elaine Ruth Jones
Adjourned until Monday, June 7, 2010, at 10 o’clock.

No. 09A1133. John McComish, et al., Applicants v. Ken Bennett, in
Application to vacate the stay presented to Justice Kennedy and by
him referred to the Court denied without prejudice to a renewed appli
cation if the parties represent that they intend to file a timely petition
for writ of certiorari before this Court. Motion of Buzz Mills for Gover
nor Campaign for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted.
(JOURNAL) MONDAY, JUNE 7, 2010 917


Opinion Per Curiam
No. 09–940. United States, Petitioner v. Juvenile Male. Petition for

Circuit. Question certified to the Supreme Court of Montana. Further
proceedings in this case are reserved pending receipt of a response
from the Supreme Court of Montana. Opinion per curiam.
Appeal—Summary Disposition
No. 09–797. David C. Rodearmel, Appellant v. Hillary Rodham Clin

ton, Secretary of State, et al. On appeal from the United States District
Court for the District of Columbia. The District Court dismissed for
lack of standing, 666 F. Supp. 2d 123, 127–131, and n. 10 (DC 2009), so
it did not enter “any interlocutory or final judgment, decree, or order
upon the validity of the appointment and continuance in office of the
Secretary of State under article I, section 6, clause 2, of the Constitu
tion.” Joint Resolution on Compensation and Other Emoluments
Attached to the Office of Secretary of State, § 1(b)(3)(A), Pub. L. 110–
455, 122 Stat. 5036, note following 5 U. S. C. § 5312. The appeal is there
fore dismissed for want of jurisdiction.
No. 08–10318. David L. Akers, Petitioner v. United States. On peti

enth Circuit for further consideration in light of Carr v. United States,
560 U. S. ––– (2010).
918 MONDAY, JUNE 7, 2010

No. 09A1080. Donald E. Benton, Applicant v. Timothy S. Cory. Ap
plication for stay addressed to The Chief Justice and referred to the
Court denied.
No. 09M99. Kevin Robertson, Petitioner v. Peter V. R. Franchot,
out of time denied.
No. 09M100. Clifford J. Graf, Petitioner v. Donald Mee, Administra
tor, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a
No. 09M101. Daniel Hernandez, Petitioner v. Michael J. Astrue,
Commissioner of Social Security. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a
petition for writ of certiorari out of time under Rule 14.5 denied.
No. 09–9994. John W. Germaine, Petitioner v. Marika Nyman
St. Germaine. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pau
peris denied. Petitioner allowed until June 28, 2010, within which to
No. 09–9995. Christine F. Goss, Petitioner v. Florida Unemployment
Appeals Commission, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed
in forma pauperis denied. Petitioner allowed until June 28, 2010,
Court.
No. 09–10032. Nina Shahin, Petitioner v. Pamela A. Darling, et al.
Certiorari Denied
No. 09–636. Samuel Shabaz, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–803. Janneral Denson, et al., Petitioners v. United States,
No. 09–852. School District of the City of Pontiac, et al., Petitioners
v. Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education. Petition for writ of certiorari
MONDAY, JUNE 7, 2010 919

No. 09–948. Justin Jones, Director, Oklahoma Department of Correc
tions, Petitioner v. Michael Joe Williams. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–963. Petro Lugovyj, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attor
No. 09–1077. Seacor Marine LLC, Petitioner v. Grand Isle Shipyard,
No. 09–1198. Terry Williams, Petitioner v. United States District
Court for the Central District of California, et al.; and Terry Williams,
Petitioner v. Clark County Public Administrator, et al. Petition for writ
cuit denied.
No. 09–1199. Sylvia Bapte, et al., Petitioners v. West Caribbean Air
ways, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–1202. Cyrus Y. Kim, Petitioner v. City of Federal Way, Wash
ington. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–1206. Carlos Campos, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for writ
No. 09–1217. Edward Biliski, Petitioner v. Red Clay Consolidated
School District Board of Education, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied.
No. 09–1221. Andy Shugart, et al., Petitioners v. Beth Chapman,
Alabama Secretary of State. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–1223. Libertarian Party, et al., Petitioners v. Jay Dardenne,
Louisiana Secretary of State. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–1237. Woodson R. Hart, Petitioner v. Kenneth B. Hodges, III,
No. 09–1243. United States, ex rel. L. Brown, Petitioner v. Walt
Disney World Company, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–1265. Tore O. Arnesen, Petitioner v. Eric K. Shinseki, Secre

No. 09–1269. Bryan G. Hole and Eric E. Gonzalez, Petitioners v.
Texas A&M University, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–1275. Robert V. Justice, Petitioner v. Judith McConnell, et al.
No. 09–1281. Mark E. Bauder, Petitioner v. Kentucky. Petition for
No. 09–1282. US Technology Corporation, Petitioner v. Stephen L.
Johnson, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–1289. Michael L. McGee, Petitioner v. Bryan Bartow, Direc
tor, Wisconsin Resource Center. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–1290. Ramona D. Taylor, Petitioner v. Judicial Inquiry and
Review Commission of Virginia. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
Supreme Court of Virginia denied.
No. 09–1300. Thomas Lewis Turner, II, Petitioner v. Tennessee.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Tennessee, Mid
dle Division, denied.
No. 09–1301. Eduardo Cecena, et ux., Petitioners v. Allstate Insur
ance Company, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–1317. Erik Dehlinger, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–1337. Roderick McNeal, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–1349. Javier A. Moreno, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–1352. Dean C. Plaskett, Petitioner v. United States, et al.

No. 09–1355. Marilyn Lee, Petitioner v. John E. Potter, Postmaster
No. 09–7895. Jerry Lee Zuniga, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8506. Thomas Johnson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8579. William Calderon Jauregui, Petitioner v. Kevin Kutina.
No. 09–8988. Tyrone Vaughn, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9181. Raymond Shoemake, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9396. Dan L. Moore, Petitioner v. Connecticut. Petition for
No. 09–9629. John M. Kelly, Petitioner v. Moser, Patterson and Sher
idan, LLP, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–9881. Raymond L. Semler, Petitioner v. Erick Klang, et al.
No. 09–9884. Terry Darrell Smith, Petitioner v. Oregon. Petition for
No. 09–9959. Inestin Petit-Homme, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9965. M. Norman Hammerlord, Petitioner v. City of San
Diego, California, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–9969. Colin Kelly Kaufman, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
No. 09–9970. Ramesh K. Swamynathan, Petitioner v. Illinois. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Illinois denied.
No. 09–9973. Elie Amar, Petitioner v. Hillcrest Jewish Center. Peti

No. 09–9974. Darrell Artis, Petitioner v. Burl Cain, Warden. Petition
No. 09–9980. Juliette Maria Dixon, Petitioner v. Gene M. Johnson,
denied.
No. 09–9982. Stewart Azell Cross, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–9996. Stefen D. Petzold, Petitioner v. Justin Jones, Director,
Oklahoma Department of Corrections. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–9999. Anthony Ray Johnson, Petitioner v. Texas Board of
Pardons and Paroles. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–10000. Harvey E. Larson, Petitioner v. Mike McDonald, War
No. 09–10003. Donald Wackerly, II, Petitioner v. Randall G. Work
man, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–10009. Joseph Giovanazzi, as Co-Trustee of the Aida Made
line Lebbos Trust II, Petitioner v. Linda Schuette, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10010. Patricia Ann Ingle, Petitioner v. Deutsche Bank Na
tional Trust Company. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of
Appeals of Ohio, Cuyahoga County, denied.
No. 09–10017. Samuel Espinoza, Petitioner v. Scott Kernan, Warden.
No. 09–10018. Carol Ann Mitchell, Petitioner v. Akal Security Inc.,

No. 09–10021. Steve Pigg, Petitioner v. James Basinger. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10023. Young Moon, Petitioner v. Ellen Bowden McIntyre,
No. 09–10024. Jason Christian Morreo, Petitioner v. California. Peti
Appellate District, Division One, denied.
No. 09–10025. Christopher Ynosencio Ysais, Petitioner v. New Mex
ico Children, Youth and Families Department, et al. Petition for writ
cuit denied.
No. 09–10035. Donna K. Pearson, Petitioner v. Village of Greenup,
Illinois, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–10036. Edward J. Zakrzewski, II, Petitioner v. Walter A.
McNeil, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Petition
No. 09–10042. Roderick Michael Orme, Petitioner v. Florida. Peti
No. 09–10044. Berny Serrano, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
denied.
No. 09–10045. Oscar L. Shaw, Petitioner v. University of Texas Med
ical Branch, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–10046. Ishmael Salahuddin, aka Ismail Saladin, Petitioner v.
tional Institutions Division. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–10047. Rudy Stanko, Petitioner v. Robert Patton, et al. Peti
No. 09–10051. Albert Mullaly, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
denied.
No. 09–10052. Kenneth W. Polly, Petitioner v. Oklahoma. Petition for

writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma denied.
No. 09–10065. Casey Nelson, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Seventh District, denied.
No. 09–10069. Orlando E. Townsend, Petitioner v. Amy J. Bang,
No. 09–10091. Johnnie Ray Hawthone, Petitioner v. Arkansas, et al.
No. 09–10101. Harold B. Mason, Petitioner v. Invision, LLC, et al.
No. 09–10133. Joseph Torres, Jr., Petitioner v. Jim Benedetti, War
No. 09–10172. Timothy James, Petitioner v. Matthew Cate, Secre
tary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al.
No. 09–10321. Clifton Morrow, Petitioner v. Robert A. Horel, War
No. 09–10344. John H. Darby, Petitioner v. South Carolina, et al.
No. 09–10345. Vito Cascio, Petitioner v. Ray Lawler, Superintend
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10377. Oscar Roy Doster, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
No. 09–10383. Jessica Barraza, Petitioner v. Nevada. Petition for
No. 09–10388. Rogers Murrell, Petitioner v. Eric K. Shinseki, Secre
No. 09–10390. Robert Alexander Verbal, Petitioner v. Ricky Ander
son, Administrator, Pasquotank Correctional Institution. Petition for

Circuit denied.
No. 09–10397. Clay Alexander, Petitioner v. Colorado. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Colorado denied.
No. 09–10569. Dalrick Aion Henry, Petitioner v. Kathy Mendoza-
Powers, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–10589. Aldo Omar Crotte Sainez, Petitioner v. George Ven
ables. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
No. 09–10590. Christopher Rozier, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10597. Brandon Rhode, Petitioner v. Hilton Hall, Warden.
No. 09–10600. Dexter Anderson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10608. Juan Magana-Colin, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10618. Dedrick Richardson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10620. Sandra Reeder, et vir, Petitioners v. United States.
No. 09–10624. Diane Beverly Siguenza, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10627. Joel Soto, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10629. Bradley Hodge, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10630. Darrell A. Goodwin, aka Goody, Petitioner v. United

No. 09–10631. Kenneth Goenaga, aka Kenny, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10632. Isaac Headman, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10633. Kim N. Pounds, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10634. Billy Peters, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10638. Richard Eric Williams, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10639. Saul Barboza Delgado, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10644. Deon D. Roundtree, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10645. Daniel Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10647. Janice Ratliff, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10651. Kenneth Burnam, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10652. Lyna Brooks, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–1097. Antonio Peck, a Minor, By and Through His Parents
and Next Friends, Jo Anne Peck and Kenley Lester Peck, Petitioner v.
Baldwinsville Central School District, et al. Petition for writ of certio

of this petition.
No. 09–1231. Beibei Zhang, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attor
No. 09–1356. Rafil Dhafir, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–9634. Juwanna Wrotten, Petitioner v. New York. On petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of New York. Petition
denied. Statement of Justice Sotomayor respecting the denial of the
petition for writ of certiorari.
No. 09–9991. Donald Ray McCray, Petitioner v. Charlotte Booker.
and petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas,
Ninth District, dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–10040. Kenneth Edward Barbour, Petitioner v. Wallens
Ridge State Prison. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–10614. Alberto Brens, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10619. Gerald L. Rogers, Petitioner v. Mary L. Schapiro,
Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. Motion of peti
of Columbia Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner has repeat
No. 09–10646. Dwayne Stone, aka Divine, Petitioner v. United

No. 09–10677. In Re Marshall D. Williams, Petitioner; and
No. 09–10745. In Re Alton R. Marcum, Petitioner. Petitions for writs
Mandamus Denied
No. 09–10026. In Re Donald G. Jones, Petitioner; and
No. 09–10363. In Re Roger Mayweather, Petitioner. Petitions for
No. 09–10041. In Re Otis Telbert Berthey, Petitioner. Petition for
writ of mandamus and/or prohibition denied.
Rehearings Denied
No. 08–8379. Othel L. Cooksey, Jr., Petitioner v. Bobby McElroy,
et al.;
No. 09–985. In Re Stacy Ann Patterson, Petitioner;
No. 09–8206. Gregory Shawn Mercer, Petitioner v. Virginia;
No. 09–8272. Laureano Chirino Rivera, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–8582. Joe E. Teague, Jr., Petitioner v. North Carolina Depart
ment of Transportation;
No. 09–8717. Elmore Sheriff, Petitioner v. Accelerated Receivables
Solutions, et al.;
No. 09–8739. Peter James Atherton, Petitioner v. District of Colum
bia Office of the Mayor, et al.;
No. 09–8771. Matthew Joseph Collazo, Petitioner v. Texas;
No. 09–8773. Vernon R. Owens, Petitioner v. Robert G. Jones, Super
intendent, Hyde Correctional Institution;
No. 09–8918. Anthony Benjamin, Petitioner v. Lorettan Wallace,
et al.;
No. 09–8947. Alice Richards-Johnson, Petitioner v. American
Express;
No. 09–9075. Dennis A. Ball, Petitioner v. Carol L. Ball, et al.; and
Dennis Andrew Ball, Petitioner v. Arthur Paul Blunt, et al.;
No. 09–9109. Benny Lee Hodge, Petitioner v. Philip Parker, Warden;
No. 09–9145. Theodore Shove, Petitioner v. Robert K. Wong,
Warden;
No. 09–9155. Raymond Semler, Petitioner v. Cal Ludeman, et al.;

No. 09–9230. Gerard D. Grandoit, Petitioner v. Liberty Mutual In
surance Company;
No. 09–9277. In Re Jeffrey Sanders, Petitioner;
No. 09–9279. Fred Ray, Jr., Petitioner v. Missouri;
No. 09–9391. David Lynn Hall, Jr., Petitioner v. Virginia;
No. 09–9460. In Re Dwight York, aka Malachi York, Petitioner;
No. 09–9639. Edward Eugene Young, Petitioner v. Rhode Island,
et al.; and
No. 09–9726. Clarence Small, Petitioner v. McKither Bodison, War
den. Petitions for rehearing denied.

Edward S. Alexander Bellingham, WA Douglas Ross

Shepherd
R. Bruce Allensworth Boston, MA Michael DeMarco
Edgardo R. Baez San Antonio, TX Phillip A.
McKinney
Elisa Barnes New York, NY Hillary Weisman
B. William Basheer McLean, VA William T.
Freyvogel
Autumn Bernhardt Berthoud, CO Peter J. Ampe
Karen Yvette Bonvalot Pittsburgh, PA James Robert
Hankle
Steven P. Brazelton Reno, NV Richard Dwight
Fleischer
Christopher Robinson Bush North Kingstown, Aaron L. Weisman
RI
Anthony M. Garza Dallas, TX Rosemary Tyson
Snider
Mark A. Geistfeld New York, NY Norman Dorsen
Danielle Deanna Giroux Richmond, VA David Patrick
Corrigan
Andrew C. Glass Boston, MA Michael DeMarco
Jeffrey Charles Grass Dallas, TX Patrick John
McLain
Geoffrey Giles Hengerer Baltimore, MD John Porter
Harlow
James Armand King Columbus, OH Robert Loring
Brubaker
Stanley Joel Lehman Pittsburgh, PA James Robert

Hankle
Raymond B. Ludwiszewski Washington, DC Theodore B. Olson
Jose Luis Martin Palo Alto, CA David Stephen
Elkins
Mark Daniel Matthews Richmond, VA Patricia Erikson
Roberts
John Murray Moorhead Albany, GA William David
Moorhead, III
Joseph H. Neiman Hackensack, NJ Jordan B. Comet
David Christopher Newell Houston, TX Alan Keith Curry
Joseph F. Poklemba Fort Lauderdale, Richard
FL Rosenbaum
Brian H. Pollock Miami, FL Jorge A. Duarte
Robert D. Richards University Park, Robert Milner
PA Frieden
David Ernest Roth Birmingham, AL Herbert F. Roth
Edward R. Scofield Bridgeport, CT Jacob D. Zeldes
Adam J. Sinko Washington, DC Steven Douglas
Najarian
Ryan M. Tosi Boston, MA Michael DeMarco
Andrew T. Trailor Miami, FL Jorge A. Duarte
Jill Christine Tsiakilos Oklahoma City, William
OK A. Edmondson
Constandinos John Vennis New Orleans, LA Scott R.
Wheaton, Jr.
Tamera Marie Weisser San Diego, CA Anthony M.
Insogna
Opinions
No. 09–337. Wanda Krupski, Petitioner v. Costa Crociere S.p.A. On

writ of certiorari to United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit for further proceedings con
sistent with the opinion of this Court. Opinion by Justice Sotomayor.
Opinion by Justice Scalia, concurring in part and concurring in the
judgment.
anie Kay Lanning. On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of

Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Judgment affirmed. Opinion by Justice
Alito. Dissenting opinion by Justice Scalia.
Warden. On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals
for the Ninth Circuit. Judgment affirmed. Opinion by Justice Breyer.
Dissenting opinion by Justice Kennedy, with whom Justice Stevens and
Justice Ginsburg join.

Garrett Epps Washington, DC Melissa Aubin

Shannon Marie Weinberg Arlington, VA Mary Bridget
Neumayr
Melissa Ann Kucinski Bethesda, MD Mary Helen
Carlson
Rostyslav I. Shiller Washington, DC Janice Rovner
Feldman
Marie Paulette Flaherty New York, NY Alan S. Gordon
Christopher John Kimball Washington, DC Kevin Patrick
Mullen
K. Bellamy Brown Phoenix, AZ James R. Rasband
Spencer Ralph Brady Santa Rosa, CA James R. Rasband
Cindy Lynn Cole San Jose, CA James R. Rasband
Antoinette Marie Martinez San Pablo, CA James R. Rasband
Anthony J. Weibell Palo Alto, CA James R. Rasband
John Marcus Faust Washington, DC James R. Rasband
Jaimee Macanas Neel Kahuku, HI James R. Rasband
John Bradford Romney Washington, DC James R. Rasband
Michael S. Snarr Washington, DC James R. Rasband
Matthew Foulger Davis Wilmington, DE James R. Rasband
Eric David Selden Wilmington, DE James R. Rasband
Mark Andrew Echo Hawk Pocatello, ID James R. Rasband
Matthew Spencer Echo Boise, ID James R. Rasband
Hawk
Paul Chilton Echo Hawk Pocatello, IA James R. Rasband
Matthew S. Harding Raleigh, NC James R. Rasband
Riley A. Clayton Las Vegas, NV James R. Rasband
Linda Marie Graham Las Vegas, NV James R. Rasband
Robert Chase Graham Las Vegas, NV James R. Rasband
Dennis M. Sponer Las Vegas, NV James R. Rasband
Michael R. Fordham, Jr. New York, NY James R. Rasband
Terence Lee Robinson, Jr. Rochester, NY James R. Rasband

Kenneth L. Cannon, II Salt Lake City, James R. Rasband
UT
Carolyn Elease Howard Orem, UT James R. Rasband
Tiffany Romney Leone Salt Lake City, James R. Rasband
UT
Janise K. Macanas Alpine, UT James R. Rasband
James Patrick Neel Las Vegas, NV James R. Rasband
Samuel Parker Newton Ogden, UT James R. Rasband
Scott Bradford Romney Salt Lake City, James R. Rasband
UT
Steven Craig Smith Santa Ana, CA James R. Rasband
Sara Anderson Snow Sandy, UT James R. Rasband
Tyson B. Snow Salt Lake City, James R. Rasband
UT
Cori Suzanne Smith Alexandria, VA James R. Rasband
Carrie Helen Smith Chandler, AZ Rhonda Kenyon
Hill
Joseph Gilluly Hodges, Jr. Denver, CO Rhonda Kenyon
Hill
Richard Nicholas Freeth New York, NY Rhonda Kenyon
Hill
Julia M. Lewis Washington, DC Rhonda Kenyon
Hill
James Hansford Dixon, III Jacksonville, FL Rhonda Kenyon
Hill
John Laurence Reid Tallahassee, FL Rhonda Kenyon
Hill
Kimberly Ann Gallant Atlanta, GA Rhonda Kenyon
Hill
Dana Rachel Davis Hyattsville, MD Rhonda Kenyon
Hill
Arielle Harry-Bess Baltimore, MD Rhonda Kenyon
Hill
K. Louis Caskey Kansas City, MO Rhonda Kenyon
Hill
Robert Douglas Kingsland, Kansas City, MO Rhonda Kenyon
Jr. Hill
Shaun Ertischek Yonkers, NY Rhonda Kenyon
Hill

Michael Dallal Great Neck, NY Rhonda Kenyon

Hill
Patrick O. Forrester Bronx, NY Rhonda Kenyon
Hill
Robert L. Sims, Jr. New York, NY Rhonda Kenyon
Hill
Dana Brett Lomm New York, NY Rhonda Kenyon
Hill
Paul Thaddeus Messenger Fairfax, VA Rhonda Kenyon
Hill
Jeffrey Ian Crain Oklahoma City, Rhonda Kenyon
OK Hill
Kristen E. Burgers Vienna, VA Rhonda Kenyon
Hill
Janet Elaine Sloan Alexandria, VA Frederick M.
Lawrence
John D. Carroll Washington, DC Frederick M.
Lawrence
Christine Louise-Caron Alexandria, VA Frederick M.
Grauer Lawrence
Ronald Kimble Washington, DC Frederick M.
Lawrence
Linda Berrafati Moran McLean, VA Frederick M.
Lawrence
Seth J. Price Washington, DC Frederick M.
Lawrence
Emily Mancina Simon Washington, DC Frederick M.
Lawrence
David Lawrence Cahn Upper Marlboro, Frederick M.
MD Lawrence
Laura Michelle Taylor Washington, DC Frederick M.
Carroll Lawrence
Jennifer Robinson Closser Washington, DC Frederick M.
Lawrence
Tina M. Ebert Washington, DC Frederick M.
Lawrence
Eric N. Heyer Arlington, VA Frederick M.
Lawrence
Heather Nicole Jenquine Alexandria, VA Frederick M.
Lawrence
David M. Longo Vienna, VA Frederick M.

Lawrence
Doreen Regent Vero Beach, FL Lawrence Raful
Connie Janine Corsentino Pennington, NJ Lawrence Raful
Lisa A. Baker Smithtown, NY Lawrence Raful
William Francis Barber Huntington, NY Lawrence Raful
Cecilia Bastos New York, NY Lawrence Raful
Wanda Smith Campbell Patterson, NY Lawrence Raful
Alfred John Colanero Summerfield, NC Lawrence Raful
Mona R. Conway Huntington, NY Lawrence Raful
Carole DiPietrantonio Nesconset, NY Lawrence Raful
Benjamin Josef Doscher Great Neck, NY Lawrence Raful
Jennifer R. Held Brooklyn, NY Lawrence Raful
Spencer Robert Horn Jericho, NY Lawrence Raful
Imtiaz Uddin Uzair Jafar Baldwin, NY Lawrence Raful
Adam I. Kleinberg Westbury, NY Lawrence Raful
Stevan LaBonte Commack, NY Lawrence Raful
Peter M. LaPiana Farmingville, NY Lawrence Raful
Lawrence Bernard Orangeburg, NY Lawrence Raful
McCarron
Latanya McPherson Morrow, GA Lawrence Raful
Christopher Petesch New York, NY Lawrence Raful
Nesterczuk
Michael Gerard Postiglione Queens, NY Lawrence Raful
Richard C. Postiglione Queens, NY Lawrence Raful
Mary Bernadette Samenga Mineola, NY Lawrence Raful
Violet E. Samuels Rosedale, NY Lawrence Raful
Eva J. Tompkins Mineola, NV Lawrence Raful
Frederick Norman Vogeney Kings Park, NY Lawrence Raful




No. 09A1163. John McComish, et al., Applicants v. Ken Bennett, in
Application to vacate the stay of the District Court’s injunction and to
stay the mandate of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit in case No. 10–15165 presented to Justice Kennedy and by him
referred to the Court granted pending the timely filing and disposition
of a petition for a writ of certiorari. Should the petition for a writ of
certiorari be denied, this order shall terminate automatically. In the
event the petition for a writ of certiorari is granted, the order shall
terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
(JOURNAL) WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 2010 937


Certiorari Denied
No. 09–11271 (09A1198). Melbert Ray Ford, Petitioner v. Steve
Upton, Warden. Application for stay of execution of sentence of death
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of Georgia, Butts
County, denied.
(JOURNAL) THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 2010 939


Certiorari Denied
No. 09–11253 (09A1199). John Forrest Parker, Petitioner v. Ala
bama. Application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented
to Justice Thomas and by him referred to the Court denied. Petition


No. 09M102. Bryan Noble, Petitioner v. United States. Motion for

leave to proceed in forma pauperis without an affidavit of indigency
executed by petitioner denied.
No. 09–9281. Nina Shahin, Petitioner v. Delaware, et al. Motion of
No. 09–10203. Peter Paul Mitrano, Petitioner v. District of Columbia
Bar. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis de
nied. Petitioner allowed until July 6, 2010, within which to pay the
Jurisdiction Postponed

Appellants v. Marciano Plata, et al. Appeal from the United States
District Courts for the Eastern District and the Northern District of
California. Further consideration of the question of jurisdiction post
poned to the hearing of the case on the merits.
Certiorari Granted
No. 09–520. CSX Transportation, Inc., Petitioner v. Alabama De

partment of Revenue, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit granted limited to
the following question: “Whether a State’s exemptions of rail carrier
competitors, but not rail carriers, from generally applicable sales and
use taxes on fuel subject the taxes to challenge under 49 U. S. C.
§ 11501(b)(4) as ‘another tax that discriminates against a rail carrier.’ ”
No. 09–1088. Vincent Cullen, Acting Warden, Petitioner v. Scott

Lynn Pinholster. Motion of respondent for leave to proceed in forma
pauperis granted. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted.
No. 09–1156. Matrixx Initiatives, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. James
Siracusano, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted.
Certiorari Denied
No. 08–11034. Ismael Tablada, Petitioner v. J. E. Thomas, Warden.
No. 09–866. Richard Pendergrass, Petitioner v. Indiana. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Indiana denied.
No. 09–992. Ibrahim Parlak, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attor
No. 09–1074. John C. Justice and Mike Woodward, Petitioners v.
Town of Cicero, Illinois, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–1079. Mayra Rivas-Rodriguez, Petitioner v. Eric H.
No. 09–1098. Joseph A. Levine, Petitioner v. The Greece Central
School District, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–1213. Timothy C. Lamb, Petitioner v. North Dakota State
Board of Law Examiners. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme
Court of North Dakota denied.
No. 09–1219. Cecil G. Bailey, Petitioner v. Lorraine Caldwell, as Per
sonal Representative of the Estate of Virgil Bailey. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–1222. Rahul Singh, Petitioner v. Charles Reed, et al. Petition
No. 09–1225. Wilbert Williams, Petitioner v. Government of the Vir
gin Islands Board of Medical Examiners, et al. Petition for writ of
denied.

No. 09–1226. David J. Sowers, Petitioner v. Powhatan County, Vir
No. 09–1228. Dwain L. Kirkland, Petitioner v. The Guardian Life
Insurance Company of America. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–1234. Joseph Chontos, Petitioner v. Mary Berghuis, Warden.
No. 09–1240. Douglas Asphalt Company, et al., Petitioners v. Arch
No. 09–1249. Jean Leonard Harris, Petitioner v. Sandra Wittman,
No. 09–1251. Dhruba Pradhan, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., At
No. 09–1264. Paul Joseph McNeil, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
No. 09–1340. Marcella Richman, as Special Administrator of the Es
tate of Jack B. Richman, Deceased, Petitioner v. Brian Burgeson, et al.
No. 09–1369. Roberta R. Cano, Petitioner v. Timothy F. Geithner,
Secretary of the Treasury. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–1382. Kris Alan Hahn, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–1385. Tricia Rossi, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8722. Mario Fernando Santoro, Petitioner v. Walt Wells,
No. 09–8948. Earl Johnson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

Circuit denied.
No. 09–9032. James B. Dotson, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9480. Andrew Ramey Ellmaker, Petitioner v. Kansas. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Kansas denied.
No. 09–9635. Antonio Lee Williams, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
No. 09–10067. Rasheen Mills, Petitioner v. Joseph Bellnier, Super
intendent, Upstate Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–10068. Larry Moore, Petitioner v. California Franchise Tax
Board. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of Califor
nia, Second Appellate District, denied.
No. 09–10071. Javier Ochoa Canales, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
No. 09–10075. Richard Aaron Flaherty, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition
No. 09–10076. Keith Williams, Petitioner v. Charles M. Harrison,
No. 09–10080. Felix Torres, II, Petitioner v. United States Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–10081. Larry George, Petitioner v. Judy P. Smith, Warden.
No. 09–10083. Randy Govan, Petitioner v. Shirley Singleton, et al.
No. 09–10084. Tayssir Hindaoui, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,

No. 09–10085. Larry Hearns, Petitioner v. Hugh Wolfenbarger, War
No. 09–10086. Kendrick Fisher, Petitioner v. Burl Cain, Warden.
No. 09–10087. Ural Grimes, Jr., Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Sec
denied.
No. 09–10095. Robert Allen Hall, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
No. 09–10096. Judith Hurt-Whitmire, Petitioner v. Georgia, et al.
No. 09–10102. Kevin Jones, Petitioner v. David DiGuglielmo, Super
No. 09–10107. Sandra Jean Brown Allen, Petitioner v. Stewart Title
Guaranty Company. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–10112. John Carol Hill, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for writ
No. 09–10114. Norman Brown, Petitioner v. United States Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–10117. Eugene Nyambal, Petitioner v. William H. Miller,
denied.
No. 09–10118. Stephen Beightler, Petitioner v. SunTrust Banks, Inc.
No. 09–10119. Stephen Beightler, Petitioner v. Office of the Essex
County Prosecutor, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–10121. Victor Hurns, Petitioner v. James V. Anderson, Super

No. 09–10123. David Fuselier, Petitioner v. Tony Mancuso, et al.
No. 09–10124. Ronald Henderson, aka Ronnie Henderson, Petitioner
v. Alexander & Baldwin, Inc., dba Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Com
No. 09–10125. Ronald Foster, Petitioner v. E. Meraz, et al. Petition
No. 09–10128. Michael Houston, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Sec
cuit denied.
No. 09–10132. Johnathan Toliver, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Sixth District,
denied.
No. 09–10134. Reginald Lawrence Harris, Petitioner v. Sergeant
Gutierrez, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–10136. Edward Hernandez, Petitioner v. J. Hartley, Warden.
No. 09–10138. Aramis Hernandez, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
No. 09–10142. Frederick Hedgespeth, Petitioner v. Roy L. Hen
dricks, former Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Petition
No. 09–10143. Anthony D. Hughes, Petitioner v. John E. Potter,
Postmaster General, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–10149. Kareem Willis, Petitioner v. Harold Graham, Super
intendent, Auburn Correctional Facility, et al. Petition for writ of cer
denied.

No. 09–10151. Stanley Earl Winston, Petitioner v. Charlene Grice,
No. 09–10152. Qian Zhao, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney
No. 09–10154. Nelson Tolbert, Petitioner v. Captain Stang, et al.
No. 09–10155. Donald Woodruff, Petitioner v. Illinois Department of
No. 09–10156. Brian Williams, Petitioner v. Robert Ayers, Jr., War
No. 09–10163. Richard E. Gray, Petitioner v. Scott Kernan, Warden.
No. 09–10167. Alfredo Rolando Prieto, Petitioner v. Virginia. Peti
No. 09–10171. Ray Jackson, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
No. 09–10173. Peter Keller, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10174. Joseph Krist, Petitioner v. Texas Department of Fam
ily and Protective Services. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court
of Appeals of Texas, Fourth District, denied.
No. 09–10175. Edward Muniz, Petitioner v. Nurse Kaspar, et al. Peti
No. 09–10176. Robert Delgado Perez, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
No. 09–10183. Gary L. Wise, Petitioner v. South Carolina Depart
ment of Corrections. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme
Court of South Carolina denied.
No. 09–10185. Daniel E. Taylor, Petitioner v. Greg Williams, War

No. 09–10194. Diondre Barnes, Petitioner v. Don Roper, Super
intendent, Potosi Correctional Center. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–10195. Raymond Perry, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Sec
denied.
No. 09–10201. Hunter R. Levi, Petitioner v. Anheuser-Busch Compa
nies, Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–10202. James Edward Proctor, Petitioner v. Nevada. Petition
No. 09–10208. Deborah A. Redman, Petitioner v. Philip A. Graham,
No. 09–10210. Ronnie Junior Ellis, Petitioner v. Doctor Marietta,
No. 09–10222. Edward Muniz, Petitioner v. United States District
Court for the District of Colorado. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–10230. James Parker, Petitioner v. Robert Ercole, Super
denied.
No. 09–10232. Marshall McDaniel, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for
denied.
No. 09–10240. Salim Hakimi, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attor
No. 09–10247. Clarence Carter, Petitioner v. Carl Anderson, War
No. 09–10256. Randall G. Knowles, Petitioner v. Montana, et al. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Montana denied.

No. 09–10286. Daniel W. Dwyer, Petitioner v. City of St. Joseph,
Missouri, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of
Missouri denied.
No. 09–10293. Akwari Kalu, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attor
No. 09–10314. James Nellums, Petitioner v. Dwight Neven, Warden.
No. 09–10319. Robert M. Mosley, IV, Petitioner v. L. E. Scribner,
No. 09–10334. Jessy Joe Roten, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
District, denied.
No. 09–10353. Isan Contant, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attor
ney General, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–10366. Kim Coburn, Petitioner v. Blaine C. Lafler, Warden.
No. 09–10370. Rickey Calhoun, Petitioner v. King County Prosecut
ing Attorney’s Office, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–10380. Lance Reberger, Petitioner v. Nevada. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10400. Levonzel Anderson, Petitioner v. Mississippi. Petition
No. 09–10418. Devery Lane Taylor, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10447. Frank Milford Peck, Petitioner v. Dwight Neven,
No. 09–10516. Edward Ronwin, Petitioner v. Ameren, Missouri Cor
No. 09–10525. Carlos Omar Garcia, Petitioner v. L. E. Scribner, War

No. 09–10526. James William Gaston, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10532. Faustino Carrillo, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10536. Patrick L. McCann, Petitioner v. Jan Trombley, War
No. 09–10539. Steven Jackson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10540. Ronald Johnson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10542. Sedrick Lawson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10543. Cornelius Nelson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10545. Allen Zimmerman, Petitioner v. John Cason, Warden.
No. 09–10546. Robert Wilson, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10547. Vincent John Tenuto, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10548. Douglas Wayne Whitaker, Petitioner v. North Caro
lina. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of North
Carolina denied.
No. 09–10554. Kelly Grant Mercer, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–10557. Arnulfo Betancort-Salazar, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10561. Colburn Kinzer, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10563. Jon M. Cox, Petitioner v. Gregory Schwartz, Warden.
No. 09–10564. Jesus Lorenzo Contreras, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10566. Phillip Mitchell, Petitioner v. Douglas C. Vasbinder,
No. 09–10571. Judah Prince, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10575. Alberto Arreola Valenzuela, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10577. Robert E. Booth, Petitioner v. Wisconsin. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, District I,
denied.
No. 09–10578. Kingsley Ariegwe, Petitioner v. Mike Ferriter, Direc
tor, Montana Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for writ of
denied.
No. 09–10579. Jonathan Giannone, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10581. Lisa J. Gillard, Petitioner v. Northwestern University.
No. 09–10585. Damon Elliott, Petitioner v. Department of Agricul
ture. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
No. 09–10587. Robert Sartori, Petitioner v. North Carolina. Petition

for writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of North Carolina, Bun
combe County, denied.
No. 09–10591. Randall D. Willis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10593. Joseph Kinard, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10595. Yusemel Perez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10602. Michael Doyle, Petitioner v. Lou Archuleta, et al.
No. 09–10622. Sorga Suarez, aka Lizette Solis, aka Sorgalim Sin
Barzaga, aka Sorgalim Valladares, aka Sorgalim Barzaga, aka Lizette
Valladares, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–10636. William S. Tanchak, et ux., Petitioners v. United
No. 09–10642. Frederick L. Pitchford, Petitioner v. Daniel Madden
Turbitt, Administrative Judge, Merit Systems Protection Board. Peti
No. 09–10661. Anastacio De La Cruz-Diaz, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10662. Gabriel Cardona-Ramirez, aka Pelon, aka Gaby, Peti
No. 09–10666. Guillermo Quinones, Petitioner v. T. C. Outlaw, War
No. 09–10671. Antonio Lopez-Jacobo, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–10673. Vang Khammanivong, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10679. Lorenzo Tucker, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10680. Jose Manuel Sanchez-Leyva, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10681. Paul Shenandoah, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10682. Etinosa Osahon, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10687. Nicolas Arroyo-Carbajal, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10688. Noe Reyes Barraza-Montes De Oca, Petitioner v.
No. 09–10689. Juan Vega Angiano, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10692. Cheryl Lynn Rice, Petitioner v. John E. Potter, Post
master General. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–10695. Bobby Thompson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10699. Lorenzo Rantelle Nicholson, aka Zo, Petitioner v.
No. 09–10703. Benjamin Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10707. Raymond Mayes, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10708. Brandon Michael Jones, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–10714. Clinton Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10716. Dan Charles Tompkins, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10720. Michael Dion Anchrum, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10721. Dominic Antonucci, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10722. Ruhullah As-Sadiq, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10725. Lori Irish, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10726. Stephen Hardison, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10728. Barion Lee Hairston, aka Big Daddy, Petitioner v.
No. 09–10729. Emma Gerald, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10730. Heather Fiorella, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10731. Carlos Javier Fajardo-Fajardo, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10733. Alvin Narce, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

No. 09–10735. David Delgado, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10736. Hector Cruz, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10743. Elise M. Kinsey, Petitioner v. Department of Justice,
No. 09–10746. Janison Veal, aka Jason, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10747. Desmond Dion Turner, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10748. Clinton E. Burrowes, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10749. Jorge Baron, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10750. Kevin Karl Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10752. Alfredo Rodriguez, Jr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10754. Kelvin Miller, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10756. Jose Gonzalez-Garza, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10757. Emert Reginald Flowers, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10759. William Henry Harrison, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10766. Samuel Joseph Gentile, Petitioner v. United States.

No. 09–10767. Shawn Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10768. Jose Antonio Garcia-Gracian, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10770. Tony Nenninger, Petitioner v. United States Forest
Service, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–10772. Kinsey Cory Herder, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10773. John A. Robinson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10775. John Maurice Henoud, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10779. Lawrence E. Simmons, Jr., Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10789. Eugene Troy Ellis, Petitioner v. United States; Karl
W. Landry, Petitioner v. United States; Vasshon Haywood, Petitioner
v. United States; Willie Powell, Jr., Petitioner v. United States; David
Robichaux, Petitioner v. United States; Craig Jones, aka Lap, Peti
tioner v. United States; Emile Russell, Petitioner v. United States;
David Cao, aka Davis Cao, Petitioner v. United States; Kenneth Hills,
Petitioner v. United States; Derrick Davis, Petitioner v. United States;
Warren Stevenson, aka Nook, Petitioner v. United States; Timothy
Tapp, Petitioner v. United States; Russell Washington, aka Gravy, Peti
tioner v. United States; Harry Handy, aka Dubie Handy, Petitioner v.
United States; Ernest Allen, Petitioner v. United States; Eugene L.
Hutchinson, Petitioner v. United States; and Floyd Douglas, aka Doug,

No. 09–10796. Charles Lewis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10800. Charles Lee Green, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10802. Uriel Sanchez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10803. Marques Bynum, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10804. Filiberto Hernandez-Navarro, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10815. John Hyacinth, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10816. David Hicks, Petitioner v. Federal Bureau of Prisons,
No. 09–10820. Willie B. Gulley, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10821. Clive Anthony Hamilton, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10825. Cornell Adley, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10842. Leonal Roman-Cardenas, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10852. Samuel Johnson Bell, Jr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10857. Juan De Dios Miranda Medrano, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10863. Victor Manuel Romero-Chavarria, Petitioner v.

No. 09–10864. Corey L. Darton, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10865. Luis H. Cano, Petitioner v. Scott Middlebrooks, War
No. 09–10875. Jose Manuel Aguirre-Ganceda, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–923. Maher Arar, Petitioner v. John D. Ashcroft, former At
torney General, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–1027. City of New Albany, Indiana, Petitioner v. New Albany
DVD, LLC. Motion of Indiana Family Institute, et al. for leave to file
a brief as amici curiae granted. Motion of International Municipal
Lawyers Association for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted.
No. 09–1187. Deanna McBrearty, et al., Petitioners v. The Vanguard
Group, Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied. Justice Alito took no
rections, Petitioner v. Laurence K. Libberton. Motion of respondent for
leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Petition for writ of certio
No. 09–9669. Shawn Gaines, Petitioner v. New York City Transit
Authority, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–10070. Felton L. Matthews, Jr., Petitioner v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Motion of petitioner for leave

No. 09–10141. Robert M. Fenlon, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
sion, et al. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–10184. Allen Glenn Thomas, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
Division. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–10217. Ronald Wayne Johnson, Petitioner v. Texas. Motion
partment of Corrections; Kenneth Edward Barbour, Petitioner v. Vir
ginia Department of Corrections at WARSP; Kenneth Edward Bar
bour, Petitioner v. Virginia Department of Corrections Education;
Kenneth Edward Barbour, Petitioner v. Virginia Department of Cor
rections at W. R. S. P.; and Kenneth Edward Barbour, Petitioner v.
Virginia Department of Corrections Legislative, Food Applications Au
thority. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–10284. Kenneth Edward Barbour, Petitioner v. J. Durham,
No. 09–10528. Naim Gjidija, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–10659. Yakov G. Drabovskiy, Petitioner v. J. P. Young, War
Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As petitioner

No. 09–10693. Geagbae Worjloh, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10799. Pearlie Johnson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10831. Eduardo Lluberes, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–10841. In Re Howell W. Woltz, Petitioner; and
No. 09–10960. In Re George Casillas, Petitioner. Petitions for writs
Mandamus Denied
No. 09–10854. In Re Eric Martin Van Buren, Petitioner. Petition for
writ of mandamus denied.
Rehearings Denied
No. 09–7923. Steven Allen Schwartz, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–9068. Scott R. Zabriskie, Petitioner v. Orlando Police, et al.;
No. 09–9073. Fard Mohammed, Petitioner v. Wisconsin Insurance
Security Fund, et al.;
No. 09–9167. Raymond L. Semler, Petitioner v. Donna Finch;
No. 09–9220. Kenneth Edward Barbour, Petitioner v. Lt. Schlo
bohm, et al.;
partment of Corrections, et al.; Kenneth Edward Barbour, Petitioner
v. Legislation Upon Virginia Department of Corrections; Kenneth Ed
ward Barbour, Petitioner v. Keeffee Commissaries at Virginia Depart
ment of Corrections; Kenneth Edward Barbour, Petitioner v. Virginia
Department of Corrections; Kenneth Edward Barbour, Petitioner v.
Virginia Department of Corrections; Kenneth Edward Barbour, Peti

tioner v. Virginia Department of Corrections; Kenneth Edward Bar
bour, Petitioner v. Virginia Department of Corrections, et al.; Kenneth
Edward Barbour, Petitioner v. Virginia Department of Corrections,
et al.; Kenneth Edward Barbour, Petitioner v. Virginia Department of
Corrections; and Kenneth Edward Barbour, Petitioner v. Representa
tive of the Persons Assistant Warden Harvey;
No. 09–9233. Luis Gonzalez and Maria Gonzalez, Petitioners v.
Lynne Riddle, et al.;
No. 09–9255. In Re Jerome Henderson, Petitioner;
No. 09–9381. Kenneth Edward Barbour, Petitioner v. M. Stanford,
et al.;
No. 09–9424. Henry J. DuLaurence, III, Petitioner v. Liberty Mutual
Insurance Company, et al.;
No. 09–9439. Elmina Callender, Petitioner v. Ross Stores, Inc.;
No. 09–9616. Teresa Aguilar, Petitioner v. Selman Breitzman, LLP,
et al.;
No. 09–9620. Salame M. Amr, Petitioner v. Virginia State Univer
sity, et al.;
No. 09–9622. Jennifer Leigh Miller, Petitioner v. Anheuser Busch,
Inc.;
No. 09–9717. Juan Lahera, Petitioner v. The Walt Disney Company,
et al.; and
No. 09–9750. In Re Windell McClain, Petitioner. Petitions for re
hearing denied.
Attorney Discipline
No. D–2469. In the Matter of Discipline of Ralph T. Byrd. Ralph T.

Byrd, of Laytonsville, Maryland, is suspended from the practice of law
in this Court and a rule will issue, returnable within 40 days, requiring
him to show cause why he should not be disbarred from the practice
of law in this Court.

Catherine Albisa New York, NY Rhonda Copelon

James Bigelow Angell Raleigh, NC Joseph N.
Callaway
Hiro N. Aragaki New York, NY Gregory Antollino
Mauricio Arcadier Melbourne, FL Ernesto Lucas
Luna
James Lewis Brochin New York, NY Mark F.

Pomerantz
Baruch C. Cohen Los Angeles, CA Sharon Zemel
Weiss
Bryan Patrick Collins Alexandria, VA George Michael
Sirilla
Bryan A. Dykes Chattanooga, TN Scott D. Bergthold
Lauren J. Elliot New York, NY Daniel James
Thomasch
Deborah Garcia Fairfax, VA Osvaldo Luis
Gratacos
Michael Peter Gough Lehigh Valley, PA John Michael
Morganelli
John Stoetzer Gray Houston, TX Richard O. Faulk
Larry D. Hall Orlando, FL John S. McEwan,
II
Patrick C. Hess Chicago, IL Joanne Marie
Rogers
Kristen Ann Hite Washington, DC Everett Bellamy
Robert David Katz New York, NY Norman H. Zivin
Lindsay Androski Kelly Washington, DC Paul R. Michel
Gerald Kretmar St. Louis, MO Jeffrey D. Sodko
Stephen David Kursman Farmington Hills, John Douglas
MI Korney
Todd Ashley Leffler Houston, TX Michael Ramsey
Edward Joseph Leonard Philadelphia, PA Michael J.
McAllister
John Abner Lockett, III Atlanta, GA Warren
Westbrook
Wills, Jr.
Lisa Marie Martin Phoenix, AZ Arthur Hazelton
Saverio P. Mirarchi Philadelphia, PA Salvatore A.
Clemente
Mark J. O’Brien Tampa, FL Francisco R.
Angones
Kevin Michael Phillips Chicago, IL Joanne Marie
Rogers
Audrey Prins Rasmussen Washington, DC David L. Hill
Ernesto Javier Sanchez Washington, DC Victor John Wolski

Laura Wetzel Simpton Sacramento, CA Ward Allen

Campbell
Robert Wright Smith, Jr. Fayetteville, GA Scott Leyden
Ballard
Nancy M. Wallace Tallahassee, FL Joseph Woodrow
Hatchett
C. Andrew Weber Austin, TX Gregory W.
Abbott
Stanley Paul Wellman Richmond, VA David Patrick
Corrigan
Joseph Fredric Yeckel St. Louis, MO Michael Alan
Gross
Opinions
No. 09–367. Brian Russell Dolan, Petitioner v. United States. On
Circuit. Judgment affirmed. Opinion by Justice Breyer. Dissenting
opinion by The Chief Justice, with whom Justice Stevens, Justice
Scalia, and Justice Kennedy join.
No. 09–5327. Albert Holland, Petitioner v. Florida. On writ of certio
rari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit for further proceedings consistent
with the opinion of this Court. Opinion by Justice Breyer. Opinion by
Justice Alito, concurring in part and concurring in the judgment. Dis
senting opinion by Justice Scalia, with whom Justice Thomas joins as
to all but Part I.
Petitioner v. Catherine G. Ratliff. On writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Judgment reversed,
Eighth Circuit for further proceedings consistent with the opinion of
this Court. Opinion by Justice Thomas. Concurring opinion by Justice
Sotomayor, with whom Justice Stevens and Justice Ginsburg join.
Holder, Jr., Attorney General. On writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Judgment reversed.
Opinion by Justice Stevens. Opinion by Justice Scalia, concurring in
the judgment. Opinion by Justice Thomas, concurring in the judgment.

Tim A. O’Brien Washington, DC Timothy Andrew

O’Brien, III
Alicia Christine O’Brien Washington, DC Michael B.
Hendler
Ruthven Reuben Phillip Washington, DC Leonardo Abueg
Canseco
David E. Shifren New York, NY Ronald Paul
Shifren
Kay Lynn Grimes Washington, DC Frederick John
Krebs
Robert J. Clifford Chicago, IL Judge Anthony
Alfred Iosco
Navdeep Kaur Gill Chicago, IL Judge Anthony
Alfred Iosco
Adria East Mossing Chicago, IL Judge Anthony
Alfred Iosco
Taylor Larkin Archambault Hartford, CT Proloy Kumar Das
Thomas C. Blatchley West Hartford, CT Proloy Kumar Das
Bradford Scott Booth Ellington, CT Proloy Kumar Das
William Chabb Danbury, CT Proloy Kumar Das
James William Cummings Southbury, CT Proloy Kumar Das
Brian J. Farrell, Jr. Middletown, CT Proloy Kumar Das
Mary de Castro Foden Miami, FL Proloy Kumar Das
Emily A. Gianquinto Hartford, CT Proloy Kumar Das
June Gold Branford, CT Proloy Kumar Das
Kathleen Morrison Grover Manchester, CT Proloy Kumar Das
Rebecca M. Harris West Hartford, CT Proloy Kumar Das
Alexis Nicole Highsmith Hamden, CT Proloy Kumar Das
Otto H. Iglesias West Hartford, CT Proloy Kumar Das
Mark Randolph Jacobs New York, NY Proloy Kumar Das
Jennifer Susan Janik Naugatuck, CT Proloy Kumar Das
Mathew Paul Jasinski Hartford, CT Proloy Kumar Das
Elizabeth W. Jennings-Lax Stratford, CT Proloy Kumar Das
Leslie Iris Jennings-Lax Stratford, CT Proloy Kumar Das
Andrew S. Knott Cheshire, CT Proloy Kumar Das
David L. Lawton Hartford, CT Proloy Kumar Das
Sandra Lax Fairfield, CT Proloy Kumar Das

Julia Kaye Lentini South Windsor, Proloy Kumar Das

CT
Gil Manzano, Jr. Las Vegas, NV Proloy Kumar Das
Sandra Martin McDonough Stratford, CT Proloy Kumar Das
Deborah Leigh Moore Meriden, CT Proloy Kumar Das
John F. Morris Hartford, CT Proloy Kumar Das
Matthew S. Necci Glastonbury, CT Proloy Kumar Das
Chris R. Nelson Hamden, CT Proloy Kumar Das
Jeffrey Charles Nicholas Bethlehem, CT Proloy Kumar Das
Kurt C. Odell Hartford, CT Proloy Kumar Das
John A. Parese New Haven, CT Proloy Kumar Das
John C. Pitblado Simbury, CT Proloy Kumar Das
Aubrey E. Ruta West Hartford, CT Proloy Kumar Das
Mary Therese Surette Westport, CT Proloy Kumar Das
Jessica Catherine Torres Hartford, CT Proloy Kumar Das
Anita M. Varunes Hartford, CT Proloy Kumar Das
Jessica A. Villardi Hartford, CT Proloy Kumar Das
Matthew A. Weiner Hartford, CT Proloy Kumar Das
William Robert Wesson Waterbury, CT Proloy Kumar Das
Sherwin M. Yoder Wallingford, CT Proloy Kumar Das
Richard S. Altman Croton-on-Hudson, Proloy Kumar Das
NY
Robert M. Fleischer New York, NY Proloy Kumar Das
Bethany Lynn Bolger Montgomery, AL John H. Garvey
Francisco Enrique Alvarez East Los Angeles, John H. Garvey
CA
Tammy Louise Arcuri Newton, MA John H. Garvey
Elisa C. Cogswell Alexandria, VA John H. Garvey
Joan Ho Montebello, CA John H. Garvey
Kathleen Benway Washington, DC John H. Garvey
Fred Hopengarten Lincoln, MA John H. Garvey
Jeffrey C. Morgan Atlanta, GA John H. Garvey
Christopher A. Callanan Boston, MA John H. Garvey
Kathleen Celio Boston, MA John H. Garvey
Colin C. Durham Boston, MA John H. Garvey
Louise Maxine Gessel Boston, MA John H. Garvey
Andrew Keith Goldstein Boston, MA John H. Garvey
Cynthia M. Guizzetti Boston, MA John H. Garvey
Christopher Louis Jones Boston, MA John H. Garvey
David W. Krumsiek Boston, MA John H. Garvey
E. Renee LeFevre Boston, MA John H. Garvey

Edouard Charles LeFevre Boston, MA John H. Garvey
Katherine Glendon Lev Boston, MA John H. Garvey
Peter J. Mancusi Boston, MA John H. Garvey
Loretta Leone McCabe Boston, MA John H. Garvey
Brian McLaughlin Monahan Boston, MA John H. Garvey
Christopher M. Morrison Boston, MA John H. Garvey
Megan E. Mullin Winchester, MA John H. Garvey
Sarah Judith O’Leary Wellesley, MA John H. Garvey
Laureen Nicole Price Washington, CA John H. Garvey
David A. Rich Boston, MA John H. Garvey
Jeffrey N. Roy Boston, MA John H. Garvey
David Robert Smith Alexandria, VA John H. Garvey
Jane E. Sullivan Fall River, MA John H. Garvey
Carole A. LoConte Tedesco Winchester, MA John H. Garvey
Robert Walter Tedesco Woburn, MA John H. Garvey
Eric M. Tamarkin Washington, DC John H. Garvey
Emily Allison Vainieri Baltimore, MD John H. Garvey
Sheila Lee Bautista New York, NY John H. Garvey
Dietrich Peter Epperson Kew Gardens, NY John H. Garvey
Locke R. McMurray New York, NY John H. Garvey
Kenneth M. Sanchez New York, NY John H. Garvey
John Samuel Anooshian Haddonfield, NJ Linda W. Eynon
Colleen Denise Brennan Fair Haven, NJ Linda W. Eynon
Andrew O. Bunn Newark, NJ Linda W. Eynon
Charlene Cathcart Audubon, NJ Linda W. Eynon
Cheryl Hendler Cohen Marlton, NJ Linda W. Eynon
Rafael Christopher Haciski, Haddonfield, NJ Linda W. Eynon
Jr.
Diana Grace Lanza Westmont, NJ Linda W. Eynon
Jeffrey S. Leonard Livingston, NJ Linda W. Eynon
Sheri Hecht Leonard Newark, NJ Linda W. Eynon
Debra Michele Lightner Newark, NJ Linda W. Eynon
Todd M. Parisi Westmont, NJ Linda W. Eynon
Jason C. Pollack Winslow, NJ Linda W. Eynon
Cynthia Ruggerio Haddonfield, NJ Linda W. Eynon
Adjourned until Thursday, June 17, 2010, at 10 o’clock.



Certiorari Denied
No. 09–11333 (09A1211). David Lee Powell, Petitioner v. Texas.

Present: Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Stevens, Justice Kennedy,

Justice Thomas, Justice Breyer, Justice Alito, and Justice Sotomayor.
Opinions
No. 09–6338. Percy Dillon, Petitioner v. United States. On writ of
certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Judgment affirmed. Opinion by Justice Sotomayor. Dissenting opinion
by Justice Stevens. Justice Alito took no part in the decision of this
case.
No. 08–538. William G. Schwab, Petitioner v. Nadejda Reilly. On
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit for further proceedings consist
ent with the opinion of this Court. Opinion by Justice Thomas. Dissent
ing opinion by Justice Ginsburg, with whom The Chief Justice and
Justice Breyer join.
Quon, et al. On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals
for the Ninth Circuit. Judgment reversed, and case remanded to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for further pro
Kennedy. Concurring opinion by Justice Stevens. Opinion by Justice
Scalia, concurring in part and concurring in the judgment.
ida Department of Environmental Protection, et al. On writ of certio
rari to the Supreme Court of Florida. Judgment affirmed. The Chief
Justice announced the judgment of the Court and Justice Scalia deliv
ered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts, I, IV, and V, and
an opinion with respect to Parts II and III, in which The Chief Justice,
Justice Thomas, and Justice Alito join. Opinion by Justice Kennedy,
with whom Justice Sotomayor joins, concurring in part and concurring
in the judgment. Opinion by Justice Breyer, with whom Justice Gins
burg joins, concurring in part and concurring in the judgment. Justice
Stevens took no part in the decision of this case.
Relations Board. On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Judgment reversed, and case re
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manded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
ion by Justice Stevens. Dissenting opinion by Justice Kennedy, with
whom Justice Ginsburg, Justice Breyer, and Justice Sotomayor join.
Motion Denied
No. 09–7870 (09A1218). Ronnie Lee Gardner, Petitioner v. Hank
Galetka, Warden. Application for stay of execution of sentence of death
presented to Justice Sotomayor and by her referred to the Court de
nied. Motion for leave to file a petition for rehearing denied.
Certiorari Denied
No. 09–11378 (09A1222). Ronnie Lee Gardner, Petitioner v. Utah.
Justice Sotomayor and by her referred to the Court denied. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Utah denied. Justice
Stevens and Justice Breyer would grant the application for stay of
execution. See Johnson v. Bredesen, 558 U. S. –––, ––– (2009)
(Stevens, J., joined by Breyer, J., respecting denial of certiorari) (slip
op., at 1–2).
Certiorari Denied
No. 09–11439 (09A1229). Ronnie Lee Gardner, Petitioner v. Curtis
Garner, Chairman, Utah Board of Pardons and Parole, et al. Applica
Sotomayor and by her referred to the Court denied. Petition for writ
cuit denied.



Petitioner v. Brandy Wilson. On petition for writ of certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Petition for
the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit for further
consideration in light of Astrue v. Ratliff, 560 U. S. ––– (2010).
No. 09–203. Martin Escobar, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attor
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Petition for writ of certiorari
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit for further consideration in
light of Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder, 560 U. S. ––– (2010).
No. 09–539. Victor Hugo Cardona-Lopez, Petitioner v. Eric H.
Holder, Jr., Attorney General. On petition for writ of certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Petition for writ
of certiorari granted. Judgment vacated, and case remanded to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for further consid
eration in light of Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder, 560 U. S. ––– (2010).
No. 09–676. Jason Edward Simmons, Petitioner v. United States. On
for the Fourth Circuit. Petition for writ of certiorari granted. Judg
peals for the Fourth Circuit for further consideration in light of
Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder, 560 U. S. ––– (2010).
No. 09–733. Lyndon Young, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attor
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Petition for writ of certiorari
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for further consideration in light
of Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder, 560 U. S. ––– (2010).
No. 09–955. Richard Lawrence Alexis, Petitioner v. Eric H.
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Petition for writ
Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections. Petition for re
hearing granted. Order entered October 5, 2009, denying the petition
for writ of certiorari vacated. On petition for writ of certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Motion of
petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and petition for writ
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit for further
consideration in light of Holland v. Florida, 560 U. S. ––– (2010).
No. 09–5386. Omar C. Fernandez, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Motion of petitioner
for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and petition for writ of certio
rari granted. Judgment vacated, and case remanded to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit for further consider
ation in light of Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder, 560 U. S. ––– (2010).
No. 09–5776. Ernest Whitfield, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Sec
retary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. On petition for writ
Circuit. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
and petition for writ of certiorari granted. Judgment vacated, and case
remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Cir
cuit for further consideration in light of Holland v. Florida, 560 U. S.
––– (2010).
No. 09–7493. James D. Ford, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
tary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. On petition for writ of
cuit. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and
petition for writ of certiorari granted. Judgment vacated, and case re
manded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
for further consideration in light of Holland v. Florida, 560 U. S. –––
(2010).

