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Docket for 23-124

No. 23-124

Title:	William K. Harrington, United States Trustee, Region 2, Petitioner v. Purdue Pharma L.P., et al.
Docketed:	August 10, 2023
Linked with:	23A87
Lower Ct:	United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Case Numbers:	(22-110, 22-113, 22-115, 22-116, 22-117, 22-119, 22-121, 22-299, 22-203)
Decision Date:	May 30, 2023
Questions Presented

Proceedings and Orders

Jul 28 2023

Application (23A87) for a stay, submitted to Justice Sotomayor.
Proof of Service Main Document Lower Court Orders/Opinions

Jul 28 2023

Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (See order of August 10, 2023)

Jul 28 2023

Response to application (23A87) requested by Justice Sotomayor, due by noon (EDT), Friday, August 4, 2023.

Aug 04 2023

Response to application from respondent State of California, et al. filed.
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Aug 04 2023

Response to application from respondent Ad Hoc Group of Individual Victims of Purdue Pharma, L.P., et al. filed.
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Aug 04 2023

Response to application from respondent The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Purdue Pharma L.P., et al. filed.
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Aug 04 2023

Response to application from respondent Debtors, Purdue Pharma L.P., and Its Affiliates filed.
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Aug 04 2023

Response to application from respondent Multi-State Governmental Entities Group filed.
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Aug 04 2023

Response to application from respondent City of Grande Prairie, et al. filed.
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Aug 04 2023

Response to application from respondent The Ad Hoc Committee of Governmental and Other Contingent Litigation Claimants filed.
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Aug 07 2023

Reply of applicant William K. Harrington filed.
Proof of Service Reply

Aug 08 2023

Sur-Reply to Application of Debtors, Purdue Pharma L.P., and Its Affiliates not accepted for filing. (August 08, 2023)

Aug 09 2023

Motion to Direct the Clerk to File a Sur-Reply filed by respondent Debtors, Purdue Pharma L.P., and Its Affiliates.
Main Document Proof of Service

Aug 09 2023

Motion to Direct the Clerk to File a Sur-Reply denied by Justice Sotomayor.

Aug 10 2023

Application (23A87) referred to the Court.

Aug 10 2023

Petition GRANTED.

Aug 10 2023

Application (23A87) granted by the Court. The application for stay presented to Justice Sotomayor and by her referred to the Court is granted. The mandate of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in case No. 22-110 and the consolidated cases is recalled and stayed. Applicant suggested this Court treat the application as a petition for a writ of certiorari; doing so, the petition is granted. The parties are directed to brief and argue the following question: Whether the Bankruptcy Code authorizes a court to approve, as part of a plan of reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, a release that extinguishes claims held by nondebtors against nondebtor third parties, without the claimants’ consent. The Clerk is directed to establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be argued in the December 2023 argument session. The stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.

Aug 21 2023

The following briefing schedule is established: The joint appendix, petitioner's brief on the merits, and the brief of any respondent in support, is to be filed on or before Wednesday, September 20, 2023. Respondents' briefs on the merits are to be filed on or before Friday, October 20, 2023. Any reply brief is to be filed in accordance with Rule 25.3.

Sep 14 2023

Letter of respondents California, Connecticut and Oregon notifying the Clerk that they will not be filing or joining a brief on the merits filed.
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Sep 20 2023

Brief of petitioner William K. Harrington, United States Trustee, Region 2 filed.
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Sep 20 2023

Joint appendix (Volume 1) filed. (Statement of cost for 2 vols. filed.)
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Sep 20 2023

Joint appendix (Volume 2) filed.
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Sep 20 2023

Brief of respondent Ellen Isaacs, on behalf of Patrick Ryan Wroblewski, in support filed.
Main Document Certificate of Word Count Proof of Service

Sep 20 2023

Brief of respondents City of Grande Prairie, as representative plaintiff for a class consisting of all Canadian municipalities, et al., in support filed.
Main Document Other Certificate of Word Count Proof of Service

