TAYLOR v. NORTHAM

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick M. McSweeney ( Fred D. Taylor , Suffolk; Jeremiah J. Jewett, III , Richmond; Bush & Taylor, on briefs), for appellants.

Toby J. Heytens , Solicitor General ( Mark R. Herring , Attorney General; Erin B. Ashwell , Chief Deputy Attorney General; Samuel T. Towell, Deputy Attorney General; Michelle S. Kallen , Deputy Solicitor General; Jessica Merry Samuels , Deputy Solicitor General; Marshall H. Ross , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Jacqueline C. Hedblom , Assistant Attorney General; Erin R. McNeill , Assistant Attorney General; Kendall T. Burchard , John Marshall Fellow , on brief), for appellees.

Amicus Curiae: A.E. Dick Howard , Charlottesville, ( John F. Kerkhoff ; William G. Laxton, Jr. ; Benjamin C. Mizer ; Kamaile A.N. Turcan ; Jones Day, on brief), in support of appellees.

Amicus Curiae: Circle Neighbors ( Gregory A. Werkheiser ; William J. Cook ; Jessica R. G. Krauss ; Cultural Heritage Partners, on brief), in support of appellees.

Amici Curiae: David W. Blight and Gaines M. Foster ( Adam L. Sorensen ; Joseph R. Palmore ; Morrison & Foerster, on brief), in support of appellees.

Amicus Curiae: Institution for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection ( Mary B. McCord ; Annie L. Owens ; Kelsi Brown Corkran ; Shelby B. Calambokidis ; Jennifer Safstrom ; Georgetown University Law Center, on brief), in support of appellees.

Amicus Curiae: Old Dominion Bar Association ( Frank K. Friedman ; Victor O. Cardwell ; Roanoke, Elaine D. McCafferty , Charlottesville; Woods Rogers, on brief), in support of appellees.

Amici Curiae: Professors Thomas J. Brown , W. Fitzhugh Brundage , Karen L. Cox , Hilary N. Green , Kirk Savage , and Dell Upton ( Blake E. Stafford ; Christine C. Smith ; Briana M. Clark ; Latham & Watkins, on brief), in support of appellees.

Amici Curiae: Property Law Professors ( John B. "Jay" Swanson ; Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, on brief), in support of appellees.

Amici Curiae: The Virginia Bar Association Law School Council at the University of Virginia School of Law, When Time Slows Down and ComMUN ( James J. O'Keeffe IV ; MichieHamlett, on brief), in support of appellees.

Amicus Curiae: Virginia State Conference National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( Cullen D. Seltzer ; Cynthia E. Hudson ; Richmond, Sands Anderson, on brief), in support of appellees.

PRESENT: All the Justices.