Professors Michael C. Small, Jonathan D. Varat, and Adam Winkler
Amici Curiae
Michael C. Small, Counsel of Record Michael C.Small, Jonathan D. Varat, and Adam Winkler are professors at the UCLA School ofLaw. Michael C. Small is a senior counsel with the law firm Akin, Gump,Strauss, Hauer & Feld, where he specializes in appellate litigation. Hereceived his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1986. Thefollowing is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brieffor the Respondents as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on September 15, 2008. The case poses animportant constitutional question: whether a Federal agency may effectivelynullify an Article III [Federal] court’s injunction, entered under a Federalstatute, by…
