No. 19-508
Title:AMG Capital Management, LLC, et al., Petitioners
v.
Federal Trade Commission
Docketed:October 21, 2019
Linked with 19A252, 20A103
Lower Ct:United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
   Case Numbers:(16-17197)
   Decision Date:December 3, 2018
   Rehearing Denied:June 20, 2019
  Discretionary Court Decision Date:
Questions Presented

DateProceedings and Orders
Sep 03 2019Application (19A252) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from September 18, 2019 to October 18, 2019, submitted to Justice Kagan.
Main DocumentLower Court Orders/OpinionsOtherProof of Service
Sep 03 2019Application (19A252) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until October 18, 2019.
Oct 18 2019Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 20, 2019)
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Nov 13 2019Brief amicus curiae of Cause of Action Institute filed. VIDED.
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Nov 18 2019Brief amicus curiae of Washington Legal Foundation filed. VIDED.
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Nov 20 2019Brief amici curiae of Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America and National Retail Federation filed.
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Nov 20 2019Motion to extend the time to file a response from November 20, 2019 to December 20, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
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Nov 21 2019Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including December 20, 2019.
Dec 13 2019Brief of respondent Federal Trade Commission filed.
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Dec 18 2019Letter waiving the 14-day waiting period for the distribution of the petition under Rule 15.5 filed.
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Dec 20 2019Reply of petitioners AMG Capital Management, LLC, et al. filed.
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Dec 23 2019DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2020.
Jan 02 2020Rescheduled.
Apr 01 2020DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/17/2020.
Apr 02 2020Rescheduled.
Apr 28 2020DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/15/2020.
Jun 22 2020DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/25/2020.
Jun 23 2020Supplemental brief of petitioners AMG Capital Management, LLC, et al. filed. (Distributed)
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Jun 29 2020DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 7/1/2020.
Jul 08 2020DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 7/8/2020.
Jul 09 2020Petition GRANTED. The petition for a writ of certiorari in No. 19-825 is granted. The cases are consolidated, and a total of one hour is allotted for oral argument. VIDED.
Jul 09 2020Because 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. 19-508. Subsequent filings in these cases must therefore be submitted through the electronic filing system in No. 19-508. 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.”
Aug 10 2020Joint motion for alignment and extension of time to file the briefs on the merits filed.
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Aug 11 2020Blanket Consent filed by Credit Bureau Center, LLC, et al. VIDED.
Blanket Consent
Aug 12 2020Joint motion for alignment and an extension of time to file the briefs on the merits granted. Petitioners in No. 19-508 and respondents in No. 19-825 have to and including September 25, 2020, within which to file the joint appendix and their opening briefs on the merits. The Federal Trade Commission has to and including November 30, 2020, within which to file its consolidated response brief on the merits. VIDED.
Aug 20 2020Blanket Consent filed by Respondent, Federal Trade Commission
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Sep 17 2020Joint motion to dispense with printing the joint appendix filed. VIDED.
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Sep 25 2020Brief of respondents Credit Bureau Center, LLC, et al. filed (in 19-825).
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Sep 25 2020Blanket Consent filed by Petitioners, AMG Capital Management, LLC, et al. VIDED
Blanket Consent
Sep 25 2020Brief of petitioners AMG Capital Management, LLC, et al. filed (in 19-508).
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Oct 01 2020Brief amicus curiae of Americans for Prosperity Foundation filed. VIDED.
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Oct 02 2020Brief amici curiae of Washington Legal Foundation, et al. filed. VIDED.
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Oct 02 2020Brief amicus curiae of TechFreedom filed. VIDED.
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Oct 02 2020Brief amicus curiae of Surescripts, LLC filed. VIDED.
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Oct 02 2020Brief amici curiae of Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, et al. filed. VIDED.
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Oct 02 2020Brief amicus curiae of The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America filed. VIDED.
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Oct 02 2020Brief amicus curiae of The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed. VIDED.
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Oct 02 2020Brief amicus curiae of SBH A&I filed.(also in 19-825) VIDED.
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Oct 05 2020Joint motion to dispense with printing the joint appendix filed by the parties GRANTED. VIDED.
Nov 09 2020This case is no longer consolidated with No. 19-825, Federal Trade Commission v. Credit Bureau Center.
Nov 12 2020Application (20A103) to file respondent's brief on the merits and petitioners' reply brief on the merits in excess of the word limits, submitted to Justice Kagan.
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Nov 19 2020Application (20A103) granted by Justice Kagan to file respondent's brief on the merits and petitioners' reply brief on the merits in excess of the word limits. Respondent's brief on the merits shall not exceed 15,500 words, and petitioners' reply brief on the merits shall not exceed 7,150 words.
Nov 25 2020SET FOR ARGUMENT on Wednesday, January 13, 2021.
Nov 30 2020Brief of respondent Federal Trade Commission filed.
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Dec 03 2020Record requested from the U.S.C.A. 9th Circuit.
Dec 04 2020Brief amici curiae of Former Federal Trade Commission Officials filed. (Distributed)
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Dec 07 2020Brief amici curiae of Remedies, Restitution, Antitrust, and Intellectual Property Law Scholars filed. (Distributed)
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Dec 07 2020Brief amicus curiae of American Antitrust Institute filed. (Distributed)
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Dec 07 2020Brief amicus curiae of Open Markets Institute filed. (Distributed)
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Dec 07 2020Brief amicus curiae of Public Citizen filed. (Distributed)
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Dec 07 2020Brief amici curiae of States of Illinois, et al. filed. (Distributed)
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Dec 07 2020Brief amici curiae of National Consumer Law Center, et al. filed. (Distributed)
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Dec 07 2020Brief amicus curiae of Truth in Advertising, Inc. filed. (Distributed)
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Dec 08 2020CIRCULATED
Dec 09 2020The record from the U.S.C.A. 9th Circuit is electronic and located on PACER.
Dec 30 2020Reply of petitioners AMG Capital Management, LLC, et al. filed. (Distributed)
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Jan 13 2021Argued. For petitioners: Michael Pattillo, Fernandina Beach, Fla. For respondent: Joel R. Marcus, Washington, D. C.
Apr 22 2021Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED. Breyer, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court.
May 24 2021JUDGMENT ISSUED.

