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    ***NOTE TO PUBLIC ACCESS USERS*** Judicial Conference of the United States policy permits attorneys of record and parties in a case(including pro se litigants) to receive one free electronic copy of all documents filed electronically, if receipt is required by law or directed by thefiler. PACER access fees apply to all other users. To avoid later charges, download a copy of each document during this first viewing.

    United States Court of Appeals for DC Circuit

    Notice of Docket Activity

    The following transaction was entered on 09/18/2009 at 8:45:49 PM EDT and filed on 09/18/2009

    Docket Text:APPELLANT REPLY MEMORANDUM OF LAW AND FACT [1205953] filed by Mr. Gregory S. Hollister in 09-5080, Mr. John David Hemenway in09-5161 [Service Date: 09/18/2009 ] [09-5080, 09-5161]

    The following document(s) are associated with this transaction:Document Description:Main DocumentOriginal Filename:REPLY BRIEF 1 09 18 09.pdfElectronic Document Stamp:[STAMP acecfStamp_ID=1109186823 [Date=09/18/2009] [FileNumber=1205953-0][9b22b478df16163510e210c1356ba1aceb693aec43a917131f22a39cf40695914f7aec8562fa5a4b3497a4ada8ab12577f646ba79641dc4894e9b0b9fd191d0a]]

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    Notice will be mailed to:

    Mr. Bauer, Robert F.Perkins Coie LLP607 14th Street, NWSuite 800Washington, DC 20005-2003

    Lawrence, R. CraigU.S. Attorney's Office(USA) Civil Division555 4th Street, NWWashington, DC 20530

    Hemenway, John DavidLaw Office of John D. Hemenway4816 Rodman Street, NWWashington, DC 20016-0000

    Ms. Andrias, Kate EllenPerkins Coie LLP607 14th Street, NWSuite 800Washington, DC 20005-2003

    The following information is for the use of court personnel:

    DOCKET ENTRY ID: 1205953RELIEF(S) DOCKETED:DOCKET PART(S) ADDED: 2748277, 2748280, 2748279

    Case Name: Gregory Hollister v. Barry Soetoro, et al

    Case Number: 09-5080Document(s): Document(s)

    Page 1 of 109-5080 Gregory Hollister v. Barry Soetoro, et al "Appellant/Petitioner Reply Memorand...

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    No 09-5080

    Consolidating No. 09-5161

    IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

    FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT

    GREGORY S. HOLLISTER, Case Below 08-2254 JR

    Appellant,

    v.

    Barry Soetoro, in his capacity as a naturalperson; de facto President in posse; and as

    de jure President in posse , also known asBarack Obama, et al.

    Appellees.

    =========

    APPELLANTS REPLY BRIEF

    =========

    John D.Hemenway D.C. Bar #379663

    Counsel for Appellants

    4816 Rodman Street, NWWashington DC 20016

    (202) 628-4819

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    TABLE OF AUTHORITIES

    CASES PAGE(S)

    Bankers Trust Co. v. Mfrs. Natl Bank of Detroit,139 F.R.D. 302 (S.D.N.Y. 1991) 10

    Berg v. Obama, 574 F.Supp.2d 509 (E.D.Pa. 2008) 7

    DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Cuno, 547 U.S. 332, 242 (2006) 7

    Dist. of Columbia v. Air Florida, Inc. 750 F.2d 1077,

    (D.C.Cir.1984) 13

    Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife 504 U.S. 555, 562,112 S.Ct. 2130, 1191 L.Ed.2d 351. (Opp. Brief p. 21) 2, 6, 9

    Murphy v. Travelers Insurance Company,

    534 F.2d 1155 (5th Cir.1976) 11

    STATUTES, RULES and TREATISES

    * 28 U.S.C. 1335(a) 8

    Rule 11 15

    * Rule 22 9

    The Federal Interpleader Act of 1936, by Zecharia Chafee, Jr.DISPUTED SUBJECT MATTER number 3, Yale Law

    Journal, April 1936 12

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    THE TACTIC OF MISREPRESENTINGTHE CLASSICAL EXPOSITION OF STANDING

    UNDER THE FACTS OF THIS CASE

    The brief of the appellees purposefully creates confusion by

    continually citing cases involving Article III standing where there is no

    specific grant of jurisdiction to the federal courts by Congress under Article

    III as there is if one actually applies the Interpleader Act in this case.

    Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution states: The judicial Power shall

    extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the

    laws of the United States,. Obviously, if the Framers had intended cases

    in which Jurisdiction of the federal courts was dependent upon the

    Constitution alone as opposed to the laws of the United States to be

    lumped together, then the Framers would have worded the Constitution

    accordingly. They did not do so, but these appellees misrepresent the three

    elements of the classical exposition of standing by the Supreme Court

    when one applies the Interpleader Act principles in this case. They do so in

    the apparent hope that the disregard for the Constitution by those whom they

    defend would be echoed by members of this court despite their oath to

    uphold it against all enemies foreign and domestic.

    One of the most significant attempts to confuse matters in the

    appellees brief is their citation and use of a leading case where the question

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    is whether a remedy exists for a particular plaintiff or group representing

    particular plaintiffs where the law or prescription of Congress was not aimed

    at the person or group of persons but rather was the governments allegedly

    lawful regulation (or lack of regulation) of someone else, Lujan v.

    Defenders of Wildlife 504 U.S. 555, 562, 112 S.Ct. 2130, 1191 L.Ed.2d 351.

    (Opp. Brief p. 21). Here the question is whether Colonel Hollister is entitled

    to invoke the Interpleader Act and/or Rule not whether he can invoke some

    government law or regulation aimed at someone else.

    Further, having citedLujan the appellees then proceed to ignore what

    it holds with regard to the most important aspect of the present case. In the

    classic prescription for standingLujan sets out three elements,Id., 504 U.S.

    at 561:

    First, the plaintiff must have suffered an injury in fact-aninvasion of a legally protected interest which is (a) concrete and

    particularized,and (b) actual or imminent, not `conjecturalor `hypothetical,.Second, there must be a causal connection

    between the injury and the conduct complained of-the injuryhas to be fairlytrace[able] to the challenged action of thedefendant and notth[e] result [of] the independent action ofsome third party not before the court..Third, it must belikely as opposed to merely speculative, that the injury will

    be redressed by a favorable decision. (citations omitted)

    We address these three classic elements of standing in reverse order in

    order to elucidate the confusion being attempted here by the appellees. As

    to the third element:

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    It is clearly the case that the injury complained of by Colonel Hollister

    is that if, as there is evidence suggesting, the defendant Soetoro a/k/a Obama

    was not constitutionally qualified to run for President and is not

    constitutionally qualified to be President (And the allegations of fact in that

    regard in the complaint were not treated as true by the lower court, contrary

    to the law) then there are conflicting claims upon his obligation to serve if

    called because if Soetoro a/k/a Obama can only give orders that Colonel

    Hollister is required under the principles that we established at Nuremberg

    after World War II then he must instead obey orders from the other

    Interpleader defendant, Joseph Biden, who, under the Constitution, must

    immediately step in if it turns out that Soetoro a/k/a Obama cannot give

    legitimate orders to call up members of the Individual Ready Reserve. The

    conflicting claims that are the injury complained of will thus be redressed.

    There is nothing speculative about that being the case, the redress[ing] of

    the injury complained of.

    Since the injury complained of under the Interpleader Act is the

    conflicting claims upon the obligation of Colonel Hollister to serve if called

    up as a member of the Individual Ready Reserve as between a man who was

    elected as and is serving as President despite information indicating that he

    was not constitutionally eligible to run for President and is not

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    constitutionally qualified to serve, on the one hand, and Joe Biden on the

    other hand, there is a direct causal connection between the injury and the

    conduct complained of. The conduct complained of is the defendant

    Soetoro a/k/a Obamas running for President being (and knowing that he

    was) constitutionally unqualified and then taking the oath and serving in that

    office. That conduct has led directly to the injury which Colonel Hollister

    has alleged. Thus the second classic element of standing is met.

