Tell us about your top U.S. Supreme Court or federal appeals court victory over the past year and how you and your team achieved the win.

We successfully petitioned for certiorari in the “Peace Cross” case, where the Fourth Circuit ordered this nearly 100-year-old cross to be torn down. We represented a moderate governmental entity that wanted to keep the cross, but not to create any precedent that would undermine the separation of church and state. We took a careful middle-of-the-road position and won 7-2. It’s the most united the Court has been in decades on church/state issues, and it came directly from our deep study of Justice [Stephen] Breyer, who was the swing vote in the 2005 pair of cases that had the most similarity to the Peace Cross case. Our win in the Supreme Court census case was pretty cool, too.

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