No. 19-416
Vide 19-453
 
Title: Nestlé USA, Inc., Petitioner
v.
John Doe I, et al.
Docketed: September 27, 2019
Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
   Case Numbers: (17-55435)
   Decision Date: July 5, 2019
Questions Presented
 
Proceedings and Orders
Sep 25 2019 Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 28, 2019)
Oct 23 2019 Blanket Consent filed by Respondents, John Doe I, et al. VIDED
Oct 25 2019 Waiver of right of respondents John Doe I, et al. to respond filed.
Oct 28 2019 Brief amicus curiae of The Coca-Cola Company filed. VIDED.
Oct 28 2019 Brief amicus curiae of Washington Legal Foundation filed. VIDED.
Oct 28 2019 Brief amicus curiae of Chevron Corporation filed. VIDED.
Oct 28 2019 Brief amici curiae of The Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, et al. filed. VIDED.
Oct 28 2019 Brief amici curiae of The National Confectioners Association, the World Cocoa Foundation, and the European Cocoa Association filed. VIDED.
Oct 28 2019 Brief amicus curiae of CATO INSTITUTE filed. (Distributed)
Oct 30 2019 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/15/2019.
Nov 04 2019 Response Requested. (Due December 4, 2019)
Nov 14 2019 Motion to extend the time to file a response from December 4, 2019 to December 12, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
Nov 19 2019 Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including December 12, 2019.
Dec 12 2019 Brief of respondents John Doe I, et al. in opposition filed.
Dec 13 2019 Letter waiving the 14-day waiting period for the distribution of the petition pursuant to Rule 15.5 filed.
Dec 23 2019 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2020.
Dec 23 2019 Reply of petitioner Nestlé USA, Inc. filed. (Distributed)
Jan 13 2020 The Solicitor General is invited to file a brief in this case expressing the views of the United States.
May 26 2020 Brief amicus curiae of United States filed. VIDED.
Jun 04 2020 Supplemental brief of petitioner Nestlé USA, Inc. filed. (Distributed)
Jun 09 2020 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/25/2020.
Jun 29 2020 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 7/1/2020.
Jul 02 2020 Petition GRANTED. The petition for a writ of certiorari in No. 19-453 is granted. The cases are consolidated, and a total of one hour is allotted for oral argument. VIDED.
Jul 02 2020 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. 19-416. Subsequent filings in these cases must therefore be submitted through the electronic filing system in No. 19-416. 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.”
Jul 22 2020 Motion for an extension of time to file the briefs on the merits filed. VIDED.
Jul 22 2020 Motion to extend the time to file the briefs on the merits granted. The time to file the joint appendix and petitioners' briefs on the merits is extended to and including August 31, 2020. The time to file respondents' brief on the merits is extended to and including October 14, 2020. VIDED.
Aug 26 2020 Blanket Consent filed by Respondent, John Doe I, et al. VIDED.
Aug 27 2020 Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, Nestlé USA, Inc.
Aug 31 2020 Joint appendix filed. (Statement of costs filed.) VIDED.
Aug 31 2020 Brief of petitioner Nestlé USA, Inc. filed. VIDED.
Aug 31 2020 Brief of petitioner Cargill, Inc. filed. VIDED.
Sep 08 2020 Brief amici curiae of The Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, et al. filed. VIDED.
Sep 08 2020 Brief amicus curiae of The Coca-Cola Company filed. VIDED.
Sep 08 2020 Brief amici curiae of Washington Legal Foundation and Allied Educational Foundation filed. VIDED.
Sep 08 2020 Brief amicus curiae of Cato Institute filed. VIDED.
Sep 08 2020 Brief amici curiae of The World Cocoa Foundation, et al. filed. VIDED.
Sep 08 2020 Brief amicus curiae of United States filed. VIDED.
Sep 08 2020 Brief amici curiae of Professors of International Law, Foreign Relations Law and Federal Jurisdiction filed. VIDED.
Sep 16 2020 SET FOR ARGUMENT on Tuesday, December 1, 2020. VIDED.