    Proceeding back to element number 1 in our taking up the 3 elements

    in reverse order, we note that it in turn has two subcomponents after a

    prefatory condition leading to those two subcomponents. The prefatory

    condition of element 1 is that there must be an invasion of a legally

    protected interest. In passing the Interpleader Act and approving the

    Interpleader Rule Congress created a legally protected interest. That is

    what congressional enactments do, by definition, they create a legally

    protected interest. Further, that legally protected interest is created

    specifically for situations where there are conflicting claims upon either one

    of several kinds of property or upon an obligation, or upon both. That, as

    stated, is what we have here. Either Soetoro a/k/a Obama has a claim upon

    the obligation of Colonel Hollister as Commander-in-Chief, or Biden does.

    Both cannot at the same time be Commander-in-Chief. Having addressed

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    the prefatory condition of element 1 we now address the two subcomponents

    that follow that prefatory condition, (a) and (b).

    Subcomponent (a) of the first element of the classical exposition of

    standing is that the invasion of the legally protected interest complained of

    must be concrete and particularized. Given that the legally protected

    interest is that the interest that any conflicting claims upon property and/or

    an obligation be resolved and that quite frequently, as is contemplated in the

    Interpleader Act, the claims are foreseeable but have not actually yet

    occurred, nothing could be more concrete than to have to participate, in

    any one or more of number of necessary and coordinated roles, either

    directly or in support in such things as bombing missions, air-to-air combat

    or troop and material transport in support of fighting or strategic positioning.

    Likewise, nothing could be more particularized than such an obligation.

    Finally we turn to subcomponent (b) of classical element 1 of the 3

    elements of standing. Subcomponent (b) is that the legally protected

    interest is actual or imminent and not conjectural or hypothetical.

    Given that the jurisdiction created by the Interpleader Act and/or Rule

    includes the situation routinely where the holder of the property and/or

    obligation submits the conflict to the court before the claims have actually

    been made in the situation where the conflict can be seen to exist when the

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    claims are made, the argument advanced by the appellees in this regard

    seems deliberately designed to confuse. The obligation of a member of the

    Individual Ready Reserve such as Colonel Hollister is created by law and,

    given a legitimate Commander-in-Chief, is not the least bit conjectural or

    hypothetical. If a legitimate order is given by a legitimate Commander-in-

    Chief the individual must report. There is no uncertainty about it. Moreover

    note, in the classical exposition set out inLujan that the disjunctive or is

    used. That is, the invasion of the legally protected interest must be actual

    or imminent not actual and imminent. The appellees, echoing the judge

    below, argue that the invasion of the legally protected interest must be

    imminent as if that were the only option. They thus misrepresent and seek to

    confuse, in an obvious belief that they have the political clout to force such

    confusion and misrepresentation upon the Court in lieu of a reasoned

    analysis and an application of the law and the Constitution.

    Thus the appellees (p. 21) assert:

    The district court assumed, without analysis, that it had jurisdiction over Hollisters claims. (App. 219). In making isruling the district court did not address President Obamas and

    Vice President Bidens argument that Hollister lackedconstitutional standing to pursue his claims. (App. 47-48)Standing is an essential and unchanging part of the case-or-controversy requirement of Article III. (citingLujan)

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    The appellees then go on to say: and this Court may address itsua sponte.

    See DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Cuno, 547 U.S. 332, 242 (2006). The

    DaimlerChryslercase, we would note, involves what has come to be known

    as the general prohibition on taxpayer standing. Id., 547 U.S. at 345-347.

    That is true of almost every other case cited by appellees in their opposition

    brief, including those filed by or on behalf of Philip J. Berg other than the

    present case. See, for example the reference to the filingpro se by Mr. Berg

    of a case in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. (Opp. pp. 3,5) Berg v.

    Obama, 574 F.Supp.2d 509 (E.D.Pa. 2008). In fact there are a very large

    number of references to other cases in this opposition brief almost all of

    which relied upon general taxpayer standing or ordinary citizen standing, not

    upon any specific prescription of Congress like the Interpleader Act. In fact

    the appellees do not cite a single other case that asserted jurisdiction based

    on the Interpleader Act. That is apparently because there is not another filed

    case that invokes its jurisdiction. Thus to maintain that all these other cases

    are related is to misrepresent, systematically, the facts of the cases and the

    law, apparently on the belief that this Court can be politically intimidated

    into ignoring the well established law of issue and claim preclusion and the

    vast body of such law about res judicata. To invoke, in effect, res judicata,

    by simply naming cases without putting forth anything that would establish

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    any principle of res judicata is misrepresentative. It is an attempt to

    improperly influence the Court. We urge its rejection as of a piece with the

    reliance of the judge below upon blogging and twittering on the Internet

    rather than upon proper analysis and application of the law.

