The Supreme Court has denied the petition for certiorari in Byrd v. Lamb, which asked whether a Bivens claim is applicable when a Department of Homeland Security agent displays his firearm in a public parking lot. The Fifth Circuit declined to recognize a Bivens claim, distinguishing the incident in Byrd v. Lamb from Bivens by noting the personal nature of the alleged dispute, the location of the incident away…
Today, America First Policy Institute’s (AFPI) Constitutional Litigation Partnership and the law firm of Boyden Gray & Associates filed a brief as amicus curiae in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of petitioners in West Virginia v. EPA, No. 20-1530, challenging the D.C. Circuit’s decision upholding the core principles of President Obama’s illegal and destructive Clean Power Plan regulation promulgated…
Boyden Gray & Associates filed an brief in opposition yesterday in the Supreme Court on behalf of Ray Lamb in Kevin Byrd v. Ray Lamb, No. 21-184. The brief urges the Court to decline the petitioners request as there is no circuit split on what types of Fourth Amendment Bivens claims survive the Court’s decision in Zilgar v. Abbasi. The…
Boyden Gray & Associates filed an amicus brief today in the Supreme Court on behalf of the D.C. Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in favor of the petitioner in Orlando Carter v. District of Columbia, No. 21-340. The brief urges the Court to grant certiorari and hold that the First Amendment protects religious nonprofits’ right to hire those who share…
Boyden Gray & Associates filed an amicus brief yesterday in the Supreme Court on behalf of Samaritan’s Purse in favor of the petitioner in Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission v. Matthew S. Woods, No. 21-144. The brief urges the Court to grant certiorari and hold that the First Amendment protects religious nonprofits’ right to hire those who share their faith. The…
Boyden Gray & Associates filed an amicus brief today in the Supreme Court on behalf of Reason for Life in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, No. 19-1392, which will consider whether “[w]hether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.” The brief is available here. As we argue in the brief, the analysis in previous cases like Roe v….