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ROBERTSON v. U.S. EX REL. WATSON

No. 08-6261.

130 S.Ct. 2184 (2010)

560 U.S. 272

John ROBERTSON, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES ex rel. Wykenna WATSON.

Supreme Court of United States.

May 24, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jaclyn S. Frankfurt, Washington, DC, for petitioner.

Robert A. Long, Jr., Washington, DC, for respondent.

Solicitor General Elena Kagan, for the United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting respondent.

James W. Klein, Counsel of Record, Jaclyn S. Frankfurt, Lee R. Goebes, Jessica R. Brand, Public Defender Service, Washington, DC, for petitioner.

Robert A. Long, Jr., Counsel of Record, Theodore P. Metzler, Jr., Mark W. Mosier, R. Gregory Rubio, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, D.C., for respondent.

PER CURIAM.

The writ of certiorari is dismissed as improvidently granted.

It is so ordered.

Chief Justice ROBERTS, with whom Justice SCALIA, Justice KENNEDY, and Justice SOTOMAYOR join, dissenting.

This is a complicated case, but it raises a straightforward and important threshold issue. When we granted certiorari, we rephrased the question presented to focus on that issue: "Whether an action for criminal contempt in a congressionally...

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