    Because almost every case cited by the appellees is cited in the same

    mispresentative way as the examples just given, and because there are so

    has made in, preliminarily at least, deciding not to have oral argument on

    this case. Oral argument is the only way to make clear all the

    misrepresentation that is involved, there is so much of it. We are, therefore,

    following on the heels of the filing of this reply brief, filing a motion to have

    oral argument, which we hereby incorporate by reference.

    Having looked extensively at the standing issue which the appellees

    brought up, we look to the clear language of the Interpleader Act, and why

    it applies here. In this area also we see a lot of misrepresentation. Most

    importantly, as emphasized in our opening brief we see a continuing pattern

    of misrepresentation in the appellees ignoring the import of the clear

    language of the statute 28 U.S.C. 1335(a) that there is jurisdiction where

    the Interpleader plaintiff owns or has any obligation, written or unwritten,

    to the amount of $500 or more, It is acknowledged that the statute

    many such misrepresentations, we think it emphasizes the mistake this Court

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    articulates the long established practice of Interpleader that existed in the

    law since from long before the statute was enacted. There was no diversity

    analysis below and if the statute does not apply then Rule 22 does, and it

    also embodies the long standing practice of Interpleader before it was ever

    adopted. There is clearly diversity as between Colonel Hollister and the

    Interpleader defendants. Both the Act and the Rule were invoked and

    alleged and the court below was bound to consider both in any case by

    statute as pointed out in our opening brief.

    The appellees attempt to get around the clear language of the statute

    as incorporated also in the Rule by, again, a pattern of misrepresentation.

    For example, on p. 9 they create in their heading for their subsection B. 1. a

    concept not actually known in Interpleader law and not found in the Act, the

    Rule, or the predecessor common law and equity practice, something that

    they call an intangible duty The statute does not use the word duty and

    we must assume that Congress chose the word it wanted used and obeyed.

    We assure those who may not be familiar with the facts of being ordered to

    serve in the military, as may be the case here, that there is nothing

    intangible about the obligation to serve if ordered to do so. It is very

    tangible and very real. After thus misrepresenting and misleading in the

    title of the subsection the appellees then proceed in the text of the subsection

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    to quote the actual language of the statute to include the part about an

    obligation but then ignore that part of the Act and focus only upon the

    preceding part naming notes, bonds and other instruments. Then the

    appellees seek to get around this glaring omission of language that they

    themselves quote and then seek to ignore by again misrepresenting some

    case law.

    The case law that the appellees misrepresent at that point in their

    argument starts with the opinion inBankers Trust Co. v. Mfrs. Natl Bank of

    Detroit, 139 F.R.D. 302 (S.D.N.Y. 1991). That opinion, like the judge

    below in this case, focuses upon what is usually the case. But what is

    usually the case does not determine the law when the clear language of the

    statute or, for that matter, clear established law, of what may be sometimes

    the case although it is not, statistically, the most common situation. The

    Bankers Trustcase involved a case that was one case out of an enormous

    interrelated set of cases concerning the ownership of pledged assets

    consisting of a fleet of railroad cars operating nationwide the supposed stake

    of the interpleading party was the duty to manage the fleet of railcars.

    That is quite complex and the court in that case held that the entire complex

    of litigations could not be resolved in a single Interpleader action. The duty

    to report for active duty if ordered to do so by a purported Commander-in-

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    Chief whose eligibility under the Constitution to give such an order is, by

    the admitted facts of his life, in doubt is not a single part of an enormous

    interlocking series of complex litigations. Nor is it an inchoate obligation.

    It is clear cut and simple. Either one is obliged to obey the order when it

    comes or one is not.

    Another misrepresentation at this point concerns the case ofMurphy v.

    Travelers Insurance Company, 534 F.2d 1155 (5th Cir.1976). What was

    inchoate in that case and thus not subject to Interpleader were certain

    contingent counsel fees. The main dispute was over an irrevocable

    assignment of rights in a California property settlement agreement in a

    divorce. Thus that part of the case to which Interpleader was held not to be

    applicable did not resemble the obligation of Colonel Hollister in the present

    situation. There is nothing contingent about the obligation of Colonel

    Hollister and other members of the Individual Ready Reserve. If they are

    called up they are called up. This is a clear language question and thus there

    is no need for legislative history to be resorted to. An obligation clearly

    means an obligation within the commonly understood meaning of the word.

