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No. 24-7
Title:Diamond Alternative Energy, LLC, et al., Petitioners
v.
Environmental Protection Agency, et al.
Docketed:July 8, 2024
Lower Ct:United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
   Case Numbers:(22-1081, 22-1083, 22-1084, 22-1085)
   Decision Date:April 9, 2024
   Rehearing Denied:
  Discretionary Court Decision Date:
Questions Presented

DateProceedings and Orders
Jul 02 2024Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 7, 2024)
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Jul 26 2024Motion to extend the time to file a response from August 7, 2024 to September 7, 2024, submitted to The Clerk.
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Jul 29 2024Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including September 9, 2024, for all respondents.
Aug 01 2024Motion of the Solictor General to extend the time to file a response from August 7, 2024 to September 6, 2024, submitted to The Clerk.
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Aug 05 2024Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted. The time to file responses has been extended to and including September 9, 2024, for all respondents.
Aug 06 2024Brief amici curiae of Organizations Committed to Constitutional Government filed. VIDED.
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Aug 07 2024Brief amici curiae of Texas Oil & Gas Association, et al. filed.
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Aug 07 2024Brief amicus curiae of ConservAmerica filed.
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Aug 07 2024Brief amicus curiae of American Petroleum Institute filed.
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Aug 07 2024Brief amicus curiae of Competitive Enterprise Institute filed.
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Aug 07 2024Brief amicus curiae of The Sulphur Institute filed.
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Aug 07 2024Brief amici curiae of Texas Royalty Council, et al. filed.
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Aug 07 2024Brief amici curiae of Specialty Equipment Market Association, et al. filed. VIDED
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Aug 07 2024Brief amici curiae of Western States Petroleum Association, et al. filed.
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Aug 07 2024Brief amicus curiae of The Two Hundred for Homeownership filed.
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Aug 07 2024Brief amici curiae of Advancing American Freedom, et al. filed.
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Aug 07 2024Brief amici curiae of Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, et al. filed.
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Aug 07 2024Brief amici curiae of California Business Roundtable, et al. filed.
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Sep 09 2024Brief of State Respondents in opposition filed. VIDED.
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Sep 09 2024Brief of Federal Respondents in opposition filed.
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Sep 09 2024Waiver of right of respondents Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., et al. to respond filed.
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Sep 23 2024Reply of petitioners Diamond Alternative Energy, LLC, et al. filed. (Distributed)
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Sep 25 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/11/2024.
Oct 15 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/18/2024.
Oct 23 2024Letter of October 23, 2024 from counsel for petitioners filed. (Distributed)
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Oct 28 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/1/2024.
Oct 29 2024Letter of October 29, 2024, of California et al., in response filed. (Distributed)
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Nov 04 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/8/2024.
Nov 12 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/15/2024.
Nov 18 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/22/2024.
Dec 02 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/6/2024.
Dec 09 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/13/2024.
Dec 13 2024Petition GRANTED limited to Question 1 presented by the petition.
Jan 24 2025Motion to hold the briefing schedule in abeyance filed by federal respondents. (Distributed)
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Jan 27 2025Brief of petitioners Diamond Alternative Energy, LLC, et al. filed.
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Jan 27 2025Joint appendix filed. (Statement of costs filed.)
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Jan 29 2025Response in opposition to motion to hold the briefing schedule in abeyance from petitioners Diamond Alternative Energy, LLC, et al. filed. (Distributed)
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Jan 31 2025Brief amici curiae of Foothill Church and Cedar Park Assembly of God of Kirkland, Washington filed.
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Feb 03 2025Brief amicus curiae of The Two Hundred for Homeownership filed.
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Feb 03 2025Brief amicus curiae of ConservAmerica filed.
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Feb 03 2025Brief amicus curiae of American Petroleum Institute filed.
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Feb 03 2025Brief amicus curiae of The Sulphur Institute filed.
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Feb 03 2025Brief amici curiae of Advancing American Freedom, et al. filed.
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Feb 03 2025Brief amici curiae of Our Children’s Trust, et al. in support of neither party filed.
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Feb 03 2025Brief amici curiae of Western States Petroleum Association, et al. filed.
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Feb 03 2025Brief amici curiae of Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, et al. filed.
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Feb 03 2025Brief amici curiae of Texas Oil & Gas Association, et al. filed.
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Feb 03 2025Brief amici curiae of Texas Royalty Council, et al. filed.
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Feb 03 2025Brief amicus curiae of Cato Institute filed.
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Feb 06 2025Motion of the federal respondents to hold the briefing schedule in abeyance DENIED.
Feb 10 2025Motion of respondents for an extension of time within which to file respondents' briefs on the merits filed.
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Feb 13 2025Motion of respondents to extend the time to file respondents' briefs on the merits granted and the time is extended to and including March 12, 2025.
Feb 24 2025SET FOR ARGUMENT on Wednesday, April 23, 2025.
Feb 27 2025Record requested from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Mar 12 2025Record received electronically from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and available with the Clerk.
Mar 12 2025Brief of federal respondents filed.
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Mar 12 2025Brief of state respondents filed.
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Mar 12 2025Letter of respondents Natural Resources Defense Council, et al. (the public interest organizations) notifying the Clerk they do not intend to file a brief on the merits filed.
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Mar 18 2025Brief amicus curiae of Professor F. Andrew Hessick filed. (Distributed)
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Mar 19 2025CIRCULATED
Mar 19 2025Motion for divided argument filed by the Acting Solicitor General.
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Mar 19 2025Brief amici curiae of International Council on Clean Transportation, et al. filed. (Distributed)
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Mar 19 2025Brief amici curiae of Professor Heather Elliott, et al. filed. (Distributed)
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Mar 31 2025Motion for divided argument filed by the Acting Solicitor General GRANTED.
Apr 09 2025Reply of petitioners Diamond Alternative Energy, LLC, et al. filed. (Distributed)
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Apr 23 2025Argued. For petitioners: Jeffrey B. Wall, Washington, D. C. For federal respondents: Edwin S. Kneedler, Deputy Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. For state respondents: Joshua A. Klein, Deputy Solicitor General, Oakland, Cal.
Jun 20 2025Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED. Kavanaugh, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Thomas, Alito, Kagan, Gorsuch, and Barrett, JJ., joined. Sotomayor, J., and Jackson, J., filed dissenting opinions.

