Stephen Breyer Author

Stephen Breyer has been an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court since 1994. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School, clerked for Associate Justice Arthur J. Goldberg in the 1964-65 Supreme Court term, and taught at Harvard for nearly two decades before joining the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in 1980. President Clinton nominated Breyer to succeed Harry Blackmun on the Supreme Court in 1994.

Thiru Vignarajah, who served as a law clerk for Justice Breyer the year of the Parents decision, is a partner at DLA Piper and previously served as a prosecutor in Baltimore and then deputy attorney general for Maryland. The son of public school teachers, Vignarajah himself attended public schools in Baltimore before studying at Yale University and Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review.