    The Individual Ready Reserve is created by law and the members of the

    military who have retired and are subject to that obligation are required to do

    so by their contracts of service. The court below, as part of its general

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    failure to delve into the facts as required, did not examine these matters,

    though duty bound to do so if it had any question.

    And, we point out, the legislative history pointed to by the appellees

    by its own language refers to the broad meaning of the word in the very

    passages cited by the appellees. That history speaks of examples and makes

    no claim to give an exhaustive list. Moreover, to the extent that the

    subsequent writings of Zechariah Chafee, Jr. are to be considered, they

    emphasize the extremely broad nature of the amendments under discussion.

    At DISPUTED SUBJECT MATTER number 3, for example, Chafee

    states, after speaking of all kinds of instruments, that obligations includes

    other obligations. It then gives three examples of such obligations but

    makes no attempt to claim that the three examples are anything but

    representative and thus makes clear that all obligations are included.

    On p. 9 of their brief, the appellees argue that the complaint of

    Colonel Hollister does not allege facts to support his claiming Interpleader.

    This is simply incorrect. It is misrepresentative. Colonel Hollister has

    named two defendants, one of whom he has reason to believe in the facts he

    has alleged, may not be able to give a legitimate order under the principles

    that we established at Nuremberg and the other of whom would have to give

    the order to call him up if in fact Soetoro a/k/a Obama is not eligible to

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    legitimately give him an order. Those are the clearly alleged facts of the two

    conflicting claimants to his obligation. He alleged that he is duty bound to

    obey one or the other and he asks the court to resolve which it is. The

    necessary facts are not complicated and they are alleged.

    It is also because of the clear allegations of Colonel Hollister in the

    complaint that it is misrepresentative of us, the appellants, to argue now that

    we are referring to an obligation, to be distinguished from property as if

    that were a new legal theory per the opinion of Judge Edwards of this

    Court in Dist. of Columbia v. Air Florida, Inc. 750 F.2d 1077

    (D.C.Cir.1984). That is not, by any stretch a valid comparison. That case

    arose out of the crash of an Air Florida flight, on a cold icy day when the

    Potomac was covered with ice, into the 14 th Street Bridge, a terrible tragedy

    which all who were here well remember. The District sued Air Florida on

    the theory that it held title to the stretch of the Potomac at issue in the crash,

    as ceded from Maryland when the District was founded and that, therefore, it

    could hold the airline responsible for negligence. It lost in the trial court

    because it was shown that the stretch of the Potomac and its real and

    personal property at issue belonged to the federal government, not the

    District. On appeal, for the first time, the District raised a new and very

    novel legal theory that because it had an obligation to remove impediments

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    on the river it was a trustee for that section of the river and could, therefore,

    sue the airline. This was a truly new and novel theory. But Interpleader has

    been the theory of this case from the beginning and throughout. There is no

    new legal theory. Legal theory and emphasis in argument are not the

    same thing. Indeed, as we say, we are filing on the heels of this brief a

    motion for oral argument because of the extensive number of

    misrepresentations in the appellees brief. We could only hope that Judge

    Edwards would be on the panel that might consider our motion. If there is

    one judge on this court, in our experience, who will apply the law without

    fear or favor and takes his oath to uphold the Constitution seriously it is

    Judge Edwards.

    With these things said I turn briefly to my own personal appeal, the

    issuance of the reprimand against me after the withdrawal of the threat of

    harsher Rule 11 sanctions. It is the case that nothing is pointed out in the

    opposing brief or in the analysis of the judge below that shows any inquiry

    into any prefiling inquiry that I made or didnt make. Yet the same is

    necessary in order to levy any sanction under Rule 11. Our arguments show

    that, particularly because we have shown that by the holding of the Supreme

    Court and the facts that the defendant Soetoro has stated throughout his

    political career, that his father was not a citizen, his status as a natural born

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    citizen is in doubt. At the very least, when the Supreme Court has held

    that an issue is in doubt, seeking to have that doubt clarified is a good faith

    extension of existing law. There were no hearings and the judge never had

    any opportunity to observe my demeanor and conduct. He refused to have a

    hearing on the sanctions although I showed in my Show of Cause,

    particularly my supplemental, that I was entitled to a hearing and more than

    likely to discovery. (App. 223 ff. and 252 ff.) Again here we see sleight of

    hand and misrepresentation. On p. 26 appellees cite notes to the 1993

    amendments to Rule 11 and state that the court may act on its own initiative.

