Though all cases vary and none is predictive, Sarah’s experience includes:

• Harry C. Calcutt III v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. No. 22-714 (2023). Secured unanimous opinion summarily reversing the Sixth Circuit in favor of client Harry Calcutt. The Supreme Court held that the Sixth Circuit erred in upholding a FDIC disciplinary order against Mr. Calcutt after finding that the FDIC had made legal errors in adjudicating the case.
• Gonzalez v. Google LLC, No. 21-1333 (2023) and Twitter, Inc. v. Taamneh, No. 21-1496 (2023). Successfully represented Google in case concerning the Antiterrorism Act (ATA), 18 U.S.C. § 2333 and in persuading the Court not to address the scope of Section 230(c)(1) of the Communications Decency Act.
• Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith, No. 21-869 (2023). Secured holding that the Andy Warhol Foundation’s use of a copyrighted photograph does not favor the Foundation’s fair use defense to copyright infringement.
• Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Inc., No. 22-96 (2023). Whether the Board can claim immunity from federal suits under the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act.
• Bartenwerfer v. Buckley, No. 21-908 (2023). Whether a bankruptcy debtor can discharge debts arising from someone else’s fraud. 
• Caremark LLC et al. v.  Chickasaw Nation et al., No. 21-16209 (2022). Secured victory for CVS Health subsidiary Caremark and others before the Ninth Circuit in a case concerning tribal immunity and whether claims brought by pharmacies run by federally recognized tribes were subject to arbitration.
• Egbert v. Boule, No. 21-147 (2022). Argued and prevailed before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Erik Egbert, a U.S. Border Patrol agent, in a case involving whether to recognize constitutional damages actions against individual federal officers for First Amendment retaliation claims or for Fourth Amendment claims involving border-security-related functions. The decision was 9-0 as to the First Amendment claim and 6-3 as to the Fourth Amendment claim.  
• Demkovich v. St. Andrew the Apostle Parish (7th Cir. 2021). Represented coalition of religious groups in support of the parish’s successful argument before en banc Seventh Circuit that the ministerial exception encompasses hostile-work-environment claims and bars courts from second-guessing religious groups’ employment decisions as to their ministers. Amicus brief cited in Seventh Circuit en banc majority opinion.
• Carr v. Saul, 593 U.S. __ (2021). Argued and prevailed 9-0 before the U.S. Supreme Court in significant administrative-law case concerning whether Social Security claimants must exhaust issues before the agency as a prerequisite to judicial review.
• Salinas v. U.S. Railroad Retirement Board, 592 U.S. __ (2021). Argued and prevailed in 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court decision on behalf of petitioner Manfredo Salinas, a former railroad worker, in a case involving whether courts of appeals have jurisdiction to review the Railroad Retirement Board’s decisions denying requests to reopen a prior benefits determination.
• Glaxo Group Ltd. v. DRIT (Del. Supreme Court). In a landmark implied-covenant contractual case before the Delaware Supreme Court, won reversal of a jury verdict against GSK awarding $57 million in royalty payments.
• United States Patent & Trademark Office v. Booking.com, 591 U. S. ___ (2020).  Secured significant Supreme Court ruling in favor of client Booking.com that the addition of a generic top-level domain (".com") to an otherwise generic term can create a protectable trademark.
• Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Christian, 590 U.S. ___ (2020).  Secured ruling in client’s favor holding that Superfund site landowners cannot sue defendants to implement an alternative cleanup plan that the Environmental Protection Agency has not approved. 
• Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru, 591 U. S. ___ (2020).  Represented coalition of religious groups in support of petitioners’ successful argument that the First Amendment prohibits courts from intervening in religious schools’ employment decisions concerning teachers who instruct students in the faith; amicus brief cited in Supreme Court majority opinion.
• Espinoza v. Montana Dep’t of Revenue, 591 U. S. ___ (2020).  Represented coalition of members of the United States Congress in support of petitioners’ successful Free Exercise challenge to a Montana provision prohibiting aid to religious schools; amicus brief cited multiple times in Justice Alito’s concurrence.
• Dolin v. GlaxoSmithKline, 951 F.3d 882 (7th Cir. 2020).  Successfully briefed and argued appeal in which the Seventh Circuit affirmed a judgment in GSK’s favor and refused plaintiff’s bid to vacate the Seventh Circuit’s earlier decision that plaintiff’s inadequate labeling claims were preempted.  In one of the first appellate decisions after the Supreme Court’s preemption decision in Merck v. Albrecht, the Seventh Circuit held that it would have reached the same preemption holding even after Albrecht.  
• Chatfield v. League of Women Voters of Michigan, et al., 140 S. Ct. 429 (2019).  Successfully represented the Michigan Senate in a direct appeal of a three-judge panel decision declaring large portions of Michigan’s state and congressional districting plans an unconstitutional political gerrymander.  The Supreme Court granted the Michigan Senate a stay and vacated and remanded the lower court judgment after deciding Rucho v. Common Cause.