No. 09–8003. Bobby Lee Watson, Petitioner v. United States. On
the Fourth Circuit. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
Fourth Circuit for further consideration in light of Carachuri-Rosendo
v. Holder, 560 U. S. ––– (2010).
No. 09–8235. Hector Felix Garza-Gonzalez, Petitioner v. United
States; and Allan Mejia-Portillo, Petitioner v. United States. On peti
the Fifth Circuit. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
Circuit for further consideration in light of Carachuri-Rosendo v.
Holder, 560 U. S. ––– (2010).
No. 09–8474. Francisco De Jesus Rodriguez, Petitioner v. United
States; and Jose Alfredo Mendoza-Delgado, Petitioner v. United States.
Circuit for further consideration in light of Carachuri-Rosendo v.
Holder, 560 U. S. ––– (2010).
No. 09–8640. Fu Sheng Kuo and Shengji Wang, Petitioners v. United
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed
peals for the Ninth Circuit for further consideration in light of Dolan
v. United States, 560 U. S. ––– (2010).
No. 09–8822. Kurt Garbutt, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attor
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Motion of petitioner for leave
to proceed in forma pauperis and petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–8859. Raymond Ryals, Petitioner v. United States. On peti

enth Circuit for further consideration in light of that court’s en banc
opinion in United States v. Corner, 598 F. 3d 411 (CA7 2010).
No. 09–8915. Rodney Anton Williamson, Petitioner v. United States.
for the Fourth Circuit. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed
peals for the Fourth Circuit for further consideration in light of the
position asserted by the Acting Solicitor General in his brief for the
United States filed May 21, 2010. The Chief Justice, Justice Scalia, Jus
tice Thomas, and Justice Alito dissent for the reasons stated in Nunez
v. United States, 554 U. S. 911, 912 (2008) (Scalia, J. dissenting).
No. 09–8935. Oscar Alvarez, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attor
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Motion of petitioner for leave
to proceed in forma pauperis and petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–9041. Jose N. Lopez-Mendoza, Petitioner v. Eric H.
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Motion of peti
tioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and petition for writ of
certiorari granted. Judgment vacated, and case remanded to the
consideration in light of Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder, 560 U. S. –––
(2010).
No. 09–9049. Mark A. Beckford, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
No. 09–9071. Oscar Rodriguez-Diaz, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,

No. 09–9146. Ruben Ramirez-Solis, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
No. 09–9351. Terrance A. Williams, Petitioner v. United States. On
v. Holder, 560 U. S. ––– (2010).
No. 09–9611. Desmond Jamar Smith, Petitioner v. United States. On
v. Holder, 560 U. S. ––– (2010).
No. 09–9647. Johan Dario Reyes-Hobbs, Petitioner v. United States;
Martin Perez-Padron, Petitioner v. United States; and Vicente Anell
Reyes, Petitioner v. United States. On petition for writ of certiorari to
the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Motion of
petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and petition for writ
No. 09M103. Pamela C. McCaffery, Petitioner v. Tina Hornbeak,

Warden. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for writ of certio
rari out of time denied.
No. 09M104. John M. Vulpis, Petitioner v. Florida. Motion to direct
No. 09M105. Curtis Brunkhorst, Petitioner v. Guy D. Pierce, War

out of time denied.
No. 09M106. Sealed Petitioner, Petitioner v. United States. Motion
No. 09–1444. In Re Daniel G. Anderson, et al., Petitioners. Motion
of petitioners to expedite consideration of the petition for writ of man
damus denied.
No. 09–8802. Daniel L. Spuck, Petitioner v. Catherine C. McVey,
Chairwoman, Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, et al. Mo
No. 09–9332. Louis Robenson, Petitioner v. Stephen Haszinger. Mo
No. 09–10505. Nina Shahin, Petitioner v. Delaware Department of
Finance. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
denied. Petitioner allowed until July 12, 2010, within which to pay the
Certiorari Granted
Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated. Petition
Ninth Circuit granted.
No. 09–529. Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy, Petitioner
v. James W. Stewart, III, Commissioner, Virginia Department of Be
havioral Health and Developmental Services, et al. Petition for writ
Circuit granted.
No. 09–996. James Walker, Warden, et al., Petitioners v. Charles W.
Martin. Motion of respondent for leave to proceed in forma pauperis
Certiorari Denied
No. 09–654. Ortho Biotech Products, L. P., Petitioner v. United

States, ex rel. Chinyelu Duxbury. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–875. Joshua Eli Raff, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
No. 09–935. William Shorter, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–949. Joyce K. Matsuo, et al., Petitioners v. United States,
No. 09–1065. United States, ex rel. James Hopper and Colin Hutto,
Petitioners v. Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. Petition for writ of
cuit denied.
No. 09–1116. 573 Jackson Avenue Realty Corporation, Petitioner v.
NYCTL 1999-1 Trust, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court
of Appeals of New York denied.
No. 09–1124. Antonio Guevara Mendoza, Individually and as Surviv
ing Father of Carolina Guevara Rodriguez, Deceased, et al., Petitioners
v. Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire, LLC, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–1127. R. R., By His Next Friend E. R., Petitioner v. El Paso
Independent School District. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–1140. Bank of Guam, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–1146. Yuma Anesthesia Medical Services LLC, Petitioner v.
Lester Fleming. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–1204. City of Milwaukee Post No. 2874 Veterans of Foreign
Wars of the United States, Petitioner v. Redevelopment Authority of
the City of Milwaukee. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme
Court of Wisconsin denied.
No. 09–1245. Shannon C. Horita, Petitioner v. Kauai Island Utility
Cooperative. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–1253. Adolfus Giles, Petitioner v. Wal-Mart Distribution Cen

ter. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
No. 09–1256. John M. Corboy, et al., Petitioners v. Mark J. Bennett,
Attorney General of Hawaii, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
Supreme Court of Hawaii denied.
No. 09–1257. Michael Joseph Lessard, et al., Petitioners v. Velsicol
Chemical Corporation. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of
Appeals of Texas, Thirteenth District, denied.
No. 09–1258. Long Beach Mortgage Company, Petitioner v. Robb
Evans, as Receiver for TLC America, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Fifth District, denied.
No. 09–1260. Farah Ade Mohamed, et al., Petitioners v. Aware Daud,
No. 09–1261. Edward E. Anderson, Petitioner v. AMR, The Parent
of American Airlines, Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–1268. Michael Andrew Fonticoba, Petitioner v. Georgia. Peti
No. 09–1276. Joseph Quigley, Petitioner v. Esquire Deposition Serv
ices, LLC. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of New
Jersey, Appellate Division, denied.
No. 09–1280. Dominic Baragona, et al., Petitioners v. Kuwait Gulf
Link Transportation Company. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–1283. H. Ray Lahr, Petitioner v. National Transportation
Safety Board, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–1291. Andra Capaci, Petitioner v. Folmar Kenner, LLC. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Alabama denied.
No. 09–1297. Nadeem Hassan, Petitioner v. Janet Napolitano, Secre
tary of Homeland Security, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–1307. Mike M. Madani, et al., Petitioners v. Shell Oil Com

No. 09–1308. Martin Marietta Materials, Inc., et al., Petitioners v.
City of Greenwood, Missouri. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
Court of Appeals of Missouri, Western District, denied.
No. 09–1312. Sergei Portnoy, et ux., Petitioners v. United States,
No. 09–1316. Tracy Brown, Sheriff, Tippecanoe County, Indiana,
Petitioner v. Jeffrey Mark Olson. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–1326. Kay Kim, Petitioner v. George F. Parker, et al. Petition
No. 09–1344. Richard M. Fischer, Petitioner v. Wisconsin. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Wisconsin denied.
No. 09–1347. Vera C. Harper, Petitioner v. United Services Automo
bile Association. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court
of Florida denied.
No. 09–1350. Crisell Seguin, Petitioner v. Circuit Court of Virginia,
Fairfax County, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme
Court of Virginia denied.
No. 09–1357. Bradley Rowland Marshall, Petitioner v. Washington
State Bar Association. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme
Court of Washington denied.
No. 09–1388. Vera C. Harper, Petitioner v. United Services Auto-
Mobile Association; and Vera C. Harper, Petitioner v. United Services
Auto-Mobile Association. Petition for writ of certiorari to the District
Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District, denied.
No. 09–1393. Justin Endicott, Petitioner v. Icicle Seafoods, Inc. Peti
No. 09–1408. Brandon I. Miller, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–1410. Alvin W. Gebhart, Jr., et ux., Petitioners v. Securities
and Exchange Commission. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–6760. Felicia Marie Balentine, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–7117. Phillip Alan Adams, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,

No. 09–7374. William Moss, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7395. Ira M. Collins, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7405. Warren Sanders, aka Charlie Brown, aka William Mc-
Kinney, aka New York Mike, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7441. Ulysses Lloyd, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–7445. Lawrence Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7495. Terry Graham, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–7604. Ronnie Joe Benson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–7690. Waverly Jordan, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7768. Carlton Bashford, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7825. Bryant Newell, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–7855. Byron Bryan, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for

No. 09–7963. Melvin Wilson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–8081. Christopher Mitchell, aka Hassan Jones, Petitioner v.
No. 09–8088. Jerold Mass, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–8159. Joe Hightower, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8162. David Velez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–8214. Lee Roy Lance and Donovan Dotson, Petitioners v.
No. 09–8225. Carlos Peralta, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8245. Albert Castro, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8249. Patrick Fitzgerald Porter, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8297. Edgar Clark, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–8566. Darrin W. Caldwell, aka Darren, aka Officer Darrell,
No. 09–8585. Raymond F. Pitts, aka Lonnie Sanders, Petitioner v.
No. 09–8616. Haniff Ishmael, aka Max, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8642. Dennell Malone, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–8644. Larry Joseph, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8691. Ashley Nehemiah Scaife, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8706. Jeffrey Coreinn Story, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8708. Taji Hanif Parker, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8709. James Earl Thomas, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8729. Derrick DeCarlo Parker, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8730. Clifford Bernard Nelson, aka Dummy, Petitioner v.
No. 09–8734. Raymond D. Smith, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–8741. Michael Bell, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–8751. Jeffrey Jerome Lighten, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8752. Bobby Dewayne Jones, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–8762. Michael Oshea Heard, Petitioner v. United States. Peti

No. 09–8879. Deandre Watson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8939. Mark Anthony Evans, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9007. Andre R. Thomas, Petitioner v. Thomas L. Carroll,
No. 09–9197. Calvin C. Patillar, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9243. Leon Taylor, Petitioner v. Don Roper, Superintendent,
Potosi Correctional Center. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–9248. Isaac Hall, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9311. Monroe E. Bullock, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9357. Brian Barner, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9371. Solomon Coffey, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9453. Mark A. Geralds, aka Hanif, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–9488. Stanley Jennings, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9494. Ray Anthony Pugh, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9599. W. C. Cartwright, Jr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–9609. Brenda Gay Mims, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–9658. Jerome Layton, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9702. Marcus Aurelius Johnson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–9706. Christopher Lee Pride, Petitioner v. South Carolina.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of South Caro
lina denied.
No. 09–9738. Willie Sims, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–9868. Carlos Deglace, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–9901. Darron J. Murphy, Sr., Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10105. Albert Earl Bolden, Jr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10214. Lance Shanon Lambert, Petitioner v. Walter A. Mc-
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10224. David Villarreal, Petitioner v. United States District
Court for the Western District of Michigan. Petition for writ of certio
No. 09–10237. Shane M. Garland, Petitioner v. Mark E. Garland.
No. 09–10238. Fredrick Anderson, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–10242. Charles R. Getz, Jr., Petitioner v. Stanley Taylor,
ware denied.

No. 09–10243. Raymond Joseph Hawthorne, Jr., aka Tweet, Peti
No. 09–10251. John Divine, Petitioner v. Venetia Michael, Warden.
No. 09–10253. Alonzo M. McQueen, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition
District, denied.
No. 09–10255. David Allen Jones, Petitioner v. Ronald King, Super
intendent, South Mississippi Correctional Institution. Petition for writ
cuit denied.
No. 09–10260. Jason Reaves, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
trict, denied.
No. 09–10267. Jeffrey Willis, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
cuit denied.
No. 09–10271. Nigel Clarke, Petitioner v. John Lempke, Super
intendent, Five Points Correctional Facility, et al. Petition for writ
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10273. Geoffrey Eason, Petitioner v. Louisiana. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit,
denied.
No. 09–10282. Kimberley Gayle Perigo, Petitioner v. Millicent New
ton Embry, Warden, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–10285. Wilfredo Collado, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
District, denied.
No. 09–10288. Gregory Lynn Colbert, Petitioner v. Mike Knowles,
No. 09–10294. Blaine W. Sell, Petitioner v. JP Morgan Chase Bank
NA, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–10295. Joseph Daniel Burns, Petitioner v. Christopher B.

Epps, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections. Petition
No. 09–10299. Raymundo Maldonado, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Di
No. 09–10304. Mary Elaine Washington, Petitioner v. New York
State Department of State, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–10305. Christopher Ysais, Petitioner v. Consuelo Angela
Ysais. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–10311. Sidney Young, Petitioner v. David A. Varano, Super
intendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Peti
No. 09–10312. Jasper Vick, Petitioner v. Sergeant McKinnie, et al.
No. 09–10313. Barry Northcross Patterson, Petitioner v. Charles L.
Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10318. Edward Dee Brooks, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
No. 09–10322. Melvin Jones, Jr., Petitioner v. Daniel Wainwright.
No. 09–10324. Jason Clements, Petitioner v. Harold W. Clarke, Com
missioner, Massachusetts Department of Correction. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Cir
cuit denied.
No. 09–10327. Don William Davis and Stacey Eugene Johnson, Peti
tioners v. Ray Hobbs, Interim Director, Arkansas Department of Cor
rection. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–10328. Gerald Allen Perry, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc

No. 09–10335. Tony Richard Martinez, Petitioner v. Mike Knowles,
No. 09–10378. Rodney Johnson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10394. Jeanine Elam, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–10395. Justine Bellamy, Petitioner v. Horry County School
District. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–10403. Gary L. Jones, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10416. Tywon Knight, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–10429. Jermaine Lavonne Chase, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10437. Frank Guillory, Sr., Petitioner v. Burl Cain, Warden.
No. 09–10439. Korey Gray, Petitioner v. Karin T. Bergeron, Super
intendent, Old Colony Correctional Center. Petition for writ of certio
No. 09–10450. Donald Roberson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10466. Tony B. Alexander, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10468. Crisino Bravo, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for writ
No. 09–10492. Errol Eugene Washington, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10535. Juan Olba, Petitioner v. David M. Unger, Super

intendent, Wyoming Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of certio
denied.
No. 09–10555. Michael C. Williams, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10576. Javiad Akhtar, Petitioner v. Mike Knowles, Warden.
No. 09–10582. Cardrick D. Flowers, Petitioner v. Ray Hobbs, In
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10592. Jerrold Lynn Martin, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10611. Paul Junior Ramirez, Petitioner v. David L. Runnels,
No. 09–10612. Karey Bernard Statin, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10641. Brian M. Norman, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Ross County, denied.
No. 09–10648. Edward Smith, Petitioner v. United States, et al. Peti
No. 09–10649. Jacob Bowman, Petitioner v. Kevin Milyard, Warden.
No. 09–10672. Marvel Jones, Petitioner v. Francis E. Britten. Peti
No. 09–10694. Brian Tyson, Petitioner v. Jeffrey A. Beard, Secre
cuit denied.

No. 09–10787. Anthony Hatches, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10811. James Elmer Gross, Sr., Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10812. Gerald D. Harris, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10813. Hopeton H. Haughton, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10824. Ira I. Bloom, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10827. John Edward Mull, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10843. Robert Lee Childers, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10844. Ryan Dennis, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10845. Christopher Samuel Carter, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10846. Jesus Cruz-Miranda, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10849. Robert Golan Hilton Thomas, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10850. Jesse J. Stewart, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10856. Salem Fuad Aljabri, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10860. Lorenzo Cotton, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–10861. Sergio Moraida-Rodriguez, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10867. Harold G. Henderson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10869. Shanita Monique Hampton, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10873. Jermario Taylor, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10879. Brandon Eugene Getachew, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10880. Ivan Ulises Galarza-Ramos, aka Ivan Ulises Galarza,
No. 09–10883. L. G. H., Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ
cuit denied.
No. 09–10889. William Henry Harrison, aka Wayne Green, Peti
No. 09–10894. Beatriz Carrillo-Diaz, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10898. Ruben Avila, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10902. Marcus Antonio McNeill, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10908. Franz Golding, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–10910. Diaunte Shields, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10912. Jaime Pena-Gomez, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10913. Jose Alfonso Charles, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10917. Lander Gonzalez-Lopez, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10918. Willis Mark Haynes, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10921. Carlos Granda, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10926. Lisa Marie Casey, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10930. Preston Grice, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10934. Joselin Castro, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10942. James Mallard, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10944. Michael Walker, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10947. Antonio D. Fisher, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10949. Timothy Darnell Blackwell, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–10955. Wali S. Hamani, aka Wallace J. Clemons, Petitioner v.

No. 09–10956. Anthony Leon Greenhill, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10957. Horatio Everhart, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10961. James Cottle, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10962. Francisco LaBoy, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10963. Fernando Jose-Milan, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10969. Sareth Tath, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10971. James Demetruis Battle, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10972. Osvaldo Aguilar-Aguilar, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–1123. Wyeth LLC, et al., Petitioners v. Donna Scroggin. Peti
the Eighth Circuit denied. The Chief Justice took no part in the consid
No. 09–7596. William Lopez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–9411. Ramse Thomas, Petitioner v. United States. Petition

No. 09–10320. Injah Tafari, Petitioner v. Paul W. Annetts, et al.
No. 09–10343. Jerome McDavis, Petitioner v. David A. Varano,
Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al.
Petition for writ of certiorari before judgment to the United States
No. 09–10467. Billy G. Asemani, Petitioner v. Mr. Chronister, et al.
No. 09–10906. Jesus Manuel Guzman, Petitioner v. United States;
and
No. 09–10907. David Hall, Petitioner v. United States. Petitions for
writs of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second
decision of these petitions.

No. 09–11024. In Re Richard Hollihan, Jr., Petitioner;
No. 09–11050. In Re Joseph C. McGhee-Bey, Petitioner; and
No. 09–11059. In Re Thomas Joseph Cutaia, Petitioner. Petitions for
Mandamus Denied
No. 09–10292. In Re Linda S. Raynor, Petitioner;
No. 09–10805. In Re Barry Joe Smith, Sr., Petitioner; and
No. 09–10809. In Re Paulino Granda, Petitioner. Petitions for writs
of mandamus denied.
Rehearings Denied
No. 09–790. Edmund Zagorski, Petitioner v. Ricky Bell, Warden;
No. 09–1037. Patricia A. Wilson, Petitioner v. Roberts J. Adams &

Associates;
No. 09–1135. Harold Brian Krieg, Petitioner v. Kent J. Dawson,
Judge, United States District Court for the District of Nevada, et al.;
No. 09–7010. LaAnthony Cletae Cain, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–8952. Emilio Jesus Nunez, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
No. 09–8992. Ellis Harley Barber, Petitioner v. Federal Bureau of
Investigation, et al.;
No. 09–9026. David Miller, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director, Texas
Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division;
No. 09–9179. Daniel L. Spuck, Petitioner v. Thomas Ridge, former
Governor of Pennsylvania, et al.;
No. 09–9293. Sheila A. Mannix, Petitioner v. Lisa Madigan, et al.;
No. 09–9530. Gregory Chambers, Petitioner v. Ohio;
No. 09–9587. Ronald D. Johnson, Petitioner v. Florida;
No. 09–9843. Lydia Tsosie, Petitioner v. Arizona, et al.; and
No. 09–9867. In Re Jeffrey Lynn Chronister, Petitioner. Petitions
No. 09–999. Clifton Mallery, et al., Petitioners v. NBC Universal,
Inc., et al. Petition for rehearing denied. Justice Sotomayor took no
No. 09–1016. Antonio C. Simonelli, Petitioner v. University of Cali
fornia at Berkeley, et al. Petition for rehearing denied. Justice Breyer
Attorney Discipline
No. D–2464. In the Matter of Disbarment of Manny M. Aragon. Dis

No. D–2470. In the Matter of Discipline of Timothy John Martin.
Timothy John Martin, of Lakewood, Colorado, is suspended from the
No. D–2471. In the Matter of Discipline of John L. Isaac. John L.
Isaac, of Parker, Colorado, is suspended from the practice of law in this
Court and a rule will issue, returnable within 40 days, requiring him
to show cause why he should not be disbarred from the practice of law
in this Court.

No. D–2472. In the Matter of Discipline of Steven Jay Rozan. Steven
Jay Rozan, of Houston, Texas, is suspended from the practice of law in
this Court and a rule will issue, returnable within 40 days, requiring
No. D–2473. In the Matter of Discipline of Jacob J. Amato, Jr. Jacob
J. Amato, Jr., of Gretna, Louisiana, is suspended from the practice of

Craig Michael Antas Chicago, IL Jeffrey R. Zehe

Raymond M. Bennett Raleigh, NC Hayden J. Silver,
III
Sam Bregman Albuquerque, NM Robert Jason
Bowles
Nicholas D. Crosby Las Vegas, NV Albert G. Marquis
Paul Edward David Darsow Minneapolis, MN Richard P.
Mahoney
Victoria B. Eiger New York, NY Nathan Z.
Dershowitz
Timothy Melvin Fulmer Birmingham, AL John Twohey
Natter
Tyler Green Salt Lake City, Honorable
UT Clarence
Thomas,
Associate
Justice of the
Supreme Court
Carissa Hessick Phoenix, AR David C.
Frederick
Joby D. Jerrells Bloomington, IN Gary Damon
Secrest
Jane Ellen Kahn San Francisco, CA Michael W. Bien
Matthew B. Kaplan Washington, DC Herbert E.
Milstein
Randall D. Katz Boston, MA Jeffrey H. Kay

Michael E. Longo Brooklyn, NY Brian F. Spector
Richard E. Lyon, III Santa Monica, CA Samuel Kai Lu
Malachy Patrick Lyons, Jr. Bay Shore, NY Lawrence Raful
Kathryn Mahe Missoula, MT Brian J. Smith
Araceli Martinez-Olguin Oakland, CA Christopher
Vincent Ho
Ronald Craig Morton Clinton, MS R. Paul
Randall, Jr.
Robert Scott Mullen Farmington Hills, Raymond Arthur
MI Cassar
Erik Nielsen Chicago, IL Jeffrey R. Zehe
Priscilla Hayes Nielson Reno, NV Michael R.
Specchio
Sinead O’Carroll Austin, TX Douglas R. Young
Diane S. Perera Miami, FL David L.
Swimmer
Ted Poretz New York, NY Alan M. Sclar
John Adam Powers Chicago, IL Christopher W.
Bohlen
James A. Reeder, Jr. Houston, TX Marie R. Yeates
John Samberg Reno, NV Richard Gordon
Baumann
David Joseph Schertz Harrisburg, PA Bridget Elizabeth
Montgomery
Joseph Paul Schilleci, Jr. Birmingham, AL John Twohey
Natter
Paul Schlaud Austin, TX Douglas R. Young
Peter M. Schneiderman Farmington Hills, Dennis J.
MI Dlugokinski
Mark Seiden Miami, FL Roy Black
John H. Shaffery Los Angeles, CA David Sean Poole
Bradley Scott Simpson Sandy, UT Jonathan Craig
Smith
Sonia Sotomayor Washington, DC Honorable
Anthony M.
Kennedy,
Associate
Justice of the
Supreme Court

Christine Lobasso Sullivan Huntington, NY Lawrence Raful

John Albert Tacker Rock Island, IL Rhonda Kenyon
Hill
Ashbel T. Wall, II Cranston, RI Patricia Anne
Coyne-Fague
Joseph Kevin Witmer Williamstown, PA Louise Gean Fink
Smith
Robert Preston Wood Columbia, SC Cynthia Durham
Blair
Opinions
Farms, et al. On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
peals for the Ninth Circuit. Judgment reversed, and case remanded to
the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for further
tice Alito. Dissenting opinion by Justice Stevens. Justice Breyer took
no part in the consideration or decision of this case.
Beloit Corporation, et al. On writs of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Judgment reversed, and cases
remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
ion by Justice Kennedy. Dissenting opinion by Justice Sotomayor, with
whom Justice Stevens, and Justice Ginsburg join.
son. On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for
the Ninth Circuit. Judgment reversed. Opinion by Justice Scalia. Dis
senting opinion by Justice Stevens, with whom Justice Ginsburg, Jus
tice Breyer, and Justice Sotomayor join.
Holder, Jr., Attorney General, et al. On writs of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Judgment affirmed in
part and reversed in part, and the cases are remanded to the United
consistent with the opinion of this Court. Opinion by The Chief Justice.
Dissenting opinion announced by Justice Breyer, with whom Justice
Ginsburg and Justice Sotomayor join.

Richard R.W. Fields Boston, MA Douglas Harry

Hallward-
Driemeier
Timothy M. Barrouk Harrisburg, PA Justin James
McShane
Timothy P. Flynn Clarkston, MI Barak Romanek
Samantha Mary Jewett Laconia, NH Jeffrey W. Mikoni
Michael Thomas Ellis Terre Haute, IN Patricia Jude
Sullivan
Annette M. Jurkiewicz Detroit, MI Patricia Jude
Berry Sullivan
Maureen A. Duffy Detroit, MI Patricia Jude
Sullivan
David Howard John Martyn Detroit, MI Patricia Jude
Sullivan
Lauren J. McGill Detroit, MI Patricia Jude
Sullivan
Audrey Renee Monaghan Plymouth, MI Patricia Jude
Sullivan
Nancy Anne Plasterer Bloomfield Hills, Patricia Jude
MI Sullivan
William Frank Kaczmarek Cleveland, OH Patricia Jude
Sullivan
Jill Elyse Fackenthal Pottsville, PA Patricia Jude
Sullivan
Gregory John Pavlovitz Pottsville, PA Patricia Jude
Sullivan
Mark S. Adams Los Angeles, CA Richard James
Lazarus
Ryan Michael Christian Pittsburgh, PA Richard James
Lazarus
Daniel Brian Epstein San Francisco, CA Richard James
Lazarus
Aaron D. Faust San Francisco, CA Richard James

Lazarus

Stefanie G. Field Riverside, CA Richard James
Lazarus
Abraham Aaron Simmons San Francisco, CA Richard James
Lazarus
Ryan C. Craig Washington, DC Richard James
Lazarus
Jason H. Gould Washington, DC Richard James
Lazarus
Terrence Michael McShane Washington, DC Richard James
Lazarus
Russell Moy Washington, DC Richard James
Lazarus
Theodore L. Radway Washington, DC Richard James
Lazarus
Marshawn Latoya Evans Atlanta, GA Richard James
Lazarus
Marie Sage Dennis Washington, DC Richard James
Lazarus
Michael Bertrand Roberts Washington, DC Richard James
Lazarus
Peter Joseph Scherer Middletown, NJ Richard James
Gallagher Lazarus
Kelly Koscuiska New York, NY Richard James
Lazarus
Kathleen Patricia Abbott New York, NY Richard James
Lazarus
Nicholas Boski Brooklyn, NY Richard James
Lazarus
Magda Lidia Cruz Castillo New York, NY Richard James
Lazarus
Douglas J. Dixon New York, NY Richard James
Lazarus
Roni Faye Epstein White Plains, NY Richard James
Lazarus
Carl John Fleming Philadelphia, PA Richard James
Lazarus
Kathryn Campbell Goyer New York, NY Richard James
Lazarus
Kathryn Allen Robinson New York, NY Richard James
Lazarus
1000 MONDAY, JUNE 21, 2010
Sarah E. Walcavich New York, NY Richard James
Lazarus
Cheryl C. Blair-Kijewski Haymarket, VA Richard James
Lazarus
Richard A. Cappalli Woonsocket, RI Richard James
Lazarus
Kristen Ann Hite Washington, DC Richard James
Lazarus
Kurt Michael Berger Fairfax Station, Richard James
VA Lazarus
Ruth Noemi Colon White Plains, NY Telesforo Del
Valle, Jr.
Norma I. Melendez New York, NY Telesforo Del
Valle, Jr.
Francis Acevedo Bronx, NY Telesforo Del
Valle, Jr.
Michael Arce Bronx, NY Telesforo Del
Valle, Jr.
Neysa Iris Alsina Batista New York, NY Telesforo Del
Valle, Jr.
Maritza Felicidad Bolano New York, NY Telesforo Del
Valle, Jr.
Yolanda Castro-Arce Bronx, NY Telesforo Del
Valle, Jr.
Lizette Colon New York City, Telesforo Del
NY Valle, Jr.
Angel Cruz Bronx, NY Telesforo Del
Valle, Jr.
Francisco Cruz New York, NY Telesforo Del
Valle, Jr.
Lumarie Maldonado Cruz Bronx, NY Telesforo Del
Valle, Jr.
Michele Davila Bronx, NY Telesforo Del
Valle, Jr.
Wayne L. Gladstone New York, NY Telesforo Del
Valle, Jr.
Lizbeth Gonzalez Bronx, NY Telesforo Del
Valle, Jr.
Miriam Maria Gonzalez New York, NY Telesforo Del
Valle, Jr.
MONDAY, JUNE 21, 2010 1001

Yvonne Lewis Brooklyn, NY Telesforo Del

Valle, Jr.
Sallie Manzanet-Daniels New York, NY Telesforo Del
Valle, Jr.
Ruby Marin-Jordan New York, NY Telesforo Del
Valle, Jr.
Ululy Rafael Martinez Bethpage, NY Telesforo Del
Valle, Jr.
Rosevelie Marquez Morales Brooklyn, NY Telesforo Del
Valle, Jr.
Ricardo Enrique Oquendo New York City, Telesforo Del
NY Valle, Jr.
Iliana Perez Peekskill, NY Telesforo Del
Valle, Jr.
Kim Ramos Bronx, NY Telesforo Del
Valle, Jr.
Roberto Antonio Reveron Bronx, NY Telesforo Del
Valle, Jr.
Clara Luz Rivera New York, NY Telesforo Del
Valle, Jr.
M. Suzette Rivera New York, NY Telesforo Del
Valle, Jr.
Nilda E. Rivera Bronx, NY Telesforo Del
Valle, Jr.
Alberto Roig New York, NY Telesforo Del
Valle, Jr.
Maia T. Spilman New York, NY Telesforo Del
Valle, Jr.
Catherine Torres New York, NY Telesforo Del
Valle, Jr.
Benjamin Michael Wright New York, NY Telesforo Del
Valle, Jr.
Adjourned until Thursday, June 24, 2010, at 10 o’clock.



tice Kennedy, Justice Thomas, Justice Ginsburg, Justice Alito, and Jus
tice Sotomayor.
Opinions
No. 08–1394. Jeffrey K. Skilling, Petitioner v. United States. On writ
cuit. Judgment affirmed in part, vacated in part, and case remanded to
the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for further
tice Ginsburg. Opinion by Justice Scalia, with whom Justice Thomas
joins, and with whom Justice Kennedy joins except as to Part III,
concurring in part and concurring in the judgment. Opinion by Justice
Alito, concurring in part and concurring in the judgment. Opinion by
Justice Sotomayor, with whom Justice Stevens and Justice Breyer join,
concurring in part and dissenting in part.
No. 08–876. Conrad M. Black, John A. Boultbee, and Mark S. Kipnis,
Petitioners v. United States. On writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Judgment vacated, and case
cuit for further proceedings consistent with the opinion of this Court.
Opinion by Justice Ginsburg. Opinion by Justice Scalia, with whom
Justice Thomas joins, concurring in part and concurring in the judg
ment. Opinion by Justice Kennedy, concurring in part and concurring
in the judgment.
No. 08–1196. Bruce Weyhrauch, Petitioner v. United States. On writ
cuit. Judgment vacated, and case remanded to the United States Court
of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for further consideration in light of
Skilling v. United States, 561 U. S. ––– (2010). Opinion per curiam
announced by Justice Ginsburg.
Brotherhood of Teamsters, et al. On writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Judgment reversed in
part, affirmed in part, and case remanded to the United States Court
of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for further proceedings consistent
with the opinion of this Court. Opinion by Justice Thomas. Opinion by
1004 THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 2010
Justice Sotomayor, with whom Justice Stevens joins, concurring in part

and dissenting in part.
No. 09–158. Billy Joe Magwood, Petitioner v. Tony Patterson, War
den, et al. On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals
for the Eleventh Circuit. Judgment reversed, and case remanded to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit for further
proceedings consistent with the opinion of this Court. Justice Thomas
delivered the opinion of the Court, except as to Part IV-B. Opinion by
Justice Breyer, with whom Justice Stevens and Justice Sotomayor join,
concurring in part and concurring in the judgment. Dissenting opinion
by Justice Kennedy, with whom The Chief Justice, Justice Ginsburg,
and Justice Alito join.
lia Bank Ltd., et al. On writ of certiorari to the United States Court
of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Dismissal of petitioners’ complaint
affirmed. Opinion by Justice Scalia. Opinion by Justice Breyer, concur
ring in part and concurring in the judgment. Opinion by Justice Ste
vens, with whom Justice Ginsburg joins, concurring in the judgment.
this case.
Secretary of State, et al. On writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Judgment affirmed. Opinion by
The Chief Justice. Concurring opinion by Justice Breyer. Concurring
opinion by Justice Alito. Concurring opinion by Justice Sotomayor,
with whom Justice Stevens and Justice Ginsburg join. Opinion by Jus
tice Stevens, with whom Justice Breyer joins, concurring in part and
concurring in the judgment. Opinion by Justice Scalia, concurring in
the judgment. Dissenting opinion by Justice Thomas.



“It is my very sad duty to announce that Martin David Ginsburg,
husband of our colleague, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, died yesterday,
June 27, 2010, at home in Washington, D. C.
“Martin Ginsburg was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 10, 1932.
He earned an A.B. from Cornell University in 1953 and a J.D. magna
cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1958.
“Martin Ginsburg and Ruth Bader Ginsburg met at Cornell on a
blind date in 1951 and were married on June 23, 1954 at his parents’
home on Long Island.
“Martin Ginsburg served in the United States Army from 1954 until
1956 and was stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma where he taught in the
artillery school. He had a distinguished career in the law, first in pri
vate practice, and later as a renowned law professor known not only
for his academic contributions, but also his sharp wit and engaging
charm. He began his career as a tax professor at New York University
Law School and continued at Columbia Law School. When Ruth Bader
Ginsburg was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit in 1980, Martin Ginsburg joined the faculty
of the Georgetown University Law Center. He was a visiting professor
at Stanford Law School, Harvard Law School, University of Chicago
Law School, and New York University Law School. He served on many
advisory boards and deservedly won numerous academic accolades and
awards. He was a member of the Bar of this Court. He was also a
gourmet cook.
“Martin Ginsburg was as loving as he was gifted. He was a devoted
husband, father, and grandfather, and he was a dear friend to everyone
here at the Court. As a mark of our sorrow and affection for Martin,
Justice Ginsburg, and their family, the journal of the court will note
that the adjournment of this Court today is in honor of Professor Mar
tin David Ginsburg.”
1006 MONDAY, JUNE 28, 2010
No. 09–213. Northeastern Land Services, Ltd., dba The NLS Group,
Petitioner v. National Labor Relations Board. On petition for writ of
certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Petition for writ of certiorari granted. Judgment vacated, and case
remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
for further consideration in light of New Process Steel, L. P. v. NLRB,
560 U. S. ––– (2010).
No. 09–328. Snell Island SNF, LLC, dba Shore Acres Rehabilitation
and Nursing Center, LLC, et al., Petitioners v. National Labor Rela
tions Board. On petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Petition for writ of certiorari
light of New Process Steel, L. P. v. NLRB, 560 U. S. ––– (2010).
No. 09–787. Union Pacific Railroad Company, Petitioner v. Sompo
Japan Insurance Company of America, et al.; and Union Pacific Rail
road Company, Petitioner v. Sompo Japan Insurance Company of
America. On petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Petition for writ of certiorari
light of Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd. v. Regal-Beloit Corp., 561 U. S.
––– (2010). Justice Sotomayor took no part in the consideration or deci
sion of this petition.
No. 09–1318. Glenn C. Henderson, Petitioner v. Sony Pictures, et al.
for the Ninth Circuit. Because the Court lacks a quorum, 28 U. S. C.
§ 1, and since the only qualified Justice is of the opinion that the case
cannot be heard and determined at the next Term of Court, the judg
ment is affirmed under 28 U. S. C. § 2109, which provides that under
these circumstances “the court shall enter its order affirming the judg
ment of the court from which the case was brought for review with the
same effect as upon affirmance by an equally divided court.” The Chief
Justice, Justice Stevens, Justice Scalia, Justice Kennedy, Justice
Thomas, Justice Ginsburg, Justice Breyer, and Justice Alito took no
No. 09–9751. Dora Olga Cantu Chapa, Petitioner v. United States.
MONDAY, JUNE 28, 2010 1007

Circuit for further consideration in light of Padilla v. Kentucky, 559
U. S. ––– (2010).
No. 09M107. Frank A. Hooks, Petitioner v. Karin T. Bergeron,
Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center. Motion to direct the
No. 09M108. Lacy Lee Williams, Petitioner v. Sergeant Gonzalez,
out of time denied.
No. 09M109. Matthew Robert Young, Petitioner v. Intel Corpora
tion, et al. Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for writ of
certiorari out of time denied. The Chief Justice took no part in the
No. 09M110. Brenda Joyce Lowery, Petitioner v. Ronald Strength,
Sheriff, Richmond County, Georgia, et al. Motion to direct the Clerk to
file a petition for writ of certiorari out of time denied.
No. 09M111. Martin Ray Byler, Petitioner v. Reggie Weisner. Mo
time denied.
No. 09–797. David C. Rodearmel, Appellant v. Hillary Rodham Clin
ton, Secretary of State, et al. Motion of appellant to vacate and re
mand denied.
No. 09–868. Ashbel T. Wall, II, Director, Rhode Island Department
of Corrections, Petitioner v. Khalil Kholi. Motion of respondent for ap
pointment of counsel granted. Judith H. Mizner, Esq., of Boston, Massa
chusetts, is appointed to serve as counsel for the respondent in this
case.
No. 09–1159. Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior Uni
versity, Petitioner v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., et al. The Solicitor
the United States.
No. 09–10916. Robert A. Heghmann, Petitioner v. Timothy F.
Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. Motion of petitioner for
leave to proceed in forma pauperis denied. Petitioner allowed until
July 19, 2010, within which to pay the docketing fee required by Rule
38(a) and to submit a petition in compliance with Rule 33.1 of the Rules
of this Court.
1008 MONDAY, JUNE 28, 2010
No. 09–10968. Po Kee Wong, Petitioner v. United States. Motion of

allowed until July 19, 2010, within which to pay the docketing fee re
No. 09–11202. Pirouz Sedaghaty, Petitioner v. United States District
Court for the District of Oregon, et al. Motion of petitioner to expedite
consideration of the petition for writ of certiorari denied.
Certiorari Granted
No. 09–115. Chamber of Commerce of the United States, et al., Peti
tioners v. Criss Candelaria, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted.
No. 09–525. Janus Capital Group, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. First
Derivative Traders. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit granted.
No. 09–1036. David L. Henderson, Petitioner v. Eric K. Shinseki,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted.
No. 09–1163. Glen Scott Milner, Petitioner v. Department of the
Navy. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
peals for the Ninth Circuit granted.
No. 09–804. CIGNA Corporation, et al., Petitioners v. Janice C.
Amara, et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situ
ated. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
peals for the Second Circuit granted. Justice Sotomayor took no part
No. 09–6822. Jason Pepper, Petitioner v. United States. Motion of
Circuit granted.
Certiorari Denied
No. 08–1515. Golden Gate Restaurant Association, Petitioner v. City
and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Petition for writ of cer
denied.
No. 09–1. Holy See, Petitioner v. John V. Doe. Petition for writ of
denied.
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No. 09–377. National Labor Relations Board, Petitioner v. Laurel
Baye Healthcare of Lake Lanier, Inc. Petition for writ of certiorari
Circuit denied.
No. 09–683. Annette Carmichael, Individually and as Guardian for
Keith Carmichael, Petitioner v. Kellogg, Brown & Root Service, Inc.,
No. 09–840. Hardie’s Fruit and Vegetable Co.- South, LP, Petitioner
No. 09–870. Amanda Armstrong, et al., Petitioners v. Common
wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, et al. Petition for writ of cer
denied.
No. 09–942. Jasmin Esmeralda Cortez-Urquilla, Petitioner v. Eric
H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–976. Philip Morris USA Inc., fka Philip Morris, Inc., Peti
tioner v. United States, et al.;
No. 09–977. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al., Petitioners v.
United States, et al.;
No. 09–978. United States, Petitioner v. Philip Morris USA Inc., fka
Philip Morris, Inc., et al.;
No. 09–979. Altria Group, Inc., Petitioner v. United States, et al.;
No. 09–980. British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited, Peti
tioner v. United States, et al.;
No. 09–994. Tobacco-Free Kids Action Fund, et al., Petitioners v.
Philip Morris USA Inc., fka Philip Morris, Inc., et al.; and
No. 09–1012. Lorillard Tobacco Company, Petitioner v. United
States, et al. Petitions for writs of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–1014. Aleksander Stolaj, et ux., Petitioners v. Eric H. Holder,
No. 09–1051. Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Indian Reserva
tion, Petitioner v. United States Army Corps of Engineers, et al. Peti
1010 MONDAY, JUNE 28, 2010
No. 09–1131. Doug Morgan, et al., Petitioners v. Plano Independent

School District, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–1161. US Bank National Association ND, et al., Petitioners
v. Deanthony Thomas, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–1164. Norfolk Dredging Company, Petitioner v. Misener Ma
rine Construction, Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–1172. Arctic Slope Native Association, Ltd., Petitioner v.
Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services. Petition
No. 09–1176. Pirate Investor LLC, et al., Petitioners v. Securities
and Exchange Commission. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–1183. Little Rock Cardiology Clinic, P.A., et al., Petitioners
v. Baptist Health, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–1274. Reginald Clemons, et al., Petitioners v. Larry Craw
ford, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–1277. Reger Development, LLC, Petitioner v. National City
Bank. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
No. 09–1278. T. B., Petitioner v. Superior Court of California, San
Bernardino County, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of
Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Two, denied.
No. 09–1286. Francis Osei-Afriyie, Petitioner v. New Jersey. Petition
Division denied.
No. 09–1288. David Shope, et al., Petitioners v. New Jersey, et al.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of New Jersey,
Appellate Division, denied.
No. 09–1292. Donna Scharff, Petitioner v. Raytheon Company Short
Term Disability Plan, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
MONDAY, JUNE 28, 2010 1011

No. 09–1293. Michael Segovia, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Texas, Fourteenth District,
denied.
No. 09–1299. Donnie Cleveland Lance, Petitioner v. Hilton Hall,
Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Geor
gia denied.
No. 09–1309. Stephen W. Nizio, Petitioner v. William M. Cook, et al.
Middle District, denied.
No. 09–1315. Robert Bauer, et al., Petitioners v. Dean Morris, L.L.P.,
No. 09–1320. Willard Proctor, Jr., Petitioner v. Arkansas Judicial
Discipline and Disability Commission. Petition for writ of certiorari to
the Supreme Court of Arkansas denied.
No. 09–1321. Phillip Mizrach, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–1330. Willie Gerald Newsom, Petitioner v. Tennessee, et al.
No. 09–1331. James Zhang, Petitioner v. Footbridge Limited Trust.
No. 09–1341. Bola Ajiwoju, Petitioner v. University of Missouri, —
Kansas City. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–1348. Luz Hellman, Petitioner v. Sheldon Weisberg, et al.
No. 09–1351. C. D., Petitioner v. New Jersey. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division,
denied.
No. 09–1365. Ira Isaacs, dba Stolen Car Films, dba LA Media, Peti
No. 09–1368. Anita Johnson, Petitioner v. John E. Potter, Postmaster
1012 MONDAY, JUNE 28, 2010
No. 09–1394. Joaquin Brown, Petitioner v. Rachel Lewis, et al. Peti

No. 09–1415. Aleksandr J. Stoyanov, Petitioner v. Ray Mabus, Secre
tary of the Navy, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–1419. Radar Solutions, Ltd., dba Rocky Mountain Radar,
Inc., Petitioner v. Federal Communications Commission. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–1441. Sanford I. Atkin, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–8755. Dennis Hood, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director, Texas
No. 09–9118. V. M., Petitioner v. New Jersey Division of Youth and
Family Services; and
No. 09–9144. B. G., Petitioner v. New Jersey Division of Youth and
Family Services. Petitions for writs of certiorari to the Superior Court
of New Jersey, Appellate Division, denied.
No. 09–9476. Boris George Graham, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–9701. Jerry Mahaffey, Petitioner v. Anthony Ramos, Warden.
No. 09–9711. Thomas Clinton, Petitioner v. Gregory Brenner. Peti
No. 09–9834. Miguel Herrera-Castillo, Petitioner v. Eric H.
No. 09–9838. Carman Deck, Petitioner v. Missouri. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Missouri denied.
No. 09–9938. Jason Yates, Petitioner v. Larry Small, Warden. Peti
MONDAY, JUNE 28, 2010 1013

No. 09–9956. Max Alexander Soffar, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition for
No. 09–9988. Elizabeth Liggon-Redding, Petitioner v. Rosyln
Souser, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–10030. Christopher Bingley, Petitioner v. California. Petition
No. 09–10053. Dennis Mitchell, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10290. Joe V. Wright, Petitioner v. Raceway Park, Inc., et al.
No. 09–10300. Ronald R. Cole, Petitioner v. Nichalas Hiland, et al.
No. 09–10332. Darryl A. Robinson, Petitioner v. Unknown Living
ston. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
No. 09–10336. Andrew R. Lopez, Petitioner v. United States Court
of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
No. 09–10338. Patrick K. Spurlock, Petitioner v. Ian A. Northrip,
No. 09–10340. Marlon Antoine Brown, Petitioner v. California. Peti
tion for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal of California, Fifth
No. 09–10342. Elizabeth Juanita Campbell, Mother and Next Friend
of J. P.E.H., Petitioner v. Hooksett School District, et al. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10346. Salvador Cortez, Petitioner v. Mike McDonald, Acting
No. 09–10347. Gary F. Ellison, Petitioner v. Paul Biebel, et al. Peti
1014 MONDAY, JUNE 28, 2010
No. 09–10348. R. K. C., Father, Petitioner v. J. M. F., Mother. Peti

tion for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Iowa denied.
No. 09–10351. Mark Allen Davis, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
No. 09–10352. Thomas Everett, III, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition
District, denied.
No. 09–10355. Tony A. Wilson, Petitioner v. Michele A. Gavangi,
No. 09–10362. Wendell Duncan, Petitioner v. Mississippi. Petition for
No. 09–10365. Yvette Cole, Petitioner v. South Carolina, et al. Peti
No. 09–10367. Pedro Carvajal, Petitioner v. Los Angeles Police De
partment. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–10368. Wilbur Lee Ellison, Petitioner v. Marty Black, et al.
No. 09–10369. Kohath Carroll, Petitioner v. United States, et al.
No. 09–10371. Michael Belike Clark, Petitioner v. Fernando Fron
tera, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–10372. Pierre Dominique Crawford, Petitioner v. Michigan.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Michigan
denied.
No. 09–10373. Peter James Dunkerley, Petitioner v. Alabama. Peti
bama denied.
No. 09–10376. Thom Lewis, Petitioner v. Jesse Smith, et al. Petition
No. 09–10393. Glen Dodgion, Petitioner v. James Hartley, Warden.
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No. 09–10398. Henry J. Bunch, Petitioner v. Ray Hobbs, Interim
denied.
No. 09–10402. Sean Kelleghan, Petitioner v. Richard Underwood.
No. 09–10405. Harvey E. Larson, Petitioner v. Derral G. Adams,
No. 09–10406. Julius Lee Jackson, Petitioner v. Richard Kirkland,
No. 09–10413. Steven L. Petty, Petitioner v. Rita Lavonne Petty.
lina denied.
No. 09–10415. William Klein, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for writ
trict, denied.
No. 09–10421. Steven Canter, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Franklin County, denied.
No. 09–10426. Charlie Wilton Pyle, Jr., Petitioner v. California. Peti
No. 09–10427. Perry Pooler, Petitioner v. Burl Cain, Warden. Peti
No. 09–10444. Reginald D. McAfee, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–10445. Craig E. Mendenhall, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
No. 09–10451. Richard Geise, Jr., Petitioner v. Scott M. Kernan,
No. 09–10452. Javier Gonzalez, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Sec
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cuit denied.
No. 09–10454. Anthony Falso, Petitioner v. Salzman Group, Inc.
No. 09–10458. Richard Martinez, Petitioner v. Aristedes W. Zavaras,
Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Peti
No. 09–10465. Alfonzo Bailey, Petitioner v. Gene M. Johnson, Direc
No. 09–10469. Craig L. Bowens, Petitioner v. California. Petition for
District, denied.
No. 09–10475. Dexter Darnell Johnson, Petitioner v. Texas. Petition
No. 09–10480. Tony A. Wilson, Petitioner v. Howard E. Emond, Jr.
No. 09–10497. Kerry Perez, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition for writ of
No. 09–10506. Hae Lee, Petitioner v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney
No. 09–10529. Albert Horace Griffin, Petitioner v. Department of
the Army. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–10568. Anthony L. Fletcher, Petitioner v. Greg Simms, et al.
No. 09–10574. Timothy Trimble, Petitioner v. Social Security Ad
ministration. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–10594. Freddie A. Land, Petitioner v. Florida. Petition for
District, denied.
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No. 09–10605. Arthur Lee Richardson, Petitioner v. Ohio. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Hamilton
County, denied.
No. 09–10609. Dan Lee, Petitioner v. Veterans Administration, et al.
No. 09–10616. Noel G. Roberts, Petitioner v. William Terry, Warden.
No. 09–10628. Elliot J. Scott, aka Calvin Scott, Petitioner v. Burl
Cain, Warden. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court
No. 09–10640. William Camp, Petitioner v. Ed Sheldon, Warden.
No. 09–10656. Steven Crain, Petitioner v. Nevada Parole and Proba
No. 09–10658. Jamie Perkins, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10678. Glenn Winningham, Petitioner v. Neil V. Wake, Judge,
United States District Court for the District of Arizona, et al. Petition
No. 09–10691. Donald G. Becker, Petitioner v. Al Luebbers, Super
intendent, Farmington Correctional Center. Petition for writ of certio
denied.
No. 09–10760. John H. Smith, Petitioner v. Don Roper, Superintend
No. 09–10769. Shannon David Boyle, Petitioner v. Arkansas. Petition
No. 09–10776. Gary Hallford, Petitioner v. Superior Court of Califor
nia, Sacramento County, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
Court of Appeal of California, Third Appellate District, denied.
No. 09–10777. Jamil Gandy, Petitioner v. David DiGuglielmo, Super
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No. 09–10785. William Henry Harrison, aka Allah-God Kundalini Isa
Allah, Petitioner v. Harrell Watts, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–10793. Adron L. Floyd, Petitioner v. Lawrence A. Stelma,
Sheriff, Kent County, Michigan, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to
No. 09–10797. Maria Jackson, Petitioner v. The Scotts Company.
No. 09–10801. Jason L. Schmidt, Petitioner v. Montana. Petition for
No. 09–10826. Phillip Eugene Parmley, Petitioner v. Ray Hobbs, In
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10830. Jack Harold Jones, Jr., Petitioner v. Ray Hobbs, In
Circuit denied.
No. 09–10851. David E. Burdette, Petitioner v. Fred Britten, War
No. 09–10874. Timothy Wilbourn, Petitioner v. Illinois. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District,
denied.
No. 09–10887. Mary Antoinette Robinson, Petitioner v. Supreme
Court of the United States. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–10895. Margaret M. Considine, Petitioner v. National Credit
Union Administration. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
No. 09–10897. Shannon L. Clark, Petitioner v. William C. Sherrill,
Jr., Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the Northern
District of Florida. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
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No. 09–10909. Jerry Hines, Petitioner v. Butch Jackson, Super
intendent, Nash Correctional Institution. Petition for writ of certiorari
No. 09–10928. Henry Clark, Petitioner v. United States Gypsum
No. 09–10939. James Michael Long, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10953. Corey Louis Hines, Petitioner v. R. Richards, et al.
No. 09–10958. Donald A. Davis, Petitioner v. Department of Justice.
No. 09–10966. Luther Jenkins, IV, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10980. Harlan Culbertson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10983. Clarence Clark, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–10986. Gilberto Marquez-Reyes, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10990. Jason Lee Jennen, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10991. Matthew Eric Mann, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–10993. Moises Daniel Moreno, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–10994. Jose Ruben Nieto-Resendiz, Petitioner v. United
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No. 09–10995. Jerry Parker, aka Monkey Nut, Petitioner v. United

No. 09–10998. Marty L. Wright, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–11001. Jamar Saunders, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–11003. Naomi Sandres, Petitioner v. Christine A. Noland,
Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the Middle District
of Louisiana, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–11004. Raul Salas De La Rosa, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–11008. Robert Brown, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–11009. Marel M. Branch, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–11010. Keith Adams, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–11011. Julio Agron, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–11012. John E. Barrington, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–11014. Salvatore Savoca, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–11020. Jesus Jose Medrano, aka Salvador Andrade, Peti
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No. 09–11022. William Patrick Flannigan, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–11027. Juan Soto-Ramirez, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–11032. Bobby Lee Thompson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–11034. Terence Bruce Richards, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–11035. Joaquin Cardona Sandoval, Petitioner v. United
No. 09–11043. Jerry W. Jenkins, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–11046. Carl Anthony Knight, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–11047. Eddie D. Gregory, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–11054. Alduff Doody, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–11060. Quintin Tyrone Anderson, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–11064. Orrandy Goodwyn, aka Randy, etc., Petitioner v.
No. 09–11069. Jose Vazquez, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
No. 09–11071. Maria Concepcion Granados-Gutierrez, aka Concha,
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No. 09–11073. Tsegaye D. Takele, Petitioner v. The Mayo Clinic.

No. 09–11077. Teddy Coppedge, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–11078. Kevin M. Cooper, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–11079. Ladale Washington, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–11083. Victor Morales-Escobedo, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–11084. Jason Wayne Waller, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–11086. Michael D. Whitelaw, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–11087. Ronald Sellers, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–11090. Jesse Rondale Bailey, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–11091. Holger-Helmut Brummer, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–11095. Mark Morelock, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–11097. Rudolph George Stanko, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–11101. Leslie Dean Goss, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
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No. 09–11103. Carl Dadaille, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
Circuit denied.
No. 09–11106. Michael A. Horne, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–11109. Luis Enrique Cruz-Valles, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–11110. William Ralph Dodd, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–11115. Rico McLaughlin, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–11116. Jefrrey Roy Crosby, Petitioner v. Warden, FCI Ray
Brook. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
No. 09–11117. Tommie Thompson, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–11120. Mustafa Abdullah, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
No. 09–11122. Ramon Acosta, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–11127. Manuel Sosa-Moreno, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–11128. Stephen Adrian Ramnath, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–11129. Patrick Stephen Walsh, Petitioner v. United States.
No. 09–233. Triple-S Management Corporation, et al., Petitioners v.
Municipal Revenue Collection Center. Motion of Council on State Taxa
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tion for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted. Petition for writ
of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico denied.
No. 09–438. Providence Hospital, et al., Petitioners v. Johnella Rich
mond Moses, Personal Representative of the Estate of Marie Moses-
Irons, Deceased. Motion of Michigan Health & Hospital Association for
leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted. Petition for writ of cer
tiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
denied.
No. 09–930. Kenyon B. Fitzgerald, Jr., et al., Petitioners v. Wade
F. B. Thompson, et al. Motion of American Legion, Department of New
York for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae out of time denied.
consideration or decision of this motion and this petition.
No. 09–1149. City of Warren, Michigan, et al., Petitioners v. Jeffrey
Michael Moldowan. Motion of National Fraternal Order of Police for
leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted. Motion of National Asso
ciation of Police Organizations, et al. for leave to file a brief as amici
No. 09–1150. Universal Trading & Investment Company, Inc., Peti
tioner v. Petro Mikolayevich Kiritchenko, et al. Motion of petitioner to
defer consideration of the petition for writ of certiorari denied. Petition
No. 09–1175. Ferring B.V., et al., Petitioners v. Meijer, Inc., et al.
Motion of Intellectual Property Owners Association for leave to file a
brief as amicus curiae granted. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
Sotomayor took no part in the consideration or decision of this motion
and this petition.
No. 09–1229. Michael Lonecke, et al., Petitioners v. Citigroup Pen
sion Plan, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–1310. Jill Lindsay, et al., Petitioners v. Association of Profes
sional Flight Attendants, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the
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No. 09–1412. Paraguay Humanitarian Foundation, Inc., fka CQZ Hu
manitarian Foundation, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Banco Central Del
Paraguay, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–9345. Johnnie Washington, Petitioner v. Harold Graham,
Superintendent, Auburn Correctional Facility. Petition for writ of cer
of this petition.
No. 09–10460. Zachary B. Taylor, Petitioner v. James F. Degrott,
Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8. As peti
No. 09–10504. Janice L. Schrader, Petitioner v. New Mexico, et al.
No. 09–10712. Frederick L. Waterfield, Petitioner v. Florida. Motion
tion for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Florida dismissed.
therein.
No. 09–10808. Bobby Len Franklin, Petitioner v. Mark Chatterton,
No. 09–10970. Eli Raitport, Petitioner v. United States, et al. Motion
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the Second Circuit dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
No. 09–11031. George Tonks, Petitioner v. United States. Petition
No. 09–11052. Floyd Junior Powell, Petitioner v. Tony A. Keller,

No. 09–11143. In Re Willie Ray Bush, Petitioner; and
No. 09–11178. In Re Robert Lenoir, Petitioner. Petitions for writs
Mandamus Denied
No. 09–9861. In Re Akhil Bansal, Petitioner;
No. 09–10381. In Re Timothy Wilkins, Petitioner;
No. 09–10676. In Re Frederick M. Torrence, Petitioner; and
No. 09–11036. In Re Olee Wonzo Robinson, Petitioner. Petitions for
No. 09–10456. In Re Rudi Rivas, Petitioner. Motion of petitioner for
Rehearings Denied
No. 08–6726. Tyrone Ingram, Petitioner v. Warden, River Bend De
tention Center;
No. 09–825. George E. Burdick, Petitioner v. Pritchett & Birch,
PLLC, et al.;
No. 09–900. Linda Anita Carty, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
Division;
No. 09–8544. Marjil Lee Bergara, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–8986. Joan Ochei, Petitioner v. All Care/Onward Health
care, et al.;
No. 09–9150. Gloria D. Smith, Petitioner v. Estes Express;
No. 09–9323. Jerome Julius Brown, Petitioner v. Howard County
Police Department, et al.;
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No. 09–9324. Jerome Julius Brown, Petitioner v. Council, Baradel,
Kosmerl & Nolan, et al.;
No. 09–9325. Jerome Julius Brown, Petitioner v. Upper Marlboro
Town Police, et al.;
No. 09–9346. Injah E. Tafari, Petitioner v. Sheldon Stein, et al.;
No. 09–9379. Jimmie Odell Bruner, Petitioner v. Oklahoma;
No. 09–9403. James Lynn Nichols, Petitioner v. Georgia;
No. 09–9483. Jerome Julius Brown, Petitioner v. Industrial Bank,
et al.;
No. 09–9484. Jerome Julius Brown, Petitioner v. Brennan C.
McCarthy;
No. 09–9485. Jerome Julius Brown, Petitioner v. Jerry D. Miller;
No. 09–9514. Jerome Julius Brown, Petitioner v. Suburban Pro
pane, L. P.;
No. 09–9516. Antonio Hudson, Petitioner v. Robert Kapture,
Warden;
No. 09–9520. Anthony Ray Thompson, Petitioner v. Raymond J. So
bina, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion;
No. 09–9529. Cesar de la Garza, Petitioner v. Joan Fabian, Commis
sioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections; and
No. 09–9795. Dennis O’Brien Edwards, Petitioner v. The Boeing
Company, et al. Petitions for rehearing denied.
No. 09–1042. Bhupendra K. Shah, Petitioner v. New York State De
partment of Civil Service, et al. Petition for rehearing denied. Justice
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Opinions
Illinois, et al. On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Ap
for further proceedings. Justice Alito announced the judgment of the
Court and delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I,
II-A, II-B, II-D, III-A, and III-B, in which The Chief Justice, Justice
Scalia, Justice Kennedy, and Justice Thomas join, and an opinion with
respect to Parts II-C, IV, and V, in which The Chief Justice, Justice
Scalia, and Justice Kennedy join. Concurring opinion by Justice Scalia.
Opinion by Justice Thomas, concurring in part and concurring in the
judgment. Dissenting opinion by Justice Stevens. Dissenting opinion
announced by Justice Breyer, with whom Justice Ginsburg and Justice
Sotomayor join.
lowship, Petitioner v. Leo P. Martinez, et al. On writ of certiorari to
the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Judgment
affirmed, and case remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for
the Ninth Circuit for further proceedings consistent with the opinion of
this Court. Opinion by Justice Ginsburg. Concurring opinion by Justice
Stevens. Concurring opinion by Justice Kennedy. Dissenting opinion by
Justice Alito, with whom The Chief Justice, Justice Scalia, and Justice
Thomas join.
No. 08–964. Bernard L. Bilski and Rand A. Warsaw, Petitioners v.
David J. Kappos, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Prop
erty and Director, Patent and Trademark Office. On writ of certiorari
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Judg
ment affirmed. Justice Kennedy delivered the opinion of the Court,
except as to Parts II-B-2 and II-C-2. Opinion announced by Justice
Stevens, with whom Justice Ginsburg, Justice Breyer, and Justice Soto
mayor join, concurring in the judgment. Opinion by Justice Breyer,
with whom Justice Scalia joins as to Part II, concurring in the
judgment.
Petitioners v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, et al. On
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of Columbia Circuit. Judgment affirmed in part, reversed in part, and

case remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the District
of Columbia Circuit for further proceedings consistent with the opinion
of this Court. Opinion by The Chief Justice. Dissenting opinion by an
nounced by Justice Breyer, with whom Justice Stevens, Justice Gins
burg, and Justice Sotomayor join.
“Before we rise for the summer, I would like to take the opportunity
to note that our Reporter of Decisions, Frank D. Wagner, has an
nounced his retirement, effective September 30th of this year. Few
outside this Court are aware of the Reporter’s important role. He is
responsible for the preparation of the decisions of this Court for publi
cation in the official United States Reports. Among many other things,
the Reporter is responsible for preparing the syllabus and resolving
issues of formatting style, punctuation, spelling, and citation form.
Mr. Wagner has served as reporter for more than 23 years. He has
overseen the publication of 82 volumes of the Supreme Court Reports,
more than any previous reporter, going back 220 years. Mr. Wagner,
we thank you for your service, which you have performed with exem
plary diligence and skill.”
“And now I must regrettably note for the record that this is the last
session at which our friend and colleague, Justice John Paul Stevens,
will be on the Bench with us. Justice Stevens has served on this court
with great distinction since December 1975. We wish him the best in
his well-deserved retirement. On this occasion, we have sent Justice
Stevens a letter that I will now read.
“Dear John, the Supreme Court convened for the first time in 1790.
You have served on its bench for nearly one-sixth of its existence. For
the past thirty-four years, this Court has drawn strength from your
presence. Whether in majority, separate concurrence, or dissent, you
have brought rigor and integrity to the resolution of the most difficult
issues. Through it all, you have alloyed genuine collegiality with inde
pendent judgment. Your decision to retire saddens each of us in distinct
ways. We will miss your wisdom, your perceptive insights and vast life
experience, your unaffected decency and resolute commitment to jus
tice. But we also know that your presence will endure through your
contributions to the Court’s work. You have enriched us through your
inspiring example of public service. The bonds of friendship that we
have forged extend beyond our common endeavor. We wish you and
Maryan great happiness in the years ahead. Affectionately, and the
MONDAY, JUNE 28, 2010 1031

letter is signed by all of us on the Bench and by Justice O’Connor and
Justice Souter. Justice Stevens, we will allow you time for rebuttal.”
Justice Stevens said:
“Well Chief, I have addressed a response that’s addressed ‘Dear Col
leagues’, and it occurred to me sitting here that if I had written this
letter when I joined the Court, it would have been addressed ‘Dear
Brethren’ but ‘Dear Colleagues’ suits today’s composition of the Court.
Collegiality and independence characterize our common endeavor.
I thank you for your kind words, far more importantly, Maryan and I
thank each of you and each of your spouses, present and departed, for
your warm and enduring friendship. It has been an honor and a privi
lege to share custodial responsibility for a great institution with the
eight of you, and with ten of your predecessors. I have enjoyed working
with each of you and with every member of the Supreme Court work
force that has always taken such excellent care of the Justices. If I
have overstayed my welcome, it is because this is such a unique and
wonderful job. I wish you all the best. Most sincerely.”
The Chief Justice said”
“I am authorized to announce that the Court has acted on all cases
submitted for decision this Term. Disposition of items scheduled for
conference today will be reflected on the order list that will be released
at 10:00 o’clock tomorrow morning. The Court will be in recess from
today until the first Monday in October 2010, at which time the October
2009 Term of the Court will be adjourned and the October 2010 Term
of the Court will begin as provided by law.
“My colleagues and I thank the members of the Court staff for their
outstanding work and dedication to their important duties. The impor
tant work done by the members of the Court staff contributes signifi
cantly to the accomplishment of the Court’s mission.
“We also thank the members of the Court’s Bar for their profession
alism and cooperation.”


