No. 19-123
 
Title: Sharonell Fulton, et al., Petitioners
v.
City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al.
Docketed: July 25, 2019
Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
   Case Numbers: (18-2574)
   Decision Date: April 22, 2019
Questions Presented
 
Proceedings and Orders
Jul 22 2019 Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 26, 2019)
Aug 07 2019 Motion to extend the time to file a response from August 26, 2019 to October 25, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
Aug 07 2019 Brief amici curiae of Former Foster Children and Foster Parents and the Catholic Association Foundation filed.
Aug 13 2019 Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted in part; the time is extended to and including October 10, 2019.
Aug 16 2019 Brief amicus curiae of Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty filed.
Aug 26 2019 Brief amici curiae of The States of Texas, et al. filed.
Aug 26 2019 Brief amici curiae of 44 United States Senators and Members of the House of Representatives filed.
Aug 26 2019 Brief amicus curiae of Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence filed.
Aug 26 2019 Brief amicus curiae of Foundation for Moral Law filed.
Oct 10 2019 Brief of respondents Support Center for Child Advocates and Philadelphia Family Pride in opposition filed.
Oct 10 2019 Brief of respondents City of Philadelphia, et al. in opposition filed.
Oct 28 2019 Reply of petitioners Sharonell Fulton, et al. filed.
Oct 30 2019 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/15/2019.
Nov 12 2019 Rescheduled.
Nov 20 2019 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/6/2019.
Dec 03 2019 Rescheduled.
Dec 09 2019 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/13/2019.
Dec 11 2019 Rescheduled.
Jan 06 2020 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2020.
Jan 13 2020 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/17/2020.
Jan 21 2020 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/24/2020.
Feb 14 2020 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/21/2020.
Feb 24 2020 Petition GRANTED.
Mar 17 2020 Motion for an extension of time to file the briefs on the merits filed.
Mar 23 2020 Motion to extend the time to file the briefs on the merits granted. The time to file the joint appendix and petitioners' brief on the merits is extended to and including May 27, 2020. The time to file respondents' briefs on the merits is extended to and including August 13, 2020.
May 07 2020 Blanket Consent filed by Respondents, City of Philadelphia, Department of Human Services for the City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations.
May 27 2020 Joint appendix (two volumes) filed. (Statement of costs filed.)
May 27 2020 Brief of petitioners Sharonell Fulton, et al. filed.
May 27 2020 Brief amicus curiae of Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty filed.
May 28 2020 Brief amici curiae of The Institute for Faith and Family, et al. filed.
Jun 01 2020 Brief amicus curiae of National Association of Evangelicals filed.
Jun 01 2020 Amicus brief of Foundation for Moral Law not accepted for filing. (June 09, 2020 - Duplicate submission.)
Jun 01 2020 Brief amicus curiae of Foundation for Moral Law filed.
Jun 02 2020 Brief amicus curiae of Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence filed.
Jun 02 2020 Brief amici curiae of The Bruderhof, United Sikhs, The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), The Islam & Religious Freedom Action Team of the Religious Freedom Institute, and Asma Uddin filed.
Jun 02 2020 Brief amici curiae of States of Nebraska, Arizona, and Ohio filed.
Jun 02 2020 Brief amicus curiae of Eugene Volokh in support of neither party filed.
Jun 03 2020 Brief amicus curiae of United States filed.
Jun 03 2020 Brief amicus curiae of Robertson Center for Constitutional Law filed.
Jun 03 2020 Brief amici curiae of Concerned Women for America, et al. filed.
Jun 03 2020 Brief amici curiae of Life Legal Defense Foundation et al. filed.
Jun 03 2020 Brief amici curiae of Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee filed.
Jun 03 2020 Brief amici curiae of James and Gail Blais, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists filed.
Jun 03 2020 Brief amici curiae of United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, et al. filed.
Jun 03 2020 Brief amici curiae of New Hope Family Services, Inc. and Catholic Charities West Michigan filed.
Jun 03 2020 Brief amicus curiae of Americans for Prosperity Foundation filed.
Jun 03 2020 Brief amici curiae of Current and Former State Legislators filed.
Jun 03 2020 Brief amicus curiae of Generation Justice filed.
Jun 03 2020 Brief amici curiae of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, et al. filed.
Jun 03 2020 Brief amici curiae of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois, et al. filed.
Jun 03 2020 Brief amicus curiae of Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III filed.
Jun 03 2020 Brief amici curiae of The States of Texas, Alabama, Arkansa, Llouisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, West Virginia and Commonwealth of Kentucky filed.
Jun 03 2020 Brief amicus curiae of Galen Black filed.
Jun 03 2020 Brief amici curiae of 76 United States Senators and Members of the House of Representatives filed.
Jun 03 2020 Brief amici curiae of Coalition for Jewish Values, et al. filed.
Jun 03 2020 Brief amici curiae of Dorothy Frame, et al. filed.
Jun 03 2020 Brief amici curiae of National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs, et al. filed.
Jun 03 2020 Brief amici curiae of Former Foster Children and Foster Parents, et al. filed.
Jun 03 2020 Brief amici curiae of Christian Legal Society et al. filed.
Jun 03 2020 Brief amicus curiae of Great Lakes Justice Center filed.
Jun 03 2020 Brief amici curiae of Fifteen Pennsylvania State Senators filed.
Jun 03 2020 Brief amici curiae of Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, et al. filed.
Jun 03 2020 Brief amicus curiae of New Civil Liberties Alliance filed. (Distributed)
Jun 03 2020 Brief amicus curiae of The Rutherford Institute filed. (Distributed)
Aug 13 2020 Brief of city respondents City of Philadelphia, Department of Human Services for the City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations filed.
Aug 13 2020 Supplemental appendix to city respondents brief on the merits filed (to be recovered - August 20, 2020).
Aug 13 2020 Supplemental appendix to City Respondents' Brief on the Merits filed (8/21/2020).