Sep 21 2023

Brief amici curiae of The Honorable Eugene Wedoff (Ret.), et al. filed.
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Sep 26 2023

Brief amici curiae of Martin J. Bienenstock, et al. filed.
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Sep 27 2023

Brief amici curiae of NexPoint Advisors, L.P., et al. filed.
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Sep 27 2023

Brief amicus curiae of American College of Bankruptcy in support of neither party filed.
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Sep 27 2023

Brief amicus curiae of Insolvency Law Committee of Business Law Section of California Lawyers Association in support of neither party filed.
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Sep 27 2023

Brief amicus curiae of Adam J. Levitin filed.
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Sep 27 2023

Brief amici curiae of The Commercial Law League of America, et al. in support of neither party filed.
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Sep 27 2023

Brief amicus curiae of Kim Harold Peterson filed.
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Sep 27 2023

Brief amicus curiae of Atlantic Basin Refining, Inc. filed.
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Sep 27 2023

Brief amici curiae of Bankruptcy Law Professors Ralph Brubaker, et al. filed.
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Sep 27 2023

Brief amici curiae of "Texas Two-Step" Victims filed.
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Sep 27 2023

Brief amici curiae of Bankruptcy Law Professors (Oct. 4, 2023) filed.
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Sep 27 2023

Brief amicus curiae of Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 12 2023

SET FOR ARGUMENT on Monday, December 4, 2023.

Oct 16 2023

Record requested from the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Oct 18 2023

Complete record on appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit electronically received and available with the Clerk.

Oct 19 2023

CIRCULATED

Oct 20 2023

Brief of respondents The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Purdue Pharma L.P., et al. filed. (Distributed)
Main Document Certificate of Word Count Proof of Service

Oct 20 2023

Brief of respondent Multi-State Governmental Entities Group filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 20 2023

Brief of respondents Ad Hoc Group of Individual Victims of Purdue Pharma, L.P., et al. filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 20 2023

Brief of respondents The Ad Hoc Committee of Governmental and Other Contingent Litigation Claimants filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 20 2023

Brief of Debtor Respondents filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 20 2023

Brief of Mortimer-Side Initial Covered Sackler Respondents filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 20 2023

Letter of respondent Raymond Sackler Family filed.
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Oct 23 2023

Brief amici curiae of The Arkansas Opiod Recovery Partnership, The Association of Arkansas Counties, and the Arkansas Municipal League filed. (Distributed)
Main Document Certificate of Word Count Proof of Service

Oct 25 2023

Brief amici curiae of The Recovery Advocacy Project, et al. filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 26 2023

Brief amicus curiae of Certain Former Commissioners of the American Bankruptcy Institute's Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11 filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 27 2023

Brief amicus curiae of U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 27 2023

Brief amici curiae of Law Professors filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 27 2023

Brief amici curiae of Boy Scouts of America filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 27 2023

Brief amicus curiae of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 27 2023

Brief amicus curiae of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York filed.
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Oct 27 2023

Brief amici curiae of The Chamber Of Commerce Of The United States Of America, The American Tort Reform Association, The Product Liability Advisory Counsel, Inc., And The National Association Of Manufacturers filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 27 2023

Brief amici curiae of Cheryl Juaire, et al. filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 27 2023

Brief amicus curiae of Ad Hoc Group of Local Councils of the Boy Scouts of America filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 27 2023

Brief amici curiae of Aldrich Pump LLC, Murray Boiler LLC, and Bestwall LLC filed. (Hard copy correction required and received--11/2/23.) (Distributed)
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Oct 27 2023

Brief amicus curiae of Highland Capital Management, L.P. filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 27 2023

Motion for divided argument filed by the debtor respondents and the creditor respondents.
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Nov 06 2023

Motion for divided argument filed by debtor respondents and creditor respondents GRANTED.