Sep 29 2020 Motion of the Acting Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument filed. VIDED.
Oct 08 2020 Record requested from the U.S.C.A. 9th Circuit.
Oct 08 2020 Record received from the U.S.C.A. 9th Circuit is electronic and located on PACER.
Oct 14 2020 Brief of respondents in 19-416 (response to merits brief of Nestle USA, Inc.) filed. VIDED.
Oct 19 2020 Brief of respondents in 19-453 (response to merits brief of Cargill, Inc.) filed. VIDED.
Oct 20 2020 Brief amicus curiae of EarthRights International filed. VIDED.
Oct 20 2020 Brief amicus curiae of Yale Law School Center for Global Legal Challenges filed. VIDED.
Oct 21 2020 Brief amicus curiae of Center for Global Justice filed. VIDED.
Oct 21 2020 Brief amicus curiae of Tony's Chocolonely filed. VIDED.
Oct 21 2020 Brief amici curiae of Access Now, et al. filed. VIDED.
Oct 21 2020 Brief amici curiae of Foreign Lawyers filed. VIDED.
Oct 21 2020 Brief amici curiae of Center for Justice & Accountability and Human Rights First filed. VIDED.
Oct 21 2020 Brief amici curiae of Small and Mid-Size Cocoa and Chocolate Companies filed. VIDED.
Oct 21 2020 Brief amici curiae of International Law Scholars filed. VIDED.
Oct 21 2020 Brief amici curiae of Former Government Officials filed. VIDED.
Oct 21 2020 Brief amici curiae of International Law Scholars, Former Diplomats, and Practitioners filed. VIDED.
Oct 21 2020 Brief amicus curiae of Constitutional Accountability Center filed. VIDED.
Oct 21 2020 Brief amici curiae of International Human Rights Organizations filed. VIDED.
Oct 21 2020 Brief amici curiae of Oxfam America, et al. filed. VIDED.
Oct 21 2020 Brief amicus curiae of Grant & Eisenhofer ESG Institute filed.
Oct 21 2020 Brief amici curiae of Professors of Legal History, et al. filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
Oct 21 2020 Brief amici curiae of Members of Congress Senator Blumenthal, Representative Smith, et al. filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
Oct 21 2020 Brief amici curiae of Nuremberg Scholars filed. (Distributed)
Oct 27 2020 CIRCULATED
Nov 02 2020 Motion of the Acting Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument GRANTED. Justice Barrett took no part in the consideration or decision of this motion.
Nov 13 2020 Reply of petitioner Nestlé USA, Inc. filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
Nov 13 2020 Reply of petitioner Cargill, Inc. filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
Dec 01 2020 Argued. For petitioners: Neal K. Katyal, Washington, D. C.; and Curtis E. Gannon, Deputy Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (for United States, as amicus curiae.) For respondents: Paul L. Hoffman, Hermosa Beach, Cal. VIDED.
Jun 17 2021 Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED. Thomas, J., announced the judgment of the Court and delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I and II, in which Roberts, C. J., and Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett, JJ., joined, and an opinion with respect to Part III, in which Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, JJ., joined. Gorsuch, J., filed a concurring opinion, in which Alito, J., joined as to Part I, and in which Kavanaugh, J., joined as to Part II. Sotomayor, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment, in which Breyer and Kagan, JJ., joined. Alito, J., filed a dissenting opinion. VIDED.
Jul 19 2021 JUDGMENT ISSUED.
Aug 12 2021 Response to motion to tax cost award and waive costs for indigent respondents filed by petitioner Nestlé USA, Inc.
Aug 12 2021 Response to motion to tax cost award and waive costs for indigent respondents filed by petitioner Cargill, Inc. VIDED
Aug 18 2021 Motion to tax cost award and waive costs for indigent respondents filed by respondents. (Electronically submitted on 8/2/21.) VIDED.
Attorneys
Attorneys for Petitioners
Neal Kumar Katyal
Counsel of Record
Milbank LLP
1850 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
nkatyal@milbank.com
Ph: 202-835-7505
Party name: Nestlé USA, Inc.


