LAMAR, ARCHER & COFRIN, LLP v. APPLING

No. 16-1215.

138 S.Ct. 1752 (2018)

584 U.S. 709

LAMAR, ARCHER & COFRIN, LLP, Petitioner, v. R. Scott APPLING.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 4, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory G. Garre , Washington, DC, for Petitioner.

Paul Hughes , Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Jeffrey E. Sandberg , for the United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting the respondent.

Robert C. Lamar , David W. Davenport , Lamar, Archer & Cofrin, LLP, Atlanta, GA, Gregory G. Garre , Benjamin W. Snyder , Seung Wan (Andrew) Paik, Latham & Watkins LLP, Washington, DC, for Petitioner.

Eugene R. Fidell , Yale Law School, Supreme Court Clinic, New Haven, CT, Paul W. Hughes , Michael B. Kimberly , Andrew J. Pincus , Charles A. Rothfeld , Jonathan Weinberg , Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, DC, for Respondent.


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