| No. 20-1199 Vide 21-707 | |
| Title: | Students for Fair Admissions, Inc., Petitioner v. President and Fellows of Harvard College |
| Docketed: | March 1, 2021 |
| Linked with 21A393 | |
| Lower Ct: | United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit |
| Case Numbers: | (19-2005) |
| Decision Date: | November 12, 2020 |
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| Date | Proceedings and Orders |
| Feb 25 2021 | Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 31, 2021) |
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| Mar 03 2021 | Motion to extend the time to file a response from March 31, 2021 to May 17, 2021, submitted to The Clerk. |
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| Mar 04 2021 | Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including May 17, 2021. |
| Mar 23 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Gail Heriot and Peter N. Kirsanow filed. |
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| Mar 25 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Southeastern Legal Foundation filed. |
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| Mar 25 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Professor David E. Bernstein filed. |
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| Mar 26 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Economists in Support of Petitioner filed. |
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| Mar 29 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of National Association of Scholars filed. |
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| Mar 30 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Speech First filed. |
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| Mar 30 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Texas filed. |
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| Mar 30 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Pacific Legal Foundation, Reason Foundation, Center for Equal Opportunity, Individual Rights Foundation, Chinese American Citizens Alliance - Greater New York, Coalition for TJ, and Yi Fang Chen filed. |
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| Mar 31 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty filed. |
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| Mar 31 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute filed. |
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| Mar 31 2021 | Brief amici curiae of The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and the Silicon Valley Chinese Association Foundation filed. |
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| Mar 31 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence filed. |
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| Mar 31 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III filed. |
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| Mar 31 2021 | Brief amici curiae of State of Oklahoma, et al. filed. |
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| Mar 31 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Judicial Watch, Inc. and Allied Educational Foundation filed. |
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| Mar 31 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Richard Sander in support of neither filed. |
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| Mar 31 2021 | Brief amici curiae of The Asian American Coalition For Education and The Asian American Legal Foundation filed. |
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| Mar 31 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of The Californians for Equal Rights Foundation filed. |
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| Mar 31 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Former Federal Officials of the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights filed. |
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| Mar 31 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of The Liberty Justice Center filed. |
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| May 17 2021 | Brief of respondent President and Fellows of Harvard College in opposition filed. |
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| May 19 2021 | Letter waiving the 14-day waiting period for the filing of a reply pursuant to Rule 15.5 filed. |
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| May 24 2021 | Reply of petitioner Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. filed. (Distributed) |
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| May 25 2021 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/10/2021. |
| Jun 14 2021 | The Acting Solicitor General is invited to file a brief in this case expressing the views of the United States. |
| Dec 08 2021 | Amicus brief of United States not accepted for filing. (December 09, 2021 - to be corrected and reprinted) |
| Dec 08 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of United States filed. |
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| Dec 21 2021 | Supplemental brief of respondent President and Fellows of Harvard College filed. (Distributed) |
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| Dec 22 2021 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/7/2022. |
| Dec 22 2021 | Supplemental brief of petitioner Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. filed. (Distributed) |
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| Jan 10 2022 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/14/2022. |
| Jan 18 2022 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/21/2022. |
