Our Supreme Court practice dates back to the founding of the firm in the 1940s.  For nearly sixty years, Bredhoff & Kaiser, P.L.L.C. has represented parties and amici before the Supreme Court in, inter alia, significant labor, First Amendment, Due Process, federalism, and civil rights cases.  Among the most notable cases that the firm’s attorneys briefed and argued, for example, are the following:  the case challenging President Truman’s seizure of the steel industry (cite); the seminal Steelworkers Trilogy concerning the role of federal courts in labor arbitration (Steelworkers v. American Mfg. Co., 363 U.S. 564 (1960), Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigating Co. 363 U.S. 574 (1960) and Steelworkers v. Enterprise Wheel & Car Corp., 363 U.S. 593 (1960)); the leading OSHA occupational exposure to toxic substances cases – the cotton dust and benzene standards (Industrial Union Department v. American Petroleum Institute, 448 U.S. 607 (1980) and American Textile Mfr. Inst. v. Donovan, 452 U.S. 490 (1981)); the landmark case on remedies for constitutional violations (Mt. Healthy City Board of Education v. Doyle, 429 U.S. 274 (1977)); the landmark, private sector affirmative action case (Steelworkers v. Weber 443 U.S. 193 (1979)); and the famous case of Silkwood v. Kerr McGee 464 U.S. 238 (1984).

In the past few years, we represented parties in Simmons-Harris v. Zelman 536 U.S. 639 (2002), an Establishment Clause challenge to Ohio’s private school voucher program; New York Times v. Tasini, 533 U.S. 483 (2001) vindicating the intellectual property rights of freelance journalists whose articles are placed in newspaper data bases; Bartnicki v. Vopper, 532 U.S. 514 (2001) resolving the clash between First Amendment and privacy interests arising out of an intercepted cell phone call; Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents, 528 U.S. 62 (2000) setting the parameters of the right of state employees to sue state agencies for monetary relief under the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act; Alden v. Maine, 527 U.S. 706 (1999) involving a similar claim under the Fair Labor Standards Act; Davenport v. Washington Education Association, U.S. Sup. Ct. No. 05-1589 and Washington v. Washington Education Association, U.S. Sup. Ct. No. 05-1657 challenging the constitutionality of a state law requiring affirmative authorization for the use of union monies in state election campaigns.

In addition to these and many other Supreme Court cases argued by the firm’s attorneys, we have represented amici curiae in scores of other Supreme Court case, involving, over the past few years, such issues as affirmative action in college admissions, the constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance in public school, whether the First Amendment protects public employees when their jobs involve speech, whether teachers who complain about unequal athletic programs for female students are protected against retaliation, issues of federalism, and issues under the Takings Clause.