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| Both clients and Mayer Brown associates are afforded unique capabilities with their access to our renowned Supreme Court and Appellate practice (www.appellate.net). Our Appellate Practice is the first, largest, and most balanced of its kind in the United States, with more than 185 Supreme Court appearances among our active lawyers. Since 1995, 11 different Mayer Brown lawyers have argued cases in the Supreme Court. Since January 2002, our lawyers have argued ten cases in the U.S. Supreme Court.
We have worked on a number of groundbreaking appeals on behalf of clients, including death penalty matters and brief-writing on two of the recent Supreme Court cases involving the limits to the Administration's war powers over habeas questions.
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 | Mayer Brown Captures Victory at the Supreme Court in Immigration Law Case
The Supreme Court issued its ruling today in Negusie v. Holder (No. 07-499), which presents the question whether an alien compelled by threats of death and serious injury to act as a military guard in a prison where people were being persecuted on the basis of a protected ground is barred from seeking asylum. Together with the Yale Law School Supreme Court Clinic, Mayer Brown provided pro bono representation to the petitioner, Daniel Girmai Negusie, who has applied for asylum. Read >>
| | | Victory in Pro Bono Harassment Case Resolves Jurisdictional Split
Charles Rothfeld successfully argued before the US Supreme Court on behalf of the parents of a girl who claims to have suffered peer-on-peer sexual harassment while in kindergarten. Read >>
| | | Mayer Brown Files Amicus Brief On Behalf Of Members of Congress in Case Denying Asylum to Victims of Female Genital Mutilation
22 September 2008 – Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey vacated a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) that denied asylum to a Malian woman who was the victim of female genital mutilation (FGM). Read >>
| | | Mayor Daley Thanks Mayer Brown For Pro Bono Assistance In Gun Control Case
In a letter dated January 30, 2008, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley thanked David Gossett and the Mayer Brown team that worked with him for their assistance in the District of Columbia handgun ordinance case, District of Columbia v. Heller, No. 07-290, currently pending in the Supreme Court. Read >>
| | | Mayer Brown Lawyers Secure Settlement For Somali Refugee In Supreme Court Case
2 January 2008 - Lawyers in the firm's Washington, D.C. and Chicago offices, together with co-counsel from the National Immigrant Justice Center, recently reached a settlement agreement with the United States government in a pro bono immigration case that was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. Read >>
| | | Mayer Brown Scores Major Trademark Litigation Victory In Pro Bono Case
Lawyers in Mayer Brown's Palo Alto office scored a major trademark litigation victory in the Ninth Circuit. Read >>
| | | Boumediene/Al Odah Supreme Court Case: Brief Resource Center
On June 29, 2007, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Boumediene v. Bush and Al Odah v. United States. The consolidated cases address, among other issues, whether the provisions of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 that bar Guantanamo detainees from pursuing habeas corpus petitions violate the Suspension Clause of the U.S. Constitution, and whether the detainees are entitled to pursue habeas claims in federal court. To access the brief resource center, click here. Read >>
| | | National Law Journal Quotes Andy Pincus in Article On Law School Supreme Court Clinics
1 August 2007 - Andy Pincus, the Mayer Brown partner who, together with Charles Rothfeld, co-directs the Yale Law School Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic, is quoted in a National Law Journal article that discusses the Yale clinic and similar clinics at other law schools. Read >>
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