Aug 13 2020 Brief of intervenor-respondents Support Center for Child Advocates and Philadelphia Family Pride filed.
Aug 14 2020 Brief amici curiae of 27 Roman Catholic Lay Persons Supporting Respondents filed.
Aug 14 2020 Motion of the Acting Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument filed.
Aug 18 2020 Brief amici curiae of Legal Scholars in Support of Equality in Support of Respondents filed.
Aug 19 2020 SET FOR ARGUMENT on Wednesday, November 4, 2020.
Aug 19 2020 Brief amici curiae of Scholars of the Constitutional Rights and Interests of Children filed.
Aug 19 2020 Brief amici curiae of Alan Brownstein, Melissa Rogers, and Rabbi David Saperstein filed.
Aug 19 2020 Brief amici curiae of Center for the Study of Social Policy and National Center for Lesbian Rights filed.
Aug 19 2020 Brief amici curiae of Amici Miguel Diaz, CHILD USA, et al. filed.
Aug 19 2020 Joint motion for divided argument filed by respondents.
Aug 19 2020 Brief amicus curiae of Government Contracts Professor and Practitioner Richard C. Loeb filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amicus curiae of Lawrence G. Sager filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amicus curiae of American Atheists, Inc. filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders and 27 Other LGBTQ Advocacy Groups filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) and 25 Other Organizations Serving Older and Disabled Individuals filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of Republican Legislators, Elected Officials, and Leaders filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amicus curiae of The American Bar Association filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of The Annie E. Casey Foundation, et al. filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of Voice for Adoption, et al. filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of Local Governments, Mayors, and U.S. Conference of Mayors as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of First Amendment Scholars filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of Lee C. Bollinger, et al. filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of Church-State Scholars filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of Organizations Serving LGBTQ Youth filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of Indian Law Professors filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of Former Service Secretaries and the Modern Military Association of America filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of Scholars Who Study The LGB Population filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of American Psychological Association, et al. filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, et al. filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of Prospective Foster Parents Subjected to Religiously Motivated Discrimination by Child-Placement Agencies filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of Baptist Joint Committee For Religious Liberty, et al. filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amicus curiae of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of Freedom From Religion Foundation, et al. filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of Professors Ira C. Lupu, et al. filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of Family Equality and PFLAG National filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amicus curiae of New York State Bar Association filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amicus curiae of KidsVoice filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of Members of Congress filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amicus curiae of Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amicus curiae of Office of the Cook County Public Guardian filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of Historians of Child Welfare filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of 32 Businesses and Organizations filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of President of the House of Deputies of The Episcopal Church, et al. filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of ADL (Anti-Defamation League) and Other Organizations filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of FosterClub and Former Foster Youth filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of Children's Rights, et al. filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of Massachusetts, et al. filed.
Aug 20 2020 Amicus brief of The National Women's Law Center and 35 Additional Organizations not accepted for filing. (August 26, 2020 - Corrected version submitted).
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of The National Women's Law Center and 35 Additional Organizations filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of National LGBT Bar Assocation, et al. filed.
Aug 20 2020 Brief amici curiae of The National League of Cities et al. filed.
Aug 31 2020 Record requested from the U.S.C.A. 3rd Circuit.
Sep 02 2020 CIRCULATED
Sep 14 2020 Reply of petitioners Sharonell Fulton, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Oct 05 2020 Motion of the Acting Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument GRANTED.
Oct 05 2020 Motion for divided argument filed by respondents GRANTED.
Oct 28 2020 The record received from the U.S.C.A. 3rd Circuit has been filed electronically (includes sealed material and district court record).
Nov 04 2020 Argued. For petitioners: Lori H. Windham, Washington, D. C.; and Hashim M. Mooppan, Counselor to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (for United States, as amicus curiae.) For City of Philadelphia, et al. respondents: Neal K. Katyal, Washington, D. C. For Support Center for Child Advocates and Family Pride respondents: Jeffrey L. Fisher, Stanford, Cal.
Jun 17 2021 Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED. Roberts, C. J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan, Kavanaugh, and Barrett, JJ., joined. Barrett, J., filed a concurring opinion, in which Kavanaugh, J., joined, and in which Breyer, J., joined as to all but the first paragraph. Alito, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, in which Thomas and Gorsuch, JJ., joined. Gorsuch, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, in which Thomas and Alito, JJ., joined.
Jul 19 2021 JUDGMENT ISSUED.
Attorneys
Attorneys for Petitioners
Lori Halstead Windham
Counsel of Record
Becket
1919 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20006

