Federal Judiciary

Reply Brief in Meacham v. Knolls

By Akin Gump Supreme Court Practice Group

Today, Howe & Russell and the Stanford clinic are filing this reply brief in Meacham v. Knolls, No. 05-1605.  Stanford students Allan Mouritsen, Scott Noveck and Scott Stewart assisted on the brief.  The case involves the burdens of proof in disparate impact actions under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. 

For those interested, here are petitioner?s opening brief, respondents? brief, and the brief of the United States as amicus supporting petitioners.

The case will be argued on April 23, 2008.

UPDATE 12:10PM: Here are the amicus briefs as well:

Supporting Petitioners: AARP/NELA

Supporting Respondents: Chamber of Commerce, Assoc. Corporate Counsel, Equal Employment Advisory Council, General Electric, National School Boards Assoc.

Full post as published by SCOTUSBLOG on April 14, 2008 (boomark / email).