Opinion Per Curiam

No. 09–8854. Demarcus Ali Sears, Petitioner v. Stephen Upton, War
den. On petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Georgia.
Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and peti
tion for writ of certiorari granted. Judgment vacated, and case re
manded to the Supreme Court of Georgia for further proceedings not
inconsistent with the opinion of this Court. Dissenting opinion by Jus
tice Scalia, with whom Justice Thomas joins. The Chief Justice and
Justice Alito would deny the petition for writ of certiorari.
Appeal—Summary Disposition
No. 09–1287. Republican National Committee, et al., Appellants v.
Federal Election Commission, et al. Appeal from the United States
District Court for the District of Columbia. Judgment affirmed. Justice
Scalia, Justice Kennedy, and Justice Thomas would note probable juris
diction and set the case for oral argument.
No. 08–1497. National Rifle Association of America, Inc., et al., Peti
tioners v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. The
Court reversed the judgment below in McDonald v. Chicago, 561 U. S.
––– (2010). Therefore, petition for writ of certiorari granted, and case
cuit for further proceedings.
No. 08–1509. Classen Immunotherapies, Inc., Petitioner v. Biogen
IDEC, et al. On petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Petition for writ of certiorari
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for further consideration in

light of Bilski v. Kappos, 561 U. S. ––– (2010).
No. 08–1592. James M. Maloney, Petitioner v. Kathleen A. Rice, Dis
trict Attorney, Nassau County, New York. On petition for writ of cer
tiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Petition for writ of certiorari granted. Judgment vacated, and case
for further consideration in light of McDonald v. Chicago, 561 U. S.
––– (2010). Justice Sotomayor took no part in the consideration or deci
sion of this petition.
No. 09–167. Richard Scrushy, Petitioner v. United States; and
No. 09–182. Don Eugene Siegelman, Petitioner v. United States. On
petitions for writs of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals
for the Eleventh Circuit. Petitions for writs of certiorari granted. Judg
ment vacated, and cases remanded to the United States Court of Ap
peals for the Eleventh Circuit for further consideration in light of Skil
ling v. United States, 561 U. S. ––– (2010).
No. 09–490. Mayo Collaborative Services, dba Mayo Medical Labora
tories, et al., Petitioners v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. On petition
Federal Circuit. Petition for writ of certiorari granted. Judgment va
cated, and case remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for
the Federal Circuit for further consideration in light of Bilski v. Kap
pos, 561 U. S. ––– (2010).
No. 09–929. Jack L. Hargrove, Petitioner v. United States. On peti
the Seventh Circuit. Petition for writ of certiorari granted. Judgment
the Seventh Circuit for further consideration in light of Skilling v.
United States, 561 U. S.
––– (2010).
No. 09–1035. Imad Salim Hereimi, Petitioner v. United States. On
for the Ninth Circuit. Petition for writ of certiorari granted. Judgment
the Ninth Circuit for further consideration in light of Skilling v. United
States, 561 U. S. ––– (2010).
No. 09–6425. Paul H. Richards and Bevan Atlee Thomas, Petitioners
v. United States; and

No. 09–6516. Paula Harris, Petitioner v. United States. On petitions
Ninth Circuit. Motion of petitioners for leave to proceed in forma pau
peris and petitions for writs of certiorari granted. Judgment vacated,
and cases remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the
Ninth Circuit for further consideration in light of Skilling v. United
States, 561 U. S. ––– (2010).
No. 09–7560. Mustafa Redzic, Petitioner v. United States. On peti
the Eighth Circuit. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma
Eighth Circuit for further consideration in light of Skilling v. United
States, 561 U. S. ––– (2010).
Certiorari Granted
No. 09–291. Eric L. Thompson, Petitioner v. North American Stain
less, LP. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Sixth Circuit granted.
Certiorari Denied
No. 08–1501. Lewis Ferguson, et al., Petitioners v. Patent and
Trademark Office. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
No. 09–9365. Henry Louis Wallace, Petitioner v. Gerald J. Branker,
No. 09–34. Pfizer Inc., Petitioner v. Rabi Abdullahi, et al. Motion of
Washington Legal Foundation, et al. for leave to file a brief as amici
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied. The Chief Justice and
Justice Sotomayor took no part in the consideration or decision of this
motion and this petition.
Allotment Order
It is ordered that the following allotment be made of The Chief Jus
tice and the Associate Justices of this Court among the circuits, pursu
ant to Title 28, United States Code, Section 42 and that such allotment
be entered of record, effective June 29, 2010.
For the District of Columbia Circuit, John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief

Justice,
For the First Circuit, Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice,
For the Second Circuit, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice,
For the Third Circuit, Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Associate Justice,
For the Fourth Circuit, John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice,
For the Fifth Circuit, Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice,
For the Sixth Circuit, Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice,
For the Seventh Circuit, Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice,
For the Eighth Circuit, Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Associate Justice,
For the Ninth Circuit, Anthony M. Kennedy, Associate Justice,
For the Tenth Circuit, Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice,
For the Eleventh Circuit, Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice,
For the Federal Circuit, John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice.
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tice Sotomayor.
Certiorari Denied
No. 10–5064 (10A8). Michael James Perry, Petitioner v. Texas. Ap
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tice Sotomayor.
No. 10A52. Fahri Saeed Bin Mohammed, Applicant v. Barack H.
Obama, President of the United States, et al. Application for stay pre
sented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court denied.
Dissenting statement by Justice Ginsburg, with whom Justice Breyer
and Justice Sotomayor join. I would grant the stay to afford the Court
time to consider, in the ordinary course, important questions raised in
this case and not resolved in Munaf v. Geren, 553 U. S. 674 (2008).

No. 10A70. Abdul Aziz Naji, Applicant v. Barack H. Obama, Presi
dent of the United States, et al. Application for stay presented to The
Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court denied.
(JOURNAL) WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 2010 1041


tice Sotomayor.
No. 10A89. Joseph Daniel Burns, Applicant v. Mississippi. Applica
Scalia and by him referred to the Court denied.
(JOURNAL) THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2010 1043


tice Sotomayor.
No. 09–6822. Jason Pepper, Petitioner v. United States. Adam G.
Ciongoli, Esquire, of New York, New York, is invited to brief and argue
this case, as amicus curiae, in support of the judgment below.
(JOURNAL) MONDAY, JULY 26, 2010 1045


tice Sotomayor.

No. 09A531. Juan Manuel Vicario, Applicant v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
Attorney General. Application for stay addressed to Justice Sotomayor
No. 09A939. David George Karkour, Applicant v. United States. Ap
plication for an injunction addressed to Justice Thomas and referred to
the Court denied.
No. 09A1235 (09-11209). In Re Anthony Ray Dailey, Applicant. Ap
plication for bail addressed to Justice Sotomayor and referred to the
Court denied.
No. 10A24 (09-1250). Richard I. Fine, Applicant v. Leroy D. Baca,
Sheriff, Los Angeles County, California, et al. Application for bail ad
dressed to Justice Ginsburg and referred to the Court denied.
Rehearings Denied
Thompkins;
No. 09–862. John Anthony Magyar, Petitioner v. Mississippi;
No. 09–1081. Victor Muresan, et ux., Petitioners v. Brian Fish,
et ux., et al.;
No. 09–1092. Shedran Williams, Petitioner v. Louisiana;
No. 09–1166. Reza H. Ahmadi, Petitioner v. Static Control Compo
nents, Inc.;
No. 09–1202. Cyrus Y. Kim, Petitioner v. City of Federal Way,
Washington;
No. 09–1207. Joseph P. Carson, Petitioner v. Merit Systems Protec
tion Board;
No. 09–1239. Gerald E. Juels, Petitioner v. United States Postal
Service;
No. 09–1250. Richard I. Fine, Petitioner v. Leroy D. Baca, Sheriff,
Los Angeles County, California, et al.;
No. 09–1304. Padma Rao, Petitioner v. City of Evanston, Illinois;
No. 09–1306. Michael L. Montalvo, Petitioner v. United States;
1046 MONDAY, JULY 26, 2010
No. 09–8674. Curtis J. Benford, Petitioner v. United States;

No. 09–9149. Keith Reid, Petitioner v. Flint Civil Service
Commission;
No. 09–9184. Donald Stankowski, Petitioner v. Jerry E. Abramson,
et al.;
No. 09–9235. Roy L. Woodson, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
Division;
No. 09–9318. Troy Dewyon Drew, Petitioner v. Larry Mullins, et al.;
No. 09–9319. Troy Dewyon Drew, Petitioner v. John M. Jabe, et al.;
No. 09–9329. Wiley Curry, Petitioner v. Gables Residential Serv
ices, Inc.;
No. 09–9442. Christopher Ysais, Petitioner v. Matthew Reynolds,
et al.;
No. 09–9452. Nathaniel Gaither, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–9458. Sally Norton, Petitioner v. Fannie Mae;
No. 09–9466. Thomas Joseph Cutaia, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
No. 09–9493. Karl Justin Paige, Petitioner v. Andrew Cuomo, Attor
ney General of New York, et al.;
No. 09–9503. Sherman Bobb, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–9573. Marsha Chambers, Petitioner v. Texas, et al.;
No. 09–9630. Charles Christopher Lancaster, Petitioner v. Texas;
No. 09–9651. Michael Terry, Petitioner v. Roger Walker, et al.;
No. 09–9681. Robert Smith, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–9725. Juan Serrano, Petitioner v. Joseph T. Smith, Super
intendent, Shawangunk Correctional Facility;
No. 09–9731. Yvett Smith, Petitioner v. Atlanta Postal Credit Union;
No. 09–9757. Linda Bays, Petitioner v. Esther Holmes, et al.;
No. 09–9758. In Re Linda Bays, Petitioner;
No. 09–9779. Herman L. Nitz, Jr., Petitioner v. Jean Harvey, et al.;
No. 09–9800. Damon Hudson, Petitioner v. Doug Vasbinder, Warden;
No. 09–9820. Grams B. Osborne, Petitioner v. American Multi Cin
ema, Inc., dba AMC Theaters Parkway Point 15, et al.;
No. 09–9841. Todd L. Cook, Petitioner v. Nebraska;
No. 09–9842. Richard Schmidt, Petitioner v. Cornell Hubert,
Warden;
No. 09–9910. Larry Darnell Pinson, et ux., Petitioners v. Equifax
Credit Information Services, Inc., et al.;
No. 09–9918. Stephen Alan Alberts, II, Petitioner v. Wheeling Jesuit
University, et al.;
MONDAY, JULY 26, 2010 1047

No. 09–9984. Damon Emanuel Elliott, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–10055. George Williams, Jr., Petitioner v. North Carolina;
No. 09–10069. Orlando E. Townsend, Petitioner v. Amy J. Bang,
et al.;
No. 09–10099. Manuel Pardo, Jr., Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil,
Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections;
No. 09–10135. James Andrew Gray, Petitioner v. John Kerestes,
Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy;
No. 09–10190. Louis K. Davis, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–10364. Raymond Cartwright, Jr., Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–10391. Ronald Williams, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–10410. Leigh-Davis Glass, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–10442. David Podlog, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–10563. Jon M. Cox, Petitioner v. Gregory Schwartz, Warden;
No. 09–10581. Lisa J. Gillard, Petitioner v. Northwestern University;
No. 09–10602. Michael Doyle, Petitioner v. Lou Archuleta, et al.; and
No. 09–10613. In Re Sephora K. Davis, Petitioner. Petitions for re
hearing denied.
No. 08–775. Hugo Alejandro Villegas Duran, Petitioner v. Johana
Ivette Arribada Beaumont. Petition for rehearing denied. Justice Soto
Attorney Discipline
No. D–2451. In the Matter of Disbarment of Ben J. Zander. Disbar
ment order entered.
No. D–2474. In the Matter of Discipline of Bradley R. Marshall.
Bradley R. Marshall, of Seattle, Washington, is suspended from the
No. D–2475. In the Matter of Discipline of Howard L. Blau. Howard
L. Blau, of New York, New York, is suspended from the practice of law
No. D–2476. In the Matter of Discipline of Steven R. Lapidus. Steven
R. Lapidus, of Wainscott, New York, is suspended from the practice of
1048 MONDAY, JULY 26, 2010
No. D–2477. In the Matter of Discipline of Brian Grayson West.

Brian Grayson West, of Brooklandville, Maryland, is suspended from
the practice of law in this Court and a rule will issue, returnable within
No. D–2478. In the Matter of Discipline of La Quetta Maria Golden.
La Quetta Maria Golden, of Gulfport, Mississippi, is suspended from
40 days, requiring her to show cause why she should not be disbarred
No. D–2479. In the Matter of Discipline of Irwin B. Seligsohn. Irwin
B. Seligsohn, of West Orange, New Jersey, is suspended from the prac
No. D–2480. In the Matter of Discipline of Joseph Nathaniel Baron.
Joseph Nathaniel Baron, of Orlando, Florida, is suspended from the
No. D–2481. In the Matter of Discipline of Martin Joseph Mickler.
Martin Joseph Mickler, of Jacksonville, Florida, is suspended from the
No. D–2482. In the Matter of Discipline of Jeffrey Thomas Kipi. Jef
frey Thomas Kipi, of Oviedo, Florida, is suspended from the practice
No. D–2483. In the Matter of Discipline of Donald F. Mintmire. Don
ald F. Mintmire, of Palm Beach, Florida, is suspended from the practice
No. D–2484. In the Matter of Discipline of William A. Schainker.
William A. Schainker, of Chevy Chase, Maryland, is suspended from
MONDAY, JULY 26, 2010 1049

No. D–2485. In the Matter of Discipline of Robert E. Mittendorff.
Robert E. Mittendorff, of Washington, District of Columbia, is sus
pended from the practice of law in this Court and a rule will issue,
returnable within 40 days, requiring him to show cause why he should
not be disbarred from the practice of law in this Court.
No. D–2486. In the Matter of Discipline of Garrett L. Lee. Garrett
L. Lee, of Washington, District of Columbia, is suspended from the
No. D–2487. In the Matter of Discipline of Paul W. Bergrin. Paul W.
Bergrin, of Brooklyn, New York, is suspended from the practice of law
No. D–2488. In the Matter of Discipline of David P. Weaver. David
P. Weaver, of San Francisco, California, is suspended from the practice
No. D–2489. In the Matter of Discipline of John M. Moran. John M.
Moran, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, is suspended from the practice
No. D–2490. In the Matter of Discipline of Robert C. Arledge. Rob
ert C. Arledge, of Vicksburg, Mississippi, is suspended from the prac
No. D–2491. In the Matter of Discipline of Melissa Anne Shomber.
Melissa Anne Shomber, of Edmond, Oklahoma, is suspended from the
40 days, requiring her to show cause why she should not be disbarred
No. D–2492. In the Matter of Discipline of Patrick D. McNeal. Pat
rick D. McNeal, of Santa Ana, California, is suspended from the prac
1050 MONDAY, JULY 26, 2010
No. D–2493. In the Matter of Discipline of David A. Ehrlich. David

A. Ehrlich, of Cohoes, New York, is suspended from the practice of law

Karen L. Abrams Charlottesville, George A.

VA Rutherglen
Stuart Alderoty New York, NY David Boies
J. Christopher Anderson Nashville, TN H. Rowan
Leathers, III
Amy V. Barker Frankfort, KY Connie Vance
Malone
Judy Marja Segerstrom Irvine, CA Valerie Lynn
Barrett Kramer
Ned Henry Bassen New York, NY Susan Millington
Campbell
James Patrick Beadle Palm Bay, FL Myron S. Krasny
Gregory S. Bell Peoria, IL Julie L. Galassi
Thomas Bennigson Oakland, CA Seth E. Mermin
Gilbert Harrison Berger Culpeper, VA Elwood Earl
Sanders, Jr.
Antoinette W. Blanchette New York, NY Bruce Burton
McHale
Lori Grigg Bluhm Troy, MI Allan T. Motzny
Kimberly M. Bond Columbus, OH Ronald Joseph
O’Brien
Pamela Karten Bookman New York, NY Honorable Ruth B.
Ginsburg,
Associate
Justice of the
Supreme Court
T. Federico Bower Tampa, FL Francisco R.
Angones
Shana Gail Buchanan Minneapolis, MN Gary R.
Bryant-Wolf
James Alexander Burke Poughkeepsie, NY Elliot Simon
Tetenbaum
MONDAY, JULY 26, 2010 1051

Susan L. Burke Washington, DC Vincent Ian

Parrett
Deborah Johnson Butcher Camden, SC Cornelius James
Riley
Kiwi Alejandro Danao Houston, TX Charles Rothwell
Camara Nesson
Michael Jay Carlson Madison, WI Jay Laurie
Carlson
Sarah J. Carrillo Sonora, CA Gregory John
Oliver
Sherri Ann Carver Oklahoma City, Brian Thomas
OK Loughrin
Douglas A. Cawley Dallas, TX Rosemary Tyson
Snider
Jimmy Chatsuthiphan Washington, DC Taron K.
Murakami
Stephanie Lee Clarke San Francisco, CA Jeremy Todd Price
Jessica Lynn Coco Baton Rouge, LA H. Alston
Johnson, III
Jonathan F. Cohen Warren, NJ Arthur R.
Thibault, Jr
Brenn O. Combs Frankfort, KY Vickie L. Wise
Todd Alan Cone Nowata, OK Kevin D.
Buchanan
Kenneth J. Coughlan Baltimore, MD Anne E. Hoke
John Richard Dacey Phoenix, AZ Paul Bender
Henry Tutt Dart Covington, LA John Franklin
Weeks, II
Joseph Clarke Davis Arlington, TX Edward Dwain
Dent
Adriana Maria de la Chicago, IL de la Torre Blanca
Torre-Bianchi Bianchi
Charles Gullette De Leo Miami, FL Fabian A. Pal
Robert J. Donaher Ringoes, NJ Shalom David
Stone
Michael C. Dorf Ithaca, NY Sherry F. Colb
Jennifer Carlyn Drivdahl Sonora, CA Gregory John
Oliver
Roy Alyette Durham, II Georgetown, KY Randall L.
Wheeler
1052 MONDAY, JULY 26, 2010
Amy Couvillon Eikel Houston, TX Reagan William

Simpson
Lisa Adrienne Ells San Francisco, CA Michael W. Bien
Richard B. Farrer Austin, TX Christian J. Ward
Eric J. Feigin Washington, DC Honorable
Stephen
Breyer,
Associate
Justice of the
Supreme Court
Alex Finch Oviedo, FL Robert Edward
Murray
Aden Jeremy Fine New York, NY Jack D. Fine
Rodney Q. Fonda Seattle, WA Melissa
O’Loughlin
White
Christopher J. Forsyth Troy, MI Allan T. Motzny
Caroline L. Fowler Santa Rosa, CA Brien Joseph
Farrell
Roger Wayne Frazier Tucson, AZ Matthew Aaron
Goldstein
Everett Edwin Gale, III Morristown, NJ Robert L. Clifford
Garet K. Galster Oconomowoc, WI Joseph Dinneen
Kearney
Ernest Galvan San Francisco, CA Michael W. Bien
Shimica Dor’Marian Washington, DC Anne Y. Lee
Gaskins
Katherine A. George Seattle, WA Philip Albert
Talmadge
Peter R. Ginsberg New York, NY Steven E. Rau
Joslyn Olinger Glover Frankfort, KY John C. Cummings
Gary J. Gogerty Newburgh, NY Richard J. Drake
Adam R. Gonnelli New York, NY Jacob A. Goldberg
Timothy Hunter Goodman Annapolis, MD Lloyd S. Guerci
Luke W. Goodrich Washington, DC Eric Christopher
Rassbach
Harold Eugene Griffin Santa Monica, CA Jeffrey David
Horowitz
Steven D. Grossman Moutainside, NJ Laura W. Green
MONDAY, JULY 26, 2010 1053

Tamara Anne Grosso Bethel, CT Michael Edward

O’Hare
Jeffrey Michael Hahn Washington, DC Anthony F.
Shelley
Ralph H. Haile Elgin, SC Vance J. Bettis
Adrianna S. Haugen Minneapolis, MN James H. Kaster
Piper M. Hendricks Washington, DC Terrence P.
Collingsworth
Ryan S. Henry San Antonio, TX Lowell Frank
Denton
Joseph E. Hopkins Newark, NJ John McGahren
Isabel Mary Humphrey Phoenix, AZ Paul Bender
John Erich Johnson Dallas, TX Judge Ted Martin
Akin
Phyllis P. Jones Fayetteville, NC Patricia Williams
Goodson
Brian King New Orleans, LA Christopher K.
Ralston
Gregory J. Krock Pittsburgh, PA David Blakley
Fawcett
Jan Michael Kuylenstierna Miami, FL Fabian A. Pal
Philip Lawrence Lahne Honolulu, HI Lissa Haunani
Andrews
Jay Leonard Levine Washington, DC Scott Harris
Blackman
Robert McDowell Lorey Virginia Beach, S. Lawrence
VA Dumville
Christopher Marlborough New York, NY Jacob A. Goldberg
Charles W. Marsar, Jr. Harrisburg, PA James P.
DeAngelo
Jennifer Byron Mercurio Garrison, NY Michael A.
Bamberger
Stephen X. Munger Atlanta, GA David Lane
Gordon
Rebecca Kelder Myers New York, NY James Evan
Berger
Anthony E. Napoli Rosemont, IL John J.
Franczyk, Jr.
James Nesci Tucson, AZ Vincent P. Nesci
1054 MONDAY, JULY 26, 2010
Sean Olender San Francisco, CA David Michael

Bigeleisen
Steven Dana Olmstead Cheyenne, WY Bruce A. Salzburg
Sean Patrick O’Shea Washington, DC Honorable Hillary
Rodham
Clinton
Jose A. Palacio Santa Ana, CA Rosalee Pothier
Eloise Hilary Pasachoff Washington, DC Honorable Sonia
Sotomayor,
Associate
Justice of the
Supreme Court
Erin Woodward Peirce Dallas, TX John T. Palter
Patrick H. Perry Gainesville, FL Robert Michael
Perry
John Reese Petty Reno, NV Gary H. Hatlestad
Allison C. Pienta Washington, DC Stephen R. Bruce
Michelle F. Plauche Baton Rouge, LA H. Alston
Johnson, III
James L. Plosia, Jr. Warren, NJ Arthur R.
Thibault, Jr
Thomas Pulham Washington, DC Honorable David
Hackett Souter,
Associate
Justice of the
Supreme
Court, Retired
Frederick Andrew Rench Clifton Park, NY John B.
DuCharme
John E. Ricci San Francisco, CA Donald L. Ungar
Jason W. Rockwell Newark, NJ John McGahren
Michelle Leigh Rogers Washington, DC Samuel J. Buffone
Harding J. Rome Houston, TX Kathleen Hopkins
Alsina
Daniel N. Rosen Minneapolis, MN Andrew D. Parker
Joseph Edward Russell San Francisco, CA Peter G. Keane
Richard J. Schager, Jr. Brooklyn, NY Jared Stamell
Theresa Marie Schiefer Atlanta, GA Patricia Beth
Attaway
MONDAY, JULY 26, 2010 1055

Richard P. Schiller Louisville, KY Michael Shea
Maloney
Christopher Jay Schmidt Sonora, CA Gregory John
Oliver
David M. Schwartz Washington, DC Herman Schwartz
Richard J. Sharp Shelby Twp., MI Arthur Jay Weiss
Mark Jonathan Sherer Washington, DC Christian John
Mixter
Meggan Elizabeth Smith Louisville, KY Dennis James
Burke
Philip G. Spellane Pittsford, NY Paul R.
Braunsdorf
Steven Louis Stemerman San Francisco, CA William David
Holsberry
Shira Renee Thomas Tallahassee, FL Bishop Clarke
Holifield
Jay Thomas Thompson Columbia, SC Stephen George
Morrison
Francis Douglas Tuffley Bainbridge Island, Melissa
WA O’Loughlin
White
James E. Tyrrell, Jr. Newark, NJ John McGahren
Gregg Minoru Ushiroda Honolulu, HI Melvyn Ming
Miyagi
Douglas G. Wardlow Minneapolis, MN Andrew D. Parker
Jerome William Wesevich El Paso, TX David Gray Hall
Amy Whelan San Francisco, CA Michael W. Bien
Damon W. D. Wright Alexandria, VA Peter W. D.
Wright
Roger G. Wright Frankfort, KY Vickie L. Wise
Angela C. Wu Washington, DC Eric Christopher
Rassbach
Barbara J. Zabawa Madison, WI Richard J.
Lewandowski
(JOURNAL) FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 2010 1057


tice Sotomayor.

No. 10A155. Omar Khadr, Applicant v. United States. Application
for stay presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the
Court denied.
(JOURNAL) THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 2010 1059


tice Thomas, Justice Ginsburg, Justice Breyer, Justice Alito, Justice
Sotomayor, and Justice Kagan.

No. 10-5858 (10A173). In Re Michael Jeffrey Land, Petitioner. Ap
Thomas and by him referred to the Court denied. Petition for writ of
(JOURNAL) MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 2010 1061



No. 10A3 (09–1332). Charles J. Sain, Applicant v. Carolyn M. Sny
der, et al. Application for an injunction addressed to The Chief Justice
No. 10A56. Orly Taitz, Applicant v. Colonel Thomas D. MacDonald,
Garrison Commander, Fort Benning, et al. Application for stay ad
dressed to Justice Alito and referred to the Court denied.
the Acting Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument
as amicus curiae and for divided argument granted. Motion of Richard
D. Friedman for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae
and for divided argument denied. Justice Kagan took no part in the
consideration or decision of these motions.
No. 09–400. Vincent E. Staub, Petitioner v. Proctor Hospital. Motion
of American Association for Justice for leave to file a brief as amicus
curiae granted. Justice Kagan took no part in the consideration or deci
No. 09–893. AT&T Mobility LLC, Petitioner v. Vincent Concepcion,
et ux. Motion of petitioner to dispense with printing the joint appen
dix granted.
No. 09–1036. David L. Henderson, Petitioner v. Eric K. Shinseki,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Motion of petitioner to dispense with
printing the joint appendix granted. Justice Kagan took no part in the
Rehearings Denied
No. 03–10833. Willie Charles Burns, Jr., Petitioner v. Dora B.
Schriro, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections;
No. 08–9911. Carmen E. Campbell, Petitioner v. Alexander Stein,
et al.;
No. 09–1074. John C. Justice and Mike Woodward, Petitioners v.
Town of Cicero, Illinois, et al.;
1062 MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 2010
No. 09–1219. Cecil G. Bailey, Petitioner v. Lorraine Caldwell, as Per

sonal Representative of the Estate of Virgil Bailey;
No. 09–1263. Shaheed Taalib’din Madyun, Petitioner v. Kirby Linjer;
No. 09–1291. Andra Capaci, Petitioner v. Folmar Kenner, LLC;
No. 09–1350. Crisell Seguin, Petitioner v. Circuit Court of Virginia,
Fairfax County, et al.;
No. 09–7117. Phillip Alan Adams, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
Division;
No. 09–7725. Demarcus Wright, Petitioner v. Troy Steele, Warden;
ginia, et al.;
No. 09–9579. Michael Izell Seals, Petitioner v. John Russell, et al.;
No. 09–9711. Thomas Clinton, Petitioner v. Gregory Brenner;
No. 09–9740. Aaron K. Marsh, Petitioner v. Florida Department of
Children and Families, et al.;
No. 09–9744. Soloman David Roberts, Petitioner v. Walter A. Mc-
Neil, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al.;
No. 09–9770. Steven R. Schmidt, Petitioner v. Froedtert Memorial
Lutheran, et al.;
No. 09–9775. LaKeith Raqib Amir-Sharif, Petitioner v. Texas;
No. 09–9819. Isaak Goltsman, Petitioner v. Almquist & Gilbert,
P.C., et al.;
No. 09–9829. Louis David Johnson, Jr., Petitioner v. Rick Wertanen;
No. 09–9853. Keith Leslie Jamerson, Petitioner v. California;
No. 09–9969. Colin Kelly Kaufman, Petitioner v. Texas;
No. 09–10010. Patricia Ann Ingle, Petitioner v. Deutsche Bank Na
tional Trust Company;
No. 09–10025. Christopher Ynosencio Ysais, Petitioner v. New Mex
ico Children, Youth and Families Department, et al.;
No. 09–10074. James Francis, Petitioner v. Kentucky River Coal
Corporation;
No. 09–10210. Ronnie Junior Ellis, Petitioner v. Doctor Marietta,
et al.;
No. 09–10242. Charles R. Getz, Jr., Petitioner v. Stanley Taylor,
et al.;
No. 09–10285. Wilfredo Collado, Petitioner v. Florida;
No. 09–10300. Ronald R. Cole, Petitioner v. Nichalas Hiland, et al.;
No. 09–10305. Christopher Ysais, Petitioner v. Consuelo Angela
Ysais;
MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 2010 1063

No. 09–10343. Jerome McDavis, Petitioner v. David A. Varano,
Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al.;
No. 09–10363. In Re Roger Mayweather, Petitioner;
No. 09–10585. Damon Elliott, Petitioner v. Department of
Agriculture;
No. 09–10597. Brandon Rhode, Petitioner v. Hilton Hall, Warden;
No. 09–10656. Steven Crain, Petitioner v. Nevada Parole and Proba
tion, et al.;
No. 09–10735. David Delgado, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–10745. In Re Alton R. Marcum, Petitioner;
No. 09–10776. Gary Hallford, Petitioner v. Superior Court of Califor
nia, Sacramento County, et al.;
No. 09–10856. Salem Fuad Aljabri, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–10897. Shannon L. Clark, Petitioner v. William C. Sher
rill, Jr., Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the North
ern District of Florida;
No. 09–10958. Donald A. Davis, Petitioner v. Department of Jus
tice; and
No. 09–10960. In Re George Casillas, Petitioner. Petitions for re
hearing denied.
No. 09–9960. Eusebio Escobar de Jesus, Petitioner v. United States;
No. 09–10115. Henry J. Palmer, Petitioner v. Eric K. Shinseki, Sec
retary of Veterans Affairs;
No. 09–10455. Vance Hicks, Petitioner v. United States; and
No. 09–10466. Tony B. Alexander, Petitioner v. United States. Peti
tions for rehearing denied. Justice Kagan took no part in the consider
Attorney Discipline
No. D–2477. In the Matter of Brian Grayson West. Brian Grayson
West, of Brooklandville, Maryland, having requested to resign as a
member of the Bar of this Court, it is ordered that his name be stricken
from the roll of attorneys permitted to the practice of law before this
Court. The Rule to Show Cause, issued on July 26, 2010, is discharged.

Stephanie Leigh Adler Orlando, FL Joanne Braddock

Lambert
Mario Apuzzo Jamesburg, NJ William G.
Brigiani
William Lawley Baggett, Jr. Atlanta, GA Thomas Edwards

Abernathy, IV
Matthew Brian Barr Indianapolis, IN Peter James
Rusthoven
James E. Barton, II Phoenix, AZ Mary Ruth
O’Grady
Gregory A. Beck Washington, DC Paul Alan Levy
Russell F. Behjatnia Los Angeles, CA Philip R. Sheldon
Jonathan M. Bernstein Albany, NY Joseph Maron
Hanna
Robert C. Bowers Charlotte, NC James P.
McLoughlin, Jr.
Marc Scandlyn Brewen Knoxville, TN Grant E. Lattin
Robert S. Brewer, Jr. San Diego, CA Jose L. Patino
Lloyd James Brooks Chicago, IL Celeste Harriet
Davis
Scott M. Busser Denver, CO Alan Greenberg
Amelia Caicedo-Santiago Guaynabo, PR Rafael Escalera-
Rodriguez
Kathleen Campbell Bala Cynwyd, PA Robert David Fox
Andrew J. Carafelli Denver, CO Andrew David
Ringel
Cynthia M. Chandley Scottsdale, AZ Robert J. Pohlman
Christopher G. Clark Boston, MA Matthew J. Matule
Valerie Elizabeth Clemen Honolulu, HI Lissa Haunani
Andrews
John Joseph Cook Memphis, TN Michael A.
Pietrangelo
David Grant Crooks Dallas, TX Daniel J. Madden
Barbara Alice Curran Summit, NJ Hugo M. Pfaltz, Jr.
Tamir Damari Washington, DC John T. Hansen
Rebecca Ann Davis Silver Spring, MD Karen W.
Ferguson
Jerry Derrick Nazlini, AZ Catherine F.
Munson
Gregory S. Dovel Santa Monica, CA Miguel A. Estrada
H. P. Sean Dweck New York, NY Harvey Ira
Sladkus
Jack S. Dweck New York, NY Harvey Ira
Sladkus

Amy R. Folsom Colorado Springs, Matthew Cole

CO Emmons
Costantino Fragale Mamaroneck, NY William L. Bellotti
Cassandra S. Franklin Los Angeles, CA Dennis M. Perluss
Robert F. Goings Columbia, SC Joel W. Collins, Jr.
Neal Goldstein Los Angeles, CA Joshua C. Needle
Anne Grady Staten Island, NY Morrie I.
Kleinbart
David Scott Gray Columbia, MD Kathleen S.
Hardway
Keith L. Hammond Orlando, FL Ralph Colby
Losey
Jeremy Heisler New York, NY David Sanford
Richard L. Herz West Hartford, CT Judith Brown
Chomsky
Robert W. Hunter, III Augusta, GA Daniel Joseph
Craig
Laura Keller Isenberg New York, NY Rebecca Kelder
Myers
Patrick J. Joyce New York, NY Pei Pei Cheng
Mark Gerard Keegan Boston, MA Richard
Chambers
Valuntas
Thomas Philip Kelly, Jr. Santa Rosa, CA Joseph Anthony
Piasta, II
Thomas Philip Kelly, III Santa Rosa, CA Joseph Anthony
Piasta, II
Jay M. Kilpatrick Jackson, MI Edwin Stephen
Williams
Mark Thaddeus Krause Baltimore, MD Sean E. Summers
Ji Young Kwon Washington, DC Grant E. Lattin
William Bryant Lacy Plymouth, MA Joseph Michael
Maraia
Virginia Nicole Langfitt Trenton, NJ Melissa H. Raksa
Neil Jerome Levine Geneva, IL Joan L. Pantsios
Gregory M. Lipper Washington, DC Anne Y. Lee
Basil Martin Loeb Wanawatosa, WI John H. Niebler
Raul Ricardo Loredo Miami, FL Maria Fuxa
Loredo
Robert Dean MacGill Indianapolis, IN Peter James

Rusthoven
Peter J. Martin Hartford, CT William H.
Champlin, III
Esteban Anthony Martinez Boulder, CO Philip A. Cherner
J. Silvio Mascolo New Brunswick, Edward J.
NJ Rebenack
Christen Arthur Mattison Denver, CO Andrew David
Ringel
Emily L. Maxwell San Francisco, CA Teresa M. Corbin
Matthew L. McBride, III Chicago, IL Eugene L.
Hillman
Richard McCaulley Chicago, IL James R. Myers
Scott Andrew Charney Washington, DC Michael R.
Meisler Dreeben
William Michael Merone Charlottesville, Edward Tuck
VA Colbert
Lucas Keith Middlebrook White Plains, NY Nicholas Paul
Granath
Thomas R. Mikrut Chicago, IL Michael M.

Conway
John Mark Miller Natchitoches, LA William P.
Crews, Jr.
Jennifer Monk Murrieta, CA Robert H. Tyler
Peter Moyson Denver, CO Alan B. Epstein
Susanna Hancock Murray Charleston, SC Katherine Dudley
Helms
Craig M. Nicholas San Diego, CA Deepak Gupta
Bryan A. Nickels Boise, ID John J. Burke
Deidra Ann Norris Chicago, IL Respicio Ferreira
Vazquez
Danielle F. O’Bannon San Francisco, CA Jonathan L. Wolff
Randall L. Oyler Chicago, IL James Robert
Vogler
Kirk A. Pasich Los Angeles, CA Woody N.
Peterson
Angela Regina Richardson Cleveland, OH William Sherman
Steele
Enrique Nassar Rizek San Juan, PR Jose R. Lazaro
Paoli

Charles E. Rogers Atlanta, GA Thomas Edwards

Abernathy, IV
Brent Roper Topeka, KS Gail M.
Sciacchetano
Sarah L. Rubright Reading, PA Sean E. Summers
Rafael A. Sanchez Indianapolis, IN Kevin Patrick
McGoff
Dino Santo Sangiamo Baltimore, MD Kathleen S.
Hardway
Curt J. Schiner New York, NY Dennis Michael
Rothman
Adam Troy Schramek Austin, TX Mary Hogan Greer
David T. Schur Washington, DC Woody N.
Peterson
Julie Phyllis Setren Washington, DC Kenneth L.
Doroshow
Michael Terrell Smith Surfside Beach, J. Gregory
SC Hembree
Thomas Wade Smith Charleston, WV Barbara H.
Fleisher
Howard F. Strause Great Falls, MT Lawrence A.
Anderson
Curtis R. Summers Kansas City, MO Paul F. Pautler, Jr.
Sandeep Dino Teppara Columbia, SC Craig Huseman
Metz
Alex Tomasevic San Diego, CA Deepak Gupta
Siddhartha M. Velandy Haddam, CT Garrett Lawrence
Ressing
Susan J. Walker Birmingham, AL Wayne Morse
F. McClure Wallace Reno, NV Donald L.
Christensen
Susan Leigh Watson Nashville, TN Javier N.
Maldonado
John Matthew Williamson Washington, DC Donald Robert
Dunner
Sheryl Corinne Winarick Washington, DC Ralph Gustav
Steinhardt
Neil S. Witkes Bala Cynwyd, PA Robert David Fox
Frank Yates, Jr. Louisville, KY Ronald Dudley
Ray
Thomas R. Ysursa Belleville, IL Russell Kenneth

Scott
David W. Zizik Sherborn, MA Brian A.
O’Connell
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No. 10A74 (10–5040). Kimberly Albright-Lazzari, et vir, Applicants
v. Connecticut. Application for stay addressed to Justice Kennedy and
referred to the Court denied.
No. 10A109 (09–10544). Christopher Ysais, Applicant v. New Mex
ico, et al. Application for an injunction addressed to Justice Thomas
No. 10A110 (09–11225). Christopher Ysais, Applicant v. Bill Rich
ardson, et al. Application for an injunction addressed to The Chief Jus
tice and referred to the Court denied.
Motion of petitioner to dispense with printing the joint appendix
granted. Justice Kagan took no part in the consideration or decision of
this motion.
No. 09–152. Russell Bruesewitz, et al., Petitioners v. Wyeth, Inc.,
fka Wyeth Laboratories, et al. Motion of the Acting Solicitor General
for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for
divided argument granted. Justice Kagan took no part in the consider
ation or decision of this motion.
Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated. Motion of
petitioner to dispense with printing the joint appendix granted.
No. 09–479. Kevin Abbott, Petitioner v. United States; and
tion of petitioners for divided argument granted. Justice Kagan took
no part in the consideration or decision of this motion.
Rehearings Denied
No. 09–1299. Donnie Cleveland Lance, Petitioner v. Hilton Hall,
Warden;
No. 09–1309. Stephen W. Nizio, Petitioner v. William M. Cook, et al.;
No. 09–1330. Willie Gerald Newsom, Petitioner v. Tennessee, et al.;
1070 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2010
No. 09–8318. Jorge Tellez, Petitioner v. Florida Department of

Corrections;
No. 09–9865. Lorenzo C. Townsend, Petitioner v. Michigan;
No. 09–9881. Raymond L. Semler, Petitioner v. Erick Klang, et al.;
No. 09–9898. Dan Temple, Jr., Petitioner v. Timothy Riley, Warden;
No. 09–9913. Lye Huat Ong, Petitioner v. Roderick R. Sowers, War
den, et al.;
No. 09–9982. Stewart Azell Cross, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
Division;
No. 09–10008. Tommy Carver, Petitioner v. Boyd Bennett, et al.;
No. 09–10084. Tayssir Hindaoui, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
Division;
No. 09–10095. Robert Allen Hall, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Director,
Division;
No. 09–10122. Thurman Harrison, Jr., Petitioner v. Steve Hartley,
Warden, et al.;
No. 09–10136. Edward Hernandez, Petitioner v. J. Hartley, Warden;
No. 09–10183. Gary L. Wise, Petitioner v. South Carolina Depart
ment of Corrections;
No. 09–10255. David Allen Jones, Petitioner v. Ronald King, Super
intendent, South Mississippi Correctional Institution;
No. 09–10267. Jeffrey Willis, Petitioner v. Walter A. McNeil, Secre
No. 09–10338. Patrick K. Spurlock, Petitioner v. Ian A. Northrip,
et al.;
No. 09–10380. Lance Reberger, Petitioner v. Nevada;
No. 09–10398. Henry J. Bunch, Petitioner v. Ray Hobbs, Interim
Director, Arkansas Department of Correction;
No. 09–10445. Craig E. Mendenhall, Petitioner v. Rick Thaler, Direc
Division;
No. 09–10578. Kingsley Ariegwe, Petitioner v. Mike Ferriter, Direc
tor, Montana Department of Corrections, et al.;
No. 09–10676. In Re Frederick M. Torrence, Petitioner;
No. 09–10760. John H. Smith, Petitioner v. Don Roper, Superintend
ent, Potosi Correctional Center;
No. 09–10813. Hopeton H. Haughton, Petitioner v. United States;
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2010 1071

No. 09–10816. David Hicks, Petitioner v. Federal Bureau of Prisons,
et al.; and
No. 09–10953. Corey Louis Hines, Petitioner v. R. Richards, et al.
Petitions for rehearing denied.
No. 09–980. British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited, Peti
tioner v. United States, et al. Petition for rehearing denied. Justice
Kagan took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
No. 09–7963. Melvin Wilson, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for
rehearing denied. Justice Kagan took no part in the consideration or
No. 09–10320. Injah Tafari, Petitioner v. Paul W. Annetts, et al.
Attorney Discipline
No. D–2470. In the Matter of Disbarment of Timothy John Martin.
No. D–2471. In the Matter of Disbarment of John L. Isaac. Disbar
ment order entered.
No. D–2472. In the Matter of Disbarment of Steven Jay Rozan. Dis
No. D–2473. In the Matter of Disbarment of Jacob J. Amato, Jr.
No. D–2494. In the Matter of Discipline of Robert Hunter Ford. Rob
ert Hunter Ford, of Birmingham, Alabama, is suspended from the prac

Joslyn Aitken Laguna Beach, CA Jerry Lawrence

Steering
Stanton Alexander Anker Rapid City, SD George E. Grassby
Michael J. Asher Southfield, MI Sharon S.
Almonrode
Neil R. Bardack San Francisco, CA Theodore A. Kolb
Gabriel K. Bell Arlington, VA Alexander Maltas
Ronald A. Berutti Bloomfield, NJ Jacqueline A.
DeGregorio
Kyla Blanchard-Romanach Baton Rouge, LA David William

Price
Brian D. Bolinder Salt Lake City, Jesse Carl
UT Trentadue
Ben Boston Lawrenceburg, Robert E. Boston
TN
Lynne Sarah Bourgault Berkeley, CA Zachary D. Cowan
Michael Joseph Bowen Jacksonville, FL Edward Howard
Trent
Matthew McGregor Boyle Hill County, TX Frank Bobbitt
McGregor, Jr.
Eric M. Brown Chester Springs, Andrew J.
PA Bellwoar
Megan Reardon Browne Lancaster, PA George C.
Werner, Jr.
Christina N. Burgos New York, NY Peter R. Ginsberg
William Bernard Raleigh, NC Charles Mark Holt
Bystrynski
Steven Chase Callahan Dallas, TX Jeffrey A. Carter
Christine L. Childers Chicago, IL Daniel Richard
Murray
Christine Noelle Cimini Denver, CO Jessica Lynn West
James C. Clark, Jr. Columbus, GA Deron R. Hicks
Charles Richard Conroy New York, NY Philip Michael
Zyne
James Simon Coons Cranford, NJ Steven Francis
Gooby
Todd Gregory Crawford Gulfport, MS Eugene Rowland
Preaus
Deborah Anne Czuba Little Rock, AR Scott Matthew
Wilson Braden
Thad Alan Davis San Francisco, CA Douglas Harry
Hallward-
Driemeier
Mark Alan Dowdy Mobile, AL Gregory Curtis
Buffalow
Ryan Perry Durham Lawrenceburg, Waverly D.
TN Crenshaw, Jr.

Jeffrey E. Erb Denver, CO Kim J. Seter

Kristan K. Exner Norwalk, CT Jose V. Martinez
James Andrew Farmer Jackson, TN James Dale Todd
James George Feiber, Jr. Gainesville, FL Robert Olin
Stripling, Jr.
Laura A. Fernandez Washington, DC Stephen Forcey
Hanlon
Correen Ferrentino Santa Ana, CA William James
Kopeny
MacKenzie Fillow Washington, DC Fred Barry Jacob
Shelley Marie Fite Madison, WI Lynn Adelman
Eric Jeffrey Fletwood Los Angeles, CA Anne Murphy
David E. Frank Milwaukee, WI Sarah A. Huck
Jeremy D. Frey York, PA Daniel M. Frey
Thomas F. Gristina Columbus, GA Deron R. Hicks
Anna Louise Hart Birmingham, AL Russell J. Drake
Richard D. Haygood Raleigh, NC James H. Coil, III
Harry Preston Henshaw, III Charleston, WV Harry F. Bell, Jr.
Kristy Lee van Herick Berkeley, CA Thomas Bryant
Carpenter
Hilary Ewing Hodgkins Chattanooga, TN John C. Cavett, Jr.
Charles W. Holt, Jr. Lawrenceburg, Robert E. Boston
TN
Diana L. Hoover Houston, TX Sharon Audrey
Israel
Charles R. Hostnik Tacoma, WA Samuel J. Stiltner
Elizabeth Hunt Salt Lake City, Ronald J. Yengich
UT
Christopher P. Ieyoub Lake Charles, LA Kendrick J. Guidry
M. Lance Jasper Los Angeles, CA Bernard Ardavan
Eskandari
John T. Kaempf Portland, OR R. Daniel Lindahl
Stephen Dorsett Kelley Brunswick, GA Todd Erick
Naugle
Meaghan Hemmings Kent Washington, DC William D. Coston
David F. Kirby Raleigh, NC Charles Mark Holt
Thomas A. Knowlton Turner, ME Paul Stern
Michael P. Kohler Atlanta, GA Gordon Dean
Booth, Jr.
Jonathan Alan Kopin Columbia, MD Anne E. Hoke
Katherine B. Kravitz Lancaster, PA Timothy Glenn

Dietrich
Paul Michael Lanagan Dallas, TX Michael V.
Abcarian
Peter O. Larsen Jacksonville, FL Edward Howard
Trent
Melanie Albert Lehman York, PA Harry J. Rubin
Michael P. Lehutsky Honesdale, PA Amy Zapp
Neil Harrison Lewis Tarzana, CA Hiram Michael
Martin
R. Bates Lovett Savannah, GA Arnold Carlton
Young
Nathaniel Kyle MacPherson San Diego, CA Donald W.
MacPherson
Richard Christopher Little Rock, AR Morgan Eldridge
Madison Welch, Jr.
Pope S. Mallette Oxford, MS Mary Ann Connell
Steven J. Margolis Bethlehem, PA Jonathan
Broderick
Acklen
James Michael Masteller Omaha, NE Donald W. Kleine
Gary M. McDonald Tulsa, OK Samuel Field
Phillips
Daniel, Jr.
Anthony E. McNamer Portland, OR Frank M. Hinman
Maria Elena Cruz Melendez New York, NY Douglas George
Robinson
Leela V. Menon San Jose, CA David A. Boone
Christopher L. Muzzo Cincinnati, OH Michael Devanney
Eagen
Brett Lee Myers Dallas, TX Daniel J. Madden
Victor Peter Obninsky Black Point, CA John G. Fabiano
James Patrick O’Neill Santa Maria, CA George Laurence
Wittenburg
Robert James Palmer Dallas, TX Daniel J. Madden
Robert E. Paul Philadelphia, PA Richard Phillips
Myers
John M. Pellettieri Washington, DC Patty Merkamp
Stemler
Daniel Matthew Perez Newton, NJ Michael L. Spiegel

Elizabeth Marie Phelps Topeka, KS Shirley Lynne

Phelps-Roper
Bryan Edward Pieper Nashville, TN Lewis H.
Conner, Jr.
Sharon Sirota Rubin Baltimore, MD Anne E. Hoke
Kathleen Terese Sanderson Chicago, IL Jeremia A. Pollard
Janet Frances Washington, DC William D. Coston
Satterthwaite
Joshua L. Schwartz Lancaster, PA Sean E. Summers
Eric Campbell Schweitzer Charleston, SC J. Hamilton
Stewart, III
Mark Ian Schwimmer Washington, DC Seth P. Waxman
John Anthony Scialdone Gulfport, MS Eugene Rowland
Preaus
Kevin Hunter Sharp Nashville, TN Lewis H.
Conner, Jr.
William Ellis Sharp Louisville, KY Daniel Tucker
Goyette
John D. Sheehan West Chester, PA Gilbert B.
Weisman
Timothy D. Shumate Alexandria, LA Edward A. Kaplan
Evan L. Smoak New York, NY Michael J. Levine
David Y. Stanley Ashland, OR Stephen Michael
Greenberg
Catherine Steege Chicago, IL Barry Levenstam
Matthew A. Steinberg New York, NY Paul J. Siegel
Kirsten Colleen Stevenson Columbus, GA Deron R. Hicks
Charles E. Taylor, Jr. Orlando, FL Terrence Edward
Kehoe
Catherine Brawley Charleston, SC Elizabeth B.
Templeton Partlow
Brian Michael Thorn Holmdel, NJ Benjamin Alan
Fleischner
Kevin Tottis Chicago, IL Jonathan G. Bunge
Robert J. Triozzi Cleveland, OH Ronald Bruce
Adrine
Carson J. Tucker Ann Arbor, MI Harvey I. Wax
Stephanie Kaminitsky Shreveport, LA Gary Henry
Tucker Lantner
Eugene Volokh Los Angeles, CA Donald Manwell

Falk
William Blaise Warren Canton, OH Frank Mays Hull
Aaron A. Wernick Boca Raton, FL Allison Kay Grant
Michael Alan McCrory Columbia, SC Addison Joe
Wilson Graves Wilson
Michael Li-Ming Wong San Francisco, CA Douglas Harry
Hallward-
Driemeier
Timothy W. Wright, III Chicago, IL Alexander L.
Polikoff
Eric Emanuel Wyatt Athens, GA Nicholas Gregory
Dumich
Bernard J. Ysursa Belleville, IL Russell Kenneth
Scott
Carlos A. Zelaya, II New Orleans, LA F. Gerald Maples
Marc N. Zimmerman San Francisco, CA Rebecca L.
Cachia-Riedl
(JOURNAL) THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2010 1077


Certiorari Denied
No. 10–6275 (10A249). Cal Coburn Brown, Petitioner v. Eldon Vail.
Justice Kennedy and by him referred to the Court denied. Petition for
Circuit denied.
Certiorari Denied
No. 10–6300 (10A254). Holly Wood, Petitioner v. Alabama. Applica
Thomas and by him referred to the Court denied. Petition for writ of
certiorari to the Supreme Court of Alabama denied. Justice Sotomayor
would grant the application for stay of execution.


Certiorari Denied
No. 10–6343 (10A267). Cal Coburn Brown, Petitioner v. Washing
ton. Application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to
Justice Kennedy and by him referred to the Court denied. Petition for
writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of Washington, King County,
denied.
(JOURNAL) TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 1081


Certiorari Denied
No. 10–5692 (10A242). Teresa Wilson Lewis, Petitioner v. Wendy S.
Hobbs, Warden. Application for stay of execution of sentence of death
presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court de
nied. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied. Justice Ginsburg and Justice
Sotomayor would grant the application for stay of execution.


Certiorari Denied
No. 10–6647 (10A315). Brandon Joseph Rhode, Petitioner v. Ste
phen Upton, Warden. Application for stay of execution of sentence of
death presented to Justice Thomas and by him referred to the Court
denied. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of Georgia,
Butts County, denied.
(JOURNAL) MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2010 1085


Certiorari Denied
Certiorari Denied

No. 10A325. Brandon Joseph Rhode, Petitioner v. Stephen Upton,
Warden. Application for stay of execution of sentence of death pre
sented to Justice Thomas and by him referred to the Court denied.
Certiorari Denied
(JOURNAL) TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2010 1087



No. 09–571. Harry F. Connick, District Attorney, et al., Petitioners
v. John Thompson. Motion of Former Federal Civil Rights Officials and
Prosecutors for leave to participate in oral argument as amici curiae
and for divided argument denied.
No. 09–834. Kevin Kasten, Petitioner v. Saint-Gobain Performance
Plastics Corporation. Motion of the Acting Solicitor General for leave
ment granted. Justice Kagan took no part in the consideration or deci
No. 09–907. Jason M. Ransom, Petitioner v. FIA Card Services,
N. A., fka MBNA America Bank, N. A. Motion of the Acting Solicitor
General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and
for divided argument granted.
No. 09–9000. Henry W. Skinner, Petitioner v. Lynn Switzer, District
Attorney for the 31st Judicial District of Texas. Motion of petitioner
for appointment of counsel granted. Robert C. Owen, Esquire, of Aus
tin, Texas, is appointed to serve as counsel for the petitioner in this
case.
Certiorari Granted
No. 09–1205. Keith Smith, et al., Petitioners v. Bayer Corporation.
for the Eighth Circuit granted.
No. 09–1272. Kentucky, Petitioner v. Hollis Deshaun King. Motion of
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Kentucky granted lim
ited to Question 1 presented by the petition.
No. 09–1273. Astra USA, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Santa Clara
County, California. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted. Justice Kagan took no
1088 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2010
No. 09–1279. Federal Communications Commission, et al., Petition

ers v. AT&T Inc., et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit granted. Justice Kagan
No. 09–1298. General Dynamics Corporation, Petitioner v. United
States; and
No. 09–1302. The Boeing Company, Successor to McDonnell Douglas
Corporation, Petitioner v. United States. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in
No. 09–1298 granted limited to Question 1 presented by the petition.
for the Federal Circuit in No. 09–1302 granted limited to Question 2
presented by the petition. The cases are consolidated and a total of one
hour is allotted for oral argument.
No. 09–1343. J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd., Petitioner v. Robert
Nicastro, et ux. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of
New Jersey granted and the case is to be argued in tandem with
No. 10–76, Goodyear Luxembourg Tires v. Brown.
No. 09–1498. United States, Petitioner v. Jason Louis Tinklenberg.
for the Sixth Circuit granted. Justice Kagan took no part in the consid
No. 09–10245. William Freeman, Petitioner v. United States. Motion
of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Petition
Sixth Circuit granted.
No. 09–10876. Donald Bullcoming, Petitioner v. New Mexico. Motion
of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Petition
for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of New Mexico granted.
No. 09–11311. Marcus Sykes, Petitioner v. United States. Motion of
Circuit granted.
No. 10–76. Goodyear Luxembourg Tires, S. A., et al., Petitioners v.
Edgar D. Brown, et ux., Co-Administrators of the Estate of Julian
David Brown, et al. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Ap
peals of North Carolina granted and the case is to be argued in tandem
with No. 09–1343, J. McIntyre Machinery v. Nicastro.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2010 1089

No. 10–179. Howard K. Stern, Executor of the Estate of Vickie Lynn
Marshall, Petitioner v. Elaine T. Marshall, Executrix of the Estate of
E. Pierce Marshall. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted limited to Questions 1,
2, and 3 presented by the petition.
No. 10–188. Schindler Elevator Corporation, Petitioner v. United
States, ex rel. Daniel Kirk. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted. Justice Kagan
Allotment Order
It is ordered that the following allotment be made of The Chief Jus
tice and the Associate Justices of this Court among the circuits, pursu
ant to Title 28, United States Code, Section 42 and that such allotment
be entered of record, effective September 28, 2010.
For the District of Columbia Circuit, John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief
Justice,
For the First Circuit, Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice,
For the Second Circuit, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice,
For the Third Circuit, Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Associate Justice,
For the Fourth Circuit, John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice,
For the Fifth Circuit, Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice,
For the Sixth Circuit, Elena Kagan, Associate Justice,
For the Seventh Circuit, Elena Kagan, Associate Justice,
For the Eighth Circuit, Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Associate Justice,
For the Ninth Circuit, Anthony M. Kennedy, Associate Justice,
For the Tenth Circuit, Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice,
For the Eleventh Circuit, Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice,
For the Federal Circuit, John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice.
(JOURNAL) FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2010 1091


“This special sitting of the Court is held today to receive the Com
mission of the newly appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States, Elena Kagan.
“We are pleased to have with us today the President of the United
States. On behalf of the Court Mr. President, welcome. You are always
welcome here.
“On behalf of all of us, I am also delighted to welcome back our
distinguished colleagues, Justice Stevens, Justice O’Connor, and Justice
Souter. Welcome back.”
“The Court now recognizes the Attorney General of the United
States, Eric Holder.”
Attorney General Holder said:
“Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the Court, I have the Commis
sion which has been issued to the Honorable Elena Kagan as an Associ
ate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Commission
has been duly signed by the President of the United States and at
tested by me as the Attorney General of the United States. I move
that the Clerk read the Commission and that it be made a part of the
permanent record of the Court.”
“Thank you, Attorney General Holder, your motion is granted.
Mr. Clerk, will you please read the Commission?”
Clerk Suter said:
“Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, to all
who shall see these presents, Greeting: Know ye; that reposing special
trust and confidence in the wisdom, uprightness, and learning of Elena
Kagan, of Massachusetts, I have nominated, and, by and with the ad
vice and consent of the Senate, do appoint her Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States and do authorize and empower
her to execute and fulfill the duties of that office according to the Con
stitution and Laws of the said United States, and to have and to hold
the said office, with all the powers, privileges, and emoluments to the
1092 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2010
same of right appertaining, unto her, the said Elena Kagan, during her
good behavior.
“In testimony whereof, I have caused these letters to be made patent
and the Seal of the Department of Justice to be hereunto affixed.
“Done at the City of Washington, this Sixth day of August, in the
year of our Lord Two Thousand and Ten and of the Independence of
the United States of America the Two Hundred and Thirty-Fifth. By
the President: Barack Obama. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General.”
“I now ask the Deputy Clerk of the Court to escort Justice Kagan to
the Bench.”
“Please repeat after me. I, Elena Kagan, do solemnly swear that I
will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right
to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially
discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States under the Constitu
tion and Laws of the United States, so help me God.”
“Congratulations. Justice Kagan, on behalf of all of the members of
the Court, it is my pleasure to extend to you a very warm welcome as
the 100th Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
We wish for you a long and happy career in our common calling.”
Justice Kagan said:
“Thank you.”
(Slip Opinion) OCTOBER TERM, 2009 1
Syllabus
NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is

being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued.
The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been
prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader.
See United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co., 200 U. S. 321, 337.
Syllabus
CITIZENS UNITED v. FEDERAL ELECTION
COMMISSION
APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
No. 08–205. Argued March 24, 2009—Reargued September 9, 2009––