lwindham@becketlaw.org
Ph: 202-955-0095
Party name: Sharonell Fulton, et al.


Mark Leonard Rienzi
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
1919 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Suite 400
Washington, DC 20006

MRIENZI@BECKETLAW.ORG
Ph: (202) 955-0095
Party name: Sharonell Fulton, et al.


Attorneys for Respondents
Leslie Cooper
Counsel of Record
American Civil Liberties Union
125 Broad Street
New York, NY 10004

lcooper@aclu.org
Ph: 2125197815
Party name: Intervenor Support Center for Child Advocates and Philadelphia Family Pride


Neal Kumar Katyal
Counsel of Record
Milbank LLP
1850 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006

nkatyal@milbank.com
Ph: 202-835-7505
Party name: City of Philadelphia, Department of Human Services for the City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations


Jeffrey L. Fisher
Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305

jlfisher@law.stanford.edu
Ph: (650) 7254851
Party name: Intervenor Support Center for Child Advocates and Philadelphia Family Pride


Deepak Gupta
Gupta Wessler LLP
2001 K Street NW
Suite 850 North
Washington, DC 20006

DEEPAK@GUPTAWESSLER.COM
Ph: (202) 888-1741
Party name: City of Philadelphia, Department of Human Services for the City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations


Other Attorneys
Jessica Ring Amunson
Jenner & Block LLP
1099 New York Avenue NW
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20001

JAMUNSON@JENNER.COM
Ph: 202-639-6000
Party name: American Psychological Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association


Todd Steven Anten
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP
51 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10010

toddanten@quinnemanuel.com
Ph: (212) 849-7000
Party name: The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and 28 Other Organizations


Peter T. Barbur
Cravath, Swaine & Moore
375 Ninth Avenue
New York, NY 10001

pbarbur@cravath.com
Ph: (212) 474-1000
Party name: Members of Congress


Timothy Belz
Clayton Plaza Law Group, LC
112 South Hanley Suite 200
St. Louis, MO 63105

tbelz@olblaw.com
Ph: 3142839772
Party name: National Association of Evangelicals


Michael Evan Bern
Latham & Watkins LLP
555 Eleventh Street NW, Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20004-1304

michael.bern@lw.com
Ph: 202-637-2200
Party name: Ray Mabus, Deborah Lee James, Eric Fanning and the Modern Military Association of America


Geoffrey Thomas Blackwell
American Atheists, Inc.
PO Box 58637
Philadelphia, PA 19102

LEGAL@ATHEISTS.ORG
Ph: (908) 276-7300
Party name: American Atheists, Inc.