NAMEADDRESSPHONE
Attorneys for Petitioners
Neal Kumar Katyal
    Counsel of Record
Hogan Lovells US LLP
555 Thirteenth St., N.W.
Washington, DC 20004

neal.katyal@hoganlovells.com
202 637 5528
Party name: Credit Bureau Center, LLC, et al.
Jeffrey Alan Lamken
    Counsel of Record
MoloLamken LLP
The Watergate, Suite 660
600 New Hampshire Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC 20037

jlamken@mololamken.com
2025562010
Party name: AMG Capital Management, LLC, et al.
Michael G. Pattillo Jr.MoloLamken LLP
600 New Hampshire Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20037

mpattillo@mololamken.com
(202)-556-2000
Party name: AMG Capital Management, LLC, et al.
Attorneys for Respondent
Joel Robert Marcus
    Counsel of Record
Federal Trade Commission
600 Pensylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20580

jmarcus@ftc.gov
202 326 3350
Party name: Federal Trade Commission
Elizabeth B. PrelogarActing Solicitor General
United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001

SupremeCtBriefs@USDOJ.gov
202-514-2217
Party name: Federal Trade Commission
Other
Asheesh Agarwal
    Counsel of Record
TechFreedom
110 Maryland Ave NE, Suite #205
Washington, DC 20002

aagarwal@techfreedom.org
7033383913
Party name: TechFreedom
Cory L. Andrews
    Counsel of Record
Washington Legal Foundation
2009 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036

candrews@wlf.org
2025880302
Party name: Washington Legal Foundation
Jennifer Dale Bennett
    Counsel of Record
Gupta Wessler, PLLC
100 Pine Street, Suite 1250
San Francisco, CA 94111

jennifer@guptawessler.com
(415) 569-6979
Party name: American Antitrust Institute
Cynthia Fleming Crawford
    Counsel of Record
Cause of Action Institute
1310 N. Courthouse Road
7th Floor
Arlington, VA 22201

cynthia.crawford@causeofaction.org
2024992421
Party name: Cause of Action Institute
Cynthia Fleming Crawford
    Counsel of Record
Americans for Prosperity Foundation
1310 N. Courthouse Road
7th Floor
Arlington, VA 22201

ccrawford@afphq.org
5713292227
Party name: Americans for Prosperity Foundation
Ilana Hope Eisenstein
    Counsel of Record
DLA Piper LLP (US)
1650 Market Street
Suite 5000
Philadelphia, PA 19109-7300

ilana.eisenstein@dlapiper.com
215-656-3300
Party name: Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America and National Retail Federation
David Thomas Goldberg
    Counsel of Record
Donahue, Goldberg, Weaver & Littleton
1008 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20003

david@donahuegoldberg.com
2123348813
Party name: Truth in Advertising, Inc.
John David Graubert
    Counsel of Record
Covington & Burling LLP
One CityCenter
850 Tenth St. NW
Washington, DC 20001-4956

jgraubert@cov.com
2026625938
Party name: The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
Jay L. Himes
    Counsel of Record
Labaton Sucharow, LLP
140 Broadway
New York, NY 10005

jhimes@labaton.com
212-907-0834
Party name: Open Markets Institute
Nandan Maheshchandra Joshi
    Counsel of Record
Public Citizen Litigation Group
1600 20th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009

njoshi@citizen.org
2025887733
Party name: Public Citizen
Phillip Robert Malone
    Counsel of Record
Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic
Mills Legal Clinic at Stanford Law School
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305

pmalone@law.stanford.edu
650-725-6369
Party name: 43 Remedies, Restitution, Antitrust, and Intellectual Property Scholars
Roman Martinez V
    Counsel of Record
Latham & Watkins, LLP
555 Eleventh Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004

roman.martinez@lw.com
202-637-3377
Party name: Surescripts, LLC
Jane Elinor Notz
    Counsel of Record
Office of the Attorney General, State of Illinois
100 West Randolph Street, 12th Floor
Chicago, IL 60601

jnotz@atg.state.il.us
312-814-5376
Party name: States of Illinois et al.
Stuart Todd Rossman
    Counsel of Record
National Consumer Law Center
7 Winthrop Square
Boston, MA 02110

srossman@nclc.org
617-542-8010
Party name: National Consumer Law Center, et al.
John Julian Vecchione
    Counsel of Record
The New Civil Liberties Alliance
1225 19th St. NW
Suite 450
Washington, DC 20036-2411

john.vecchione@ncla.onmicrosoft.com
2029186902
Party name: The New Civil Liberties Alliance
David Charney Vladeck
    Counsel of Record
Georgetown Law
600 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001

vladeckd@georgetown.edu
202-661-6614
Party name: Former Federal Trade Commission Officials
Daryl M. Williams
    Counsel of Record
Williams|Mestaz, LLP
6225 N. 24th St.
Suite 125
Phoenix, AZ 85028

dwilliams@williamsmestaz.com
6024457735
Party name: SBH A&I