Appellate advocates usually wait for a federal appeals court to rule before they take a case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
But on Monday Lisa Blatt, head of Arnold & Porter’s appellate and Supreme Court practice, leapfrogged over the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to get her petition in the Washington Redskins trademark dispute before the justices. She asked the court to pair the Redskins case with another petition filed on April 20 by the U.S. solicitor general that raises related issues.
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