Carmine D. Boccuzzi Jr.
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
One Liberty Plaza
New York, NY 10006

cboccuzzi@cgsh.com
Ph: 212-225-2508
Party name: Alan Brownstein, Melissa Rogers, and Rabbi David Saperstein


Mary L. Bonauto
GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders
18 Tremont Street Suite 950
Boston, MA 02108

mbonauto@glad.org
Ph: 617-388-5521
Party name: GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders and 27 Other LGBTQ Advocacy Groups


Bruce N. Cameron
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
8001 Braddock Road Ste. 600
Springfield, VA 22160

bnc@nrtw.org
Ph: 703-321-8510
Party name: Dorothy Frame, Annlee Post, & National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation


James A. Campbell
Alliance Defending Freedom
44180 Riverside Parkway
Lansdowne, VA 20176

jcampbell@adflegal.org
Ph: 571-707-4655
Party name: States of Nebraska, Arizona, and Ohio


Anthony Thomas Caso
Constitutional Counsel Group
1628 N Main St. #289
Salinas, CA 93906

ATCASO@CCG1776.COM
Ph: 916-601-1916
Party name: Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence


Frederick W. Claybrook Jr.
Claybrook, LLC
655 Fifteenth St., NW, Ste. 425
Washington, DC 20005

rick@claybrooklaw.com
Ph: 301-622-0360
Party name: Concerned Women for America, et al.


Miles Edward Coleman
2 West Washington Street
Suite 400
Greenville, SC 29601

miles.coleman@nelsonmullins.com
Ph: 8643732352
Party name: United States Senators and Members of the House of Representatives


Cynthia Fleming Crawford
Americans for Prosperity Foundation
4201 Wilson Blvd.
Suite 1000
Arlington, VA 22203

CCRAWFORD@AFPHQ.ORG
Ph: 5713292227
Party name: Americans for Prosperity Foundation


Richard Paul Dearing
City of New York
100 Church Street
New York, NY 10007

RDEARING@LAW.NYC.GOV
Ph: (212) 356-2500
Party name: Local Governments, Mayors, and U.S. Conference of Mayors as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents


Elizabeth Napier Dewar
Office of the Attorney General
One Ashburton Place
Boston, MA 02108

bessie.dewar@mass.gov
Ph: 617-963-2204
Party name: Massachusetts, et al.


Deborah Dewart
111 Magnolia Lane
Hubert, NC 28539

LAWYERDEBORAH@OUTLOOK.COM
Ph: 9103264554
Party name: The Institute for Faith and Family and The International Conference of Evangelical Chaplain Endorsers


Alexander Dushku
Kirton McConkie
36 South State Street Suite 1900
Salt Lake City, UT 84111

adushku@kmclaw.com
Ph: 801 328 3600
Party name: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, et al.


John Allen Eidsmoe
Foundation for Moral Law
P.O. Box 148
Gallant, AL 35972

eidsmoeja@juno.com
Ph: 3342621245
Party name: Foundation for Moral Law


Clifton S. Elgarten
Crowell & Moring LLP
1001 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC 20004

celgarten@crowell.com
Ph: 2026242500
Party name: The Annie E. Casey Foundation, The Raikes Foundation, The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, and the Redlich Horwitz Foundation


Patrick C Elliott
Freedom From Religion Foundation
PO BOX 750
Madison, WI 53701

pelliott@ffrf.org
Ph: 6082568900
Party name: Freedom From Religion Foundation, et al.


Richard Michael Esenberg
Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty
330 E. Kilbourn
Suite 725
Milwaukee, WI 53202

rick@will-law.org
Ph: 414-727-9455
Party name: Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee


David R. Fine
K & L Gates LLP
17 North Second Street
18th Floor
Harrisburg, PA 17101

DAVID.FINE@KLGATES.COM
Ph: (717) 231-4500
Party name: KidsVoice


Michael J. Fischer
Pennsylvania Office of General Counsel
30 N. Third St.
Suite 200
Harrisburg, PA 17101

mjfischer@pa.gov
Ph: 717-831-2847
Party name: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania


Brian H. Fletcher
Acting Solicitor General
United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001

SupremeCtBriefs@USDOJ.gov
Ph: 202-514-2217
Party name: United States


David Scott Flugman
Selendy Gay PLLC
1290 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10104

dflugman@selendygay.com
Ph: 212-390-9000
Party name: Professors Ira C. Lupu, Frederick Mark Gedicks, William P. Marshall, and Robert W. Tuttle


