FRANKLIN CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE TRUST v. PUERTO RICO

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher Landau , with whom Margarita Mercado-Echegaray, Solicitor General for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Beth A. Williams , Michael A. Glick , Claire M. Murray ; and Kirkland & Ellis LLP, were on brief, for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Governor Alejandro García-Padilla , and César R. Miranda-Rodríguez , appellants.

Martin J. Bienenstock , with whom John E. Roberts , Andrea G. Miller , Proskauer Rose, LLP, Mark D. Harris , Sigal P. Mandelker , Philip M. Abelson , and Ehud Barak , were on brief, for Melba Acosta-Febo and John Doe, appellants.

Lewis J. Liman , with whom Jorge R. Roig , Joanne A. Tomasini-Muñiz , González, Machado & Roig, LLC, Lawrence B. Friedman , Richard J. Cooper , Sean A. O'Neal , and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, LLP, were on brief, for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), amicus curiae.

Gabriel R. Avilés-Aponte and Tapia & Avilés, on brief, for Clayton P. Gillette and David A. Skeel, Jr. , amici. curiae.

Edilberto Berríos-Pérez and Berrios & Longo Law Office, P.S.C., on brief, for Edilberto Berríos-Pérez , amicus curiae.

Matthew D. McGill , with whom David C. Indiano , Jeffrey M. Williams , Leticia Casalcluc-Rabell , Indiano & Williams, PSC, Theodore B. Olson , Scott G. Stewart , Matthew J. Williams , and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, were on brief, for BlueMountain Capital Management, LLC, appellee.

Thomas Moers Mayer , with whom Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, Philip Bentley , David E. Blabey, Jr. , Toro, Colón, Mullet, Rivera & Sifre, P.S.C., Manuel Fernández-Bared , and Linette Figueroa-Torres , were on brief, for Franklin California Tax-Free Trust et al., appellees.

Marc E. Kasowitz , with whom Daniel R. Benson , Hon. Joseph I. Lieberman (ret.), Hon. Clarine Nardi Riddle (ret.), Andrew K. Glenn , and Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, LLP, were on brief, for the Association of Financial Guaranty Insurers, amicus curiae.

Kate Comerford Todd , Steven P. Lehotsky , U.S. Chamber Litigation Center, Inc., William S. Consovoy , Thomas R. McCarthy , J. Michael Connolly , and Consovoy McCarthy, PLLC, on brief, for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, amicus curiae.

Before HOWARD, Chief Judge, TORRUELLA and LYNCH, Circuit Judges.