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Jenner & Block Partner David DeBruin, Associate Emanuel Powell, Paralegal Cheryl Olson, and former Associates Illyana Green and Julius Mitchell represented The Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP) in a landmark Supreme Court victory protecting access to PrEP coverage for employees and insured individuals across the country.

This week, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a complete victory for Marriott, reversing for the second time a district court’s certification of what would have been the largest class action arising from a data security incident in US history. If the ruling had been allowed to stand, the district court’s class certification order would have had enormous implications for class litigation, multidistrict litigation, and class-action waivers.

In his second week in office, President Trump fired Gwynne Wilcox (a member of the NLRB). The firing was communicated by an email sent from the Deputy Director of the Office of Presidential Personnel with a statement from the President. The statement did not purport to find either “neglect of duty or malfeasance in office,” as required by the National Labor Relations Act’s removal provision. And just last week, the Acting Solicitor General informed Congress that her office will no longer defend

In a 5-4 opinion by Justice Kavanaugh, joined by Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson, the Supreme Court reversed the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision and established a significant precedent regarding the burden of entry to bring federal civil rights claims in state court.

On October 7, Jenner & Block Partner Adam Unikowsky represented Nancy Williams and petitioners in oral arguments before the US Supreme Court in Williams et al., v. Washington.

The Appellate Project (TAP) interviewed Jenner & Block Associate Emanuel Powell III for their 2024 Pride Month series. In the Q&A, Emanuel discusses his path from the Mississippi Delta to practicing appellate law in Washington, DC, and why being a TAP Mentor is important to him.

On May 13, 2024, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued its long-awaited final rule on regional transmission planning and cost allocation, Order No. 1920. The final rule’s release follows a notice-and-comment period that drew over 600 comments from interested parties, amounting to over 30,000 pages from nearly 200 stakeholders—the largest record considered in any FERC proceeding, according to FERC staff.[1] 

On behalf of the Brennan Center, Campaign Legal Center, the Protect Democracy Project, and the League of Women Voters, a Jenner & Block team filed an amicus brief in the case of Donald J. Trump v. Norma Anderson where Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court to reverse a Colorado ruling barring him from the state’s primary ballot. The brief explains the “legal errors in Petitioner’s reading of Moore v. Harper and the threats that erroneous reading presents to free, fair, accessible, and workable