U.S. v. GRACE

No. 06-30192.

526 F.3d 499 (2008)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. W.R. GRACE; Alan R. Stringer; Henry A. Eschenbach; Jack W. Wolter; William J. McCaig; Robert J. Bettacchi; O. Mario Favorito; Robert C. Walsh, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed May 15, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Kilbourne (argued), Kevin M. Cassidy and Allen M. Brabender, Attorneys, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC; William W. Mercer, United States Attorney; Kris A. McLean, Assistant United States Attorney; Ronald J. Tenpas, Acting Assistant Attorney General, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Christopher Landau, P.C. (argued), Laurence A. Urgenson, Tyler D. Mace and Michael D. Shumsky, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, DC; Stephen R. Brown, Charles E. McNeil and Kathleen L. DeSoto, Garlington Lohn & Robinson, PLLP, Missoula, MT, for defendant-appellee, W.R. Grace & Co.

Ronald F. Waterman, Gough, Shanahan, Johnson & Waterman, Helena, MT; David S. Krakoff and Gary A. Winters, Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, DC, for defendant-appellee, Henry A. Eschenbach.

Mike Milodragovich and W. Adam Duerk, Milodragovich, Dale, Steinbrenner & Binney, Missoula, MT; Jeremy Maltby, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for defendant-appellee, Jack W. Wolter.

Palmer Hoovestal, Hoovestal Law Firm, PLLC, Helena, MT; Elizabeth Van Doren Gray, Sowell, Gray, Stepp & Laffitte, LLC, Columbia, SC; William A. Coates, Roe Cassidy Coates & Price, PA, Greenville, SC, for defendant-appellee, William J. McCaig.

Brian Gallik, Goetz, Gallik & Baldwin, P.C., Bozeman, MT; Thomas C. Frongillo, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Boston, MA; Vernon S. Broderick, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, NY, for defendant-appellee, Robert J. Bettacchi.

C.J. Johnson, Kalkstein Law Firm, Missoula, MT; Stephen A. Jonas and Robert Keefe, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Boston, MA, for defendant-appellee, O. Mario Favorito.

Catherine A. Laughner and Aimee M. Grmoljez, Browning Kaleczyc Berry & Hoven, P.C., Helena, MT; Stephen R. Spivack, Bradley Arant Rose & White LLP, Washington, DC; David E. Roth, Bradley Arant Rose & White LLP, Birmingham, AL, for defendant-appellee, Robert C. Walsh.

Opinion by Judge FISHER; Concurrence by Judge MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS.


FISHER, Circuit Judge:

We granted en banc review of this appeal by the government, brought pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3731, to resolve two questions. First, does a United States Attorney's simple certification under § 3731 that the government's interlocutory appeal in a pending criminal case is not taken for purpose of delay and that the evidence the district court suppressed or excluded is substantial proof of a fact material in the proceeding suffice to establish...

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