Nov 20 2023

Reply of respondents City of Grand Prairie, et al., in support filed. (Distributed)
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Nov 20 2023

Reply of petitioner filed. (Distributed)
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Dec 04 2023

Argued. For petitioner: Curtis E. Gannon, Deputy Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. For respondents Purdue Pharma L.P., et al.: Gregory G. Garre, Washington, D. C. For respondents The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Purdue Pharma L.P., et al.: Pratik A. Shah, Washington, D. C.

Jun 27 2024

Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED. Gorsuch, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Thomas, Alito, Barrett, and Jackson, JJ., joined. Kavanaugh, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Roberts, C. J., and Sotomayor and Kagan, JJ., joined.

Jul 29 2024

Judgment Issued.
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Attorneys

Attorneys for Petitioners

Elizabeth B. Prelogar
Counsel of Record

Solicitor General
United States Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
SUPREMECTBRIEFS@USDOJ.GOV
Ph: 202-514-2217
Party name: William K. Harrington, United States Trustee, Region 2

Attorneys for Respondents

Paul D. Clement
Counsel of Record

Clement & Murphy, PLLC
706 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
PAUL.CLEMENT@CLEMENTMURPHY.COM
Ph: (202) 742-8900
Party name: Mortimer-Side Initial Covered Sackler Respondents

Roy T. Englert Jr.
Counsel of Record

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
1177 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
RENGLERT@KRAMERLEVIN.COM
Ph: 212-715-9100
Party name: The Ad Hoc Committee of Governmental and Other Contingent Litigation Claimants

Gregory George Garre
Counsel of Record

Latham & Watkins LLP
555 Eleventh Street, NW
Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20004
GREGORY.GARRE@LW.COM
Ph: 202-637-2207
Party name: Debtors, Purdue Pharma L.P., and Its Affiliates

Mara Ann Leventhal
Counsel of Record

Joseph Hage Aaronson LLC
800 Third Ave., 30th Fl.
New York, NY 10022
mleventhal@jhany.com
Ph: (212) 407-1218
Party name: Raymond Sackler Family

Kevin C. Maclay
Counsel of Record

Caplin and Drysdale, Chartered
One Thomas Circle, NW
Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20005
KMACLAY@CAPDALE.COM
Ph: 202-862-7841
Party name: Multi-State Governmental Entities Group

Joshua Patashnik
Counsel of Record

California Department of Justice
600 West Broadway, Suite 1800
San Diego, CA 92101
JOSH.PATASHNIK@DOJ.CA.GOV
Ph: 619-738-9628
Party name: California

Pratik Arvind Shah
Counsel of Record

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP
2001 K Street N.W.
Washington, DC 20006
PSHAH@AKINGUMP.COM
Ph: 202-887-4210
Party name: The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Purdue Pharma L.P., et al.

John Christopher Shore
Counsel of Record

White & Case LLP
1221 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020-1095
cshore@whitecase.com
Ph: (212) 819-8394
Party name: Ad Hoc Group of Individual Victims of Purdue Pharma, L.P., et al.

Joseph Carl Cecere

Cecere, PC
6035 McCommas Blvd.
Dallas, TX 75206
ccecere@cecerepc.com
Ph: 469-600-9455
Party name: City of Grande Prairie, as representative plaintiff for a class consisting of all Canadian municipalities, et al.

Ze-wen Julius Chen

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
2001 K Street N.W.
Washington, DC 20006
chenj@akingump.com
Ph: 202-887-4475
Party name: The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Purdue Pharma L.P., et al.