Andrew John Pincus
Counsel of Record
Mayer Brown LLP
1999 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
APINCUS@MAYERBROWN.COM
Ph: 202-263-3000
Party name: Cargill, Inc.


Attorneys for Respondents
Paul Lindsey Hoffman
Counsel of Record
SSHHZ LLP
200 Pier Ave.
STE 226
Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
hoffpaul@aol.com
Ph: 3107177373
Party name: John Doe I, et al.


Other Attorneys
Brian H. Fletcher
Counsel of Record
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


William Joseph Aceves
Calif. Western School of Law
225 Cedar Street
San Diego, CA 92101-3090
wja@cwsl.edu
Ph: 619-515-1589
Party name: Foreign Lawyers


Cory L. Andrews
Washington Legal Foundation
2009 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
CANDREWS@WLF.ORG
Ph: 2025880302
Party name: Washington Legal Foundation and Allied Educational Foundation


John Bellinger III
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
601 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001
john.bellinger@arnoldporter.com
Ph: 202-942-6599
Party name: The Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, the National Foreign Trade Council, the National Association of Manufacturers, and the Organization for International Investment


Jeffrey Alan Brauch
Regent University School of Law
1000 Regent University Drive
Virginia Beach, VA 23464
jeffbra@regent.edu
Ph: 757-352-4660
Party name: Center for Global Justice


Carmen Ka Man Cheung
Center for Justice and Accountability
One Hallidie Plaza #750
San Francisco, CA 94102
ccheung@cja.org
Ph: 4156506158
Party name: Center for Justice & Accountability and Human Rights First


Sophia Sabrina Cope
Electronic Frontier Foundation
815 Eddy Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
sophia@eff.org
Ph: 415-436-9333
Party name: Access Now, Article 19, Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Privacy International and Professor Ronald Deibert


William S. Dodge
University of California, Davis, School of Law
400 Mrak Hall Drive
Davis, CA 95616
wsdodge@ucdavis.edu
Ph: 510-421-0494
Party name: International Law Scholars


Jay W. Eisenhofer
Grant and Eisenhofer P.A.
485 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10017
jeisenhofer@gelaw.com
Ph: (646) 722-8500
Party name: Grant & Eisenhofer ESG Institute


John Patrick Elwood
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
601 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20001
JOHN.ELWOOD@ARNOLDPORTER.COM
Ph: (202) 942-5992
Party name: The Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Foreign Trade Council, Global Business Alliance, and United States Council for International Business


Samuel Estreicher
NYU School of Law
40 Washington Sq. South
New York, NY 10012
samuel.estreicher@nyu.edu
Ph: 212-998-6226
Party name: Professors of International Law, Foreign Relations Law and Federal Jurisdiction


Agnieszka M. Fryszman
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, PLLC
1100 New York Ave. Suite 500
Washington, DC 20005
afryszman@cohenmilstein.com
Ph: 202-408-4600
Party name: Members of Congress Senator Blumenthal, Representative Smith, et al.


Katherine M. Gallagher
Center for Constitutional Rights
666 Broadway, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10012
kgallagher@ccrjustice.org
Ph: 2126146455
Party name: International Human Rights Organizations


Tyler Richard Giannini
International Human Rights Clinic, Harvard Law Sch
6 Everett Street, 3rd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
giannini@law.harvard.edu
Ph: (617) 495-9263
Party name: Professors of Legal History, et al.


Jack L. Goldsmith
1563 Massachusetts Ave.
Areeda 233
Cambridge, MA 02138
goldsmith@pobox.com
Ph: 617 384 8159
Party name: Chevron Corporation


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: Constitutional Accountability Center


Jennifer M. Green
University of Minnesota Law School
229 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
jmgreen@umn.edu
Ph: 612-625-7247
Party name: Nuremberg Scholars


Oona A. Hathaway
Yale Law School
127 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Oona.hathaway@yale.edu
Ph: 203-343-8482
Party name: Yale Law School Center for Global Legal Challenges


Michael David Hausfeld
Hausfeld LLP
888 16th Street, NW
Suite 300
Washington, DC 20006
mhausfeld@hausfeld.com
Ph: 202-540-7200
Party name: Oxfam America, et al.


Richard L. Herz
EarthRights International
1612 K Street N.W. Suite 800
Washington, DC 20006
rick@earthrights.org
Ph: 860-233-4938
Party name: EarthRights International


Harold Hongju Koh
Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic
Yale Law School
127 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06520-8215
harold.koh@ylsclinics.org
Ph: 2034641801
Party name: Former Government Officials


Kevin Paul Martin
Goodwin Procter LLP
100 Northern Avenue
Boston, MA 02210
kmartin@goodwinlaw.com
Ph: 6175701000
Party name: The World Cocoa Foundation, et al.


Owen C. Pell
White & Case LLP
1221 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020-1095
opell@whitecase.com
Ph: 212-819-8891
Party name: Cato Institute


Charity Starr Ryerson
Corporate Accountability Lab
6214 N. Glenwood Ave.
Chicago, IL 60660
charity@corpaccountabilitylab.org
Ph: 3178507384
Party name: Small and Mid-Size Cocoa and Chocolate Companies


Charity Starr Ryerson
Corporate Accountability Lab
6214 N. Glenwood Ave.
Chicago, IL 60660
charity@corpaccountabilitylab.org
Ph: 3178507384
Party name: Tony's Chocolonely


Pratik Arvind Shah
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP
2001 K Street N.W.
Washington, DC 20006
PSHAH@AKINGUMP.COM
Ph: 202-887-4000
Party name: The Coca-Cola Company


Beth Van Schaack
Stanford Law School
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305
bethvs@stanford.edu
Ph: 6507255310
Party name: International Law Scholars, Former Diplomats, and Practitioners