Experts in First Amendment law, cyber security, civil liberties and national security issues will make up the eight-member High Court, and legal teams will represent “Pear” and the government. The oral argument, supported by written briefs, will focus on those issues likely to reach the actual high court, from the power of the government to “compel speech” to the privacy expectations of millions of mobile phone users.
The Justices hearing the case at the Newseum include:
* As Chief Justice: Floyd Abrams, renowned First Amendment lawyer and author; the William J. Brennan Jr. Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University
* Harvey Rishikof, most recently dean of faculty at the National War College at the National Defense University and chair of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security
* Nadine Strossen, former president of the American Civil Liberties Union; the John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law at New York Law School
* Linda Greenhouse, the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School; long-time U.S. Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times
* Lee Levine, renowned media lawyer; adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center
* Stewart Baker, national security law and policy expert and former Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
* Stephen Vladeck, Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law; nationally recognized expert on the role of the federal courts in the war on terrorism
* The Hon. Robert S. Lasnik, senior judge for the Western District of Washington at the U.S. District Court
Lawyers arguing the case include:
For Pear:
* Robert Corn-Revere has extensive expe ...More...
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