Expressions Hair Design v. Schneiderman

Docket No.	Argument	Opinion	Vote	Author	Term
15-1391	Jan 10, 2017	May 1, 2025	8-0	Roberts	OT 2016

Holding: (1) The Supreme Court's review is limited to whether New York General Business Law Section 518 is unconstitutional as applied to the particular pricing scheme that, before this court, petitioners, five New York businesses and their owners, have argued they seek to employ: a single-sticker regime, in which merchants post a cash price and an additional credit card surcharge; (2) Section 518 prohibits the pricing regime petitioners wish to employ; (3) In regulating the communication of prices rather than prices themselves, Section 518 regulates speech. On remand the court of appeals should determine whether Section 518 survives First Amendment scrutiny as a speech regulation; and (4) Section 518 is not vague as applied to petitioners.

Judgment: Vacated and remanded, 8-0, in an opinion by Chief Justice Roberts on May 1, 2025. Justice Breyer filed an opinion concurring in the judgment. Justice Sotomayor filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, in which Justice Alito joined.

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Date	Proceedings and Orders (key to color coding)
04/01/2016	Application (15A1020) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from April 12, 2016 to May 12, 2016, submitted to Justice Ginsburg.
04/05/2016	Application (15A1020) granted by Justice Ginsburg extending the time to file until May 12, 2016.
05/12/2016	Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 15, 2016)
05/24/2016	Order extending time to file response to petition to and including August 1, 2016, for all respondents.
06/07/2016	Brief amicus curiae of Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project filed.
06/15/2016	Brief amici curiae of Albertsons LLC, et al. filed.
06/15/2016	Brief amici curiae of Consumer Action, et al. filed.
06/15/2016	Brief amicus curiae of Cato Institute filed.
06/15/2016	Brief amici curiae of First Amendment Scholars filed.
06/15/2016	Brief amici curiae of Scholars of Behavioral Economics filed.
08/01/2016	Brief of respondent Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General of New York in opposition filed.
08/01/2016	Letter from counsel for respondents Cyrus Vance, District Attorney of New York County, and Ken P. Thompson, District Attorney of Kings County filed.
08/17/2016	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of September 26, 2016.
08/17/2016	Reply of petitioners Expressions Hair Design, et al. filed. (Distributed)
09/29/2016	Petition GRANTED.
11/14/2016	Joint appendix filed. (Statement of costs filed.)
11/14/2016	Brief of petitioners Expressions Hair Design, et al. filed.
11/17/2016	Brief amicus curiae of Institute for Justice filed.
11/21/2016	Brief amicus curiae of United States, in support of neither party filed.
11/21/2016	Brief amici curiae of The James Madison Institute, et al. filed.
11/21/2016	Brief amici curiae of Retail Litigation Center, et al. filed.
11/21/2016	Brief amici curiae of Cato Institute and Pacific Legal Foundation filed.
11/21/2016	Brief amici curiae of Consumer Action, et al. filed.
11/21/2016	Brief amici curiae of First Amendment Scholars and the First Amendment Lawyers Association filed.
11/21/2016	Brief amici curiae of Ahold U.S.A., Inc., et al. filed.
11/21/2016	Brief amicus curiae of CardX, LLC filed.
11/21/2016	Brief amicus curiae of United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund, Inc. filed.
11/21/2016	Brief amici curiae of Scholars of Behavioral Economics filed.
11/21/2016	Brief amicus curiae of Alan S. Frankel filed.
11/21/2016	Brief amicus curiae of Professor Adam J. Levitin filed.
12/05/2016	SET FOR ARGUMENT on Tuesday, January 10, 2017.
12/07/2016	Record requested from the U.S.C.A. 2nd Circuit.
12/07/2016	Motion of the Acting Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument filed.
12/09/2016	Record received from U.S.C.A. 2nd Circuit is electronic.
12/12/2016	CIRCULATED.
12/14/2016	Brief of respondent Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General of New York filed. (Distributed)
12/21/2016	Brief amici curiae of Labor, Environmental, and Civil Rights Organizations filed. (Distributed)
12/21/2016	Brief amici curiae of First Amendment Scholars filed. (Distributed)
12/21/2016	Brief amicus curiae of Credit Union National Association filed. (Distributed)
12/21/2016	Brief amici curiae of National Governors Association, et al. filed. (Distributed)
12/21/2016	Brief amici curiae of Action on Smoking and Health, et al. filed. (Distributed)
12/21/2016	Brief amici curiae of International Center for Law & Economics and Scholars of Law and Economics filed. (Distributed)
12/21/2016	Brief amici curiae of Florida, et al. filed. (Distributed)
12/21/2016	Brief amici curiae of Public Citizen, Inc., et al. filed. (Distributed)
12/21/2016	Brief amicus curiae of New York Credit Union Association filed. (Distributed)
12/21/2016	Brief amici curiae of Constitutional, Administrative, Contracts, and Health Law Scholars filed. (Distributed)
12/28/2016	Motion of the Acting Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument GRANTED.
01/03/2017	Reply of petitioners Expressions Hair Design, et al. filed. (Distributed)
01/10/2017	Argued. For petitioners: Deepak Gupta, Washington, D. C. For United States, as amicus curiae: Eric J. Feigin, Assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. For respondents: Steven C. Wu, Deputy Solicitor General, New York, N. Y.
03/29/2017	Judgment VACATED and case REMANDED. Roberts, C. J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, and Kagan, JJ., joined. Breyer, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment. Sotomayor, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, in which Alito, J., joined.
05/01/2017	JUDGMENT ISSUED.