U.S. 16-273 Case History

Gloucester County School Board, Petitioner v. G. G., By His Next Friend and Mother, Deirdre Grimm
No. 16-273, Docket 

Court: United States Supreme Court 
Docketed: September 1, 2016
Lower Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, No. 15-2056
Decision Date: April 19, 2016; Rehearing Denied: May 31, 2016

Associated Cases (Case Files under construction):
G. G. v. Gloucester County School Board (4th Cir.), No. 15-2056, Docket
G. G. v. Gloucester County School Board (E.D. Va.), No. 4:15-cv-00054, Docket
G. G. v. Gloucester County School Board (4th Cir.), No. 16-1733, Docket

Summary Disposition (03/06/2017)
The judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for further consideration in light of the guidance document issued by the Department of Education and Department of Justice on February 22, 2017. 

BRIEFS ON THE MERITS

• Petitioner’s Brief  and Joint Appendix (01/03/2017)
• Respondent’s Brief (02/23/2017)
  • Respondent’s proposal to lodge copies of a Gloucester Cnty Circuit Court order and amended birth certificate issued to Mr. Grimm (01/18/2017)
  • Petitioner’s opposition to proposed lodging (01/19/2017)
  • Respondent’s reply in support of lodging  (01/19/2017)
• Reply Brief due March 21, 2017

Advisory letter from the Solicitor General  

• Letter  with attachment from U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division. (02/22/2017)
• Request from the Clerk that the parties submit their views on how this case should proceed in light of the guidance document issued by the Department of Education and Department of Justice on February 22, 2017.  (see docket, 02/23/2017)
• Letter of petitioner per Clerk request (03/01/2017)
• Letter of respondent per Clerk request (03/01/2017)

Amicus Briefs in support of Petitioner 

• North Carolina Values Coalition, et al. (01/09/2017)
• Professors Cass, Demuth, and Walker (01/10/2017)
• General Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventists, et al. (01/10/2017)
• Alliance Defending Freedom (01/10/2017)
• Dr. McHugh, Dr. Hruz, and Dr. Mayer (01/10/2017)
• West Virginia and 20 Other States, et al. (01/10/2017)
• Major Religious Organizations (01/10/2017)
• Women’s Liberation Front, and Family Policy Alliance (01/10/2017)
• Dr. Judith Reisman and the Child Protection Institute (01/10/2017)
• William J. Bennett (01/10/2017)
• Gail Heriot and Peter N. Kirsanow (01/10/2017)
• Members of Congress (01/10/2017)
• National Organization for Marriage and Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence (01/10/2017)
• Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund (01/10/2017)
• Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (01/10/2017)
• Pacific Legal Foundation, et al. (01/10/2017)
• Cato Institute, et al. (01/10/2017)
• Concerned Women for America (01/10/2017)
• Religious Colleges, Schools and Educators (01/10/2017)
• Public Advocate of the United States, et al. (01/10/2017)
• The National School Boards Association, et al. (01/10/2017)
• Christian Educators Association International, et al. (01/10/2017)
• Foundation for Moral Law (01/10/2017)
• Public Safety Experts (01/10/2017)

Amicus Briefs in support of neither party

• Safe Spaces for Women (01/06/2017)
• David Boyle (01/10/2017)