    True, but beside the point as to these requirements.

    The appellees cite authority that this Court may take notice of matters

    in related proceedings, pointing to proceedings that are not truly related. But

    we take a leaf from their notebook and point out that evidence has surfaced

    from related proceedings recently. In another case what may be the actual

    birth certificate has been filed. In an eligibility proceeding proof of

    deception as to the natural born status has been located. We will file these

    documents separately.

    Respectfully submitted,

    /s/

    JOHN D. HEMENWAYJohn D. Hemenway D.C. Bar #379663

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    Court of Appeals Docket #: 09-5080 Docketed:03/18/2009Nature of Suit: 2890 Other Statutory Actions

    Gregory Hollister v. Barry Soetoro, et alAppeal From: United States District Court for the District ofColumbia

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    District: 0090-1 : 1:08-cv-02254-JR Lead: 1:08-cv-02254-JR Trial Judge: James Robertson, U.S. Sr District Judge

    Date Filed: 12/31/2008

    Date Order/Judgment: Date NOA Filed:

    03/05/2009 03/16/2009

    08/05/2009 MOTION filed [1200620] by Mr. Gregory S. Hollister to extend timeto file brief (Response to Motion served by mail due on 08/17/2009),

    to exceed word limit in brief (Response to Motion served by mail dueon 08/17/2009), to join in brief (Response to Motion served by maildue on 08/17/2009) [Service Date: 08/02/2009 by US mail] [09-5080]

    08/05/2009 NOTICE FILED [1200623] by Mr. Gregory S. Hollister styled as Rule28 motion. [Service Date: 08/04/2009 ] [09-5080]

    08/05/2009 APPENDIX [1200879] filed [Volumes:1] [09-5080, 09-5161]

    08/05/2009 APPELLANT BRIEF [1200885] LODGED by Mr. Gregory S.Hollister in 09-5080, Mr. John David Hemenway in 09-5161 [MailService Date: 08/05/2009]. Length of Brief: Pages: 29; Word Count:Not Listed. [09-5080, 09-5161]--[Edited 08/13/2009 by KRM]

    08/06/2009 SEPARATE STATUTORY ADDENDUM LODGED [1200889] byMr. Gregory S. Hollister in 09-5080, Mr. John David Hemenway in09-5161 to LODGED Appellant/Petitioner brief [1200885-2] [ServiceDate:08/06/2009] [09-5080, 09-5161]

    08/14/2009 LETTER FILED [1201457] regarding motions by Joseph R. Biden, Jr.and Barry Soetoro . [Service Date: 08/14/2009 ] [09-5080]

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    08/17/2009 MODIFIED EVENT FROM FILED TO LODGED--CORRECTEDAPPELLANT BRIEF [1201571] lodged by Mr. Gregory S. Hollister in09-5080, Mr. John David Hemenway in 09-5161 [Mail Service Date:08/17/2009]. Length of Brief: Pages: 29; Word Count: Not Listed. [09-5080, 09-5161]--[Edited 09/08/2009 by MAL]

    09/04/2009 APPELLEE BRIEF [1204814] filed by Joseph R. Biden, Jr. and BarrySoetoro in 09-5080, 09-5161 [Service Date: 09/04/2009 ] Length ofBrief: 6,532 Words. [09-5080, 09-5161]

    09/18/2009 JOINTAPPENDIX [1205952] filed [Volumes:3] [Service Date:08/05/2009 ] [09-5080, 09-5161]

    09/18/2009 APPELLANT REPLY MEMORANDUM OF LAW AND FACT[1205953] filed by Mr. Gregory S. Hollister in 09-5080, Mr. JohnDavid Hemenway in 09-5161 [Service Date: 09/18/2009 ] [09-5080,09-5161]

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