Decided January 21, 2010
As amended by §203 of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002
(BCRA), federal law prohibits corporations and unions from using
their general treasury funds to make independent expenditures for
speech that is an “electioneering communication” or for speech that
expressly advocates the election or defeat of a candidate. 2 U. S. C.
§441b. An electioneering communication is “any broadcast, cable, or
satellite communication” that “refers to a clearly identified candidate
for Federal office” and is made within 30 days of a primary election,
§434(f)(3)(A), and that is “publicly distributed,” 11 CFR §100.29(a)(2),
which in “the case of a candidate for nomination for President . . .
means” that the communication “[c]an be received by 50,000 or more
persons in a State where a primary election . . . is being held within
30 days,” §100.29(b)(3)(ii). Corporations and unions may establish a
political action committee (PAC) for express advocacy or electioneer
ing communications purposes. 2 U. S. C. §441b(b)(2). In McConnell
v. Federal Election Comm’n, 540 U. S. 93, 203–209, this Court upheld
limits on electioneering communications in a facial challenge, relying
on the holding in Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, 494
U. S. 652, that political speech may be banned based on the speaker’s
corporate identity.
In January 2008, appellant Citizens United, a nonprofit corpora
tion, released a documentary (hereinafter Hillary) critical of then-
Senator Hillary Clinton, a candidate for her party’s Presidential
nomination. Anticipating that it would make Hillary available on
cable television through video-on-demand within 30 days of primary
elections, Citizens United produced television ads to run on broadcast
2 CITIZENS UNITED v. FEDERAL ELECTION COMM’N
Syllabus
and cable television. Concerned about possible civil and criminal

penalties for violating §441b, it sought declaratory and injunctive re
lief, arguing that (1) §441b is unconstitutional as applied to Hillary;
and (2) BCRA’s disclaimer, disclosure, and reporting requirements,
BCRA §§201 and 311, were unconstitutional as applied to Hillary
and the ads. The District Court denied Citizens United a prelimi
nary injunction and granted appellee Federal Election Commission
(FEC) summary judgment.
Held:
1. Because the question whether §441b applies to Hillary cannot be
resolved on other, narrower grounds without chilling political speech,
this Court must consider the continuing effect of the speech suppres
sion upheld in Austin. Pp. 5–20.
(a) Citizen United’s narrower arguments—that Hillary is not an
“electioneering communication” covered by §441b because it is not
“publicly distributed” under 11 CFR §100.29(a)(2); that §441b may
not be applied to Hillary under Federal Election Comm’n v. Wisconsin
Right to Life, Inc., 551 U. S. 449 (WRTL), which found §441b uncon
stitutional as applied to speech that was not “express advocacy or its
functional equivalent,” id., at 481 (opinion of ROBERTS, C. J.), deter
mining that a communication “is the functional equivalent of express
advocacy only if [it] is susceptible of no reasonable interpretation
other than as an appeal to vote for or against a specific candidate,”
id., at 469–470; that §441b should be invalidated as applied to movies
shown through video-on-demand because this delivery system has a
lower risk of distorting the political process than do television ads;
and that there should be an exception to §441b’s ban for nonprofit
corporate political speech funded overwhelming by individuals—are
not sustainable under a fair reading of the statute. Pp. 5–12.
(b) Thus, this case cannot be resolved on a narrower ground
without chilling political speech, speech that is central to the First
Amendment’s meaning and purpose. Citizens United did not waive
this challenge to Austin when it stipulated to dismissing the facial
challenge below, since (1) even if such a challenge could be waived,
this Court may reconsider Austin and §441b’s facial validity here be
cause the District Court “passed upon” the issue, Lebron v. National
Railroad Passenger Corporation, 513 U. S. 374, 379; (2) throughout
the litigation, Citizens United has asserted a claim that the FEC has
violated its right to free speech; and (3) the parties cannot enter into
a stipulation that prevents the Court from considering remedies nec
essary to resolve a claim that has been preserved. Because Citizen
United’s narrower arguments are not sustainable, this Court must, in
an exercise of its judicial responsibility, consider §441b’s facial valid
ity. Any other course would prolong the substantial, nationwide
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chilling effect caused by §441b’s corporate expenditure ban. This

conclusion is further supported by the following: (1) the uncertainty
caused by the Government’s litigating position; (2) substantial time
would be required to clarify §441b’s application on the points raised
by the Government’s position in order to avoid any chilling effect
caused by an improper interpretation; and (3) because speech itself is
of primary importance to the integrity of the election process, any
speech arguably within the reach of rules created for regulating po
litical speech is chilled. The regulatory scheme at issue may not be a
prior restraint in the strict sense. However, given its complexity and
the deference courts show to administrative determinations, a
speaker wishing to avoid criminal liability threats and the heavy
costs of defending against FEC enforcement must ask a governmen
tal agency for prior permission to speak. The restrictions thus func
tion as the equivalent of a prior restraint, giving the FEC power
analogous to the type of government practices that the First Amend
ment was drawn to prohibit. The ongoing chill on speech makes it
necessary to invoke the earlier precedents that a statute that chills
speech can and must be invalidated where its facial invalidity has
been demonstrated. Pp. 12–20.
2. Austin is overruled, and thus provides no basis for allowing the
Government to limit corporate independent expenditures. Hence,
§441b’s restrictions on such expenditures are invalid and cannot be
applied to Hillary. Given this conclusion, the part of McConnell that
upheld BCRA §203’s extension of §441b’s restrictions on independent
corporate expenditures is also overruled. Pp. 20–51.
(a) Although the First Amendment provides that “Congress shall
make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech,” §441b’s prohibition
on corporate independent expenditures is an outright ban on speech,
backed by criminal sanctions. It is a ban notwithstanding the fact
that a PAC created by a corporation can still speak, for a PAC is a
separate association from the corporation. Because speech is an es
sential mechanism of democracy—it is the means to hold officials ac
countable to the people—political speech must prevail against laws
that would suppress it by design or inadvertence. Laws burdening
such speech are subject to strict scrutiny, which requires the Gov
ernment to prove that the restriction “furthers a compelling interest
and is narrowly tailored to achieve that interest.” WRTL, 551 U. S.,
at 464. This language provides a sufficient framework for protecting
the interests in this case. Premised on mistrust of governmental
power, the First Amendment stands against attempts to disfavor cer
tain subjects or viewpoints or to distinguish among different speak
ers, which may be a means to control content. The Government may
also commit a constitutional wrong when by law it identifies certain
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preferred speakers. There is no basis for the proposition that, in the

political speech context, the Government may impose restrictions on
certain disfavored speakers. Both history and logic lead to this con
clusion. Pp. 20–25.
(b) The Court has recognized that the First Amendment applies
to corporations, e.g., First Nat. Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, 435 U. S.
765, 778, n. 14, and extended this protection to the context of political
speech, see, e.g., NAACP v. Button, 371 U. S. 415, 428–429. Address
ing challenges to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, the
Buckley Court upheld limits on direct contributions to candidates, 18
U. S. C. §608(b), recognizing a governmental interest in preventing
quid pro quo corruption. 424 U. S., at 25–26. However, the Court in
validated §608(e)’s expenditure ban, which applied to individuals,
corporations, and unions, because it “fail[ed] to serve any substantial
governmental interest in stemming the reality or appearance of cor
ruption in the electoral process,” id., at 47–48. While Buckley did not
consider a separate ban on corporate and union independent expendi
tures found in §610, had that provision been challenged in Buckley’s
wake, it could not have been squared with the precedent’s reasoning
and analysis. The Buckley Court did not invoke the overbreadth doc
trine to suggest that §608(e)’s expenditure ban would have been con
stitutional had it applied to corporations and unions but not indi
viduals. Notwithstanding this precedent, Congress soon recodified
§610’s corporate and union expenditure ban at 2 U. S. C. §441b, the
provision at issue. Less than two years after Buckley, Bellotti reaf
firmed the First Amendment principle that the Government lacks the
power to restrict political speech based on the speaker’s corporate
identity. 435 U.S., at 784–785. Thus the law stood until Austin up
held a corporate independent expenditure restriction, bypassing
Buckley and Bellotti by recognizing a new governmental interest in
preventing “the corrosive and distorting effects of immense aggrega
tions of [corporate] wealth . . . that have little or no correlation to the
public’s support for the corporation’s political ideas.” 494 U. S., at
660. Pp. 25–32.
(c) This Court is confronted with conflicting lines of precedent: a
pre-Austin line forbidding speech restrictions based on the speaker’s
corporate identity and a post-Austin line permitting them. Neither
Austin’s antidistortion rationale nor the Government’s other justifica
tions support §441b’s restrictions. Pp. 32–47.
(1) The First Amendment prohibits Congress from fining or
jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for engaging in political
speech, but Austin’s antidistortion rationale would permit the Gov
ernment to ban political speech because the speaker is an association
with a corporate form. Political speech is “indispensable to decision
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making in a democracy, and this is no less true because the speech

comes from a corporation.” Bellotti, supra, at 777 (footnote omitted).
This protection is inconsistent with Austin’s rationale, which is
meant to prevent corporations from obtaining “ ‘an unfair advantage
in the political marketplace’ ” by using “ ‘resources amassed in the
economic marketplace.’ ” 494 U. S., at 659. First Amendment protec
tions do not depend on the speaker’s “financial ability to engage in
public discussion.” Buckley, supra, at 49. These conclusions were re
affirmed when the Court invalidated a BCRA provision that in
creased the cap on contributions to one candidate if the opponent
made certain expenditures from personal funds. Davis v. Federal
Election Comm’n, 554 U. S. ___, ___. Distinguishing wealthy indi
viduals from corporations based on the latter’s special advantages of,
e.g., limited liability, does not suffice to allow laws prohibiting
speech. It is irrelevant for First Amendment purposes that corporate
funds may “have little or no correlation to the public’s support for the
corporation’s political ideas.” Austin, supra, at 660. All speakers, in
cluding individuals and the media, use money amassed from the eco
nomic marketplace to fund their speech, and the First Amendment
protects the resulting speech. Under the antidistortion rationale,
Congress could also ban political speech of media corporations. Al
though currently exempt from §441b, they accumulate wealth with
the help of their corporate form, may have aggregations of wealth,
and may express views “hav[ing] little or no correlation to the public’s
support” for those views. Differential treatment of media corpora
tions and other corporations cannot be squared with the First
Amendment, and there is no support for the view that the Amend
ment’s original meaning would permit suppressing media corpora
tions’ political speech. Austin interferes with the “open marketplace”
of ideas protected by the First Amendment. New York State Bd. of
Elections v. Lopez Torres, 552 U. S. 196, 208. Its censorship is vast in
its reach, suppressing the speech of both for-profit and nonprofit,
both small and large, corporations. Pp. 32–40.
(2) This reasoning also shows the invalidity of the Govern
ment’s other arguments. It reasons that corporate political speech
can be banned to prevent corruption or its appearance. The Buckley
Court found this rationale “sufficiently important” to allow contribu
tion limits but refused to extend that reasoning to expenditure limits,
424 U.S., at 25, and the Court does not do so here. While a single
Bellotti footnote purported to leave the question open, 435 U. S., at
788, n. 26, this Court now concludes that independent expenditures,
including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption
or the appearance of corruption. That speakers may have influence
over or access to elected officials does not mean that those officials
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are corrupt. And the appearance of influence or access will not cause
the electorate to lose faith in this democracy. Caperton v. A. T.
Massey Coal Co., 556 U. S. ___, distinguished. Pp. 40–45.
(3) The Government’s asserted interest in protecting share
holders from being compelled to fund corporate speech, like the anti
distortion rationale, would allow the Government to ban political
speech even of media corporations. The statute is underinclusive; it
only protects a dissenting shareholder’s interests in certain media for
30 or 60 days before an election when such interests would be impli
cated in any media at any time. It is also overinclusive because it
covers all corporations, including those with one shareholder. P. 46.
(4) Because §441b is not limited to corporations or associa
tions created in foreign countries or funded predominately by foreign
shareholders, it would be overbroad even if the Court were to recog
nize a compelling governmental interest in limiting foreign influence
over the Nation’s political process. Pp. 46–47.
(d) The relevant factors in deciding whether to adhere to stare
decisis, beyond workability—the precedent’s antiquity, the reliance
interests at stake, and whether the decision was well reasoned—
counsel in favor of abandoning Austin, which itself contravened the
precedents of Buckley and Bellotti. As already explained, Austin was
not well reasoned. It is also undermined by experience since its an
nouncement. Political speech is so ingrained in this country’s culture
that speakers find ways around campaign finance laws. Rapid
changes in technology—and the creative dynamic inherent in the
concept of free expression—counsel against upholding a law that re
stricts political speech in certain media or by certain speakers. In
addition, no serious reliance issues are at stake. Thus, due consid
eration leads to the conclusion that Austin should be overruled. The
Court returns to the principle established in Buckley and Bellotti that
the Government may not suppress political speech based on the
speaker’s corporate identity. No sufficient governmental interest jus
tifies limits on the political speech of nonprofit or for-profit corpora
tions. Pp. 47–50.
3. BCRA §§201 and 311 are valid as applied to the ads for Hillary
and to the movie itself. Pp. 50–57.
(a) Disclaimer and disclosure requirements may burden the abil
ity to speak, but they “impose no ceiling on campaign-related activi
ties,” Buckley, 424 U. S., at 64, or “ ‘ “prevent anyone from speak
ing,” ’ ” McConnell, supra, at 201. The Buckley Court explained that
disclosure can be justified by a governmental interest in providing
“the electorate with information” about election-related spending
sources. The McConnell Court applied this interest in rejecting facial
challenges to §§201 and 311. 540 U. S., at 196. However, the Court
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acknowledged that as-applied challenges would be available if a
group could show a “ ‘reasonable probability’ ” that disclosing its con
tributors’ names would “ ‘subject them to threats, harassment, or re
prisals from either Government officials or private parties.’ ” Id., at
198. Pp. 50–52.
(b) The disclaimer and disclosure requirements are valid as ap
plied to Citizens United’s ads. They fall within BCRA’s “electioneer
ing communication” definition: They referred to then-Senator Clinton
by name shortly before a primary and contained pejorative references
to her candidacy. Section 311 disclaimers provide information to the
electorate, McConnell, supra, at 196, and “insure that the voters are
fully informed” about who is speaking, Buckley, supra, at 76. At the
very least, they avoid confusion by making clear that the ads are not
funded by a candidate or political party. Citizens United’s arguments
that §311 is underinclusive because it requires disclaimers for broad
cast advertisements but not for print or Internet advertising and that
§311 decreases the quantity and effectiveness of the group’s speech
were rejected in McConnell. This Court also rejects their contention
that §201’s disclosure requirements must be confined to speech that
is the functional equivalent of express advocacy under WRTL’s test
for restrictions on independent expenditures, 551 U. S., at 469–476
(opinion of ROBERTS, C.J.). Disclosure is the less-restrictive alterna
tive to more comprehensive speech regulations. Such requirements
have been upheld in Buckley and McConnell. Citizens United’s ar
gument that no informational interest justifies applying §201 to its
ads is similar to the argument this Court rejected with regard to dis
claimers. Citizens United finally claims that disclosure requirements
can chill donations by exposing donors to retaliation, but offers no
evidence that its members face the type of threats, harassment, or
reprisals that might make §201 unconstitutional as applied. Pp. 52–
55.
(c) For these same reasons, this Court affirms the application of
the §§201 and 311 disclaimer and disclosure requirements to Hillary.
Pp. 55–56.
Reversed in part, affirmed in part, and remanded.
KENNEDY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which ROBERTS,

C. J., and SCALIA and ALITO, JJ., joined, in which THOMAS, J., joined as
to all but Part IV, and in which STEVENS, GINSBURG, BREYER, and SO-
TOMAYOR, JJ., joined as to Part IV. ROBERTS, C. J., filed a concurring
opinion, in which ALITO, J., joined. SCALIA, J., filed a concurring opin
ion, in which ALITO, J., joined, and in which THOMAS, J., joined in part.
STEVENS, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part,
in which GINSBURG, BREYER, and SOTOMAYOR, JJ., joined. THOMAS, J.,
filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.
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No. 08–205
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CITIZENS UNITED, APPELLANT v. FEDERAL
ELECTION COMMISSION
ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR

THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
[January 21, 2010]
JUSTICE KENNEDY delivered the opinion of the Court.

Federal law prohibits corporations and unions from
using their general treasury funds to make independent
expenditures for speech defined as an “electioneering
communication” or for speech expressly advocating the
election or defeat of a candidate. 2 U. S. C. §441b. Limits
on electioneering communications were upheld in McCon
nell v. Federal Election Comm’n, 540 U. S. 93, 203–209
(2003). The holding of McConnell rested to a large extent
on an earlier case, Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Com
merce, 494 U. S. 652 (1990). Austin had held that political
speech may be banned based on the speaker’s corporate
identity.
In this case we are asked to reconsider Austin and, in
effect, McConnell. It has been noted that “Austin was a
significant departure from ancient First Amendment
principles,” Federal Election Comm’n v. Wisconsin Right to
Life, Inc., 551 U. S. 449, 490 (2007) (WRTL) (SCALIA, J.,
concurring in part and concurring in judgment). We agree
with that conclusion and hold that stare decisis does not
compel the continued acceptance of Austin. The Govern
ment may regulate corporate political speech through

disclaimer and disclosure requirements, but it may not
suppress that speech altogether. We turn to the case now
before us.
I
Citizens United is a nonprofit corporation. It brought

this action in the United States District Court for the
District of Columbia. A three-judge court later convened
to hear the cause. The resulting judgment gives rise to
this appeal.
Citizens United has an annual budget of about $12
million. Most of its funds are from donations by individu
als; but, in addition, it accepts a small portion of its funds
from for-profit corporations.
In January 2008, Citizens United released a film enti
tled Hillary: The Movie. We refer to the film as Hillary. It
is a 90-minute documentary about then-Senator Hillary
Clinton, who was a candidate in the Democratic Party’s
2008 Presidential primary elections. Hillary mentions
Senator Clinton by name and depicts interviews with
political commentators and other persons, most of them
quite critical of Senator Clinton. Hillary was released in
theaters and on DVD, but Citizens United wanted to
increase distribution by making it available through video
on-demand.
Video-on-demand allows digital cable subscribers to
select programming from various menus, including mov
ies, television shows, sports, news, and music. The viewer
can watch the program at any time and can elect to re
wind or pause the program. In December 2007, a cable
company offered, for a payment of $1.2 million, to make
Hillary available on a video-on-demand channel called
“Elections ’08.” App. 255a–257a. Some video-on-demand
services require viewers to pay a small fee to view a se
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lected program, but here the proposal was to make Hillary

available to viewers free of charge.
To implement the proposal, Citizens United was pre
pared to pay for the video-on-demand; and to promote the
film, it produced two 10-second ads and one 30-second ad
for Hillary. Each ad includes a short (and, in our view,
pejorative) statement about Senator Clinton, followed by
the name of the movie and the movie’s Website address.
Id., at 26a–27a. Citizens United desired to promote the
video-on-demand offering by running advertisements on
broadcast and cable television.
B
Before the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002
(BCRA), federal law prohibited—and still does prohibit—
corporations and unions from using general treasury
funds to make direct contributions to candidates or inde
pendent expenditures that expressly advocate the election
or defeat of a candidate, through any form of media, in
connection with certain qualified federal elections. 2
U. S. C. §441b (2000 ed.); see McConnell, supra, at 204,
and n. 87; Federal Election Comm’n v. Massachusetts
Citizens for Life, Inc., 479 U. S. 238, 249 (1986) (MCFL).
BCRA §203 amended §441b to prohibit any “electioneering
communication” as well. 2 U. S. C. §441b(b)(2) (2006 ed.).
An electioneering communication is defined as “any broad
cast, cable, or satellite communication” that “refers to a
clearly identified candidate for Federal office” and is made
within 30 days of a primary or 60 days of a general elec
tion. §434(f)(3)(A). The Federal Election Commission’s
(FEC) regulations further define an electioneering com
munication as a communication that is “publicly distrib
uted.” 11 CFR §100.29(a)(2) (2009). “In the case of a
candidate for nomination for President . . . publicly dis
tributed means” that the communication “[c]an be received
by 50,000 or more persons in a State where a primary
election . . . is being held within 30 days.”

§100.29(b)(3)(ii). Corporations and unions are barred from
using their general treasury funds for express advocacy or
electioneering communications. They may establish,
however, a “separate segregated fund” (known as a politi
cal action committee, or PAC) for these purposes. 2
U. S. C. §441b(b)(2). The moneys received by the segre
gated fund are limited to donations from stockholders and
employees of the corporation or, in the case of unions,
members of the union. Ibid.
C
Citizens United wanted to make Hillary available
through video-on-demand within 30 days of the 2008
primary elections. It feared, however, that both the film
and the ads would be covered by §441b’s ban on corporate
funded independent expenditures, thus subjecting the
corporation to civil and criminal penalties under §437g. In
December 2007, Citizens United sought declaratory and
injunctive relief against the FEC. It argued that (1) §441b
is unconstitutional as applied to Hillary; and (2) BCRA’s
disclaimer and disclosure requirements, BCRA §§201 and
311, are unconstitutional as applied to Hillary and to the
three ads for the movie.
The District Court denied Citizens United’s motion for a
preliminary injunction, 530 F. Supp. 2d 274 (DC 2008)
(per curiam), and then granted the FEC’s motion for
summary judgment, App. 261a–262a. See id., at 261a
(“Based on the reasoning of our prior opinion, we find that
the [FEC] is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. See
Citizen[s] United v. FEC, 530 F. Supp. 2d 274 (D.D.C.
2008) (denying Citizens United’s request for a preliminary
injunction)”). The court held that §441b was facially
constitutional under McConnell, and that §441b was
constitutional as applied to Hillary because it was “sus
ceptible of no other interpretation than to inform the
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electorate that Senator Clinton is unfit for office, that the

United States would be a dangerous place in a President
Hillary Clinton world, and that viewers should vote
against her.” 530 F. Supp. 2d, at 279. The court also
rejected Citizens United’s challenge to BCRA’s disclaimer
and disclosure requirements. It noted that “the Supreme
Court has written approvingly of disclosure provisions
triggered by political speech even though the speech itself
was constitutionally protected under the First Amend
ment.” Id., at 281.
We noted probable jurisdiction. 555 U. S. ___ (2008).
The case was reargued in this Court after the Court asked
the parties to file supplemental briefs addressing whether
we should overrule either or both Austin and the part of
McConnell which addresses the facial validity of 2 U. S. C.
§441b. See 557 U. S. ___ (2009).
II
Before considering whether Austin should be overruled,
we first address whether Citizens United’s claim that
§441b cannot be applied to Hillary may be resolved on
other, narrower grounds.
A
Citizens United contends that §441b does not cover
Hillary, as a matter of statutory interpretation, because
the film does not qualify as an “electioneering communica
tion.” §441b(b)(2). Citizens United raises this issue for
the first time before us, but we consider the issue because
“it was addressed by the court below.” Lebron v. National
Railroad Passenger Corporation, 513 U. S. 374, 379 (1995);
see 530 F. Supp. 2d, at 277, n. 6. Under the definition of
electioneering communication, the video-on-demand show
ing of Hillary on cable television would have been a “cable
. . . communication” that “refer[red] to a clearly identified
candidate for Federal office” and that was made within 30
days of a primary election. 2 U. S. C. §434(f)(3)(A)(i).

Citizens United, however, argues that Hillary was not
“publicly distributed,” because a single video-on-demand
transmission is sent only to a requesting cable converter
box and each separate transmission, in most instances,
will be seen by just one household—not 50,000 or more
persons. 11 CFR §100.29(a)(2); see §100.29(b)(3)(ii).
This argument ignores the regulation’s instruction on
how to determine whether a cable transmission “[c]an be
received by 50,000 or more persons.” §100.29(b)(3)(ii).
The regulation provides that the number of people who
can receive a cable transmission is determined by the
number of cable subscribers in the relevant area.
§§100.29(b)(7)(i)(G), (ii). Here, Citizens United wanted to
use a cable video-on-demand system that had 34.5 million
subscribers nationwide. App. 256a. Thus, Hillary could
have been received by 50,000 persons or more.
One amici brief asks us, alternatively, to construe the
condition that the communication “[c]an be received by
50,000 or more persons,” §100.29(b)(3)(ii)(A), to require “a
plausible likelihood that the communication will be viewed
by 50,000 or more potential voters”—as opposed to requir
ing only that the communication is “technologically capa
ble” of being seen by that many people, Brief for Former
Officials of the American Civil Liberties Union as Amici
Curiae 5. Whether the population and demographic sta
tistics in a proposed viewing area consisted of 50,000
registered voters—but not “infants, pre-teens, or otherwise
electorally ineligible recipients”—would be a required
determination, subject to judicial challenge and review, in
any case where the issue was in doubt. Id., at 6.
In our view the statute cannot be saved by limiting the
reach of 2 U. S. C. §441b through this suggested interpre
tation. In addition to the costs and burdens of litigation,
this result would require a calculation as to the number of
people a particular communication is likely to reach, with
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an inaccurate estimate potentially subjecting the speaker

to criminal sanctions. The First Amendment does not
permit laws that force speakers to retain a campaign
finance attorney, conduct demographic marketing re
search, or seek declaratory rulings before discussing the
most salient political issues of our day. Prolix laws chill
speech for the same reason that vague laws chill speech:
People “of common intelligence must necessarily guess at
[the law’s] meaning and differ as to its application.” Con
nally v. General Constr. Co., 269 U. S. 385, 391 (1926).
The Government may not render a ban on political speech
constitutional by carving out a limited exemption through
an amorphous regulatory interpretation. We must reject
the approach suggested by the amici. Section 441b covers
Hillary.
B
Citizens United next argues that §441b may not be
applied to Hillary under the approach taken in WRTL.
McConnell decided that §441b(b)(2)’s definition of an
“electioneering communication” was facially constitutional
insofar as it restricted speech that was “the functional
equivalent of express advocacy” for or against a specific
candidate. 540 U. S., at 206. WRTL then found an uncon
stitutional application of §441b where the speech was not
“express advocacy or its functional equivalent.” 551 U. S.,
at 481 (opinion of ROBERTS, C. J.). As explained by THE
CHIEF JUSTICE’s controlling opinion in WRTL, the func
tional-equivalent test is objective: “a court should find that
[a communication] is the functional equivalent of express
advocacy only if [it] is susceptible of no reasonable inter
pretation other than as an appeal to vote for or against a
specific candidate.” Id., at 469–470.
Under this test, Hillary is equivalent to express advo
cacy. The movie, in essence, is a feature-length negative
advertisement that urges viewers to vote against Senator
Clinton for President. In light of historical footage, inter

views with persons critical of her, and voiceover narration,
the film would be understood by most viewers as an ex
tended criticism of Senator Clinton’s character and her
fitness for the office of the Presidency. The narrative may
contain more suggestions and arguments than facts, but
there is little doubt that the thesis of the film is that she is
unfit for the Presidency. The movie concentrates on al
leged wrongdoing during the Clinton administration,
Senator Clinton’s qualifications and fitness for office, and
policies the commentators predict she would pursue if
elected President. It calls Senator Clinton “Machiavel
lian,” App. 64a, and asks whether she is “the most quali
fied to hit the ground running if elected President,” id., at
88a. The narrator reminds viewers that “Americans have
never been keen on dynasties” and that “a vote for Hillary
is a vote to continue 20 years of a Bush or a Clinton in the
White House,” id., at 143a–144a.
Citizens United argues that Hillary is just “a documen
tary film that examines certain historical events.” Brief
for Appellant 35. We disagree. The movie’s consistent
emphasis is on the relevance of these events to Senator
Clinton’s candidacy for President. The narrator begins by
asking “could [Senator Clinton] become the first female
President in the history of the United States?” App. 35a.
And the narrator reiterates the movie’s message in his
closing line: “Finally, before America decides on our next
president, voters should need no reminders of . . . what’s
at stake—the well being and prosperity of our nation.”
Id., at 144a–145a.
As the District Court found, there is no reasonable
interpretation of Hillary other than as an appeal to vote
against Senator Clinton. Under the standard stated in
McConnell and further elaborated in WRTL, the film
qualifies as the functional equivalent of express advocacy.
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9
Citizens United further contends that §441b should be

invalidated as applied to movies shown through video-on
demand, arguing that this delivery system has a lower
risk of distorting the political process than do television
ads. Cf. McConnell, supra, at 207. On what we might call
conventional television, advertising spots reach viewers
who have chosen a channel or a program for reasons unre
lated to the advertising. With video-on-demand, by con
trast, the viewer selects a program after taking “a series of
affirmative steps”: subscribing to cable; navigating
through various menus; and selecting the program. See
Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U. S. 844, 867
(1997).
While some means of communication may be less effec
tive than others at influencing the public in different
contexts, any effort by the Judiciary to decide which
means of communications are to be preferred for the par
ticular type of message and speaker would raise questions
as to the courts’ own lawful authority. Substantial ques
tions would arise if courts were to begin saying what
means of speech should be preferred or disfavored. And in
all events, those differentiations might soon prove to be
irrelevant or outdated by technologies that are in rapid
flux. See Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. FCC, 512
U. S. 622, 639 (1994).
Courts, too, are bound by the First Amendment. We
must decline to draw, and then redraw, constitutional
lines based on the particular media or technology used to
disseminate political speech from a particular speaker. It
must be noted, moreover, that this undertaking would
require substantial litigation over an extended time, all to
interpret a law that beyond doubt discloses serious First
Amendment flaws. The interpretive process itself would
create an inevitable, pervasive, and serious risk of chilling
protected speech pending the drawing of fine distinctions
that, in the end, would themselves be questionable. First

Amendment standards, however, “must give the benefit of
any doubt to protecting rather than stifling speech.”
WRTL, 551 U. S., at 469 (opinion of ROBERTS, C. J.) (citing
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U. S. 254, 269–270
(1964)).
D
Citizens United also asks us to carve out an exception to
§441b’s expenditure ban for nonprofit corporate political
speech funded overwhelmingly by individuals. As an
alternative to reconsidering Austin, the Government also
seems to prefer this approach. This line of analysis, how
ever, would be unavailing.
In MCFL, the Court found unconstitutional §441b’s
restrictions on corporate expenditures as applied to non
profit corporations that were formed for the sole purpose
of promoting political ideas, did not engage in business
activities, and did not accept contributions from for-profit
corporations or labor unions. 479 U. S., at 263–264; see
also 11 CFR §114.10. BCRA’s so-called Wellstone Amend
ment applied §441b’s expenditure ban to all nonprofit
corporations. See 2 U. S. C. §441b(c)(6); McConnell, 540
U. S., at 209. McConnell then interpreted the Wellstone
Amendment to retain the MCFL exemption to §441b’s
expenditure prohibition. 540 U. S., at 211. Citizens
United does not qualify for the MCFL exemption, however,
since some funds used to make the movie were donations
from for-profit corporations.
The Government suggests we could find BCRA’s
Wellstone Amendment unconstitutional, sever it from the
statute, and hold that Citizens United’s speech is exempt
from §441b’s ban under BCRA’s Snowe-Jeffords Amend
ment, §441b(c)(2). See Tr. of Oral Arg. 37–38 (Sept. 9,
2009). The Snowe-Jeffords Amendment operates as a
backup provision that only takes effect if the Wellstone
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Amendment is invalidated. See McConnell, supra, at 339

(KENNEDY, J., concurring in judgment in part and dissent
ing in part). The Snowe-Jeffords Amendment would ex
empt from §441b’s expenditure ban the political speech of
certain nonprofit corporations if the speech were funded
“exclusively” by individual donors and the funds were
maintained in a segregated account. §441b(c)(2). Citizens
United would not qualify for the Snowe-Jeffords exemp
tion, under its terms as written, because Hillary was
funded in part with donations from for-profit corporations.
Consequently, to hold for Citizens United on this argu
ment, the Court would be required to revise the text of
MCFL, sever BCRA’s Wellstone Amendment, §441b(c)(6),
and ignore the plain text of BCRA’s Snowe-Jeffords
Amendment, §441b(c)(2). If the Court decided to create a
de minimis exception to MCFL or the Snowe-Jeffords
Amendment, the result would be to allow for-profit corpo
rate general treasury funds to be spent for independent
expenditures that support candidates. There is no princi
pled basis for doing this without rewriting Austin’s hold
ing that the Government can restrict corporate independ
ent expenditures for political speech.
Though it is true that the Court should construe stat
utes as necessary to avoid constitutional questions, the
series of steps suggested would be difficult to take in view
of the language of the statute. In addition to those diffi
culties the Government’s suggestion is troubling for still
another reason. The Government does not say that it
agrees with the interpretation it wants us to consider. See
Supp. Brief for Appellee 3, n. 1 (“Some courts” have im
plied a de minimis exception, and “appellant would appear
to be covered by these decisions”). Presumably it would
find textual difficulties in this approach too. The Govern
ment, like any party, can make arguments in the alterna
tive; but it ought to say if there is merit to an alternative
proposal instead of merely suggesting it. This is especially
true in the context of the First Amendment. As the Gov

ernment stated, this case “would require a remand” to
apply a de minimis standard. Tr. of Oral Arg. 39 (Sept. 9,
2009). Applying this standard would thus require case-by
case determinations. But archetypical political speech
would be chilled in the meantime. “ ‘First Amendment
freedoms need breathing space to survive.’ ” WRTL, supra,
at 468–469 (opinion of ROBERTS, C. J.) (quoting NAACP v.
Button, 371 U. S. 415, 433 (1963)). We decline to adopt an
interpretation that requires intricate case-by-case deter
minations to verify whether political speech is banned,
especially if we are convinced that, in the end, this corpo
ration has a constitutional right to speak on this subject.
E
As the foregoing analysis confirms, the Court cannot
resolve this case on a narrower ground without chilling
political speech, speech that is central to the meaning and
purpose of the First Amendment. See Morse v. Frederick,
551 U. S. 393, 403 (2007). It is not judicial restraint to
accept an unsound, narrow argument just so the Court can
avoid another argument with broader implications. In
deed, a court would be remiss in performing its duties
were it to accept an unsound principle merely to avoid the
necessity of making a broader ruling. Here, the lack of a
valid basis for an alternative ruling requires full consid
eration of the continuing effect of the speech suppression
upheld in Austin.
Citizens United stipulated to dismissing count 5 of its
complaint, which raised a facial challenge to §441b, even
though count 3 raised an as-applied challenge. See App.
23a (count 3: “As applied to Hillary, [§441b] is unconstitu
tional under the First Amendment guarantees of free
expression and association”). The Government argues
that Citizens United waived its challenge to Austin by
dismissing count 5. We disagree.
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First, even if a party could somehow waive a facial

challenge while preserving an as-applied challenge, that
would not prevent the Court from reconsidering Austin or
addressing the facial validity of §441b in this case. “Our
practice ‘permit[s] review of an issue not pressed [below]
so long as it has been passed upon . . . .’ ” Lebron, 513
U. S., at 379 (quoting United States v. Williams, 504 U. S.
36, 41 (1992); first alteration in original). And here, the
District Court addressed Citizens United’s facial chal
lenge. See 530 F. Supp. 2d, at 278 (“Citizens wants us to
enjoin the operation of BCRA §203 as a facially unconsti
tutional burden on the First Amendment right to freedom
of speech”). In rejecting the claim, it noted that it “would
have to overrule McConnell” for Citizens United to prevail
on its facial challenge and that “[o]nly the Supreme Court
may overrule its decisions.” Ibid. (citing Rodriguez de
Quijas v. Shearson/American Express, Inc., 490 U. S. 477,
484 (1989)). The District Court did not provide much
analysis regarding the facial challenge because it could
not ignore the controlling Supreme Court decisions in
Austin or McConnell. Even so, the District Court did
“ ‘pas[s] upon’ ” the issue. Lebron, supra, at 379. Fur
thermore, the District Court’s later opinion, which granted
the FEC summary judgment, was “[b]ased on the reason
ing of [its] prior opinion,” which included the discussion of
the facial challenge. App. 261a (citing 530 F. Supp. 2d
274). After the District Court addressed the facial validity
of the statute, Citizens United raised its challenge to
Austin in this Court. See Brief for Appellant 30 (“Austin
was wrongly decided and should be overruled”); id., at 30–
32. In these circumstances, it is necessary to consider
Citizens United’s challenge to Austin and the facial valid
ity of §441b’s expenditure ban.
Second, throughout the litigation, Citizens United has
asserted a claim that the FEC has violated its First
Amendment right to free speech. All concede that this
claim is properly before us. And “ ‘[o]nce a federal claim is

properly presented, a party can make any argument in
support of that claim; parties are not limited to the precise
arguments they made below.’ ” Lebron, supra, at 379
(quoting Yee v. Escondido, 503 U. S. 519, 534 (1992);
alteration in original). Citizens United’s argument that
Austin should be overruled is “not a new claim.” Lebron,
513 U. S., at 379. Rather, it is—at most—“a new argu
ment to support what has been [a] consistent claim: that
[the FEC] did not accord [Citizens United] the rights it
was obliged to provide by the First Amendment.” Ibid.
Third, the distinction between facial and as-applied
challenges is not so well defined that it has some auto
matic effect or that it must always control the pleadings
and disposition in every case involving a constitutional
challenge. The distinction is both instructive and neces
sary, for it goes to the breadth of the remedy employed by
the Court, not what must be pleaded in a complaint. See
United States v. Treasury Employees, 513 U. S. 454, 477–
478 (1995) (contrasting “a facial challenge” with “a nar
rower remedy”). The parties cannot enter into a stipula
tion that prevents the Court from considering certain
remedies if those remedies are necessary to resolve a claim
that has been preserved. Citizens United has preserved
its First Amendment challenge to §441b as applied to the
facts of its case; and given all the circumstances, we can
not easily address that issue without assuming a prem
ise—the permissibility of restricting corporate political
speech—that is itself in doubt. See Fallon, As-Applied and
Facial Challenges and Third-Party Standing, 113 Harv.
L. Rev. 1321, 1339 (2000) (“[O]nce a case is brought, no
general categorical line bars a court from making broader
pronouncements of invalidity in properly ‘as-applied’
cases”); id., at 1327–1328. As our request for supplemen
tal briefing implied, Citizens United’s claim implicates the
validity of Austin, which in turn implicates the facial
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validity of §441b.
When the statute now at issue came before the Court in
McConnell, both the majority and the dissenting opinions
considered the question of its facial validity. The holding
and validity of Austin were essential to the reasoning of
the McConnell majority opinion, which upheld BCRA’s
extension of §441b. See 540 U. S., at 205 (quoting Austin,
494 U. S., at 660). McConnell permitted federal felony
punishment for speech by all corporations, including
nonprofit ones, that speak on prohibited subjects shortly
before federal elections. See 540 U. S., at 203–209. Four
Members of the McConnell Court would have overruled
Austin, including Chief Justice Rehnquist, who had joined
the Court’s opinion in Austin but reconsidered that conclu
sion. See 540 U. S., at 256–262 (SCALIA, J., concurring in
part, concurring in judgment in part, and dissenting in
part); id., at 273–275 (THOMAS, J., concurring in part,
concurring in result in part, concurring in judgment in
part, and dissenting in part); id., at 322–338 (opinion of
KENNEDY, J., joined by Rehnquist, C. J., and SCALIA, J.).
That inquiry into the facial validity of the statute was
facilitated by the extensive record, which was “over
100,000 pages” long, made in the three-judge District
Court. McConnell v. Federal Election Comm’n, 251
F. Supp. 2d 176, 209 (DC 2003) (per curiam) (McConnell
I). It is not the case, then, that the Court today is prema
ture in interpreting §441b “ ‘on the basis of [a] factually
barebones recor[d].’ ” Washington State Grange v. Wash
ington State Republican Party, 552 U. S. 442, 450 (2008)
(quoting Sabri v. United States, 541 U. S. 600, 609 (2004)).
The McConnell majority considered whether the statute
was facially invalid. An as-applied challenge was brought
in Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc. v. Federal Election
Comm’n, 546 U. S. 410, 411–412 (2006) (per curiam), and
the Court confirmed that the challenge could be main
tained. Then, in WRTL, the controlling opinion of the
Court not only entertained an as-applied challenge but

also sustained it. Three Justices noted that they would
continue to maintain the position that the record in
McConnell demonstrated the invalidity of the Act on its
face. 551 U. S., at 485–504 (opinion of SCALIA, J.). The
controlling opinion in WRTL, which refrained from hold
ing the statute invalid except as applied to the facts then
before the Court, was a careful attempt to accept the
essential elements of the Court’s opinion in McConnell,
while vindicating the First Amendment arguments made
by the WRTL parties. 551 U. S., at 482 (opinion of
ROBERTS, C. J.).
As noted above, Citizens United’s narrower arguments
are not sustainable under a fair reading of the statute. In
the exercise of its judicial responsibility, it is necessary
then for the Court to consider the facial validity of §441b.
Any other course of decision would prolong the substan
tial, nation-wide chilling effect caused by §441b’s prohibi
tions on corporate expenditures. Consideration of the
facial validity of §441b is further supported by the follow
ing reasons.
First is the uncertainty caused by the litigating position
of the Government. As discussed above, see Part II–D,
supra, the Government suggests, as an alternative argu
ment, that an as-applied challenge might have merit.
This argument proceeds on the premise that the nonprofit
corporation involved here may have received only de
minimis donations from for-profit corporations and that
some nonprofit corporations may be exempted from the
operation of the statute. The Government also suggests
that an as-applied challenge to §441b’s ban on books may
be successful, although it would defend §441b’s ban as
applied to almost every other form of media including
pamphlets. See Tr. of Oral Arg. 65–66 (Sept. 9, 2009).
The Government thus, by its own position, contributes to
the uncertainty that §441b causes. When the Government
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holds out the possibility of ruling for Citizens United on a

narrow ground yet refrains from adopting that position,
the added uncertainty demonstrates the necessity to
address the question of statutory validity.
Second, substantial time would be required to bring
clarity to the application of the statutory provision on
these points in order to avoid any chilling effect caused by
some improper interpretation. See Part II–C, supra. It is
well known that the public begins to concentrate on elec
tions only in the weeks immediately before they are held.
There are short timeframes in which speech can have
influence. The need or relevance of the speech will often
first be apparent at this stage in the campaign. The deci
sion to speak is made in the heat of political campaigns,
when speakers react to messages conveyed by others. A
speaker’s ability to engage in political speech that could
have a chance of persuading voters is stifled if the speaker
must first commence a protracted lawsuit. By the time
the lawsuit concludes, the election will be over and the
litigants in most cases will have neither the incentive nor,
perhaps, the resources to carry on, even if they could
establish that the case is not moot because the issue is
“capable of repetition, yet evading review.” WRTL, supra,
at 462 (opinion of ROBERTS, C. J.) (citing Los Angeles v.
Lyons, 461 U. S. 95, 109 (1983); Southern Pacific Terminal
Co. v. ICC, 219 U. S. 498, 515 (1911)). Here, Citizens
United decided to litigate its case to the end. Today,
Citizens United finally learns, two years after the fact,
whether it could have spoken during the 2008 Presidential
primary—long after the opportunity to persuade primary
voters has passed.
Third is the primary importance of speech itself to the
integrity of the election process. As additional rules are
created for regulating political speech, any speech argua
bly within their reach is chilled. See Part II–A, supra.
Campaign finance regulations now impose “unique and
complex rules” on “71 distinct entities.” Brief for Seven

Former Chairmen of FEC et al. as Amici Curiae 11–12.
These entities are subject to separate rules for 33 different
types of political speech. Id., at 14–15, n. 10. The FEC
has adopted 568 pages of regulations, 1,278 pages of ex
planations and justifications for those regulations, and
1,771 advisory opinions since 1975. See id., at 6, n. 7. In
fact, after this Court in WRTL adopted an objective “ap
peal to vote” test for determining whether a communica
tion was the functional equivalent of express advocacy,
551 U. S., at 470 (opinion of ROBERTS, C. J.), the FEC
adopted a two-part, 11-factor balancing test to implement
WRTL’s ruling. See 11 CFR §114.15; Brief for Wyoming
Liberty Group et al. as Amici Curiae 17–27 (filed Jan. 15,
2009).
This regulatory scheme may not be a prior restraint on
speech in the strict sense of that term, for prospective
speakers are not compelled by law to seek an advisory
opinion from the FEC before the speech takes place. Cf.
Near v. Minnesota ex rel. Olson, 283 U. S. 697, 712–713
(1931). As a practical matter, however, given the complex
ity of the regulations and the deference courts show to
administrative determinations, a speaker who wants to
avoid threats of criminal liability and the heavy costs of
defending against FEC enforcement must ask a govern
mental agency for prior permission to speak. See 2
U. S. C. §437f; 11 CFR §112.1. These onerous restrictions
thus function as the equivalent of prior restraint by giving
the FEC power analogous to licensing laws implemented
in 16th- and 17th-century England, laws and governmen
tal practices of the sort that the First Amendment was
drawn to prohibit. See Thomas v. Chicago Park Dist., 534
U. S. 316, 320 (2002); Lovell v. City of Griffin, 303 U. S.
444, 451–452 (1938); Near, supra, at 713–714. Because
the FEC’s “business is to censor, there inheres the danger
that [it] may well be less responsive than a court—part of
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an independent branch of government—to the constitu

tionally protected interests in free expression.” Freedman
v. Maryland, 380 U. S. 51, 57–58 (1965). When the FEC
issues advisory opinions that prohibit speech, “[m]any
persons, rather than undertake the considerable burden
(and sometimes risk) of vindicating their rights through
case-by-case litigation, will choose simply to abstain from
protected speech—harming not only themselves but soci
ety as a whole, which is deprived of an uninhibited mar
ketplace of ideas.” Virginia v. Hicks, 539 U. S. 113, 119
(2003) (citation omitted). Consequently, “the censor’s
determination may in practice be final.” Freedman, supra,
at 58.
This is precisely what WRTL sought to avoid. WRTL
said that First Amendment standards “must eschew ‘the
open-ended rough-and-tumble of factors,’ which ‘invit[es]
complex argument in a trial court and a virtually inevita
ble appeal.’ ” 551 U. S., at 469 (opinion of ROBERTS, C. J.)
(quoting Jerome B. Grubart, Inc. v. Great Lakes Dredge &
Dock Co., 513 U. S. 527, 547 (1995); alteration in original).
Yet, the FEC has created a regime that allows it to select
what political speech is safe for public consumption by
applying ambiguous tests. If parties want to avoid litiga
tion and the possibility of civil and criminal penalties, they
must either refrain from speaking or ask the FEC to issue
an advisory opinion approving of the political speech in
question. Government officials pore over each word of a
text to see if, in their judgment, it accords with the 11
factor test they have promulgated. This is an unprece
dented governmental intervention into the realm of
speech.
The ongoing chill upon speech that is beyond all doubt
protected makes it necessary in this case to invoke the
earlier precedents that a statute which chills speech can
and must be invalidated where its facial invalidity has
been demonstrated. See WRTL, supra, at 482–483 (ALITO,
J., concurring); Thornhill v. Alabama, 310 U. S. 88, 97–98

(1940). For these reasons we find it necessary to recon
sider Austin.
III
The First Amendment provides that “Congress shall
make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech.” Laws
enacted to control or suppress speech may operate at
different points in the speech process. The following are
just a few examples of restrictions that have been at
tempted at different stages of the speech process—all laws
found to be invalid: restrictions requiring a permit at the
outset, Watchtower Bible & Tract Soc. of N. Y., Inc. v.
Village of Stratton, 536 U. S. 150, 153 (2002); imposing a
burden by impounding proceeds on receipts or royalties,
Simon & Schuster, Inc. v. Members of N. Y. State Crime
Victims Bd., 502 U. S. 105, 108, 123 (1991); seeking to
exact a cost after the speech occurs, New York Times Co. v.
Sullivan, 376 U. S., at 267; and subjecting the speaker to
criminal penalties, Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U. S. 444,
445 (1969) (per curiam).
The law before us is an outright ban, backed by criminal
sanctions. Section 441b makes it a felony for all corpora
tions—including nonprofit advocacy corporations—either
to expressly advocate the election or defeat of candidates
or to broadcast electioneering communications within 30
days of a primary election and 60 days of a general elec
tion. Thus, the following acts would all be felonies under
§441b: The Sierra Club runs an ad, within the crucial
phase of 60 days before the general election, that exhorts
the public to disapprove of a Congressman who favors
logging in national forests; the National Rifle Association
publishes a book urging the public to vote for the chal
lenger because the incumbent U. S. Senator supports a
handgun ban; and the American Civil Liberties Union
creates a Web site telling the public to vote for a Presiden
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tial candidate in light of that candidate’s defense of

free speech. These prohibitions are classic examples of
censorship.
Section 441b is a ban on corporate speech notwithstand
ing the fact that a PAC created by a corporation can still
speak. See McConnell, 540 U. S., at 330–333 (opinion of
KENNEDY, J.). A PAC is a separate association from the
corporation. So the PAC exemption from §441b’s expendi
ture ban, §441b(b)(2), does not allow corporations to speak.
Even if a PAC could somehow allow a corporation to
speak—and it does not—the option to form PACs does not
alleviate the First Amendment problems with §441b.
PACs are burdensome alternatives; they are expensive to
administer and subject to extensive regulations. For
example, every PAC must appoint a treasurer, forward
donations to the treasurer promptly, keep detailed records
of the identities of the persons making donations, preserve
receipts for three years, and file an organization statement
and report changes to this information within 10 days.
See id., at 330–332 (quoting MCFL, 479 U. S., at 253–
254).
And that is just the beginning. PACs must file detailed
monthly reports with the FEC, which are due at different
times depending on the type of election that is about to
occur:
“ ‘These reports must contain information regarding
the amount of cash on hand; the total amount of re
ceipts, detailed by 10 different categories; the identifi
cation of each political committee and candidate’s au
thorized or affiliated committee making contributions,
and any persons making loans, providing rebates, re
funds, dividends, or interest or any other offset to op
erating expenditures in an aggregate amount over
$200; the total amount of all disbursements, detailed
by 12 different categories; the names of all authorized
or affiliated committees to whom expenditures aggre

gating over $200 have been made; persons to whom
loan repayments or refunds have been made; the total
sum of all contributions, operating expenses, out
standing debts and obligations, and the settlement
terms of the retirement of any debt or obligation.’ ”
540 U. S., at 331–332 (quoting MCFL, supra, at 253–
254).
PACs have to comply with these regulations just to
speak. This might explain why fewer than 2,000 of the
millions of corporations in this country have PACs.
See Brief for Seven Former Chairmen of FEC et al. as
Amici Curiae 11 (citing FEC, Summary of PAC Activity
1990–2006, online at http://www.fec.gov/press/press2007/
20071009pac/sumhistory.pdf); IRS, Statistics of Income:
2006, Corporation Income Tax Returns 2 (2009) (hereinaf
ter Statistics of Income) (5.8 million for-profit corporations
filed 2006 tax returns). PACs, furthermore, must exist
before they can speak. Given the onerous restrictions, a
corporation may not be able to establish a PAC in time to
make its views known regarding candidates and issues in
a current campaign.
Section 441b’s prohibition on corporate independent
expenditures is thus a ban on speech. As a “restriction on
the amount of money a person or group can spend on
political communication during a campaign,” that statute
“necessarily reduces the quantity of expression by restrict
ing the number of issues discussed, the depth of their
exploration, and the size of the audience reached.” Buck
ley v. Valeo, 424 U. S. 1, 19 (1976) (per curiam). Were the
Court to uphold these restrictions, the Government could
repress speech by silencing certain voices at any of the
various points in the speech process. See McConnell,
supra, at 251 (opinion of SCALIA, J.) (Government could
repress speech by “attacking all levels of the production
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and dissemination of ideas,” for “effective public communi

cation requires the speaker to make use of the services of
others”). If §441b applied to individuals, no one would
believe that it is merely a time, place, or manner restric
tion on speech. Its purpose and effect are to silence enti
ties whose voices the Government deems to be suspect.
Speech is an essential mechanism of democracy, for it is
the means to hold officials accountable to the people. See
Buckley, supra, at 14–15 (“In a republic where the people
are sovereign, the ability of the citizenry to make informed
choices among candidates for office is essential”). The
right of citizens to inquire, to hear, to speak, and to use
information to reach consensus is a precondition to
enlightened self-government and a necessary means to
protect it. The First Amendment “ ‘has its fullest and most
urgent application’ to speech uttered during a campaign
for political office.” Eu v. San Francisco County Democ
ratic Central Comm., 489 U. S. 214, 223 (1989) (quoting
Monitor Patriot Co. v. Roy, 401 U. S. 265, 272 (1971)); see
Buckley, supra, at 14 (“Discussion of public issues and
debate on the qualifications of candidates are integral to
the operation of the system of government established by
our Constitution”).
For these reasons, political speech must prevail against
laws that would suppress it, whether by design or inadver
tence. Laws that burden political speech are “subject to
strict scrutiny,” which requires the Government to prove
that the restriction “furthers a compelling interest and is
narrowly tailored to achieve that interest.” WRTL, 551
U. S., at 464 (opinion of ROBERTS, C. J.). While it might
be maintained that political speech simply cannot be
banned or restricted as a categorical matter, see Simon &
Schuster, 502 U. S., at 124 (KENNEDY, J., concurring in
judgment), the quoted language from WRTL provides a
sufficient framework for protecting the relevant First
Amendment interests in this case. We shall employ it
here.
Premised on mistrust of governmental power, the First
Amendment stands against attempts to disfavor certain
subjects or viewpoints. See, e.g., United States v. Playboy
Entertainment Group, Inc., 529 U. S. 803, 813 (2000)
(striking down content-based restriction). Prohibited, too,
are restrictions distinguishing among different speakers,
allowing speech by some but not others. See First Nat.
Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, 435 U. S. 765, 784 (1978). As
instruments to censor, these categories are interrelated:
Speech restrictions based on the identity of the speaker
are all too often simply a means to control content.
Quite apart from the purpose or effect of regulating
content, moreover, the Government may commit a consti
tutional wrong when by law it identifies certain preferred
speakers. By taking the right to speak from some and
giving it to others, the Government deprives the disadvan
taged person or class of the right to use speech to strive to
establish worth, standing, and respect for the speaker’s
voice. The Government may not by these means deprive
the public of the right and privilege to determine for itself
what speech and speakers are worthy of consideration.
The First Amendment protects speech and speaker, and
the ideas that flow from each.
The Court has upheld a narrow class of speech restric
tions that operate to the disadvantage of certain persons,
but these rulings were based on an interest in allowing
governmental entities to perform their functions. See, e.g.,
Bethel School Dist. No. 403 v. Fraser, 478 U. S. 675, 683
(1986) (protecting the “function of public school educa
tion”); Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners’ Labor Union,
Inc., 433 U. S. 119, 129 (1977) (furthering “the legitimate
penological objectives of the corrections system” (internal
quotation marks omitted)); Parker v. Levy, 417 U. S. 733,
759 (1974) (ensuring “the capacity of the Government to
discharge its [military] responsibilities” (internal quota
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tion marks omitted)); Civil Service Comm’n v. Letter Car

riers, 413 U. S. 548, 557 (1973) (“[F]ederal service should
depend upon meritorious performance rather than politi
cal service”). The corporate independent expenditures at
issue in this case, however, would not interfere with gov
ernmental functions, so these cases are inapposite. These
precedents stand only for the proposition that there are
certain governmental functions that cannot operate with
out some restrictions on particular kinds of speech. By
contrast, it is inherent in the nature of the political proc
ess that voters must be free to obtain information from
diverse sources in order to determine how to cast their
votes. At least before Austin, the Court had not allowed
the exclusion of a class of speakers from the general public
dialogue.
We find no basis for the proposition that, in the context
of political speech, the Government may impose restric
tions on certain disfavored speakers. Both history and
logic lead us to this conclusion.
A
1
The Court has recognized that First Amendment protec
tion extends to corporations. Bellotti, supra, at 778, n. 14
(citing Linmark Associates, Inc. v. Willingboro, 431 U. S.
85 (1977); Time, Inc. v. Firestone, 424 U. S. 448 (1976);
Doran v. Salem Inn, Inc., 422 U. S. 922 (1975); Southeast
ern Promotions, Ltd. v. Conrad, 420 U. S. 546 (1975); Cox
Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn, 420 U. S. 469 (1975); Miami
Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo, 418 U. S. 241 (1974);
New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U. S. 713 (1971)
(per curiam); Time, Inc. v. Hill, 385 U. S. 374 (1967); New
York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U. S. 254; Kingsley Int’l
Pictures Corp. v. Regents of Univ. of N. Y., 360 U. S. 684
(1959); Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson, 343 U. S. 495
(1952)); see, e.g., Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. FCC,
520 U. S. 180 (1997); Denver Area Ed. Telecommunications

Consortium, Inc. v. FCC, 518 U. S. 727 (1996); Turner, 512
U. S. 622; Simon & Schuster, 502 U. S. 105; Sable Com
munications of Cal., Inc. v. FCC, 492 U. S. 115 (1989);
Florida Star v. B. J. F., 491 U. S. 524 (1989); Philadelphia
Newspapers, Inc. v. Hepps, 475 U. S. 767 (1986); Land
mark Communications, Inc. v. Virginia, 435 U. S. 829
(1978); Young v. American Mini Theatres, Inc., 427 U. S.
50 (1976); Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., 418 U. S. 323
(1974); Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Assn., Inc. v.
Bresler, 398 U. S. 6 (1970).
This protection has been extended by explicit holdings to
the context of political speech. See, e.g., Button, 371 U. S.,
at 428–429; Grosjean v. American Press Co., 297 U. S. 233,
244 (1936). Under the rationale of these precedents,
political speech does not lose First Amendment protection
“simply because its source is a corporation.” Bellotti,
supra, at 784; see Pacific Gas & Elec. Co. v. Public Util.
Comm’n of Cal., 475 U. S. 1, 8 (1986) (plurality opinion)
(“The identity of the speaker is not decisive in determining
whether speech is protected. Corporations and other
associations, like individuals, contribute to the ‘discussion,
debate, and the dissemination of information and ideas’
that the First Amendment seeks to foster” (quoting Bel
lotti, 435 U. S., at 783)). The Court has thus rejected the
argument that political speech of corporations or other
associations should be treated differently under the First
Amendment simply because such associations are not
“natural persons.” Id., at 776; see id., at 780, n. 16. Cf.
id., at 828 (Rehnquist, J., dissenting).
At least since the latter part of the 19th century, the
laws of some States and of the United States imposed a
ban on corporate direct contributions to candidates. See
B. Smith, Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance
Reform 23 (2001). Yet not until 1947 did Congress first
prohibit independent expenditures by corporations and
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labor unions in §304 of the Labor Management Relations

Act 1947, 61 Stat. 159 (codified at 2 U. S. C. §251 (1946
ed., Supp. I)). In passing this Act Congress overrode the
veto of President Truman, who warned that the expendi
ture ban was a “dangerous intrusion on free speech.”
Message from the President of the United States, H. R.
Doc. No. 334, 89th Cong., 1st Sess., 9 (1947).
For almost three decades thereafter, the Court did not
reach the question whether restrictions on corporate and
union expenditures are constitutional. See WRTL, 551
U. S., at 502 (opinion of SCALIA, J.). The question was in
the background of United States v. CIO, 335 U. S. 106
(1948). There, a labor union endorsed a congressional
candidate in its weekly periodical. The Court stated that
“the gravest doubt would arise in our minds as to [the
federal expenditure prohibition’s] constitutionality” if it
were construed to suppress that writing. Id., at 121. The
Court engaged in statutory interpretation and found the
statute did not cover the publication. Id., at 121–122, and
n. 20. Four Justices, however, said they would reach the
constitutional question and invalidate the Labor Man
agement Relations Act’s expenditure ban. Id., at 155
(Rutledge, J., joined by Black, Douglas, and Murphy, JJ.,
concurring in result). The concurrence explained that any
“ ‘undue influence’ ” generated by a speaker’s “large expen
ditures” was outweighed “by the loss for democratic proc
esses resulting from the restrictions upon free and full
public discussion.” Id., at 143.
In United States v. Automobile Workers, 352 U. S. 567
(1957), the Court again encountered the independent
expenditure ban, which had been recodified at 18 U. S. C.
§610 (1952 ed.). See 62 Stat. 723–724. After holding only
that a union television broadcast that endorsed candidates
was covered by the statute, the Court “[r]efus[ed] to an
ticipate constitutional questions” and remanded for the
trial to proceed. 352 U. S., at 591. Three Justices dis
sented, arguing that the Court should have reached the

constitutional question and that the ban on independent
expenditures was unconstitutional:
“Under our Constitution it is We The People who
are sovereign. The people have the final say. The leg
islators are their spokesmen. The people determine
through their votes the destiny of the nation. It is
therefore important—vitally important—that all
channels of communications be open to them during
every election, that no point of view be restrained or
barred, and that the people have access to the views of
every group in the community.” Id., at 593 (opinion of
Douglas, J., joined by Warren, C. J., and Black, J.).
The dissent concluded that deeming a particular group
“too powerful” was not a “justificatio[n] for withholding
First Amendment rights from any group—labor or corpo
rate.” Id., at 597. The Court did not get another opportu
nity to consider the constitutional question in that case;
for after a remand, a jury found the defendants not guilty.
See Hayward, Revisiting the Fable of Reform, 45 Harv. J.
Legis. 421, 463 (2008).
Later, in Pipefitters v. United States, 407 U. S. 385, 400–
401 (1972), the Court reversed a conviction for expendi
ture of union funds for political speech—again without
reaching the constitutional question. The Court would not
resolve that question for another four years.
2
In Buckley, 424 U. S. 1, the Court addressed various
challenges to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971
(FECA) as amended in 1974. These amendments created
18 U. S. C. §608(e) (1970 ed., Supp. V), see 88 Stat. 1265,
an independent expenditure ban separate from §610 that
applied to individuals as well as corporations and labor
unions, Buckley, 424 U. S., at 23, 39, and n. 45.
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Before addressing the constitutionality of §608(e)’s

independent expenditure ban, Buckley first upheld
§608(b), FECA’s limits on direct contributions to candi
dates. The Buckley Court recognized a “sufficiently impor
tant” governmental interest in “the prevention of corrup
tion and the appearance of corruption.” Id., at 25; see id.,
at 26. This followed from the Court’s concern that large
contributions could be given “to secure a political quid pro
quo.” Ibid.
The Buckley Court explained that the potential for quid
pro quo corruption distinguished direct contributions to
candidates from independent expenditures. The Court
emphasized that “the independent expenditure ceiling . . .
fails to serve any substantial governmental interest in
stemming the reality or appearance of corruption in the
electoral process,” id., at 47–48, because “[t]he absence of
prearrangement and coordination . . . alleviates the dan
ger that expenditures will be given as a quid pro quo for
improper commitments from the candidate,” id., at 47.
Buckley invalidated §608(e)’s restrictions on independent
expenditures, with only one Justice dissenting. See Fed
eral Election Comm’n v. National Conservative Political
Action Comm., 470 U. S. 480, 491, n. 3 (1985) (NCPAC).
Buckley did not consider §610’s separate ban on corpo
rate and union independent expenditures, the prohibition
that had also been in the background in CIO, Automobile
Workers, and Pipefitters. Had §610 been challenged in the
wake of Buckley, however, it could not have been squared
with the reasoning and analysis of that precedent. See
WRTL, supra, at 487 (opinion of SCALIA, J.) (“Buckley
might well have been the last word on limitations on
independent expenditures”); Austin, 494 U. S., at 683
(SCALIA, J., dissenting). The expenditure ban invalidated
in Buckley, §608(e), applied to corporations and unions,
424 U. S., at 23, 39, n. 45; and some of the prevailing
plaintiffs in Buckley were corporations, id., at 8. The
Buckley Court did not invoke the First Amendment’s

overbreadth doctrine, see Broadrick v. Oklahoma, 413
U. S. 601, 615 (1973), to suggest that §608(e)’s expenditure
ban would have been constitutional if it had applied only
to corporations and not to individuals, 424 U. S., at 50.
Buckley cited with approval the Automobile Workers dis
sent, which argued that §610 was unconstitutional. 424
U. S., at 43 (citing 352 U. S., at 595–596 (opinion of Doug
las, J.)).
Notwithstanding this precedent, Congress recodified
§610’s corporate and union expenditure ban at 2 U. S. C.
§441b four months after Buckley was decided. See 90 Stat.
490. Section 441b is the independent expenditure restric
tion challenged here.
Less than two years after Buckley, Bellotti, 435 U. S.
765, reaffirmed the First Amendment principle that the
Government cannot restrict political speech based on the
speaker’s corporate identity. Bellotti could not have been
clearer when it struck down a state-law prohibition on
corporate independent expenditures related to referenda
issues:
“We thus find no support in the First . . . Amend
ment, or in the decisions of this Court, for the proposi
tion that speech that otherwise would be within the
protection of the First Amendment loses that protec
tion simply because its source is a corporation that
cannot prove, to the satisfaction of a court, a material
effect on its business or property. . . . [That proposi
tion] amounts to an impermissible legislative prohibi
tion of speech based on the identity of the interests
that spokesmen may represent in public debate over
controversial issues and a requirement that the
speaker have a sufficiently great interest in the sub
ject to justify communication.
. . . . .
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“In the realm of protected speech, the legislature is

constitutionally disqualified from dictating the sub
jects about which persons may speak and the speak
ers who may address a public issue.” Id., at 784–785.
It is important to note that the reasoning and holding of
Bellotti did not rest on the existence of a viewpoint
discriminatory statute. It rested on the principle that the
Government lacks the power to ban corporations from
speaking.
Bellotti did not address the constitutionality of the
State’s ban on corporate independent expenditures to
support candidates. In our view, however, that restriction
would have been unconstitutional under Bellotti’s central
principle: that the First Amendment does not allow politi
cal speech restrictions based on a speaker’s corporate
identity. See ibid.
3
Thus the law stood until Austin. Austin “uph[eld] a
direct restriction on the independent expenditure of funds
for political speech for the first time in [this Court’s] his
tory.” 494 U. S., at 695 (KENNEDY, J., dissenting). There,
the Michigan Chamber of Commerce sought to use general
treasury funds to run a newspaper ad supporting a spe
cific candidate. Michigan law, however, prohibited corpo
rate independent expenditures that supported or opposed
any candidate for state office. A violation of the law was
punishable as a felony. The Court sustained the speech
prohibition.
To bypass Buckley and Bellotti, the Austin Court identi
fied a new governmental interest in limiting political
speech: an antidistortion interest. Austin found a compel
ling governmental interest in preventing “the corrosive
and distorting effects of immense aggregations of wealth
that are accumulated with the help of the corporate form
and that have little or no correlation to the public’s sup
port for the corporation’s political ideas.” 494 U. S., at

