Hogan Lovell’s Neal Katyal has a lineup of U.S. Supreme Court arguments in the coming term that most high court advocates would trade a coveted justice bobblehead for. But none of the five he will argue is likely to capture the nation’s attention as much one he recently signed up to handle, if the justices take it — opposition to Utah’s same-sex marriage bans.
The odds favor the justices agreeing to review a same-sex marriage case during the new term, and so lawyers for the three same-sex couples who toppled Utah’s bans in June put out the word that they were looking for a top flight advocate with large-firm resources, said one of those lawyers, Peggy Tomsic of Salt Lake City’s Magleby & Greenwood. “We didn’t have to think twice,” when Katyal reached out, she said.
