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No. 24-1021
Vide 24-1113
 
Title: Cedric Galette, Petitioner
v.
New Jersey Transit Corporation
Docketed: March 25, 2025
Lower Ct: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Eastern District
   Case Numbers: (4 EAP 2024)
   Decision Date: March 12, 2025
Questions Presented
 
Proceedings and Orders
Mar 19 2025 Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 24, 2025)
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Apr 15 2025 Brief of respondent New Jersey Transit Corporation in support filed.
Main Document Certificate of Word Count Proof of Service
Apr 21 2025 Reply of petitioner Cedric Galette filed. (Distributed)
Main Document Certificate of Word Count Proof of Service
Apr 22 2025 Waiver of the 14-day waiting period for the distribution of the petition pursuant to Rule 15.5 filed by petitioner.
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Apr 23 2025 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/15/2025.
Apr 24 2025 Brief amici curiae of Texas, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Main Document Proof of Service Certificate of Word Count
Apr 30 2025 Rescheduled.
Jun 09 2025 Supplemental brief of petitioner Cedric Galette filed. (Distributed)
Main Document Proof of Service Certificate of Word Count
Jun 10 2025 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/26/2025.
Jul 03 2025 Petition GRANTED and consolidated with No. 24-1113, limited to the following question: Whether the New Jersey Transit Corporation is an arm of the State of New Jersey for interstate sovereign immunity purposes. A total of one hour is allotted for oral argument.
Jul 03 2025 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. 24-1021. Subsequent filings in these cases must therefore be submitted through the electronic filing system in No. 24-1021. 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 21 2025 Motion for an extension of time to file the briefs on the merits filed. VIDED.
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Jul 22 2025 Motion to extend the time to file the briefs on the merits granted. New Jersey Transit Corporation will serve as the petitioners in these cases, and the time to file the joint appendix and the opening brief on the merits is extended to and including September 3, 2025. The time to file the response briefs on the merits of Cedric Galette and Jeffrey Colt, et al. is extended to and including November 12, 2025. VIDED. (Corrected - August 8, 2025.)
Aug 26 2025 Motion to dispense with printing the joint appendix filed by New Jersey Transit Corporation, et al. VIDED.
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Sep 03 2025 Opening brief on the merits of New Jersey Transit Corporation, et al. filed. VIDED.
Main Document Proof of Service Certificate of Word Count
Sep 10 2025 Brief amicus curiae of National Governors Association filed. VIDED.
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Sep 10 2025 Brief amici curiae of State of Missouri, et al. filed. VIDED.
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Sep 10 2025 Brief amici curiae of Texas, et al. filed. VIDED.
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Sep 10 2025 Brief amicus curiae of Commuter Rail Coalition filed. VIDED.
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Sep 11 2025 Application for a stay (25A287), submitted to Justice Sotomayor. (As to 24-1113).
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Sep 12 2025 Order entered by Justice Sotomayor: Upon consideration of the application of counsel for the applicants, it is ordered that the trial in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, Index No. 158309/2017, is hereby stayed pending further order of Justice Sotomayor or of the Court. (As to 24-1113).
Sep 30 2025 Motion to dispense with printing the joint appendix filed by respondents GRANTED. VIDED.
Nov 12 2025 SET FOR ARGUMENT on Wednesday, January 14, 2026. VIDED.
Nov 12 2025 Brief of petitioner Cedric Galette filed. VIDED.
Main Document Certificate of Word Count Proof of Service
Nov 12 2025 Brief of respondents Jeffrey Colt, et al. filed. (as to 24-1113)
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Nov 17 2025 Record requested from the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Eastern District.
Nov 17 2025 Amicus brief of Cedric Galette not accepted for filing. (November 18, 2025) (to be corrected with proper amicus party and attachments)
Nov 17 2025 Brief amicus curiae of New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers filed. VIDED.
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Nov 19 2025 Brief amicus curiae of American Association for Justice filed. VIDED.
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Nov 19 2025 Brief amicus curiae of Constitutional Accountability Center filed. VIDED.
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Nov 19 2025 Brief amici curiae of Federal Courts Scholars filed. VIDED.
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Nov 19 2025 Brief amicus curiae of Public Citizen filed. VIDED.
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Nov 19 2025 Brief amici curiae of Professor William Baude, et al. filed. VIDED.
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Attorneys
Attorneys for Petitioner
Michael B. Kimberly
Counsel of Record
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Winston & Strawn LLP
1901 L Street NW
Washington, DC 20036

