Appellate & Supreme Court

Experience Highlights

• In one of the most high-profile cases of the Supreme Court's term, Arnold & Porter successfully challenged the Trump Administration's attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Decennial Census. Department of Commerce v. New York, 139 S. Ct. 2551 (2019).
• BNSF Railway in obtaining reversal by the Supreme Court in a key case for the industry regarding payroll taxes for railroad employees. BNSF Railway Co. v. Loos, 139 S. Ct. 893 (2019).
• Three nonprofit religious hospital systems in obtaining a unanimous Supreme Court ruling exempting their pensions under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). The Court overruled contrary decisions by three courts of appeals. Church plan litigation, 137 S. Ct. 1652 (2017).
• GlaxoSmithKline in obtaining complete reversal of a multimillion dollar trial verdict in a case involving the drug label for Paxil, persuading the Seventh Circuit that federal law preempted state-law claims. Dolin v. GlaxoSmithKline LLC, 901 F.3d 803 (7th Cir. 2018).
• Obtained a major victory with national political implications, persuading the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to strike down the state's congressional map as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. League of Women Voters of Pa. v. Commonwealth, 178 A.3d 737 (Pa. 2018).
• Mexican industrialist Miguel Zaragoza Fuentes in obtaining complete reversal of a billion dollar-plus divorce decree. Fuentes v. Zaragoza, 555 S.W.3d 141 (Texas Ct. App. 2018).
• Boston Scientific in securing a significant Federal Circuit decision clearing the client of more than $200 million in royalties after a 12-year patent contract dispute. Jang v. Boston Scientific, 872 F.3d 1275 (Fed. Cir. 2017).
• Leading immigrant rights activist Ravi Ragbir in securing a high-profile free speech and immigrant rights victory against the government. Ragbir v. Homan, 923 F.3d 53 (2d Cir. 2019).
• Novartis in securing a unanimous First Circuit affirmance of a dismissal of purported direct and indirect purchaser antitrust class actions. United Food and Commercial Workers Unions and Employers Midwest Health Benefits Fund v. Novartis Pharms. Corp., 902 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 2018).
• Carnival Corporation, as lead counsel for the defendants, in securing dismissal of all US claims and appeals across the country arising from the widely publicized January 2010 shipwreck involving the Costa Crociere cruise ship Costa Concordia.