Charles P. Golbert
Office of the Cook County Public Guardian
2245 West Ogden Avenue
Fourth Floor
Chicago, IL 60612

charles.golbert@cookcountyil.gov
Ph: 3124334300
Party name: Office of the Cook County Public Guardian


Brianne Jenna Gorod
Constitutional Accountability Center
1730 Rhode Island Ave. NW
Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20036

BRIANNE@THEUSCONSTITUTION.ORG
Ph: 202 296 6889
Party name: First Amendment Scholars


Leslie Carol Griffin
University of Nevada, Las Vegas William S. Boyd Sc
4505 S. Maryland Parkway Box 451003
Las Vegas, NV 89154-1003

leslie.griffin@unlv.edu
Ph: (713) 301-3105
Party name: Amici Miguel Diaz, CHILD USA, et al.


Alan Gura
Institute for Free Speech
1150 Connecticut Avenue N.W.
Suite 801
Washington, DC 20036

AGURA@IFS.ORG
Ph: 202.301.3300
Party name: Generation Justice


Kendyl Taylor Hanks
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
300 West 6th Street
Suite 2050
Austin, TX 78701

hanksk@gtlaw.com
Ph: 5123207200
Party name: Children's Rights, et al.


Kyle Douglas Hawkins
Lehotsky Keller Cohn LLP
919 Congress Avenue
Austin, TX 78701

kyle@lkcfirm.com
Ph: 6122966947
Party name: The States of Texas, Alabama, Arkansa, Llouisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, West Virginia and Commonwealth of Kentucky


Scott Michael Karson
New York State Bar Association
One Elk Street
Albany, NY 12207

smk@lambbarnosky.com
Ph: 5184633200
Party name: New York State Bar Association


Richard Brian Katskee
Americans United for Separation of Church and Stat
1310 L Street, N.W. Suite 200
Washington, DC 20005

katskee@au.org
Ph: 2024663234
Party name: Prospective Foster Parents Subjected to Religiously Motivated Discrimination by Child-Placement Agencies


Katherine Keating
Bryan Cave LLP
Three Embarcadero Center
7th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111

KATHERINE.KEATING@BCLPLAW.COM
Ph: 415-268-1972
Party name: Family Equality and PFLAG National


James Wayne Kim
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
500 North Capitol Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001

jakim@mwe.com
Ph: 2027568386
Party name: Republican Legislators, Elected Officials, and Leaders


Eric Nieuwenhuis Kniffin
Ethics and Public Policy Center
1730 M Street N.W.
Suite 910
Washington, DC 20036

ekniffin@eppc.org
Ph: 2026281200
Party name: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Pennsylvania Catholic Conference


John J. Korzen
Wake Forest University School of Law
PO Box 7206
Winston-Salem, NC 27109

korzenjj@wfu.edu
Ph: 3367585832
Party name: The National League of Cities et al.


Lauren Suzanne Kuley
Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
201 E. Fourth St. Suite 1900
Cincinnati, OH 45202

lauren.kuley@squirepb.com
Ph: 5133611241
Party name: Service and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) and 25 Other Organizations Serving Older and Disabled Individuals


Harold Douglas Laycock
University of Texas Law School
727 E. Dean Keeton St.
Austin, TX 78705

dlaycock@law.utexas.edu
Ph: 512-475-9090
Party name: Christian Legal Society et al.


Nathan Lewin
Lewin & Lewin, LLP
888 17th St. NW, 4th Floor
Washington, DC 20006

nat@lewinlewin.com
Ph: 2028281000
Party name: National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs


Michael J. Lockerby
Foley & Lardner LLP
3000 K Street, N.W., Suite 600
951 East Byrd Street
Washington, DC 20007

mlockerby@foley.com
Ph: 202-945-6079
Party name: The Rutherford Institute


Jesse Ryan Loffler
Cozen O'Connor
45 Broadway, 23rd Floor
New York, NY 10006

jloffler@cozen.com
Ph: 2124533926
Party name: FosterClub and Former Foster Youth


Christopher C. Lund
Wayne State University Law School
471 W. Palmer St.
Detroit, MI 48202

lund@wayne.edu
Ph: 3135773933
Party name: The Bruderhof, United Sikhs, The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), The Islam & Religious Freedom Action Team of the Religious Freedom Institute, and Asma Uddin


