Artis v. District of Columbia

Docket No.	Op. Below	Argument	Opinion	Vote	Author	Term
16-460	D.C.	Nov 1, 2017	Jan 22, 2018	5-4	Ginsburg	OT 2017

Holding: In the instruction in 28 U.S.C. § 1367(d), which provides that the "period of limitations for" refiling in state court a state claim dismissed along with related federal claims by a federal district court exercising supplemental jurisdiction, "shall be tolled while the claim is pending [in federal court] and for a period of 30 days after it is dismissed unless State law provides for a longer tolling period," to "toll" a state-law statute-of-limitations period means to hold it in abeyance, i.e., to stop the clock.

Judgment: Reversed and remanded, 5-4, in an opinion by Justice Ginsburg on January 22, 2018. Justice Gorsuch filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Kennedy, Thomas and Alito joined.

SCOTUSblog Coverage

The Annual: OT2017 in Review (First Mondays, July 9, 2018)
OT2017 #13: "Poker Face" (First Mondays, February 5, 2018)
Opinion analysis: Court wastes no time deciding that tolling provision stops the clock (Robert Yablon, January 23, 2018)
A "view" from the courtroom: Open for business, with a hiccup (Mark Walsh, January 22, 2018)
OT2017 #5: "Oglethorpe's Second Cousin" (First Mondays, November 6, 2017)
Argument analysis: The Supreme Court's word of the day is "tolled" (Robert Yablon, November 2, 2017)
OT2017 #4: "Wind, Diabetes & Voluntary Retirement" (First Mondays, October 30, 2017)
Argument preview: Supreme Court poised to tell when time is tolled (Robert Yablon, October 25, 2017)
Three new cases, a Breyer dissent and a summary affirmance (Amy Howe, February 27, 2017)
Petition of the day (Kate Howard, December 1, 2016)

Date	Proceedings and Orders (key to color coding)
10/06/2016	Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 7, 2016)
10/19/2016	Waiver of right of respondent District of Columbia to respond filed.
11/02/2016	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of November 22, 2016.
11/03/2016	Response Requested. (Due December 5, 2016)
12/01/2016	Order extending time to file response to petition to and including January 4, 2017.
01/04/2017	Brief of respondent District of Columbia in opposition filed.
01/17/2017	Reply of petitioner Stephanie C. Artis filed.
01/18/2017	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of February 17, 2017.
02/21/2017	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of February 24, 2017.
02/27/2017	Petition GRANTED.
03/29/2017	The time to file the joint appendix and petitioner's brief on the merits is extended to and including May 25, 2017.
03/29/2017	The time to file respondent's brief on the merits is extended to and including August 11, 2017.
05/11/2017	Motion to dispense with printing the joint appendix filed by petitioner Stephanie C. Artis.
05/25/2017	Brief of petitioner Stephanie C. Artis filed.
05/30/2017	Motion to dispense with printing the joint appendix filed by petitioner GRANTED.
08/11/2017	Brief of respondent District of Columbia filed.
08/18/2017	Motion of Wisconsin and 23 other states for leave to participate in oral argument as amici curiae and for divided argument filed.
08/18/2017	Brief amici curiae of National Conference of State Legislatures, et al. filed.
08/18/2017	Brief amici curiae of Wisconsin and 23 other states filed.
08/31/2017	SET FOR ARGUMENT on Wednesday, November 1, 2017
09/07/2017	CIRCULATED
09/11/2017	Reply of petitioner Stephanie C. Artis filed. (Distributed)
09/12/2017	Record requested from the D.C. Court of Appeals.
09/25/2017	Motion of Wisconsin and 23 other states for leave to participate in oral argument as amici curiae and for divided argument DENIED.
11/01/2017	Argued. For petitioner: Adam G. Unikowsky, Washington, D. C. For respondent: Loren L. AliKhan, Deputy Solicitor General, Washington, D. C.
01/22/2018	Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED. Ginsburg, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan, JJ., joined. Gorsuch, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Kennedy, Thomas, and Alito, JJ., joined.
02/23/2018	MANDATE ISSUED.
02/23/2018	JUDGMENT ISSUED.