Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Stephen B. Murray, Jr. , Murray Law Firm, Fred L. Herman, Esq. , Law Offices of Fred L. Herman, Peter J. Butler, Jr., Esq. , Richard G. Passler , Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, L.L.P., Barrett Robert Stephens, Esq. , Edward J. Womac, Jr. & Associates, L.L.C., Walter J. Leger, Jr. , Christine Elizabeth Sevin , Attorney, Leger & Shaw, New Orleans, LA, Philip Francis Cossich, Jr. , David Allen Parsiola, Esq. , Cossich, Sumich, Parsiola & Taylor, L.L.C., Belle Chasse, LA, John Francis Rowley , District Attorney's Office, Chalmette, LA, Camille A. Morvant, II , Thibodaux, LA, Franklin G. Shaw , Leger & Shaw, Covington, LA, C. Berwick Duval, II , Stanwood Robert Duval , Duval, Funderburk, Sundbery, Lovell & Watkins, Joseph Lee Waitz, Jr. , District Attorney's Office, Houma, LA, Victor L. Marcello, Esq. , Talbot, Carmouche & Marcello, Baton Rouge, LA, Tommy W. Thornhill , Thornhill Law Firm, Slidell, LA, Wanda Jean Edwards , Attorney, Calvin Clifford Fayard, Jr., Esq. , Senior Trial Attorney, David Blayne Honeycutt, Esq. , Fayard & Honeycutt, A.P.C., Denham Springs, LA, John Phillip Haney , District Attorney's Office, New Iberia, LA, Paul D. Connick, Jr. , District Attorney's Office, Gretna, LA, Walter P. Reed , District Attorney's Office, Covington, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
Richard Cartier Godfrey, Esq. , James Andrew Langan, Esq. , Elizabeth A. Larsen , Kirkland & Ellis, L.L.P., Chicago, IL, Jeffrey Bossert Clark, Sr., Esq. , Kirkland & Ellis, L.L.P., David Bruce Salmons, Esq. , Attorney, Bryan Michael Killian, Esq. , Ky E. Kirby , Bingham McCutchen, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Carmelite M. Bertaut , Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, L.L.C., Deborah D. Kuchler , Kuchler, Polk, Schell, Weiner & Richeson, L.L.C., Don Keller Haycraft , Liskow & Lewis, P.L.C., Edward F. Kohnke, IV, Esq. , Preis & Roy, A.P.L.C., Evans Martin Mcleod, Esq. , Phelps Dunbar, L.L.P., Kerry J. Miller , Joseph Nicholas Mole, Esq. , Campbell E. Wallace, Esq. , Frilot, L.L.C., Glenn G. Goodier , William Cothbert Baldwin , Lance Michael Sannino , Jones Walker LLP, New Orleans, LA, Michael G. Lemoine , Jones Walker LLP, Edwin G. Preis, Jr., Esq. , Preis & Roy, A.P.L.C., Paul Matthew Jones, Esq. , Trial Attorney, Liskow & Lewis, Lafayette, LA, Donald Everett Godwin, Esq. , Managing Senior Counsel, Godwin Lewis, P.C., Allyson Newton Ho , Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, Denise U. Scofield , Attorney, Hugh Earl Tanner , Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, L.L.P., Russell S. Post , David J. Beck, Esq. , Robert David Daniel , Beck Redden, L.L.P., Robert Alan York , Godwin Lewis, P.C., Steven Lynn Roberts , Attorney, Rachel Giesber Clingman , Attorney, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, L.L.P., John Michael Elsley, Esq. , Attorney, Royston, Rayzor, Vickery & Williams, L.L.P., Houston, TX, Brad D. Brian, Esq. , Daniel Benjamin Levin , Munger, Tolles & Olson, L.L.P., James Joseph Dragna , Bingham McCutchen, L.L.P., Los Angeles, CA, Sean Daniel Jordan Kent C. Sullivan , Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, L.L.P., Austin, TX, Derek E. Leon , Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, L.L.P., Miami, FL, John F. Pritchard , Frederick A. Brodie , Edward Flanders , Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, L.L.P., New York, NY, Christopher McNevin , Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, L.L.P., Los Angeles, CA, Jack McKay , Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees.
Mary Jo Woods , Office of the Attorney General for the State of Mississippi, Jackson, MS, Corey L. Maze, Esq. , Special Attorney to the Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General for the State of Alabama, Montgomery, AL, Allan L. Kanner, Esq. , Kanner & Whiteley, L.L.C. New Orleans, LA, Henry Tutt Dart, Esq. , Attorney, Covington, LA, Bradley Marten , Marten Law, P.L.L.C., Seattle, WA, Edmond Wade Shows , Shows, Cali & Walsh, L.L.P., Baton Rouge, LA, Thomas Allen Usry, Esq. , Usry, Weeks & Matthews, A.P.L.C., New Orleans, LA, for Amici Curiae.
Before JONES, BARKSDALE and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.
