Supreme Court of the United States

Santos v. United States, 143 S. Ct. 350, 2022 WL 9550975 (No. 21-1418) (per curiam): as lead counsel, and over the Solicitor General’s opposition, we persuaded the Supreme Court to grant our certiorari petition, vacate the Eleventh Circuit’s judgment affirming the convictions of a pain doctor, and remand for reconsideration in light of Ruan v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2370 (2022));

Aldissi v. United States, No. 19-5805 (2019): as lead counsel, we persuaded the Solicitor General to respond to a certiorari petition that raised a 7-4 circuit split regarding “right to control” theory of wire fraud and a 3-3 circuit split regarding the calculation of loss and restitution;

Davis v. United States, No. 16-9642 (2018): as lead counsel, we persuaded the Solicitor General to respond to a certiorari petition that raised a 7-1-1 circuit split regarding the double jeopardy implications of simultaneous prosecution for witness tampering and obstruction of justice;

Burlington N. & Santa Fe Ry. Co. v. White, 548 U.S. 53 (2006): before founding Burns, P.A., Thomas was part of a team at Sidley Austin that persuaded the Supreme Court to grant certiorari in this Title VII sex discrimination and retaliation appeal; 

eBay Inc. v. MercExchange, LLC, 547 U.S. 388 (2006): before founding Burns, P.A., Thomas was part of a team at Sidley Austin that persuaded the Supreme Court to unanimously reject a rule that the Federal Circuit had applied for over two decades and instead hold that injunctions should not automatically issue based on a finding of patent infringement.