Amicus for Susman Godfrey Flood Court, DOJ Seeks Case Dismissal

On the very day last week that the U.S. Justice Department asked a federal judge to dismiss Susman Godfrey’s lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s executive order against the Houston litigation powerhouse, the federal judge in the case was blitzed with more than 20 separate amicus briefs by 366 former judges, current law professors, former FBI and CIA directors, 77 former corporate general counsel and dozens of bar associations supporting Susman Godfrey’s legal efforts.

In a brief filed late Friday, 884 law firms — 49 of which are based or have offices in Texas, including Carrington Coleman, Gibbs & Bruns, Graves Dougherty, Lynn Pinker and Yetter Coleman — told U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan of Washington, D.C., that President Trump’s executive order against Susman Godfrey “poses a grave threat to our system of constitutional justice” and said that the “judiciary should act … to ensure that this abuse of executive power ceases.” None of the large corporate full-service law firms in Texas signed the brief.