660; see id., at 659 (citing MCFL, 479 U. S., at 257;
NCPAC, 470 U. S., at 500–501).
B
The Court is thus confronted with conflicting lines of
precedent: a pre-Austin line that forbids restrictions on
political speech based on the speaker’s corporate identity
and a post-Austin line that permits them. No case before
Austin had held that Congress could prohibit independent
expenditures for political speech based on the speaker’s
corporate identity. Before Austin Congress had enacted
legislation for this purpose, and the Government urged the
same proposition before this Court. See MCFL, supra, at
257 (FEC posited that Congress intended to “curb the
political influence of ‘those who exercise control over large
aggregations of capital’ ” (quoting Automobile Workers,
supra, at 585)); California Medical Assn. v. Federal Elec
tion Comm’n, 453 U. S. 182, 201 (1981) (Congress believed
that “differing structures and purposes” of corporations
and unions “may require different forms of regulation in
order to protect the integrity of the electoral process”). In
neither of these cases did the Court adopt the proposition.
In its defense of the corporate-speech restrictions in
§441b, the Government notes the antidistortion rationale
on which Austin and its progeny rest in part, yet it all but
abandons reliance upon it. It argues instead that two
other compelling interests support Austin’s holding that
corporate expenditure restrictions are constitutional: an
anticorruption interest, see 494 U. S., at 678 (STEVENS, J.,
concurring), and a shareholder-protection interest, see id.,
at 674–675 (Brennan, J., concurring). We consider the
three points in turn.
1
As for Austin’s antidistortion rationale, the Government
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does little to defend it. See Tr. of Oral Arg. 45–48 (Sept.
9, 2009). And with good reason, for the rationale cannot
support §441b.
If the First Amendment has any force, it prohibits Con
gress from fining or jailing citizens, or associations of
citizens, for simply engaging in political speech. If the
antidistortion rationale were to be accepted, however, it
would permit Government to ban political speech simply
because the speaker is an association that has taken on
the corporate form. The Government contends that Austin
permits it to ban corporate expenditures for almost all
forms of communication stemming from a corporation.
See Part II–E, supra; Tr. of Oral Arg. 66 (Sept. 9, 2009);
see also id., at 26–31 (Mar. 24, 2009). If Austin were
correct, the Government could prohibit a corporation from
expressing political views in media beyond those pre
sented here, such as by printing books. The Government
responds “that the FEC has never applied this statute to a
book,” and if it did, “there would be quite [a] good as
applied challenge.” Tr. of Oral Arg. 65 (Sept. 9, 2009).
This troubling assertion of brooding governmental power
cannot be reconciled with the confidence and stability in
civic discourse that the First Amendment must secure.
Political speech is “indispensable to decisionmaking in a
democracy, and this is no less true because the speech
comes from a corporation rather than an individual.”
Bellotti, 435 U. S., at 777 (footnote omitted); see ibid. (the
worth of speech “does not depend upon the identity of its
source, whether corporation, association, union, or indi
vidual”); Buckley, 424 U. S., at 48–49 (“[T]he concept that
government may restrict the speech of some elements of
our society in order to enhance the relative voice of others
is wholly foreign to the First Amendment”); Automobile
Workers, 352 U. S., at 597 (Douglas, J., dissenting); CIO,
335 U. S., at 154–155 (Rutledge, J., concurring in result).
This protection for speech is inconsistent with Austin’s
antidistortion rationale. Austin sought to defend the

antidistortion rationale as a means to prevent corpora
tions from obtaining “ ‘an unfair advantage in the political
marketplace’ ” by using “ ‘resources amassed in the eco
nomic marketplace.’ ” 494 U. S., at 659 (quoting MCFL,
supra, at 257). But Buckley rejected the premise that the
Government has an interest “in equalizing the relative
ability of individuals and groups to influence the outcome
of elections.” 424 U. S., at 48; see Bellotti, supra, at 791,
n. 30. Buckley was specific in stating that “the skyrocket
ing cost of political campaigns” could not sustain the
governmental prohibition. 424 U. S., at 26. The First
Amendment’s protections do not depend on the speaker’s
“financial ability to engage in public discussion.” Id., at
49.
The Court reaffirmed these conclusions when it invali
dated the BCRA provision that increased the cap on con
tributions to one candidate if the opponent made certain
expenditures from personal funds. See Davis v. Federal
Election Comm’n, 554 U. S. ___, ___ (2008) (slip op., at 16)
(“Leveling electoral opportunities means making and
implementing judgments about which strengths should be
permitted to contribute to the outcome of an election. The
Constitution, however, confers upon voters, not Congress,
the power to choose the Members of the House of Repre
sentatives, Art. I, §2, and it is a dangerous business for
Congress to use the election laws to influence the voters’
choices”). The rule that political speech cannot be limited
based on a speaker’s wealth is a necessary consequence of
the premise that the First Amendment generally prohibits
the suppression of political speech based on the speaker’s
identity.
Either as support for its antidistortion rationale or as a
further argument, the Austin majority undertook to dis
tinguish wealthy individuals from corporations on the
ground that “[s]tate law grants corporations special ad
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vantages—such as limited liability, perpetual life, and

favorable treatment of the accumulation and distribution
of assets.” 494 U. S., at 658–659. This does not suffice,
however, to allow laws prohibiting speech. “It is rudimen
tary that the State cannot exact as the price of those
special advantages the forfeiture of First Amendment
rights.” Id., at 680 (SCALIA, J., dissenting).
It is irrelevant for purposes of the First Amendment
that corporate funds may “have little or no correlation to
the public’s support for the corporation’s political ideas.”
Id., at 660 (majority opinion). All speakers, including
individuals and the media, use money amassed from the
economic marketplace to fund their speech. The First
Amendment protects the resulting speech, even if it was
enabled by economic transactions with persons or entities
who disagree with the speaker’s ideas. See id., at 707
(KENNEDY, J., dissenting) (“Many persons can trace their
funds to corporations, if not in the form of donations, then
in the form of dividends, interest, or salary”).
Austin’s antidistortion rationale would produce the
dangerous, and unacceptable, consequence that Congress
could ban political speech of media corporations. See
McConnell, 540 U. S., at 283 (opinion of THOMAS, J.) (“The
chilling endpoint of the Court’s reasoning is not difficult to
foresee: outright regulation of the press”). Cf. Tornillo,
418 U. S., at 250 (alleging the existence of “vast accumula
tions of unreviewable power in the modern media em
pires”). Media corporations are now exempt from §441b’s
ban on corporate expenditures. See 2 U. S. C.
§§431(9)(B)(i), 434(f)(3)(B)(i). Yet media corporations
accumulate wealth with the help of the corporate form, the
largest media corporations have “immense aggregations of
wealth,” and the views expressed by media corporations
often “have little or no correlation to the public’s support”
for those views. Austin, 494 U. S., at 660. Thus, under
the Government’s reasoning, wealthy media corporations
could have their voices diminished to put them on par

with other media entities. There is no precedent for per
mitting this under the First Amendment.
The media exemption discloses further difficulties with
the law now under consideration. There is no precedent
supporting laws that attempt to distinguish between
corporations which are deemed to be exempt as media
corporations and those which are not. “We have consis
tently rejected the proposition that the institutional press
has any constitutional privilege beyond that of other
speakers.” Id., at 691 (SCALIA, J., dissenting) (citing Bel
lotti, 435 U. S., at 782); see Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. v.
Greenmoss Builders, Inc., 472 U. S. 749, 784 (1985) (Bren
nan, J., joined by Marshall, Blackmun, and STEVENS, JJ.,
dissenting); id., at 773 (White, J., concurring in judgment).
With the advent of the Internet and the decline of print
and broadcast media, moreover, the line between the
media and others who wish to comment on political and
social issues becomes far more blurred.
The law’s exception for media corporations is, on its own
terms, all but an admission of the invalidity of the antidis
tortion rationale. And the exemption results in a further,
separate reason for finding this law invalid: Again by its
own terms, the law exempts some corporations but covers
others, even though both have the need or the motive to
communicate their views. The exemption applies to media
corporations owned or controlled by corporations that have
diverse and substantial investments and participate in
endeavors other than news. So even assuming the most
doubtful proposition that a news organization has a right
to speak when others do not, the exemption would allow a
conglomerate that owns both a media business and an
unrelated business to influence or control the media in
order to advance its overall business interest. At the same
time, some other corporation, with an identical business
interest but no media outlet in its ownership structure,
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would be forbidden to speak or inform the public about the

same issue. This differential treatment cannot be squared
with the First Amendment.
There is simply no support for the view that the First
Amendment, as originally understood, would permit the
suppression of political speech by media corporations. The
Framers may not have anticipated modern business and
media corporations. See McIntyre v. Ohio Elections
Comm’n, 514 U. S. 334, 360–361 (1995) (THOMAS, J.,
concurring in judgment). Yet television networks and
major newspapers owned by media corporations have
become the most important means of mass communication
in modern times. The First Amendment was certainly not
understood to condone the suppression of political speech
in society’s most salient media. It was understood as a
response to the repression of speech and the press that
had existed in England and the heavy taxes on the press
that were imposed in the colonies. See McConnell, 540
U. S., at 252–253 (opinion of SCALIA, J.); Grosjean, 297
U. S., at 245–248; Near, 283 U. S., at 713–714. The great
debates between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists
over our founding document were published and expressed
in the most important means of mass communication of
that era—newspapers owned by individuals. See McIn
tyre, 514 U. S., at 341–343; id., at 367 (THOMAS, J., con
curring in judgment). At the founding, speech was open,
comprehensive, and vital to society’s definition of itself;
there were no limits on the sources of speech and knowl
edge. See B. Bailyn, Ideological Origins of the American
Revolution 5 (1967) (“Any number of people could join in
such proliferating polemics, and rebuttals could come from
all sides”); G. Wood, Creation of the American Republic
1776–1787, p. 6 (1969) (“[I]t is not surprising that the
intellectual sources of [the Americans’] Revolutionary
thought were profuse and various”). The Framers may
have been unaware of certain types of speakers or forms of
communication, but that does not mean that those speak

ers and media are entitled to less First Amendment pro
tection than those types of speakers and media that pro
vided the means of communicating political ideas when
the Bill of Rights was adopted.
Austin interferes with the “open marketplace” of ideas
protected by the First Amendment. New York State Bd. of
Elections v. Lopez Torres, 552 U. S. 196, 208 (2008); see
ibid. (ideas “may compete” in this marketplace “without
government interference”); McConnell, supra, at 274
(opinion of THOMAS, J.). It permits the Government to ban
the political speech of millions of associations of citizens.
See Statistics of Income 2 (5.8 million for-profit corpora
tions filed 2006 tax returns). Most of these are small
corporations without large amounts of wealth. See Supp.
Brief for Chamber of Commerce of the United States of
America as Amicus Curiae 1, 3 (96% of the 3 million busi
nesses that belong to the U. S. Chamber of Commerce
have fewer than 100 employees); M. Keightley, Congres
sional Research Service Report for Congress, Business
Organizational Choices: Taxation and Responses to Legis
lative Changes 10 (2009) (more than 75% of corporations
whose income is taxed under federal law, see 26 U. S. C.
§301, have less than $1 million in receipts per year). This
fact belies the Government’s argument that the statute is
justified on the ground that it prevents the “distorting
effects of immense aggregations of wealth.” Austin, 494
U. S., at 660. It is not even aimed at amassed wealth.
The censorship we now confront is vast in its reach. The
Government has “muffle[d] the voices that best represent
the most significant segments of the economy.” McCon
nell, supra, at 257–258 (opinion of SCALIA, J.). And “the
electorate [has been] deprived of information, knowledge
and opinion vital to its function.” CIO, 335 U. S., at 144
(Rutledge, J., concurring in result). By suppressing the
speech of manifold corporations, both for-profit and non
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profit, the Government prevents their voices and view

points from reaching the public and advising voters on
which persons or entities are hostile to their interests.
Factions will necessarily form in our Republic, but the
remedy of “destroying the liberty” of some factions is
“worse than the disease.” The Federalist No. 10, p. 130 (B.
Wright ed. 1961) (J. Madison). Factions should be checked
by permitting them all to speak, see ibid., and by entrust
ing the people to judge what is true and what is false.
The purpose and effect of this law is to prevent corpora
tions, including small and nonprofit corporations, from
presenting both facts and opinions to the public. This
makes Austin’s antidistortion rationale all the more an
aberration. “[T]he First Amendment protects the right of
corporations to petition legislative and administrative
bodies.” Bellotti, 435 U. S., at 792, n. 31 (citing California
Motor Transport Co. v. Trucking Unlimited, 404 U. S. 508,
510–511 (1972); Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference v.
Noerr Motor Freight, Inc., 365 U. S. 127, 137–138 (1961)).
Corporate executives and employees counsel Members of
Congress and Presidential administrations on many is
sues, as a matter of routine and often in private. An amici
brief filed on behalf of Montana and 25 other States notes
that lobbying and corporate communications with elected
officials occur on a regular basis. Brief for State of Mon
tana et al. as Amici Curiae 19. When that phenomenon is
coupled with §441b, the result is that smaller or nonprofit
corporations cannot raise a voice to object when other
corporations, including those with vast wealth, are coop
erating with the Government. That cooperation may
sometimes be voluntary, or it may be at the demand of a
Government official who uses his or her authority, influ
ence, and power to threaten corporations to support the
Government’s policies. Those kinds of interactions are
often unknown and unseen. The speech that §441b for
bids, though, is public, and all can judge its content and
purpose. References to massive corporate treasuries

should not mask the real operation of this law. Rhetoric
ought not obscure reality.
Even if §441b’s expenditure ban were constitutional,
wealthy corporations could still lobby elected officials,
although smaller corporations may not have the resources
to do so. And wealthy individuals and unincorporated
associations can spend unlimited amounts on independent
expenditures. See, e.g., WRTL, 551 U. S., at 503–504
(opinion of SCALIA, J.) (“In the 2004 election cycle, a mere
24 individuals contributed an astounding total of $142
million to [26 U. S. C. §527 organizations]”). Yet certain
disfavored associations of citizens—those that have taken
on the corporate form—are penalized for engaging in the
same political speech.
When Government seeks to use its full power, including
the criminal law, to command where a person may get his
or her information or what distrusted source he or she
may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought. This
is unlawful. The First Amendment confirms the freedom
to think for ourselves.
2
What we have said also shows the invalidity of other
arguments made by the Government. For the most part
relinquishing the antidistortion rationale, the Government
falls back on the argument that corporate political speech
can be banned in order to prevent corruption or its ap
pearance. In Buckley, the Court found this interest “suffi
ciently important” to allow limits on contributions but did
not extend that reasoning to expenditure limits. 424 U. S.,
at 25. When Buckley examined an expenditure ban, it
found “that the governmental interest in preventing cor
ruption and the appearance of corruption [was] inade
quate to justify [the ban] on independent expenditures.”
Id., at 45.
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With regard to large direct contributions, Buckley rea

soned that they could be given “to secure a political quid
pro quo,” id., at 26, and that “the scope of such pernicious
practices can never be reliably ascertained,” id., at 27.
The practices Buckley noted would be covered by bribery
laws, see, e.g., 18 U. S. C. §201, if a quid pro quo arrange
ment were proved. See Buckley, supra, at 27, and n. 28
(citing Buckley v. Valeo, 519 F. 2d 821, 839–840, and nn.
36–38 (CADC 1975) (en banc) (per curiam)). The Court, in
consequence, has noted that restrictions on direct contri
butions are preventative, because few if any contributions
to candidates will involve quid pro quo arrangements.
MCFL, 479 U. S., at 260; NCPAC, 470 U. S., at 500; Fed
eral Election Comm’n v. National Right to Work Comm.,
459 U. S. 197, 210 (1982) (NRWC). The Buckley Court,
nevertheless, sustained limits on direct contributions in
order to ensure against the reality or appearance of cor
ruption. That case did not extend this rationale to inde
pendent expenditures, and the Court does not do so here.
“The absence of prearrangement and coordination of an
expenditure with the candidate or his agent not only
undermines the value of the expenditure to the candidate,
but also alleviates the danger that expenditures will be
given as a quid pro quo for improper commitments from
the candidate.” Buckley, 424 U. S., at 47; see ibid. (inde
pendent expenditures have a “substantially diminished
potential for abuse”). Limits on independent expendi
tures, such as §441b, have a chilling effect extending well
beyond the Government’s interest in preventing quid pro
quo corruption. The anticorruption interest is not suffi
cient to displace the speech here in question. Indeed, 26
States do not restrict independent expenditures by for
profit corporations. The Government does not claim that
these expenditures have corrupted the political process in
those States. See Supp. Brief for Appellee 18, n. 3; Supp.
Brief for Chamber of Commerce of the United States of
America as Amicus Curiae 8–9, n. 5.

A single footnote in Bellotti purported to leave open the
possibility that corporate independent expenditures could
be shown to cause corruption. 435 U. S., at 788, n. 26. For
the reasons explained above, we now conclude that inde
pendent expenditures, including those made by corpora
tions, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of
corruption. Dicta in Bellotti’s footnote suggested that “a
corporation’s right to speak on issues of general public
interest implies no comparable right in the quite different
context of participation in a political campaign for election
to public office.” Ibid. Citing the portion of Buckley that
invalidated the federal independent expenditure ban, 424
U. S., at 46, and a law review student comment, Bellotti
surmised that “Congress might well be able to demon
strate the existence of a danger of real or apparent corrup
tion in independent expenditures by corporations to influ
ence candidate elections.” 435 U. S., at 788, n. 26.
Buckley, however, struck down a ban on independent
expenditures to support candidates that covered corpora
tions, 424 U. S., at 23, 39, n. 45, and explained that “the
distinction between discussion of issues and candidates
and advocacy of election or defeat of candidates may often
dissolve in practical application,” id., at 42. Bellotti’s
dictum is thus supported only by a law review student
comment, which misinterpreted Buckley. See Comment,
The Regulation of Union Political Activity: Majority and
Minority Rights and Remedies, 126 U. Pa. L. Rev. 386, 408
(1977) (suggesting that “corporations and labor unions
should be held to different and more stringent standards
than an individual or other associations under a regula
tory scheme for campaign financing”).
Seizing on this aside in Bellotti’s footnote, the Court in
NRWC did say there is a “sufficient” governmental inter
est in “ensur[ing] that substantial aggregations of wealth
amassed” by corporations would not “be used to incur
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political debts from legislators who are aided by the con

tributions.” 459 U. S., at 207–208 (citing Automobile
Workers, 352 U. S., at 579); see 459 U. S., at 210, and n. 7;
NCPAC, supra, at 500–501 (NRWC suggested a govern
mental interest in restricting “the influence of political
war chests funneled through the corporate form”). NRWC,
however, has little relevance here. NRWC decided no
more than that a restriction on a corporation’s ability to
solicit funds for its segregated PAC, which made direct
contributions to candidates, did not violate the First
Amendment. 459 U. S., at 206. NRWC thus involved
contribution limits, see NCPAC, supra, at 495–496, which,
unlike limits on independent expenditures, have been an
accepted means to prevent quid pro quo corruption, see
McConnell, 540 U. S., at 136–138, and n. 40; MCFL, su
pra, at 259–260. Citizens United has not made direct
contributions to candidates, and it has not suggested that
the Court should reconsider whether contribution limits
should be subjected to rigorous First Amendment scrutiny.
When Buckley identified a sufficiently important gov
ernmental interest in preventing corruption or the ap
pearance of corruption, that interest was limited to quid
pro quo corruption. See McConnell, supra, at 296–298
(opinion of KENNEDY, J.) (citing Buckley, supra, at 26–28,
30, 46–48); NCPAC, 470 U. S., at 497 (“The hallmark of
corruption is the financial quid pro quo: dollars for politi
cal favors”); id., at 498. The fact that speakers may have
influence over or access to elected officials does not mean
that these officials are corrupt:
“Favoritism and influence are not . . . avoidable in
representative politics. It is in the nature of an
elected representative to favor certain policies, and, by
necessary corollary, to favor the voters and contribu
tors who support those policies. It is well understood
that a substantial and legitimate reason, if not the
only reason, to cast a vote for, or to make a contribu

tion to, one candidate over another is that the candi
date will respond by producing those political out
comes the supporter favors. Democracy is premised
on responsiveness.” McConnell, 540 U. S., at 297
(opinion of KENNEDY, J.).
Reliance on a “generic favoritism or influence theory . . . is
at odds with standard First Amendment analyses because
it is unbounded and susceptible to no limiting principle.”
Id., at 296.
The appearance of influence or access, furthermore, will
not cause the electorate to lose faith in our democracy. By
definition, an independent expenditure is political speech
presented to the electorate that is not coordinated with a
candidate. See Buckley, supra, at 46. The fact that a
corporation, or any other speaker, is willing to spend
money to try to persuade voters presupposes that the
people have the ultimate influence over elected officials.
This is inconsistent with any suggestion that the elector
ate will refuse “ ‘to take part in democratic governance’ ”
because of additional political speech made by a corpora
tion or any other speaker. McConnell, supra, at 144 (quot
ing Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC, 528 U. S.
377, 390 (2000)).
Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Co., 556 U. S. ___ (2009),
is not to the contrary. Caperton held that a judge was
required to recuse himself “when a person with a personal
stake in a particular case had a significant and dispropor
tionate influence in placing the judge on the case by rais
ing funds or directing the judge’s election campaign when
the case was pending or imminent.” Id., at ___ (slip op., at
14). The remedy of recusal was based on a litigant’s due
process right to a fair trial before an unbiased judge. See
Withrow v. Larkin, 421 U. S. 35, 46 (1975). Caperton’s
holding was limited to the rule that the judge must be
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recused, not that the litigant’s political speech could be

banned.
The McConnell record was “over 100,000 pages” long,
McConnell I, 251 F. Supp. 2d, at 209, yet it “does not have
any direct examples of votes being exchanged for . . . ex
penditures,” id., at 560 (opinion of Kollar-Kotelly, J.). This
confirms Buckley’s reasoning that independent expendi
tures do not lead to, or create the appearance of, quid pro
quo corruption. In fact, there is only scant evidence that
independent expenditures even ingratiate. See 251
F. Supp. 2d, at 555–557 (opinion of Kollar-Kotelly, J.).
Ingratiation and access, in any event, are not corruption.
The BCRA record establishes that certain donations to
political parties, called “soft money,” were made to gain
access to elected officials. McConnell, supra, at 125, 130–
131, 146–152; see McConnell I, 251 F. Supp. 2d, at 471–
481, 491–506 (opinion of Kollar-Kotelly, J.); id., at 842–
843, 858–859 (opinion of Leon, J.). This case, however, is
about independent expenditures, not soft money. When
Congress finds that a problem exists, we must give that
finding due deference; but Congress may not choose an
unconstitutional remedy. If elected officials succumb to
improper influences from independent expenditures; if
they surrender their best judgment; and if they put expe
diency before principle, then surely there is cause for
concern. We must give weight to attempts by Congress to
seek to dispel either the appearance or the reality of these
influences. The remedies enacted by law, however, must
comply with the First Amendment; and, it is our law and
our tradition that more speech, not less, is the governing
rule. An outright ban on corporate political speech during
the critical preelection period is not a permissible remedy.
Here Congress has created categorical bans on speech that
are asymmetrical to preventing quid pro quo corruption.
The Government contends further that corporate inde

pendent expenditures can be limited because of its interest
in protecting dissenting shareholders from being com
pelled to fund corporate political speech. This asserted
interest, like Austin’s antidistortion rationale, would allow
the Government to ban the political speech even of media
corporations. See supra, at 35–37. Assume, for example,
that a shareholder of a corporation that owns a newspaper
disagrees with the political views the newspaper ex
presses. See Austin, 494 U. S., at 687 (SCALIA, J., dissent
ing). Under the Government’s view, that potential dis
agreement could give the Government the authority to
restrict the media corporation’s political speech. The First
Amendment does not allow that power. There is, further
more, little evidence of abuse that cannot be corrected by
shareholders “through the procedures of corporate democ
racy.” Bellotti, 435 U. S., at 794; see id., at 794, n. 34.
Those reasons are sufficient to reject this shareholder
protection interest; and, moreover, the statute is both
underinclusive and overinclusive. As to the first, if Con
gress had been seeking to protect dissenting shareholders,
it would not have banned corporate speech in only certain
media within 30 or 60 days before an election. A dissent
ing shareholder’s interests would be implicated by speech
in any media at any time. As to the second, the statute is
overinclusive because it covers all corporations, including
nonprofit corporations and for-profit corporations with
only single shareholders. As to other corporations, the
remedy is not to restrict speech but to consider and ex
plore other regulatory mechanisms. The regulatory
mechanism here, based on speech, contravenes the First
Amendment.
4
We need not reach the question whether the Govern
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ment has a compelling interest in preventing foreign

individuals or associations from influencing our Nation’s
political process. Cf. 2 U. S. C. §441e (contribution and
expenditure ban applied to “foreign national[s]”). Section
441b is not limited to corporations or associations that
were created in foreign countries or funded predominately
by foreign shareholders. Section 441b therefore would be
overbroad even if we assumed, arguendo, that the Gov
ernment has a compelling interest in limiting foreign
influence over our political process. See Broadrick, 413
U. S., at 615.
C
Our precedent is to be respected unless the most con
vincing of reasons demonstrates that adherence to it puts
us on a course that is sure error. “Beyond workability, the
relevant factors in deciding whether to adhere to the
principle of stare decisis include the antiquity of the
precedent, the reliance interests at stake, and of course
whether the decision was well reasoned.” Montejo v.
Louisiana, 556 U. S. ___, ___ (2009) (slip op., at 13) (over
ruling Michigan v. Jackson, 475 U. S. 625 (1986)). We
have also examined whether “experience has pointed up
the precedent’s shortcomings.” Pearson v. Callahan, 555
U. S. ___, ___ (2009) (slip op., at 8) (overruling Saucier v.
Katz, 533 U. S. 194 (2001)).
These considerations counsel in favor of rejecting Aus
tin, which itself contravened this Court’s earlier prece
dents in Buckley and Bellotti. “This Court has not hesi
tated to overrule decisions offensive to the First
Amendment.” WRTL, 551 U. S., at 500 (opinion of SCALIA,
J.). “[S]tare decisis is a principle of policy and not a me
chanical formula of adherence to the latest decision.”
Helvering v. Hallock, 309 U. S. 106, 119 (1940).
For the reasons above, it must be concluded that Austin
was not well reasoned. The Government defends Austin,
relying almost entirely on “the quid pro quo interest, the

corruption interest or the shareholder interest,” and not
Austin’s expressed antidistortion rationale. Tr. of Oral
Arg. 48 (Sept. 9, 2009); see id., at 45–46. When neither
party defends the reasoning of a precedent, the principle of
adhering to that precedent through stare decisis is dimin
ished. Austin abandoned First Amendment principles,
furthermore, by relying on language in some of our prece
dents that traces back to the Automobile Workers Court’s
flawed historical account of campaign finance laws, see
Brief for Campaign Finance Scholars as Amici Curiae;
Hayward, 45 Harv. J. Legis. 421; R. Mutch, Campaigns,
Congress, and Courts 33–35, 153–157 (1988). See Austin,
supra, at 659 (quoting MCFL, 479 U. S., at 257–258;
NCPAC, 470 U. S., at 500–501); MCFL, supra, at 257
(quoting Automobile Workers, 352 U. S., at 585); NCPAC,
supra, at 500 (quoting NRWC, 459 U. S., at 210); id., at
208 (“The history of the movement to regulate the political
contributions and expenditures of corporations and labor
unions is set forth in great detail in [Automobile Workers],
supra, at 570–584, and we need only summarize the de
velopment here”).
Austin is undermined by experience since its an
nouncement. Political speech is so ingrained in our cul
ture that speakers find ways to circumvent campaign
finance laws. See, e.g., McConnell, 540 U. S., at 176–177
(“Given BCRA’s tighter restrictions on the raising and
spending of soft money, the incentives . . . to exploit [26
U. S. C. §527] organizations will only increase”). Our
Nation’s speech dynamic is changing, and informative
voices should not have to circumvent onerous restrictions
to exercise their First Amendment rights. Speakers have
become adept at presenting citizens with sound bites,
talking points, and scripted messages that dominate the
24-hour news cycle. Corporations, like individuals, do not
have monolithic views. On certain topics corporations
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may possess valuable expertise, leaving them the best

equipped to point out errors or fallacies in speech of
all sorts, including the speech of candidates and elected
officials.
Rapid changes in technology—and the creative dynamic
inherent in the concept of free expression—counsel against
upholding a law that restricts political speech in certain
media or by certain speakers. See Part II–C, supra.
Today, 30-second television ads may be the most effective
way to convey a political message. See McConnell, supra,
at 261 (opinion of SCALIA, J.). Soon, however, it may be
that Internet sources, such as blogs and social networking
Web sites, will provide citizens with significant informa
tion about political candidates and issues. Yet, §441b
would seem to ban a blog post expressly advocating the
election or defeat of a candidate if that blog were created
with corporate funds. See 2 U. S. C. §441b(a); MCFL,
supra, at 249. The First Amendment does not permit
Congress to make these categorical distinctions based on
the corporate identity of the speaker and the content of
the political speech.
No serious reliance interests are at stake. As the Court
stated in Payne v. Tennessee, 501 U. S. 808, 828 (1991),
reliance interests are important considerations in property
and contract cases, where parties may have acted in con
formance with existing legal rules in order to conduct
transactions. Here, though, parties have been prevented
from acting—corporations have been banned from making
independent expenditures. Legislatures may have en
acted bans on corporate expenditures believing that those
bans were constitutional. This is not a compelling interest
for stare decisis. If it were, legislative acts could prevent
us from overruling our own precedents, thereby interfer
ing with our duty “to say what the law is.” Marbury v.
Madison, 1 Cranch 137, 177 (1803).
Due consideration leads to this conclusion: Austin, 494
U. S. 652, should be and now is overruled. We return to

the principle established in Buckley and Bellotti that the
Government may not suppress political speech on the
basis of the speaker’s corporate identity. No sufficient
governmental interest justifies limits on the political
speech of nonprofit or for-profit corporations.
D
Austin is overruled, so it provides no basis for allowing
the Government to limit corporate independent expendi
tures. As the Government appears to concede, overruling
Austin “effectively invalidate[s] not only BCRA Section
203, but also 2 U. S. C. 441b’s prohibition on the use of
corporate treasury funds for express advocacy.” Brief for
Appellee 33, n. 12. Section 441b’s restrictions on corporate
independent expenditures are therefore invalid and can
not be applied to Hillary.
Given our conclusion we are further required to overrule
the part of McConnell that upheld BCRA §203’s extension
of §441b’s restrictions on corporate independent expendi
tures. See 540 U. S., at 203–209. The McConnell Court
relied on the antidistortion interest recognized in Austin
to uphold a greater restriction on speech than the restric
tion upheld in Austin, see 540 U. S., at 205, and we have
found this interest unconvincing and insufficient. This
part of McConnell is now overruled.
IV
Citizens United next challenges BCRA’s disclaimer and

disclosure provisions as applied to Hillary and the three
advertisements for the movie. Under BCRA §311, tele
vised electioneering communications funded by anyone
other than a candidate must include a disclaimer that
“ ‘_______ is responsible for the content of this advertis
ing.’ ” 2 U. S. C. §441d(d)(2). The required statement
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must be made in a “clearly spoken manner,” and displayed

on the screen in a “clearly readable manner” for at least
four seconds. Ibid. It must state that the communication
“is not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s commit
tee”; it must also display the name and address (or Web
site address) of the person or group that funded the adver
tisement. §441d(a)(3). Under BCRA §201, any person
who spends more than $10,000 on electioneering commu
nications within a calendar year must file a disclosure
statement with the FEC. 2 U. S. C. §434(f)(1). That
statement must identify the person making the expendi
ture, the amount of the expenditure, the election to which
the communication was directed, and the names of certain
contributors. §434(f)(2).
Disclaimer and disclosure requirements may burden the
ability to speak, but they “impose no ceiling on campaign
related activities,” Buckley, 424 U. S., at 64, and “do not
prevent anyone from speaking,” McConnell, supra, at 201
(internal quotation marks and brackets omitted). The
Court has subjected these requirements to “exacting scru
tiny,” which requires a “substantial relation” between the
disclosure requirement and a “sufficiently important”
governmental interest. Buckley, supra, at 64, 66 (internal
quotation marks omitted); see McConnell, supra, at 231–
232.
In Buckley, the Court explained that disclosure could be
justified based on a governmental interest in “provid[ing]
the electorate with information” about the sources of
election-related spending. 424 U. S., at 66. The McCon
nell Court applied this interest in rejecting facial chal
lenges to BCRA §§201 and 311. 540 U. S., at 196. There
was evidence in the record that independent groups were
running election-related advertisements “ ‘while hiding
behind dubious and misleading names.’ ” Id., at 197 (quot
ing McConnell I, 251 F. Supp. 2d, at 237). The Court
therefore upheld BCRA §§201 and 311 on the ground that
they would help citizens “ ‘make informed choices in the

political marketplace.’ ” 540 U. S., at 197 (quoting McCon
nell I, supra, at 237); see 540 U. S., at 231.
Although both provisions were facially upheld, the
Court acknowledged that as-applied challenges would be
available if a group could show a “ ‘reasonable probability’ ”
that disclosure of its contributors’ names “ ‘will subject
them to threats, harassment, or reprisals from either
Government officials or private parties.’ ” Id., at 198
(quoting Buckley, supra, at 74).
For the reasons stated below, we find the statute valid
as applied to the ads for the movie and to the movie itself.
B
Citizens United sought to broadcast one 30-second and
two 10-second ads to promote Hillary. Under FEC regula
tions, a communication that “[p]roposes a commercial
transaction” was not subject to 2 U. S. C. §441b’s restric
tions on corporate or union funding of electioneering com
munications. 11 CFR §114.15(b)(3)(ii). The regulations,
however, do not exempt those communications from the
disclaimer and disclosure requirements in BCRA §§201
and 311. See 72 Fed. Reg. 72901 (2007).
Citizens United argues that the disclaimer require
ments in §311 are unconstitutional as applied to its ads.
It contends that the governmental interest in providing
information to the electorate does not justify requiring
disclaimers for any commercial advertisements, including
the ones at issue here. We disagree. The ads fall within
BCRA’s definition of an “electioneering communication”:
They referred to then-Senator Clinton by name shortly
before a primary and contained pejorative references to
her candidacy. See 530 F. Supp. 2d, at 276, nn. 2–4. The
disclaimers required by §311 “provid[e] the electorate with
information,” McConnell, supra, at 196, and “insure that
the voters are fully informed” about the person or group
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who is speaking, Buckley, supra, at 76; see also Bellotti,

435 U. S., at 792, n. 32 (“Identification of the source of
advertising may be required as a means of disclosure, so
that the people will be able to evaluate the arguments to
which they are being subjected”). At the very least, the
disclaimers avoid confusion by making clear that the ads
are not funded by a candidate or political party.
Citizens United argues that §311 is underinclusive
because it requires disclaimers for broadcast advertise
ments but not for print or Internet advertising. It asserts
that §311 decreases both the quantity and effectiveness of
the group’s speech by forcing it to devote four seconds of
each advertisement to the spoken disclaimer. We rejected
these arguments in McConnell, supra, at 230–231. And
we now adhere to that decision as it pertains to the disclo
sure provisions.
As a final point, Citizens United claims that, in any
event, the disclosure requirements in §201 must be con
fined to speech that is the functional equivalent of express
advocacy. The principal opinion in WRTL limited 2
U. S. C. §441b’s restrictions on independent expenditures
to express advocacy and its functional equivalent. 551
U. S., at 469–476 (opinion of ROBERTS, C. J.). Citizens
United seeks to import a similar distinction into BCRA’s
disclosure requirements. We reject this contention.
The Court has explained that disclosure is a less restric
tive alternative to more comprehensive regulations of
speech. See, e.g., MCFL, 479 U. S., at 262. In Buckley, the
Court upheld a disclosure requirement for independent
expenditures even though it invalidated a provision that
imposed a ceiling on those expenditures. 424 U. S., at 75–
76. In McConnell, three Justices who would have found
§441b to be unconstitutional nonetheless voted to uphold
BCRA’s disclosure and disclaimer requirements. 540
U. S., at 321 (opinion of KENNEDY, J., joined by Rehnquist,
C. J., and SCALIA, J.). And the Court has upheld registra
tion and disclosure requirements on lobbyists, even

though Congress has no power to ban lobbying itself.
United States v. Harriss, 347 U. S. 612, 625 (1954) (Con
gress “has merely provided for a modicum of information
from those who for hire attempt to influence legislation or
who collect or spend funds for that purpose”). For these
reasons, we reject Citizens United’s contention that the
disclosure requirements must be limited to speech that is
the functional equivalent of express advocacy.
Citizens United also disputes that an informational
interest justifies the application of §201 to its ads, which
only attempt to persuade viewers to see the film. Even if
it disclosed the funding sources for the ads, Citizens
United says, the information would not help viewers make
informed choices in the political marketplace. This is
similar to the argument rejected above with respect to
disclaimers. Even if the ads only pertain to a commercial
transaction, the public has an interest in knowing who is
speaking about a candidate shortly before an election.
Because the informational interest alone is sufficient to
justify application of §201 to these ads, it is not necessary
to consider the Government’s other asserted interests.
Last, Citizens United argues that disclosure require
ments can chill donations to an organization by exposing
donors to retaliation. Some amici point to recent events in
which donors to certain causes were blacklisted, threat
ened, or otherwise targeted for retaliation. See Brief for
Institute for Justice as Amicus Curiae 13–16; Brief for
Alliance Defense Fund as Amicus Curiae 16–22. In
McConnell, the Court recognized that §201 would be un
constitutional as applied to an organization if there were a
reasonable probability that the group’s members would
face threats, harassment, or reprisals if their names were
disclosed. 540 U. S., at 198. The examples cited by amici
are cause for concern. Citizens United, however, has
offered no evidence that its members may face similar
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threats or reprisals. To the contrary, Citizens United has

been disclosing its donors for years and has identified no
instance of harassment or retaliation.
Shareholder objections raised through the procedures of
corporate democracy, see Bellotti, supra, at 794, and n. 34,
can be more effective today because modern technology
makes disclosures rapid and informative. A campaign
finance system that pairs corporate independent expendi
tures with effective disclosure has not existed before to
day. It must be noted, furthermore, that many of Con
gress’ findings in passing BCRA were premised on a
system without adequate disclosure. See McConnell, 540
U. S., at 128 (“[T]he public may not have been fully in
formed about the sponsorship of so-called issue ads”); id.,
at 196–197 (quoting McConnell I, 251 F. Supp. 2d, at 237).
With the advent of the Internet, prompt disclosure of
expenditures can provide shareholders and citizens with
the information needed to hold corporations and elected
officials accountable for their positions and supporters.
Shareholders can determine whether their corporation’s
political speech advances the corporation’s interest in
making profits, and citizens can see whether elected offi
cials are “ ‘in the pocket’ of so-called moneyed interests.”
540 U. S., at 259 (opinion of SCALIA, J.); see MCFL, supra,
at 261. The First Amendment protects political speech;
and disclosure permits citizens and shareholders to react
to the speech of corporate entities in a proper way. This
transparency enables the electorate to make informed
decisions and give proper weight to different speakers and
messages.
C
For the same reasons we uphold the application of
BCRA §§201 and 311 to the ads, we affirm their applica
tion to Hillary. We find no constitutional impediment to
the application of BCRA’s disclaimer and disclosure re
quirements to a movie broadcast via video-on-demand.

And there has been no showing that, as applied in this
case, these requirements would impose a chill on speech or
expression.
V
When word concerning the plot of the movie Mr. Smith
Goes to Washington reached the circles of Government,
some officials sought, by persuasion, to discourage its
distribution. See Smoodin, “Compulsory” Viewing for
Every Citizen: Mr. Smith and the Rhetoric of Reception,
35 Cinema Journal 3, 19, and n. 52 (Winter 1996) (citing
Mr. Smith Riles Washington, Time, Oct. 30, 1939, p. 49);
Nugent, Capra’s Capitol Offense, N. Y. Times, Oct. 29,
1939, p. X5. Under Austin, though, officials could have
done more than discourage its distribution—they could
have banned the film. After all, it, like Hillary, was
speech funded by a corporation that was critical of Mem
bers of Congress. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington may be
fiction and caricature; but fiction and caricature can be a
powerful force.
Modern day movies, television comedies, or skits on
Youtube.com might portray public officials or public poli
cies in unflattering ways. Yet if a covered transmission
during the blackout period creates the background for
candidate endorsement or opposition, a felony occurs
solely because a corporation, other than an exempt media
corporation, has made the “purchase, payment, distribu
tion, loan, advance, deposit, or gift of money or anything of
value” in order to engage in political speech. 2 U. S. C.
§431(9)(A)(i). Speech would be suppressed in the realm
where its necessity is most evident: in the public dialogue
preceding a real election. Governments are often hostile
to speech, but under our law and our tradition it seems
stranger than fiction for our Government to make this
political speech a crime. Yet this is the statute’s purpose
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and design.
Some members of the public might consider Hillary to
be insightful and instructive; some might find it to be
neither high art nor a fair discussion on how to set the
Nation’s course; still others simply might suspend judg
ment on these points but decide to think more about issues
and candidates. Those choices and assessments, however,
are not for the Government to make. “The First Amend
ment underwrites the freedom to experiment and to create
in the realm of thought and speech. Citizens must be free
to use new forms, and new forums, for the expression of
ideas. The civic discourse belongs to the people, and the
Government may not prescribe the means used to conduct
it.” McConnell, supra, at 341 (opinion of KENNEDY, J.).
The judgment of the District Court is reversed with
respect to the constitutionality of 2 U. S. C. §441b’s re
strictions on corporate independent expenditures. The
judgment is affirmed with respect to BCRA’s disclaimer
and disclosure requirements. The case is remanded for
further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
It is so ordered.
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ROBERTS, C. J., concurring

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ELECTION COMMISSION

[January 21, 2010]
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS, with whom JUSTICE ALITO

joins, concurring.
The Government urges us in this case to uphold a direct
prohibition on political speech. It asks us to embrace a
theory of the First Amendment that would allow censor
ship not only of television and radio broadcasts, but of
pamphlets, posters, the Internet, and virtually any other
medium that corporations and unions might find useful in
expressing their views on matters of public concern. Its
theory, if accepted, would empower the Government to
prohibit newspapers from running editorials or opinion
pieces supporting or opposing candidates for office, so long
as the newspapers were owned by corporations—as the
major ones are. First Amendment rights could be confined
to individuals, subverting the vibrant public discourse
that is at the foundation of our democracy.
The Court properly rejects that theory, and I join its
opinion in full. The First Amendment protects more than
just the individual on a soapbox and the lonely pamphle
teer. I write separately to address the important princi
ples of judicial restraint and stare decisis implicated in
this case.
I
Judging the constitutionality of an Act of Congress is
“the gravest and most delicate duty that this Court is

called upon to perform.” Blodgett v. Holden, 275 U. S. 142,
147–148 (1927) (Holmes, J., concurring). Because the
stakes are so high, our standard practice is to refrain from
addressing constitutional questions except when necessary
to rule on particular claims before us. See Ashwander v.
TVA, 297 U. S. 288, 346–348 (1936) (Brandeis, J., concur
ring). This policy underlies both our willingness to con
strue ambiguous statutes to avoid constitutional problems
and our practice “ ‘never to formulate a rule of constitu
tional law broader than is required by the precise facts to
which it is to be applied.’ ” United States v. Raines, 362
U. S. 17, 21 (1960) (quoting Liverpool, New York & Phila
delphia S. S. Co. v. Commissioners of Emigration, 113
U. S. 33, 39 (1885)).
The majority and dissent are united in expressing alle
giance to these principles. Ante, at 12; post, at 14
(STEVENS, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part).
But I cannot agree with my dissenting colleagues on how
these principles apply in this case.
The majority’s step-by-step analysis accords with our
standard practice of avoiding broad constitutional ques
tions except when necessary to decide the case before us.
The majority begins by addressing—and quite properly
rejecting—Citizens United’s statutory claim that 2 U. S. C.
§441b does not actually cover its production and distribu
tion of Hillary: The Movie (hereinafter Hillary). If there
were a valid basis for deciding this statutory claim in
Citizens United’s favor (and thereby avoiding constitu
tional adjudication), it would be proper to do so. Indeed,
that is precisely the approach the Court took just last
Term in Northwest Austin Municipal Util. Dist. No. One v.
Holder, 557 U. S. ___ (2009), when eight Members of the
Court agreed to decide the case on statutory grounds
instead of reaching the appellant’s broader argument that
the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional.
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It is only because the majority rejects Citizens United’s

statutory claim that it proceeds to consider the group’s
various constitutional arguments, beginning with its
narrowest claim (that Hillary is not the functional equiva
lent of express advocacy) and proceeding to its broadest
claim (that Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, 494
U. S. 652 (1990) should be overruled). This is the same
order of operations followed by the controlling opinion in
Federal Election Comm’n v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc.,
551 U. S. 449 (2007) (WRTL). There the appellant was
able to prevail on its narrowest constitutional argument
because its broadcast ads did not qualify as the functional
equivalent of express advocacy; there was thus no need to
go on to address the broader claim that McConnell v.
Federal Election Comm’n, 540 U. S. 93 (2003), should be
overruled. WRTL, 551 U. S., at 482; id., at 482–483
(ALITO, J., concurring). This case is different—not, as the
dissent suggests, because the approach taken in WRTL
has been deemed a “failure,” post, at 11, but because, in
the absence of any valid narrower ground of decision,
there is no way to avoid Citizens United’s broader consti
tutional argument.
The dissent advocates an approach to addressing Citi
zens United’s claims that I find quite perplexing. It pre
sumably agrees with the majority that Citizens United’s
narrower statutory and constitutional arguments lack
merit—otherwise its conclusion that the group should lose
this case would make no sense. Despite agreeing that
these narrower arguments fail, however, the dissent ar
gues that the majority should nonetheless latch on to one
of them in order to avoid reaching the broader constitu
tional question of whether Austin remains good law. It
even suggests that the Court’s failure to adopt one of these
concededly meritless arguments is a sign that the majority
is not “serious about judicial restraint.” Post, at 16.
This approach is based on a false premise: that our
practice of avoiding unnecessary (and unnecessarily

broad) constitutional holdings somehow trumps our obli
gation faithfully to interpret the law. It should go without
saying, however, that we cannot embrace a narrow ground
of decision simply because it is narrow; it must also be
right. Thus while it is true that “[i]f it is not necessary to
decide more, it is necessary not to decide more,” post, at 14
(internal quotation marks omitted), sometimes it is neces
sary to decide more. There is a difference between judicial
restraint and judicial abdication. When constitutional
questions are “indispensably necessary” to resolving the
case at hand, “the court must meet and decide them.” Ex
parte Randolph, 20 F. Cas. 242, 254 (No. 11, 558) (CC Va.
1833) (Marshall, C. J.).
Because it is necessary to reach Citizens United’s
broader argument that Austin should be overruled, the
debate over whether to consider this claim on an as
applied or facial basis strikes me as largely beside the
point. Citizens United has standing—it is being injured
by the Government’s enforcement of the Act. Citizens
United has a constitutional claim—the Act violates the
First Amendment, because it prohibits political speech.
The Government has a defense—the Act may be enforced,
consistent with the First Amendment, against corpora
tions. Whether the claim or the defense prevails is the
question before us.
Given the nature of that claim and defense, it makes no
difference of any substance whether this case is resolved
by invalidating the statute on its face or only as applied to
Citizens United. Even if considered in as-applied terms, a
holding in this case that the Act may not be applied to
Citizens United—because corporations as well as indi
viduals enjoy the pertinent First Amendment rights—
would mean that any other corporation raising the same
challenge would also win. Likewise, a conclusion that the
Act may be applied to Citizens United—because it is
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constitutional to prohibit corporate political speech—

would similarly govern future cases. Regardless whether
we label Citizens United’s claim a “facial” or “as-applied”
challenge, the consequences of the Court’s decision are the
same.1
II
The text and purpose of the First Amendment point in
the same direction: Congress may not prohibit political
speech, even if the speaker is a corporation or union.
What makes this case difficult is the need to confront our
prior decision in Austin.
This is the first case in which we have been asked to
overrule Austin, and thus it is also the first in which we
have had reason to consider how much weight to give stare
decisis in assessing its continued validity. The dissent
erroneously declares that the Court “reaffirmed” Austin’s
holding in subsequent cases—namely, Federal Election
Comm’n v. Beaumont, 539 U. S. 146 (2003); McConnell;
and WRTL. Post, at 48–50. Not so. Not a single party in
any of those cases asked us to overrule Austin, and as the
dissent points out, post, at 4–6, the Court generally does
not consider constitutional arguments that have not prop
erly been raised. Austin’s validity was therefore not di
rectly at issue in the cases the dissent cites. The Court’s
unwillingness to overturn Austin in those cases cannot be
understood as a reaffirmation of that decision.
A
Fidelity to precedent—the policy of stare decisis—is vital
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1 The dissent suggests that I am “much too quick” to reach this con
clusion because I “ignore” Citizens United’s narrower arguments. Post,

at 13, n. 12. But in fact I do not ignore those arguments; on the con
trary, I (and my colleagues in the majority) appropriately consider and
reject them on their merits, before addressing Citizens United’s broader
claims. Supra, at 2–3; ante, at 5–12.
to the proper exercise of the judicial function. “Stare

decisis is the preferred course because it promotes the
evenhanded, predictable, and consistent development of
legal principles, fosters reliance on judicial decisions, and
contributes to the actual and perceived integrity of the
judicial process.” Payne v. Tennessee, 501 U. S. 808, 827
(1991). For these reasons, we have long recognized that
departures from precedent are inappropriate in the ab
sence of a “special justification.” Arizona v. Rumsey, 467
U. S. 203, 212 (1984).
At the same time, stare decisis is neither an “inexorable
command,” Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U. S. 558, 577 (2003),
nor “a mechanical formula of adherence to the latest deci
sion,” Helvering v. Hallock, 309 U. S. 106, 119 (1940),
especially in constitutional cases, see United States v.
Scott, 437 U. S. 82, 101 (1978). If it were, segregation
would be legal, minimum wage laws would be unconstitu
tional, and the Government could wiretap ordinary crimi
nal suspects without first obtaining warrants. See Plessy
v. Ferguson, 163 U. S. 537 (1896), overruled by Brown v.
Board of Education, 347 U. S. 483 (1954); Adkins v. Chil
dren’s Hospital of D. C., 261 U. S. 525 (1923), overruled by
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U. S. 379 (1937);
Olmstead v. United States, 277 U. S. 438 (1928), overruled
by Katz v. United States, 389 U. S. 347 (1967). As the
dissent properly notes, none of us has viewed stare decisis
in such absolute terms. Post, at 17; see also, e.g., Randall
v. Sorrell, 548 U. S. 230, 274–281 (2006) (STEVENS, J.,
dissenting) (urging the Court to overrule its invalidation of
limits on independent expenditures on political speech in
Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U. S. 1 (1976) (per curiam)).
Stare decisis is instead a “principle of policy.” Helvering,
supra, at 119. When considering whether to reexamine a
prior erroneous holding, we must balance the importance
of having constitutional questions decided against the
importance of having them decided right. As Justice
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Jackson explained, this requires a “sober appraisal of the

disadvantages of the innovation as well as those of the
questioned case, a weighing of practical effects of one
against the other.” Jackson, Decisional Law and Stare
Decisis, 30 A. B. A. J. 334 (1944).
In conducting this balancing, we must keep in mind that
stare decisis is not an end in itself. It is instead “the
means by which we ensure that the law will not merely
change erratically, but will develop in a principled and
intelligible fashion.” Vasquez v. Hillery, 474 U. S. 254, 265
(1986). Its greatest purpose is to serve a constitutional
ideal—the rule of law. It follows that in the unusual
circumstance when fidelity to any particular precedent
does more to damage this constitutional ideal than to
advance it, we must be more willing to depart from that
precedent.
Thus, for example, if the precedent under consideration
itself departed from the Court’s jurisprudence, returning
to the “ ‘intrinsically sounder’ doctrine established in prior
cases” may “better serv[e] the values of stare decisis than
would following [the] more recently decided case inconsis
tent with the decisions that came before it.” Adarand
Constructors, Inc. v. Peña, 515 U. S. 200, 231 (1995); see
also Helvering, supra, at 119; Randall, supra, at 274
(STEVENS, J., dissenting). Abrogating the errant prece
dent, rather than reaffirming or extending it, might better
preserve the law’s coherence and curtail the precedent’s
disruptive effects.
Likewise, if adherence to a precedent actually impedes
the stable and orderly adjudication of future cases, its
stare decisis effect is also diminished. This can happen in
a number of circumstances, such as when the precedent’s
validity is so hotly contested that it cannot reliably func
tion as a basis for decision in future cases, when its ra
tionale threatens to upend our settled jurisprudence in
related areas of law, and when the precedent’s underlying
reasoning has become so discredited that the Court cannot

keep the precedent alive without jury-rigging new and
different justifications to shore up the original mistake.
See, e.g., Pearson v. Callahan, 555 U. S. ___, ___ (2009)
(slip op., at 10); Montejo v. Louisiana, 556 U. S. ___, ___
(2009) (slip op., at 13) (stare decisis does not control when
adherence to the prior decision requires “fundamentally
revising its theoretical basis”).
B
These considerations weigh against retaining our deci
sion in Austin. First, as the majority explains, that deci
sion was an “aberration” insofar as it departed from the
robust protections we had granted political speech in our
earlier cases. Ante, at 39; see also Buckley, supra; First
Nat. Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, 435 U. S. 765 (1978).
Austin undermined the careful line that Buckley drew to
distinguish limits on contributions to candidates from
limits on independent expenditures on speech. Buckley
rejected the asserted government interest in regulating
independent expenditures, concluding that “restrict[ing]
the speech of some elements of our society in order to
enhance the relative voice of others is wholly foreign to the
First Amendment.” 424 U. S., at 48–49; see also Bellotti,
supra, at 790–791; Citizens Against Rent Con
trol/Coalition for Fair Housing v. Berkeley, 454 U. S. 290,
295 (1981). Austin, however, allowed the Government to
prohibit these same expenditures out of concern for “the
corrosive and distorting effects of immense aggregations of
wealth” in the marketplace of ideas. 494 U. S., at 660.
Austin’s reasoning was—and remains—inconsistent with
Buckley’s explicit repudiation of any government interest
in “equalizing the relative ability of individuals and
groups to influence the outcome of elections.” 424 U. S., at
48–49.
Austin was also inconsistent with Bellotti’s clear rejec
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tion of the idea that “speech that otherwise would be

within the protection of the First Amendment loses that
protection simply because its source is a corporation.” 435
U. S., at 784. The dissent correctly points out that Bellotti
involved a referendum rather than a candidate election,
and that Bellotti itself noted this factual distinction, id., at
788, n. 26; post, at 52. But this distinction does not ex
plain why corporations may be subject to prohibitions on
speech in candidate elections when individuals may not.
Second, the validity of Austin’s rationale—itself adopted
over two “spirited dissents,” Payne, 501 U. S., at 829—has
proved to be the consistent subject of dispute among Mem
bers of this Court ever since. See, e.g., WRTL, 551 U. S.,
at 483 (SCALIA, J., joined by KENNEDY and THOMAS, JJ.,
concurring in part and concurring in judgment); McCon
nell, 540 U. S., at 247, 264, 286 (opinions of SCALIA,
THOMAS, and KENNEDY, JJ.); Beaumont, 539 U. S., at 163,
164 (opinions of KENNEDY and THOMAS, JJ.). The simple
fact that one of our decisions remains controversial is, of
course, insufficient to justify overruling it. But it does
undermine the precedent’s ability to contribute to the
stable and orderly development of the law. In such cir
cumstances, it is entirely appropriate for the Court—
which in this case is squarely asked to reconsider Austin’s
validity for the first time—to address the matter with a
greater willingness to consider new approaches capable of
restoring our doctrine to sounder footing.
Third, the Austin decision is uniquely destabilizing
because it threatens to subvert our Court’s decisions even
outside the particular context of corporate express advo
cacy. The First Amendment theory underlying Austin’s
holding is extraordinarily broad. Austin’s logic would
authorize government prohibition of political speech by a
category of speakers in the name of equality—a point that
most scholars acknowledge (and many celebrate), but that
the dissent denies. Compare, e.g., Garrett, New Voices in
Politics: Justice Marshall’s Jurisprudence on Law and

Politics, 52 Howard L. J. 655, 669 (2009) (Austin “has been
understood by most commentators to be an opinion driven
by equality considerations, albeit disguised in the lan
guage of ‘political corruption’ ”) with post, at 74 (Austin’s
rationale “is manifestly not just an ‘equalizing’ ideal in
disguise”).2
It should not be surprising, then, that Members of the
Court have relied on Austin’s expansive logic to justify
greater incursions on the First Amendment, even outside
the original context of corporate advocacy on behalf of
candidates running for office. See, e.g., Davis v. Federal
Election Comm’n, 554 U. S. ___, ___ (2008) (slip op., at 7–
8) (STEVENS, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part)
(relying on Austin and other cases to justify restrictions on
campaign spending by individual candidates, explaining
that “there is no reason that their logic—specifically, their
concerns about the corrosive and distorting effects of
wealth on our political process—is not equally applicable
in the context of individual wealth”); McConnell, supra, at
203–209 (extending Austin beyond its original context to
cover not only the “functional equivalent” of express advo
cacy by corporations, but also electioneering speech con
ducted by labor unions). The dissent in this case suc
cumbs to the same temptation, suggesting that Austin
justifies prohibiting corporate speech because such speech
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2 See also, e.g., R. Hasen, The Supreme Court and Election Law:
Judging Equality from Baker v. Carr to Bush v. Gore 114 (2003) (“Aus
tin represents the first and only case [before McConnell] in which a
majority of the Court accepted, in deed if not in word, the equality
rationale as a permissible state interest”); Strauss, Corruption, Equal
ity, and Campaign Finance Reform, 94 Colum. L. Rev. 1369, 1369, and
n. 1 (1994) (noting that Austin’s rationale was based on equalizing
political speech); Ashdown, Controlling Campaign Spending and the
“New Corruption”: Waiting for the Court, 44 Vand. L. Rev. 767, 781
(1991); Eule, Promoting Speaker Diversity: Austin and Metro Broad
casting, 1990 S. Ct. Rev. 105, 108–111.
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might unduly influence “the market for legislation.” Post,

at 82. The dissent reads Austin to permit restrictions on
corporate speech based on nothing more than the fact that
the corporate form may help individuals coordinate and
present their views more effectively. Post, at 82. A
speaker’s ability to persuade, however, provides no basis
for government regulation of free and open public debate
on what the laws should be.
If taken seriously, Austin’s logic would apply most di
rectly to newspapers and other media corporations. They
have a more profound impact on public discourse than
most other speakers. These corporate entities are, for the
time being, not subject to §441b’s otherwise generally
applicable prohibitions on corporate political speech. But
this is simply a matter of legislative grace. The fact that
the law currently grants a favored position to media cor
porations is no reason to overlook the danger inherent in
accepting a theory that would allow government restric
tions on their political speech. See generally McConnell,
supra, at 283–286 (THOMAS, J., concurring in part, concur
ring in judgment in part, and dissenting in part).
These readings of Austin do no more than carry that
decision’s reasoning to its logical endpoint. In doing so,
they highlight the threat Austin poses to First Amend
ment rights generally, even outside its specific factual
context of corporate express advocacy. Because Austin is
so difficult to confine to its facts—and because its logic
threatens to undermine our First Amendment jurispru
dence and the nature of public discourse more broadly—
the costs of giving it stare decisis effect are unusually high.
Finally and most importantly, the Government’s own
effort to defend Austin—or, more accurately, to defend
something that is not quite Austin—underscores its weak
ness as a precedent of the Court. The Government con
cedes that Austin “is not the most lucid opinion,” yet asks
us to reaffirm its holding. Tr. of Oral Arg. 62 (Sept. 9,
2009). But while invoking stare decisis to support this

position, the Government never once even mentions the
compelling interest that Austin relied upon in the first
place: the need to diminish “the corrosive and distorting
effects of immense aggregations of wealth that are accu
mulated with the help of the corporate form and that have
little or no correlation to the public’s support for the corpo
ration’s political ideas.” 494 U. S., at 660.
Instead of endorsing Austin on its own terms, the Gov
ernment urges us to reaffirm Austin’s specific holding on
the basis of two new and potentially expansive interests—
the need to prevent actual or apparent quid pro quo cor
ruption, and the need to protect corporate shareholders.
See Supp. Brief for Appellee 8–10, 12–13. Those interests
may or may not support the result in Austin, but they were
plainly not part of the reasoning on which Austin relied.
To its credit, the Government forthrightly concedes that
Austin did not embrace either of the new rationales it now
urges upon us. See, e.g., Supp. Brief for Appellee 11 (“The
Court did not decide in Austin . . . whether the compelling
interest in preventing actual or apparent corruption pro
vides a constitutionally sufficient justification for prohibit
ing the use of corporate treasury funds for independent
electioneering”); Tr. of Oral Arg. 45 (Sept. 9, 2009) (“Aus
tin did not articulate what we believe to be the strongest
compelling interest”); id., at 61 (“[The Court:] I take it we
have never accepted your shareholder protection interest.
This is a new argument. [The Government:] I think that
that’s fair”); id., at 64 (“[The Court:] In other words, you
are asking us to uphold Austin on the basis of two argu
ments, two principles, two compelling interests we have
never accepted in [the context of limits on political expen
ditures]. [The Government:] [I]n this particular context,
fair enough”).
To be clear: The Court in Austin nowhere relied upon
the only arguments the Government now raises to support
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that decision. In fact, the only opinion in Austin endorsing

the Government’s argument based on the threat of quid
pro quo corruption was JUSTICE STEVENS’s concurrence.
494 U. S., at 678. The Court itself did not do so, despite
the fact that the concurrence highlighted the argument.
Moreover, the Court’s only discussion of shareholder pro
tection in Austin appeared in a section of the opinion that
sought merely to distinguish Austin’s facts from those of
Federal Election Comm’n v. Massachusetts Citizens for
Life, Inc., 479 U. S. 238 (1986). Austin, supra, at 663.
Nowhere did Austin suggest that the goal of protecting
shareholders is itself a compelling interest authorizing
restrictions on First Amendment rights.
To the extent that the Government’s case for reaffirming
Austin depends on radically reconceptualizing its reason
ing, that argument is at odds with itself. Stare decisis is a
doctrine of preservation, not transformation. It counsels
deference to past mistakes, but provides no justification
for making new ones. There is therefore no basis for the
Court to give precedential sway to reasoning that it has
never accepted, simply because that reasoning happens to
support a conclusion reached on different grounds that
have since been abandoned or discredited.
Doing so would undermine the rule-of-law values that
justify stare decisis in the first place. It would effectively
license the Court to invent and adopt new principles of
constitutional law solely for the purpose of rationalizing
its past errors, without a proper analysis of whether those
principles have merit on their own. This approach would
allow the Court’s past missteps to spawn future mistakes,
undercutting the very rule-of-law values that stare decisis
is designed to protect.
None of this is to say that the Government is barred
from making new arguments to support the outcome in
Austin. On the contrary, it is free to do so. And of course
the Court is free to accept them. But the Government’s
new arguments must stand or fall on their own; they are

not entitled to receive the special deference we accord to
precedent. They are, as grounds to support Austin, liter
ally unprecedented. Moreover, to the extent the Govern
ment relies on new arguments—and declines to defend
Austin on its own terms—we may reasonably infer that it
lacks confidence in that decision’s original justification.
Because continued adherence to Austin threatens to
subvert the “principled and intelligible” development of
our First Amendment jurisprudence, Vasquez, 474 U. S.,
at 265, I support the Court’s determination to overrule
that decision.
* * *
We have had two rounds of briefing in this case, two oral
arguments, and 54 amicus briefs to help us carry out our
obligation to decide the necessary constitutional questions
according to law. We have also had the benefit of a com
prehensive dissent that has helped ensure that the Court
has considered all the relevant issues. This careful con
sideration convinces me that Congress violates the First
Amendment when it decrees that some speakers may not
engage in political speech at election time, when it matters
most.
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SCALIA, J., concurring

