Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Appeal No. 18-35347 Brinton Lucas (argued), Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General; Tara S. Morrissey and Marleigh D. Dover , Appellate Staff; Hashim M. Mooppan , Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellants.
Stephen R. Patton (argued), Daniel Siegfried , Vanessa Barsanti , Scott Lerner , and James F. Hurst , Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, Illinois; Peter C. Renn , Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc., Los Angeles, California; Tara L. Borelli , Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc., Atlanta, Georgia; Kara Ingelhart and Camilla B. Taylor , Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc., Chicago, Illinois; Sasha Buchert and Diana Flynn , Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc., Washington, D.C.; Carl Charles , Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc., New York, New York; Peter E. Perkowski , OutServe-SLDN Inc., Los Angeles, California; Jason B. Sykes and Derek A. Newman , Newman Du Wors LLP, Seattle, Washington; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.
La Rond Baker (argued) and Colleen Melody , Assistant Attorneys General; Alan Copsey , Deputy Solicitor General; Robert W. Ferguson , Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Seattle, Washington; for Intervenor-Plaintiff-Appellee.
Maura Healey , Attorney General; Sara A. Colb , Kimberly A. Parr , and Genevieve C. Nadeau , Assistant Attorneys General; Office of Attorney General, Boston, Massachusetts; Xavier Becerra , Attorney General of California, Sacramento, California; George Jepsen , Attorney General of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut; Matthew P. Denn , Attorney General of Delaware, Wilmington, Delaware; Karl A. Racine , Attorney General of the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C.; Russell A. Suzuki , Attorney General of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii; Lisa Madigan , Attorney General of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois; Tom Miller , Attorney General of Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa; Janet T. Mills , Attorney General of Maine, Augusta, Maine; Brian E. Frosh , Attorney General of Maryland; Baltimore, Maryland; Gurbir S. Grewal , Attorney General of New Jersey, Trenton, New Jersey; Hector Balderas , Attorney General of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Barbara D. Underwood , Attorney General of New York, New York, New York; Joshua H. Stein , Attorney General of North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina; Ellen F. Rosenblum , Attorney General of Oregon, Salem, Oregon; Josh Shapiro , Attorney General of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Peter F. Kilmartin , Attorney General of Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island; Mark R. Herring , Attorney General of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia; Thomas J. Donovan, Jr. , Attorney General of Vermont, Montpelier, Vermont, for Amici Curiae Massachusetts, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, Vermont, and the District of Columbia.
Douglas C. Dreier and Stuart F. Delery , Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae The Trevor Project.
Sherrilyn A. Ifill , Director-Counsel, Janai S. Nelson , and Samuel Spital , NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., New York, New York; Daniel S. Harawa , NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund Inc., Washington, D.C.; for Amicus Curiae NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund Inc.
Devi M. Rao and Scott B. Wilkens , Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, D.C.; Benjamin J. Brysacz , Jenner & Block LLP, Los Angeles, California; for Amici Curiae American Medical Association, American College of Physicians, and Nine Other Health Care Organizations.
William B. Stafford and Abha Khanna , Perkins Coie LLP, Seattle, Washington; Ashwin P. Phatak , David H. Gans , Brianne J. Gorod , and Elizabeth B. Wydra , Constitutional Accountability Center, Washington, D.C.; for Amicus Curiae Constitutional Accountability Center.
Matthew S. Blumenthal and Harold Hongju Koh , Rule of Law Clinic, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; Jake Ewart , Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson P.S., Seattle, Washington; Phillip Spector , Messing & Spector LLP, Baltimore, Maryland; for Amici Curiae Retired Military Officers and Former National Security Officials.
Suzanne B. Goldberg , Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic, Columbia Law School, New York, New York; William C. Miller , Robert C. K. Boyd , and Cynthia Cook Robertson , Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae The Service Women's Action Network, California Women Lawyers, Center for Reproductive Rights, Columbia Law School Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic, Connecticut Women's Education and Legal Fund, Equal Rights Advocates, Legal Voice, Michigan Association for Justice, National Women's Law Center, and the Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia.
John C. Quinn , Julie E. Fink , Roberta A. Kaplan , and Joshua Matz , Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP, New York, New York, for Amici Curiae National Center for Transgender Equality, Southern Arizona Gender Alliance, The Trans Youth Equality Foundation, Transcend Legal, Transgender Allies Group, Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, and Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico.
Susan Baker Manning , Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Washington, D.C.; Corey Houmand , Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Palo Alto, California; for Amici Curiae Vice Admiral Donald C. Arthur, USN (Ret.), former Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy; Major General Gale Pollock, USA (Ret.), former Acting Surgeon General of the U.S. Army, and Rear Admiral Alan M. Steinman, USPHS/USCG (Ret.), Former Director of Health and Safety of the U.S. Coast Guard.
Appeal No. 18-72159, Mark R. Freeman (argued), Brad Hinshelwood , Tara S. Morrissey , Marleigh D. Dover , and Mark B. Stern , Appellate Staff; Brinton Lucas , Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General; Hashim M. Mooppan , Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Joseph H. Hunt , Assistant Attorney General; Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Petitioners.
Stephen R. Patton (argued), Daniel Siegfried , Vanessa Barsanti , Scott Lerner , Jordan M. Heinz , and James F. Hurst , Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, Illinois; Peter C. Renn , Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc., Los Angeles, California; Tara L. Borelli , Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc., Atlanta, Georgia; Sasha Buchert and Diana Flynn , Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc., Washington, D.C.; Kara Ingelhart and Camilla B. Taylor , Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc., Chicago, Illinois; Paul D. Castillo , Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc., Dallas, Texas; Peter E. Perkowski , OutServe-SLDN Inc., Los Angeles, California; Jason B. Sykes and Derek A. Newman , Newman Du Wors LLP, Seattle, Washington; for Real Parties in Interest.
Before: Raymond C. Fisher, Richard R. Clifton, and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges.