Brian Thomas Edmunds

Office of the Attorney General
200 St. Paul Place
Baltimore, MD 21202
bedmunds@oag.state.md.us
Ph: 410-576-6578
Party name: Maryland

Neil F. X. Kelly

Vermont Attorney General
109 State Street
Montpelier, VT 05609-1001
Neil.Kelly@Vermont.gov
Ph: (802) 828-2378
Party name: Multi-State Governmental Entities Group

Jeffrey Allen Liesemer

Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered
One Thomas Circle, N.W., Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20005
jliesemer@capdale.com
Ph: 2028625007
Party name: Multi-State Governmental Entities Group

Michael Sague Quinn

Eisenberg & Baum LLP
24 Union Square East PH
New York, NY 10003
mquinn@eandblaw.com
Ph: 212-353-8700
Party name: Ellen Isaacs, on behalf of Patrick Ryan Wroblewski

Other Attorneys

Martin J. Bienenstock
Counsel of Record

Proskauer Rose LLP
Eleven Times Square
New York, NY 10036
MBIENENSTOCK@PROSKAUER.COM
Ph: (212) 969-3000
Party name: Martin J. Bienenstock And Daniel S. Desatnik

Timothy Murphy Cornell
Counsel of Record

Cornell Dolan, P.C.
Ten Post Office Square, Suite 800 South
Boston, MA 02109
tcornell@cornelldolan.com
Ph: (617) 850-9036
Party name: FEDERATION OF SOVEREIGN INDIGENEOUS NATIONS

Robert Edward Dunn
Counsel of Record

Eimer Stahl LLP
99 S. Almaden Blvd. Suite 600
San Jose, CA 95113
RDUNN@EIMERSTAHL.COM
Ph: 4088891690
Party name: The Chamber Of Commerce Of The United States Of America, The American Tort Reform Association, The Product Liability Advisory Counsel, Inc., And The National Association Of Manufacturers

Noel John Francisco
Counsel of Record

Jones Day
51 Louisiana Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001
NJFRANCISCO@JONESDAY.COM
Ph: (202) 879-3939
Party name: Ad Hoc Group of Local Councils of the Boy Scouts of America

Andrew Kenton Glenn
Counsel of Record

Glenn Agre Bergman & Fuentes LLP
1185 Avenue of the Americas, 22nd Floor
New York, NY 10036
aglenn@glennagre.com
Ph: (212) 970-1600
Party name: Bankruptcy Law Professors Ralph Brubaker, Bruce A. Markell, and Jonathan M. Seymour

Leonard L. Gumport
Counsel of Record

Gumport Law Firm, PC
225 S. Lake Ave
Suite 300
Passadena, CA 91101
lgumport@gumportlaw.net
Ph: 626-432-7283
Party name: Insolvency Law Committee of Business Law Section of California Lawyers Association

Deepak Gupta
Counsel of Record

Gupta Wessler LLP
2001 K Street NW
Suite 850 North
Washington, DC 20006
DEEPAK@GUPTAWESSLER.COM
Ph: (202) 888-1741
Party name: "Texas Two-Step" Victims

Douglas Harry Hallward-Driemeier
Counsel of Record

Ropes & Gray, LLP
2099 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20006-6807
DOUGLAS.HALLWARD-DRIEMEIER@ROPESGRAY.COM
Ph: 202-508-4776
Party name: Law Professors

Michael Robert Huston
Counsel of Record

Perkins Coie LLP
2901 North Central Avenue
Suite 2000
Phoenix, AZ 85012-2788
mhuston@perkinscoie.com
Ph: 202-434-1630
Party name: Boy Scouts of America

Colin Robert Jorgensen
Counsel of Record

Association of Arkansas Counties
1415 West Third Street
Little Rock, AR 72201
cjorgensen@arcounties.org
Ph: (501) 372-7947
Party name: The Arkansas Opiod Recovery Partnership, The Association of Arkansas Counties, and the Arkansas Municipal League

Robert James Keach
Counsel of Record

Bernstein Shur Sawyer & Nelson, P.A.
100 Middle Street, West Tower
Portland, ME 04104
rkeach@bernsteinshur.com
Ph: 207-774-1200
Party name: Certain Former Commissioners of the American Bankruptcy Institute's Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11