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ELECTION COMMISSION

[January 21, 2010]
JUSTICE SCALIA, with whom JUSTICE ALITO joins, and

with whom JUSTICE THOMAS joins in part, concurring.
I join the opinion of the Court.1
I write separately to address JUSTICE STEVENS’ discus
sion of “Original Understandings,” post, at 34 (opinion
concurring in part and dissenting in part) (hereinafter
referred to as the dissent). This section of the dissent
purports to show that today’s decision is not supported by
the original understanding of the First Amendment. The
dissent attempts this demonstration, however, in splendid
isolation from the text of the First Amendment. It never
shows why “the freedom of speech” that was the right of
Englishmen did not include the freedom to speak in asso
ciation with other individuals, including association in the
corporate form. To be sure, in 1791 (as now) corporations
could pursue only the objectives set forth in their charters;
but the dissent provides no evidence that their speech in
the pursuit of those objectives could be censored.
Instead of taking this straightforward approach to
determining the Amendment’s meaning, the dissent em
barks on a detailed exploration of the Framers’ views
about the “role of corporations in society.” Post, at 35.
The Framers didn’t like corporations, the dissent con
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1 JUSTICE THOMAS does not join Part IV of the Court’s opinion.
cludes, and therefore it follows (as night the day) that

corporations had no rights of free speech. Of course the
Framers’ personal affection or disaffection for corporations
is relevant only insofar as it can be thought to be reflected
in the understood meaning of the text they enacted—not,
as the dissent suggests, as a freestanding substitute for
that text. But the dissent’s distortion of proper analysis is
even worse than that. Though faced with a constitutional
text that makes no distinction between types of speakers,
the dissent feels no necessity to provide even an isolated
statement from the founding era to the effect that corpora
tions are not covered, but places the burden on petitioners
to bring forward statements showing that they are (“there
is not a scintilla of evidence to support the notion that
anyone believed [the First Amendment] would preclude
regulatory distinctions based on the corporate form,” post,
at 34–35).
Despite the corporation-hating quotations the dissent
has dredged up, it is far from clear that by the end of the
18th century corporations were despised. If so, how came
there to be so many of them? The dissent’s statement that
there were few business corporations during the eight
eenth century—“only a few hundred during all of the 18th
century”—is misleading. Post, at 35, n. 53. There were
approximately 335 charters issued to business corpora
tions in the United States by the end of the 18th century.2
See 2 J. Davis, Essays in the Earlier History of American
Corporations 24 (1917) (reprint 2006) (hereinafter Davis).
This was a “considerable extension of corporate enterprise
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2 The dissent protests that 1791 rather than 1800 should be the rele
vant date, and that “[m]ore than half of the century’s total business
charters were issued between 1796 and 1800.” Post, at 35, n. 53. I used
1800 only because the dissent did. But in any case, it is surely fanciful
to think that a consensus of hostility towards corporations was trans
formed into general favor at some magical moment between 1791 and
1796.
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in the field of business,” Davis 8, and represented “un

precedented growth,” id., at 309. Moreover, what seems
like a small number by today’s standards surely does not
indicate the relative importance of corporations when the
Nation was considerably smaller. As I have previously
noted, “[b]y the end of the eighteenth century the corpora
tion was a familiar figure in American economic life.”
McConnell v. Federal Election Comm’n, 540 U. S. 93, 256
(2003) (SCALIA, J., concurring in part, concurring in judg
ment in part, and dissenting in part) (quoting C. Cooke,
Corporation Trust and Company 92 (1951) (hereinafter
Cooke)).
Even if we thought it proper to apply the dissent’s ap
proach of excluding from First Amendment coverage what
the Founders disliked, and even if we agreed that the
Founders disliked founding-era corporations; modern
corporations might not qualify for exclusion. Most of the
Founders’ resentment towards corporations was directed
at the state-granted monopoly privileges that individually
chartered corporations enjoyed.3 Modern corporations do
not have such privileges, and would probably have been
favored by most of our enterprising Founders—excluding,
perhaps, Thomas Jefferson and others favoring perpetua
tion of an agrarian society. Moreover, if the Founders’
specific intent with respect to corporations is what mat
ters, why does the dissent ignore the Founders’ views
about other legal entities that have more in common with
modern business corporations than the founding-era cor
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3 “[P]eople in 1800 identified corporations with franchised monopo
lies.” L. Friedman, A History of American Law 194 (2d ed. 1985)
(hereinafter Friedman). “The chief cause for the changed popular
attitude towards business corporations that marked the opening of the
nineteenth century was the elimination of their inherent monopolistic
character. This was accomplished primarily by an extension of the
principle of free incorporation under general laws.” 1 W. Fletcher,
Cyclopedia of the Law of Corporations §2, p. 8 (rev. ed. 2006).
porations? At the time of the founding, religious, educa

tional, and literary corporations were incorporated under
general incorporation statutes, much as business corpora
tions are today.4 See Davis 16–17; R. Seavoy, Origins of
the American Business Corporation, 1784–1855, p. 5
(1982); Cooke 94. There were also small unincorporated
business associations, which some have argued were the
“ ‘true progenitors’ ” of today’s business corporations.
Friedman 200 (quoting S. Livermore, Early American
Land Companies: Their Influence on Corporate Develop
ment 216 (1939)); see also Davis 33. Were all of these
silently excluded from the protections of the First
Amendment?
The lack of a textual exception for speech by corpora
tions cannot be explained on the ground that such organi
zations did not exist or did not speak. To the contrary,
colleges, towns and cities, religious institutions, and guilds
had long been organized as corporations at common law
and under the King’s charter, see 1 W. Blackstone, Com
mentaries on the Laws of England 455–473 (1765); 1 S.
Kyd, A Treatise on the Law of Corporations 1–32, 63
(1793) (reprinted 2006), and as I have discussed, the prac
tice of incorporation only expanded in the United States.
Both corporations and voluntary associations actively
petitioned the Government and expressed their views in
newspapers and pamphlets. For example: An antislavery
Quaker corporation petitioned the First Congress, distrib
uted pamphlets, and communicated through the press in
1790. W. diGiacomantonio, “For the Gratification of a
Volunteering Society”: Antislavery and Pressure Group
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4 At times (though not always) the dissent seems to exclude such non
“business corporations” from its denial of free speech rights. See post,
at 37. Finding in a seemingly categorical text a distinction between the
rights of business corporations and the rights of non-business corpora
tions is even more imaginative than finding a distinction between the
rights of all corporations and the rights of other associations.
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Politics in the First Federal Congress, 15 J. Early Repub

lic 169 (1995). The New York Sons of Liberty sent a circu
lar to colonies farther south in 1766. P. Maier, From
Resistance to Revolution 79–80 (1972). And the Society
for the Relief and Instruction of Poor Germans circulated a
biweekly paper from 1755 to 1757. Adams, The Colonial
German-language Press and the American Revolution, in
The Press & the American Revolution 151, 161–162 (B.
Bailyn & J. Hench eds. 1980). The dissent offers no evi
dence—none whatever—that the First Amendment’s
unqualified text was originally understood to exclude such
associational speech from its protection.5
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5 The best the dissent can come up with is that “[p]ostratification
practice” supports its reading of the First Amendment. Post, at 40,
n. 56. For this proposition, the dissent cites Justice White’s statement
(in dissent) that “[t]he common law was generally interpreted as
prohibiting corporate political participation,” First Nat. Bank of Boston
v. Bellotti, 435 U. S. 765, 819 (1978). The sole authority Justice White
cited for this proposition, id., at 819, n. 14, was a law-review note that
made no such claim. To the contrary, it stated that the cases dealing
with the propriety of corporate political expenditures were “few.” Note,
Corporate Political Affairs Programs, 70 Yale L. J. 821, 852 (1961).
More specifically, the note cites only two holdings to that effect, one by
a Federal District Court, and one by the Supreme Court of Montana.
Id., at 852, n. 197. Of course even if the common law was “generally
interpreted” to prohibit corporate political expenditures as ultra vires,
that would have nothing to do with whether political expenditures that
were authorized by a corporation’s charter could constitutionally be
suppressed.
As additional “[p]ostratification practice,” the dissent notes that the
Court “did not recognize any First Amendment protections for corpora
tions until the middle part of the 20th century.” Post, at 40, n. 56. But
it did that in Grosjean v. American Press Co., 297 U. S. 233 (1936), a
case involving freedom of the press—which the dissent acknowledges
did cover corporations from the outset. The relative recency of that
first case is unsurprising. All of our First Amendment jurisprudence
was slow to develop. We did not consider application of the First
Amendment to speech restrictions other than prior restraints until
1919, see Schenck v. United States, 249 U. S. 47 (1919); we did not
invalidate a state law on First Amendment grounds until 1931, see
Historical evidence relating to the textually similar

clause “the freedom of . . . the press” also provides no
support for the proposition that the First Amendment
excludes conduct of artificial legal entities from the scope
of its protection. The freedom of “the press” was widely
understood to protect the publishing activities of individ
ual editors and printers. See McIntyre v. Ohio Elections
Comm’n, 514 U. S. 334, 360 (1995) (THOMAS, J., concur
ring in judgment); see also McConnell, 540 U. S., at 252–
253 (opinion of SCALIA, J.). But these individuals often
acted through newspapers, which (much like corporations)
had their own names, outlived the individuals who had
founded them, could be bought and sold, were sometimes
owned by more than one person, and were operated for
profit. See generally F. Mott, American Journalism: A
History of Newspapers in the United States Through 250
Years 3–164 (1941); J. Smith, Freedom’s Fetters (1956).
Their activities were not stripped of First Amendment
protection simply because they were carried out under the
banner of an artificial legal entity. And the notion which
follows from the dissent’s view, that modern newspapers,
since they are incorporated, have free-speech rights only
at the sufferance of Congress, boggles the mind.6
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Stromberg v. California, 283 U. S. 359 (1931), and a federal law until
1965, see Lamont v. Postmaster General, 381 U. S. 301 (1965).
6 The dissent seeks to avoid this conclusion (and to turn a liability
into an asset) by interpreting the Freedom of the Press Clause to refer

to the institutional press (thus demonstrating, according to the dissent,
that the Founders “did draw distinctions—explicit distinctions—
between types of ‘speakers,’ or speech outlets or forms ”). Post, at 40
and n. 57. It is passing strange to interpret the phrase “the freedom of
speech, or of the press” to mean, not everyone’s right to speak or pub
lish, but rather everyone’s right to speak or the institutional press’s
right to publish. No one thought that is what it meant. Patriot Noah
Webster’s 1828 dictionary contains, under the word “press,” the follow
ing entry:
“Liberty of the press, in civil policy, is the free right of publishing
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In passing, the dissent also claims that the Court’s

conception of corruption is unhistorical. The Framers
“would have been appalled,” it says, by the evidence of
corruption in the congressional findings supporting the
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002. Post, at 61.
For this proposition, the dissent cites a law review article
arguing that “corruption” was originally understood to
include “moral decay” and even actions taken by citizens
in pursuit of private rather than public ends. Teachout,
The Anti-Corruption Principle, 94 Cornell L. Rev. 341,
373, 378 (2009). It is hard to see how this has anything to
do with what sort of corruption can be combated by re
strictions on political speech. Moreover, if speech can be
prohibited because, in the view of the Government, it leads
to “moral decay” or does not serve “public ends,” then
there is no limit to the Government’s censorship power.
The dissent says that when the Framers “constitutional
ized the right to free speech in the First Amendment, it
was the free speech of individual Americans that they had
in mind.” Post, at 37. That is no doubt true. All the
provisions of the Bill of Rights set forth the rights of indi
vidual men and women—not, for example, of trees or polar
bears. But the individual person’s right to speak includes
the right to speak in association with other individual
persons. Surely the dissent does not believe that speech
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books, pamphlets, or papers without previous restraint; or the unre
strained right which every citizen enjoys of publishing his thoughts and
opinions, subject only to punishment for publishing what is pernicious
to morals or to the peace of the state.” 2 American Dictionary of the
English Language (1828) (reprinted 1970).
As the Court’s opinion describes, ante, at 36, our jurisprudence
agrees with Noah Webster and contradicts the dissent.
“The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodi
cals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. . . . The press in
its historical connotation comprehends every sort of publication which
affords a vehicle of information and opinion.” Lovell v. City of Griffin,
303 U. S. 444, 452 (1938).
by the Republican Party or the Democratic Party can be

censored because it is not the speech of “an individual
American.” It is the speech of many individual Americans,
who have associated in a common cause, giving the leader
ship of the party the right to speak on their behalf. The
association of individuals in a business corporation is no
different—or at least it cannot be denied the right to speak
on the simplistic ground that it is not “an individual
American.”7
But to return to, and summarize, my principal point,
which is the conformity of today’s opinion with the original
meaning of the First Amendment. The Amendment is
written in terms of “speech,” not speakers. Its text offers
no foothold for excluding any category of speaker, from
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7 Thedissent says that “ ‘speech’ ” refers to oral communications of
human beings, and since corporations are not human beings they
cannot speak. Post, at 37, n. 55. This is sophistry. The authorized
spokesman of a corporation is a human being, who speaks on behalf of
the human beings who have formed that association—just as the
spokesman of an unincorporated association speaks on behalf of its
members. The power to publish thoughts, no less than the power to
speak thoughts, belongs only to human beings, but the dissent sees no
problem with a corporation’s enjoying the freedom of the press.
The same footnote asserts that “it has been ‘claimed that the notion
of institutional speech . . . did not exist in post-revolutionary America.’ ”
This is quoted from a law-review article by a Bigelow Fellow at the
University of Chicago (Fagundes, State Actors as First Amendment
Speakers, 100 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1637, 1654 (2006)), which offers as the
sole support for its statement a treatise dealing with government
speech, M. Yudof, When Government Speaks 42–50 (1983). The cited
pages of that treatise provide no support whatever for the statement—
unless, as seems overwhelmingly likely, the “institutional speech”
referred to was speech by the subject of the law-review article, govern
mental institutions.
The other authority cited in the footnote, a law-review article by a
professor at Washington and Lee Law School, Bezanson, Institutional
Speech, 80 Iowa L. Rev. 735, 775 (1995), in fact contradicts the dissent,
in that it would accord free-speech protection to associations.
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single individuals to partnerships of individuals, to unin

corporated associations of individuals, to incorporated
associations of individuals—and the dissent offers no
evidence about the original meaning of the text to support
any such exclusion. We are therefore simply left with the
question whether the speech at issue in this case is
“speech” covered by the First Amendment. No one says
otherwise. A documentary film critical of a potential
Presidential candidate is core political speech, and its
nature as such does not change simply because it was
funded by a corporation. Nor does the character of that
funding produce any reduction whatever in the “inherent
worth of the speech” and “its capacity for informing the
public,” First Nat. Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, 435 U. S.
765, 777 (1978). Indeed, to exclude or impede corporate
speech is to muzzle the principal agents of the modern free
economy. We should celebrate rather than condemn the
addition of this speech to the public debate.
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Opinion of STEVENS, J.

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No. 08–205
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ELECTION COMMISSION

[January 21, 2010]
JUSTICE STEVENS, with whom JUSTICE GINSBURG,

JUSTICE BREYER, and JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR join, concur
ring in part and dissenting in part.
The real issue in this case concerns how, not if, the
appellant may finance its electioneering. Citizens United
is a wealthy nonprofit corporation that runs a political
action committee (PAC) with millions of dollars in assets.
Under the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002
(BCRA), it could have used those assets to televise and
promote Hillary: The Movie wherever and whenever it
wanted to. It also could have spent unrestricted sums to
broadcast Hillary at any time other than the 30 days
before the last primary election. Neither Citizens United’s
nor any other corporation’s speech has been “banned,”
ante, at 1. All that the parties dispute is whether Citizens
United had a right to use the funds in its general treasury
to pay for broadcasts during the 30-day period. The notion
that the First Amendment dictates an affirmative answer
to that question is, in my judgment, profoundly misguided.
Even more misguided is the notion that the Court must
rewrite the law relating to campaign expenditures by for
profit corporations and unions to decide this case.
The basic premise underlying the Court’s ruling is its
iteration, and constant reiteration, of the proposition that
the First Amendment bars regulatory distinctions based
on a speaker’s identity, including its “identity” as a corpo

ration. While that glittering generality has rhetorical
appeal, it is not a correct statement of the law. Nor does it
tell us when a corporation may engage in electioneering
that some of its shareholders oppose. It does not even
resolve the specific question whether Citizens United may
be required to finance some of its messages with the
money in its PAC. The conceit that corporations must be
treated identically to natural persons in the political
sphere is not only inaccurate but also inadequate to justify
the Court’s disposition of this case.
In the context of election to public office, the distinction
between corporate and human speakers is significant.
Although they make enormous contributions to our soci
ety, corporations are not actually members of it. They
cannot vote or run for office. Because they may be man
aged and controlled by nonresidents, their interests may
conflict in fundamental respects with the interests of
eligible voters. The financial resources, legal structure,
and instrumental orientation of corporations raise legiti
mate concerns about their role in the electoral process.
Our lawmakers have a compelling constitutional basis, if
not also a democratic duty, to take measures designed to
guard against the potentially deleterious effects of corpo
rate spending in local and national races.
The majority’s approach to corporate electioneering
marks a dramatic break from our past. Congress has
placed special limitations on campaign spending by corpo
rations ever since the passage of the Tillman Act in 1907,
ch. 420, 34 Stat. 864. We have unanimously concluded
that this “reflects a permissible assessment of the dangers
posed by those entities to the electoral process,” FEC v.
National Right to Work Comm., 459 U. S. 197, 209 (1982)
(NRWC), and have accepted the “legislative judgment that
the special characteristics of the corporate structure re
quire particularly careful regulation,” id., at 209–210. The
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Court today rejects a century of history when it treats the

distinction between corporate and individual campaign
spending as an invidious novelty born of Austin v. Michi
gan Chamber of Commerce, 494 U. S. 652 (1990). Relying
largely on individual dissenting opinions, the majority
blazes through our precedents, overruling or disavowing a
body of case law including FEC v. Wisconsin Right to Life,
Inc., 551 U. S. 449 (2007) (WRTL), McConnell v. FEC, 540
U. S. 93 (2003), FEC v. Beaumont, 539 U. S. 146 (2003),
FEC v. Massachusetts Citizens for Life, Inc., 479 U. S. 238
(1986) (MCFL), NRWC, 459 U. S. 197, and California
Medical Assn. v. FEC, 453 U. S. 182 (1981).
In his landmark concurrence in Ashwander v. TVA, 297
U. S. 288, 346 (1936), Justice Brandeis stressed the impor
tance of adhering to rules the Court has “developed . . . for
its own governance” when deciding constitutional ques
tions. Because departures from those rules always en
hance the risk of error, I shall review the background of
this case in some detail before explaining why the Court’s
analysis rests on a faulty understanding of Austin and
McConnell and of our campaign finance jurisprudence
more generally .1 I regret the length of what follows, but
the importance and novelty of the Court’s opinion require
a full response. Although I concur in the Court’s decision
to sustain BCRA’s disclosure provisions and join Part IV
of its opinion, I emphatically dissent from its principal
holding.
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1 Specifically, Part I, infra, at 4–17, addresses the procedural history
of the case and the narrower grounds of decision the majority has
bypassed. Part II, infra, at 17–23, addresses stare decisis. Part III,
infra, at 23–56, addresses the Court’s assumptions that BCRA “bans”
corporate speech, that identity-based distinctions may not be drawn in
the political realm, and that Austin and McConnell were outliers in our
First Amendment tradition. Part IV, infra, at 56–89, addresses the
Court’s treatment of the anticorruption, antidistortion, and shareholder
protection rationales for regulating corporate electioneering.
I
The Court’s ruling threatens to undermine the integrity
of elected institutions across the Nation. The path it has
taken to reach its outcome will, I fear, do damage to this
institution. Before turning to the question whether to
overrule Austin and part of McConnell, it is important
to explain why the Court should not be deciding that
question.
Scope of the Case
The first reason is that the question was not properly
brought before us. In declaring §203 of BCRA facially
unconstitutional on the ground that corporations’ electoral
expenditures may not be regulated any more stringently
than those of individuals, the majority decides this case on
a basis relinquished below, not included in the questions
presented to us by the litigants, and argued here only in
response to the Court’s invitation. This procedure is
unusual and inadvisable for a court.2 Our colleagues’
suggestion that “we are asked to reconsider Austin and, in
effect, McConnell,” ante, at 1, would be more accurate if
rephrased to state that “we have asked ourselves” to re
consider those cases.
In the District Court, Citizens United initially raised a
facial challenge to the constitutionality of §203. App. 23a–
24a. In its motion for summary judgment, however, Citi
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2 See
Yee v. Escondido, 503 U. S. 519, 535 (1992) (“[U]nder this
Court’s Rule 14.1(a), only questions set forth in the petition, or fairly
included therein, will be considered by the Court” (internal quotation
marks and alteration omitted)); Wood v. Allen, ante, at __ (slip op., at
13) (“[T]he fact that petitioner discussed [an] issue in the text of his
petition for certiorari does not bring it before us. Rule 14.1(a) requires
that a subsidiary question be fairly included in the question presented
for our review” (internal quotation marks and brackets omitted));
Cooper Industries, Inc. v. Aviall Services, Inc., 543 U. S. 157, 168–169
(2004) (“We ordinarily do not decide in the first instance issues not
decided below” (internal quotation marks omitted)).
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zens United expressly abandoned its facial challenge,

1:07–cv–2240–RCL–RWR, Docket Entry No. 52, pp. 1–2
(May 16, 2008), and the parties stipulated to the dismissal
of that claim, id., Nos. 53 (May 22, 2008), 54 (May 23,
2008), App. 6a. The District Court therefore resolved the
case on alternative grounds,3 and in its jurisdictional
statement to this Court, Citizens United properly advised
us that it was raising only “an as-applied challenge to the
constitutionality of . . . BCRA §203.” Juris. Statement 5.
The jurisdictional statement never so much as cited Aus
tin, the key case the majority today overrules. And not
one of the questions presented suggested that Citizens
United was surreptitiously raising the facial challenge to
§203 that it previously agreed to dismiss. In fact, not one
of those questions raised an issue based on Citizens
United’s corporate status. Juris. Statement (i). Moreover,
even in its merits briefing, when Citizens United injected
its request to overrule Austin, it never sought a declara
tion that §203 was facially unconstitutional as to all corpo
rations and unions; instead it argued only that the statute
could not be applied to it because it was “funded over
whelmingly by individuals.” Brief for Appellant 29; see
also id., at 10, 12, 16, 28 (affirming “as applied” character
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3 The majority states that, in denying Citizens United’s motion for a
preliminary injunction, the District Court “addressed” the facial valid
ity of BCRA §203. Ante, at 13. That is true, in the narrow sense that
the court observed the issue was foreclosed by McConnell v. FEC, 540
U. S. 93 (2003). See 530 F. Supp. 2d 274, 278 (DC 2008) (per curiam).
Yet as explained above, Citizens United subsequently dismissed its
facial challenge, so that by the time the District Court granted the
Federal Election Commission’s (FEC) motion for summary judgment,
App. 261a–262a, any question about statutory validity had dropped out
of the case. That latter ruling by the District Court was the “final
decision” from which Citizens United appealed to this Court under
BCRA §403(a)(3). As regards the lower court decision that has come
before us, the claim that §203 is facially unconstitutional was neither
pressed nor passed upon in any form.
of challenge to §203); Tr. of Oral Arg. 4–9 (Mar. 24, 2009)

(counsel for Citizens United conceding that §203 could be
applied to General Motors); id., at 55 (counsel for Citizens
United stating that “we accept the Court’s decision in
Wisconsin Right to Life”).
“ ‘It is only in exceptional cases coming here from the
federal courts that questions not pressed or passed upon
below are reviewed,’ ” Youakim v. Miller, 425 U. S. 231,
234 (1976) (per curiam) (quoting Duignan v. United States,
274 U. S. 195, 200 (1927)), and it is “only in the most
exceptional cases” that we will consider issues outside the
questions presented, Stone v. Powell, 428 U. S. 465, 481, n.
15 (1976). The appellant in this case did not so much as
assert an exceptional circumstance, and one searches the
majority opinion in vain for the mention of any. That is
unsurprising, for none exists.
Setting the case for reargument was a constructive step,
but it did not cure this fundamental problem. Essentially,
five Justices were unhappy with the limited nature of the
case before us, so they changed the case to give themselves
an opportunity to change the law.
As-Applied and Facial Challenges
This Court has repeatedly emphasized in recent years
that “[f]acial challenges are disfavored.” Washington State
Grange v. Washington State Republican Party, 552 U. S.
442, 450 (2008); see also Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of
Northern New Eng., 546 U. S. 320, 329 (2006) (“[T]he
‘normal rule’ is that ‘partial, rather than facial, invalida
tion is the required course,’ such that a ‘statute may . . . be
declared invalid to the extent that it reaches too far, but
otherwise left intact’ ” (quoting Brockett v. Spokane Ar
cades, Inc., 472 U. S. 491, 504 (1985); alteration in origi
nal)). By declaring §203 facially unconstitutional, our
colleagues have turned an as-applied challenge into a
facial challenge, in defiance of this principle.
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This is not merely a technical defect in the Court’s

decision. The unnecessary resort to a facial inquiry
“run[s] contrary to the fundamental principle of judicial
restraint that courts should neither anticipate a question
of constitutional law in advance of the necessity of decid
ing it nor formulate a rule of constitutional law broader
than is required by the precise facts to which it is to be
applied.” Washington State Grange, 552 U. S., at 450
(internal quotation marks omitted). Scanting that princi
ple “threaten[s] to short circuit the democratic process by
preventing laws embodying the will of the people from
being implemented in a manner consistent with the Con
stitution.” Id., at 451. These concerns are heightened
when judges overrule settled doctrine upon which the
legislature has relied. The Court operates with a sledge
hammer rather than a scalpel when it strikes down one of
Congress’ most significant efforts to regulate the role that
corporations and unions play in electoral politics. It com
pounds the offense by implicitly striking down a great
many state laws as well.
The problem goes still deeper, for the Court does all of
this on the basis of pure speculation. Had Citizens United
maintained a facial challenge, and thus argued that there
are virtually no circumstances in which BCRA §203 can be
applied constitutionally, the parties could have developed,
through the normal process of litigation, a record about
the actual effects of §203, its actual burdens and its actual
benefits, on all manner of corporations and unions.4
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4 Shortly before Citizens United mooted the issue by abandoning its
facial challenge, the Government advised the District Court that it
“require[d] time to develop a factual record regarding [the] facial
challenge.” 1:07–cv–2240–RCL–RWR, Docket Entry No. 47, p. 4 (Mar.
26, 2008). By reinstating a claim that Citizens United abandoned, the
Court gives it a perverse litigating advantage over its adversary, which
was deprived of the opportunity to gather and present information
necessary to its rebuttal.
“Claims of facial invalidity often rest on speculation,” and

consequently “raise the risk of premature interpretation of
statutes on the basis of factually barebones records.” Id.,
at 450 (internal quotation marks omitted). In this case,
the record is not simply incomplete or unsatisfactory; it is
nonexistent. Congress crafted BCRA in response to a
virtual mountain of research on the corruption that previ
ous legislation had failed to avert. The Court now negates
Congress’ efforts without a shred of evidence on how §203
or its state-law counterparts have been affecting any
entity other than Citizens United.5
Faced with this gaping empirical hole, the majority
throws up its hands. Were we to confine our inquiry to
Citizens United’s as-applied challenge, it protests, we
would commence an “extended” process of “draw[ing], and
then redraw[ing], constitutional lines based on the par
ticular media or technology used to disseminate political
speech from a particular speaker.” Ante, at 9. While
tacitly acknowledging that some applications of §203
might be found constitutional, the majority thus posits a
future in which novel First Amendment standards must
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5 In fact, we do not even have a good evidentiary record of how §203
has been affecting Citizens United, which never submitted to the

District Court the details of Hillary’s funding or its own finances. We
likewise have no evidence of how §203 and comparable state laws were
expected to affect corporations and unions in the future.
It is true, as the majority points out, that the McConnell Court
evaluated the facial validity of §203 in light of an extensive record. See
ante, at 15. But that record is not before us in this case. And in any
event, the majority’s argument for striking down §203 depends on its
contention that the statute has proved too “chilling” in practice—and in
particular on the contention that the controlling opinion in WRTL, 551
U. S. 449 (2007), failed to bring sufficient clarity and “breathing space”
to this area of law. See ante, at 12, 16–20. We have no record with
which to assess that claim. The Court complains at length about the
burdens of complying with §203, but we have no meaningful evidence to
show how regulated corporations and unions have experienced its
restrictions.
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be devised on an ad hoc basis, and then leaps from this

unfounded prediction to the unfounded conclusion that
such complexity counsels the abandonment of all normal
restraint. Yet it is a pervasive feature of regulatory sys
tems that unanticipated events, such as new technologies,
may raise some unanticipated difficulties at the margins.
The fluid nature of electioneering communications does
not make this case special. The fact that a Court can
hypothesize situations in which a statute might, at some
point down the line, pose some unforeseen as-applied
problems, does not come close to meeting the standard for
a facial challenge.6
The majority proposes several other justifications for the
sweep of its ruling. It suggests that a facial ruling is
necessary because, if the Court were to continue on its
normal course of resolving as-applied challenges as they
present themselves, that process would itself run afoul of
the First Amendment. See, e.g., ante, at 9 (as-applied
review process “would raise questions as to the courts’ own
lawful authority”); ibid. (“Courts, too, are bound by the
First Amendment”). This suggestion is perplexing. Our
colleagues elsewhere trumpet “our duty ‘to say what the
law is,’ ” even when our predecessors on the bench and our
counterparts in Congress have interpreted the law differ
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6 Our cases recognize a “type of facial challenge in the First Amend
ment context under which a law may be overturned as impermissibly

overbroad because a substantial number of its applications are uncon
stitutional.” Washington State Grange v. Washington State Republican
Party, 552 U. S. 442, 449, n. 6 (2008) (internal quotation marks omit
ted). Citizens United has not made an overbreadth argument, and
“[w]e generally do not apply the strong medicine of overbreadth analy
sis where the parties fail to describe the instances of arguable over
breadth of the contested law,” ibid. (internal quotation marks omitted).
If our colleagues nonetheless concluded that §203’s fatal flaw is that it
affects too much protected speech, they should have invalidated it for
overbreadth and given guidance as to which applications are permissi
ble, so that Congress could go about repairing the error.
ently. Ante, at 49 (quoting Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch

137, 177 (1803)). We do not typically say what the law is
not as a hedge against future judicial error. The possibil
ity that later courts will misapply a constitutional provi
sion does not give us a basis for pretermitting litigation
relating to that provision.7
The majority suggests that a facial ruling is necessary
because anything less would chill too much protected
speech. See ante, at 9–10, 12, 16–20. In addition to beg
ging the question what types of corporate spending are
constitutionally protected and to what extent, this claim
rests on the assertion that some significant number of
corporations have been cowed into quiescence by FEC
“ ‘censor[ship].’ ” Ante, at 18–19. That assertion is unsub
stantiated, and it is hard to square with practical experi
ence. It is particularly hard to square with the legal land
scape following WRTL, which held that a corporate
communication could be regulated under §203 only if it
was “susceptible of no reasonable interpretation other
than as an appeal to vote for or against a specific candi
date.” 551 U. S., at 470 (opinion of ROBERTS, C. J.) (em
phasis added). The whole point of this test was to make
§203 as simple and speech-protective as possible. The
Court does not explain how, in the span of a single election
cycle, it has determined THE CHIEF JUSTICE’s project to be
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7 Also perplexing is the majority’s attempt to pass blame to the Gov
ernment for its litigating position. By “hold[ing] out the possibility of

ruling for Citizens United on a narrow ground yet refrain[ing] from
adopting that position,” the majority says, the Government has caused
“added uncertainty [that] demonstrates the necessity to address the
question of statutory validity.” Ante, at 17. Our colleagues have
apparently never heard of an alternative argument. Like every liti
gant, the Government would prefer to win its case outright; failing that,
it would prefer to lose on a narrow ground. The fact that there are
numerous different ways this case could be decided, and that the
Government acknowledges as much, does not demonstrate anything
about the propriety of a facial ruling.
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a failure. In this respect, too, the majority’s critique of

line-drawing collapses into a critique of the as-applied
review method generally.8
The majority suggests that, even though it expressly
dismissed its facial challenge, Citizens United neverthe
less preserved it—not as a freestanding “claim,” but as a
potential argument in support of “a claim that the FEC
has violated its First Amendment right to free speech.”
Ante, at 13; see also ante, at 4 (ROBERTS, C. J., concurring)
(describing Citizens United’s claim as: “[T]he Act violates
the First Amendment”). By this novel logic, virtually any
submission could be reconceptualized as “a claim that the
Government has violated my rights,” and it would then be
available to the Court to entertain any conceivable issue
that might be relevant to that claim’s disposition. Not
only the as-applied/facial distinction, but the basic rela
tionship between litigants and courts, would be upended if
the latter had free rein to construe the former’s claims at
such high levels of generality. There would be no need for
plaintiffs to argue their case; they could just cite the con
stitutional provisions they think relevant, and leave the
rest to us.9
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8 The majority’s “chilling” argument is particularly inapposite with
respect to 2 U. S. C. §441b’s longstanding restriction on the use of

corporate general treasury funds for express advocacy. If there was
ever any significant uncertainty about what counts as the functional
equivalent of express advocacy, there has been little doubt about what
counts as express advocacy since the “magic words” test of Buckley v.
Valeo, 424 U. S. 1, 44, n. 52 (1976) (per curiam). Yet even though
Citizens United’s briefs never once mention §441b’s restriction on
express advocacy; even though this restriction does not generate
chilling concerns; and even though no one has suggested that Hillary
counts as express advocacy; the majority nonetheless reaches out to
opine that this statutory provision is “invalid” as well. Ante, at 50.
9 The majority adds that the distinction between facial and as-applied
challenges does not have “some automatic effect” that mechanically

controls the judicial task. Ante, at 14. I agree, but it does not follow
that in any given case we should ignore the distinction, much less
Finally, the majority suggests that though the scope of

Citizens United’s claim may be narrow, a facial ruling is
necessary as a matter of remedy. Relying on a law review
article, it asserts that Citizens United’s dismissal of the
facial challenge does not prevent us “ ‘from making
broader pronouncements of invalidity in properly “as
applied” cases.’ ” Ante, at 14 (quoting Fallon, As-Applied
and Facial Challenges and Third-Party Standing, 113
Harv. L. Rev. 1321, 1339 (2000) (hereinafter Fallon));
accord, ante, at 5 (opinion of ROBERTS, C. J.) (“Regardless
whether we label Citizens United’s claim a ‘facial’ or ‘as
applied’ challenge, the consequences of the Court’s deci
sion are the same”). The majority is on firmer conceptual
ground here. Yet even if one accepts this part of Professor
Fallon’s thesis, one must proceed to ask which as-applied
challenges, if successful, will “properly” invite or entail
invalidation of the underlying statute.10 The paradigmatic
case is a judicial determination that the legislature acted
with an impermissible purpose in enacting a provision, as
this carries the necessary implication that all future as
applied challenges to the provision must prevail. See
Fallon 1339–1340.
Citizens United’s as-applied challenge was not of this
sort. Until this Court ordered reargument, its contention
was that BCRA §203 could not lawfully be applied to a
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invert it.
10 Professor Fallon proposes an intricate answer to this question that
the majority ignores. Fallon 1327–1359. It bears mention that our

colleagues have previously cited Professor Fallon’s article for the exact
opposite point from the one they wish to make today. In Gonzales v.
Carhart, 550 U. S. 124 (2007), the Court explained that “[i]t is neither
our obligation nor within our traditional institutional role to resolve
questions of constitutionality with respect to each potential situation
that might develop,” and “[f]or this reason, ‘[a]s-applied challenges are
the basic building blocks of constitutional adjudication.’ ” Id., at 168
(opinion for the Court by KENNEDY, J.) (quoting Fallon 1328 (second
alteration in original)).
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feature-length video-on-demand film (such as Hillary) or

to a nonprofit corporation exempt from taxation under 26
U. S. C. §501(c)(4)11 and funded overwhelmingly by indi
viduals (such as itself). See Brief for Appellant 16–41.
Success on either of these claims would not necessarily
carry any implications for the validity of §203 as applied to
other types of broadcasts, other types of corporations, or
unions. It certainly would not invalidate the statute as
applied to a large for-profit corporation. See Tr. of Oral
Arg. 8, 4 (Mar. 24, 2009) (counsel for Citizens United
emphasizing that appellant is “a small, nonprofit organi
zation, which is very much like [an MCFL corporation],”
and affirming that its argument “definitely would not be
the same” if Hillary were distributed by General Motors).12
There is no legitimate basis for resurrecting a facial chal
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11 Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(4) applies, inter alia, to non
profit organizations “operated exclusively for the promotion of social
welfare, . . . the net earnings of which are devoted exclusively to chari
table, educational, or recreational purposes.”
12 THE CHIEF JUSTICE is therefore much too quick when he suggests
that, “[e]ven if considered in as-applied terms, a holding in this case

that the Act may not be applied to Citizens United—because corpora
tions as well as individuals enjoy the pertinent First Amendment
rights—would mean that any other corporation raising the same
challenge would also win.” Ante, at 4 (concurring opinion). That
conclusion would only follow if the Court were to ignore Citizens
United’s plausible as-applied arguments and instead take the implau
sible position that all corporations and all types of expenditures enjoy
the same First Amendment protections, which always trump the
interests in regulation. At times, the majority appears to endorse this
extreme view. At other times, however, it appears to suggest that
nonprofit corporations have a better claim to First Amendment protec
tion than for-profit corporations, see ante, at 20, 39, “advocacy” organi
zations have a better claim than other nonprofits, ante, at 20, domestic
corporations have a better claim than foreign corporations, ante, at 46–
47, small corporations have a better claim than large corporations,
ante, at 38–40, and printed matter has a better claim than broadcast
communications, ante, at 33. The majority never uses a multinational
business corporation in its hypotheticals.
lenge that dropped out of this case 20 months ago.

Narrower Grounds
It is all the more distressing that our colleagues have
manufactured a facial challenge, because the parties have
advanced numerous ways to resolve the case that would
facilitate electioneering by nonprofit advocacy corpora
tions such as Citizens United, without toppling statutes
and precedents. Which is to say, the majority has trans
gressed yet another “cardinal” principle of the judicial
process: “[I]f it is not necessary to decide more, it is neces
sary not to decide more,” PDK Labs., Inc. v. Drug En
forcement Admin., 362 F. 3d 786, 799 (CADC 2004) (Rob
erts, J., concurring in part and concurring in judgment).
Consider just three of the narrower grounds of decision
that the majority has bypassed. First, the Court could
have ruled, on statutory grounds, that a feature-length
film distributed through video-on-demand does not qualify
as an “electioneering communication” under §203 of
BCRA, 2 U. S. C. §441b. BCRA defines that term to en
compass certain communications transmitted by “broad
cast, cable, or satellite.” §434(f)(3)(A). When Congress
was developing BCRA, the video-on-demand medium was
still in its infancy, and legislators were focused on a very
different sort of programming: short advertisements run
on television or radio. See McConnell, 540 U. S., at 207.
The sponsors of BCRA acknowledge that the FEC’s im
plementing regulations do not clearly apply to video-on
demand transmissions. See Brief for Senator John
McCain et al. as Amici Curiae 17–19. In light of this
ambiguity, the distinctive characteristics of video-on
demand, and “[t]he elementary rule . . . that every reason
able construction must be resorted to, in order to save a
statute from unconstitutionality,” Hooper v. California,
155 U. S. 648, 657 (1895), the Court could have reasonably
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ruled that §203 does not apply to Hillary.13

Second, the Court could have expanded the MCFL ex
emption to cover §501(c)(4) nonprofits that accept only a
de minimis amount of money from for-profit corporations.
Citizens United professes to be such a group: Its brief says
it “is funded predominantly by donations from individuals
who support [its] ideological message.” Brief for Appellant
5. Numerous Courts of Appeal have held that de minimis
business support does not, in itself, remove an otherwise
qualifying organization from the ambit of MCFL.14 This
Court could have simply followed their lead.15
Finally, let us not forget Citizens United’s as-applied
constitutional challenge. Precisely because Citizens
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13 The Court entirely ignores this statutory argument. It concludes
that §203 applies to Hillary on the basis of the film’s content, ante, at
7–8, without considering the possibility that §203 does not apply to
video-on-demand transmissions generally.
14 See Colorado Right to Life Comm., Inc. v. Coffman, 498 F. 3d 1137,
1148 (CA10 2007) (adopting this rule and noting that “every other
circuit to have addressed this issue” has done likewise); Brief for
Independent Sector as Amicus Curiae 10–11 (collecting cases). The
Court rejects this solution in part because the Government “merely
suggest[s] it” and “does not say that it agrees with the interpretation.”
Ante, at 11. Our colleagues would thus punish a defendant for showing
insufficient excitement about a ground it has advanced, at the same
time that they decide the case on a ground the plaintiff expressly
abandoned. The Court also protests that a de minimis standard would
“requir[e] intricate case-by-case determinations.” Ante, at 12. But de
minimis tests need not be intricate at all. A test that granted MCFL
status to §501(c)(4) organizations if they received less than a fixed
dollar amount of business donations in the previous year, or if such
donations represent less than a fixed percentage of their total assets,
would be perfectly easy to understand and administer.
15 Another bypassed ground, not briefed by the parties, would have
been to revive the Snowe-Jeffords Amendment in BCRA §203(c),

allowing certain nonprofit corporations to pay for electioneering com
munications with general treasury funds, to the extent they can trace
the payments to individual contributions. See Brief for National Rifle
Association as Amicus Curiae 5–15 (arguing forcefully that Congress
intended this result).
United looks so much like the MCFL organizations we

have exempted from regulation, while a feature-length
video-on-demand film looks so unlike the types of electoral
advocacy Congress has found deserving of regulation, this
challenge is a substantial one. As the appellant’s own
arguments show, the Court could have easily limited the
breadth of its constitutional holding had it declined to
adopt the novel notion that speakers and speech acts must
always be treated identically—and always spared expendi
tures restrictions—in the political realm. Yet the Court
nonetheless turns its back on the as-applied review proc
ess that has been a staple of campaign finance litigation
since Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U. S. 1 (1976) (per curiam), and
that was affirmed and expanded just two Terms ago in
WRTL, 551 U. S. 449.
This brief tour of alternative grounds on which the case
could have been decided is not meant to show that any of
these grounds is ideal, though each is perfectly “valid,”
ante, at 12 (majority opinion).16 It is meant to show that
there were principled, narrower paths that a Court that
was serious about judicial restraint could have taken.
There was also the straightforward path: applying Austin
and McConnell, just as the District Court did in holding
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16 THE CHIEF JUSTICE finds our discussion of these narrower solutions
“quite perplexing” because we suggest that the Court should “latch on
to one of them in order to avoid reaching the broader constitutional
question,” without doing the same ourselves. Ante, at 3. There is
nothing perplexing about the matter, because we are not similarly
situated to our colleagues in the majority. We do not share their view
of the First Amendment. Our reading of the Constitution would not
lead us to strike down any statutes or overturn any precedents in this
case, and we therefore have no occasion to practice constitutional
avoidance or to vindicate Citizens United’s as-applied challenge. Each
of the arguments made above is surely at least as strong as the statu
tory argument the Court accepted in last year’s Voting Rights Act case,
Northwest Austin Municipal Util. Dist. No. One v. Holder, 557 U. S. __
(2009).
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that the funding of Citizens United’s film can be regulated

under them. The only thing preventing the majority from
affirming the District Court, or adopting a narrower
ground that would retain Austin, is its disdain for Austin.
II
The final principle of judicial process that the majority
violates is the most transparent: stare decisis. I am not an
absolutist when it comes to stare decisis, in the campaign
finance area or in any other. No one is. But if this princi
ple is to do any meaningful work in supporting the rule of
law, it must at least demand a significant justification,
beyond the preferences of five Justices, for overturning
settled doctrine. “[A] decision to overrule should rest on
some special reason over and above the belief that a prior
case was wrongly decided.” Planned Parenthood of South
eastern Pa. v. Casey, 505 U. S. 833, 864 (1992). No such
justification exists in this case, and to the contrary there
are powerful prudential reasons to keep faith with our
precedents.17
The Court’s central argument for why stare decisis
ought to be trumped is that it does not like Austin. The
opinion “was not well reasoned,” our colleagues assert, and
it conflicts with First Amendment principles. Ante, at 47–
48. This, of course, is the Court’s merits argument, the
many defects in which we will soon consider. I am per
fectly willing to concede that if one of our precedents were
dead wrong in its reasoning or irreconcilable with the rest
of our doctrine, there would be a compelling basis for
revisiting it. But neither is true of Austin, as I explain at
length in Parts III and IV, infra, at 23–89, and restating a
merits argument with additional vigor does not give it
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17 I
will have more to say shortly about the merits—about why Austin
and McConnell are not doctrinal outliers, as the Court contends, and
why their logic is not only defensible but also compelling. For present
purposes, I limit the discussion to stare-decisis-specific considerations.
extra weight in the stare decisis calculus.

Perhaps in recognition of this point, the Court supple
ments its merits case with a smattering of assertions. The
Court proclaims that “Austin is undermined by experience
since its announcement.” Ante, at 48. This is a curious
claim to make in a case that lacks a developed record. The
majority has no empirical evidence with which to substan
tiate the claim; we just have its ipse dixit that the real
world has not been kind to Austin. Nor does the majority
bother to specify in what sense Austin has been “under
mined.” Instead it treats the reader to a string of non
sequiturs: “Our Nation’s speech dynamic is changing,”
ante, at 48; “[s]peakers have become adept at presenting
citizens with sound bites, talking points, and scripted
messages,” ibid.; “[c]orporations . . . do not have monolithic
views,” ibid. How any of these ruminations weakens the
force of stare decisis, escapes my comprehension.18
The majority also contends that the Government’s hesi
tation to rely on Austin’s antidistortion rationale “dimin
ishe[s]” “the principle of adhering to that precedent.”
Ante, at 48; see also ante, at 11 (opinion of ROBERTS, C. J.)
(Government’s litigating position is “most importan[t]”
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18 THE CHIEF JUSTICE suggests that Austin has been undermined by
subsequent dissenting opinions. Ante, at 9. Under this view, it appears

that the more times the Court stands by a precedent in the face of
requests to overrule it, the weaker that precedent becomes. THE CHIEF
JUSTICE further suggests that Austin “is uniquely destabilizing because
it threatens to subvert our Court’s decisions even outside” its particular
facts, as when we applied its reasoning in McConnell. Ante, at 9. Once
again, the theory seems to be that the more we utilize a precedent, the
more we call it into question. For those who believe Austin was cor
rectly decided—as the Federal Government and the States have long
believed, as the majority of Justices to have served on the Court since
Austin have believed, and as we continue to believe—there is nothing
“destabilizing” about the prospect of its continued application. It is
gutting campaign finance laws across the country, as the Court does
today, that will be destabilizing.
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factor undermining Austin). Why it diminishes the value

of stare decisis is left unexplained. We have never thought
fit to overrule a precedent because a litigant has taken
any particular tack. Nor should we. Our decisions can
often be defended on multiple grounds, and a litigant may
have strategic or case-specific reasons for emphasizing
only a subset of them. Members of the public, moreover,
often rely on our bottom-line holdings far more than our
precise legal arguments; surely this is true for the legisla
tures that have been regulating corporate electioneering
since Austin. The task of evaluating the continued viabil
ity of precedents falls to this Court, not to the parties.19
Although the majority opinion spends several pages
making these surprising arguments, it says almost noth
ing about the standard considerations we have used to
determine stare decisis value, such as the antiquity of the
precedent, the workability of its legal rule, and the reli
ance interests at stake. It is also conspicuously silent
about McConnell, even though the McConnell Court’s
decision to uphold BCRA §203 relied not only on the anti
distortion logic of Austin but also on the statute’s histori
cal pedigree, see, e.g., 540 U. S., at 115–132, 223–224, and
the need to preserve the integrity of federal campaigns,
see id., at 126–129, 205–208, and n. 88.
We have recognized that “[s]tare decisis has special force
when legislators or citizens ‘have acted in reliance on a
previous decision, for in this instance overruling the deci
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19 Additionally, the majority cites some recent scholarship challenging
the historical account of campaign finance law given in United States v.

Automobile Workers, 352 U. S. 567 (1957). Ante, at 48. Austin did not
so much as allude to this historical account, much less rely on it. Even
if the scholarship cited by the majority is correct that certain campaign
finance reforms were less deliberate or less benignly motivated than
Automobile Workers suggested, the point remains that this body of law
has played a significant and broadly accepted role in American political
life for decades upon decades.
sion would dislodge settled rights and expectations or

require an extensive legislative response.’ ” Hubbard v.
United States, 514 U. S. 695, 714 (1995) (quoting Hilton v.
South Carolina Public Railways Comm’n, 502 U. S. 197,
202 (1991)). Stare decisis protects not only personal rights
involving property or contract but also the ability of the
elected branches to shape their laws in an effective and
coherent fashion. Today’s decision takes away a power
that we have long permitted these branches to exercise.
State legislatures have relied on their authority to regu
late corporate electioneering, confirmed in Austin, for
more than a century.20 The Federal Congress has relied
on this authority for a comparable stretch of time, and it
specifically relied on Austin throughout the years it spent
developing and debating BCRA. The total record it com
piled was 100,000 pages long.21 Pulling out the rug be
neath Congress after affirming the constitutionality of
§203 six years ago shows great disrespect for a coequal
branch.
By removing one of its central components, today’s
ruling makes a hash out of BCRA’s “delicate and intercon
nected regulatory scheme.” McConnell, 540 U. S., at 172.
Consider just one example of the distortions that will
follow: Political parties are barred under BCRA from
soliciting or spending “soft money,” funds that are not
subject to the statute’s disclosure requirements or its
source and amount limitations. 2 U. S. C. §441i; McCon
nell, 540 U. S., at 122–126. Going forward, corporations
and unions will be free to spend as much general treasury
money as they wish on ads that support or attack specific
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20 See Brief for State of Montana et al. as Amici Curiae 5–13; see also
Supp. Brief for Senator John McCain et al. as Amici Curiae 1a–8a
(listing 24 States that presently limit or prohibit independent election
eering expenditures from corporate general treasuries).
21 Magleby, The Importance of the Record in McConnell v. FEC, 3
Election L. J. 285 (2004).

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candidates, whereas national parties will not be able to

spend a dime of soft money on ads of any kind. The
Court’s ruling thus dramatically enhances the role of
corporations and unions—and the narrow interests they
represent—vis-à-vis the role of political parties—and the
broad coalitions they represent—in determining who will
hold public office.22
Beyond the reliance interests at stake, the other stare
decisis factors also cut against the Court. Considerations
of antiquity are significant for similar reasons. McConnell
is only six years old, but Austin has been on the books for
two decades, and many of the statutes called into question
by today’s opinion have been on the books for a half
century or more. The Court points to no intervening
change in circumstances that warrants revisiting Austin.
Certainly nothing relevant has changed since we decided
WRTL two Terms ago. And the Court gives no reason to
think that Austin and McConnell are unworkable.
In fact, no one has argued to us that Austin’s rule has
proved impracticable, and not a single for-profit corpora
tion, union, or State has asked us to overrule it. Quite to
the contrary, leading groups representing the business
community,23 organized labor,24 and the nonprofit sector,25
together with more than half of the States,26 urge that we
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22 To be sure, the majority may respond that Congress can correct the
imbalance by removing BCRA’s soft-money limits. Cf. Tr. of Oral Arg.

24 (Sept. 9, 2009) (query of KENNEDY, J.). But this is no response to any
legislature that takes campaign finance regulation seriously. It merely
illustrates the breadth of the majority’s deregulatory vision.
23 See Brief for Committee for Economic Development as Amicus Cu
riae; Brief for American Independent Business Alliance as Amicus

Curiae. But see Supp. Brief for Chamber of Commerce of the United
States of America as Amicus Curiae.
24 See Brief for American Federation of Labor and Congress of Indus
trial Organizations as Amicus Curiae 3, 9.

