COLLINS v. YELLEN

No. 17-20364.

27 F.4th 1068 (2022)

Patrick J. COLLINS; Marcus J. Liotta; William M. Hitchcock, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Janet YELLEN, Secretary, U.S. Department of Treasury; Department of the Treasury; Federal Housing Finance Agency; Sandra L. Thompson, Acting Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED March 4, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Justin Cooper , Brian W. Barnes, Esq. , Peter A. Patterson , David H. Thompson , Cooper & Kirk, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC, Chad Flores, Esq. , Beck Redden, L.L.P., Houston, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Howard N. Cayne , Ian S. Hoffman , Robert J. Katerberg , Dirk Phillips, Esq. , Asim Varma, Esq. , Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees Federal Housing Finance Agency and Sandra L. Thompson.

Abby Christine Wright , Gerard J. Sinzdak , Mark Bernard Stern, Esq. , U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Section, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees Janet Yellen and Department of the Treasury.

Katharine M. Mapes , Jeffrey Michael Bayne, Esq. , Spiegel & McDiarmid, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae Harold H. Bruff, Gillian E. Metzger, Peter M. Shane, Peter L. Strauss, and Paul R. Verkuil.

Scott Lawrence Nelson , Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Public Citizen, Incorporated.

Elizabeth Wydra , Chief Counsel, Constitutional Accountability Center, Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae Sherrod Brown, Catherine Cortez Masto, Chris Van Hollen, Elizabeth Warren, Maxine Waters, William Lacy Clay, Emanuel Cleaver, Al Green, Carolyn B. Maloney, Gregory W. Meeks, Nancy Pelosi, Brad Sherman, Juan Vargas, and Nydia M. Velazquez.

Before Owen, Chief Judge, and Jones, Smith, Stewart, Dennis, Elrod, Southwick, Haynes, Graves, Higginson, Costa, Willett, Ho, Duncan, Engelhardt, Oldham, and Wilson, Circuit Judges.


This court's en banc decision, found at 938 F.3d 553 (5th Cir. 2019), returns to us on remand from the Supreme Court. See Collins v. Yellen, ___ U.S...

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