David R. Kuney
Counsel of Record

9200 Cambridge Manor Court
Potomac, MD 20854
DAVIDKUNEY@DKUNEY.COM
Ph: (301) 299-4336
Party name: The Honorable Eugene Wedoff (Ret.) and Law Professors Sara Green, George Kuney, Stephen Lubben, and Lawrence Ponoroff

Jeffrey Alan Lamken
Counsel of Record

MoloLamken LLP
The Watergate, Suite 500
600 New Hampshire Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC 20037
JLAMKEN@MOLOLAMKEN.COM
Ph: 2025562010
Party name: NexPoint Advisors, L.P. and NexPoint Asset Management, L.P.

Jonathan Charles Lipson
Counsel of Record

Temple University--Beasley School of Law
1719 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
jlipson@temple.edu
Ph: (215) 204-0608
Party name: Bankruptcy Law Professors

Robert Mark Loeb
Counsel of Record

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
1152 15th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
RLOEB@ORRICK.COM
Ph: 202-339-8475
Party name: American College of Bankruptcy

Traci L. Lovitt
Counsel of Record

Jones Day
250 Vesey Street
New York, NY 10281-1047
tlovitt@jonesday.com
Ph: (212) 326-7830
Party name: U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

Charles Kevin Marshall
Counsel of Record

Jones Day
51 Louisiana Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20001
ckmarshall@jonesday.com
Ph: (202) 879 3939
Party name: Aldrich Pump LLC, Murray Boiler LLC, and Bestwall LLC

Jamie Billotte Moses
Counsel of Record

Holland & Knight
200 South Orange Avenue
Suite 2600
Orlando, FL 32801
jamie.moses@hklaw.com
Ph: (407) 244-5103
Party name: Cheryl Juaire, Tiffinee Scott, Dede Yoder, Kathleen Scarpone, Stephanie Lubinski, Lynn Wencus, Gary Carter, Wendy Petrowsky, Kara Trainor, Kathleen Strain, Lindsey Arrington, Shannie Jenkins, Kerri Morales, C.R. Foster, and Robert Prochno

Jeffrey Nathan Pomerantz
Counsel of Record

Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones
10100 Santa Monica Blvd, Suite 1300
Los Angeles, CA 90067
jpomerantz@pszjlaw.com
Ph: (310) 772-2336
Party name: Highland Capital Management, L.P.

Douglas Barrett Rosner
Counsel of Record

Goulston & Storrs, P.C.
400 Atlantic Avenue
Boston, MA 02110
drosner@goulstonstorrs.com
Ph: 617-5746517
Party name: The Commercial Law League of America and The National Bankruptcy Venue Reform Committee

Jennifer Lynne Shelfer
Counsel of Record

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP
2100 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Suite 350S
Washington, DC 20037
jennifer.shelfer@agg.com
Ph: (202) 677-4030
Party name: The Recovery Advocacy Project, the Kennedy Forum, End Overdose, and Team Sharing Inc.

Andrew C. Simpson
Counsel of Record

Andrew C Simpson, PC
2191 Church street
Ste 5
Christiansted, VI 00820
asimpson@coralbrief.com
Ph: 3407193900
Party name: Atlantic Basin Refining, Inc.

Rupa Gupta Singh
Counsel of Record

Niddrie Addams Fuller Singh LLP
501 West Broadway, Suite 800
San Diego, CA 92101
rsingh@appealfirm.com
Ph: 858.699.7278
Party name: Kim Harold Peterson

Daniel R. Walfish
Counsel of Record

Katsky Korins LLP
605 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10158
dwalfish@katskykorins.com
Ph: 212-716-3293
Party name: Adam J. Levitin

Paul Howard Zumbro
Counsel of Record

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Worldwide Plaza--825 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10019
pzumbro@cravath.com
Ph: 2124741000
Party name: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York