U.S. Supreme Court Amicus

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Comcast v. National Association of African-American Owned Media

U.S. Supreme Court
Pending
June 10, 2019

Supreme Court grants cert. petition concerning the causation standard for proving racial discrimination under 42 USC 1981.  The U.S. Chamber filed an amicus brief urging the Court to take this case.

Return Mail, Inc. v. United States Postal Service

U.S. Supreme Court
Decided
June 10, 2019

Supreme Court holds that the federal government can’t file administrative review petitions challenging patents.  The Chamber filed a brief at the merits stage supporting this result.   

Parker Drilling Management Services, Ltd. v. Newton

U.S. Supreme Court
Decided
June 10, 2019

Supreme Court unanimously agrees with U.S. Chamber that state wage-and-hour laws don’t apply to drilling rigs on the outer continental shelf.  The Chamber filed an amicus brief at the cert. stage, urging the Court to take up this case and filed an amicus brief at the merits supporting this outcome. 

Teck Cominco Metals, Ltd. v. The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation

U.S. Supreme Court
Decided
June 10, 2019

Supreme Court denies cert. petition regarding Ninth Circuit judgment expanding scope of “arranger” liability under CERCLA.  The U.S. Chamber filed an amicus brief supporting the cert. petition.

Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Christian

U.S. Supreme Court
Pending
June 10, 2019

Supreme Court grants cert. petition concerning federal preemption of state environmental remedies under CERCLA.  The Chamber filed a coalition amicus brief urging the Court to take this case.

Association of American Railroads v. Department of Transportation, et al.

U.S. Supreme Court
Decided
June 3, 2019

Supreme Court declines to review whether Congress violated due process and the separation of powers by granting Amtrak regulatory authority over its competitors.  The U.S. Chamber filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to grant review.

Fort Bend County, TX v. Davis

U.S. Supreme Court
Decided
June 3, 2019

Supreme Court holds that Title VII’s administrative-exhaustion requirement is not jurisdictional.  The Chamber filed a brief at the merits stage trying to oppose this result.

Retirement Plans Committee of IBM v. Jander

U.S. Supreme Court
Pending
June 3, 2019

Supreme Court grants cert. petition to review Second Circuit decision allowing ERISA “stock drop” suit to proceed.  The U.S. Chamber filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to grant review.

Kansas v. Garcia

U.S. Supreme Court
Pending
May 31, 2019

U.S. Chamber files merits-stage amicus brief urging U.S. Supreme Court to hold that any presumption against preemption should not be applied to the interpretation of express preemption provisions.

Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. v. Jackson

U.S. Supreme Court
Decided
May 28, 2019

U.S. Supreme Court holds that the Class Action Fairness Act does not permit a third-party counterclaim defendant to remove a class action to federal court.  The Chamber urged the Court to take this case at the cert. stage and also filed an amicus brief at the merits stage opposing this result.  

Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. v. Albrecht

U.S. Supreme Court
Decided
May 20, 2019

U.S. Supreme Court holds that judges, rather than juries, must decide whether federal prescription-drug regulations preempt state failure-to-warn claims.  The Chamber urged the Court to take this case at the cert. stage and also filed an amicus brief at the merits stage supporting this result.  The Court’s holdings track the Chamber’s merits-stage amicus brief. 

County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund

U.S. Supreme Court
Pending
May 16, 2019

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief urging Supreme Court to overrule Ninth Circuit’s extra-statutory expansion of the Clean Water Act’s point source permitting program

Cochise Consultancy, Inc. v. United States, ex rel. Hunt

U.S. Supreme Court
Decided
May 14, 2019

U.S. Supreme Court holds that a private plaintiff may rely upon the longer statute of limitations for the government in bringing False Claims Act lawsuits against private companies, regardless of whether the government is directly involved in the case.  The Chamber filed amicus briefs at the cert. and merits stages opposing this result.

Apple Inc. v. Pepper

U.S. Supreme Court
Decided
May 14, 2019

U.S. Supreme Court issues 5-4 decision rejecting Illinois Brick antitrust-standing arguments against class action brought by customers who purchased apps through Apple’s App Store.  The U.S. Chamber filed an amicus brief at the merits stage opposing this result. 

American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers v. O’Keeffe

U.S. Supreme Court
Decided
May 13, 2019

U.S. Supreme Court denies cert. petition to review whether Oregon’s “Clean Fuels Program” unconstitutionally discriminates against out of state fuel producers.  The U.S. Chamber filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to grant review.

Lamps Plus, Inc. v. Varela

U.S. Supreme Court
Decided
April 24, 2019

Supreme Court limits the ability of the plaintiffs’ bar to construe ambiguous language in a contract to argue for class arbitration—that is, to bring a class action in arbitration, rather than in a court.  The Chamber filed amicus briefs at the cert. and merits stage supporting this result. 

Emulex Corp. v. Varjabedian

U.S. Supreme Court
Resolved without decision
April 23, 2019

Supreme Court dismisses case as improvidently granted, taking the case off its docket without a decision.  The case concerned liability under the securities laws for misleading disclosures about tender offers.  The Chamber filed amicus briefs at both the cert. and merits stages urging the Court to hold that there is no private right of action for the plaintiffs’ bar to sue over tender-offer misstatements at all; that is, only the SEC can enforce these provisions of the securities laws.

Soundboard Association v. FTC

U.S. Supreme Court
Decided
April 15, 2019

U.S. Supreme Court denies cert. petition to review D.C. Circuit decision allowing administrative agencies to avoid judicial review with boilerplate language disclaiming finality. The U.S. Chamber filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to grant review and reverse the decision.

National Association of African-American Owned Media v. Charter Communications

U.S. Supreme Court
Pending
April 11, 2019

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to grant cert. to clarify that race discrimination must be the “but for” cause of a plaintiff’s injury to support a Section 1981 claim

Alaska Airlines, Inc. v. Schurke

U.S. Supreme Court
Decided
April 1, 2019

U.S. Supreme Court denies cert. petition to review Ninth Circuit decision regarding Railway Labor Act’s preemption of state law claims involving interpretation of collective bargaining agreements

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