Jonathan L. Marcus
Reed Smith LLP
1301 K Street, N.W. Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20005

Jonathan.Marcus@reedsmith.com
Ph: 202-414-9200
Party name: Lee C. Bollinger, Erwin Chemerinksy, Burt Neuborne, Robert C. Post and Geoffrey Stone


Mark D. Martin
Robertson Center for Constitutional Law
1000 Regent University Drive
Virginia Beach, VA 23464

mmartin@regent.edu
Ph: 757-352-4040
Party name: Robertson Center for Constitutional Law


Judy Perry Martinez
American Bar Association
321 N. Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60654

AmicusBriefs@americanbar.org
Ph: 312-988-5000
Party name: The American Bar Association


Todd R. McFarland
General Conference of Seventh-day Adventist Church
Office of General Counsel 12501 Old Columbia Pike
Silver Spring, MD 20904-6600

mcfarlandt@gc.adventist.org
Ph: 3016806321
Party name: James and Gail Blais, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists


Thomas Gerald Olp
Thomas More Society
309 W. Washington Street Suite 1250
Chicago, IL 60606

tolp@thomasmoresociety.org
Ph: 3127821680
Party name: Catholic Charities Of Springfield, Illinois, And Catholic Charities Of Joliet, Inc.,


Patricia Bernadette Palacios
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
1330 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20036

ppalacios@steptoe.com
Ph: 202429-3000
Party name: 32 Businesses and Organizations


Joseph Russell Palmore
Morrison & Foerster LLP
2100 L Street, NW
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20037

JPALMORE@MOFO.COM
Ph: 202-887-6940
Party name: Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois


Andrea Marie Picciotti-Bayer
Catholic Association Foundation
3220 N. Street NW, Suite 126
Washington, DC 20007

amariepicciotti@gmail.com
Ph: 5712016564
Party name: Former Foster Children and Foster Parents and the Catholic Association Foundation


Jennifer C. Pizer
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.
4221 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 280
Los Angeles, CA 90010

jpizer@lambdalegal.org
Ph: 2135905903
Party name: Organizations Serving LGBTQ Youth


James K. Riley
145 Franklin Avenue
Pearl River, NY 10965

jrjrprny@gmail.com
Ph: 845-653-1722
Party name: Amici Curiae 27 Roman Catholic Lay Persons Supporting Respondents


Cynthia Cook Robertson
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
1200 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036

cynthia.robertson@pillsburylaw.com
Ph: 202-663-9256
Party name: Government Contracts Professor and Practitioner Richard C. Loeb


Kara McKenna Rollins
New Civil Liberties Alliance
4250 N. Fairfax Drive
Suite 300
Arlington, VA 22203

kara.rollins@ncla.legal
Ph: (202) 869-5210
Party name: New Civil Liberties Alliance


Sanford Jay Rosen
Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP
101 Mission Street, 6th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105

srosen@rbgg.com
Ph: 415-433-6830
Party name: National LGBT Bar Assocation, et al.


Jerome C. Roth
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
560 Mission Street
27th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105

Jerome.Roth@mto.com
Ph: 4155124010
Party name: Indian Law Professors


Charles Rothfeld
Mayer Brown LLP
1999 K St NW
Washington, DC 20006

crothfeld@mayerbrown.com
Ph: 202-263-3000
Party name: Lawrence G. Sager


Gene Clayton Schaerr
Schaerr | Jaffe
1717 K Street NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20006

GSCHAERR@SCHAERR-JAFFE.COM
Ph: 202-787-1060
Party name: Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, The Association for Biblical Higher Education, and Thirty-One Individual Religious Colleges and Universities


Christopher Paul Schandevel
Alliance Defending Freedom
44180 Riverside Parkway
Lansdowne, VA 20176

cschandevel@ADFlegal.org
Ph: 5717074655
Party name: New Hope Family Services, Inc. and Catholic Charities West Michigan


Gilbert Ross Serota
Arnold and Porter
3 Embarcadero Center
10th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111

gilbert.serota@arnoldporter.com
Ph: 4154713170
Party name: ADL (Anti-Defamation League) and Other Organizations as Amici Curiae In Support of Respondents


Chanakya Arjun Sethi
Wilkinson Stekloff LLP
130 W 42nd St 24th Floor
New York, NY 10036

csethi@wilkinsonstekloff.com
Ph: 212-294-8926
Party name: Historians of Child Welfare