| Jan 24 2022 | Petition GRANTED. The petition for a writ of certiorari in No. 21-707 is granted. The cases are consolidated, and a total of one hour is allotted for oral argument. VIDED. |
| Jan 24 2022 | 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. 20-1199. Subsequent filings in these cases must therefore be submitted through the electronic filing system in No. 20-1199. 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.” |
| Feb 02 2022 | Joint motion for an extension of time to file the briefs on the merits filed. VIDED. |
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| Feb 02 2022 | Application (21A393) of petitioner to file consolidated opening and reply briefs on the merits in excess of the word limits, submitted to The Chief Justice. VIDED. |
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| Feb 04 2022 | Joint motion to extend the time to file the briefs on the merits granted. The time to file the joint appendix and petitioner's brief on the merits is extended to and including May 2, 2022. The time to file respondents' briefs on the merits is extended to and including July 25, 2022. VIDED. |
| Feb 07 2022 | Notice of Change of Address of Speech First not accepted for filing. (February 15, 2022) |
| Feb 08 2022 | Application (21A393) of petitioner to file consolidated opening and reply briefs on the merits in excess of the word limits granted by The Chief Justice. VIDED. |
| Mar 25 2022 | Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. |
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| Mar 25 2022 | Blanket Consent filed (in 21-707) by Respondent, Cecilia Polanco, et al. |
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| Mar 28 2022 | Blanket Consent filed by Respondent, President and Fellows of Harvard College |
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| Mar 31 2022 | Blanket Consent filed by Respondent, The University of North Carolina, et al. |
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| May 02 2022 | Brief of petitioner Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. filed. VIDED. |
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| May 02 2022 | Joint appendix (4 Volumes) filed (as to 20-1199). |
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| May 02 2022 | Motion for leave to file Volume IV of the joint appendix under seal filed by respondents Cecilia Polanco, et al. (as to 21-707). |
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| May 02 2022 | Proposal of petitioner to lodge declarations of SFFA President and identified members recently denied admission to Harvard and UNC filed. VIDED. |
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| May 02 2022 | Joint appendix (3 volumes) filed. (in 21-707) |
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| May 03 2022 | Brief amici curiae of The Liberty Justice Center and Momoko Takahashi filed. VIDED. |
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| May 03 2022 | Brief amicus curiae of Professor David E. Bernstein filed. VIDED. |
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| May 04 2022 | Brief amicus curiae of Southeastern Legal Foundation filed (in 20-1199). |
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| May 05 2022 | Brief amicus curiae of Professor Fiona A. Harrison in Support of Neither Party filed. |
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| May 05 2022 | Brief amicus curiae of The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and the Silicon Valley Chinese Association Foundation filed. VIDED. |
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| May 05 2022 | Brief amici curiae of Pacific Legal Foundation, et al. filed. VIDED. |
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| May 06 2022 | Brief amicus curiae of Speech First filed. VIDED. |
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| May 06 2022 | Brief amicus curiae of LONANG Institute filed. VIDED. |
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| May 06 2022 | Brief amicus curiae of National Association of Scholars filed. VIDED. |
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| May 06 2022 | Brief amici curiae of Former Federal Officials of the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights filed. VIDED. |
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| May 09 2022 | Brief amici curiae of Judicial Watch, Inc. and Allied Educational Foundation filed. VIDED. |
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| May 09 2022 | Brief amici curiae of Economists in Support of Petitioner filed. VIDED. |
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| May 09 2022 | Brief amici curiae of Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute filed. VIDED. |
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| May 09 2022 | Brief amicus curiae of Veterans for Fairness and Merit filed. VIDED. |
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| May 09 2022 | Brief amici curiae of American Center for Law & Justice and Devon Westhill filed. VIDED. |
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| May 09 2022 | Brief amici curiae of United States Senators and Representatives filed. VIDED. |
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| May 09 2022 | Brief amicus curiae of The Californians for Equal Rights Foundation filed. VIDED. |
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| May 09 2022 | Brief amici curiae of Oklahoma, et al. filed. VIDED. |
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| May 09 2022 | Brief amicus curiae of America First Legal Foundation in support of neither party filed. |