NAMEADDRESSPHONE
Attorneys for Petitioners
Jeffrey B. Wall
    Counsel of Record		Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
1700 New York Ave NW
Suite 700
Washington, DC 20006

wallj@sullcrom.com		(202) 956-7660
Party name: Diamond Alternative Energy, LLC, et al.
Attorneys for Respondents
Sean Hoe Donahue
    Counsel of Record		Donahue, Goldberg & Herzog
1008 Pennsylvania Ave., SE
Washington, DC 20003

sean@donahuegoldberg.com		2022777085
Party name: the public interest organizations
Joshua A. Klein
    Counsel of Record		California Department of Justice
1515 Clay Street
Suite 2000
Oakland, CA 94612-1413

JOSHUA.KLEIN@DOJ.CA.GOV		510-879-0756
Party name: State Respondents
D. John Sauer
    Counsel of Record		Solicitor General
United States Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D 20530-0001

SUPREMECTBRIEFS@USDOJ.GOV		202-514-2217
Party name: Federal Respondents
Other
Heidi Karin Abegg
    Counsel of Record		Webster, Chamberlain and Bean
1747 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20006

habegg@wc-b.com		202-785-9500
Party name: Specialty Equipment Market Association & Performance Racing, Inc.
Benjamin William Berkowitz
    Counsel of Record		Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP
633 Battery Street
San Francisco, CA 94111

BBERKOWITZ@KEKER.COM		4153915400
Party name: Professors Heather Elliott and Jonathan Nash
Thomas Arthur Berry
    Counsel of Record		Cato Institute
1000 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20001

tberry@cato.org		(443) 254-6330
Party name: Cato Institute
Paul D. Clement
    Counsel of Record		Clement & Murphy, PLLC
706 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314

PAUL.CLEMENT@CLEMENTMURPHY.COM		(202) 742-8900
Party name: American Petroleum Institute
Riddhi Dasgupta
    Counsel of Record		Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP
200 Massachusetts Ave NW
Suite 500
Washington, DC 20001

sdasgupta@taftlaw.com		2026641564
Party name: Organizations Committed to Constitutional Government
Rory Thomas Gray
    Counsel of Record		Alliance Defending Freedom
1000 Hurricane Shoals Rd. NE, Suite D-1100
Lawrenceville, GA 30043