25 See Brief for Independent Sector as Amicus Curiae 16–20.
26 See Brief for State of Montana et al. as Amici Curiae.
preserve Austin. As for McConnell, the portions of BCRA

it upheld may be prolix, but all three branches of Govern
ment have worked to make §203 as user-friendly as possi
ble. For instance, Congress established a special mecha
nism for expedited review of constitutional challenges, see
note following 2 U. S. C. §437h; the FEC has established a
standardized process, with clearly defined safe harbors,
for corporations to claim that a particular electioneering
communication is permissible under WRTL, see 11 CFR
§114.15 (2009);27 and, as noted above, THE CHIEF JUSTICE
crafted his controlling opinion in WRTL with the express
goal of maximizing clarity and administrability, 551 U. S.,
at 469–470, 473–474. The case for stare decisis may be
bolstered, we have said, when subsequent rulings “have
reduced the impact” of a precedent “while reaffirming the
decision’s core ruling.” Dickerson v. United States, 530
U. S. 428, 443 (2000).28
In the end, the Court’s rejection of Austin and McCon
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27 The FEC established this process following the Court’s June 2007
decision in that case, 551 U. S. 449. In the brief interval between the
establishment of this process and the 2008 election, corporations and
unions used it to make $108.5 million in electioneering communications.
Supp. Brief for Appellee 22–23; FEC, Electioneering Communication
Summary, online at http://fec.gov/finance/disclosure/ECSummary.shtml
(all Internet materials as visited Jan. 18, 2010, and available in Clerk
of Court’s case file).
28 Concedely, Austin and McConnell were constitutional decisions,
and we have often said that “claims of stare decisis are at the weakest
in that field, where our mistakes cannot be corrected by Congress.”
Vieth v. Jubelirer, 541 U. S. 267, 305 (2004) (plurality opinion). As a
general matter, this principle is a sound one. But the principle only
takes on real force when an earlier ruling has obstructed the normal
democratic process; it is the fear of making “mistakes [that] cannot be
corrected by Congress,” ibid., that motivates us to review constitutional
precedents with a more critical eye. Austin and McConnell did not
obstruct state or congressional legislative power in any way. Although
it is unclear how high a bar today’s decision will pose to future at
tempts to regulate corporate electioneering, it will clearly restrain
much legislative action.
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nell comes down to nothing more than its disagreement

with their results. Virtually every one of its arguments
was made and rejected in those cases, and the majority
opinion is essentially an amalgamation of resuscitated
dissents. The only relevant thing that has changed since
Austin and McConnell is the composition of this Court.
Today’s ruling thus strikes at the vitals of stare decisis,
“the means by which we ensure that the law will not
merely change erratically, but will develop in a principled
and intelligible fashion” that “permits society to presume
that bedrock principles are founded in the law rather than
in the proclivities of individuals.” Vasquez v. Hillery, 474
U. S. 254, 265 (1986).
III
The novelty of the Court’s procedural dereliction and its
approach to stare decisis is matched by the novelty of its
ruling on the merits. The ruling rests on several premises.
First, the Court claims that Austin and McConnell have
“banned” corporate speech. Second, it claims that the
First Amendment precludes regulatory distinctions based
on speaker identity, including the speaker’s identity as a
corporation. Third, it claims that Austin and McConnell
were radical outliers in our First Amendment tradition
and our campaign finance jurisprudence. Each of these
claims is wrong.
The So-Called “Ban”
Pervading the Court’s analysis is the ominous image of
a “categorical ba[n]” on corporate speech. Ante, at 45.
Indeed, the majority invokes the specter of a “ban” on
nearly every page of its opinion. Ante, at 1, 4, 7, 10, 11,
12, 13, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 35, 38,
40, 42, 45, 46, 47, 49, 54, 56. This characterization is
highly misleading, and needs to be corrected.
In fact it already has been. Our cases have repeatedly
pointed out that, “[c]ontrary to the [majority’s] critical

assumptions,” the statutes upheld in Austin and McCon
nell do “not impose an absolute ban on all forms of corpo
rate political spending.” Austin, 494 U. S., at 660; see also
McConnell, 540 U. S., at 203–204; Beaumont, 539 U. S., at
162–163. For starters, both statutes provide exemptions
for PACs, separate segregated funds established by a
corporation for political purposes. See 2 U. S. C.
§441b(b)(2)(C); Mich. Comp. Laws Ann. §169.255 (West
2005). “The ability to form and administer separate seg
regated funds,” we observed in McConnell, “has provided
corporations and unions with a constitutionally sufficient
opportunity to engage in express advocacy. That has been
this Court’s unanimous view.” 540 U. S., at 203.
Under BCRA, any corporation’s “stockholders and their
families and its executive or administrative personnel and
their families” can pool their resources to finance election
eering communications. 2 U. S. C. §441b(b)(4)(A)(i). A
significant and growing number of corporations avail
themselves of this option;29 during the most recent election
cycle, corporate and union PACs raised nearly a billion
dollars.30 Administering a PAC entails some administra
tive burden, but so does complying with the disclaimer,
disclosure, and reporting requirements that the Court
today upholds, see ante, at 51, and no one has suggested
that the burden is severe for a sophisticated for-profit
corporation. To the extent the majority is worried about
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29 See FEC, Number of Federal PAC’s Increases, http://fec.gov/press/
press2008/20080812paccount.shtml.
30 See Supp. Brief for Appellee 16 (citing FEC statistics placing this
figure at $840 million). The majority finds the PAC option inadequate
in part because “[a] PAC is a separate association from the corpora
tion.” Ante, at 21. The formal “separateness” of PACs from their host
corporations—which administer and control the PACs but which cannot
funnel general treasury funds into them or force members to support
them—is, of course, the whole point of the PAC mechanism.
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this issue, it is important to keep in mind that we have no

record to show how substantial the burden really is, just
the majority’s own unsupported factfinding, see ante, at
21–22. Like all other natural persons, every shareholder
of every corporation remains entirely free under Austin
and McConnell to do however much electioneering she
pleases outside of the corporate form. The owners of a
“mom & pop” store can simply place ads in their own
names, rather than the store’s. If ideologically aligned
individuals wish to make unlimited expenditures through
the corporate form, they may utilize an MCFL organiza
tion that has policies in place to avoid becoming a conduit
for business or union interests. See MCFL, 479 U. S., at
263–264.
The laws upheld in Austin and McConnell leave open
many additional avenues for corporations’ political speech.
Consider the statutory provision we are ostensibly evalu
ating in this case, BCRA §203. It has no application to
genuine issue advertising—a category of corporate speech
Congress found to be far more substantial than election
related advertising, see McConnell, 540 U. S., at 207—or
to Internet, telephone, and print advocacy.31 Like numer
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31 Roaming far afield from the case at hand, the majority worries that
the Government will use §203 to ban books, pamphlets, and blogs.
Ante, at 20, 33, 49. Yet by its plain terms, §203 does not apply to
printed material. See 2 U. S. C. §434(f)(3)(A)(i); see also 11 CFR
§100.29(c)(1) (“[E]lectioneering communication does not include com
munications appearing in print media”). And in light of the ordinary
understanding of the terms “broadcast, cable, [and] satellite,”
§434(f)(3)(A)(i), coupled with Congress’ clear aim of targeting “a virtual
torrent of televised election-related ads,” McConnell, 540 U. S., at 207,
we highly doubt that §203 could be interpreted to apply to a Web site or
book that happens to be transmitted at some stage over airwaves or
cable lines, or that the FEC would ever try to do so. See 11 CFR
§100.26 (exempting most Internet communications from regulation as
advertising); §100.155 (exempting uncompensated Internet activity
from regulation as an expenditure); Supp. Brief for Center for Inde
pendent Media et al. as Amici Curiae 14 (explaining that “the FEC has
ous statutes, it exempts media companies’ news stories,

commentaries, and editorials from its electioneering re
strictions, in recognition of the unique role played by the
institutional press in sustaining public debate.32 See 2
U. S. C. §434(f)(3)(B)(i); McConnell, 540 U. S., at 208–209;
see also Austin, 494 U. S., at 666–668. It also allows
corporations to spend unlimited sums on political commu
nications with their executives and shareholders,
§441b(b)(2)(A); 11 CFR §114.3(a)(1), to fund additional
PAC activity through trade associations, 2 U. S. C.
§441b(b)(4)(D), to distribute voting guides and voting
records, 11 CFR §§114.4(c)(4)–(5), to underwrite voter
registration and voter turnout activities, §114.3(c)(4);
§114.4(c)(2), to host fundraising events for candidates
within certain limits, §114.4(c); §114.2(f)(2), and to pub
licly endorse candidates through a press release and press
conference, §114.4(c)(6).
At the time Citizens United brought this lawsuit, the
only types of speech that could be regulated under §203
were: (1) broadcast, cable, or satellite communications;33
(2) capable of reaching at least 50,000 persons in the
relevant electorate;34 (3) made within 30 days of a primary
or 60 days of a general federal election;35 (4) by a labor
union or a non-MCFL, nonmedia corporation;36 (5) paid for
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consistently construed [BCRA’s] media exemption to apply to a variety
of non-traditional media”). If it should, the Government acknowledges
“there would be quite [a] good as-applied challenge.” Tr. of Oral Arg. 65
(Sept. 9, 2009).
32 As the Government points out, with a media corporation there is
also a lesser risk that investors will not understand, learn about, or
support the advocacy messages that the corporation disseminates.
Supp. Reply Brief for Appellee 10. Everyone knows and expects that
media outlets may seek to influence elections in this way.
33 2 U. S. C. §434(f)(3)(A)(i).
34 §434(f)(3)(C).
35 §434(f)(3)(A)(i)(II).
36 §441b(b); McConnell, 540 U. S., at 211.
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with general treasury funds;37 and (6) “susceptible of no

reasonable interpretation other than as an appeal to vote
for or against a specific candidate.”38 The category of
communications meeting all of these criteria is not trivial,
but the notion that corporate political speech has been
“suppress[ed] . . . altogether,” ante, at 2, that corporations
have been “exclu[ded] . . . from the general public dia
logue,” ante, at 25, or that a work of fiction such as Mr.
Smith Goes to Washington might be covered, ante, at 56–
57, is nonsense.39 Even the plaintiffs in McConnell, who
had every incentive to depict BCRA as negatively as pos
sible, declined to argue that §203’s prohibition on certain
uses of general treasury funds amounts to a complete ban.
See 540 U. S., at 204.
In many ways, then, §203 functions as a source restric
tion or a time, place, and manner restriction. It applies in
a viewpoint-neutral fashion to a narrow subset of advocacy
messages about clearly identified candidates for federal
office, made during discrete time periods through discrete
channels. In the case at hand, all Citizens United needed
to do to broadcast Hillary right before the primary was to
abjure business contributions or use the funds in its PAC,
which by its own account is “one of the most active conser
vative PACs in America,” Citizens United Political Victory
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37 §441b(b)(2)(C).
38 WRTL, 551 U. S. 449, 470 (2007) (opinion of ROBERTS, C. J.).
39 Itis likewise nonsense to suggest that the FEC’s “ ‘business is to
censor.’ ” Ante, at 18 (quoting Freedman v. Maryland, 380 U. S. 51, 57
(1965)). The FEC’s business is to administer and enforce the campaign
finance laws. The regulatory body at issue in Freedman was a state
Board of Censors that had virtually unfettered discretion to bar distri
bution of motion picture films it deemed not to be “moral and proper.”
See id., at 52–53, and n. 2. No movie could be shown in the State of
Maryland that was not first approved and licensed by the Board of
Censors. Id., at 52, n. 1. It is an understatement to say that Freedman
is not on point, and the majority’s characterization of the FEC is deeply
disconcerting.
Fund, http://www.cupvf.org/.40
So let us be clear: Neither Austin nor McConnell held or
implied that corporations may be silenced; the FEC is not
a “censor”; and in the years since these cases were decided,
corporations have continued to play a major role in the
national dialogue. Laws such as §203 target a class of
communications that is especially likely to corrupt the
political process, that is at least one degree removed from
the views of individual citizens, and that may not even
reflect the views of those who pay for it. Such laws burden
political speech, and that is always a serious matter,
demanding careful scrutiny. But the majority’s incessant
talk of a “ban” aims at a straw man.
Identity-Based Distinctions
The second pillar of the Court’s opinion is its assertion
that “the Government cannot restrict political speech
based on the speaker’s . . . identity.” Ante, at 30; accord,
ante, at 1, 24, 26, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 49, 50. The case on
which it relies for this proposition is First Nat. Bank of
Boston v. Bellotti, 435 U. S. 765 (1978). As I shall explain,
infra, at 52–55, the holding in that case was far narrower
than the Court implies. Like its paeans to unfettered
discourse, the Court’s denunciation of identity-based
distinctions may have rhetorical appeal but it obscures
reality.
“Our jurisprudence over the past 216 years has rejected
an absolutist interpretation” of the First Amendment.
WRTL, 551 U. S., at 482 (opinion of ROBERTS, C. J.). The
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40 Citizens United has administered this PAC for over a decade. See
Defendant FEC’s Memorandum in Opposition to Plaintiff’s Second

Motion for Preliminary Injunction in No. 07–2240 (ARR, RCL, RWR)
(DC), p. 20. Citizens United also operates multiple “527” organizations
that engage in partisan political activity. See Defendant FEC’s State
ment of Material Facts as to Which There Is No Genuine Dispute in No.
07–2240 (DC), ¶¶ 22–24.
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First Amendment provides that “Congress shall make no

law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.”
Apart perhaps from measures designed to protect the
press, that text might seem to permit no distinctions of
any kind. Yet in a variety of contexts, we have held that
speech can be regulated differentially on account of the
speaker’s identity, when identity is understood in cate
gorical or institutional terms. The Government routinely
places special restrictions on the speech rights of stu
dents,41 prisoners,42 members of the Armed Forces,43 for
eigners,44 and its own employees.45 When such restric
tions are justified by a legitimate governmental interest,
they do not necessarily raise constitutional problems.46 In
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41 See, e.g., Bethel School Dist. No. 403 v. Fraser, 478 U. S. 675, 682
(1986) (“[T]he constitutional rights of students in public school are not

automatically coextensive with the rights of adults in other settings”).
42 See, e.g., Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners’ Labor Union, Inc., 433
U. S. 119, 129 (1977) (“In a prison context, an inmate does not retain
those First Amendment rights that are inconsistent with his status as a
prisoner or with the legitimate penological objectives of the corrections
system” (internal quotation marks omitted)).
43 See, e.g., Parker v. Levy, 417 U. S. 733, 758 (1974) (“While the
members of the military are not excluded from the protection granted
by the First Amendment, the different character of the military com
munity and of the military mission requires a different application of
those protections”).
44 See, e.g., 2 U. S. C. §441e(a)(1) (foreign nationals may not directly
or indirectly make contributions or independent expenditures in con

nection with a U. S. election).
45 See, e.g., Civil Service Comm’n v. Letter Carriers, 413 U. S. 548
(1973) (upholding statute prohibiting Executive Branch employees from

taking “any active part in political management or in political cam
paigns” (internal quotation marks omitted)); Public Workers v. Mitchell,
330 U. S. 75 (1947) (same); United States v. Wurzbach, 280 U. S. 396
(1930) (upholding statute prohibiting federal employees from making
contributions to Members of Congress for “any political purpose what
ever” (internal quotation marks omitted)); Ex parte Curtis, 106 U. S.
371 (1882) (upholding statute prohibiting certain federal employees
from giving money to other employees for political purposes).
46 The majority states that the cases just cited are “inapposite” be
contrast to the blanket rule that the majority espouses,

our cases recognize that the Government’s interests may
be more or less compelling with respect to different classes
of speakers,47 cf. Minneapolis Star & Tribune Co. v. Min
nesota Comm’r of Revenue, 460 U. S. 575, 585 (1983)
(“[D]ifferential treatment” is constitutionally suspect
“unless justified by some special characteristic” of the
regulated class of speakers (emphasis added)), and that
the constitutional rights of certain categories of speakers,
in certain contexts, “ ‘are not automatically coextensive
with the rights’ ” that are normally accorded to members of
our society, Morse v. Frederick, 551 U. S. 393, 396–397,
404 (2007) (quoting Bethel School Dist. No. 403 v. Fraser,
478 U. S. 675, 682 (1986)).
The free speech guarantee thus does not render every
other public interest an illegitimate basis for qualifying a
speaker’s autonomy; society could scarcely function if it
did. It is fair to say that our First Amendment doctrine
has “frowned on” certain identity-based distinctions, Los
Angeles Police Dept. v. United Reporting Publishing Corp.,
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cause they “stand only for the proposition that there are certain gov
ernmental functions that cannot operate without some restrictions on
particular kinds of speech.” Ante, at 25. The majority’s creative sug
gestion that these cases stand only for that one proposition is quite
implausible. In any event, the proposition lies at the heart of this case,
as Congress and half the state legislatures have concluded, over many
decades, that their core functions of administering elections and pass
ing legislation cannot operate effectively without some narrow restric
tions on corporate electioneering paid for by general treasury funds.
47 Outside of the law, of course, it is a commonplace that the identity
and incentives of the speaker might be relevant to an assessment of his

speech. See Aristotle, Poetics 43–44 (M. Heath transl. 1996) (“In
evaluating any utterance or action, one must take into account not just
the moral qualities of what is actually done or said, but also the iden
tity of the agent or speaker, the addressee, the occasion, the means, and
the motive”). The insight that the identity of speakers is a proper
subject of regulatory concern, it bears noting, motivates the disclaimer
and disclosure provisions that the Court today upholds.
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528 U. S. 32, 47, n. 4 (1999) (STEVENS, J., dissenting),

particularly those that may reflect invidious discrimina
tion or preferential treatment of a politically powerful
group. But it is simply incorrect to suggest that we have
prohibited all legislative distinctions based on identity or
content. Not even close.
The election context is distinctive in many ways, and the
Court, of course, is right that the First Amendment closely
guards political speech. But in this context, too, the au
thority of legislatures to enact viewpoint-neutral regula
tions based on content and identity is well settled. We
have, for example, allowed state-run broadcasters to ex
clude independent candidates from televised debates.
Arkansas Ed. Television Comm’n v. Forbes, 523 U. S. 666
(1998).48 We have upheld statutes that prohibit the distri
bution or display of campaign materials near a polling
place. Burson v. Freeman, 504 U. S. 191 (1992).49 Al
though we have not reviewed them directly, we have never
cast doubt on laws that place special restrictions on cam
paign spending by foreign nationals. See, e.g., 2 U. S. C.
§441e(a)(1). And we have consistently approved laws that
bar Government employees, but not others, from contrib
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48 I dissented in Forbes because the broadcaster’s decision to exclude
the respondent from its debate was done “on the basis of entirely
subjective, ad hoc judgments,” 523 U. S., at 690, that suggested anti
competitive viewpoint discrimination, id., at 693–694, and lacked a
compelling justification. Needless to say, my concerns do not apply to
the instant case.
49 The law at issue in Burson was far from unusual. “[A]ll 50 States,”
the Court observed, “limit access to the areas in or around polling

places.” 504 U. S., at 206; see also Note, 91 Ky. L. J. 715, 729, n. 89,
747–769 (2003) (collecting statutes). I dissented in Burson because the
evidence adduced to justify Tennessee’s law was “exceptionally thin,”
504 U. S., at 219, and “the reason for [the] restriction [had] disap
pear[ed]” over time, id., at 223. “In short,” I concluded, “Tennessee
ha[d] failed to point to any legitimate interest that would justify its
selective regulation of campaign-related expression.” Id., at 225. These
criticisms are inapplicable to the case before us.
uting to or participating in political activities. See n. 45,

supra. These statutes burden the political expression of
one class of speakers, namely, civil servants. Yet we have
sustained them on the basis of longstanding practice and
Congress’ reasoned judgment that certain regulations
which leave “untouched full participation . . . in political
decisions at the ballot box,” Civil Service Comm’n v. Letter
Carriers, 413 U. S. 548, 556 (1973) (internal quotation
marks omitted), help ensure that public officials are “suffi
ciently free from improper influences,” id., at 564, and
that “confidence in the system of representative Govern
ment is not . . . eroded to a disastrous extent,” id., at 565.
The same logic applies to this case with additional force
because it is the identity of corporations, rather than
individuals, that the Legislature has taken into account.
As we have unanimously observed, legislatures are enti
tled to decide “that the special characteristics of the corpo
rate structure require particularly careful regulation” in
an electoral context. NRWC, 459 U. S., at 209–210.50 Not
only has the distinctive potential of corporations to corrupt
the electoral process long been recognized, but within the
area of campaign finance, corporate spending is also “fur
thest from the core of political expression, since corpora
tions’ First Amendment speech and association interests
are derived largely from those of their members and of the
public in receiving information,” Beaumont, 539 U. S., at
161, n. 8 (citation omitted). Campaign finance distinctions
based on corporate identity tend to be less worrisome, in
other words, because the “speakers” are not natural per
sons, much less members of our political community, and
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50 They are likewise entitled to regulate media corporations differ
ently from other corporations “to ensure that the law ‘does not hinder or
prevent the institutional press from reporting on, and publishing
editorials about, newsworthy events.’ ” McConnell, 540 U. S., at 208
(quoting Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, 494 U. S. 652, 668
(1990)).
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the governmental interests are of the highest order. Fur

thermore, when corporations, as a class, are distinguished
from noncorporations, as a class, there is a lesser risk that
regulatory distinctions will reflect invidious discrimina
tion or political favoritism.
If taken seriously, our colleagues’ assumption that the
identity of a speaker has no relevance to the Government’s
ability to regulate political speech would lead to some
remarkable conclusions. Such an assumption would have
accorded the propaganda broadcasts to our troops by
“Tokyo Rose” during World War II the same protection as
speech by Allied commanders. More pertinently, it would
appear to afford the same protection to multinational
corporations controlled by foreigners as to individual
Americans: To do otherwise, after all, could “ ‘enhance the
relative voice’ ” of some (i.e., humans) over others (i.e.,
nonhumans). Ante, at 33 (quoting Buckley, 424 U. S., at
49).51 Under the majority’s view, I suppose it may be a
First Amendment problem that corporations are not per
mitted to vote, given that voting is, among other things, a
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51 The Court all but confesses that a categorical approach to speaker
identity is untenable when it acknowledges that Congress might be
allowed to take measures aimed at “preventing foreign individuals or
associations from influencing our Nation’s political process.” Ante, at
46–47. Such measures have been a part of U. S. campaign finance law
for many years. The notion that Congress might lack the authority to
distinguish foreigners from citizens in the regulation of electioneering
would certainly have surprised the Framers, whose “obsession with
foreign influence derived from a fear that foreign powers and individu
als had no basic investment in the well-being of the country.”
Teachout, The Anti-Corruption Principle, 94 Cornell L. Rev. 341, 393,
n. 245 (2009) (hereinafter Teachout); see also U. S. Const., Art. I, §9, cl.
8 (“[N]o Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust . . . shall, without
the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office,
or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State”).
Professor Teachout observes that a corporation might be analogized to
a foreign power in this respect, “inasmuch as its legal loyalties neces
sarily exclude patriotism.” Teachout 393, n. 245.
form of speech.52
In short, the Court dramatically overstates its critique
of identity-based distinctions, without ever explaining why
corporate identity demands the same treatment as indi
vidual identity. Only the most wooden approach to the
First Amendment could justify the unprecedented line it
seeks to draw.
Our First Amendment Tradition
A third fulcrum of the Court’s opinion is the idea that
Austin and McConnell are radical outliers, “aberration[s],”
in our First Amendment tradition. Ante, at 39; see also
ante, at 45, 56 (professing fidelity to “our law and our
tradition”). The Court has it exactly backwards. It is
today’s holding that is the radical departure from what
had been settled First Amendment law. To see why, it is
useful to take a long view.
1. Original Understandings
Let us start from the beginning. The Court invokes
“ancient First Amendment principles,” ante, at 1 (internal
quotation marks omitted), and original understandings,
ante, at 37–38, to defend today’s ruling, yet it makes only
a perfunctory attempt to ground its analysis in the princi
ples or understandings of those who drafted and ratified
the Amendment. Perhaps this is because there is not a
scintilla of evidence to support the notion that anyone
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52 See A. Bickel, The Supreme Court and the Idea of Progress 59–60
(1978); A. Meiklejohn, Political Freedom: The Constitutional Powers of

the People 39–40 (1965); Tokaji, First Amendment Equal Protection:
On Discretion, Inequality, and Participation, 101 Mich. L. Rev. 2409,
2508–2509 (2003). Of course, voting is not speech in a pure or formal
sense, but then again neither is a campaign expenditure; both are
nevertheless communicative acts aimed at influencing electoral out
comes. Cf. Strauss, Corruption, Equality, and Campaign Finance
Reform, 94 Colum. L. Rev. 1369, 1383–1384 (1994) (hereinafter
Strauss).
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believed it would preclude regulatory distinctions based on

the corporate form. To the extent that the Framers’ views
are discernible and relevant to the disposition of this case,
they would appear to cut strongly against the majority’s
position.
This is not only because the Framers and their contem
poraries conceived of speech more narrowly than we now
think of it, see Bork, Neutral Principles and Some First
Amendment Problems, 47 Ind. L. J. 1, 22 (1971), but also
because they held very different views about the nature of
the First Amendment right and the role of corporations in
society. Those few corporations that existed at the found
ing were authorized by grant of a special legislative char
ter.53 Corporate sponsors would petition the legislature,
and the legislature, if amenable, would issue a charter
that specified the corporation’s powers and purposes and
“authoritatively fixed the scope and content of corporate
organization,” including “the internal structure of the
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53 Scholars have found that only a handful of business corporations
were issued charters during the colonial period, and only a few hundred
during all of the 18th century. See E. Dodd, American Business Corpo
rations Until 1860, p. 197 (1954); L. Friedman, A History of American
Law 188–189 (2d ed. 1985); Baldwin, American Business Corporations
Before 1789, 8 Am. Hist. Rev. 449, 450–459 (1903). JUSTICE SCALIA
quibbles with these figures; whereas we say that “a few hundred”
charters were issued to business corporations during the 18th century,
he says that the number is “approximately 335.” Ante, at 2 (concurring
opinion). JUSTICE SCALIA also raises the more serious point that it is
improper to assess these figures by today’s standards, ante, at 3,
though I believe he fails to substantiate his claim that “the corporation
was a familiar figure in American economic life” by the century’s end,
ibid. (internal quotation marks omitted). His formulation of that claim
is also misleading, because the relevant reference point is not 1800 but
the date of the First Amendment’s ratification, in 1791. And at that
time, the number of business charters must have been significantly
smaller than 335, because the pace of chartering only began to pick up
steam in the last decade of the 18th century. More than half of the
century’s total business charters were issued between 1796 and 1800.
Friedman, History of American Law, at 189.
corporation.” J. Hurst, The Legitimacy of the Business

Corporation in the Law of the United States 1780–1970,
pp. 15–16 (1970) (reprint 2004). Corporations were cre
ated, supervised, and conceptualized as quasi-public enti
ties, “designed to serve a social function for the state.”
Handlin & Handlin, Origin of the American Business
Corporation, 5 J. Econ. Hist. 1, 22 (1945). It was “as
sumed that [they] were legally privileged organizations
that had to be closely scrutinized by the legislature be
cause their purposes had to be made consistent with pub
lic welfare.” R. Seavoy, Origins of the American Business
Corporation, 1784–1855, p. 5 (1982).
The individualized charter mode of incorporation re
flected the “cloud of disfavor under which corporations
labored” in the early years of this Nation. 1 W. Fletcher,
Cyclopedia of the Law of Corporations §2, p. 8 (rev. ed.
2006); see also Louis K. Liggett Co. v. Lee, 288 U. S. 517,
548–549 (1933) (Brandeis, J., dissenting) (discussing fears
of the “evils” of business corporations); L. Friedman, A
History of American Law 194 (2d ed. 1985) (“The word
‘soulless’ constantly recurs in debates over corpora
tions. . . . Corporations, it was feared, could concentrate
the worst urges of whole groups of men”). Thomas Jeffer
son famously fretted that corporations would subvert the
Republic.54 General incorporation statutes, and wide
spread acceptance of business corporations as socially
useful actors, did not emerge until the 1800’s. See Hans
mann & Kraakman, The End of History for Corporate
Law, 89 Geo. L. J. 439, 440 (2001) (hereinafter Hansmann
& Kraakman) (“[A]ll general business corporation statutes
appear to date from well after 1800”).
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54 See Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Tom Logan (Nov. 12, 1816), in
12 The Works of Thomas Jefferson 42, 44 (P. Ford ed. 1905) (“I hope we
shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations
which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength
and bid defiance to the laws of our country”).
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The Framers thus took it as a given that corporations

could be comprehensively regulated in the service of the
public welfare. Unlike our colleagues, they had little
trouble distinguishing corporations from human beings,
and when they constitutionalized the right to free speech
in the First Amendment, it was the free speech of individ
ual Americans that they had in mind.55 While individuals
might join together to exercise their speech rights, busi
ness corporations, at least, were plainly not seen as facili
tating such associational or expressive ends. Even “the
notion that business corporations could invoke the First
Amendment would probably have been quite a novelty,”
given that “at the time, the legitimacy of every corporate
activity was thought to rest entirely in a concession of the
sovereign.” Shelledy, Autonomy, Debate, and Corporate
Speech, 18 Hastings Const. L. Q. 541, 578 (1991); cf. Trus
tees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 518, 636
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55 In normal usage then, as now, the term “speech” referred to oral
communications by individuals. See, e.g., 2 S. Johnson, Dictionary of

the English Language 1853–1854 (4th ed. 1773) (reprinted 1978)
(listing as primary definition of “speech”: “The power of articulate
utterance; the power of expressing thoughts by vocal words”); 2 N.
Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828) (re
printed 1970) (listing as primary definition of “speech”: “The faculty of
uttering articulate sounds or words, as in human beings; the faculty of
expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds. Speech was given
to man by his Creator for the noblest purposes”). Indeed, it has been
“claimed that the notion of institutional speech . . . did not exist in post
revolutionary America.” Fagundes, State Actors as First Amendment
Speakers, 100 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1637, 1654 (2006); see also Bezanson,
Institutional Speech, 80 Iowa L. Rev. 735, 775 (1995) (“In the intellec
tual heritage of the eighteenth century, the idea that free speech was
individual and personal was deeply rooted and clearly manifest in the
writings of Locke, Milton, and others on whom the framers of the
Constitution and the Bill of Rights drew”). Given that corporations
were conceived of as artificial entities and do not have the technical
capacity to “speak,” the burden of establishing that the Framers and
ratifiers understood “the freedom of speech” to encompass corporate
speech is, I believe, far heavier than the majority acknowledges.
(1819) (Marshall, C. J.) (“A corporation is an artificial

being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contem
plation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it pos
sesses only those properties which the charter of its crea
tion confers upon it”); Eule, Promoting Speaker Diversity:
Austin and Metro Broadcasting, 1990 S. Ct. Rev. 105, 129
(“The framers of the First Amendment could scarcely have
anticipated its application to the corporation form. That,
of course, ought not to be dispositive. What is compelling,
however, is an understanding of who was supposed to be
the beneficiary of the free speech guaranty—the individ
ual”). In light of these background practices and under
standings, it seems to me implausible that the Framers
believed “the freedom of speech” would extend equally to
all corporate speakers, much less that it would preclude
legislatures from taking limited measures to guard
against corporate capture of elections.
The Court observes that the Framers drew on diverse
intellectual sources, communicated through newspapers,
and aimed to provide greater freedom of speech than had
existed in England. Ante, at 37. From these (accurate)
observations, the Court concludes that “[t]he First
Amendment was certainly not understood to condone the
suppression of political speech in society’s most salient
media.” Ibid. This conclusion is far from certain, given
that many historians believe the Framers were focused on
prior restraints on publication and did not understand the
First Amendment to “prevent the subsequent punishment
of such [publications] as may be deemed contrary to the
public welfare.” Near v. Minnesota ex rel. Olson, 283 U. S.
697, 714 (1931). Yet, even if the majority’s conclusion
were correct, it would tell us only that the First Amend
ment was understood to protect political speech in certain
media. It would tell us little about whether the Amend
ment was understood to protect general treasury election
eering expenditures by corporations, and to what extent.
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As a matter of original expectations, then, it seems

absurd to think that the First Amendment prohibits legis
latures from taking into account the corporate identity of a
sponsor of electoral advocacy. As a matter of original
meaning, it likewise seems baseless—unless one evaluates
the First Amendment’s “principles,” ante, at 1, 48, or its
“purpose,” ante, at 5 (opinion of ROBERTS, C. J.), at such a
high level of generality that the historical understandings
of the Amendment cease to be a meaningful constraint on
the judicial task. This case sheds a revelatory light on the
assumption of some that an impartial judge’s application
of an originalist methodology is likely to yield more deter
minate answers, or to play a more decisive role in the
decisional process, than his or her views about sound
policy.
JUSTICE SCALIA criticizes the foregoing discussion for
failing to adduce statements from the founding era show
ing that corporations were understood to be excluded from
the First Amendment’s free speech guarantee. Ante, at 1–
2, 9. Of course, JUSTICE SCALIA adduces no statements to
suggest the contrary proposition, or even to suggest that
the contrary proposition better reflects the kind of right
that the drafters and ratifiers of the Free Speech Clause
thought they were enshrining. Although JUSTICE SCALIA
makes a perfectly sensible argument that an individual’s
right to speak entails a right to speak with others for a
common cause, cf. MCFL, 479 U. S. 238, he does not ex
plain why those two rights must be precisely identical, or
why that principle applies to electioneering by corpora
tions that serve no “common cause.” Ante, at 8. Nothing
in his account dislodges my basic point that members of
the founding generation held a cautious view of corporate
power and a narrow view of corporate rights (not that they
“despised” corporations, ante, at 2), and that they concep
tualized speech in individualistic terms. If no prominent
Framer bothered to articulate that corporate speech would
have lesser status than individual speech, that may well

be because the contrary proposition—if not also the very
notion of “corporate speech”—was inconceivable.56
JUSTICE SCALIA also emphasizes the unqualified nature
of the First Amendment text. Ante, at 2, 8. Yet he would
seemingly read out the Free Press Clause: How else could
he claim that my purported views on newspapers must
track my views on corporations generally? Ante, at 6.57
Like virtually all modern lawyers, JUSTICE SCALIA pre
sumably believes that the First Amendment restricts the
Executive, even though its language refers to Congress
alone. In any event, the text only leads us back to the
questions who or what is guaranteed “the freedom of
speech,” and, just as critically, what that freedom consists
of and under what circumstances it may be limited.
JUSTICE SCALIA appears to believe that because corpora
tions are created and utilized by individuals, it follows (as
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56 Postratification practice bolsters the conclusion that the First
Amendment, “as originally understood,” ante, at 37, did not give corpo
rations political speech rights on a par with the rights of individuals.
Well into the modern era of general incorporation statutes, “[t]he
common law was generally interpreted as prohibiting corporate politi
cal participation,” First Nat. Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, 435 U. S. 765,
819 (1978) (White, J., dissenting), and this Court did not recognize any
First Amendment protections for corporations until the middle part of
the 20th century, see ante, at 25–26 (listing cases).
57 In fact, the Free Press Clause might be turned against JUSTICE
SCALIA, for two reasons. First, we learn from it that the drafters of the
First Amendment did draw distinctions—explicit distinctions—between
types of “speakers,” or speech outlets or forms. Second, the Court’s
strongest historical evidence all relates to the Framers’ views on the
press, see ante, at 37–38; ante, at 4–6 (SCALIA, J., concurring), yet while
the Court tries to sweep this evidence into the Free Speech Clause, the
Free Press Clause provides a more natural textual home. The text and
history highlighted by our colleagues suggests why one type of corpora
tion, those that are part of the press, might be able to claim special
First Amendment status, and therefore why some kinds of “identity”
based distinctions might be permissible after all. Once one accepts that
much, the intellectual edifice of the majority opinion crumbles.
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night the day) that their electioneering must be equally

protected by the First Amendment and equally immunized
from expenditure limits. See ante, at 7–8. That conclu
sion certainly does not follow as a logical matter, and
JUSTICE SCALIA fails to explain why the original public
meaning leads it to follow as a matter of interpretation.
The truth is we cannot be certain how a law such as
BCRA §203 meshes with the original meaning of the First
Amendment.58 I have given several reasons why I believe
the Constitution would have been understood then, and
ought to be understood now, to permit reasonable restric
tions on corporate electioneering, and I will give many
more reasons in the pages to come. The Court enlists the
Framers in its defense without seriously grappling with
their understandings of corporations or the free speech
right, or with the republican principles that underlay
those understandings.
In fairness, our campaign finance jurisprudence has
never attended very closely to the views of the Framers,
see Randall v. Sorrell, 548 U. S. 230, 280 (2006) (STEVENS,
J., dissenting), whose political universe differed pro
foundly from that of today. We have long since held that
corporations are covered by the First Amendment, and
many legal scholars have long since rejected the conces
sion theory of the corporation. But “historical context is
usually relevant,” ibid. (internal quotation marks omit
ted), and in light of the Court’s effort to cast itself as
guardian of ancient values, it pays to remember that
nothing in our constitutional history dictates today’s
outcome. To the contrary, this history helps illuminate
just how extraordinarily dissonant the decision is.
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58 Cf.L. Levy, Legacy of Suppression: Freedom of Speech and Press in
Early American History 4 (1960) (“The meaning of no other clause of
the Bill of Rights at the time of its framing and ratification has been so
obscure to us” as the Free Speech and Press Clause).
2. Legislative and Judicial Interpretation

A century of more recent history puts to rest any notion
that today’s ruling is faithful to our First Amendment
tradition. At the federal level, the express distinction
between corporate and individual political spending on
elections stretches back to 1907, when Congress passed
the Tillman Act, ch. 420, 34 Stat. 864, banning all corpo
rate contributions to candidates. The Senate Report on
the legislation observed that “[t]he evils of the use of
[corporate] money in connection with political elections are
so generally recognized that the committee deems it un
necessary to make any argument in favor of the general
purpose of this measure. It is in the interest of good gov
ernment and calculated to promote purity in the selection
of public officials.” S. Rep. No. 3056, 59th Cong., 1st Sess.,
2 (1906). President Roosevelt, in his 1905 annual message
to Congress, declared:
“ ‘All contributions by corporations to any political
committee or for any political purpose should be for
bidden by law; directors should not be permitted to
use stockholders’ money for such purposes; and, more
over, a prohibition of this kind would be, as far as it
went, an effective method of stopping the evils aimed
at in corrupt practices acts.’ ” United States v. Auto
mobile Workers, 352 U. S. 567, 572 (1957) (quoting 40
Cong. Rec. 96).
The Court has surveyed the history leading up to the
Tillman Act several times, see WRTL, 551 U. S., at 508–
510 (Souter, J., dissenting); McConnell, 540 U. S., at 115;
Automobile Workers, 352 U. S., at 570–575, and I will
refrain from doing so again. It is enough to say that the
Act was primarily driven by two pressing concerns: first,
the enormous power corporations had come to wield in
federal elections, with the accompanying threat of both
actual corruption and a public perception of corruption;
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and second, a respect for the interest of shareholders and

members in preventing the use of their money to support
candidates they opposed. See ibid.; United States v. CIO,
335 U. S. 106, 113 (1948); Winkler, “Other People’s
Money”: Corporations, Agency Costs, and Campaign Fi
nance Law, 92 Geo. L. J. 871 (2004).
Over the years, the limitations on corporate political
spending have been modified in a number of ways, as
Congress responded to changes in the American economy
and political practices that threatened to displace the
commonweal. Justice Souter recently traced these devel
opments at length.59 WRTL, 551 U. S., at 507–519 (dis
senting opinion); see also McConnell, 540 U. S., at 115–
133; McConnell, 251 F. Supp. 2d, at 188–205. The Taft-
Hartley Act of 1947 is of special significance for this case.
In that Act passed more than 60 years ago, Congress
extended the prohibition on corporate support of candi
dates to cover not only direct contributions, but independ
ent expenditures as well. Labor Management Relations
Act, 1947, §304, 61 Stat. 159. The bar on contributions
“was being so narrowly construed” that corporations were
easily able to defeat the purposes of the Act by supporting
candidates through other means. WRTL, 551 U. S., at 511
(Souter, J., dissenting) (citing S. Rep. No. 1, 80th Cong.,
1st Sess., 38–39 (1947)).
Our colleagues emphasize that in two cases from the
middle of the 20th century, several Justices wrote sepa
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59 As the majority notes, there is some academic debate about the
precise origins of these developments. Ante, at 48; see also n. 19, supra.
There is always some academic debate about such developments; the
motives of legislatures are never entirely clear or unitary. Yet the basic
shape and trajectory of 20th-century campaign finance reform are clear,
and one need not take a naïve or triumphalist view of this history to
find it highly relevant. The Court’s skepticism does nothing to mitigate
the absurdity of its claim that Austin and McConnell were outliers. Nor
does it alter the fact that five Justices today destroy a longstanding
American practice.
rately to criticize the expenditure restriction as applied to

unions, even though the Court declined to pass on its
constitutionality. Ante, at 27–28. Two features of these
cases are of far greater relevance. First, those Justices
were writing separately; which is to say, their position
failed to command a majority. Prior to today, this was a
fact we found significant in evaluating precedents. Sec
ond, each case in this line expressed support for the prin
ciple that corporate and union political speech financed
with PAC funds, collected voluntarily from the organiza
tion’s stockholders or members, receives greater protection
than speech financed with general treasury funds.60
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60 See Pipefitters v. United States, 407 U. S. 385, 409, 414–415 (1972)
(reading the statutory bar on corporate and union campaign spending
not to apply to “the voluntary donations of employees,” when main
tained in a separate account, because “[t]he dominant [legislative]
concern in requiring that contributions be voluntary was, after all, to
protect the dissenting stockholder or union member”); Automobile
Workers, 352 U. S., at 592 (advising the District Court to consider on
remand whether the broadcast in question was “paid for out of the
general dues of the union membership or [whether] the funds [could] be
fairly said to have obtained on a voluntary basis”); United States v.
CIO, 335 U. S. 106, 123 (1948) (observing that “funds voluntarily
contributed [by union members or corporate stockholders] for election
purposes” might not be covered by the expenditure bar). Both the
Pipefitters and the Automobile Workers Court approvingly referenced
Congress’ goal of reducing “the effect of aggregated wealth on federal
elections,” understood as wealth drawn from a corporate or union
general treasury without the stockholders’ or members’ “free and
knowing choice.” Pipefitters, 407 U. S., at 416; see Automobile Workers,
352 U. S., at 582.
The two dissenters in Pipefitters would not have read the statutory
provision in question, a successor to §304 of the Taft-Hartley Act, to
allow such robust use of corporate and union funds to finance otherwise
prohibited electioneering. “This opening of the door to extensive
corporate and union influence on the elective and legislative processes,”
Justice Powell wrote, “must be viewed with genuine concern. This
seems to me to be a regressive step as contrasted with the numerous
legislative and judicial actions in recent years designed to assure that
elections are indeed free and representative.” 407 U. S., at 450 (opinion
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This principle was carried forward when Congress

enacted comprehensive campaign finance reform in the
Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA), 86 Stat. 3,
which retained the restriction on using general treasury
funds for contributions and expenditures, 2 U. S. C.
§441b(a). FECA codified the option for corporations and
unions to create PACs to finance contributions and expen
ditures forbidden to the corporation or union itself.
§441b(b).
By the time Congress passed FECA in 1971, the bar on
corporate contributions and expenditures had become such
an accepted part of federal campaign finance regulation
that when a large number of plaintiffs, including several
nonprofit corporations, challenged virtually every aspect of
the Act in Buckley, 424 U. S. 1, no one even bothered to
argue that the bar as such was unconstitutional. Buckley
famously (or infamously) distinguished direct contribu
tions from independent expenditures, id., at 58–59, but its
silence on corporations only reinforced the understanding
that corporate expenditures could be treated differently
from individual expenditures. “Since our decision in Buck
ley, Congress’ power to prohibit corporations and unions
from using funds in their treasuries to finance advertise
ments expressly advocating the election or defeat of candi
dates in federal elections has been firmly embedded in our
law.” McConnell, 540 U. S., at 203.
Thus, it was unremarkable, in a 1982 case holding that
Congress could bar nonprofit corporations from soliciting
nonmembers for PAC funds, that then-Justice Rehnquist
wrote for a unanimous Court that Congress’ “careful legis
lative adjustment of the federal electoral laws, in a cau
tious advance, step by step, to account for the particular
legal and economic attributes of corporations . . . warrants
considerable deference,” and “reflects a permissible as
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of Powell, J., joined by Burger, C. J.).
sessment of the dangers posed by those entities to the

electoral process.” NRWC, 459 U. S., at 209 (internal
quotation marks and citation omitted). “The governmen
tal interest in preventing both actual corruption and the
appearance of corruption of elected representatives has
long been recognized,” the unanimous Court observed,
“and there is no reason why it may not . . . be accom
plished by treating . . . corporations . . . differently from
individuals.” Id., at 210–211.
The corporate/individual distinction was not questioned
by the Court’s disposition, in 1986, of a challenge to the
expenditure restriction as applied to a distinctive type of
nonprofit corporation. In MCFL, 479 U. S. 238, we stated
again “that ‘the special characteristics of the corporate
structure require particularly careful regulation,’ ” id., at
256 (quoting NRWC, 459 U. S., at 209–210), and again we
acknowledged that the Government has a legitimate
interest in “regulat[ing] the substantial aggregations of
wealth amassed by the special advantages which go with
the corporate form,” 479 U. S., at 257 (internal quotation
marks omitted). Those aggregations can distort the “free
trade in ideas” crucial to candidate elections, ibid., at the
expense of members or shareholders who may disagree
with the object of the expenditures, id., at 260 (internal
quotation marks omitted). What the Court held by a 5-to
4 vote was that a limited class of corporations must be
allowed to use their general treasury funds for independ
ent expenditures, because Congress’ interests in protect
ing shareholders and “restrict[ing] ‘the influence of politi
cal war chests funneled through the corporate form,’ ” id.,
at 257 (quoting FEC v. National Conservative Political
Action Comm., 470 U. S. 480, 501 (1985) (NCPAC)), did
not apply to corporations that were structurally insulated
from those concerns.61
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61 Specifically, these corporations had to meet three conditions. First,
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It is worth remembering for present purposes that the

four MCFL dissenters, led by Chief Justice Rehnquist,
thought the Court was carrying the First Amendment too
far. They would have recognized congressional authority
to bar general treasury electioneering expenditures even
by this class of nonprofits; they acknowledged that “the
threat from corporate political activity will vary depending
on the particular characteristics of a given corporation,”
but believed these “distinctions among corporations” were
“distinctions in degree,” not “in kind,” and thus “more
properly drawn by the Legislature than by the Judiciary.”
479 U. S., at 268 (opinion of Rehnquist, C. J.) (internal
quotation marks omitted). Not a single Justice suggested
that regulation of corporate political speech could be no
more stringent than of speech by an individual.
Four years later, in Austin, 494 U. S. 652, we considered
whether corporations falling outside the MCFL exception
could be barred from using general treasury funds to make
independent expenditures in support of, or in opposition
to, candidates. We held they could be. Once again recog
nizing the importance of “the integrity of the marketplace
of political ideas” in candidate elections, MCFL, 479 U. S.,
at 257, we noted that corporations have “special advan
tages—such as limited liability, perpetual life, and favor
able treatment of the accumulation and distribution of
assets,” 494 U. S., at 658–659—that allow them to spend
prodigious general treasury sums on campaign messages
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they had to be formed “for the express purpose of promoting political
ideas,” so that their resources reflected political support rather than
commercial success. MCFL, 479 U. S., at 264. Next, they had to have
no shareholders, so that “persons connected with the organization will
have no economic disincentive for disassociating with it if they disagree
with its political activity.” Ibid. Finally, they could not be “established
by a business corporation or a labor union,” nor “accept contributions
from such entities,” lest they “serv[e] as conduits for the type of direct
spending that creates a threat to the political marketplace.” Ibid.
that have “little or no correlation” with the beliefs held by

actual persons, id., at 660. In light of the corrupting
effects such spending might have on the political process,
ibid., we permitted the State of Michigan to limit corpo
rate expenditures on candidate elections to corporations’
PACs, which rely on voluntary contributions and thus
“reflect actual public support for the political ideals es
poused by corporations,” ibid. Notwithstanding our col
leagues’ insinuations that Austin deprived the public of
general “ideas,” “facts,” and “knowledge,” ante, at 38–39,
the decision addressed only candidate-focused expendi
tures and gave the State no license to regulate corporate
spending on other matters.
In the 20 years since Austin, we have reaffirmed its
holding and rationale a number of times, see, e.g., Beau
mont, 539 U. S., at 153–156, most importantly in McCon
nell, 540 U. S. 93, where we upheld the provision chal
lenged here, §203 of BCRA.62 Congress crafted §203 in
response to a problem created by Buckley. The Buckley
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62 According to THE CHIEF JUSTICE, we are “erroneou[s]” in claiming
that McConnell and Beaumont “ ‘reaffirmed’ ” Austin. Ante, at 5. In

both cases, the Court explicitly relied on Austin and quoted from it at
length. See 540 U. S., at 204–205; 539 U. S., at 153–155, 158, 160, 163;
see also ante, at 15 (“The holding and validity of Austin were essential
to the reasoning of the McConnell majority opinion”); Brief for Appel
lants National Rifle Association et al., O. T. 2003, No. 02–1675, p. 21
(“Beaumont reaffirmed . . . the Austin rationale for restricting expendi
tures”). The McConnell Court did so in the teeth of vigorous protests by
Justices in today’s majority that Austin should be overruled. See ante,
at 15 (citing relevant passages); see also Beaumont, 539 U. S., at 163–
164 (KENNEDY, J., concurring in judgment). Both Courts also heard
criticisms of Austin from parties or amici. See Brief for Appellants
Chamber of Commerce of the United States et al., O. T. 2003, No. 02–
1756, p. 35, n. 22; Reply Brief for Appellants/Cross-Appellees Senator
Mitch McConnell et al., O. T. 2003, No. 02–1674, pp. 13–14; Brief for
Pacific Legal Foundation as Amicus Curiae in FEC v. Beaumont, O. T.
2002, No. 02–403, passim. If this does not qualify as reaffirmation of a
precedent, then I do not know what would.
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Court had construed FECA’s definition of prohibited “ex

penditures” narrowly to avoid any problems of constitu
tional vagueness, holding it applicable only to “communi
cations that expressly advocate the election or defeat of a
clearly identified candidate,” 424 U. S., at 80, i.e., state
ments containing so-called “magic words” like “ ‘vote for,’
‘elect,’ ‘support,’ ‘cast your ballot for,’ ‘Smith for Congress,’
‘vote against,’ ‘defeat,’ [or] ‘reject,’ ” id., at 43–44, and n.
52. After Buckley, corporations and unions figured out
how to circumvent the limits on express advocacy by using
sham “issue ads” that “eschewed the use of magic words”
but nonetheless “advocate[d] the election or defeat of
clearly identified federal candidates.” McConnell, 540
U. S., at 126. “Corporations and unions spent hundreds of
millions of dollars of their general funds to pay for these
ads.” Id., at 127. Congress passed §203 to address this
circumvention, prohibiting corporations and unions from
using general treasury funds for electioneering communi
cations that “refe[r] to a clearly identified candidate,”
whether or not those communications use the magic words.
2 U. S. C. §434(f)(3)(A)(i)(I).
When we asked in McConnell “whether a compelling
governmental interest justifie[d]” §203, we found the
question “easily answered”: “We have repeatedly sustained
legislation aimed at ‘the corrosive and distorting effects of
immense aggregations of wealth that are accumulated
with the help of the corporate form and that have little or
no correlation to the public’s support for the corporation’s
political ideas.’ ” 540 U. S., at 205 (quoting Austin, 494
U. S., at 660). These precedents “represent respect for the
legislative judgment that the special characteristics of the
corporate structure require particularly careful regula
tion.” 540 U. S., at 205 (internal quotation marks omit
ted). “Moreover, recent cases have recognized that certain
restrictions on corporate electoral involvement permissibly
hedge against ‘ “circumvention of [valid] contribution
limits.” ’ ” Ibid. (quoting Beaumont, 539 U. S., at 155, in

turn quoting FEC v. Colorado Republican Federal Cam
paign Comm., 533 U. S. 431, 456, and n. 18 (2001) (Colo
rado II); alteration in original). BCRA, we found, is faith
ful to the compelling governmental interests in
“ ‘preserving the integrity of the electoral process, prevent
ing corruption, . . . sustaining the active, alert responsibil
ity of the individual citizen in a democracy for the wise
conduct of the government,’ ” and maintaining “ ‘the indi
vidual citizen’s confidence in government.’ ” 540 U. S., at
206–207, n. 88 (quoting Bellotti, 435 U. S., at 788–789;
some internal quotation marks and brackets omitted).
What made the answer even easier than it might have
been otherwise was the option to form PACs, which give
corporations, at the least, “a constitutionally sufficient
opportunity to engage in” independent expenditures. 540
U. S., at 203.
3. Buckley and Bellotti
Against this extensive background of congressional
regulation of corporate campaign spending, and our re
peated affirmation of this regulation as constitutionally
sound, the majority dismisses Austin as “a significant
departure from ancient First Amendment principles,”
ante, at 1 (internal quotation marks omitted). How does
the majority attempt to justify this claim? Selected pas
sages from two cases, Buckley, 424 U. S. 1, and Bellotti,
435 U. S. 765, do all of the work. In the Court’s view,
Buckley and Bellotti decisively rejected the possibility of
distinguishing corporations from natural persons in the
1970’s; it just so happens that in every single case in
which the Court has reviewed campaign finance legisla
tion in the decades since, the majority failed to grasp this
truth. The Federal Congress and dozens of state legisla
tures, we now know, have been similarly deluded.
The majority emphasizes Buckley’s statement that
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“ ‘[t]he concept that government may restrict the speech of

some elements of our society in order to enhance the rela
tive voice of others is wholly foreign to the First Amend
ment.’ ” Ante, at 33 (quoting 424 U. S., at 48–49); ante, at
8 (opinion of ROBERTS, C. J.). But this elegant phrase
cannot bear the weight that our colleagues have placed on
it. For one thing, the Constitution does, in fact, permit
numerous “restrictions on the speech of some in order to
prevent a few from drowning out the many”: for example,
restrictions on ballot access and on legislators’ floor time.
Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC, 528 U. S. 377,
402 (2000) (BREYER, J., concurring). For another, the
Buckley Court used this line in evaluating “the ancillary
governmental interest in equalizing the relative ability of
individuals and groups to influence the outcome of elec
tions.” 424 U. S., at 48. It is not apparent why this is
relevant to the case before us. The majority suggests that
Austin rests on the foreign concept of speech equalization,
ante, at 34; ante, at 8–10 (opinion of ROBERTS, C. J.), but
we made it clear in Austin (as in several cases before and
since) that a restriction on the way corporations spend
their money is no mere exercise in disfavoring the voice of
some elements of our society in preference to others.
Indeed, we expressly ruled that the compelling interest
supporting Michigan’s statute was not one of “ ‘equaliz[ing]
the relative influence of speakers on elections,’ ” Austin,
494 U. S., at 660 (quoting id., at 705 (KENNEDY, J., dis
senting)), but rather the need to confront the distinctive
corrupting potential of corporate electoral advocacy fi
nanced by general treasury dollars, id., at 659–660.
For that matter, it should go without saying that when
we made this statement in Buckley, we could not have
been casting doubt on the restriction on corporate expendi
tures in candidate elections, which had not been chal
lenged as “foreign to the First Amendment,” ante, at 33
(quoting Buckley, 424 U. S., at 49), or for any other reason.
Buckley’s independent expenditure analysis was focused

on a very different statutory provision, 18 U. S. C.
§608(e)(1) (1970 ed., Supp. V). It is implausible to think,
as the majority suggests, ante, at 29–30, that Buckley
covertly invalidated FECA’s separate corporate and union
campaign expenditure restriction, §610 (now codified at 2
U. S. C. §441b), even though that restriction had been on
the books for decades before Buckley and would remain on
the books, undisturbed, for decades after.
The case on which the majority places even greater
weight than Buckley, however, is Bellotti, 435 U. S. 765,
claiming it “could not have been clearer” that Bellotti’s
holding forbade distinctions between corporate and indi
vidual expenditures like the one at issue here, ante, at 30.
The Court’s reliance is odd. The only thing about Bellotti
that could not be clearer is that it declined to adopt the
majority’s position. Bellotti ruled, in an explicit limitation
on the scope of its holding, that “our consideration of a
corporation’s right to speak on issues of general public
interest implies no comparable right in the quite different
context of participation in a political campaign for election
to public office.” 435 U. S., at 788, n. 26; see also id., at
787–788 (acknowledging that the interests in preserving
public confidence in Government and protecting dissenting
shareholders may be “weighty . . . in the context of parti
san candidate elections”). Bellotti, in other words, did not
touch the question presented in Austin and McConnell,
and the opinion squarely disavowed the proposition for
which the majority cites it.
The majority attempts to explain away the distinction
Bellotti drew—between general corporate speech and
campaign speech intended to promote or prevent the
election of specific candidates for office—as inconsistent
with the rest of the opinion and with Buckley. Ante, at 31,
42–44. Yet the basis for this distinction is perfectly coher
ent: The anticorruption interests that animate regulations
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of corporate participation in candidate elections, the “im

portance” of which “has never been doubted,” 435 U. S., at
788, n. 26, do not apply equally to regulations of corporate
participation in referenda. A referendum cannot owe a
political debt to a corporation, seek to curry favor with a
corporation, or fear the corporation’s retaliation. Cf. Aus
tin, 494 U. S., at 678 (STEVENS, J., concurring); Citizens
Against Rent Control/Coalition for Fair Housing v. Berke
ley, 454 U. S. 290, 299 (1981). The majority likewise
overlooks the fact that, over the past 30 years, our cases
have repeatedly recognized the candidate/issue distinc
tion. See, e.g., Austin, 494 U. S., at 659; NCPAC, 470
U. S., at 495–496; FCC v. League of Women Voters of Cal.,
468 U. S. 364, 371, n. 9 (1984); NRWC, 459 U. S., at 210,
n. 7. The Court’s critique of Bellotti’s footnote 26 puts it in
the strange position of trying to elevate Bellotti to canoni
cal status, while simultaneously disparaging a critical
piece of its analysis as unsupported and irreconcilable
with Buckley. Bellotti, apparently, is both the font of all
wisdom and internally incoherent.
The Bellotti Court confronted a dramatically different
factual situation from the one that confronts us in this
case: a state statute that barred business corporations’
expenditures on some referenda but not others. Specifi
cally, the statute barred a business corporation “from
making contributions or expenditures ‘for the purpose of
. . . influencing or affecting the vote on any question sub
mitted to the voters, other than one materially affecting
any of the property, business or assets of the corporation,’ ”
435 U. S., at 768 (quoting Mass. Gen. Laws Ann., ch. 55,
§8 (West Supp. 1977); alteration in original), and it went
so far as to provide that referenda related to income taxa
tion would not “ ‘be deemed materially to affect the prop
erty, business or assets of the corporation,’ ” 435 U. S., at
768. As might be guessed, the legislature had enacted this
statute in order to limit corporate speech on a proposed
state constitutional amendment to authorize a graduated

income tax. The statute was a transparent attempt to
prevent corporations from spending money to defeat this
amendment, which was favored by a majority of legislators
but had been repeatedly rejected by the voters. See id., at
769–770, and n. 3. We said that “where, as here, the
legislature’s suppression of speech suggests an attempt to
give one side of a debatable public question an advantage
in expressing its views to the people, the First Amendment
is plainly offended.” Id., at 785–786 (footnote omitted).
Bellotti thus involved a viewpoint-discriminatory stat
ute, created to effect a particular policy outcome. Even
Justice Rehnquist, in dissent, had to acknowledge that “a
very persuasive argument could be made that the [Massa
chusetts Legislature], desiring to impose a personal in
come tax but more than once defeated in that desire by the
combination of the Commonwealth’s referendum provision
and corporate expenditures in opposition to such a tax,
simply decided to muzzle corporations on this sort of issue
so that it could succeed in its desire.” Id., at 827, n. 6. To
make matters worse, the law at issue did not make any
allowance for corporations to spend money through PACs.
Id., at 768, n. 2 (opinion of the Court). This really was a
complete ban on a specific, preidentified subject. See
MCFL, 479 U. S., at 259, n. 12 (stating that 2 U. S. C.
§441b’s expenditure restriction “is of course distinguish
able from the complete foreclosure of any opportunity for
political speech that we invalidated in the state referen
dum context in . . . Bellotti” (emphasis added)).
The majority grasps a quotational straw from Bellotti,
that speech does not fall entirely outside the protection of
the First Amendment merely because it comes from a
corporation. Ante, at 30–31. Of course not, but no one
suggests the contrary and neither Austin nor McConnell
held otherwise. They held that even though the expendi
tures at issue were subject to First Amendment scrutiny,
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the restrictions on those expenditures were justified by a

compelling state interest. See McConnell, 540 U. S., at
205; Austin, 494 U. S., at 658, 660. We acknowledged in
Bellotti that numerous “interests of the highest impor
tance” can justify campaign finance regulation. 435 U. S.,
at 788–789. But we found no evidence that these interests
were served by the Massachusetts law. Id., at 789. We
left open the possibility that our decision might have been
different if there had been “record or legislative findings
that corporate advocacy threatened imminently to under
mine democratic processes, thereby denigrating rather
than serving First Amendment interests.” Ibid.
Austin and McConnell, then, sit perfectly well with
Bellotti. Indeed, all six Members of the Austin majority
had been on the Court at the time of Bellotti, and none so
much as hinted in Austin that they saw any tension be
tween the decisions. The difference between the cases is
not that Austin and McConnell rejected First Amendment
protection for corporations whereas Bellotti accepted it.
The difference is that the statute at issue in Bellotti
smacked of viewpoint discrimination, targeted one class of
corporations, and provided no PAC option; and the State
has a greater interest in regulating independent corporate
expenditures on candidate elections than on referenda,
because in a functioning democracy the public must have
faith that its representatives owe their positions to the
people, not to the corporations with the deepest pockets.
* * *
In sum, over the course of the past century Congress has
demonstrated a recurrent need to regulate corporate
participation in candidate elections to “ ‘[p]reserv[e] the
integrity of the electoral process, preven[t] corruption, . . .
sustai[n] the active, alert responsibility of the individual
citizen,’ ” protect the expressive interests of shareholders,
and “ ‘[p]reserv[e] . . . the individual citizen’s confidence in
government.’ ” McConnell, 540 U. S., at 206–207, n. 88

(quoting Bellotti, 435 U. S., at 788–789; first alteration in
original). These understandings provided the combined
impetus behind the Tillman Act in 1907, see Automobile
Workers, 352 U. S., at 570–575, the Taft-Hartley Act in
1947, see WRTL, 551 U. S., at 511 (Souter, J., dissenting),
FECA in 1971, see NRWC, 459 U. S., at 209–210, and
BCRA in 2002, see McConnell, 540 U. S., at 126–132.
Continuously for over 100 years, this line of “[c]ampaign
finance reform has been a series of reactions to docu
mented threats to electoral integrity obvious to any voter,
posed by large sums of money from corporate or union
treasuries.” WRTL, 551 U. S., at 522 (Souter, J., dissent
ing). Time and again, we have recognized these realities
in approving measures that Congress and the States have
taken. None of the cases the majority cites is to the con
trary. The only thing new about Austin was the dissent,
with its stunning failure to appreciate the legitimacy of
interests recognized in the name of democratic integrity
since the days of the Progressives.
IV
Having explained why this is not an appropriate case in
which to revisit Austin and McConnell and why these
decisions sit perfectly well with “First Amendment princi
ples,” ante, at 1, 48, I come at last to the interests that are
at stake. The majority recognizes that Austin and
McConnell may be defended on anticorruption, antidistor
tion, and shareholder protection rationales. Ante, at 32–
46. It badly errs both in explaining the nature of these
rationales, which overlap and complement each other, and
in applying them to the case at hand.
The Anticorruption Interest
Undergirding the majority’s approach to the merits is
the claim that the only “sufficiently important governmen
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tal interest in preventing corruption or the appearance of

corruption” is one that is “limited to quid pro quo corrup
tion.” Ante, at 43. This is the same “crabbed view of
corruption” that was espoused by JUSTICE KENNEDY in
McConnell and squarely rejected by the Court in that case.
540 U. S., at 152. While it is true that we have not always
spoken about corruption in a clear or consistent voice, the
approach taken by the majority cannot be right, in my
judgment. It disregards our constitutional history and the
fundamental demands of a democratic society.
On numerous occasions we have recognized Congress’
legitimate interest in preventing the money that is spent
on elections from exerting an “ ‘undue influence on an
officeholder’s judgment’ ” and from creating “ ‘the appear
ance of such influence,’ ” beyond the sphere of quid pro quo
relationships. Id., at 150; see also, e.g., id., at 143–144,
152–154; Colorado II, 533 U. S., at 441; Shrink Missouri,
528 U. S., at 389. Corruption can take many forms. Brib
ery may be the paradigm case. But the difference between
selling a vote and selling access is a matter of degree, not
kind. And selling access is not qualitatively different from
giving special preference to those who spent money on
one’s behalf. Corruption operates along a spectrum, and
the majority’s apparent belief that quid pro quo arrange
ments can be neatly demarcated from other improper
influences does not accord with the theory or reality of
politics. It certainly does not accord with the record Con
gress developed in passing BCRA, a record that stands as
a remarkable testament to the energy and ingenuity with
which corporations, unions, lobbyists, and politicians may
go about scratching each other’s backs—and which amply
supported Congress’ determination to target a limited set
of especially destructive practices.
The District Court that adjudicated the initial challenge
to BCRA pored over this record. In a careful analysis,
Judge Kollar-Kotelly made numerous findings about the
corrupting consequences of corporate and union independ

ent expenditures in the years preceding BCRA’s passage.
See McConnell, 251 F. Supp. 2d, at 555–560, 622–625; see
also id., at 804–805, 813, n. 143 (Leon, J.) (indicating
agreement). As summarized in her own words:
“The factual findings of the Court illustrate that
corporations and labor unions routinely notify Mem
bers of Congress as soon as they air electioneering
communications relevant to the Members’ elections.
The record also indicates that Members express ap
preciation to organizations for the airing of these elec
tion-related advertisements. Indeed, Members of
Congress are particularly grateful when negative is
sue advertisements are run by these organizations,
leaving the candidates free to run positive advertise
ments and be seen as ‘above the fray.’ Political con
sultants testify that campaigns are quite aware of
who is running advertisements on the candidate’s be
half, when they are being run, and where they are be
ing run. Likewise, a prominent lobbyist testifies that
these organizations use issue advocacy as a means to
influence various Members of Congress.
“The Findings also demonstrate that Members of
Congress seek to have corporations and unions run
these advertisements on their behalf. The Findings
show that Members suggest that corporations or indi
viduals make donations to interest groups with the
understanding that the money contributed to these
groups will assist the Member in a campaign. After
the election, these organizations often seek credit for
their support. . . . Finally, a large majority of Ameri
cans (80%) are of the view that corporations and other
organizations that engage in electioneering communi
cations, which benefit specific elected officials, receive
special consideration from those officials when matters
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arise that affect these corporations and organizations.”

