No. 19-348
 
Title: St. James School, Petitioner
v.
Darryl Biel, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Kristen Biel
Docketed: September 17, 2019
Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
   Case Numbers: (17-55180)
   Decision Date: December 17, 2018
   Rehearing Denied: June 25, 2019
Questions Presented
 
Proceedings and Orders
Sep 16 2019 Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 17, 2019)
Petition Appendix Certificate of Word Count Proof of Service
Sep 27 2019 Brief amici curiae of Church of God in Christ, Inc. and Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America filed. VIDED
Main Document Certificate of Word Count Proof of Service
Oct 11 2019 Motion to extend the time to file a response from October 17, 2019 to November 13, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
Main Document Proof of Service
Oct 16 2019 Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including November 13, 2019.
Oct 16 2019 Brief amici curiae of Professors Douglas Laycock, et al. filed.
Main Document Certificate of Word Count Proof of Service
Oct 17 2019 Brief amici curiae of General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, et al. filed.
Main Document Certificate of Word Count Proof of Service
Oct 17 2019 Brief amicus curiae of Asma T. Uddin filed.
Main Document Certificate of Word Count Proof of Service
Oct 17 2019 Brief amicus curiae of Stephen Wise Temple filed.
Main Document Certificate of Word Count Proof of Service
Nov 13 2019 Brief of respondent Darryl Biel in opposition filed.
Main Document Certificate of Word Count Proof of Service
Nov 21 2019 Waiver of 14-day waiting period for the distribution of the petition under Rule 15.5 filed.
Main Document
Nov 22 2019 Reply of petitioner St. James School filed.
Main Document Certificate of Word Count Proof of Service
Nov 26 2019 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/13/2019.
Dec 18 2019 Petition GRANTED. The petition for a writ of certiorari in No. 19-267 is granted. The cases are consolidated, and a total of one hour is allotted for oral argument. VIDED.
Dec 18 2019 Because the Court has consolidated these cases for briefing and oral argument, future filings and activity in the cases will now be reflected on the docket of No. 19-267. Subsequent filings in these cases must therefore be submitted through the electronic filing system in No. 19-267. Each document submitted in connection with one or more of these cases must include on its cover the case number and caption for each case in which the filing is intended to be submitted. Where a filing is submitted in fewer than all of the cases, the docket entry will reflect the case number(s) in which the filing is submitted; a document filed in all of the consolidated cases will be noted as “VIDED.”
Jan 31 2020 SET FOR ARGUMENT on Wednesday, April 1, 2020. VIDED
Feb 19 2020 CIRCULATED
Feb 19 2020 Record requested from the U.S.C.A. 9th Circuit.
Mar 04 2020 The record from the U.S.C.A. 9th Circuit is electronic and located on Pacer.
Mar 16 2020 ORAL ARGUMENT POSTPONED. VIDED.
Apr 13 2020 Argument to be rescheduled for May 2020.
Apr 15 2020 RESCHEDULED FOR ARGUMENT on Monday, May 11, 2020. VIDED.
May 11 2020 Argued. For petitioners: Eric C. Rassbach, Washington, D. C.; and Morgan L. Ratner, Assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (for United States, as amicus curiae.). For respondents: Jeffrey L. Fisher, Menlo Park, Cal. VIDED.
Jul 08 2020 Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED. Alito, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Thomas, Breyer, Kagan, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh, JJ., joined. Thomas, J., filed a concurring opinion, in which Gorsuch, J., joined. Sotomayor, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Ginsburg, J., joined. VIDED.
Aug 10 2020 JUDGMENT ISSUED.
Attorneys
Attorneys for Petitioners
Eric Christopher Rassbach
Counsel of Record
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
1200 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036
erassbach@becketlaw.org
Ph: 2029550095
Party name: St. James School


Attorneys for Respondents
Jennifer Anne Lipski
Counsel of Record
JML Law, A Professional Law Corporation
5855 Topanga Canyon Boulevard, Suite 300
Woodland Hills, CA 91367
jennifer@jmllaw.com
Ph: 818-610-8800
Party name: Darryl Biel


Other Attorneys
Paul D. Clement
Counsel of Record
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004
paul.clement@kirkland.com
Ph: 2023895000
Party name: Stephen Wise Temple


Victoria Dorfman
Counsel of Record
Jones Day
51 Louisiana Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20001
vdorfman@jonesday.com
Ph: (202) 879-3939
Party name: Professors Douglas Laycock, et al.


Thomas Henderson Dupree Jr.
Counsel of Record
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP
1050 Connecticut Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20036
tdupree@gibsondunn.com
Ph: 202-955-8500
Party name: Church of God in Christ, Inc. and Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America


Toby Jay Heytens
Counsel of Record
Office of the Attorney General
202 North Ninth Street
Richmond, VA 23219
SolicitorGeneral@oag.state.va.us
Ph: (804) 786-7240
Party name: Virginia, et al.


Daniel Patrick Kearney Jr.
Counsel of Record
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP
1875 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20006
Daniel.Kearney@wilmerhale.com
Ph: 202-663-6000
Party name: Asma T. Uddin


Eric D. McArthur
Counsel of Record
Sidley Austin LLP
1501 K Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20005
emcarthur@sidley.com
Ph: (202) 736-8018
Party name: General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty


Jesse Michael Panuccio
Counsel of Record
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
1401 New York Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20005
jpanuccio@bsfllp.com
Ph: 202 237 2727
Party name: Senator Mike Lee, et al.


Zachary Guy Parks
Counsel of Record
Covington & Burling LLP
850 Tenth St. NW
Washington, DC 20001
zparks@cov.com
Ph: 2022850524
Party name: Professor John D. Inazu


James A. Sonne
Counsel of Record
Religious Liberty Clinic, Stanford Law School
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305-8610
jsonne@law.stanford.edu
Ph: (650) 723-1422
Party name: National Catholic Educational Association


Misha Tseytlin
Counsel of Record
Troutman Sanders LLP
One North Wacker Drive
Suite 2905
Chicago, IL 60606
misha.tseytlin@troutman.com
Ph: 312-759-5947
Party name: The Association of Classical Christian Schools, et al.,


Heather Lynn Weaver
Counsel of Record
Americans United for Separation of Church and Stat
518 C Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
hweaver@aclu.org
Ph: 202-675-2330
Party name: The American Civil Liberties Union et al