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| May 09 2022 | Brief amicus curiae of Project 21 filed. VIDED. |
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| May 09 2022 | Brief amicus curiae of Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty in support of neither party filed. |
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| May 09 2022 | Brief amicus curiae of Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies filed. VIDED. |
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| May 09 2022 | Brief amici curiae of Mark Keith Robinson and Winsome Earle-Sears filed. VIDED. |
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| May 09 2022 | Brief amici curiae of Gail Heriot, et al. filed. VIDED. |
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| May 09 2022 | Brief amicus curiae of Claremont Institutes Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence filed.VIDED |
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| May 09 2022 | Brief amicus curiae of Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III filed. VIDED. |
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| May 09 2022 | Brief amicus curiae of Legal Insurrection Foundation filed. VIDED. |
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| May 09 2022 | Brief amicus curiae of The State of Texas filed. VIDED. |
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| May 09 2022 | Brief amici curiae of The Asian American Coalition For Education and The Asian American Legal Foundation filed. VIDED. |
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| May 09 2022 | Brief amicus curiae of Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism filed. |
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| May 09 2022 | Brief amicus curiae of Freedom X filed. VIDED. |
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| May 09 2022 | Brief amicus curiae of Richard Sander filed. VIDED. |
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| May 09 2022 | Brief amici curiae of Ann M. Killenbeck, et al. filed. VIDED. |
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| May 09 2022 | Brief amicus curiae of Parents Defending Education filed. VIDED. |
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| Jun 13 2022 | Motion of respondents Cecilia Polanco, et al. for leave to file Volume IV of the joint appendix in No. 21-707 under seal GRANTED. |
| NAME | ADDRESS | PHONE |
| Attorneys for Petitioner | ||
| William Spencer Consovoy Counsel of Record | Consovoy McCarthy PLLC 1600 Wilson Boulevard Suite 700 Arlington, VA 22209 will@consovoymccarthy.com | (703) 243-9423 |
| Party name: Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. | ||
| Attorneys for Respondent | ||
| David G. Hinojosa Counsel of Record | Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law 1500 K Street NW Suite 900 Washington, DC 20005 dhinojosa@lawyerscommittee.org | 2026628600 |
| Party name: Cecilia Polanco, et al. | ||
| Ryan Young Park Counsel of Record | North Carolina Department of Justice P.O. Box 629 Raleigh, NC 27602 rpark@ncdoj.gov | 9197166400 |
| Party name: The University of North Carolina, et al. | ||
| Seth P. Waxman Counsel of Record | Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP 1875 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, DC 20006 Seth.Waxman@wilmerhale.com | 202-663-6800 |
| Party name: President and Fellows of Harvard College | ||
| Other | ||
| Elizabeth B. Prelogar Counsel of Record | Solicitor General United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001 SupremeCtBriefs@USDOJ.gov | 202-514-2217 |
| Party name: United States | ||
| Bradley Alan Benbrook Counsel of Record | Benbrook Law Group 400 Capitol Mall, Suite 2530 Sacramento, CA 95814 brad@benbrooklawgroup.com | 9164474900 |
| Party name: Speech First | ||
| Thomas L. Brejcha Jr. Counsel of Record | 309 W Washington Street Suite 1250 Chicago, IL 60606 brejcha@aol.com | 3127821680 |
| Party name: Mark Keith Robinson and Winsome Earle-Sears | ||
| John J. Bursch Counsel of Record | Alliance Defending Freedom 440 First Street, NW Suite 600 Washington, DC 20001 jbursch@adflegal.org | (616) 450-4235 |
| Party name: Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty | ||
| Anthony Thomas Caso Counsel of Record | Constitutional Counsel Group 174 W. Lincoln Ave., #620 Anaheim, CA 92805 atcaso@ccg1776.com | 9166011916 |
| Party name: Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence | ||
| H. Christopher Coates Counsel of Record | Law Office of H. Christopher Coates 934 Compass Point Charleston, SC 29412 curriecoates@gmail.com | (843) 609-7080 |
| Party name: Judicial Watch, Inc. and Allied Educational Foundation | ||
| Wencong Fa Counsel of Record | Pacific Legal Foundation 555 Capitol Mall, Suite 1290 Sacramento, CA 95814 wfa@pacificlegal.org | 916-419-7111 |
| Party name: Pacific Legal Foundation, Reason Foundation, Center for Equal Opportunity, Individual Rights Foundation, Chinese American Citizens Alliance - Greater New York, Coalition for TJ, and Yi Fang Chen | ||
| Gordon M. Fauth Jr. Counsel of Record | Litigation Law Group 1935 Addison St., Ste. A Berkeley, CA 94704 gmf@classlitigation.com | 5102389610 |
| Party name: The Asian American Coalition For Education and The Asian American Legal Foundation | ||
| Theodore Harold Frank Counsel of Record | Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute 1629 K Street NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20006 tfrank@gmail.com | 7032033848 |
| Party name: Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute | ||
