Jeffrey B. Wall

Selected Representations

• BMC Software in an appeal before the Fifth Circuit defending a $1.6 billion judgment against a competitor for violating a software licensing agreement.
• Canadian Pacific Railway before the Supreme Court in opposing certiorari in a set of lawsuits arising from a train derailment.
• Major League Baseball in an appeal before the Second Circuit defending the league’s exemption from the federal antitrust laws.
• Spirit AeroSystems in an appeal to the Tenth Circuit involving compensation for the company’s former CEO.

• U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Business Roundtable in litigation against the Securities Exchange Commission over its revision of the rules governing proxy voting advice.
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce in briefs to the Supreme Court and Fourth Circuit about public-company disclosures regarding cybersecurity risks.
• Valero Energy Corporation in a set of consolidated appeals to the D.C. Circuit challenging vehicle-emission and fuel-economy rules issued by the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
• Volkswagen and Audi in an appeal before the Ninth Circuit, which upheld the dismissal of a proposed class action on behalf of almost 150,000 consumers seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
• Walgreens Boots Alliance in an appeal to the Sixth Circuit from a $650 million judgment in the national opioid multidistrict litigation.

Cases Argued in the Supreme Court

Arbitration:

• Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, 138 S. Ct. 1612 (2018): whether the National Labor Relations Act prohibits enforcement of an individual arbitration agreement.

Bankruptcy:

• Schwab v. Reilly, 130 S. Ct. 2652 (2010): whether the bankruptcy trustee is required to object to a debtor’s market valuation of property.

Civil Rights:

• Hernandez v. Mesa, 140 S. Ct. 735 (2020): whether a Bivens remedy is available for cross-border incidents.
• McDonough v. Smith, 139 S. Ct. 2149 (2019): when the statute of limitations for a Section 1983 claim based on fabrication of evidence in criminal proceedings begins to run.
• Nieves v. Bartlett, 139 S. Ct. 1715 (2019): whether probable cause defeats a claim of retaliatory arrest under the First Amendment.
• Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach, Florida, 138 S. Ct. 1945 (2018): whether probable cause defeats a claim of retaliatory arrest under the First Amendment.

Class Actions:

• Frank v. Gaos, 139 S. Ct. 1041 (2019): whether a class-action settlement that distributes cy pres funds satisfies Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(e)(2).

Constitutional Law:

• Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, 140 S. Ct. 2246 (2020): whether schools may be excluded from a state scholarship program based on their religious character.
• Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Aurelius Investment, LLC, 140 S. Ct. 1649 (2020): whether the Appointments Clause governs the appointment of members of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico.
• Gundy v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2116 (2019): whether the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act’s delegation of authority to the Attorney General to issue regulations under 42 U.S.C. § 16913 violates the nondelegation doctrine.
• The American Legion v. American Humanist Association, 139 S. Ct. 2067 (2019): whether the display and maintenance of a religious symbol violate the Establishment Clause.
• Lucia v. Securities and Exchange Commission, 138 S. Ct. 2044 (2018): whether administrative law judges of the Securities and Exchange Commission are Officers of the United States within the meaning of the Appointments Clause.

Criminal Law and Procedure:

• United States v. Briggs, 141 S. Ct. 467 (2020): whether the Uniform Code of Military Justice allows for the prosecution of certain rapes only within five years.
• Henderson v. United States, 133 S. Ct. 1121 (2013): whether an error is plain for purposes of plain-error review when the law is unclear at the time of the error but subsequently becomes clear.
• Bailey v. United States, 133 S. Ct. 1031 (2013): whether the Fourth Amendment permits police officers executing a search warrant to detain an occupant who has left the immediate vicinity of the premises.
• Martinez v. Ryan, 132 S. Ct. 1309 (2012): whether a prisoner has a constitutional right to the assistance of counsel on collateral review when that is the first opportunity to raise a particular claim of error.
• Sykes v. United States, 131 S. Ct. 2267 (2011): whether a felony conviction for fleeing from law enforcement in a vehicle qualifies as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act.
• Barber v. Thomas, 130 S. Ct. 2499 (2010): whether good conduct time for federal inmates should be calculated on the basis of the sentence imposed or time served.

False Claims Act:

• United States ex rel. Eisenstein v. City of New York, 556 U.S. 928 (2009): whether the government is a party to a qui tam action under the False Claims Act when it declines to intervene.

Intellectual Property:

• Halo Electronics v. Pulse Electronics; Stryker v. Zimmer, 136 S. Ct. 1923 (2016): when enhanced damages should be available in patent infringement cases.

Labor and Employment: 

• Kasten v. St. Gobain Performance Plastics Corp., 131 S. Ct. 1325 (2011): whether the anti-retaliation provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act prevents an employer from discharging an employee for oral complaints.

Securities:

• Gabelli v. SEC, 133 S. Ct. 1216 (2013): when a statute of limitations begins to run for civil penalty claims against investment advisers.
• Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC v. Simmonds, 132 S. Ct. 1414 (2012): when a statute of limitations begins to run for short-swing trading claims against financial institutions, officers, and directors.

Sports Gambling:

• Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, 138 S. Ct. 1461 (2018): whether the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act’s preemption of state laws authorizing sports-gambling schemes violates the Tenth Amendment.