Id., at 623–624 (citations and footnote omitted).
Many of the relationships of dependency found by Judge
Kollar-Kotelly seemed to have a quid pro quo basis, but
other arrangements were more subtle. Her analysis
shows the great difficulty in delimiting the precise scope of
the quid pro quo category, as well as the adverse conse
quences that all such arrangements may have. There are
threats of corruption that are far more destructive to a
democratic society than the odd bribe. Yet the majority’s
understanding of corruption would leave lawmakers impo
tent to address all but the most discrete abuses.
Our “undue influence” cases have allowed the American
people to cast a wider net through legislative experiments
designed to ensure, to some minimal extent, “that office
holders will decide issues . . . on the merits or the desires
of their constituencies,” and not “according to the wishes of
those who have made large financial contributions”—or
expenditures—“valued by the officeholder.” McConnell,
540 U. S., at 153.63 When private interests are seen to
exert outsized control over officeholders solely on account
of the money spent on (or withheld from) their campaigns,
the result can depart so thoroughly “from what is pure or
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63 Cf.Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC, 528 U. S. 377, 389
(2000) (recognizing “the broader threat from politicians too compliant
with the wishes of large contributors”). Though discrete in scope, these
experiments must impose some meaningful limits if they are to have a
chance at functioning effectively and preserving the public’s trust.
“Even if it occurs only occasionally, the potential for such undue influ
ence is manifest. And unlike straight cash-for-votes transactions, such
corruption is neither easily detected nor practical to criminalize.”
McConnell, 540 U. S., at 153. There should be nothing controversial
about the proposition that the influence being targeted is “undue.” In a
democracy, officeholders should not make public decisions with the aim
of placating a financial benefactor, except to the extent that the bene
factor is seen as representative of a larger constituency or its argu
ments are seen as especially persuasive.
correct” in the conduct of Government, Webster’s Third

New International Dictionary 512 (1966) (defining “cor
ruption”), that it amounts to a “subversion . . . of the elec
toral process,” Automobile Workers, 352 U. S., at 575. At
stake in the legislative efforts to address this threat is
therefore not only the legitimacy and quality of Govern
ment but also the public’s faith therein, not only “the
capacity of this democracy to represent its constituents
[but also] the confidence of its citizens in their capacity to
govern themselves,” WRTL, 551 U. S., at 507 (Souter, J.,
dissenting). “Take away Congress’ authority to regulate
the appearance of undue influence and ‘the cynical as
sumption that large donors call the tune could jeopardize
the willingness of voters to take part in democratic gov
ernance.’ ” McConnell, 540 U. S., at 144 (quoting Shrink
Missouri, 528 U. S., at 390).64
The cluster of interrelated interests threatened by such
undue influence and its appearance has been well cap
tured under the rubric of “democratic integrity.” WRTL,
551 U. S., at 522 (Souter, J., dissenting). This value has
underlined a century of state and federal efforts to regu
late the role of corporations in the electoral process.65
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64 The majority declares by fiat that the appearance of undue influ
ence by high-spending corporations “will not cause the electorate to lose

faith in our democracy.” Ante, at 44. The electorate itself has consis
tently indicated otherwise, both in opinion polls, see McConnell v. FEC,
251 F. Supp. 2d 176, 557–558, 623–624 (DC 2003) (opinion of Kollar-
Kotelly, J.), and in the laws its representatives have passed, and our
colleagues have no basis for elevating their own optimism into a tenet
of constitutional law.
65 Quite distinct from the interest in preventing improper influences
on the electoral process, I have long believed that “a number of [other]

purposes, both legitimate and substantial, may justify the imposition of
reasonable limitations on the expenditures permitted during the course
of any single campaign.” Davis v. FEC, 554 U. S. ___, ___ (2008) (slip
op., at 3) (opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part). In my
judgment, such limitations may be justified to the extent they are
tailored to “improving the quality of the exposition of ideas” that voters
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Unlike the majority’s myopic focus on quid pro quo

scenarios and the free-floating “First Amendment princi
ples” on which it rests so much weight, ante, at 1, 48, this
broader understanding of corruption has deep roots in the
Nation’s history. “During debates on the earliest [cam
paign finance] reform acts, the terms ‘corruption’ and
‘undue influence’ were used nearly interchangeably.”
Pasquale, Reclaiming Egalitarianism in the Political
Theory of Campaign Finance Reform, 2008 U. Ill. L. Rev.
599, 601. Long before Buckley, we appreciated that “[t]o
say that Congress is without power to pass appropriate
legislation to safeguard . . . an election from the improper
use of money to influence the result is to deny to the na
tion in a vital particular the power of self protection.”
Burroughs v. United States, 290 U. S. 534, 545 (1934).
And whereas we have no evidence to support the notion
that the Framers would have wanted corporations to have
the same rights as natural persons in the electoral con
text, we have ample evidence to suggest that they would
have been appalled by the evidence of corruption that
Congress unearthed in developing BCRA and that the
Court today discounts to irrelevance. It is fair to say that
“[t]he Framers were obsessed with corruption,” Teachout
348, which they understood to encompass the dependency
of public officeholders on private interests, see id., at 373–
374; see also Randall, 548 U. S., at 280 (STEVENS, J.,
dissenting). They discussed corruption “more often in the
Constitutional Convention than factions, violence, or
instability.” Teachout 352. When they brought our consti
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receive, ibid., “free[ing] candidates and their staffs from the intermina
ble burden of fundraising,” ibid. (internal quotation marks omitted),
and “protect[ing] equal access to the political arena,” Randall v. Sorrell,
548 U. S. 230, 278 (2006) (STEVENS, J., dissenting) (internal quotation
marks omitted). I continue to adhere to these beliefs, but they have not
been briefed by the parties or amici in this case, and their soundness is
immaterial to its proper disposition.
tutional order into being, the Framers had their minds

trained on a threat to republican self-government that this
Court has lost sight of.
Quid Pro Quo Corruption
There is no need to take my side in the debate over the
scope of the anticorruption interest to see that the Court’s
merits holding is wrong. Even under the majority’s
“crabbed view of corruption,” McConnell, 540 U. S., at 152,
the Government should not lose this case.
“The importance of the governmental interest in pre
venting [corruption through the creation of political debts]
has never been doubted.” Bellotti, 435 U. S., at 788, n. 26.
Even in the cases that have construed the anticorruption
interest most narrowly, we have never suggested that
such quid pro quo debts must take the form of outright
vote buying or bribes, which have long been distinct
crimes. Rather, they encompass the myriad ways in which
outside parties may induce an officeholder to confer a
legislative benefit in direct response to, or anticipation of,
some outlay of money the parties have made or will make
on behalf of the officeholder. See McConnell, 540 U. S., at
143 (“We have not limited [the anticorruption] interest to
the elimination of cash-for-votes exchanges. In Buckley,
we expressly rejected the argument that antibribery laws
provided a less restrictive alternative to FECA’s contribu
tion limits, noting that such laws ‘deal[t] with only the
most blatant and specific attempts of those with money to
influence governmental action’ ” (quoting 424 U. S., at 28;
alteration in original)). It has likewise never been doubted
that “[o]f almost equal concern as the danger of actual
quid pro quo arrangements is the impact of the appear
ance of corruption.” Id., at 27. Congress may “legiti
mately conclude that the avoidance of the appearance of
improper influence is also critical . . . if confidence in the
system of representative Government is not to be eroded
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to a disastrous extent.” Ibid. (internal quotation marks

omitted; alteration in original). A democracy cannot func
tion effectively when its constituent members believe laws
are being bought and sold.
In theory, our colleagues accept this much. As applied
to BCRA §203, however, they conclude “[t]he anticorrup
tion interest is not sufficient to displace the speech here in
question.” Ante, at 41.
Although the Court suggests that Buckley compels its
conclusion, ante, at 40–44, Buckley cannot sustain this
reading. It is true that, in evaluating FECA’s ceiling on
independent expenditures by all persons, the Buckley
Court found the governmental interest in preventing
corruption “inadequate.” 424 U. S., at 45. But Buckley did
not evaluate corporate expenditures specifically, nor did it
rule out the possibility that a future Court might find
otherwise. The opinion reasoned that an expenditure
limitation covering only express advocacy (i.e., magic
words) would likely be ineffectual, ibid., a problem that
Congress tackled in BCRA, and it concluded that “the
independent advocacy restricted by [FECA §608(e)(1)] does
not presently appear to pose dangers of real or apparent
corruption comparable to those identified with large cam
paign contributions,” id., at 46 (emphasis added). Buckley
expressly contemplated that an anticorruption rationale
might justify restrictions on independent expenditures at
a later date, “because it may be that, in some circum
stances, ‘large independent expenditures pose the same
dangers of actual or apparent quid pro quo arrangements
as do large contributions.’ ” WRTL, 551 U. S., at 478
(opinion of ROBERTS, C. J.) (quoting Buckley, 424 U. S., at
45). Certainly Buckley did not foreclose this possibility
with respect to electioneering communications made with
corporate general treasury funds, an issue the Court had
no occasion to consider.
The Austin Court did not rest its holding on quid pro
quo corruption, as it found the broader corruption impli

cated by the antidistortion and shareholder protection
rationales a sufficient basis for Michigan’s restriction on
corporate electioneering. 494 U. S., at 658–660. Concur
ring in that opinion, I took the position that “the danger of
either the fact, or the appearance, of quid pro quo rela
tionships [also] provides an adequate justification for state
regulation” of these independent expenditures. Id., at 678.
I did not see this position as inconsistent with Buckley’s
analysis of individual expenditures. Corporations, as a
class, tend to be more attuned to the complexities of the
legislative process and more directly affected by tax and
appropriations measures that receive little public scrutiny;
they also have vastly more money with which to try to buy
access and votes. See Supp. Brief for Appellee 17 (stating
that the Fortune 100 companies earned revenues of $13.1
trillion during the last election cycle). Business corpora
tions must engage the political process in instrumental
terms if they are to maximize shareholder value. The
unparalleled resources, professional lobbyists, and single
minded focus they bring to this effort, I believed, make
quid pro quo corruption and its appearance inherently
more likely when they (or their conduits or trade groups)
spend unrestricted sums on elections.
It is with regret rather than satisfaction that I can now
say that time has borne out my concerns. The legislative
and judicial proceedings relating to BCRA generated a
substantial body of evidence suggesting that, as corpora
tions grew more and more adept at crafting “issue ads” to
help or harm a particular candidate, these nominally
independent expenditures began to corrupt the political
process in a very direct sense. The sponsors of these ads
were routinely granted special access after the campaign
was over; “candidates and officials knew who their friends
were,” McConnell, 540 U. S., at 129. Many corporate
independent expenditures, it seemed, had become essen
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tially interchangeable with direct contributions in their

capacity to generate quid pro quo arrangements. In an
age in which money and television ads are the coin of the
campaign realm, it is hardly surprising that corporations
deployed these ads to curry favor with, and to gain influ
ence over, public officials.
The majority appears to think it decisive that the BCRA
record does not contain “direct examples of votes being
exchanged for . . . expenditures.” Ante, at 45 (internal
quotation marks omitted). It would have been quite re
markable if Congress had created a record detailing such
behavior by its own Members. Proving that a specific vote
was exchanged for a specific expenditure has always been
next to impossible: Elected officials have diverse motiva
tions, and no one will acknowledge that he sold a vote.
Yet, even if “[i]ngratiation and access . . . are not corrup
tion” themselves, ibid., they are necessary prerequisites to
it; they can create both the opportunity for, and the ap
pearance of, quid pro quo arrangements. The influx of
unlimited corporate money into the electoral realm also
creates new opportunities for the mirror image of quid pro
quo deals: threats, both explicit and implicit. Starting
today, corporations with large war chests to deploy on
electioneering may find democratically elected bodies
becoming much more attuned to their interests. The
majority both misreads the facts and draws the wrong
conclusions when it suggests that the BCRA record pro
vides “only scant evidence that independent expenditures
. . . ingratiate,” and that, “in any event,” none of it mat
ters. Ibid.
In her analysis of the record, Judge Kollar-Kotelly
documented the pervasiveness of this ingratiation and
explained its significance under the majority’s own touch
stone for defining the scope of the anticorruption ration
ale, Buckley. See McConnell, 251 F. Supp. 2d, at 555–560,
622–625. Witnesses explained how political parties and
candidates used corporate independent expenditures to

circumvent FECA’s “hard-money” limitations. See, e.g.,
id., at 478–479. One former Senator candidly admitted to
the District Court that “ ‘[c]andidates whose campaigns
benefit from [phony “issue ads”] greatly appreciate the
help of these groups. In fact, Members will also be favora
bly disposed to those who finance these groups when they
later seek access to discuss pending legislation.’ ” Id., at
556 (quoting declaration of Sen. Dale Bumpers). One
prominent lobbyist went so far as to state, in uncontro
verted testimony, that “ ‘unregulated expenditures—
whether soft money donations to the parties or issue ad
campaigns—can sometimes generate far more influence
than direct campaign contributions.’ ” Ibid. (quoting decla
ration of Wright Andrews; emphasis added). In sum,
Judge Kollar-Kotelly found, “[t]he record powerfully dem
onstrates that electioneering communications paid for with
the general treasury funds of labor unions and corpora
tions endears those entities to elected officials in a way
that could be perceived by the public as corrupting.” Id., at
622–623. She concluded that the Government’s interest in
preventing the appearance of corruption, as that concept
was defined in Buckley, was itself sufficient to uphold
BCRA §203. 251 F. Supp. 2d, at 622–625. Judge Leon
agreed. See id., at 804–805 (dissenting only with re-
spect to the Wellstone Amendment’s coverage of MCFL
corporations).
When the McConnell Court affirmed the judgment of the
District Court regarding §203, we did not rest our holding
on a narrow notion of quid pro quo corruption. Instead we
relied on the governmental interest in combating the
unique forms of corruption threatened by corporations, as
recognized in Austin’s antidistortion and shareholder
protection rationales, 540 U. S., at 205 (citing Austin, 494
U. S., at 660), as well as the interest in preventing cir
cumvention of contribution limits, 540 U. S., at 128–129,
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205, 206, n. 88. Had we felt constrained by the view of

today’s Court that quid pro quo corruption and its appear
ance are the only interests that count in this field, ante, at
32–46, we of course would have looked closely at that
issue. And as the analysis by Judge Kollar-Kotelly re
flects, it is a very real possibility that we would have found
one or both of those interests satisfied and §203 appropri
ately tailored to them.
The majority’s rejection of the Buckley anticorruption
rationale on the ground that independent corporate ex
penditures “do not give rise to [quid pro quo] corruption or
the appearance of corruption,” ante, at 42, is thus unfair
as well as unreasonable. Congress and outside experts
have generated significant evidence corroborating this
rationale, and the only reason we do not have any of the
relevant materials before us is that the Government had
no reason to develop a record at trial for a facial challenge
the plaintiff had abandoned. The Court cannot both
sua sponte choose to relitigate McConnell on appeal and
then complain that the Government has failed to substan
tiate its case. If our colleagues were really serious about
the interest in preventing quid pro quo corruption, they
would remand to the District Court with instructions to
commence evidentiary proceedings.66
The insight that even technically independent expendi
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66 In fact, the notion that the “electioneering communications” covered
by §203 can breed quid pro quo corruption or the appearance of such
corruption has only become more plausible since we decided McConnell.
Recall that THE CHIEF JUSTICE’s controlling opinion in WRTL subse
quently limited BCRA’s definition of “electioneering communications”
to those that are “susceptible of no reasonable interpretation other than
as an appeal to vote for or against a specific candidate.” 551 U. S., at
470. The upshot was that after WRTL, a corporate or union expendi
ture could be regulated under §203 only if everyone would understand
it as an endorsement of or attack on a particular candidate for office. It
does not take much imagination to perceive why this type of advocacy
might be especially apt to look like or amount to a deal or a threat.
tures can be corrupting in much the same way as direct

contributions is bolstered by our decision last year in
Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Co., 556 U. S. ___ (2009). In
that case, Don Blankenship, the chief executive officer of a
corporation with a lawsuit pending before the West Vir
ginia high court, spent large sums on behalf of a particular
candidate, Brent Benjamin, running for a seat on that
court. “In addition to contributing the $1,000 statutory
maximum to Benjamin’s campaign committee,
Blankenship donated almost $2.5 million to ‘And For The
Sake Of The Kids,’ ” a §527 corporation that ran ads tar
geting Benjamin’s opponent. Id., at ___ (slip op., at 2).
“This was not all. Blankenship spent, in addition, just
over $500,000 on independent expenditures . . . ‘ “to sup
port . . . Brent Benjamin.” ’ ” Id., at ___ (slip op., at 2–3)
(second alteration in original). Applying its common
sense, this Court accepted petitioners’ argument that
Blankenship’s “pivotal role in getting Justice Benjamin
elected created a constitutionally intolerable probability of
actual bias” when Benjamin later declined to recuse him
self from the appeal by Blankenship’s corporation. Id., at
___ (slip op., at 11). “Though n[o] . . . bribe or criminal
influence” was involved, we recognized that “Justice Ben
jamin would nevertheless feel a debt of gratitude to
Blankenship for his extraordinary efforts to get him
elected.” Ibid. “The difficulties of inquiring into actual
bias,” we further noted, “simply underscore the need for
objective rules,” id., at ___ (slip op., at 13)—rules which
will perforce turn on the appearance of bias rather than its
actual existence.
In Caperton, then, we accepted the premise that, at
least in some circumstances, independent expenditures on
candidate elections will raise an intolerable specter of quid
pro quo corruption. Indeed, this premise struck the Court
as so intuitive that it repeatedly referred to Blankenship’s
spending on behalf of Benjamin—spending that consisted
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of 99.97% independent expenditures ($3 million) and

0.03% direct contributions ($1,000)—as a “contribution.”
See, e.g., id., at ___ (slip op., at 1) (“The basis for the
[recusal] motion was that the justice had received cam
paign contributions in an extraordinary amount from”
Blankenship); id., at ___ (slip op., at 3) (referencing
“Blankenship’s $3 million in contributions”); id., at ___
(slip op., at 14) (“Blankenship contributed some $3 million
to unseat the incumbent and replace him with Benjamin”);
id., at ___ (slip op., at 15) (“Blankenship’s campaign con
tributions . . . had a significant and disproportionate
influence on the electoral outcome”). The reason the Court
so thoroughly conflated expenditures and contributions,
one assumes, is that it realized that some expenditures
may be functionally equivalent to contributions in the way
they influence the outcome of a race, the way they are
interpreted by the candidates and the public, and the way
they taint the decisions that the officeholder thereafter
takes.
Caperton is illuminating in several additional respects.
It underscores the old insight that, on account of the ex
treme difficulty of proving corruption, “prophylactic meas
ures, reaching some [campaign spending] not corrupt in
purpose or effect, [may be] nonetheless required to guard
against corruption.” Buckley, 424 U. S., at 30; see also
Shrink Missouri, 528 U. S., at 392, n. 5. It underscores
that “certain restrictions on corporate electoral involve
ment” may likewise be needed to “hedge against circum
vention of valid contribution limits.” McConnell, 540
U. S., at 205 (internal quotation marks and brackets
omitted); see also Colorado II, 533 U. S., at 456 (“[A]ll
Members of the Court agree that circumvention is a valid
theory of corruption”). It underscores that for-profit cor
porations associated with electioneering communications
will often prefer to use nonprofit conduits with “mislead
ing names,” such as And For The Sake Of The Kids, “to
conceal their identity” as the sponsor of those communica

tions, thereby frustrating the utility of disclosure laws.
McConnell, 540 U. S., at 128; see also id., at 196–197.
And it underscores that the consequences of today’s
holding will not be limited to the legislative or executive
context. The majority of the States select their judges
through popular elections. At a time when concerns about
the conduct of judicial elections have reached a fever pitch,
see, e.g., O’Connor, Justice for Sale, Wall St. Journal, Nov.
15, 2007, p. A25; Brief for Justice at Stake et al. as Amici
Curiae 2, the Court today unleashes the floodgates of
corporate and union general treasury spending in these
races. Perhaps “Caperton motions” will catch some of the
worst abuses. This will be small comfort to those States
that, after today, may no longer have the ability to place
modest limits on corporate electioneering even if they
believe such limits to be critical to maintaining the integ
rity of their judicial systems.
Deference and Incumbent Self-Protection
Rather than show any deference to a coordinate branch
of Government, the majority thus rejects the anticorrup
tion rationale without serious analysis.67 Today’s opinion
provides no clear rationale for being so dismissive of Con
gress, but the prior individual opinions on which it relies
have offered one: the incentives of the legislators who
passed BCRA. Section 203, our colleagues have suggested,
may be little more than “an incumbency protection plan,”
McConnell, 540 U. S., at 306 (KENNEDY, J., concurring in
judgment in part and dissenting in part); see also id., at
249–250, 260–263 (SCALIA, J., concurring in part, concur
ring in judgment in part, and dissenting in part), a dis
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67 “We must give weight” and “due deference” to Congress’ efforts to
dispel corruption, the Court states at one point. Ante, at 45. It is
unclear to me what these maxims mean, but as applied by the Court
they clearly do not entail “deference” in any normal sense of that term.
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reputable attempt at legislative self-dealing rather than

an earnest effort to facilitate First Amendment values and
safeguard the legitimacy of our political system. This
possibility, the Court apparently believes, licenses it to
run roughshod over Congress’ handiwork.
In my view, we should instead start by acknowledging
that “Congress surely has both wisdom and experience in
these matters that is far superior to ours.” Colorado
Republican Federal Campaign Comm. v. FEC, 518 U. S.
604, 650 (1996) (STEVENS, J., dissenting). Many of our
campaign finance precedents explicitly and forcefully
affirm the propriety of such presumptive deference. See,
e.g., McConnell, 540 U. S., at 158; Beaumont, 539 U. S., at
155–156; NRWC, 459 U. S., at 209–210. Moreover,
“[j]udicial deference is particularly warranted where, as
here, we deal with a congressional judgment that has
remained essentially unchanged throughout a century of
careful legislative adjustment.” Beaumont, 539 U. S., at
162, n. 9 (internal quotation marks omitted); cf. Shrink
Missouri, 528 U. S., at 391 (“The quantum of empirical
evidence needed to satisfy heightened judicial scrutiny of
legislative judgments will vary up or down with the nov
elty and plausibility of the justification raised”). In Amer
ica, incumbent legislators pass the laws that govern cam
paign finance, just like all other laws. To apply a level of
scrutiny that effectively bars them from regulating elec
tioneering whenever there is the faintest whiff of self
interest, is to deprive them of the ability to regulate
electioneering.
This is not to say that deference would be appropriate if
there were a solid basis for believing that a legislative
action was motivated by the desire to protect incumbents
or that it will degrade the competitiveness of the electoral
process.68 See League of United Latin American Citizens
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68 JUSTICE BREYER has suggested that we strike the balance as fol
v. Perry, 548 U. S. 399, 447 (2006) (STEVENS, J., concur

ring in part and dissenting in part); Vieth v. Jubelirer, 541
U. S. 267, 317 (2004) (STEVENS, J., dissenting). Along
with our duty to balance competing constitutional con
cerns, we have a vital role to play in ensuring that elec
tions remain at least minimally open, fair, and competi
tive. But it is the height of recklessness to dismiss
Congress’ years of bipartisan deliberation and its reasoned
judgment on this basis, without first confirming that the
statute in question was intended to be, or will function as,
a restraint on electoral competition. “Absent record evi
dence of invidious discrimination against challengers as a
class, a court should generally be hesitant to invalidate
legislation which on its face imposes evenhanded restric
tions.” Buckley, 424 U. S., at 31.
We have no record evidence from which to conclude that
BCRA §203, or any of the dozens of state laws that the
Court today calls into question, reflects or fosters such
invidious discrimination. Our colleagues have opined that
“ ‘any restriction upon a type of campaign speech that is
equally available to challengers and incumbents tends to
favor incumbents.’ ” McConnell, 540 U. S., at 249 (opinion
of SCALIA, J.). This kind of airy speculation could easily be
turned on its head. The electioneering prohibited by §203
might well tend to favor incumbents, because incumbents
have pre-existing relationships with corporations and
unions, and groups that wish to procure legislative bene
fits may tend to support the candidate who, as a sitting
officeholder, is already in a position to dispense benefits
and is statistically likely to retain office. If a corporation’s
goal is to induce officeholders to do its bidding, the corpo
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lows: “We should defer to [the legislature’s] political judgment that
unlimited spending threatens the integrity of the electoral process. But
we should not defer in respect to whether its solution . . . insulates
legislators from effective electoral challenge.” Shrink Missouri, 528
U. S., at 403–404 (concurring opinion).
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ration would do well to cultivate stable, long-term rela

tionships of dependency.
So we do not have a solid theoretical basis for condemn
ing §203 as a front for incumbent self-protection, and it
seems equally if not more plausible that restrictions on
corporate electioneering will be self-denying. Nor do we
have a good empirical case for skepticism, as the Court’s
failure to cite any empirical research attests. Nor does the
legislative history give reason for concern. Congress
devoted years of careful study to the issues underlying
BCRA; “[f]ew legislative proposals in recent years have
received as much sustained public commentary or news
coverage”; “[p]olitical scientists and academic experts . . .
with no self-interest in incumbent protectio[n] were cen
tral figures in pressing the case for BCRA”; and the legis
lation commanded bipartisan support from the outset.
Pildes, The Supreme Court 2003 Term Foreword: The
Constitutionalization of Democratic Politics, 118 Harv.
L. Rev. 28, 137 (2004). Finally, it is important to remem
ber just how incumbent-friendly congressional races were
prior to BCRA’s passage. As the Solicitor General aptly
remarked at the time, “the evidence supports overwhelm
ingly that incumbents were able to get re-elected under
the old system just fine.” Tr. of Oral Arg. in McConnell v.
FEC, O. T. 2003, No. 02–1674, p. 61. “It would be hard to
develop a scheme that could be better for incumbents.”
Id., at 63.
In this case, then, “there is no convincing evidence that
th[e] important interests favoring expenditure limits are
fronts for incumbency protection.” Randall, 548 U. S., at
279 (STEVENS, J., dissenting). “In the meantime, a legisla
tive judgment that ‘enough is enough’ should command
the greatest possible deference from judges interpreting a
constitutional provision that, at best, has an indirect
relationship to activity that affects the quantity . . . of
repetitive speech in the marketplace of ideas.” Id., at 279–
280. The majority cavalierly ignores Congress’ factual

findings and its constitutional judgment: It acknowledges
the validity of the interest in preventing corruption, but it
effectively discounts the value of that interest to zero.
This is quite different from conscientious policing for
impermissibly anticompetitive motive or effect in a sensi
tive First Amendment context. It is the denial of Con
gress’ authority to regulate corporate spending on
elections.
Austin and Corporate Expenditures
Just as the majority gives short shrift to the general
societal interests at stake in campaign finance regulation,
it also overlooks the distinctive considerations raised by
the regulation of corporate expenditures. The majority
fails to appreciate that Austin’s antidistortion rationale is
itself an anticorruption rationale, see 494 U. S., at 660
(describing “a different type of corruption”), tied to the
special concerns raised by corporations. Understood prop
erly, “antidistortion” is simply a variant on the classic
governmental interest in protecting against improper
influences on officeholders that debilitate the democratic
process. It is manifestly not just an “ ‘equalizing’ ” ideal in
disguise. Ante, at 34 (quoting Buckley, 424 U. S., at 48).69
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69 THE CHIEF JUSTICE denies this, ante, at 9–10, citing scholarship
that has interpreted Austin to endorse an equality rationale, along with
an article by Justice Thurgood Marshall’s former law clerk that states
that Marshall, the author of Austin, accepted “equality of opportunity”
and “equalizing access to the political process” as bases for campaign
finance regulation, Garrett, New Voices in Politics: Justice Marshall’s
Jurisprudence on Law and Politics, 52 Howard L. J. 655, 667–668
(2009) (internal quotation marks omitted). It is fair to say that Austin
can bear an egalitarian reading, and I have no reason to doubt this
characterization of Justice Marshall’s beliefs. But the fact that Austin
can be read a certain way hardly proves THE CHIEF JUSTICE’s charge
that there is nothing more to it. Many of our precedents can bear
multiple readings, and many of our doctrines have some “equalizing”
implications but do not rest on an equalizing theory: for example, our
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1. Antidistortion
The fact that corporations are different from human
beings might seem to need no elaboration, except that the
majority opinion almost completely elides it. Austin set
forth some of the basic differences. Unlike natural per
sons, corporations have “limited liability” for their owners
and managers, “perpetual life,” separation of ownership
and control, “and favorable treatment of the accumulation
and distribution of assets . . . that enhance their ability to
attract capital and to deploy their resources in ways that
maximize the return on their shareholders’ investments.”
494 U. S., at 658–659. Unlike voters in U. S. elections,
corporations may be foreign controlled.70 Unlike other
interest groups, business corporations have been “effec
tively delegated responsibility for ensuring society’s eco
nomic welfare”;71 they inescapably structure the life of
every citizen. “ ‘[T]he resources in the treasury of a busi
ness corporation,’ ” furthermore, “ ‘are not an indication of
popular support for the corporation’s political ideas.’ ” Id.,
at 659 (quoting MCFL, 479 U. S., at 258). “ ‘They reflect
instead the economically motivated decisions of investors
and customers. The availability of these resources may
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takings jurisprudence and numerous rules of criminal procedure. More
important, the Austin Court expressly declined to rely on a speech
equalization rationale, see 494 U. S., at 660, and we have never under
stood Austin to stand for such a rationale. Whatever his personal
views, Justice Marshall simply did not write the opinion that THE
CHIEF JUSTICE suggests he did; indeed, he “would have viewed it as
irresponsible to write an opinion that boldly staked out a rationale
based on equality that no one other than perhaps Justice White would
have even considered joining,” Garrett, 52 Howard L. J., at 674.
70 In state elections, even domestic corporations may be “foreign”
controlled in the sense that they are incorporated in another jurisdic

tion and primarily owned and operated by out-of-state residents.
71 Regan, Corporate Speech and Civic Virtue, in Debating Democ
racy’s Discontent 289, 302 (A. Allen & M. Regan eds. 1998) (hereinafter
Regan).
make a corporation a formidable political presence, even

though the power of the corporation may be no reflection
of the power of its ideas.’ ” 494 U. S., at 659 (quoting
MCFL, 479 U. S., at 258).72
It might also be added that corporations have no con
sciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires.
Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of
human beings, to be sure, and their “personhood” often
serves as a useful legal fiction. But they are not them
selves members of “We the People” by whom and for whom
our Constitution was established.
These basic points help explain why corporate election
eering is not only more likely to impair compelling gov
ernmental interests, but also why restrictions on that
electioneering are less likely to encroach upon First
Amendment freedoms. One fundamental concern of the
First Amendment is to “protec[t] the individual’s interest
in self-expression.” Consolidated Edison Co. of N. Y. v.
Public Serv. Comm’n of N. Y., 447 U. S. 530, 534, n. 2
(1980); see also Bellotti, 435 U. S., at 777, n. 12. Freedom
of speech helps “make men free to develop their faculties,”
Whitney v. California, 274 U. S. 357, 375 (1927) (Brandeis,
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72 Nothing in this analysis turns on whether the corporation is con
ceptualized as a grantee of a state concession, see, e.g., Trustees of

Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 518, 636 (1819) (Marshall,
C. J.), a nexus of explicit and implicit contracts, see, e.g., F. Easterbrook
& D. Fischel, The Economic Structure of Corporate Law 12 (1991), a
mediated hierarchy of stakeholders, see, e.g., Blair & Stout, A Team
Production Theory of Corporate Law, 85 Va. L. Rev. 247 (1999) (herein
after Blair & Stout), or any other recognized model. Austin referred to
the structure and the advantages of corporations as “state-conferred” in
several places, 494 U. S., at 660, 665, 667, but its antidistortion argu
ment relied only on the basic descriptive features of corporations, as
sketched above. It is not necessary to agree on a precise theory of the
corporation to agree that corporations differ from natural persons in
fundamental ways, and that a legislature might therefore need to
regulate them differently if it is human welfare that is the object of its
concern. Cf. Hansmann & Kraakman 441, n. 5.
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J., concurring), it respects their “dignity and choice,”

Cohen v. California, 403 U. S. 15, 24 (1971), and it facili
tates the value of “individual self-realization,” Redish, The
Value of Free Speech, 130 U. Pa. L. Rev. 591, 594 (1982).
Corporate speech, however, is derivative speech, speech by
proxy. A regulation such as BCRA §203 may affect the
way in which individuals disseminate certain messages
through the corporate form, but it does not prevent anyone
from speaking in his or her own voice. “Within the realm
of [campaign spending] generally,” corporate spending is
“furthest from the core of political expression.” Beaumont,
539 U. S., at 161, n. 8.
It is an interesting question “who” is even speaking
when a business corporation places an advertisement that
endorses or attacks a particular candidate. Presumably it
is not the customers or employees, who typically have no
say in such matters. It cannot realistically be said to be
the shareholders, who tend to be far removed from the
day-to-day decisions of the firm and whose political prefer
ences may be opaque to management. Perhaps the officers
or directors of the corporation have the best claim to be
the ones speaking, except their fiduciary duties generally
prohibit them from using corporate funds for personal
ends. Some individuals associated with the corporation
must make the decision to place the ad, but the idea that
these individuals are thereby fostering their self
expression or cultivating their critical faculties is fanciful.
It is entirely possible that the corporation’s electoral mes
sage will conflict with their personal convictions. Take
away the ability to use general treasury funds for some of
those ads, and no one’s autonomy, dignity, or political
equality has been impinged upon in the least.
Corporate expenditures are distinguishable from indi
vidual expenditures in this respect. I have taken the view
that a legislature may place reasonable restrictions on
individuals’ electioneering expenditures in the service of
the governmental interests explained above, and in recog

nition of the fact that such restrictions are not direct
restraints on speech but rather on its financing. See, e.g.,
Randall, 548 U. S., at 273 (dissenting opinion). But those
restrictions concededly present a tougher case, because the
primary conduct of actual, flesh-and-blood persons is
involved. Some of those individuals might feel that they
need to spend large sums of money on behalf of a particu
lar candidate to vindicate the intensity of their electoral
preferences. This is obviously not the situation with busi
ness corporations, as their routine practice of giving “sub
stantial sums to both major national parties” makes pellu
cidly clear. McConnell, 540 U. S., at 148. “[C]orporate
participation” in elections, any business executive will tell
you, “is more transactional than ideological.” Supp. Brief
for Committee for Economic Development as Amicus
Curiae 10.
In this transactional spirit, some corporations have
affirmatively urged Congress to place limits on their elec
tioneering communications. These corporations fear that
officeholders will shake them down for supportive ads,
that they will have to spend increasing sums on elections
in an ever-escalating arms race with their competitors,
and that public trust in business will be eroded. See id.,
at 10–19. A system that effectively forces corporations to
use their shareholders’ money both to maintain access to,
and to avoid retribution from, elected officials may ulti
mately prove more harmful than beneficial to many corpo
rations. It can impose a kind of implicit tax.73
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73 Not all corporations support BCRA §203, of course, and not all cor
porations are large business entities or their tax-exempt adjuncts.

Some nonprofit corporations are created for an ideological purpose.
Some closely held corporations are strongly identified with a particular
owner or founder. The fact that §203, like the statute at issue in
Austin, regulates some of these corporations’ expenditures does not
disturb the analysis above. See 494 U. S., at 661–665. Small-business
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In short, regulations such as §203 and the statute up

held in Austin impose only a limited burden on First
Amendment freedoms not only because they target a
narrow subset of expenditures and leave untouched the
broader “public dialogue,” ante, at 25, but also because
they leave untouched the speech of natural persons.
Recognizing the weakness of a speaker-based critique of
Austin, the Court places primary emphasis not on the
corporation’s right to electioneer, but rather on the lis
tener’s interest in hearing what every possible speaker
may have to say. The Court’s central argument is that
laws such as §203 have “ ‘deprived [the electorate] of in
formation, knowledge and opinion vital to its function,’ ”
ante, at 38 (quoting CIO, 335 U. S., at 144 (Rutledge, J.,
concurring in judgment)), and this, in turn, “interferes
with the ‘open marketplace’ of ideas protected by the First
Amendment,” ante, at 38 (quoting New York State Bd. of
Elections v. Lopez Torres, 552 U. S. 196, 208 (2008)).
There are many flaws in this argument. If the overrid
ing concern depends on the interests of the audience,
surely the public’s perception of the value of corporate
speech should be given important weight. That perception
today is the same as it was a century ago when Theodore
Roosevelt delivered the speeches to Congress that, in time,
led to the limited prohibition on corporate campaign ex
penditures that is overruled today. See WRTL, 551 U. S.,
at 509–510 (Souter, J., dissenting) (summarizing President
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owners may speak in their own names, rather than the business’, if
they wish to evade §203 altogether. Nonprofit corporations that want
to make unrestricted electioneering expenditures may do so if they
refuse donations from businesses and unions and permit members to
disassociate without economic penalty. See MCFL, 479 U. S. 238, 264
(1986). Making it plain that their decision is not motivated by a con
cern about BCRA’s coverage of nonprofits that have ideological mis
sions but lack MCFL status, our colleagues refuse to apply the Snowe-
Jeffords Amendment or the lower courts’ de minimis exception to
MCFL. See ante, at 10–12.
Roosevelt’s remarks). The distinctive threat to democratic

integrity posed by corporate domination of politics was
recognized at “the inception of the republic” and “has been
a persistent theme in American political life” ever since.
Regan 302. It is only certain Members of this Court, not
the listeners themselves, who have agitated for more cor
porate electioneering.
Austin recognized that there are substantial reasons
why a legislature might conclude that unregulated general
treasury expenditures will give corporations “unfai[r]
influence” in the electoral process, 494 U. S., at 660, and
distort public debate in ways that undermine rather than
advance the interests of listeners. The legal structure of
corporations allows them to amass and deploy financial
resources on a scale few natural persons can match. The
structure of a business corporation, furthermore, draws a
line between the corporation’s economic interests and the
political preferences of the individuals associated with the
corporation; the corporation must engage the electoral
process with the aim “to enhance the profitability of the
company, no matter how persuasive the arguments for a
broader or conflicting set of priorities,” Brief for American
Independent Business Alliance as Amicus Curiae 11; see
also ALI, Principles of Corporate Governance: Analysis
and Recommendations §2.01(a), p. 55 (1992) (“[A] corpora
tion . . . should have as its objective the conduct of busi
ness activities with a view to enhancing corporate profit
and shareholder gain”). In a state election such as the one
at issue in Austin, the interests of nonresident corpora
tions may be fundamentally adverse to the interests of
local voters. Consequently, when corporations grab up the
prime broadcasting slots on the eve of an election, they can
flood the market with advocacy that bears “little or no
correlation” to the ideas of natural persons or to any
broader notion of the public good, 494 U. S., at 660. The
opinions of real people may be marginalized. “The expen
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diture restrictions of [2 U. S. C.] §441b are thus meant to

ensure that competition among actors in the political
arena is truly competition among ideas.” MCFL, 479
U. S., at 259.
In addition to this immediate drowning out of noncorpo
rate voices, there may be deleterious effects that follow
soon thereafter. Corporate “domination” of electioneering,
Austin, 494 U. S., at 659, can generate the impression that
corporations dominate our democracy. When citizens turn
on their televisions and radios before an election and hear
only corporate electioneering, they may lose faith in their
capacity, as citizens, to influence public policy. A Gov
ernment captured by corporate interests, they may come
to believe, will be neither responsive to their needs nor
willing to give their views a fair hearing. The predictable
result is cynicism and disenchantment: an increased
perception that large spenders “ ‘call the tune’ ” and a
reduced “ ‘willingness of voters to take part in democratic
governance.’ ” McConnell, 540 U. S., at 144 (quoting
Shrink Missouri, 528 U. S., at 390). To the extent that
corporations are allowed to exert undue influence in elec
toral races, the speech of the eventual winners of those
races may also be chilled. Politicians who fear that a
certain corporation can make or break their reelection
chances may be cowed into silence about that corporation.
On a variety of levels, unregulated corporate electioneer
ing might diminish the ability of citizens to “hold officials
accountable to the people,” ante, at 23, and disserve the
goal of a public debate that is “uninhibited, robust, and
wide-open,” New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U. S.
254, 270 (1964). At the least, I stress again, a legislature
is entitled to credit these concerns and to take tailored
measures in response.
The majority’s unwillingness to distinguish between
corporations and humans similarly blinds it to the possi
bility that corporations’ “war chests” and their special
“advantages” in the legal realm, Austin, 494 U. S., at 659,

may translate into special advantages in the market for
legislation. When large numbers of citizens have a com
mon stake in a measure that is under consideration, it
may be very difficult for them to coordinate resources on
behalf of their position. The corporate form, by contrast,
“provides a simple way to channel rents to only those who
have paid their dues, as it were. If you do not own stock,
you do not benefit from the larger dividends or apprecia
tion in the stock price caused by the passage of private
interest legislation.” Sitkoff, Corporate Political Speech,
Political Extortion, and the Competition for Corporate
Charters, 69 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1103, 1113 (2002). Corpora
tions, that is, are uniquely equipped to seek laws that
favor their owners, not simply because they have a lot of
money but because of their legal and organizational struc
ture. Remove all restrictions on their electioneering, and
the door may be opened to a type of rent seeking that is
“far more destructive” than what noncorporations are
capable of. Ibid. It is for reasons such as these that our
campaign finance jurisprudence has long appreciated that
“the ‘differing structures and purposes’ of different entities
‘may require different forms of regulation in order to
protect the integrity of the electoral process.’ ” NRWC, 459
U. S., at 210 (quoting California Medical Assn., 453 U. S.,
at 201).
The Court’s facile depiction of corporate electioneering
assumes away all of these complexities. Our colleagues
ridicule the idea of regulating expenditures based on
“nothing more” than a fear that corporations have a spe
cial “ability to persuade,” ante, at 11 (opinion of ROBERTS,
C. J.), as if corporations were our society’s ablest debaters
and viewpoint-neutral laws such as §203 were created to
suppress their best arguments. In their haste to knock
down yet another straw man, our colleagues simply ignore
the fundamental concerns of the Austin Court and the
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legislatures that have passed laws like §203: to safeguard

the integrity, competitiveness, and democratic responsive
ness of the electoral process. All of the majority’s theoreti
cal arguments turn on a proposition with undeniable
surface appeal but little grounding in evidence or experi
ence, “that there is no such thing as too much speech,”
Austin, 494 U. S., at 695 (SCALIA, J., dissenting)).74 If
individuals in our society had infinite free time to listen to
and contemplate every last bit of speech uttered by any
one, anywhere; and if broadcast advertisements had no
special ability to influence elections apart from the merits
of their arguments (to the extent they make any); and if
legislators always operated with nothing less than perfect
virtue; then I suppose the majority’s premise would be
sound. In the real world, we have seen, corporate domina
tion of the airwaves prior to an election may decrease the
average listener’s exposure to relevant viewpoints, and it
may diminish citizens’ willingness and capacity to partici
pate in the democratic process.
None of this is to suggest that corporations can or
should be denied an opportunity to participate in election
campaigns or in any other public forum (much less that a
work of art such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington may be
banned), or to deny that some corporate speech may con
tribute significantly to public debate. What it shows,
however, is that Austin’s “concern about corporate domi
nation of the political process,” 494 U. S., at 659, reflects
more than a concern to protect governmental interests
outside of the First Amendment. It also reflects a concern
to facilitate First Amendment values by preserving some
breathing room around the electoral “marketplace” of
ideas, ante, at 19, 34, 38, 52, 54, the marketplace in which
the actual people of this Nation determine how they will
——————
74 Of course, no presiding person in a courtroom, legislature, class
room, polling place, or family dinner would take this hyperbole literally.
govern themselves. The majority seems oblivious to the

simple truth that laws such as §203 do not merely pit the
anticorruption interest against the First Amendment, but
also pit competing First Amendment values against each
other. There are, to be sure, serious concerns with any
effort to balance the First Amendment rights of speakers
against the First Amendment rights of listeners. But
when the speakers in question are not real people and
when the appeal to “First Amendment principles” depends
almost entirely on the listeners’ perspective, ante, at 1, 48,
it becomes necessary to consider how listeners will actu
ally be affected.
In critiquing Austin’s antidistortion rationale and cam
paign finance regulation more generally, our colleagues
place tremendous weight on the example of media corpora
tions. See ante, at 35–38, 46; ante, at 1, 11 (opinion of
ROBERTS, C. J.); ante, at 6 (opinion of SCALIA, J.). Yet it is
not at all clear that Austin would permit §203 to be ap
plied to them. The press plays a unique role not only in
the text, history, and structure of the First Amendment
but also in facilitating public discourse; as the Austin
Court explained, “media corporations differ significantly
from other corporations in that their resources are devoted
to the collection of information and its dissemination to
the public,” 494 U. S., at 667. Our colleagues have raised
some interesting and difficult questions about Congress’
authority to regulate electioneering by the press, and
about how to define what constitutes the press. But that
is not the case before us. Section 203 does not apply to
media corporations, and even if it did, Citizens United is
not a media corporation. There would be absolutely no
reason to consider the issue of media corporations if the
majority did not, first, transform Citizens United’s as
applied challenge into a facial challenge and, second,
invent the theory that legislatures must eschew all “iden
tity”-based distinctions and treat a local nonprofit news
Cite as: 558 U. S. ____ (2010) 85
outlet exactly the same as General Motors.75 This calls to

mind George Berkeley’s description of philosophers: “[W]e
have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.”
Principles of Human Knowledge/Three Dialogues 38, ¶3
(R. Woolhouse ed. 1988).
It would be perfectly understandable if our colleagues
feared that a campaign finance regulation such as §203
may be counterproductive or self-interested, and therefore
attended carefully to the choices the Legislature has
made. But the majority does not bother to consider such
practical matters, or even to consult a record; it simply
stipulates that “enlightened self-government” can arise
only in the absence of regulation. Ante, at 23. In light of
the distinctive features of corporations identified in Aus
tin, there is no valid basis for this assumption. The mar
ketplace of ideas is not actually a place where items—or
laws—are meant to be bought and sold, and when we
move from the realm of economics to the realm of corpo
rate electioneering, there may be no “reason to think the
market ordering is intrinsically good at all,” Strauss 1386.
The Court’s blinkered and aphoristic approach to the
First Amendment may well promote corporate power at
the cost of the individual and collective self-expression the
Amendment was meant to serve. It will undoubtedly
cripple the ability of ordinary citizens, Congress, and the
States to adopt even limited measures to protect against
corporate domination of the electoral process. Americans
may be forgiven if they do not feel the Court has advanced
——————
75 Under the majority’s view, the legislature is thus damned if it does
and damned if it doesn’t. If the legislature gives media corporations an
exemption from electioneering regulations that apply to other corpora
tions, it violates the newly minted First Amendment rule against
identity-based distinctions. If the legislature does not give media
corporations an exemption, it violates the First Amendment rights of
the press. The only way out of this invented bind: no regulations
whatsoever.
the cause of self-government today.

2. Shareholder Protection
There is yet another way in which laws such as §203 can
serve First Amendment values. Interwoven with Austin’s
concern to protect the integrity of the electoral process is a
concern to protect the rights of shareholders from a kind of
coerced speech: electioneering expenditures that do not
“reflec[t] [their] support.” 494 U. S., at 660–661. When
corporations use general treasury funds to praise or attack a
particular candidate for office, it is the shareholders, as the
residual claimants, who are effectively footing the bill.
Those shareholders who disagree with the corporation’s
electoral message may find their financial investments
being used to undermine their political convictions.
The PAC mechanism, by contrast, helps assure that
those who pay for an electioneering communication actu
ally support its content and that managers do not use
general treasuries to advance personal agendas. Ibid. It
“ ‘allows corporate political participation without the temp
tation to use corporate funds for political influence, quite
possibly at odds with the sentiments of some shareholders
or members.’ ” McConnell, 540 U. S., at 204 (quoting
Beaumont, 539 U. S., at 163). A rule that privileges the
use of PACs thus does more than facilitate the political
speech of like-minded shareholders; it also curbs the rent
seeking behavior of executives and respects the views of
dissenters. Austin’s acceptance of restrictions on general
treasury spending “simply allows people who have in
vested in the business corporation for purely economic
reasons”—the vast majority of investors, one assumes—“to
avoid being taken advantage of, without sacrificing their
economic objectives.” Winkler, Beyond Bellotti, 32 Loyola
(LA) L. Rev. 133, 201 (1998).
The concern to protect dissenting shareholders and
union members has a long history in campaign finance
Cite as: 558 U. S. ____ (2010) 87
reform. It provided a central motivation for the Tillman

Act in 1907 and subsequent legislation, see Pipefitters v.
United States, 407 U. S. 385, 414–415 (1972); Winkler, 92
Geo. L. J., at 887–900, and it has been endorsed in a long
line of our cases, see, e.g., McConnell, 540 U. S., at 204–
205; Beaumont, 539 U. S., at 152–154; MCFL, 479 U. S., at
258; NRWC, 459 U. S., at 207–208; Pipefitters, 407 U. S.,
at 414–416; see also n. 60, supra. Indeed, we have unani
mously recognized the governmental interest in “pro
tect[ing] the individuals who have paid money into a
corporation or union for purposes other than the support
of candidates from having that money used to support
political candidates to whom they may be opposed.”
NRWC, 459 U. S., at 207–208.
The Court dismisses this interest on the ground that
abuses of shareholder money can be corrected “through
the procedures of corporate democracy,” ante, at 46 (inter
nal quotation marks omitted), and, it seems, through
Internet-based disclosures, ante, at 55.76 I fail to under
stand how this addresses the concerns of dissenting union
members, who will also be affected by today’s ruling, and I
fail to understand why the Court is so confident in these
mechanisms. By “corporate democracy,” presumably the
Court means the rights of shareholders to vote and to
bring derivative suits for breach of fiduciary duty. In
practice, however, many corporate lawyers will tell you
that “these rights are so limited as to be almost nonexis
——————
76 I note that, among the many other regulatory possibilities it has
left open, ranging from new versions of §203 supported by additional

evidence of quid pro quo corruption or its appearance to any number of
tax incentive or public financing schemes, today’s decision does not
require that a legislature rely solely on these mechanisms to protect
shareholders. Legislatures remain free in their incorporation and tax
laws to condition the types of activity in which corporations may
engage, including electioneering activity, on specific disclosure re
quirements or on prior express approval by shareholders or members.
tent,” given the internal authority wielded by boards and

managers and the expansive protections afforded by the
business judgment rule. Blair & Stout 320; see also id., at
298–315; Winkler, 32 Loyola (LA) L. Rev., at 165–166,
199–200. Modern technology may help make it easier to
track corporate activity, including electoral advocacy, but
it is utopian to believe that it solves the problem. Most
American households that own stock do so through inter
mediaries such as mutual funds and pension plans, see
Evans, A Requiem for the Retail Investor? 95 Va. L. Rev.
1105 (2009), which makes it more difficult both to monitor
and to alter particular holdings. Studies show that a
majority of individual investors make no trades at all
during a given year. Id., at 1117. Moreover, if the corpo
ration in question operates a PAC, an investor who sees
the company’s ads may not know whether they are being
funded through the PAC or through the general treasury.
If and when shareholders learn that a corporation has
been spending general treasury money on objectionable
electioneering, they can divest. Even assuming that they
reliably learn as much, however, this solution is only
partial. The injury to the shareholders’ expressive rights
has already occurred; they might have preferred to keep
that corporation’s stock in their portfolio for any number
of economic reasons; and they may incur a capital gains
tax or other penalty from selling their shares, changing
their pension plan, or the like. The shareholder protection
rationale has been criticized as underinclusive, in that
corporations also spend money on lobbying and charitable
contributions in ways that any particular shareholder
might disapprove. But those expenditures do not impli
cate the selection of public officials, an area in which “the
interests of unwilling . . . corporate shareholders [in not
being] forced to subsidize that speech” “are at their ze
nith.” Austin, 494 U. S., at 677 (Brennan, J., concurring).
And in any event, the question is whether shareholder
Cite as: 558 U. S. ____ (2010) 89
protection provides a basis for regulating expenditures in

the weeks before an election, not whether additional types
of corporate communications might similarly be condi
tioned on voluntariness.
Recognizing the limits of the shareholder protection
rationale, the Austin Court did not hold it out as an ade
quate and independent ground for sustaining the statute
in question. Rather, the Court applied it to reinforce the
antidistortion rationale, in two main ways. First, the
problem of dissenting shareholders shows that even if
electioneering expenditures can advance the political
views of some members of a corporation, they will often
compromise the views of others. See, e.g., id., at 663 (dis
cussing risk that corporation’s “members may be . . . reluc
tant to withdraw as members even if they disagree with
[its] political expression”). Second, it provides an addi
tional reason, beyond the distinctive legal attributes of the
corporate form, for doubting that these “expenditures
reflect actual public support for the political ideas es
poused,” id., at 660. The shareholder protection rationale,
in other words, bolsters the conclusion that restrictions on
corporate electioneering can serve both speakers’ and
listeners’ interests, as well as the anticorruption interest.
And it supplies yet another reason why corporate expendi
tures merit less protection than individual expenditures.
V
Today’s decision is backwards in many senses. It ele
vates the majority’s agenda over the litigants’ submis
sions, facial attacks over as-applied claims, broad constitu
tional theories over narrow statutory grounds, individual
dissenting opinions over precedential holdings, assertion
over tradition, absolutism over empiricism, rhetoric over
reality. Our colleagues have arrived at the conclusion that
Austin must be overruled and that §203 is facially uncon
stitutional only after mischaracterizing both the reach and
rationale of those authorities, and after bypassing or

ignoring rules of judicial restraint used to cabin the
Court’s lawmaking power. Their conclusion that the
societal interest in avoiding corruption and the appear
ance of corruption does not provide an adequate justifica
tion for regulating corporate expenditures on candidate
elections relies on an incorrect description of that interest,
along with a failure to acknowledge the relevance of estab
lished facts and the considered judgments of state and
federal legislatures over many decades.
In a democratic society, the longstanding consensus on
the need to limit corporate campaign spending should
outweigh the wooden application of judge-made rules. The
majority’s rejection of this principle “elevate[s] corpora
tions to a level of deference which has not been seen at
least since the days when substantive due process was
regularly used to invalidate regulatory legislation thought
to unfairly impinge upon established economic interests.”
Bellotti, 435 U. S., at 817, n. 13 (White, J., dissenting). At
bottom, the Court’s opinion is thus a rejection of the com
mon sense of the American people, who have recognized a
need to prevent corporations from undermining self
government since the founding, and who have fought
against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate
electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. It is a
strange time to repudiate that common sense. While
American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority
of this Court would have thought its flaws included a
dearth of corporate money in politics.
I would affirm the judgment of the District Court.
Cite as: 558 U. S. ____ (2010) 1
Opinion of THOMAS, J.

_________________
No. 08–205
_________________
ELECTION COMMISSION

[January 21, 2010]
JUSTICE THOMAS, concurring in part and dissenting in

part.
I join all but Part IV of the Court’s opinion.
Political speech is entitled to robust protection under
the First Amendment. Section 203 of the Bipartisan
Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA) has never been
reconcilable with that protection. By striking down §203,
the Court takes an important first step toward restoring
full constitutional protection to speech that is “indispensa
ble to the effective and intelligent use of the processes of
popular government.” McConnell v. Federal Election
Comm’n, 540 U. S. 93, 265 (2003) (THOMAS, J., concurring
in part, concurring in judgment in part, and dissenting in
part) (internal quotation marks omitted). I dissent from
Part IV of the Court’s opinion, however, because the
Court’s constitutional analysis does not go far enough.
The disclosure, disclaimer, and reporting requirements in
BCRA §§201 and 311 are also unconstitutional. See id., at
275–277, and n. 10.
Congress may not abridge the “right to anonymous
speech” based on the “ ‘simple interest in providing voters
with additional relevant information,’ ” id., at 276 (quoting
McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Comm’n, 514 U. S. 334, 348
(1995)). In continuing to hold otherwise, the Court misap
prehends the import of “recent events” that some amici
describe “in which donors to certain causes were black

listed, threatened, or otherwise targeted for retaliation.”
Ante, at 54. The Court properly recognizes these events as
“cause for concern,” ibid., but fails to acknowledge their
constitutional significance. In my view, amici’s submis
sions show why the Court’s insistence on upholding §§201
and 311 will ultimately prove as misguided (and ill fated)
as was its prior approval of §203.
Amici’s examples relate principally to Proposition 8, a
state ballot proposition that California voters narrowly
passed in the 2008 general election. Proposition 8
amended California’s constitution to provide that “[o]nly
marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recog
nized in California.” Cal. Const., Art. I, §7.5. Any donor
who gave more than $100 to any committee supporting or
opposing Proposition 8 was required to disclose his full
name, street address, occupation, employer’s name (or
business name, if self-employed), and the total amount of
his contributions.1 See Cal. Govt. Code Ann. §84211(f)
(West 2005). The California Secretary of State was then
required to post this information on the Internet. See
§§84600–84601; §§84602–84602.1 (West Supp. 2010);
§§84602.5–84604 (West 2005); §85605 (West Supp. 2010);
§§84606–84609 (West 2005).
Some opponents of Proposition 8 compiled this informa
tion and created Web sites with maps showing the loca
tions of homes or businesses of Proposition 8 supporters.
Many supporters (or their customers) suffered property
damage, or threats of physical violence or death, as a
——————
1 BCRA imposes similar disclosure requirements. See, e.g., 2 U. S. C.
§434(f)(2)(F) (“Every person who makes a disbursement for the direct

costs of producing and airing electioneering communications in an
aggregate amount in excess of $10,000 during any calendar year” must
disclose “the names and addresses of all contributors who contributed
an aggregate amount of $1,000 or more to the person making the
disbursement”).
Cite as: 558 U. S. ____ (2010) 3
result. They cited these incidents in a complaint they filed

after the 2008 election, seeking to invalidate California’s
mandatory disclosure laws. Supporters recounted being
told: “Consider yourself lucky. If I had a gun I would have
gunned you down along with each and every other sup
porter,” or, “we have plans for you and your friends.”
Complaint in ProtectMarriage.com—Yes on 8 v. Bowen,
Case No. 2:09–cv–00058–MCE–DAD (ED Cal.), ¶31.
Proposition 8 opponents also allegedly harassed the meas
ure’s supporters by defacing or damaging their property.
Id., ¶32. Two religious organizations supporting Proposi
tion 8 reportedly received through the mail envelopes
containing a white powdery substance. Id., ¶33.
Those accounts are consistent with media reports de
scribing Proposition 8-related retaliation. The director of
the nonprofit California Musical Theater gave $1,000 to
support the initiative; he was forced to resign after artists
complained to his employer. Lott & Smith, Donor Disclo
sure Has Its Downsides, Wall Street Journal, Dec. 26,
2008, p. A13. The director of the Los Angeles Film Festi
val was forced to resign after giving $1,500 because oppo
nents threatened to boycott and picket the next festival.
Ibid. And a woman who had managed her popular, fam
ily-owned restaurant for 26 years was forced to resign
after she gave $100, because “throngs of [angry] protest
ers” repeatedly arrived at the restaurant and “shout[ed]
‘shame on you’ at customers.” Lopez, Prop. 8 Stance Up
ends Her Life, Los Angeles Times, Dec. 14, 2008, p. B1.
The police even had to “arriv[e] in riot gear one night to
quell the angry mob” at the restaurant. Ibid. Some sup
porters of Proposition 8 engaged in similar tactics; one real
estate businessman in San Diego who had donated to a
group opposing Proposition 8 “received a letter from the
Prop. 8 Executive Committee threatening to publish his
company’s name if he didn’t also donate to the ‘Yes on 8’
campaign.” Donor Disclosure, supra, at A13.
The success of such intimidation tactics has apparently

spawned a cottage industry that uses forcibly disclosed
donor information to pre-empt citizens’ exercise of their
First Amendment rights. Before the 2008 Presidential
election, a “newly formed nonprofit group . . . plann[ed] to
confront donors to conservative groups, hoping to create a
chilling effect that will dry up contributions.” Luo, Group
Plans Campaign Against G.O.P. Donors, N. Y. Times, Aug.
8, 2008, p. A15. Its leader, “who described his effort as
‘going for the jugular,’ ” detailed the group’s plan to send a
“warning letter . . . alerting donors who might be consider
ing giving to right-wing groups to a variety of potential
dangers, including legal trouble, public exposure and
watchdog groups digging through their lives.” Ibid.
These instances of retaliation sufficiently demonstrate
why this Court should invalidate mandatory disclosure
and reporting requirements. But amici present evidence
of yet another reason to do so—the threat of retaliation
from elected officials. As amici’s submissions make clear,
this threat extends far beyond a single ballot proposition
in California. For example, a candidate challenging an
incumbent state attorney general reported that some
members of the State’s business community feared donat
ing to his campaign because they did not want to cross the
incumbent; in his words, “ ‘I go to so many people and hear
the same thing: “I sure hope you beat [the incumbent], but
I can’t afford to have my name on your records. He might
come after me next.” ’ ” Strassel, Challenging Spitzerism
at the Polls, Wall Street Journal, Aug. 1, 2008, p. A11.
The incumbent won reelection in 2008.
My point is not to express any view on the merits of the
political controversies I describe. Rather, it is to demon
strate—using real-world, recent examples—the fallacy in
the Court’s conclusion that “[d]isclaimer and disclosure
requirements . . . impose no ceiling on campaign-related
activities, and do not prevent anyone from speaking.”
Cite as: 558 U. S. ____ (2010) 5
Ante, at 51 (internal quotation marks and citations omit

ted). Of course they do. Disclaimer and disclosure re
quirements enable private citizens and elected officials to
implement political strategies specifically calculated to
curtail campaign-related activity and prevent the lawful,
peaceful exercise of First Amendment rights.
The Court nevertheless insists that as-applied chal
lenges to disclosure requirements will suffice to vindicate
those speech rights, as long as potential plaintiffs can
“show a reasonable probability that disclosure . . . will
subject them to threats, harassment, or reprisals from
either Government officials or private parties.” Ante, at 52
(internal quotation marks omitted). But the Court’s opin
ion itself proves the irony in this compromise. In correctly
explaining why it must address the facial constitutionality
of §203, see ante, at 5–20, the Court recognizes that “[t]he
First Amendment does not permit laws that force speakers
to . . . seek declaratory rulings before discussing the most
salient political issues of our day,” ante, at 7; that as
applied challenges to §203 “would require substantial
litigation over an extended time” and result in an “inter
pretive process [that] itself would create an inevitable,
pervasive, and serious risk of chilling protected speech
pending the drawing of fine distinctions that, in the end,
would themselves be questionable,” ante, at 9–10; that “a
court would be remiss in performing its duties were it to
accept an unsound principle merely to avoid the necessity
of making a broader ruling,” ante, at 12; and that avoiding
a facial challenge to §203 “would prolong the substantial,
nation-wide chilling effect” that §203 causes, ante, at 16.
This logic, of course, applies equally to as-applied chal
lenges to §§201 and 311.
Irony aside, the Court’s promise that as-applied chal
lenges will adequately protect speech is a hollow assur
ance. Now more than ever, §§201 and 311 will chill pro
tected speech because—as California voters can attest—
“the advent of the Internet” enables “prompt disclosure of

expenditures,” which “provide[s]” political opponents “with
the information needed” to intimidate and retaliate
against their foes. Ante, at 55. Thus, “disclosure permits
citizens . . . to react to the speech of [their political oppo
nents] in a proper”—or undeniably improper—“way” long
before a plaintiff could prevail on an as-applied challenge.2
Ibid.
I cannot endorse a view of the First Amendment that
subjects citizens of this Nation to death threats, ruined
careers, damaged or defaced property, or pre-emptive and
threatening warning letters as the price for engaging in
“core political speech, the ‘primary object of First Amend
ment protection.’ ” McConnell, 540 U. S., at 264 (THOMAS,
J., concurring in part, concurring in judgment in part, and
dissenting in part) (quoting Nixon v. Shrink Missouri
Government PAC, 528 U. S. 377, 410–411 (2000) (THOMAS,
J., dissenting)). Accordingly, I respectfully dissent from
the Court’s judgment upholding BCRA §§201 and 311.
——————
2 But cf. Hill v. Colorado, 530 U. S. 703, 707–710 (2000) (approving a
statute restricting speech “within 100 feet” of abortion clinics because it

protected women seeking an abortion from “ ‘sidewalk counseling,’ ”
which “consists of efforts ‘to educate, counsel, persuade, or inform
passersby about abortion and abortion alternatives by means of verbal
or written speech,’ ” and which “sometimes” involved “strong and
abusive language in face-to-face encounters”).

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