DISCOUNT TOBACCO CITY & LOTTERY, INC. v. U.S.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Noel J. Francisco , Jones Day, Washington, D.C., for Appellants. Mark B. Stern , United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Noel J. Francisco , Robert F. McDermott, Jr. , Hashim M. Mooppan , Jones Day, Washington, D.C., E. Kenly Ames , Charles E. English , English, Lucas, Priest & Owsley LLP, Bowling Green, Kentucky, Floyd Abrams , Joel Kurtzberg , Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, New York, New York, LeAnne Moore , National Tobacco Company, L.P., Louisville, Kentucky, for Appellants. Mark B. Stern , Alisa B. Klein , Mark R. Freeman , Sarang V. Damle , Samantha Chaifetz , Daniel Tenny , Benjamin S. Kingsley , United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., Karen E. Schifter , United States Department of Health & Human Services, Silver Spring, Maryland, for Appellees. Robert Corn-Revere , Ronald G. London , Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP, Washington, D.C., Allison M. Zieve , Gregory A. Beck , Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, D.C., Richard A. Samp , Washington Legal Foundation, Washington, D.C., Aaron J. Silletto , Goldberg Simpson, LLC, Louisville, Kentucky, Timothy L. Edelen , Tad T. Pardue , Bell, Orr, Ayers & Moore, PSC, Bowling Green, Kentucky, Seth E. Mermin , Thomas Bennigson , Public Good Law Center, Berkeley, California, for Amici Curiae.

CLAY, J., announced the judgment of the court and delivered the lead opinion, which constitutes the unanimous opinion of the court on Sections I and IV-VI, and on parts of the analysis for Sections II and VII, but constitutes the dissent on Section III and on parts of the analysis for Sections II and VII. STRANCH, J. (pp. 551-69), delivered a separate opinion joined in full by BARRETT, D. J., which constitutes the majority opinion of the court on Section III and on parts of the analysis for Sections II and VII, as specified on pages 551 and 552 of the opinion.