| C. Boyden Gray Counsel of Record | Boyden Gray and Associates PLLC 801 17th Street, NW Suite 350 Washington, DC 20006 info@boydengrayassociates.com | 202-955-0620 |
| Party name: Economists in Support of Petitioner | ||
| Richard Shawn Gunnarson Counsel of Record | Kirton McConkie Key Bank Tower 36 South State Street, Suite 1900 Salt Lake City, UT 84111 sgunnarson@kmclaw.com | 801-323-5907 |
| Party name: United States Senators and Representatives | ||
| Kimberly Stewart Hermann Counsel of Record | Southeastern Legal Foundation 560 W. Crossville Rd. Suite 104 Roswell, GA 30075-7509 khermann@southeasternlegal.org | 770-977-2131 |
| Party name: Southeastern Legal Foundation | ||
| William Alan Jacobson Counsel of Record | 18 Maple Ave #280 Barrington, RI 02806 contact@legalinsurrection.com | 4012464192 |
| Party name: Legal Insurrection Foundation | ||
| Mary Elizabeth Keane Counsel of Record | 1330 New Hampshire Ave., N.W. # 721 Washington, DC 20036 attorneymaryekeane@gmail.com | (202) 223-2069 |
| Party name: Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism | ||
| Mitchell Keiter Counsel of Record | Keiter Appellate Law The Beverly Hills Law Building, 424 South Beverly Drive Beverly Hills, CA 90212 mitchell.keiter@gmail.com | 13105538533 |
| Party name: Freedom X | ||
| Peter Nicholas Kirsanow Counsel of Record | Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP 200 Public Square, Suite 2300 Cleveland, OH 44114 pkirsanow@beneschlaw.com | 2163634500 |
| Party name: Gail Heriot and Peter N. Kirsanow | ||
| Cory Ren Liu Counsel of Record | Ashcroft Law Firm LLC 919 Congress Ave. Ste. 1325 Austin, TX 78701 cliu@ashcroftlawfirm.com | 512-370-1800 |
| Party name: Professor David E. Bernstein | ||
| Mithun Mansinghani Counsel of Record | Solicitor General Office of the Oklahoma Attorney General 313 NE 21st Street Oklahoma City, OK 73105 mithun.mansinghani@oag.ok.gov | 405-522-4392 |
| Party name: Oklahoma, et al. | ||
| Christopher Ernest Mills Counsel of Record | Spero Law LLC 557 East Bay Street #22251 Charleston, SC 29413 cmills@spero.law | 8436060640 |
| Party name: Parents Defending Education | ||
| Jonathan F. Mitchell Counsel of Record | Mitchell Law PLLC 111 Congress Avenue Suite 400 Austin, TX 78701 jonathan@mitchell.law | (512) 686-3940 |
| Party name: America First Legal Foundation | ||
| Daniel Isaac Morenoff Counsel of Record | The Equal Voting Rights Institute d/b/a The American Civil Rights Project P.O. Box 12207 Dallas, TX 75225 dan@americancivilrightsproject.org | (214) 504-1835 |
| Party name: The Californians for Equal Rights Foundation | ||
| Kerry Lee Morgan Counsel of Record | Kerry L. Morgan 2915 Biddle Avenue Suite 200 Wyandotte, MI 48192 kmorgan@pck-law.com | 7342817100 |
| Party name: LONANG Institute | ||
| Alan B. Morrison Counsel of Record | George Washington Law School 2000 H Street NW Washington, DC 20052 abmorrison@law.gwu.edu | 2029947120 |
| Party name: Professor Fiona A. Harrison | ||
| Dennis J. Saffran Counsel of Record | Dennis Saffran, Attorney at Law 38-18 West Drive Douglaston, NY 11363 djsaffranlaw@gmail.com | (718) 428-7156 |
| Party name: National Association of Scholars | ||
| Gene Clayton Schaerr Counsel of Record | Schaerr | Jaffe 1717 K Street NW, Suite 900 Washington, DC 20006 gschaerr@schaerr-jaffe.com | 202-787-1060 |
| Party name: Veterans for Fairness and Merit | ||
| Jay Alan Sekulow Counsel of Record | American Center for Law and Justice 201 Maryland Avenue, N.E. Washington, DC 20002 sekulow@aclj.org | 2025468890 |
| Party name: American Center for Law & Justice and Devon Westhill | ||
| Judd Edward Stone II Counsel of Record | Texas Attorney General's Office P.O. Box 12548 (MC 059) Austin, TX 78711-2548 judd.stone@oag.texas.gov | 512-936-1700 |
| Party name: The State of Texas | ||
| Daniel Robert Suhr Counsel of Record | Liberty Justice Center 440 N. Wells Street Suite 200 Chicago, IL 60654 dsuhr@libertyjusticecenter.org | 3126372280 |
| Party name: The Liberty Justice Center and Momoko Takahashi | ||
| John Clay Sullivan Counsel of Record | S|L Law PLLC 610 Uptown Blvd., Suite 2000 Cedar Hill, TX 75104 john.sullivan@the-sl-lawfirm.com | 14695231351 |
| Party name: Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies | ||
| Stuart S. Taylor Jr. Counsel of Record | 3911 Jocelyn St. NW Washington, DC 20015 stuarttaylorjr@gmail.com | 202-365-1812 |
| Party name: Ann M. Killenbeck and Mark R. Killenbeck | ||
| Stuart S. Taylor Jr. Counsel of Record | Self-employed 3911 Jocelyn St. NW Washington, DC 20015 stuarttaylorjr@gmail.com | 202-365-1812 |
| Party name: Richard Sander | ||
| David H. Thompson Counsel of Record | Cooper & Kirk, PLLC 1523 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20036 dthompson@cooperkirk.com | 202-220-9600 |
| Party name: Project 21 | ||
| William E. Trachman Counsel of Record | Mountain States Legal Foundation 2596 South Lewis Way Lakewood, CO 80227 wtrachman@mslegal.org | 3032922021 |
| Party name: Former Federal Officials of the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights | ||
| Jonathan Andrew Vogel Counsel of Record | Vogel Law Firm PLLC 6000 Fairview Road South Park Towers, Suite 1200 Charlotte, NC 28210 jonathan.vogel@vogelpllc.com | 704-552-3750 |
| Party name: The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and the Silicon Valley Chinese Association Foundation | ||
| Edward Mark Wenger Counsel of Record | Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak PLLC 2300 N Street NW Suite 643A Washington, DC 20037 emwenger@HolzmanVogel.com | 202-737-8808 |
| Party name: Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III | ||