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Stevens, J., joined, post, p. 629. O’Connor, J., took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Stephen M. Shapiro argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were John D. Aldock, Elizabeth Runyan Geise, Richard M. Wyner, Kenneth S. Geller, Andrew J. Pincus, Charles A. Rothfeld, Eileen Penner, Robert H. Bork, Max Gitter, Blake Perkins, and Nancy B. Stone. Laurence H. Tribe argued the cause and filed a brief for
respondent Windsor et al. With him on the brief were Brian Koukoutchos, Jonathan S. Massey, Frederick M. Baron, Brent M. Rosenthal, and Steve Baughman. Brad Seligman, Jocelyn D. Larkin, Donna M. Ryu, Sharon R. Vi-nick, and Steven Kazan filed a brief for respondent Cargile et al. Shepard A. Hoffman filed a brief for respondent Balonis et al. Ronald L. Motley, Joseph F. Rice, Nancy Worth Davis, Gene Locks, and Jonathan W. Miller filed a brief for respondent Georgine et al. Brian Wolfman and Alan B. Morrison filed a brief for respondent White Lung Association of New Jersey et al.*
*Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the National Association of Securities and Commercial Lawyers by Kevin P. Roddy, Clinton A. Krislov, and Robert J. Stein III; for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States by John H. Beisner, Brian D. Boyle, Stephen A. Bokat, and Robin S. Conrad; for Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Inc. et al. by Carter G. Phillips, Richard L. Berkman, and Fred T. Magaziner; and for the Washington Legal Foundation by Daniel J. Popeo.
Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the State of New York et al. by Dennis C. Vacco, Attorney General of New York, Barbara Gott Billet, Solicitor General, Shirley F. Sarna, Nancy Spiegel, Joy Feigenbaum, and Jane M. Kimmel, Assistant Attorneys General, Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General of California, Thomas F. Gede, Special Assistant Attorney General, and Albert Norman Shelden, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Charles P. C. Ruff, Corporation Counsel of the District of Columbia, and by the Attorneys General of their respective jurisdictions as follows: Winston Bryant of Arkansas, M. Jane Brady of Delaware, Alan G. Lance of Idaho, Carla J. Stovall of Kansas, Albert B. Chandler III of Kentucky, Frank J. Kelley of Michigan, Hubert H. Humphrey III of Minnesota, Joseph P. Mazurek of Montana, Frankie Sue Del Papa of Ne-
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