MKIMBERLY@winston.com
Ph: (202) 282-5096
Party name: Cedric Galette


Attorneys for Respondent
Jeremy Michael Feigenbaum
Counsel of Record
Office of the New Jersey Attorney General
25 Market Street
Box 080
Trenton, NJ 08625

JEREMY.FEIGENBAUM@NJOAG.GOV
Ph: 8623505800
Party name: New Jersey Transit Corporation


Brian J. Shoot
Counsel of Record
Sullivan Papain Block McManus Coffinas Cannavo PC
120 Broadway
New York, NY 10271

bshoot@triallaw1.com
Ph: (212) 732-9000
Party name: Jeffrey Colt, et al.


Easha Anand
Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305

eanand@law.stanford.edu
Ph: (650) 724-3345
Party name: Jeffrey Colt, et al.


Jeffrey L. Fisher
Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305

Ph: (650) 724-7081
Party name: Jeffrey Colt, et al.


Michael Louis Zuckerman
Office of the New Jersey Attorney General
25 Market Street
P.O. Box 080
Trenton, NJ 08625

Michael.Zuckerman@njoag.gov
Ph: 6097898684
Party name: New Jersey Transit Corporation


Other Attorneys
Eric F. Citron
Counsel of Record
Zimmer, Citron & Clarke LLP
1629 K Street NW
Suite 300
Washington, DC 20006

ecitron@zimmercitronclarke.com
Ph: 202-796-4540
Party name: Federal Courts Scholars


Daniel Jacob Feith
Counsel of Record
Sidley Austin LLP
1501 K Street NW
Washington, DC 20005

dfeith@sidley.com
Ph: 2027368511
Party name: Higher Education Loan Authority of the State of Missouri


Brianne Jenna Gorod
Counsel of Record
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


Nathaniel Hemmerick Hunt
Counsel of Record
Kaplan Kirsch LLP
1675 Broadway, Suite 2300
Denver, CO 80202

nhunt@kaplankirsch.com
Ph: (303) 825-7000
Party name: Commuter Rail Coalition


Michael John Hutter Jr.
Counsel of Record
Powers & Santola, LLP
100 Great Oaks Boulevard
Williamsville, NY 12203

MHUTTER@POWERS-SANTOLA.COM
Ph: 518-465-5995
Party name: New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers


Nandan Maheshchandra Joshi
Counsel of Record
Public Citizen Litigation Group
1600 20th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009

NJOSHI@CITIZEN.ORG
Ph: (202) 588-1000
Party name: Public Citizen


R. Trent McCotter
Counsel of Record
Separation of Powers Clinic,Columbus School of Law
3600 John McCormack Rd.
Washington, DC 20064

mccotter@cua.edu
Ph: 202-706-5488
Party name: National Governors Association


Aaron Lloyd Nielson
Office of the Texas Attorney General
P.O. Box 12548 (MC-059)
Austin, TX 78711-2548

aaron.nielson@kirkland.com
Ph: 512-936-1700
Party name: The States of Texas, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wyoming


William Robert Peterson
Counsel of Record
Office of the Texas Attorney General
P.O. Box 12548 (MC-059)
Austin, TX 78711-2548

william.peterson@oag.texas.gov
Ph: 512-936-1700
Party name: The State of Texas


William Robert Peterson
Counsel of Record
Office of the Texas Attorney General
P.O. Box 12548 (MC-059)
Austin, TX 78711-2548

william.peterson@oag.texas.gov
Ph: 512-936-1700
Party name: Texas, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wyoming


Stephen Edward Sachs
Counsel of Record
Harvard Law School
Lewis 311
1557 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138

ssachs@law.harvard.edu
Ph: 617-495-5009
Party name: Professors William Baude and Stephen E. Sachs


Jeffrey Robert White
Counsel of Record
American Association for Justice
777 6th Street NW
Suite 300
Washington, DC 20001-3723

jeffrey.white@justice.org
Ph: 2026175620
Party name: American Association for Justice


 

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