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….
On December 31, 2019, BG&A filed a Supreme Court amicus brief in June Medical Services v. Gee, Nos. 18-1323, 18-1460, on behalf of nine African American pro-life organizations: The Radiance Foundation, Civil Rights for the Unborn, The Douglass Leadership Institute, The Restoration Project, The Issues4Life Foundation, Frederick Douglass Foundation, The National Black Pro-Life Union, Everlasting Light Ministries, and Project 21….
On December 16, 2019, BG&A and its co-counsel O’Melveny & Myers filed an amicus brief in Seila Law v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) (S. Ct. No. 19-7), on behalf of the State National Bank of Big Spring Texas, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), and the 60 Plus Association. BG&A, led by Founding Partner C. Boyden Gray, together with O’Melveny…
Today Michelle Valent voluntarily dismissed her Supreme Court case against the Social Security Administration after the agency agreed to a settlement granting her complete relief. Ms. Valent, a disabled beneficiary of the Social Security Act, was fined $126,210 for failing to report work activity she allegedly performed for a family member’s veterans’ organization while collecting disability benefits. But the 1999…