LAIBLE v. LANTER

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Aaron M. Herzig , TAFT, STETTINIUS & HOLLISTER LLP, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Appellants. Catherine Padhi , UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Federal Appellee. ON BRIEF: Aaron M. Herzig , Spencer S. Cowan , TAFT, STETTINIUS & HOLLISTER LLP, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Appellants. Catherine Padhi , UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Federal Appellee. Jacqueline Greene , Alphonse Gerhardstein , M. Caroline Hyatt , Rebecca Salley , FRIEDMAN GILBERT + GERHARDSTEIN, Cincinnati, Ohio for Appellee Laible. J. Stephen Smith , Roula Allouch , GRAYDON HEAD & RITCHEY LLP, Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky, for the Klein Appellees.

COLE, J., delivered the opinion of the court in which GIBBONS, J., joined. READLER, J. (pp. 446-53), delivered a separate opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.