Kelly J. Shackelford
First Liberty Institute
2001 W Piano Pkwy
Suite 1600
Plano, TX 75075

kshackelford@firstliberty.org
Ph: 972-941-4444
Party name: Galen Black


Rachel Gabriella Shalev
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
51 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019

rshalev@orrick.com
Ph: 2125065000
Party name: Church-State Scholars


Catherine Wynne Short
Life Legal Defense Foundation
P.O. Box 2105
Napa, CA 94558

kshort@lldf.org
Ph: (707) 224-6675
Party name: Life Legal Defense Foundation et al.


Howard Nathan Slugh
Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty
2400 Virginia Ave NW APT C619
Washington DC, DC 20037

HSLUGH@JCRL.ORG
Ph: 19543289461
Party name: Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty


Catherine E. Smith
Washington and Lee University School of Law
506 Sydney Lewis Hall
Lexington, VA 24450-0303

csmith3@wlu.edu
Ph: 8327521458
Party name: Scholars of the Constitutional Rights and Interests of Children


Jeffrey S. Trachtman
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (US) LLP
1177 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036

Jeffrey.Trachtman@hsfkramer.com
Ph: 212 715 9175
Party name: The Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, President of the House of Deputies of The Episcopal Church; Rabbinical Assembly; United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, et.al.


Carson J. Tucker
Lex Fori, PLLC
Dpt #3020
1250 W. 14 Mile Rd.
Troy, MI 48083-1030

CJTUCKER@LEXFORI.ORG
Ph: 7348879261
Party name: Current and Former State Legislators


James Edward Tysse
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
2001 K Street N.W.
Washington, DC 20006

jtysse@akingump.com
Ph: 202-887-4571
Party name: Scholars Who Study The LGB Population


Kyle Courtenay Velte
University of Kansas School of Law
1535 W. 15th Street
Lawrence, KS 66045

kvelte@ku.edu
Ph: 7206489266
Party name: Legal Scholars in Support of Equality in Support of Respondents


Eugene Volokh
Hoover Institution Stanford University
434 Galvez Mall
Stanford, CA 94305

volokh@stanford.edu
Ph: (650) 721-5092
Party name: Eugene Volokh


William Wagner
Great Lakes Justice Center
5600 West Mount Hope Hwy
Lansing, MI 48917

PROF.WWJD@GMAIL.COM
Ph: 517-643-1765
Party name: Great Lakes Justice Center


Edward Mark Wenger
Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak PLLC
2300 N Street, NW
Suite 643A
Washington, DC 20037

emwenger@HoltzmanVogel.com
Ph: 2027378808
Party name: Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III


Randall L. Wenger
Independence Law Center
23 N. Front Street, First Floor
Harrisburg, PA 17101

rwenger@indlawcenter.org
Ph: 717-657-4990
Party name: Fifteen Pennsylvania State Senators


Julie H. Wilensky
San Francisco City Attorney's Office
1390 Market Street, 6th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94102

julie.wilensky@sfcityatty.org
Ph: 415-554-4274
Party name: Center for the Study of Social Policy and National Center for Lesbian Rights


Philip Daniel Williamson
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
425 Walnut Street, Suite 1800
Cincinnati, OH 45202

pwilliamson@taftlaw.com
Ph: 5133812838
Party name: Coalition for Jewish Values, The Call, Lifeline Children’s Services, FaithBridge Foster Care, Prof. Elizabeth Kirk, and Prof. David Smolin


Evan Wolfson
Dentons
1221 Avenue of the Americas
25th Floor
New York, NY 10020

evan.wolfson@dentons.com
Ph: 212-768-6700
Party name: The National Women's Law Center and 35 Additional Organizations


Paul Reinherz Quitman Wolfson
Democracy Forward
P.O. Box 34553
Washington, DC 20043

pwolfson@democracyforward.org
Ph: (202) 448-9090
Party name: North American Council on Adoptable Children, National Association of Social Workers, Child Welfare League of America, and American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children


David Meir Zionts
Covington & Burlington LLP
850 Tenth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001

dzionts@cov.com
Ph: (202) 662-5987
Party name: Baptist Joint Committee For Religious Liberty, The Presiding Bishop Of The Episcopal Church, General Synod Of The United Church Of Christ, and The Evangelical Lutheran Church