Amicus Briefs in support of Respondent

• National PTA, GLSEN, et al. (02/28/2017)
• Apple, et al. (03/01/2017)
• Howard University School of Law Civil Rights Clinic (03/02/2017)
• World Professional Association for Transgender Health, et al. (03/02/2017)
• Human Rights Watch and the New York City Bar Association (03/02/2017)
• Law Enforcement Officers (03/02/2017)
• Constitutional Accountability Center (03/02/2017)
• Transgender Students and Allies (03/02/2017)
• American Bar Association (03/02/2017)
• Equality Federation (03/02/2017)
• Anti-Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, and Gender-Based Violence Organizations (03/02/2017)
• GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, et al. (03/02/2017)
• American Academy of Pediatrics, et al. (03/02/201)7
• National Women’s Law Center, et al. (03/02/2017)
• Montgomery County Public Schools (03/02/2017)
• Professors Samuel Bagenstos, et al. (03/02/2017)
• Scholars Who Study the Transgender Population (03/02/2017)
• Professor Terry S. Kogan (03/02/2017)
• Impact Fund, et al. (03/02/2017)
• Dr. Ben Barres, et al. (03/02/2017)
• PFLAG, Inc., et al. (03/02/2017)
• Mills College (03/02/2017)
• NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (03/02/2017)
• Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church and President of the House of Deputies of the Episcopal Church, et al. (03/02/2017)
• interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth, et al. (03/02/2017)
• Martine Rothblatt (03/02/2017)
• Anti-Defamation League, et al (03/02/2017)
• National Education Association et al. (03/02/2017)
• School Administrators from Thirty-One States, and the District of Columbia (03/02/2017)
• 196 Members of Congress (03/02/2017)
• Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the National LGBT Bar Association (03/02/2017)
• Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education John B. King, Jr., et al. (03/02/2017)
• City and County of San Francisco, et al.
• States of New York, et al. (03/02/2017)

ORAL ARGUMENT

• SET FOR ARGUMENT on Tuesday, March 28, 2017
  • Motion of West Virginia, et al. for leave to participate in oral argument (01/24/2017)
  • Respondent’s Opposition (01/31/2017)
  • Reply of West Virginia, et al. (02/06/2017)

CERT PETITION and RESPONSES

• Petition for a writ of certiorari (08/29/2016)
• Brief in opposition by G.G. (09/13/2016)
• Reply of petitioner Gloucester County School Board (09/26/2016)
• DISTRIBUTED for Conference of October 14, 2016 (09/28/2016)
• DISTRIBUTED for Conference of October 28, 2016 (10/24/2016)
• ORDER Cert Granted (10/28/2016)
  • Limited to these two questions:
    • 2. If Auer is retained, should deference extend to an unpublished agency letter that, among other things, does not carry the force of law and was adopted in the context of the very dispute in which deference is sought?
    • 3. With or without deference to the agency, should the Department’s specific interpretation of Title IX and 34 C.F.R. § 106.33 be given effect?

AMICUS BRIEFS

In Support of Granting Cert

• Liberty, Life, and Law Foundation, et al. (09/22/2016)
• Gail Heriot and Peter N. Kirsanow, members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, in their capacities as private citizens (09/22/2016)
• Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund (09/23/2016)
• Members of Congress (09/27/2016)
• Professional Educators From 46 States (09/27/2016)
• William J. Bennett (09/27/2016)
• Women’s Liberation Front (09/27/2016)
• Cardinal Newman Society, et al. (09/27/2016)
• Cato Institute, et al. (09/27/2016)
• State of West Virginia and 18 other States, et al. (09/27/2016)
• Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (09/27/2016)
• 8,914 Students, Parents, Grandparents, and Community Members, et al. (09/28/2016)
• National Organization for Marriage and Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence (09/30/2016)
• State of Missouri (09/30/2016)

INITIAL PROCEEDINGS (Prior to Cert Petition)

• Application to Recall and Stay (07/13/2016)
• Response Requested by The Chief Justice (07/14/201)
• Response in opposition by G.G. (07/26/2016)
• Reply by Gloucester County School Board (07/29/2016)
• ORDER (08/03/2016)
  • Application Granted (referred to full court)
  • Justice Breyer, concurring, “as a courtesy”
  • Justices Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan would deny the application 

• Application to Extend Time to File Cert Petition (08/15/2016)
• Response in opposition by G.G. (08/15/2016)
• ORDER – Application denied by The Chief Justice (08/16/2016)

Last updated 01/10/2017