Allied-Bruce Terminix Cos. v. Dobson, 513 U.S. 265, 3 (1995)

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Cite as: 513 U. S. 265 (1995)

Syllabus

(d) The parties do not contest that the transaction in this case, in fact, involved interstate commerce. P. 282.

628 So. 2d 354, reversed and remanded.

Breyer, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and Stevens, O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter, and Ginsburg, JJ., joined. O'Connor, J., filed a concurring opinion, post, p. 282. Scalia, J., filed a dissenting opinion, post, p. 284. Thomas, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Scalia, J., joined, post, p. 285.

H. Bartow Farr III argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Richard G. Taranto, Joseph P. Jones, Jr., and T. Julian Motes.

Allan R. Chason argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief were Kenneth J. Chesebro and Kenneth W. Hooks.*

*Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the Alabama Water and Wastewater Institute et al. by Robert E. Sasser; for the American Arbitration Association by Michael F. Hoellering, Rosemary S. Page, Robert B. von Mehren, James H. Carter, Donald Francis Donovan, Andreas F. Lowenfeld, and David W. Rivkin; for the American Bankers Association et al. by Theodore B. Olson, Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr., Robert H. Carpenter, and Theodore Fischkin; and for the American Council of Life Insurance by Patricia A. Dunn, Stephen J. Goodman, Richard E. Barnsback, and Phillip E. Stano.

Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the Attorney General of the State of Alabama et al. by James H. Evans, Attorney General of Alabama, pro se, and Carol Jean Smith, Assistant Attorney General, and by the Attorneys General, pro se, for their respective jurisdictions as follows: Bruce M. Botelho of Alaska, Gale A. Norton of Colorado, Robert A. Marks of Hawaii, Scott Harshbarger of Massachusetts, Jeremiah W. Nixon of Missouri, Don Stenberg of Nebraska, Jeffrey R. Howard of New Hampshire, Winston Bryant of Arkansas, Robert A. Butterworth of Florida, Roland W. Burris of Illinois, Mike Moore of Mississippi, Joseph P. Mazurek of Montana, Frankie Sue Del Papa of Nevada, Deborah T. Poritz of New Jersey, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, T. Travis Med-lock of South Carolina, Jeffrey L. Amestoy of Vermont, Ernest D. Preate, Jr., of Pennsylvania, and Jan Graham of Utah; and for the Southern Poverty Law Center by J. Richard Cohen, Morris S. Dees, Jr., and Edward Ashworth.

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