RGRAY@ADFLEGAL.ORG		770-339-0774
Party name: Foothill Church and Cedar Park Assembly of God of Kirkland, Washington
F. Andrew Hessick
    Counsel of Record		F. Andrew Hessick
160 Ridge Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27599

AHESSICK@EMAIL.UNC.EDU		9199624332
Party name: Professor F. Andrew Hessick
Ivan Laurence London
    Counsel of Record		Mountain States Legal Foundation
2596 South Lewis Way
Lakewood, CO 80227

ilondon@mslegal.org		3032922021
Party name: Texas Royalty Council and American Royalty Council
Julia Ann Olson
    Counsel of Record		Our Children's Trust
1216 Lincoln Street
Eugene, OR 97401

julia@ourchildrenstrust.org		(415) 786-4825
Party name: Our Children’s Trust and Public Justice
Rafe Petersen
    Counsel of Record		Holland and Knight LLP
800 17th Street, NW
Suite 1100
Washington, D.C., DC 20006

rafe.petersen@hklaw.com		202 419-2481
Party name: The Two Hundred for Homeownership
Patrick Francis Philbin
    Counsel of Record		Torridon Law PLLC
801 Seventeenth Street, NW
Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20006

pphilbin@torridonlaw.com		(202) 249-6900
Party name: The Sulphur Institute
Jaime Ann Santos
    Counsel of Record		Goodwin Procter LLP
1900 N St. NW
Washington, DC 20036

JSANTOS@GOODWINLAW.COM		2023464034
Party name: Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, American Automotive Leasing Association, American Car Rental Association, Associated General Contractors of America, Inc., and Truck Renting and Leasing Association
John A. Sheehan
    Counsel of Record		Earth and Water Law, LLC
1455 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20001

john.sheehan@earthandwatergroup.com		3019805032
Party name: ConservAmerica
Dale A. Stern
    Counsel of Record		Downey Brand LLP
621 Capitol Mall, 18th Floor
Sacramento, CA 95814

dstern@downeybrand.com		(916) 444-1000
Party name: California Business Roundtable and California Manufacturers & Technology Association
James K. Vines
    Counsel of Record		Sims|Funk, PLC
3102 West End Ave.
Suite 1100
Nashville, TN 37203

jvines@simsfunk.com		615-292-9335
Party name: Texas Oil & Gas Association, Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association, The Petroleum Alliance Of Oklahoma, Texas Independent Producers And Royalty Owners Association, And Texas Association Of Manufacturers
Charles Devin Watkins
    Counsel of Record		Competitive Enterprise Institute
1310 L Street NW, 7th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

devin.watkins@cei.org		202-331-1010
Party name: Competitive Enterprise Institute
John Marc Wheat
    Counsel of Record		Advancing American Freedom, Inc.
801 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Suite 930
Washington, DC 20004-2729

MWHEAT@ADVANCINGAMERICANFREEDOM.COM		(202) 780-4848
Party name: Advancing American Freedom
Katherine Crawford Yarger
    Counsel of Record		Lehotsky Keller Cohn LLP
700 Colorado Blvd., #407
Denver, CO 80206

katie@lkcfirm.com		(512) 693-8350
Party name: Western States Petroleum Association, et al.
Katherine Crawford Yarger
    Counsel of Record		Lehotsky Keller Cohn LLP
700 Colorado Blvd.
#407
Denver, CO 80206

katie@lkcfirm.com		5126938350
Party name: Brief of Western States Petroleum Association, National Federation of Independent Business, Inc., California Asphalt Pavement Association, Washington Oil Marketers Association, California Fuels & Convenience Alliance, Arizona Petroleum Marketers Association, Energy and Convenience Association of Nevada, Oregon Fuels Association, And American Trucking Associations, Inc.
Matthew D. Zinn
    Counsel of Record		Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP
396 Hayes St.
San Francisco, CA 94102

zinn@smwlaw.com		415-552-7272
Party name: International Council on Clean Transportation and the University of California, Davis Institute of Transportation Studies

 

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