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.

In Banister v. Davis, we represented a habeas petitioner in the U.S. Supreme Court—beginning at the at the cert reply stage after the court called for a response to his pro se cert petition. Habeas petitioners often face an uphill climb in the Supreme Court, but we were able to secure a decisive 7-2 reversal of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit with a briefing and amicus strategy that developed a range of arguments intended to appeal to a diverse coalition of Justices. We explored the history of the “abuse of the writ” doctrine alongside arguments rooted in precedent and practical court administration.