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Docket for 00-151
No. 00-151 Status: DECIDED
Title: United States, Petitioner
v.
Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative and Jeffrey Jones
Docketed:          Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
July 28, 2000 (98-16950/17044/17137)

~~Date~~~~~~    ~~~~~~~Proceedings and Orders~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
May 19 2000Application (A99-955) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ
of certiorari from May 29, 2000 to June 28, 2000, submitted to
Justice O'Connor.
May 22 2000 Application (A99-955) granted by Justice O'Connor extending the
time to file until June 28, 2000.
Jun 16 2000 Application (A99-955) to extend further the time to file a
petition for a writ of certiorari from June 28, 2000 to July 28,
2000, submitted to Justice O'Connor.
Jun 19 2000 Application (A99-955) granted by Justice O'Connor extending the
time to file until July 28, 2000.
Jul 28 2000Petition for writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 30, 2000)
Jul 28 2000Appendix of petitioner filed.
Aug 16 2000Application (A00-145) for a stay of orders of the United States
District Court for the Northern District of California pending
appeal, submitted to Justice O'Connor.
Aug 18 2000 (A00-145)Response requested. Due Aug. 22, 2000.
Aug 21 2000 Order extending time to file brief of respondent on the merits
until September 29, 2000.
Aug 22 2000 (A00-145)Opposition thereto with 2 volume appendix filed.
Aug 25 2000 (A00-145)Reply in Support of Application for Stay filed.
Aug 28 2000 Application (A00-145) referred to the Court by Justice O'Connor.
Aug 29 2000 Application (A00-145) granted by the Court. (Detached opinion.)
Justice Stevens dissents.
Sep 18 2000 Order further extending time to file brief of respondent on the
merits until October 30, 2000.
Oct 30 2000Brief of respondents Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative, et al. in
opposition filed.
Nov 8 2000Reply brief of petitioner United States filed.
Nov 8 2000 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of November 22, 2000
Nov 27 2000 Petition GRANTED. Justice Breyer OUT.
SET FOR ARGUMENT March 28, 2001.
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Jan 10 2001Brief amici curiae of Institute on Global Drug Policy of Drug Free
America, et al. filed.
Jan 11 2001Brief amicus curiae of Family Research Council filed.
Jan 11 2001Joint appendix filed.
Jan 11 2001Brief of petitioner United States filed.
Jan 18 2001 Order extending time to file respondents' brief on the merits to
and including February 20, 2001. Rule 29.2 does not apply.
Jan 26 2001 CIRCULATED.
Feb 2 2001 Record filed.
Feb 2 2001 Record filed.
Feb 20 2001Brief of respondents Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative and Jeffrey
Jones filed.
Feb 20 2001Brief amici curiae of California Medical Association, et al. filed.
Feb 20 2001Brief amici curiae of National Organization for Reform of Marijuana
Laws, et al. filed.
Feb 20 2001Brief amicus curiae of California filed.
Feb 20 2001Brief amici curiae of American Public Health Association, et al.
filed.
Feb 20 2001Brief amici curiae of Mark Dion, et al. filed.
Feb 20 2001Brief amici curiae of Edward Neil Brundridge, et al. filed.
Feb 20 2001Brief amici curiae of American Civil Liberties Union, et al. filed.
Feb 20 2001Brief amici curiae of Marijuana Policy Project, et al. filed.
Mar 2 2001 Motion of Sudi Pebbles Trippet for leave to file a brief as amicus
curiae filed.
Mar 16 2001 Motion of Sudi Pebbles Trippet for leave to file a brief as amicus
curiae DISTRIBUTED.
Mar 19 2001
Motion of Sudi Pebbles Trippet for leave to file a brief as amicus
curiae GRANTED. Justice Breyer OUT.
Mar 21 2001Reply brief of petitioner United States filed.
Mar 21 2001 LODGING consisting of twenty copies of the DEA's response to Mr.
Gettman's petition received from the Solicitor General and
distributed.
Mar 28 2001 ARGUED.
May 14 2001 Adjudged to be REVERSED and REMANDED THOMAS, J., delivered the
opinion of the Court, in which REHNQUIST, C.J., and O'CONNOR,
SCALIA, and KENNEDY, JJ., joined. STEVENS, J., filed an opinion
concurring in the judgment, in which SOUTER and GINSBURG, JJ.,
joined. BREYER, J., took no part in the consideration or decision
of the case.
Jun 13 2001 JUDGMENT ISSUED.
Apr 30 2002 Record returned to the USDC Dist. of San Francisco.
 


~~Name~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~    ~~~~~~~Address~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   ~~Phone~~~
Attorneys for Petitioner:
Seth P. Waxman Solicitor General
U.S. Department of Justice
Washington, DC 20530
Party name: United States
 
Attorneys for Respondent:
Annette P. Carnegie Morrison & Foerster LLP
425 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94105-2482
Party name: Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative, et al.
 
Robert A. Raich 1970 Broadway
Suite 1200
Oakland, CA 94612
 
Gerald F. Uelmen Santa Clara University
School of Law
Santa Clara, CA 95053
 
Peter Barton Hutt Covington & Burling
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20044-7566
 
Other Attorneys:
David G. Evans 175 Oak Grove Rd. 9087887077
Pittstown, NJ 08867
Party name: Institute on Global Drug Policy of Drug Free America, et al.
 
Janet M. LaRue Family Research Council 2023932100
801 G Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Party name: Family Research Council
 
Catherine I. Hanson 221 Main Street, Third Floor 4155410900
P.O. Box 7690
San Francisco, CA 94120-7690
Party name: California Medical Association, et al.
 
John Wesley Hall Jr. 523 West Third Street 5013719131
Little Rock, AR 72201
Party name: National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws, et al.
 
David De Alba Special Asst AG 9163245362
1300 I Street, 17th Floor
Sacramento, CA 95814
Party name: California
 
Daniel N. Abrahamson Lindesmith Center 5102087711
717 Washington Street
Oakland, CA 94607
Party name: American Public Health Association, et al.
 
Julie M. Carpenter Jenner & Block 2026396000
601 Thirteenth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
Party name: Mark Dion, et al.
 
Thomas V. Loran III Pillsbury Winthrop 4159831000
50 Fremont Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
Party name: Edward Neil, et al.
 
Steven Shapiro ACLU 2125492500
125 Broad Street
New York, NY 10004
Party name: American Civil Liberties Union, et al.
 
K. Randolph Moore 332 North 2nd Street 4082982000
San Jose, CA 95112
Party name: Sudi Pebbles Trippet
 
Cheryl Flax-Davidson 3738 Jenifer Street, NW 2023639723
Washington, DC 20015
Party name: Marijuana Policy Project, et al.
 
 

 

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